Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

So no worries – we’ll just revert to being sea creatures

The word "fair" is doing so much work here that thousands of other words have been laid off.

*** The Adding Machine AI creep, as of a century ago

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I couldn’t read this for gagging. Adulatory and then some.

You’ve heard of Stockholm Syndrome.

Welcome to Budapest Envy.

It’s open season

**** Titanique Broad humor on the high seas

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“Babies are sitting ducks”

“The disease can wreak havoc on their fragile bodies, making them so sick they stop eating and drinking. They can develop pneumonia or brain swelling, and sometimes die.”

Preemptively announcing you are going to pardon your staff isn’t just rewarding criminals for their crimes—it’s encouraging them to commit new ones.

WSG has a good excuse: profit above all. Why is the Times coyly tiptoeing?

Following Trump’s example of how to return traffic to the Strait of Hormuz, I’m going to unclog my kitchen drain by stuffing it with chewing gum and anything I find in my hairbrushes.

Hideous concentration camps. In America.

Speaking from painful experience (I came out at the Waldorf with Julie Nixon, under duress, in 1966), you all got every traumatizing detail right

Donald found a spiritual advisor he shares interests with. Glory!

Apparently, in four states it's legal to marry a baby. Maybe we should do something about that?

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Blecch

Forget about the attire.

No one with an ounce of self respect should show up.

*** Dog Day Afternoon A rerun sans rationale

*** Dog Day Afternoon
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How embarrassing for the laggards!

**** Titus Andronicus Grand Guignol, Elizabethan-style

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Every square foot of midtown greenery is worth sustaining

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

Opera material?

*** Giant Unassailable literary icon or unforgivable antisemite?

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New York AG appeals ruling that could allow landlords to choose not to rent to Section 8 tenants Thousands of Syracuse tenants rely on Section 8 vouchers from the Syracuse Housing Authority.

I'm continuing my fight for New York tenants because no landlord should be allowed to deny housing based on how you pay.

Access to safe, affordable housing is a right in New York. I will always fight for that. Period.

Sandy MacDonald (@sandymacdonaldnyc) Actor/poet Amanda Quaid will be participating in a reading/interview with Padraig O Tuama at the Morgan Library, May 11 at 6PM. In brief: Quaid “began writing poetry in 2023 as a way to work creative...

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