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gothamist.com/news/ny-lets... A pathetic story of ordinary New Yorkers once again sold out by politicians while exploited, cheated & generally burned by voracious real-estate developers (you know the type). Don't rank Cuomo.

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www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/28/r... Another tribute by former VV editor Marty Gottlieb, VV grad Alyssa Katz & The City's investigative reporter Greg B. Smith. They cite Tom's early stint as an organizer for the Taxi Rank & File Coalition. He himself belonged to the Salt of the Earth international.

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Trump is a native New Yorker who never took a subway in his life.

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Typically mannered gloss on Mr Arkadin. Oddball dreams cribbed from from Serge Paradjanov.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b... Not just a great, dedicated journalist and a hardcore union activist but a terrific person, as much Village Voice comrade as colleague--a selfless stand-up guy.

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A 24-year-old truck driver named Singh was pulled aside by three agents inside the courthouse on Wednesday, his hands shaking as he produced identification and was questioned on his identity. After several minutes, he was allowed to leave when officers determined he wasn’t who they were looking for

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Democrats: Taco truck on every corner Trump: TACO every day

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u... Daddy's Message to Diddy

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Out now

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/m... Clandestinely made in Pahlavi Iran, The Sealed Soil was never shown there & altho its qualities were immediately recognized in the US, it's not been released here until now (at BAM for a week) A triumph of “imperfect” cinema-- pragmatism is intrinsic to its meaning.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o... "It's news when 2 Israeli Embassy employees are murdered in WashingtonDC. But when entire Palestinian families are killed or when Palestinian children die of malnutrition, it’s just another day in Gaza...Reports of human tragedy & extreme cruelty have become routine."

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lampoonmagazine.com/article/2025... Why hasn't any US distributor picked up (or NYC venue shown) his poignant & evocative TWST: Things We Said Today?

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Look at that face! Such bitter nostalgia. If Americans had only read the Voice in the 80s & 90s maybe we won't have had to live thru this nightmare. VV writers will remember framed front page in the xerox room w slavering Donald & his gonif father Fred as the city's "worst landlords."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u... What schools are those--the Trump School of Applied Chicanery, Crypto-Klepto Junior College, the Fast-Food Service Training Center? He probably means Bob Jones University & Liberty Christian Academy.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/n... A real New Yorker, would've made a great mayor.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Netanyahu has long since surpassed Herod in the slaughter of the innocents

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/m... A not entirely unsung hero of American independent film: Actor-driven and empathetic, Nothing But a Man (which I first saw in a moldering movie palace, Loews Valencia, later a church, on Jamaica Ave) and the Plot Against Harry (still on Criterion?) are '60s landmarks.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n... Hard to decide which one is worse but let us hope these two goons cancel each other out. In a four-way race, the Working Families candidate (whoever finishes 2nd in the Dem primary) could win.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/r... A whatzit appears in Bklyn (across from Speedy Romeo pizza): Is it a symptom of the neo Gilded Age, a faux Bauhaus eyesore, a revisionist-reactionary Matta-Clark re-deconstruction, or a, thanks to the placque, guerrilla Hans Haacke?

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forward.com/culture/art/... Another enthusiastic review (this one by the great guitarist Gary Lucas in the Forward, a paper where back in the day I was a regular writer). At my age, after 15 books, I think I could get used to this! Everything is Now should be in stores today.

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True. The (Virginia) founders may have been enslavers but they were also men of the enlightenment.

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I get it and Chris Marker is... Chris Marker.

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What's FDR doing there? (And why does Dot have a bunny-ears knot around her neck? Ready to yank loose when glasses are off and presidential portrait turned to the wall?)

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Is this the snowflake caucus?

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Guy is delusional. Is his dream VP Cuomo or Fetterman?

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WWJD?

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u... Oceania, Euroasia & Eastasia. Young Donald must have read 1984 cliff notes back in jr high. Guess he identified w Big Brother.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/n... The myth of the "angry Black woman" (successor to the "welfare queen"). A brazen attack on Dem's core constituency.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u... Back to the ideals of the founding fathers?

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Paul Robeson also sang The House I Live In as well and even more powerfully. When you think of it these two sons of New Jersey could be the two great American male vocalists of the 20th C.

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jewishcurrents.org/unpacking-th... For those interested. Trump is using Palestine as "low-hanging fruit with which to achieve a couple of different things, including the weaponization of immigration policy" and along with anti-Semitism "the neutering of the academy.”

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Dedicated to my one-time part-time employer: Fight fiercely Harvard! Not kidding... We're with you all the way (and not just across the Bay) www.google.com/search?q=fig...

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www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... My book's first real review & even w all the shit going on, it made my day (well, morning). That it was written by a 28 year old makes me think that I should continue teaching (even at Columbia)

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This interesting too lithub.com/a-brief-hist...

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Why is it that opponents of war criminal Netanyahu's obliteration of Gaza are smeared as "Hamas apologists"?

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www.bbc.com/news/article... In his attempt to diminish the PLO, Netanyahu did more for Hamas than Starmer ever could politurco.com/revealing-is...

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lareviewofbooks.org/article/alt-... A nostalgic but useful analysis

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