Fred Klonsky in Retirement

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August 2025

The NYC race for mayor. The "Meme Lord" and the Disgraced Former Governor (DFG).
It is not even Labor Day and the race between those trying to beat the front runner, Zohran Mamdani, is getting goofier and goofier.
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Cash in a potato chip bag. Memories of Chicago's Mama DeLucca.
We’ve been Brooklynites for over a year now.
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Was L.A. a test run? Is D.C.? A Pentagon plan for a permanent domestic military force to put down protests and "civil unrest".
When Trump took control of the California National Guard and moved them into Los Angeles, was that a test run for the creation of a national federal…
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While Cuomo attacks stabilized New York housing, his buddy Trump goes after D.C.'s homeless.
In a desperate attempt to salvage his failing do-over of a New York mayoral campaign, disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo has launched what has too…
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80 years ago, August 6th, the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. It was meant as a message to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union got the…
August 6th is Hiroshima Day, a moment to reflect on what the U.S.
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New York's Jews are voting for Mamdani. I'd like to think my grandpa Louis would be glad.
In the early days of the last century my grandfather, Louis Klonsky, was a rabbi in a working class neighborhood of Brooklyn on the border between…
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July 2025

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