Movement

vic fortezza
2 min readApr 13, 2023

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From yesterday: You get what you vote for, headlines from nypost.com: “Fuzzy math: NYC school spending soars 33% amid plummeting enrollment.” “Harlem smoke-shop suspect shot at cops who returned fire 31 times in 2021 — but judge lowered his bail.” And today: “Exodus continues as more than 10,000 New Yorkers have moved to Florida in 2023.” Leftists must be pleased, as it will be almost impossible to vote them out. They’ll just raise taxes on everyone else to make up for lost revenue. And this snippet from an NYP editorial: “Two million people fled from America’s largest cities from 2020 to 2022.”

This is comforting news on the trans issue, although I suspect the boycott, as usually occurs, will peter out, pun intended. From NYP: “Anheuser-Busch loses more than $5B in value over Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light controversy.”

The latest in selective outrage, excerpt from an NYP editorial on the events in Tennessee: “Yet the moment ‘a couple of lawmakers whom the media likes chose to invite a mob into a legislative chamber and to deliberately interrupt its work, the moral poles were reversed and it was those who objected who were deemed to be ‘undemocratic.’” As usual, the left has won this issue, as both men have been reinstated.

I was happy when the shade engulfed the floating book shop today, especially given the pleasant breeze blowing along Avenue Z. My thanks to Dave and Candy, who delivered two huge cookbooks that an elderly woman bought a while later; and to the woman who jumped on a kids’ book in Hebrew; and to the gentleman who purchased a pictorial on Navy Seals; and to young Gareth, who selected a huge pictorial on America’s National Parks, a tax guide, and this:

Here’s one of its panels:

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vic fortezza
vic fortezza

Written by vic fortezza

I was born in Brooklyn in 1950 to Sicilian immigrants. I’ve had more than 50 short stories published world wide. I have 13 books in print.

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