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An Offer We Don’t Get to Refuse

There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold –Joy Division Trump’s self-image as the consummate deal-maker has its advantages and its disadvantages. His willingness to bargain with Putin to end the war in Ukraine, for instance, promises to break the current administration’s determination to keep the slaughter going–if an act of war partyContinue reading “An Offer We Don’t Get to Refuse”

MAGA is as MAGA Does

Somebody tell me it’s not just that stupid, that Donald Trump, lame duck president, is picking Cuban closet-case and AIPAC favorite Marco Rubio as Secretary of State to reward Hispanics for voting for him, as if Mexican construction workers in LA will be hiring mariachi bands for the grand parties they will throw in celebration.Continue reading “MAGA is as MAGA Does”

First the Romance, Now the Reality

Now it is only a question of how deep will be our disappointment. Enjoy the losers’ tears before they dry up, but know as monumental as the election was, it’s but a blip against the longer term trend line tracing the successful progress of their long war. Their histrionics are all the more remarkable inContinue reading “First the Romance, Now the Reality”

The Revolution is in Capable Hands

Seattle antifa plans to riot on election night fizzled after a small group of about 40 was set upon by about 100 police officers, making arrests for blocking the road. Not helping was a confusing flyer Seattle antifa put out, mis-dating election day as the 3rd, something I missed when I posted on this earlier:Continue reading “The Revolution is in Capable Hands”

Riot on Schedule

A New York Times “analysis” of Telegram activity breathlessly warns of the potential for rightwing violence on election day. More than 4,000 of their posts went further by encouraging members to act by attending local election meetings, joining protest rallies and making financial donations, the analysis found. Posts from other right-wing groups reviewed by TheContinue reading “Riot on Schedule”

Lawsuit Establishes “He Who Smelt it, Dealt it” Precedent

Columbia University is paying a student 395,000 dollars to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unfairly suspended for spraying a group of pro-Gaza protesters with a noxious chemical. Columbia University has reached a $395,000 settlement with a student who was suspended in January after spraying student protesters with a foul-smelling substance at one of several campusContinue reading “Lawsuit Establishes “He Who Smelt it, Dealt it” Precedent”

Shouting Fire

Someone has set fire to ballot boxes in Portland Oregon and over the Columbia River in Vancouver Washington in recent weeks. Hundreds of ballots were destroyed or damaged in fires set Monday at two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest – and investigators are searching for a person they believe is responsible for both incidents.Continue reading “Shouting Fire”

Slipping the Right a Rufo

There is a stark divide on the American right separating supporters and opponents of Israel. The anti-Israel sentiment of the “far” right originates in opposition to Jewish power and influence, what we’re conditioned to call “anti-Semitism”. Here at least the charge “anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism” is apt. On the near side of respectability is the pro-IsraelContinue reading “Slipping the Right a Rufo”

Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit

A British writer of comic fiction named Howard Jacobson complains in The Guardian that media outlets reporting on the record-setting rates of child casualties among Israel’s civilian victims in Gaza invokes the antisemitic “blood libel” of the medieval era: It says something for the conscience of the Church of England that, in 1955, it putContinue reading “Israel Slaughtering Children, Jews Hardest Hit”