It seems to me that the news tends to be slow on weekends during the Biden administration, while Mondays are a firehose. (In contrast, Trump’s people tended to dump news in the middle of the night, after Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity’s show was over, which may or may not have been a coincidence.)
Heather, thank you for such a concise summary of the Trump threads. I’m looking forward to hearing more about his properties, savings, and investments next week as Judge Engoran and DA Leticia James decide which to liquidate to pay the judgement. It’s beginning to look like 45 and Melania may soon be doing their own grocery shopping (no driver’s license required unless they pay by check LOL ). It will be interesting to see if 45’s diehard supporters will still love him when he’s no longer seen as a billionaire.
Informative; always. Interesting; less so. I’m so looking forward to the day when there will be no mention of tRump. None at all. And talented writers can enlighten us about subjects that actually matter.
Personally, I find the early paragraphs of today's letter more interesting. They're less *overtly compelling* perhaps, because there is no element of fear/disgust/base emotion involved. Yet I still find them more interesting, because I find slow, positive change more interesting than maniacs being maniacal. I am so done with fear and disgust being a primary motivator. I think we have become very good at spotting and mitigating threats to our country and our sanity. Please, in this most important of years for talking to our fellow citizens, do we not forget to prioritize what *should* be our main motivator: what do we, the democracy defenders, WANT TO DO? Why do we care about preserving democracy, the rule of law, our institutions, etc.? At least outside of the abstract, preservation for preservation's sake? What do we want life in America to look like that is different than it is now, that feels better than it does now, that can happen (and *only* happen) through participation in democratic governance? And what has been done the last few years to prove that such change is possible?
For me, WHAT I WANT and WHAT WE NEED is a country where working people and families have an easier time affording the basics so they have space in their lives to truly pursue happiness. We need to lower costs for housing, education, child care, elder care, medications, energy costs, and more. I WANT AND WE NEED workers to be allowed dignity and to organize, to be guaranteed higher wages and paid leave. I WANT AND WE NEED to have the rich cheats start to pony up so we can do these things while lowering our debts. I WANT AND WE NEED a present and future free of pollution, warming, and extreme weather. I WANT AND WE NEED to be free of the scourge of violence brought on by too many guns. I WANT AND WE NEED to have our freedoms guaranteed: the freedom to choose who to love, if and when to have a family, how to dress, how to speak, where to go, what to learn, to vote without impediment.
We know that we can do these things with the right people in office, because even with no room to maneuver President Biden and company HAVE ALREADY brought a pandemic to an end, brought inflation down, added millions of new jobs and small businesses, raised wages, started rebuilding our infrastructure, bringing manufacturing back home, tackling the climate crisis, and brought our allies together. Bit by bit by dogged bit.
Let us stay focused on the wonderful things we want to accomplish and the wonderful things we already have, not strictly the terrifying possibilities we wish to avoid. Staving off apocalypse is a prerequisite to the better world we desire, but is not our goal in and of itself. Loud and proud!
Thank you so much @HeatherCoxRichardson. This passage is vital and I hope more highly-visible "political opposites" who fundamentally think democracy and justice are vital lowest common denominator agreements between liberals, moderates, and conservatives in the U.S.
"On this day four years ago, I recorded that “more than 80 national security professionals broke with their tradition of non-partisanship to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden for president, saying that while they were from all parties and disagreed with each other about pretty much everything else, they had come together to stand against Trump.”"
I wrote about this yesterday (and mentioned your book along with Timothy Snyder's, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Madeline Albright.
A question and a suggestion: Question: Why doesn't s-i-l Jared Kushner come up with the money? Or is all of the $2 billion that he got from his Saudi friends unavailable?
Suggestion: Can NYC seize one of Trump's properties to alleviate its housing problems?
'How Biden's rhetoric on the Israel-Gaza war has shifted' (WAPO)
'After initially unequivocally backing Israel, President Biden has increasingly highlighted the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in recent months.'
'Israeli pressure on Palestinian economy pushes West Bank to the brink'
'Biden and Netanyahu hold first call in more than a month as divide grows over war, food crisis in Gaza' (PBS)
After all of Biden's words in the last few weeks and the headlines screaming 'imminent famine' who did not expect this?
'Food Experts Predict ‘Imminent’ Famine in Northern Gaza '(NYTimes)
'The warning came amid an Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to send military and humanitarian officials to Washington to hear the Biden administration’s concerns.'
'The acute food shortage in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become so severe that' “famine is imminent” 'and the enclave is on the verge of a “major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition,” a report from a global authority on food security and nutrition said on Monday.'
'The group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification global initiative, which was set up in 2004 by U.N. agencies and international relief groups, has sounded the alarm about famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017.'
'The warning came as Israeli forces again raided Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern part of the enclave on Monday, in an operation that they said had been aimed at senior Hamas officials who had regrouped on the premises, setting off an hours long battle that both sides said had resulted in casualties.'
'The raid at Al-Shifa, in Gaza City, raised questions about the level of control that Israeli forces have over northern Gaza. In December, the Israeli military said it was nearing' “full operational control” 'there.'
'Taken together, the fighting and the severe food shortage underlined the chaos and desperation in Gaza after 23 weeks of war. The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, renewed his call on Monday for' “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire” 'and said that the report on imminent famine was' “an appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians.” (NYTimes) See link below, which, unfortunately, could not be gifted.
'Israel’s war on Hamas brings famine to Gaza' (WAPO)
Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor
'The warnings were being sounded for weeks. The United Nations, international relief organizations and some foreign governments voiced their fears over the ongoing humanitarian calamity in the Gaza Strip, where more than 2 million Palestinians are caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s punishing campaign against militant group Hamas. Food and other critical supplies remain scarce, while aid deliveries have been stymied by Israeli authorities that encircle Gaza’s borders.'
'Those warnings reached a crescendo Monday with the release of new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global multi-stakeholder initiative working on food security and nutrition analysis. It found that 1.1 million people in Gaza — roughly half the beleaguered territory’s population — are expected to face catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation between now and July. Many of those at immediate risk live in Gaza’s devastated northern regions, which are cut off from the south by Israeli forces and receive only a paltry trickle of the already-meagre aid that’s entering Gaza.'
'The fact of a “famine” is tied up in a complicated set of bureaucratic criteria, as my colleague Andrew Jeong outlined. It is usually declared by governments, though some U.N. officials have done so in contexts where no prevailing governing entity was capable of formally assessing the situation. The IPC uses a five-tiered classification system where “famine” is the fifth tier and “emergency” the fourth.'
“Compared to the IPC’s previous analysis in December 2023, acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip has deepened and widened, with nearly double the number of people projected to experience those conditions by July,” 'my colleagues reported.' “In the IPC’s five-tier classification of food crises, Gaza now has the largest percentage of a population to receive its most severe rating since the body began reporting in 2004, Beth Bechdol, deputy director general at the Food and Agriculture Organization, told The Washington Post.”
'What makes this calamity all the more stunning is that it’s entirely the product of human decisions: Gaza’s civilian population is starving because of an Israeli siege, not an earthquake, extended drought or other natural disasters that have blighted parts of the world subject to famine. That reality is agonizing for U.N. officials.'
“We haven’t seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world,” 'Catherine Russell, head of the U.N.'s children agency, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” 'program Sunday.' “I’ve been in wards of children who are suffering from severe anemia malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely quiet. Because the children, the babies … don’t even have the energy to cry.”
“This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime,” 'U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a news briefing Monday.' “This is an entirely man-made disaster — and the report makes clear that it can be halted.”
'Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official, said more than 1 million people are at risk because they have been cut off from aid, markets have been collapsed and fields destroyed. “The international community should hang its head in shame for failing to stop this.”
'Israeli officials, chiefly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, appear unmoved by the state of affairs. They blame Hamas for bringing about this crisis and reject growing calls for a cease-fire, which now include prominent Democratic lawmakers in Washington.' “In the international community, there are those who are trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals have been achieved,” 'Netanyahu said in an interview on CNN over the weekend.' “If we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, this means that Israel will have lost the war, and this we will not allow.”
'On Monday, international humanitarian organization Oxfam released a report outlining how Israel has stymied or constrained the delivery of aid, including attacks on humanitarian convoys,' “unjustifiably inefficient” 'processes of inspection of the relief supplies, and denial of access to humanitarian officials and aid groups.'
'Israel has been using' “starvation as a weapon of war,” 'for more than five months, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa regional director, said in a statement. She said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has' “actually worsened” 'since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to enable more aid into the enclave.' “Israel’s deliberate manufacturing of suffering is systemic and of such scale and intensity that it creates a real risk of a genocide in Gaza,” 'she said.'
'That’s rhetoric that mainstream politicians are also echoing'. “In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine; we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people,” 'Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, said Monday at the start of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels.' “This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war.”
'But respite is not in sight, with Israel and Hamas still at loggerheads over the possibility of a cease-fire brokered through U.S. and Arab mediators.[
“For nearly a month, the news coverage has been about efforts being made toward a truce,” 'Atef Abu Saif, a Gaza-born novelist and the Palestinian Authority’s minister of culture, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that detailed his mother’s death in a tent in Gaza.' “Just a temporary truce! After so many weeks of such modest hopes,' ‘truce’ has become everyone’s favorite word: a cherished, idealistic, holy concept. It’s such a meager thing to hope for — a few days without killing. But even this feels out of reach.” (WAPO) Article was copied in full.
Thank you dear Professor. Pulling all this together is quite a task in itself. You have managed to keep us abreast for quite a while now and I, as well as many others are very appreciative.
Your letter of last night is a keeper also. I have forwarded it to many who will do likewise.
"he tried to spark attacks on President Joe Biden by asking on social media if people feel better off now than they were four years ago."
From a standpoint of economics, security, and optimism, do you feel better off than 40+ years ago, BEFORE the "Reagan "Revolution"? Still waiting for tax cuts (primarily for the rich) to "pay for themselves" and for boundless prosperity for ALL?
I heard some of Jill Biden's inspiring speech. I'm glad that Biden put in significant funding for women's healthcare instead of just talk. Hopefully all women are paying attention.
I did hear Trump refer to the Auto Industry when talking about a blood bath. But with his record - his dog whistles have a history of being deadly !
Bloodbath & Beyond... The MAGANAZI horde are violence personified. Violence is their superpower. They sense that Donnie Bloodbath is as crazy as they are. The milquetoast Left has no answer to this frontal assault. Hope and the rule of law are worthless in the face of this monster. There is no doubt that Trump has hitched his fate to the potential violence seething within the MAGANAZI horde. He has already used his Christian soldiers once, on January 6, and he found that day to be exhilarating. January 6 was, indeed, "Training Day."
Thank you once again for today's letter. While I feel that it is about time that this orange slug be brought down (remember, after all the crimes committed by or with Al Capone he went to prison for tax evasion and not murders). I would be very happy to see his "orangeness" convicted and/or broke. But, unfortunately, there are others just waiting in the wings to take his place. I think the "Christian" Nationalists see tffg as a useful tool that can be used and then replaced. It is frightening. Some of these are smaller players now or hiding in the grass like the snakes they are. I hope the cases lead by Leticia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith come together in a crescendo that rocks all of their worlds.
Bury this madness at the polls under so much electoral weight no question remains.
Unfortunately his madness is shared by immensely wealthy financial backers who, thanks to a politically charged Supreme Court, will remain anonymous while continuing to erode both freedom and equality
On this day 4 years ago, my job was on the line and both company and employees feared we’d go out of business. Well, my company weathered the pandemic by furloughing most employees, probably got government help, and raised all prices sharply (and never stopped).
They made a killing, because almost a year later, they brought back furloughed people, hired many new people, bought commercial properties, bought back stocks, gave their executives huge bonuses, and tossed their essential workers $100 apiece.
A year afterward, we’re told my company has been put up for sale and they must get rid of all the things draining profits to make the company more profitable to potential buyers. Did they unload the properties? No. Stop expensive nonsense for executives like huge bonuses? No. They quietly shut down offices all over the country, laid off more than 30% of us “things” in the remaining offices, and made my union office a “support center” while they farm out our work to a South American company until they can get rid of the rest of us “things” when they’re ready.
In this way, I’m not better off as an over 55 y/o woman needing to figure out how to find another job after nearly 30 years of working for this company. However, I am at least not walking into the type of job market we had during the pandemic, thanks to President Biden.
Heather, thank you for such a concise summary of the Trump threads. I’m looking forward to hearing more about his properties, savings, and investments next week as Judge Engoran and DA Leticia James decide which to liquidate to pay the judgement. It’s beginning to look like 45 and Melania may soon be doing their own grocery shopping (no driver’s license required unless they pay by check LOL ). It will be interesting to see if 45’s diehard supporters will still love him when he’s no longer seen as a billionaire.
Informative; always. Interesting; less so. I’m so looking forward to the day when there will be no mention of tRump. None at all. And talented writers can enlighten us about subjects that actually matter.
Personally, I find the early paragraphs of today's letter more interesting. They're less *overtly compelling* perhaps, because there is no element of fear/disgust/base emotion involved. Yet I still find them more interesting, because I find slow, positive change more interesting than maniacs being maniacal. I am so done with fear and disgust being a primary motivator. I think we have become very good at spotting and mitigating threats to our country and our sanity. Please, in this most important of years for talking to our fellow citizens, do we not forget to prioritize what *should* be our main motivator: what do we, the democracy defenders, WANT TO DO? Why do we care about preserving democracy, the rule of law, our institutions, etc.? At least outside of the abstract, preservation for preservation's sake? What do we want life in America to look like that is different than it is now, that feels better than it does now, that can happen (and *only* happen) through participation in democratic governance? And what has been done the last few years to prove that such change is possible?
For me, WHAT I WANT and WHAT WE NEED is a country where working people and families have an easier time affording the basics so they have space in their lives to truly pursue happiness. We need to lower costs for housing, education, child care, elder care, medications, energy costs, and more. I WANT AND WE NEED workers to be allowed dignity and to organize, to be guaranteed higher wages and paid leave. I WANT AND WE NEED to have the rich cheats start to pony up so we can do these things while lowering our debts. I WANT AND WE NEED a present and future free of pollution, warming, and extreme weather. I WANT AND WE NEED to be free of the scourge of violence brought on by too many guns. I WANT AND WE NEED to have our freedoms guaranteed: the freedom to choose who to love, if and when to have a family, how to dress, how to speak, where to go, what to learn, to vote without impediment.
We know that we can do these things with the right people in office, because even with no room to maneuver President Biden and company HAVE ALREADY brought a pandemic to an end, brought inflation down, added millions of new jobs and small businesses, raised wages, started rebuilding our infrastructure, bringing manufacturing back home, tackling the climate crisis, and brought our allies together. Bit by bit by dogged bit.
Let us stay focused on the wonderful things we want to accomplish and the wonderful things we already have, not strictly the terrifying possibilities we wish to avoid. Staving off apocalypse is a prerequisite to the better world we desire, but is not our goal in and of itself. Loud and proud!
Thank you so much @HeatherCoxRichardson. This passage is vital and I hope more highly-visible "political opposites" who fundamentally think democracy and justice are vital lowest common denominator agreements between liberals, moderates, and conservatives in the U.S.
"On this day four years ago, I recorded that “more than 80 national security professionals broke with their tradition of non-partisanship to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden for president, saying that while they were from all parties and disagreed with each other about pretty much everything else, they had come together to stand against Trump.”"
I wrote about this yesterday (and mentioned your book along with Timothy Snyder's, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Madeline Albright.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p/red-state-blue-state
A question and a suggestion: Question: Why doesn't s-i-l Jared Kushner come up with the money? Or is all of the $2 billion that he got from his Saudi friends unavailable?
Suggestion: Can NYC seize one of Trump's properties to alleviate its housing problems?
'How Biden's rhetoric on the Israel-Gaza war has shifted' (WAPO)
'After initially unequivocally backing Israel, President Biden has increasingly highlighted the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in recent months.'
'Israeli pressure on Palestinian economy pushes West Bank to the brink'
'Biden and Netanyahu hold first call in more than a month as divide grows over war, food crisis in Gaza' (PBS)
After all of Biden's words in the last few weeks and the headlines screaming 'imminent famine' who did not expect this?
'Food Experts Predict ‘Imminent’ Famine in Northern Gaza '(NYTimes)
'The warning came amid an Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also agreed to send military and humanitarian officials to Washington to hear the Biden administration’s concerns.'
'The acute food shortage in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become so severe that' “famine is imminent” 'and the enclave is on the verge of a “major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition,” a report from a global authority on food security and nutrition said on Monday.'
'The group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification global initiative, which was set up in 2004 by U.N. agencies and international relief groups, has sounded the alarm about famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017.'
'The warning came as Israeli forces again raided Al-Shifa Hospital in the northern part of the enclave on Monday, in an operation that they said had been aimed at senior Hamas officials who had regrouped on the premises, setting off an hours long battle that both sides said had resulted in casualties.'
'The raid at Al-Shifa, in Gaza City, raised questions about the level of control that Israeli forces have over northern Gaza. In December, the Israeli military said it was nearing' “full operational control” 'there.'
'Taken together, the fighting and the severe food shortage underlined the chaos and desperation in Gaza after 23 weeks of war. The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, renewed his call on Monday for' “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire” 'and said that the report on imminent famine was' “an appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians.” (NYTimes) See link below, which, unfortunately, could not be gifted.
'Israel’s war on Hamas brings famine to Gaza' (WAPO)
Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor
'The warnings were being sounded for weeks. The United Nations, international relief organizations and some foreign governments voiced their fears over the ongoing humanitarian calamity in the Gaza Strip, where more than 2 million Palestinians are caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s punishing campaign against militant group Hamas. Food and other critical supplies remain scarce, while aid deliveries have been stymied by Israeli authorities that encircle Gaza’s borders.'
'Those warnings reached a crescendo Monday with the release of new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global multi-stakeholder initiative working on food security and nutrition analysis. It found that 1.1 million people in Gaza — roughly half the beleaguered territory’s population — are expected to face catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation between now and July. Many of those at immediate risk live in Gaza’s devastated northern regions, which are cut off from the south by Israeli forces and receive only a paltry trickle of the already-meagre aid that’s entering Gaza.'
'The fact of a “famine” is tied up in a complicated set of bureaucratic criteria, as my colleague Andrew Jeong outlined. It is usually declared by governments, though some U.N. officials have done so in contexts where no prevailing governing entity was capable of formally assessing the situation. The IPC uses a five-tiered classification system where “famine” is the fifth tier and “emergency” the fourth.'
“Compared to the IPC’s previous analysis in December 2023, acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip has deepened and widened, with nearly double the number of people projected to experience those conditions by July,” 'my colleagues reported.' “In the IPC’s five-tier classification of food crises, Gaza now has the largest percentage of a population to receive its most severe rating since the body began reporting in 2004, Beth Bechdol, deputy director general at the Food and Agriculture Organization, told The Washington Post.”
'What makes this calamity all the more stunning is that it’s entirely the product of human decisions: Gaza’s civilian population is starving because of an Israeli siege, not an earthquake, extended drought or other natural disasters that have blighted parts of the world subject to famine. That reality is agonizing for U.N. officials.'
“We haven’t seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world,” 'Catherine Russell, head of the U.N.'s children agency, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” 'program Sunday.' “I’ve been in wards of children who are suffering from severe anemia malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely quiet. Because the children, the babies … don’t even have the energy to cry.”
“This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime,” 'U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a news briefing Monday.' “This is an entirely man-made disaster — and the report makes clear that it can be halted.”
'Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official, said more than 1 million people are at risk because they have been cut off from aid, markets have been collapsed and fields destroyed. “The international community should hang its head in shame for failing to stop this.”
'Israeli officials, chiefly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, appear unmoved by the state of affairs. They blame Hamas for bringing about this crisis and reject growing calls for a cease-fire, which now include prominent Democratic lawmakers in Washington.' “In the international community, there are those who are trying to stop the war now, before all of its goals have been achieved,” 'Netanyahu said in an interview on CNN over the weekend.' “If we stop the war now, before all of its goals are achieved, this means that Israel will have lost the war, and this we will not allow.”
'On Monday, international humanitarian organization Oxfam released a report outlining how Israel has stymied or constrained the delivery of aid, including attacks on humanitarian convoys,' “unjustifiably inefficient” 'processes of inspection of the relief supplies, and denial of access to humanitarian officials and aid groups.'
'Israel has been using' “starvation as a weapon of war,” 'for more than five months, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa regional director, said in a statement. She said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has' “actually worsened” 'since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to enable more aid into the enclave.' “Israel’s deliberate manufacturing of suffering is systemic and of such scale and intensity that it creates a real risk of a genocide in Gaza,” 'she said.'
'That’s rhetoric that mainstream politicians are also echoing'. “In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine; we are in a state of famine, affecting thousands of people,” 'Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, said Monday at the start of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels.' “This is unacceptable. Starvation is used as a weapon of war.”
'But respite is not in sight, with Israel and Hamas still at loggerheads over the possibility of a cease-fire brokered through U.S. and Arab mediators.[
“For nearly a month, the news coverage has been about efforts being made toward a truce,” 'Atef Abu Saif, a Gaza-born novelist and the Palestinian Authority’s minister of culture, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post that detailed his mother’s death in a tent in Gaza.' “Just a temporary truce! After so many weeks of such modest hopes,' ‘truce’ has become everyone’s favorite word: a cherished, idealistic, holy concept. It’s such a meager thing to hope for — a few days without killing. But even this feels out of reach.” (WAPO) Article was copied in full.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-israel-hamas.html
Thank you dear Professor. Pulling all this together is quite a task in itself. You have managed to keep us abreast for quite a while now and I, as well as many others are very appreciative.
Your letter of last night is a keeper also. I have forwarded it to many who will do likewise.
"he tried to spark attacks on President Joe Biden by asking on social media if people feel better off now than they were four years ago."
From a standpoint of economics, security, and optimism, do you feel better off than 40+ years ago, BEFORE the "Reagan "Revolution"? Still waiting for tax cuts (primarily for the rich) to "pay for themselves" and for boundless prosperity for ALL?
Bad news for El Moron Del Mar A Lardo = Good News for America
I heard some of Jill Biden's inspiring speech. I'm glad that Biden put in significant funding for women's healthcare instead of just talk. Hopefully all women are paying attention.
I did hear Trump refer to the Auto Industry when talking about a blood bath. But with his record - his dog whistles have a history of being deadly !
Bloodbath & Beyond... The MAGANAZI horde are violence personified. Violence is their superpower. They sense that Donnie Bloodbath is as crazy as they are. The milquetoast Left has no answer to this frontal assault. Hope and the rule of law are worthless in the face of this monster. There is no doubt that Trump has hitched his fate to the potential violence seething within the MAGANAZI horde. He has already used his Christian soldiers once, on January 6, and he found that day to be exhilarating. January 6 was, indeed, "Training Day."
Thank you once again for today's letter. While I feel that it is about time that this orange slug be brought down (remember, after all the crimes committed by or with Al Capone he went to prison for tax evasion and not murders). I would be very happy to see his "orangeness" convicted and/or broke. But, unfortunately, there are others just waiting in the wings to take his place. I think the "Christian" Nationalists see tffg as a useful tool that can be used and then replaced. It is frightening. Some of these are smaller players now or hiding in the grass like the snakes they are. I hope the cases lead by Leticia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith come together in a crescendo that rocks all of their worlds.
Follow the money (or lack thereof)…
Bury this madness at the polls under so much electoral weight no question remains.
Unfortunately his madness is shared by immensely wealthy financial backers who, thanks to a politically charged Supreme Court, will remain anonymous while continuing to erode both freedom and equality
On this day 4 years ago, my job was on the line and both company and employees feared we’d go out of business. Well, my company weathered the pandemic by furloughing most employees, probably got government help, and raised all prices sharply (and never stopped).
They made a killing, because almost a year later, they brought back furloughed people, hired many new people, bought commercial properties, bought back stocks, gave their executives huge bonuses, and tossed their essential workers $100 apiece.
A year afterward, we’re told my company has been put up for sale and they must get rid of all the things draining profits to make the company more profitable to potential buyers. Did they unload the properties? No. Stop expensive nonsense for executives like huge bonuses? No. They quietly shut down offices all over the country, laid off more than 30% of us “things” in the remaining offices, and made my union office a “support center” while they farm out our work to a South American company until they can get rid of the rest of us “things” when they’re ready.
In this way, I’m not better off as an over 55 y/o woman needing to figure out how to find another job after nearly 30 years of working for this company. However, I am at least not walking into the type of job market we had during the pandemic, thanks to President Biden.
Check this infographic on ten bloodbaths
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/17/trump-predicts-bloodbath-dehumanizes-migrants/
... and how tyrants dehumanize people before killings in bloodbaths.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/01/20/how-to-dehumanize-other-people/