The Evening Blues - 4-21-25
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This evening's music features r&b singer Nappy Brown. Enjoy!
Nappy Brown With The Zippers Quartet – Little By Little
The past decade has demonstrated that there is nothing that will cause an American politician to resign. There is no line they won’t cross. To keep the bubble from popping, they will drink their own blood until there’s nothing left but a husk. There are currently people in America who are racist, not because they actually think other races are inferior, but because they think it will advance their careers, just as there were people pretending to be civil rights activists when they thought it looked good on a résumé.
-- Stephen Marche
News and Opinion
“Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself” Is A Genocidal Slogan
Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia.
Israel does not have “a right to defend itself” against an occupied population in a giant concentration camp. Under international law it has a right to end the occupation, and that’s it. “Israel has a right to defend itself” is just a slogan people say when they want to justify supplying an ongoing genocide.
At one point in the tour Sanders stood passively watching as police dragged off rally attendees who draped a Free Palestine flag over the US flag during his speech. He just awkwardly continued monologuing as their flag was confiscated and they were forcibly removed, even as the crowd booed and eventually began chanting “Free Palestine”.
at his rally today in LA Bernie Sanders once again repeated the same old genocidal Zionist hasbara "Israel has the right to defend itself" line. He is doing this 18 months into a genocide that he refuses to recognize. He is an irredeemable moral monster. An utterly depraved freak pic.twitter.com/Wg6xqqx5Ar
— (@zei_squirrel) April 13, 2025
Sanders has been mixing his support for Israel in with periodic criticisms of Netanyahu and the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, always taking care to make his criticisms about the behavior of Israel’s current leadership and not the nature of the racist apartheid state itself.
Sanders is doing this for two reasons. Firstly, he is working to galvanize a big tent inclusive coalition of Democrats in opposition to Trump, and he wants that big tent to include people who think genocide is bad and people who think genocide is fine. He doesn’t want to offend the pro-genocide liberals.
Secondly, Sanders is doing this because he himself is a Zionist. Like other liberal Zionists, Bernie Sanders upholds a vision of an Israel that has never, ever existed: one which remains an ethnostate dominated by Jews, but which conducts itself in a kind and just manner, without constantly murdering and abusing Palestinians.
This iteration of the state of Israel is a fiction. An imaginary fantasyland, like Narnia. Everything about Israel is stacked against the possibility of such a status quo ever emerging, and Israel has always done everything it can to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. By pretending it is possible to have the Zionist entity and also have peace and justice, liberal Zionists help manufacture public consent for continuing to feed weapons to the genocidal apartheid state of Israel.
some anti-genocide people unfurled a Free Palestine flag behind Bernie Sanders at his rally just now and police thugs arrested them as Bernie Sanders looked on and let it happen without saying a word. A minute earlier Sanders said "Israel has the right to defend itself" and… pic.twitter.com/YSecTWCYUX
— (@zei_squirrel) April 15, 2025
When liberal Zionists want to support Israel’s actions, they talk about Israel as a nation, e.g. “Israel has a right to defend itself”. When liberal Zionists want to criticize Israel’s actions, they make it all about Netanyahu, e.g. “Netanyahu’s war machine.”
The framing is that when Israel deserves our sympathy it’s a collective, but when Israel is naughty the responsibility lies solely at the feet of one bad apple. This ensures that the weapons can keep flowing to Israel (because Israel as a whole is virtuous and worthy of support) while the liberal Zionist still gets to wear their progressive humanitarian clothing (because they wagged their fingers at Netanyahu).
And it’s just a complete and utter lie. Netanyahu didn’t create Israel’s genocidal tendencies, Israel’s genocidal tendencies created Netanyahu. His entire political career has been made possible by Israel’s collective racism and psychopathy upon which he rode into office.
This is nothing other than the classic Obama-style tactic of using attractive progressivish language to advance the most destructive agendas of the US empire.
In other words, it’s Democrats being Democrats.
Israeli military admits ‘professional failures’ over Gaza paramedic killings
Israel’s military has admitted to several “professional failures” and a breach of orders in the killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza last month, and said that it was dismissing a deputy commander responsible. The deadly shooting of eight Red Crescent paramedics, six civil defence workers and a UN staffer by Israeli troops, as they carried out a rescue mission in southern Gaza at dawn on 23 March, had prompted international outcry and calls for a war crimes investigation.
Their bodies were uncovered days after the shooting, buried in a sandy mass grave alongside their crushed vehicles. The UN said they had been killed “one by one”. Israel at first claimed that the medics’ vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire but later backtracked after phone video recovered from one of the medics contradicted the account.
On Sunday, the military said an investigation had “identified several professional failures, breaches of orders, and a failure to fully report the incident”. As a result, the deputy commander of the IDF’s Golani Brigade “will be dismissed from his position due to his responsibilities as the field commander … and for providing an incomplete and inaccurate report during the debrief”. Another commander, whose unit was in operation in the southern city of Rafah, where the killings took place, would be censured for “his overall responsibility for the incident”, the military said.
Despite admitting mistakes, the report does not recommend any criminal action to be taken against the military units responsible for the incident and found no violation of the IDF’s code of ethics. The findings of the report will now be passed along to the military advocate general. Israel’s extreme-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called the army chief’s decision to dismiss the responsible deputy commander “a grave mistake”.
The Palestine Red Crescent rejected the findings. “The report is full of lies. It is invalid and unacceptable, as it justifies the killing and shifts responsibility to a personal error in the field command when the truth is quite different,” Nebal Farsakh, spokesperson for the Red Crescent, told AFP. Human rights lawyers also called the inquiry into question, pointing out that it had been done by Israel’s military itself and alleging it lacked independence.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : If Trump Says No to War and Netanyahu Says Yes …
Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’
Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip. The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies.
Israel unilaterally abandoned a two-month ceasefire with Palestinian militant group Hamas on 2 March, cutting off vital supplies. Just over two weeks later, it resumed large-scale bombing and redeployed ground troops withdrawn during the truce.
Since then, political figures and security officials have repeatedly vowed that aid deliveries will not resume until Hamas releases the remaining hostages seized during the 7 October 2023 attacks that ignited the conflict. Israel’s government has framed the new siege as a security measure and has repeatedly denied using starvation as a weapon, which would constitute a war crime.
The blockade is now entering its eighth week, making it the longest continuous total siege the strip has faced to date in the 18-month war. Firmly supported by the US, its most important ally under Donald Trump, Israel appears confident that it can maintain the siege with little international pushback.
It is also moving ahead with large-scale seizures of Palestinian land for security buffer zones, and plans to shift control of aid delivery to the army and private contractors, exacerbating fears in Gaza that Israel intends to maintain boots on the ground in the territory long-term and permanently displace its residents.
Former Israeli Official RUNNING Iran, Israel White House Policy
Israel has ‘no choice’ but to continue fighting in Gaza, says Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu said again Saturday that Israel had “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza and will not end the war before destroying Hamas and freeing the hostages. The Israeli prime minister also repeated his vow to make sure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
Netanyahu is under growing pressure at home, not only from families of hostages and their supporters but also from reservist and retired Israeli soldiers who question the continuation of the war.
In his statement, he claimed Hamas had rejected Israel’s latest proposal to free half the hostages for a continued ceasefire.
He spoke after Israeli strikes killed more than 90 people in 48 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said Saturday. Israeli troops have been increasing their attacks to pressure Hamas to release the hostages and disarm.
Children and women were among the 15 people killed overnight, according to hospital staff. At least 11 dead were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, several of them in a tent in the Muwasi area where hundreds of thousands of displaced people stay, hospital workers said. Israel has designated it as a humanitarian zone.
Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Transfer Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont
"Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed," said the ACLU Friday evening after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to transfer Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to a facility in Vermont, where she was forced to board an airplane bound for Louisiana last month after immigration agents detained her.
Judge William K. Sessions III of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont found that Ozturk "raised significant constitutional concerns with her arrest and detention which merit full and fair consideration in this forum."
Ozturk was arrested by plainclothes immigration agents, some of whom wore masks, outside her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts late last month—days after her student visa was revoked without her knowledge.
She is one of hundreds of international students who have been targeted by the U.S. State Department's "catch and revoke" program aimed at revoking visas and green cards of students who have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
Ozturk wrote an op-ed for her university newspaper last year calling on administrators to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" being committed by Israel with U.S. backing and to divest from companies with ties to Israel. The Tufts Community Union Senate had made the same demand.
In court documents the Trump administration has said Ozturk has been "involved in associations that 'may undermine U.S. foreign policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization,'" suggesting support for Hamas—but officials have presented no evidence of such support.
Numerous Jewish scholars and organizers have spoken out against the administration's "weaponization" of concerns about antisemitism to oppress groups and individuals who have spoken out against Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Gaza.
Ahead of the ruling on Friday, Massachusetts Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley demanded that Secretary of State Marco Rubio release an internal memo on Ozturk's arrest and any other documentation about the administration's case against her.
"Ms. Ozturk's case demands transparency," wrote the lawmakers. "The circumstances of her arrest and detention raise serious concerns about civil liberties, academic freedom, and free speech, as well as the Trump administration's truthfulness. Congress, universities, legal experts, and other members of the public have a strong and compelling interest in the matter.
Alastair Crooke : Trump and War
Moscow may gain key role in Iran nuclear deal as US talks progress
Russia could play a key role in a deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme, with Moscow being touted not only as a possible destination for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, but also as a possible arbiter of deal breaches. Donald Trump, who abandoned a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and world powers in 2018 during his first term, has threatened to attack Iran unless it reaches a new deal swiftly that would prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.
Four hours of indirect talks between the US and Iran in Rome on Saturday, under the mediation of Oman, made significant progress, according to US officials. Further technical talks are due in Geneva this week, followed by another high-level diplomatic meeting next weekend in Oman. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who was at the heart of the Rome talks, wants an agreement wrapped up within 60 days, but is likely to face resistance from Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who believes the levels of distrust and the technical nature of the talks make such a swift agreement unlikely.
The two most daunting issues are the storage or destruction of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and the external guarantees that can be provided to Iran if the US was to breach an agreement to lift economic sanctions in return for Iran putting its civil nuclear programme back under external supervision by the UN inspectorate, the IAEA. Iran wants a guarantee of consequences for the US if it pulls out of or breaches another deal. ...
On guarantees, Iran believes the only secure agreement is a treaty signed by US Congress, but Araghchi was told it would be anyone’s guess whether Trump could get such an agreement through Congress given the strength of pro-Israeli opinion there.
Another option is for the US to agree to cover Tehran’s losses if Washington were to pull out of a deal. The Iranians floated the idea of a financial penalty before, but the enforcement mechanism in the absence of a treaty remains problematic. A third option if the US is in breach is for Russia to be empowered to return the handed-over stockpile of highly enriched uranium to Tehran, so ensuring Iran would not be the party punished for non-compliance.
US ceasefire plan and west defeat
Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat
Before the US launched military strikes on Yemen in March, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he created himself, which included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people, the New York Times reported on Sunday. ...
According to unnamed sources familiar with the chat who spoke to the Times, Hegseth sent the private group of his personal associates some of the same information, including the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets that would strike Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, that he also shared with another Signal group of top officials that was created by Mike Waltz, the national security adviser.
The existence of the Signal group chat created by Waltz, in which detailed attack plans were divulged by Hegseth to other Trump administration officials on the private messaging app, was made public last month by Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, who had been accidentally added to the group by Waltz. The fact that Hegseth also shared the plans in a second Signal group chat, according to “people familiar with the matter” who spoke to the Times, is likely to add to growing criticism of the former Fox weekend anchor’s ability to manage the Pentagon, a massive organization which operates in matters of life and death around the globe.
According to the Times, the private chat also included two senior advisers to Hegseth – Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick – who were fired last week after being accused of leaking unauthorized information.
Hegseth has previously been criticized for including his wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, in sensitive meetings with foreign leaders, including a discussion of the war in Ukraine with British military leaders. Phil Hegseth, the secretary’s younger brother, was hired as a senior Pentagon adviser and is the defense department’s liaison to the Department of Homeland Security. It is unclear why either would need to know about the details of strikes plans in advance. According to the Times, Hegseth used his private phone, rather than a government device, to access the Signal chat with his family and friends.
Japan STANDS UP To Trump On Trade
Conservatives RAGE After Supreme Court HALTS Trump Deportations; Abolish SCOTUS?!
US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports. As the NPR affiliate Arizona Public Media, first reported, 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a New Mexico resident visiting Arizona, was detained by border patrol agents in Nogales, a city along the Mexico border about an hour south of Tucson.
According to a border patrol criminal complaint, on 8 April, a border patrol official found Hermosillo “without the proper immigration documents” and claimed that the young American had admitted entering the US illegally from Mexico. Two days later, the federal court document notes that Hermosillo continued to claim he was a US citizen. On 17 April, a federal judge dismissed his case. ...
“Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back,” Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. “This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?”
According to AZPM’s report, Hermosillo was visiting the Tucson area from Albuquerque, got lost without identification and was arrested by border patrol officials near its headquarters in Nogales. Hermosillo’s girlfriend’s family made numerous calls looking for him before they discovered he was being held at the Florence Correctional Center, a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility. After his arrest, the court docket shows, he was temporarily detained in the custody of the US marshals.
After the family tracked him done, they provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card. “He did say he was a US citizen, but they didn’t believe him,” Hermosillo’s girlfriend’s aunt told AZPM. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have, if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court, and gave that to Ice and the border patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”
Sen. Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador & Escalating Constitutional Crisis
Senator says trip to El Salvador was to support Kilmar Ábrego García’s due process
Senator Chris Van Hollen, who travelled to El Salvador last week to meet Kilmar Ábrego García, the man at the center of a wrongful deportation dispute, said on Sunday that his trip was to support Ábrego García’s right to due process because if that was denied then everyone’s constitutional rights were threatened in the US. The White House has claimed Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang though he has not been charged with any gang related crimes and the supreme court has ordered his return to the US be facilitated.
But in an interview with ABC’s This Week, Van Hollen, a Maryland senator, stressed that the government had presented no evidence linking Ábrego García to MS-13 in federal court. “Mr President,” the senator said, “take your facts to court, don’t put everything out on social media.” Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Van Hollen said Trump’s “argument that you can’t fight gang violence and uphold people’s constitutional rights at the same time. That’s a very dangerous view. If we deny the constitutional rights of this one man, it threatens the constitutional rights of everyone in America.”
Van Hollen, who returned to the US on Friday after meeting with Ábrego García, has accused administration officials of lying about Ábrego García’s case in attempt to distract from questions about whether his rights were violated when he was deported to El Salvador last month. ...
As Van Hollen made the rounds of political shows on Sunday, he expanded on the theme of a constitutional crisis. On NBC’s Meet the Press he was asked if the US was in constitutional crisis with the Trump administration. “Oh, yes, we are. They are very much flouting the courts as we speak. As the courts have said, facilitating his return means something more than doing nothing, and they are doing nothing. Yes, they’re absolutely in violation of the court’s orders as we speak,” he said.
“My whole point here is that if you deprive one man of his constitutional rights, you threaten the constitutional rights of everybody,” Van Hollen said later to Fox News Sunday host, Shannon Bream. “I would hope that all of us would understand that principle – you’re a lawyer. I’m not vouching for the individual, I’m vouching for his rights.”
Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he’s NOT coming back. pic.twitter.com/VoAphh2ZPY
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 18, 2025
Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
An Indonesian father of an infant with special needs, who was detained by federal agents at his hospital workplace in Minnesota after his student visa was secretly revoked, will remain in custody after an immigration judge ruled on Thursday that his case can proceed. Judge Sarah Mazzie denied a motion to dismiss the case against Aditya Wahyu Harsono on humanitarian grounds, according to his attorney. Harsono, 33, was arrested four days after his visa was revoked without notice. He is scheduled for another hearing on 1 May.
“His wife has been in a state of shock and exhaustion,” Sarah Gad, Harsono’s lawyer, said. “The Department of Homeland Security has weaponized the immigration system to serve just an entirely different purpose, which is to instill fear.” ...
His attorney said that as of 28 March, the day after his arrest, his F-1 visa was still active. Gad said the government revoked it without any notice to him, and then claimed he had overstayed. The revocation was backdated to 23 March and allegedly based on his 2022 misdemeanor conviction for graffitiing a semi-truck trailer. Gad said that this is not a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act. He had traveled internationally and returned multiple times to Indonesia since the conviction without incident.
The day before Harsono’s bond hearing, DHS disclosed their evidence against him. Besides stating that his visa had been revoked for the misdemeanor graffiti conviction, for which he paid $100 in restitution, they also mentioned an arrest from 2021 during a protest over the murder of George Floyd. That charge was dismissed. Harsono is Muslim and frequently posts on social media in support of humanitarian relief for Gaza. He also runs a small non-profit, which sells art and merchandise, with proceeds going to organizations aiding Gaza.
Facebook’s Massive Data Centers SUCKING UP All Home Owners Water & Power!
Trump administration moves to narrow protections for endangered species
The Trump administration is planning to narrow protections for endangered species, in a move that environmentalists say would accelerate extinction by opening up critical habitats for development, logging, mining and other uses. The proposal is the latest deregulatory effort by Donald Trump, who has made it a priority to dismantle endangered species protections as part of a broader quest to boost energy extraction and industrial access, even in the US’s most sensitive and vulnerable natural areas.
The new proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service offers a new interpretation of the of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which would strike habitat destruction from regulations. At issue is a longstanding definition of two terms in the Endangered Species Act: “harm” and “take”. “Harm” has meant altering or destroying the places those species live. “Take”, meanwhile, is a term used in regulations to denote any actions that include hunting, capturing, wounding or killing a protected species, which has included altering or destroying the places those species live.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service said in a proposed rule, issued on Wednesday, that habitat modification and destruction should not be considered “harm” because it is not the same as intentionally targeting a species, which is defined as “take”.
“The existing regulatory definition of ‘harm’, which includes habitat modification, runs contrary to the best meaning of the statutory term ‘take’,” the proposal says. Challenges to the legalese could enable a much more limited application of the regulations, which would free industry to continue or begin activities that would affect habitat. But habitat loss is considered the strongest driver of species loss. Striking the word or changing these definitions could cause catastrophic damage to species already close to the brink. ...
The proposed rule was expected to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, kicking off a 30-day public comment period. Environmental groups are already planning to challenge the rule in court if it is adopted. Questions remain about whether the Trump administration is legally able to repeal a rule already upheld by the supreme court.
I served on the Deepwater Horizon inquiry commission. Trump has us headed for a new disaster
Last month, I joined nearly 500 former and current employees of National Geographic, where I was executive vice-president and chief science and exploration officer for 17 years, urging the institution to take a public stance against the Trump administration’s reckless attacks on science. Our letter pointed out that the programs being dismantled are “imperative for the success of our country’s economy and are the foundation of our progress and wellbeing. They make us safer, stronger and more prosperous.” We warned that gutting them is a recipe for disaster. In the face of this danger, none of us can remain silent.
I say this from the unique perspective of having been closely involved in the two most significant environmental disasters in US history: the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon oil spills. Fifteen years ago this Sunday, an enormous explosion tore through the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and unleashed an environmental catastrophe that devastated the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion triggered the release of more than 3m barrels of oil that polluted 1,300 miles of coastline from Louisiana to Florida. Eleven lives were lost, ecosystems were ravaged and the economic toll soared into the billions.
I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, which investigated the root causes of the disaster, and before that I led the federal government’s implementation of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Plan. I have witnessed first-hand the human and economic toll exacted by these events. Men and women who, for generations, had made a living from the sea were suddenly confronted with the possibility that an entire way of life would be lost.
Despite such painful lessons of the past, we find ourselves once again hurtling toward disaster. The Trump administration’s personnel and programmatic cuts at science, environmental and safety agencies, and the wholesale rollback of environmental regulations, threaten to unravel decades of progress in safeguarding our country. These actions aren’t just misguided – they’re a dangerous rejection of the hard-won knowledge gained from former crises and a gamble we cannot afford to take. ...
Disturbingly, these actions are but a small part of a larger effort to weaken environmental regulation and oversight under the guise of restoring government efficiency. Take the recent rollback of dozens of Environmental Protection Agency health and safety regulations and the reported plan to eliminate the agency’s scientific research office. The administration claims these moves will unleash US energy and lower the cost of living, when in fact the only thing they’re guaranteed to achieve is undermining fundamental protections that keep our air and water clean. ... The Trump administration’s insistence that its actions will reduce bureaucratic burdens or spur economic growth is false and deliberately misleading. It’s gaslighting on a national scale. The only sure result is that the burden of risk will be shifted on to communities, small businesses and ordinary Americans. The destruction of habitats and livelihoods is not an abstract consequence of environmental disasters. They devastate families, cripple economies, poison food supplies and leave communities struggling for decades. Businesses are boarded up, and community members suffer life-altering health consequences.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
The US Just Massacred Civilians In Yemen Without Even Claiming They’re Military Targets
Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’
Detained Turkish student must be transferred from Louisiana for hearing, judge rules
Trump Supporters Don’t Understand Free Speech
US Taxpayers Appalled at Funding Genocide Turn to UN
US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men
Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda
Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved
‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth
Joe Rogan MOCKS Douglas Murray After Disaster Debate
China Has FLYING CARS So Why Don’t We???
France believes it can defeat Russia
A Little Night Music
Nappy Brown – Skiddy Woe
Nappy Brown - (Night Time Is) The Right Time
Nappy Brown - Love Locks
Nappy Brown - Coal Miner
Nappy Brown - The Hole I´m in
Nappy Brown With The Zippers Quartet – I'm Getting Lonesome
Nappy Brown – Open Up That Door
Nappy Brown - Hoonie-Boonie
Nappy Brown – Don’t Be Angry

Comments
When I see those Yasser Arafat scarves I start wondering if
maybe that deportation without a hearing stuff might be kind of a good idea just on a temporary type basis. To Palestine of course.
evening ban nock...
yep, that constitution thing is just a damned piece of paper.
@ban nock Unsurprisingly, another
What you are advocating, and Drumph an Co. are doing are UN-Constitutional, in direct violation of the rights delineated in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.
"Deport to Palestine" is a widely recognized dog-whistle, for being subject to being murdered with impunity. Not having whatever cleverness by half, you may think it is.
And maybe they will deport you.
Would you like that?
"The thing that's so striking is this tremendous failure of imagination in the West." -- Douglas MacGregor
“Where Every Body Knows Your Name”
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We pulled up to the drive thru and Mike said “here you go Sam.” She giggled and then snarfed it down. Then..”remind me of YOUR name.”
Remember it was Obama who cancelled habeas corpus if someone works with terrorists like AQ and ISIS. How many government officials can we lock up for working with Jolani and all of his other friends? How about Netanyahu and his friends? I hope I live long enough to see that.
Rules for thee, but not for wee. Pffft!
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
evening snoopy...
heh, i guess it's good to know that sam will never go hungry.
heck, i'd be happy if we could just get some accountability for the war crimes committed by our fearless leaders.
No she won’t go hungry
I like to have chili with cheese for lunch and 10 hours later she reminds me of why that’s a bad thing to feed a dawg.
She knows that when I drive a certain route that we are going to the pharmacy and she starts drooling down over the side of the car. That’s when I start calling her Deborah which was one of the names of Pavlov’s dawgs.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
The pharmacy is associated with what in her mind — dog treats?
The paleo-mammalian or “mouse” brain, in MacLean’s “triune brain” theory (which, obligatory disclaimer, is considered hokey by “many neuroscientists“)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neomammalian_brain
“Pet the
lizarddawg, feed themousedawg, hug themonkeydawg”https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/blogpost/keep-your-lizard-mouse-and-m...
Hmmm….
Yep…that the Ukraine war is a proxy war is just Russian propaganda.
Way to go dummy.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
yep...
if i lived in pa-1, that son of a bitch would get an earful.
Someone commented on this
that if it’s safe enough for a congress member to go to the front lines then it’s safe enough to hold elections.
Can you imagine if Russia didn’t know that Fitzpatrick was there and decided to flatten the area? lol… He better understand that he is alive at Russia’s discretion.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
heh...
perhaps russia figures he's not worth the powder to blow him to hell. besides, why should russia remove a cancer destroying the u.s. system?
What a jerk nt
語必忠信 行必正直
If Joe was photoshopped in
Then why wasn’t he at home and where is he? Gateway Pundit said that Jill stuck him in a nursing home.
He gave a speech the other day and democrats are telling him to be quiet. lol…
It’ll be fun to see who gets the nod for 2028. I’m still betting on Buttigieg.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
heh...
i hear that genocide joe is asking 300k per speech and is having trouble locating venues.
buttigieg will have some serious competition from gavin newsom who seems to want it badly. they're both so awful i could see either of them getting the nomination from the corporate demorats.
Lol
Locating venues or locating someone who wants to hear from him?
Bernie and AoC are out yapping to people about the oligarchs whilst flying on private jets to their speeches. That’s really rich. Bernie is poo pooing Netanyahu because he’s killing too many Palestinians, but when people held up a Palestinian flag he stayed silent while the Gestapo goons escorted them out.
I sure hope he runs again in 2028. I think people will give him an earful.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
the heros of the demise party
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are the likes of sheepdog burns
and a washed-up bartender
oh, guess they have to work on that
messaging thing some more
good to see ole brandon flamed out
outlived his useful date?
Zionism is a social disease
heh...
apparently, there are more people lined up to pay "turns out i'm really good at killing" obama 400k per speech (his ask) than there are to give genocide joe 300k (his ask) per speech.
All these progressive DEI-promoting companies present themselves
as eager to hear from and embrace marginalized communities — until the convo turns to Palestine and Palestinians.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cisco-israel-tech-internal-speech-palesti...
According to reports, Pope Francis cared deeply about Gaza and telephoned with Palestinian Christians nearly every evening.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/mainstream-obituaries-are-erasing-pope-fr...
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pope-francis-dies-after-final-address...
Meanwhile --
Trump will be losing the tariff war to China.
"The thing that's so striking is this tremendous failure of imagination in the West." -- Douglas MacGregor
The right to defend oneself is pretty basic
Best to think twice before invading and massacring over a thousand civilians and especially raping and murdering women and children.
After that all bets are off, and the reaction can be devastating. Germany suffered pretty horribly during and after WWII, as did Japan as are Palestinians today.
It's long past time to surrender. Hamas started this war, they can also end it.
Netanyahu said that even if Hamas releases
the hostages he would continue his genocide of Palestinians. And how do you explain Israel genociding the West Bank where there are no Hamas fighters? I’m guessing that you won’t because you can’t.
Israel has admitted that they killed most of the Israelis through its Hannibal directive and everything else you said has been debunked, but you will continue parroting the Israel lies. Or are you just ignorant of the facts?
Funny how you ignore what Israel was doing to Palestinians on October 6 and for the previous 80 years. If Israel has a right to self defense then so do the Palestinians.
Strange to see you defending genocide. Says a lot about you.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
The staff writers and vast majority of posters presumably agree
— over at Daily Kos, that is.
Heh, good morning Joe, rally late getting here ;-)
I notice that Caitlin sys Trump supporters don't understand free speech. Duh! Most US citizens don't, certainly not self-styled liberal Democrats.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --