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This site’s been created in the hope that knowledge is power, and the
certainty that ignorance is its antithesis.   It’s mainly a compilation
of information and insight from various sources that I thought worth
passing along.

I’ll be tossing in my overvalued two cents, as well (denoted
by asterisks).   That said, I’d like to think I’m smart enough to know
what I don’t know, and that I’ll make that clear when necessary.

I’m happy to hear from folks.   Disagreement is welcome, but only if
it’s civil.  You can be as vociferous as you wish, but personal attacks
will simply be flushed as soon as they’re apparent.

Let’s do the mensch thing.

Make sense?   If so, you can leave a comment here, or reach me via email at unlikelysource@gmail.com, on Twitter at @aspiringmensch, or at my Facebook page at https://facebook.com/unlikelysource.

And a note on DEMOCRACY NOW! posts:

I may be stating the obvious, but it’s a good idea to check the DN!
Headlines every weekday.

There’s a link to them at the top right of each segment I post, or of
course you can go directly to the program site at https://www.democracynow.org on those days when nothing is posted.

And in addition to what’s here, I occasionally receive responses to my comments on various sites, which I may reply to.

If you’re interested in those responses, just click on the page link and search on “Doug Latimer” in the comments section to read them, or check my Twitter account.

Thanks for visiting.   I hope you’ll find it worth your while.

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ADDED 10/27/11 —  THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES page, where I park aphorisms et alia that I think are worth their own separate space.

See if you agree.

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5/10/15 — Lately, I’ve been including a good bit of health and nutrition intel here, and I do see it intimately related to the other issues extant.

The posts on the duplicity and venality of food and medical corps provide obvious parallels, but I also want to focus on what we can do to improve our health, as we can’t follow our principles as assiduously as we’re obligated to if we’re not in the best condition we can be.

That said, I want to be clear that I’m no expert in these fields.  I’m trying to learn, and unlearn, what I need to do to be healthy.  In doing so, I may wander down some dead ends.  I present this information with the entreaty that you accord it both serious consideration and scrutiny.

What makes seeming sense today may be disproved tomorrow.  What appears outlandish in the present could well be validated in the future.

I hope what I pass along will be of benefit to you.

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* Do what your conscience demands

And your courage allows

And never be satisfied with the limits of either *

May 2024

5.9 

The Global Left Must Dare to Win on a Tight Deadline
We must be honest and serious about what climate collapse means to our struggles for justice, peace and wages, bread, housing, education, and health for all
by João Camargo and Leonor Canadas

*Time’s running out

We shit

Or we get flushed down the pot

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/global-left-win-deadline
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FAIR
On Campus Gaza Protests, Media Let Police Tell the Story—Even When They’re Wrong
by Neil deMause

*At the Copa

Copaganda

Lies and distortion are always in fashion

On Campus Gaza Protests, Media Let Police Tell the Story—Even When They’re Wrong

Media Scorn Gaza Protesters for Recognizing Corporate Reporters Aren’t Their Friends
by Ari Paul

*How dare you not pull your pants down so I can fuck with you!

https://fair.org/home/media-scorn-gaza-protesters-for-recognizing-corporate-reporters-arent-their-friends
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Institute for Public Accuracy
“War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young”

“War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young”

Some Universities Negotiate with Gaza Solidarity Groups, Some Attack Them

Some Universities Negotiate with Gaza Solidarity Groups, Some Attack Them

Israel Refuses to Stop Attacks, Escalates Against Rafah

https://accuracy.org/release/israel-refuses-to-stop-attacks-escalates-against-rafah
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Democracy Now!
Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Israel’s “System of Domination” and Biden Pausing Bomb Shipment

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/9/nathan_thrall_west_bank_violence

Indian PM Narendra Modi Runs on “Hatred and Demonization” of Muslims in World’s Largest Election

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/9/siddhartha_deb_india_election_modi_extremism

Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/student_protests

“Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism”: Police “Body-Slam” Jewish Dartmouth Prof. at Campus Gaza Protest

*Teaching by doing

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/7/annelise_orleck_dartmouth_pro_palestine_protests

5.7

Pulitzer Snubs Palestinian Journalists’ Gaza CoverageThe Pulitzer Prize Board avoided “naming the brave Palestinian journalists who did the reporting and filming and died in record numbers,” said one journalist
by Julia Conley, staff writer
Common Dreams *All the news that’s printed to fit 

And all the prizes presented to validate it

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pulitzer-palestinian-journalists

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FAIR
As Peace Protests Are Violently Suppressed, CNN Paints Them as Hate Rallies
by Julie Hollar

*Fractured unfairy tales

https://fair.org/home/as-peace-protests-are-violently-suppressed-cnn-paints-them-as-hate-rallies
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Hidden Realities of “School Choice”

*Were Booker et alia “naive”

Or complicit?

When you concede to the conscienceless, you only embolden them to press on.

He and they have been around long enough to know that, but standing one’s principled ground is an act with which they have absolutely no experience.

https://accuracy.org/release/hidden-realities-of-school-choice

“School Choice” Legislation is Reshaping the U.S.

*Choice your poison

https://accuracy.org/release/school-choice-legislation-is-reshaping-the-u-s

Attacks on Students

https://accuracy.org/release/attacks-on-students
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Democracy Now!
Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies as Police Crack Down on Encampments

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/6/student_protests_for_palestine

“People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/2/ucla_pro_israel_counterprotesters_attack_campus

Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments

*A New York [Police] State of Mind

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/1/columbia_university_israel_gaza_police_raid

Juan González, Veteran of ’68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders’ Silence on Gaza Slaughter

*The “outside agitator” hasbara is meant to paint students of Palestinian, Muslim and/or Arab descent as “the other”, as always unworthy or dangerous to include in the American political conversation, regardless of their citizenship or resident status.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/1/police_raid_columbia_2024_juan_gonzalez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 2024

4.30

FAIR
‘This Is a Choice Companies Are Making to Raise Fees’:
CounterSpin interview with Sally Dworak-Fisher on delivery workers
by Janine Jackson

https://fair.org/home/this-is-a-choice-companies-are-making-to-raise-fees

‘This Weaponization Is Meant to Shift Focus Away From Gaza’:
CounterSpin interview with Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine
by Janine Jackson

*There’s a lot of horseshit about students doing this because “it’s cool”, when they’re risking so much for their principles.

It’s telling that acting on one’s conscience entails such risk, when in any healthy society, it should command respect.

https://fair.org/home/this-weaponization-is-meant-to-shift-focus-away-from-gaza

WaPo Lets Bigots Frame School Culture War Conversation…Again
by Olivia Riggio

*Makes you wonder if these schmenges will make an exception for the Post when they rail against “the liberal media”, don’t it just?

https://fair.org/home/wapo-lets-bigots-frame-school-culture-war-conversationagain

Acknowledging the Horrors of Gaza—Without Wanting to End Them
By Gregory Shupak

*The “serious minded” MO for the corpress is to construct a logically fallacious and morally incoherent narrative, then propose “solutions” within a framework where two plus two will never add up to four.

https://fair.org/home/acknowledging-the-horrors-of-gaza-without-wanting-to-end-them
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Institute for Public Accuracy
University Protests

University Protests

UAW Launching Union Wave?

*New blood

Union flood?

https://accuracy.org/release/uaw-launching-union-wave
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Democracy Now!
“We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest

*All kinds of cognitive dissonance going on with that allusion to DNCs at the end, which is what drives me spare about this program – that it can do some splendid work, then allow Ro Khanna and ilk on to pose for a progressive audience.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/hind_hall_columbia

In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

*Whereof what’s past is prologue

What to come, in yours and my discharge

Shakespeare, from “The Tempest”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/columbia_1968

Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/omer_bartov

Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/29/gaza_freedom_flotilla

“Lyd”: Palestinian & Jewish Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How 1948 Nakba Devastated Palestinian City

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/29/lyd_sci_fi_documantary_1948_nakba

Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment

*Where is the saintly Senator Reverend Warnock in all this?

Probably out beating the bushes for Butcher Biden

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/26/emory_protests

“People Are Going to Die”: Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.

*The only connection Barrett has with “gobsmacked” is what she did to reproductive rights by voting to overturn Roe.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/26/scotus_abortion

“The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System

*Berman makes no mention of the DNCistas’ role in all this, of how their fealty to wealthy donors and the corps they run has made plain that true change through electoral politics as currently constructed is impossible.

They too have no love for democracy, but only seek to maintain a facade of it.

And I’d like to hear why he thinks Wisconsin, where I live, is some shining example of democracy on the march, when we have a joke of a Democratic governor, who constantly seeks “compromise” with the MAGAmites controlling the legislature, and a state party, who take their marching orders from the DC spinmeisters.  Any “citizens’ movement” here is joined at the hip to them, and thus nothing transformational is occurring ’round these parts.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/26/ari_berman

Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution

*Zionia and its enablers want to bury the truth, along with the bodies

Don’t let them

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/25/gaza_mass_graves_war_crimes

Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies

*I was glad to hear the Jackson State murders mentioned.  They’ve always been treated as a footnote by the “history custodians”, and it’s painfully obvious why that’s been the case.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/25/student_protests_us_campuses_gaza_war

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister: Deliberate U.S. Policy of “Destroying Cuban Economy” Drives Migration

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/24/carlos_fernandez_de_cossio

Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/columbia_university_joseph_slaughter

Juan González Reflects on Historic 1968 Columbia Protests & Crackdown on Gaza Solidarity Encampment

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/antiwar_protests_gaza

Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against Cancer

*I hope the faith she has in Fain is justified, but until the UAW and unions in general cease being appendages of the Democratic Party, her dream for workers in the US will never come true.

The party ain’t their ally, and you don’t pimp for your oppressors, smiling face or not.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/jane_mcalevey_uaw_volkswagen_us_labor

4.22

Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community
Foundational beliefs about Israel are not actually being threatened by anti-Zionist Jews—the beliefs are being threatened by Israel having stripped itself of the liberal veneer with which it has covered its true nature
by Alan Wagmanhttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/anti-zionism-in-jewish-community
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Indigenous Brazilians Lament Lula’s Unfulfilled Land Demarcation Promises
“This is revolting for us Indigenous peoples to have had so much faith in the government’s commitments to our rights and the demarcation of our territories,” said one Indigenous leader
by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Common Dreams

*This is why it is folly to align oneself with gummints, of any stripe.

Our allegiance should be to principles, and the people who honestly stand for them.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/lula-indigenous-rights
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FAIR
‘A Monopoly on the Bomb Would Be a Catastrophe for the World’:
CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
by Janine Jackson

https://fair.org/home/a-monopoly-on-the-bomb-would-be-a-catastrophe-for-the-world

The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All
by Ari Paul

*Isn’t it obvious that, as more young folks reject the dominant narrative on so many issues, those in power are seeking to squelch their access to ideas that challenge that power?

This isn’t just a reactionary attack.  The DNCistas may pay lip service to “justice”, but their actions and inaction speak far louder, and on Zionia, even that facade isn’t troubled with.

https://fair.org/home/the-mccarthyist-attack-on-gaza-protests-threatens-free-thought-for-all

‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’:
Interview with Estela Aranha on ‘Twitter Files Brazil’
by Brian Mier

https://fair.org/home/i-knew-they-had-fabricated-a-false-narrative
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Democracy Now!
Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/solidarity_encampment

“No Due Process”: Columbia Prof. Mamdani Slams Arrests & Suspension of Students at Gaza Protests

*Liberals scream about the MAGAmites’ intent to “destroy higher education”

But are determined to do it themselves in service to the Zionites.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/columbia_university

“Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/west_bank

“Enormous Expansion of the Law”: James Bamford on FISA Extension, U.S.-Israel Data Sharing

*”Sav[ag]ing democracy”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/section_702

The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/18/columbia_university_israel_palestine

4.17

The Real News Network
Iran’s Retaliatory Attack on Israel Is More than Just ‘Military Theater’
Inflated claims of Israel’s remarkable military success in thwarting Iran’s strikes ignores the fact that Iran was deliberately restrained to avoid regional war, while the strikes forced Israel to give away its defensive positions
by Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau

https://therealnews.com/irans-retaliatory-attack-on-israel-is-more-than-just-military-theater
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Race-Based Kidney Tests

https://accuracy.org/release/race-based-kidney-tests

Government Compelling Private Universities to “Pledge of Allegiance” to Israel; Universities Disciplined Students for Rallies

https://accuracy.org/release/government-compelling-private-universities-to-pledge-of-allegiance-to-israel-universities-disciplined-students-for-rallies

“Terrifying” “Make Everyone A Spy” Amendment Provokes Outrage

*The Secret Policemen have a ball

https://accuracy.org/release/terrifying-make-everyone-a-spy-amendment-provokes-outrage

NSA, Palantir “Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza”

https://accuracy.org/release/nsa-palantir-feed-israels-killing-machine-in-gaza

“Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War”

*There’s plenty to excoriate Iran for beyond the West’s perpetual propaganda, but thank somebody’s god its leadership can act like the adults in a room full of foolhardy psychopaths.

https://accuracy.org/release/irans-attack-and-prospects-for-regional-war
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Democracy Now!
One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises

*Whatever the US says, it will do what best serves empire, and any “incorporation” of civil society in the peace process will be geared toward cooptation of those groups, which I hope they are aware of.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/sudan_1_year_khalid_mustafa_medani

No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/no_tech_for_apartheid_google_israel

Can UAW Unionize the South? Volkswagen Tennessee Vote Could Change U.S. Labor Landscape

*As long as major unions remain an appendage of the Democratic Party, the DNCistas will ignore – or punish – anything that doesn’t jibe with their agenda.

As long as they play that game, they’ll never win the one they claim to care about.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/17/hamilton_nolan_us_labor_the_hammer

Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/west_bank_update

“Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China

*The US is the Sherwin-Williams of geopolitics

“Cover the Earth

In Blood”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/philippines_us

“A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/ukraine_russia

Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/12/neve_gordon_2

4.11

5 Things to Know About the Global Land Rush and How to Stop It
A recent gathering in Colombia, organized by the Land Deal Politics Initiative, was an important moment to assess the current state of play and ready strategies to face the current and impending onslaught of land grabs
by Salena Tramel

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/5-things-global-land-rush
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When the War on Terror Met Conservation
“Project tenBoma” a program of the International Fund for Animal Welfare that ran from 2015 to 2020, exemplified how military intelligence operations found their way into anti-poaching efforts
by Peter Corkeron

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-on-terror-conservation
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FAIR
Musk Is Consistent in His Opposition to Internet Democracy
by Ari Paul

https://fair.org/home/musk-is-consistent-in-his-opposition-to-internet-democracy
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Hamas: A “Golem” that Emerged from Israel’s “Divide and Rule” Strategy

https://accuracy.org/release/hamas-a-golem-that-emerged-from-israels-divide-and-rule-strategy

Is Air Force Hunger Striker Forced Back to Base After Confronting Top Brass About Illegal Policies?

https://accuracy.org/release/is-air-force-hunger-striker-forced-back-to-base-after-confronting-top-brass-about-illegal-policies

Challenges to the U.S. and Germany for “Facilitating Genocide”

https://accuracy.org/release/challenges-to-the-u-s-and-germany-for-facilitating-genocide

What’s Getting Missed in Project 2025?

*In the midst of Biden’s baleful badness, never lose sight of the other side of this catastrophic coin

https://accuracy.org/release/whats-getting-missed-in-project-2025

Democracy Now!
As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/11/arizona_1864_abortion_ban

Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote

*Of course, the DNCistas won’t listen, and will simply grandstand on this issue, doing as little as possible to avoid being labeled “radical” unless pro choice folks make it goddamn clear that won’t cut it with them.

Many will, but will Planned Parenthood et alia follow suit, or behave as the appendages of the party that they’ve always been?

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/10/amy_littlefield_arizona_abortion_law

Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/10/mouin_rabbani_gaza_biden_netanyahu

Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza

*Feast of weaponry

Famine of humanity

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/4/neve_gordon_israel_palestine_hunger_gaza

4.3

DoorDash and Uber Using Customers as Pawns to Punish Workers—Don’t Fall for It
Why Seattle’s City Council should reject calls to repeal or weaken PAY UP! policies protecting app-based workers.
by Sally Dworak-Fisher

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/seattle-protect-app-workers
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The Real News Network
Hamas: How Israel Created its Own Nemesis
By shutting the door to any peaceful resolution and leaving no other option for Palestinians, Israel created its own nemesis in Hamas
by Chris Hedges

https://therealnews.com/hamas-how-israel-created-its-own-nemesis
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FAIR
New Doc Traces Alex Jones’ Footprints on Our Post-Truth Landscape
by Kit O’Connell

https://fair.org/home/new-doc-traces-alex-jones-footprints-on-our-post-truth-landscape

Fox News Border Stats Distort Immigration Reality
by Phillip HoSang

https://fair.org/home/fox-news-border-stats-distort-immigration-reality
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Institute for Public Accuracy
Israel Targets Children, Aid Workers; Escalates Attacks in Syria

https://accuracy.org/release/israel-targets-children-aid-workers-escalates-attacks-in-syria

Far-Right Extremism in Brazil

*Taking a right turn into a deadly dystopia

https://accuracy.org/release/far-right-extremism-in-brazil

New World Court Order Against Israel: Could Uniting for Peace Stop Israel’s Assault?

https://accuracy.org/release/new-world-court-order-against-israel-could-uniting-for-peace-stop-israels-assault
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Democracy Now!
Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island

*Important, if inconclusive, intel

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/haiti_crisis_pierre_ives

Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza

*There was no “tragedy of Aaron Bushnell”

He certainly didn’t see it as such.

It was in *response* to the tragedy of a genocide

And good on Larry for sussing that, and taking a courageous and principled stand against it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/2/hunger_strike

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/29/baltimore_bridge_workers_found