Holy smokes. Australian journalist provides one of the most brutal takedowns of Trump I've heard in a while. 👏🏽 pic.twitter.com/MPoDJXATlM — Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) July 8, 2017 It’s worth noting that Chris Uhlmann, the ABC reporter seen above, has some anti-semitic views on world history.
Continue reading →From Talking Points Memo, quoting James Comey at today’s Senate Intelligence hearing: “There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. They did it with purpose. They did it with sophistication. They did it with overwhelming technical efforts. And it was an active measures campaign driven from the top of the government. There is no fuzz on that,” Comey said. “It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community — and the members of this committee have seen the intelligence — it’s not a close call,” he continued. “That … Continue reading →
We couldn’t get close, but I’m watching it all with a big song in my heart.
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Continue reading →Welcome to democracy! I hope it goes well for you all. In honor of new beginnings, here is a young Egyptian woman speaking at the beginning of the protests. “Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution”. Edit to add: What cascio said:
Continue reading →As in Iran, now in Egypt, news people are reporting that some numbers of protesters have been killed. My best wishes go with the people who risk themselves for their human rights. I hope our government supports them in their movement, and that no more lives will be lost. This footage, taken on the Kasr Al Nile bridge in Cairo on the 28th of January, is astonishing. The people push back against the police who try to stop them. I’ll gather some resource links for understanding this conflict in the space below. • Al Jazeera’s English language live stream has … Continue reading →
When it comes to free trade treaties, workers in this country are very skeptical. In fact a new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 65% of union members and 61% of Tea Party sympathizers say that free trade has hurt the U.S. I think there are some sectors in the U.S. that have benefited from free trade treaties. Certainly stockholders and CEOs have become fabulously wealthy as they chased cheap labor and poor environmental standards around the globe. But the race to the bottom has hurt U.S. workers, who are now consistently being told that they need to accept the “new reality” … Continue reading →
I’ve put a link in the sidebar to Doctors Without Borders, which desperately needs funds to provide health care in Haiti after the earthquake. Many other organizations also need donations. Please do what you can.
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Continue reading →Two gay teens being taken to their deaths in Iran. Odd how much this scene reminds me of our own religious right. And of course, our invasion of Iraq has delivered that country to Iran as new allies. Pointer from Pandagon. My heart breaks too, Amanda.
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