The Fridays at Fettermans crowd assembles again, as they have for about
the past year.
Next rally at Senator Fetterman's office (200 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia
12:15 PM to 1:30 PM) will feature speeches by Medea Benjamin of Code
Pink, Aly Halpert, Singer-Songwriter; George Lakey, Quaker Activist
& Author; Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians; Lisa Sharon
Harper, Freedom Road; Lewis Webb, Jr., American Friends Service
Committee; Rachel Betesh, Poet. This will mark the
one-year anniversay of the war in Gaza.
It's been a bit tough to keep writing about Gaza as it's just been more and more bad news for its residents. It's been clear for quite a while that Israeli Prome Minister Netanyahu simply doesn't have a "day-after" plan to administer Gaza after Hamas is defeated.
"Total defeat" of Hamas is a great idea in theory, but unworkable in
practice. Hamas must be replaced with an effective government that can
govern to provide what people there need. The piece here was written in
May and is still
true.
Not that Hezbollah's any better. During Israel's invasion of Lebanon both
sides are violating the laws of war.
Ukraine/Russia? There have been a few changes, but Russia continues to utilize its greater resources, both in military goods produced by Russia and its allies North Korea, Iran and to some extent from China and in manpower, mostly from the provinces as opposed to the Moscow-St. Petersburg region. Ukraine's invasion of Russia in the Kursk area should count as one of Putin's "red lines" that requires a nuclear response from Russia. As President Biden has provided Ukraine with more long-range missiles, along with a continued hesitancy to allow Ukraine to actually use those weapons, we have an interesting situation there.
Early on, when not many people had arrived yet.
As I pointed out to a person in an online conversation, an innocent
person would seek a speedy trial so that he could go to thhe public as
a cleared person. As Trump is clearly not
innocent, he and his allies in the Judicial Branch have sought to delay
his trials. The Supreme Court tossed a monkey wrench into these trials by
declaring that Trump can't be
prosecuted for official acts or for official communications.
Naturally,
they didn't go into detail as to what these were, but they went much
further in defining official acts than was previously understood. Judge
Chutkan and Special Counsel Smith appear
to be ready to to define just what Trump can be charged with.
They're trying to still not cross any boundaries that the Supreme Court
has appeared to suggest. Of course, as Trump and his allies desire, any
conclusion to his trial must take place after November's election.
In their weekend
round-up
of political news for the week, TPM covers a Russian online version of
the Washington Post (Russia has generally
ramped up election interference efforts), how routine maintenance
of voter rolls gives rise
to comspiracy theories and how Melania Trump's description of Donald as
a "family man" provoked a number of rebuttals from online progressives.
Haitian migrants in Springfield OH have been the
target of toxic rhetoric by Senator Vance, Donald Trump and
assorted wannabe Nazis.
As I've said, Trump is a wannabe
fascist dictator.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a historian and commentator on authoritarianism and propaganda. She comments here on how authoritarians like Trump really, really hate it when people make fun of them! Authoritarians "don’t mind being called evil, but being ridiculed is a different matter."
Facing towards the speaker.
Unfortunately, living in a "pro-life" state means living in a
maternity care desert. "in 1,104 US counties, there is not a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician."
That's out of 3,143 counties total.
RLGardner.net
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