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* RE: DEBT CEILING AGREEMENT  (GEOFFREY JACQUES)
* DEBT CEILING INSANITY  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* THE GOP DEBT CEILING CRISIS - KEVIN MCCARTHY SPIN AND HEATHER COX
RICHARDSON TRUTH  --  MEME
* NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS  -- CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
* RE: TRUMP AND DESANTIS: (WHITE NATIONALIST) PEAS IN A POD  (CRAIG
GAUTHIER; ARLENE HALFON)
* GUNS AND FOOD  -  CARTOON BY RAGING PENCILS (MIKE STANFILL)
* RE: WE’LL NEVER LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT TINA TURNER  (CAROL
WEINSHENKER; CAROLYN COOPER)
* RE: THESE ISRAELI YOUTH ARE BURNING THEIR DRAFT ORDERS — AND NO
LONGER FEELING ALONE  (JOSEPH SHEPHERD)
* RE: A PLEA FROM THE RUSSIAN LEFT TO WESTERN PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS
 (DANIEL JORDAN, PHD)
* RE: WHEN WILL US JOIN GLOBAL CALL TO END UKRAINE WAR?  (STAN
NADEL)
* RE: TEXAS FORCED THIS WOMAN TO GIVE BIRTH TO A STILLBORN SON.
SHE’S SUING  (E BETH DAVIS)
* GOP HAS A BAD CASE OF FLESH-EATING BACTERIA  --  CARTOON BY J.D.
CROWE
* RE: HISTORIC GAINS: LOW-INCOME WORKERS SCORED IN THE COVID ECONOMY
 (LITA KURTH)
* RE: REMOTE WORK CONTINUES TO BE A BATTLEGROUND IN THE STRUGGLE
BETWEEN BOSSES AND WORKERS  (FRANK SCOTT)
* RE: ULTRA VIOLENCE  (DAVID BERGER)
* RE: THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF SAN FRANCISCO  (CHARLES
PATRICK LYNCH)
* ADDLED CARD SHARK?  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THE FIRST DECORATION DAY  (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: CANCELLING ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN  (STEVEN GOLDSMITH; ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT)
* RE: AMANDA GORMAN ‘GUTTED’ AFTER FLORIDA SCHOOL BANS BIDEN
INAUGURATION POEM  (DURT FIBO)
* RE: THE DISCOVERY OF A LITTLE-KNOWN HISTORY OF THE NUREMBERG
TRIALS  (MARILYN ALBERT)

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* TRIBUTE BOOK FOR CHARLENE MITCHELL

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* PALESTINIAN ASSEMBLY FOR LIBERATION NAKBA 75 CONFERENCE: UNITE TO
RETURN, JUNE 2-4 - CHICAGO

* FASCISM 101 - THURSDAY, JUNE 22 - PART TWO OF 8-PART SERIES (RIGHT
TO THE CITY ALLIANCE)

 

RE: DEBT CEILING AGREEMENT

It looks like the President and the Speaker of the House have reached
a tentative agreement on the debt limit. The deal takes the debt
ceiling off the table until after next year's presidential election.
It will likely pass both Houses of Congress, although that is not at
all certain.

While this struggle has been going on, I became interested in why and
how we came to this place, and why the President didn’t just get
Congress to pass the debt ceiling when his party was in the majority.
Lots of people seem to have raised this issue as a slam against
President Joe Biden, but it's possible — now, even probable — that
all that noise may just turn out to be little more than yet another
expression of some people's chronic underestimation of Biden's skills
as a politician.

My inquiries led to a Congressional Research Service report on the
history of debt limit votes from 1978 to the end of 2021. I wanted to
see whether it would shed any light on why neither President Biden nor
the Democratic-led Congress raised the debt ceiling on their own
accord at the end of last year. Here, it seems, the devil is in the
details.

The last piece of debt limit legislation was passed by Congress in a
joint resolution on December 16, 2021. They raised it by
$2,500,000,000,000. That was apparently enough money to last until
Monday, June 5, when the U.S. Treasury would run out of funds to pay
the country's debts.

My sense is that Biden preferred to try to prevent the now-majority
Republicans in the House, and the Republican Party generally, from
weaponizing the debt against Democrats in next year's election. If
this deal passes (and the pressure to pass it is far greater than any
pressure to reject it), Republicans will now have to own this
particular rise in the debt ceiling, along with the rest of the
country. That's why I think Biden didn't agree to the lame duck
session go-it-alone-strategy that was urged on him by Treasury
Secretary Janet Yellin and others.

Biden wants the Republicans to vote on the debt limit as a bipartisan
policy. One result of that strategy will be to enhance the ability of
Democrats to place any and all blame on the GOP for however big a hunk
of flesh they will win as the price for a debt ceiling vote that they
should have passed as a normal and unremarkable part of their everyday
duties as legislators.

It turns out that now, every slash in the government's ability to
promote the general welfare that the Republicans have gained from
these talks will be out in plain sight, in the light of day, and their
whole budget proposal should now get even more scrutiny than it would
have gotten when it was shielded by the debt limit struggle.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and his team could have avoided
all this by simply voting with Democrats for a "clean" bill or joint
resolution to raise the debt ceiling, as per what the late Senator
John McCain (R-AZ) would call "regular order." That would have meant,
though, that when the Republican majority would have presented their
anti-people budget, their trade of the people's welfare for their
budget-busting policies, such as their tax breaks for the rich, would
have even more plainly stood out.

However, the Republican-proposed budget is the last thing McCarthy and
his Freedom Caucus proto-fascists want the country to see in its naked
form. Their gambit to hide the bulk of their “contempt for the
general welfare” budget behind the debt ceiling has failed. They now
have to show the whole country just how much harm they want to do to
us. The struggle against the Republican-MAGA-fascist current just got
a boost.

Geoffrey Jacques

 

DEBT CEILING INSANITY  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

Rob Rogers
May 24, 2023
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THE GOP DEBT CEILING CRISIS - KEVIN MCCARTHY SPIN AND HEATHER COX
RICHARDSON TRUTH

 

 

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NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS  -- CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

 

 

Clay Jones
May 26, 2023
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RE: TRUMP AND DESANTIS: (WHITE NATIONALIST) PEAS IN A POD
 

Absolutely, just trying to out do ,one another on stirrings up their
fan base, both are dangerous to our democracy,

Craig Gauthier
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Up until a few weeks ago, I never talked about "Democrats" and
Republicans." I saw each of the people as an individual. I know that
for some people, "political party" is something they feel they are
born into, like a religion. I have changed my mind.

Parties have changed over time: , Republicans e.g., for the abolition
of slavery, women's suffrage. When I was growing up in NY, Dems were
the "crooks" but they supported labor unions and cared more about
working people so long as they were White (think Dixiecrats); Reps
supported corporations and moneyed interests but also civil rights
(think Rockefeller and Jacob Javitz).

While I still won't discuss "Democrats" as a whole, I have decided
that "Republican" is a cult, and anyone remaining in the Republican
Party is a member of a cult. They are all despicable and/or in some
cases, have chosen to remain among the despicables. Many Democrats, on
the other hand, have moved into the position, Republicans were in the
past Protecting moneyed interests over human beings but also bigger on
civil rights if it doesn't affect anyone's wealth.

I wish I can believe in Hell!

Arlene Halfon

 

GUNS AND FOOD  -  CARTOON BY RAGING PENCILS (MIKE STANFILL)

 

Mike Stanfill
May 24, 2023
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RE: WE’LL NEVER LIVE IN A WORLD WITHOUT TINA TURNER
 

The best tribute to Tina Turner that I have read since her death.

Carol Weinshenker
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Fine woman and great singer

Carolyn Cooper
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RE: THESE ISRAELI YOUTH ARE BURNING THEIR DRAFT ORDERS — AND NO
LONGER FEELING ALONE
 

Heroes

Joseph Shepherd
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RE: A PLEA FROM THE RUSSIAN LEFT TO WESTERN PROGRESSIVE FRIENDS
 

Dear all pundits, talking heads, everyone: There is no "war in
Ukraine" This is an invasion, not a war. War is "a state of usually
open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations."
Putin and Prigozhin INVADED Ukraine. This is not a war, it is an
invasion and self-defense. (The third invasion, the first taking
Crimea and the Donbas in 2014 – which we in the west ignored). Stop
calling the invasion of Ukraine a "war." "Both resented the war
between the two recently fraternal countries . . . ." Ukraine is
defending itself from an invasion. These words matter because they
frame how we view Russia's/Putin's/Wagner's actions. There is
slaughter, destruction, horror, and very brave defense against
invasion but no "war."

Another note, specific to this article: Yes, Putin poses a threat to
all of Europe, "the West." He has raged against  European/Western
"decadence." He wants all of the old Soviet "empire" and the rest of
Europe. Aleksandr Dugin infamously said Russia should control all of
Europe " from Dublin to Vladivostok." Invading Ukraine is (in his own
mind) his first step. Timothy Snyder has clearly laid out Putin's
motives in his books and lectures (available online).

Daniel Jordan, PhD

RE: WHEN WILL US JOIN GLOBAL CALL TO END UKRAINE WAR?
 

I would take this seriously if it included anything about pressing
Russia to abandon its aggression, but as is it is just providing cover
for Russian imperialism and promoting a Ukrainian surrender.

Stan Nadel

 

RE: TEXAS FORCED THIS WOMAN TO GIVE BIRTH TO A STILLBORN SON. SHE’S
SUING
 

The lawsuits against states that banned abortion care are piling up as
women and their families are put at enormous risks because of them.
All of this harm was preventable and totally expected , and
republicans passed these laws anyway.

E Beth Davis
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GOP HAS A BAD CASE OF FLESH-EATING BACTERIA  --  CARTOON BY J.D.
CROWE

 

The GOP is reeling from a nasty case of flesh-eating bacteria.

Kevin McCarthy has the worst symptoms. The Republican House Minority
Leader and wanna-be House speaker is so eaten up with it, he’s
willing to humiliate himself and make crazy deals with the bacteria
for some temporary relief - and to get the magic gavel. But at what
cost? I shudder at the horror.

J.D. Crowe
January 6, 2023
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RE: HISTORIC GAINS: LOW-INCOME WORKERS SCORED IN THE COVID ECONOMY

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Please forward this to the author of the article.

One of the sentences seems to make the crazy suggestion that inflation
only hurt high wage people. You've got to talk about gas prices and
you've got to talk about colossal rent increases and housing prices,
large increases in dental and medical costs, not just on the coast but
even in places like Milwaukee.

Food also has gone up far more than the official percentage.
Witnessing what's happening, my perception is that wage gains already
have been essentially lost to price increases.

And don't forget that people who can't pay their entire credit card
bill in one month have not benefited from low interest rates because
those were never passed on by the credit card companies.
And higher education, even at the lower levels, has continued to
become more expensive while outright grants and work study don't cover
the full cost so that poor people who want an education need to go
into debt.

Lita Kurth

 

RE: REMOTE WORK CONTINUES TO BE A BATTLEGROUND IN THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN
BOSSES AND WORKERS

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Private Profit Public Loss Capitalism Must Go And Democracy Must Come

We need a radical restructuring of the economic, political and value
system that treats all of nature, earth, air, water and human beings
as commodities to be bought, sold, rented in pursuit of enormous
private profit for an ever shrinking number while increasing the
hundreds of millions who sink lower economically while bearing the
public loss that is the outcome of all private profit.

Frank Scott

 

RE: ULTRA VIOLENCE
 

Excellent podcast

David Berger
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RE: THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
 

San Francisco politicians in the late 1980s stood silently by while
SRO housing was converted to expensive boutique hotels. The city lost
about 8000 SRO units, and funny thing, gained about 8000 homeless
people. But real estate is king and cannot be questioned.

I was there, went to hearings and watched it happen. So, that is
number 1. Number 2 is the turning of SF into a bedroom community for
Silicon Valley. Not a good thing, and now they are all moving on. The
media lies consistently, then wonders why they get no respect. This
was a good article, thanks.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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ADDLED CARD SHARK?  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
May 31, 2023
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE FIRST DECORATION DAY
 

A precursor to Memorial Day occurred in 1865 when thousands of freed
slaves marched in Charleston, South Carolina to declare their sense of
the meaning of the Civil War, that it was about their emancipation
over a slaveholders’ republic.

Norm Littlejohn
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RE: CANCELLING ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN
 

great article on Gurley Flynn

Steven Goldsmith, President, Torrance Refinery Action Alliance

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Americans hate to be reminded of our long history of keeping political
prisoners.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: AMANDA GORMAN ‘GUTTED’ AFTER FLORIDA SCHOOL BANS BIDEN
INAUGURATION POEM

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“They have to read for me because I’m not an expert, I’m not a
reader. I’m not a book person." -Quote from Daily Salinas, the one
parent who caused the banning from Florida elementary schools of the
“The Hill We Climb,” a poem Amanda Gorman read at President
Biden's inauguration.

Durt Fibo
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RE: THE DISCOVERY OF A LITTLE-KNOWN HISTORY OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

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This is an interesting film. We should be mindful however, that Budd
Schulberg, famous filmmaker later in his life, named names before the
House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950s.

Marilyn Albert
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TRIBUTE BOOK FOR CHARLENE MITCHELL

 

Tributes to Charlene Mitchell from her many comrades, friends,
co-workers, and supporters on her passing in 2022. In 1968, Charlene
was the first African American woman to run for US President. She was
on the Communist Party ticket. She won worldwide recognition for
leading the Campaign to Free Angela Davis and all Political Prisoners
in the 1970s. In the 1990s, she led a significant group to leave the
Communist Party and form the Committees of Correspondence for
Democracy and Socialism.

Paperback:  $8.00;  88 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1312627697
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1312627697
Publisher:  CoC Education Fund
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FIRST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PALESTINIAN ASSEMBLY FOR LIBERATION
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Palestinians from across THE US, JOINED BY PALESTINIANS FROM ALL
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Palestinian UNITY AND RETURN, TO DISCUSS OUR REPRESENTATION- AND OUR
ROLE TOWARD- AND AFTER- LIBERATION. Allies and Friends are welcomed
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FASCISM 101 - THURSDAY, JUNE 22 - PART TWO OF 8-PART SERIES (RIGHT TO
THE CITY ALLIANCE)

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of resurgent fascism in the U.S. and internationally.

Over 8 sessions, we’ll examine how authoritarian and fascist
political actors shape the current political moment, explore the many
faces of fascism and fronts of anti-fascistic resistance, and lay the
foundation for a roadmap to broad and effective anti-fascist
resistance.

For our first session examined the contours and characteristics of
modern fascism with moderator Malkia Devich-Cyril and panelists Ejeris
Dixon (Vision, Change, Win Consulting), Ash-Lee Henderson (Highlander
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En nuestro primera session, el 25 de mayo, examinaremos los contornos
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Consulting), Ash-Lee Henderson (Highlander Center) y Tarso Ramos
(Political Research Associates). Habra interpretación disponible al
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