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TIDBITS – JUNE 13 – READER COMMENTS: BILLIONAIRES CAPTURED TRUMP;
CRIMINALIZATION OF SOLIDARITY; SLIPPERY SLOPE TO WORLD WAR III?; PRIDE
MONTH EVENT – TELLING THE STORIES OF LINCOLN BRIGADE LGBTQ
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June 13, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: Billionaires Captured Trump; Criminalization of
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Out Red Carpet for the Rich; Pride Month Event - Telling the stories
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - June 13,
2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: THE BILLIONAIRES HAVE CAPTURED DONALD TRUMP  (LYNN HAMILTON)
* YES HE DID  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
* RE: MIGRATING WORKERS PROVIDE WEALTH FOR THE WORLD  (NORM
LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SOLIDARITY: THE STOP COP CITY
PROSECUTIONS  (KIPP DAWSON)
* NEW NAME  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO WORLD WAR III?  (JACK RADEY)
* YOU HAVE A MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX  --  CARTOON BY MATT
WUERKER
* RE: FOR THE RICH, ONE NATION ISN’T ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET
 (SUSAN LOWRY; JENNA SANZ-AGERO)
* RE: ELON MUSK WANTS $50 BILLION OR HE’LL WALK  (ROBERT LAITE)
* RACIST ASSHOLE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL
* RE: ROGER CORMAN’S 1962 FILM ‘THE INTRUDER’ AND THE CRISIS
OF NATIONAL VALUES  (LIZ REDWING)
* MANY WHITE AMERICANS FAIL TO ASSIMILATE  --  CARTOON BY JEN
SORENSEN

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ALBA PRIDE MONTH EVENT: TELLING OUR STORIES  --  ONLINE  --
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RE: THE BILLIONAIRES HAVE CAPTURED DONALD TRUMP
 

Desperate to avoid prison—and needing cash to win reelection, so he
can pardon himself—Trump is selling his administration’s domestic
and foreign policy to the highest bidder. It’s hardly a conspiracy,
too. As we speak, he is traveling from billionaire to billionaire,
with hat in hand, making explicit promises to sell his presidency.

Trump has raked in campaign contributions in the wake of his
conviction last week on 34 felony counts of falsifying business
records—$60 million alone in the 24 hours after the jury delivered a
guilty verdict...

Trump is going to wealthy donors and interest groups and offering to
cede policymaking to them—in exchange for massive campaign
contributions. Last month, The Washington Post reported that Trump
gathered oil executives at Mar-a-Lago and made a pitch: For the low
cost of $1 billion, he would, as president “reverse dozens of
President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones
from being enacted.”

Trump is advertising that he’s open for business, and he has never
shown any interest in Palestinian rights; it’s fair to assume he
would see supporting annexation of the West Bank as a small price to
pay for millions in campaign contributions. Last month, moreover,
Trump promised donors that he would set back the pro-Palestinian
movement by “25 or 30 years.” One easy way to do that: Allow
Israel to annex the West Bank.

Lynn Hamilton
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YES HE DID  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

 

Clay Jones
June 7, 2024
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RE: MIGRATING WORKERS PROVIDE WEALTH FOR THE WORLD
 

The treatment of migrants, who are crucial for poverty reduction and
for building wealth in society, is outrageous. They are treated as
criminals, abandoned by their own countries who would rather spend
vulgar amounts of money to attract much less impactful investment
through multinational corporations. Migrant remittances are greater by
volume and more impactful for society than the “hot money” that
goes in and out of countries and does not “trickle down” into
society.

If the migrants of the world—all 281 million of them—lived in one
country, then they would form the fourth largest country in the world
after India (1.4 billion), China (1.4 billion), and the United States
(339 million). Yet, migrants receive few social protections and little
respect. In many cases, their wages are suppressed due to their lack
of documentation, and their remittances are taxed heavily by
international wire services (PayPal, Western Union, and MoneyGram)
which charge high fees to both the sender and the recipient. As yet,
there are only small political initiatives that stand with the
migrants, but no platform that unites their numbers into a powerful
political force.

Norm Littlejohn
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RE: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SOLIDARITY: THE STOP COP CITY PROSECUTIONS
 

Another heads-up warning and call to action.

As xxxxxx
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law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when
the government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with
laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition."

Kipp Dawson
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NEW NAME  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
June 11, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO WORLD WAR III?
 

Mr Feffer's piece about how there are good arguments for sleepwalking
into WWIII, and though it may be uncomfortable, it is the principled
thing to do.  Oh goody.  Did you catch the bit about how the F-16s
are going to change everything?  Do you recall when that was said
about, oh, lets see... HIMARS, Patriots, western tanks, "NATO
training", guided artillery shell systems, the Switchblade drone,
ATACAMS, each a game changer.  Dumb game didn't get the message
though... As to who is spreading what, lets see, Macron talking about
not just sending trainers but sending troops, if the front collapses.
 Because, of course, he's confident the front is not collapsing and
is just engaging in macho-mouth?  All the stories of the Russians,
badly beaten in electronic warfare a year ago, are now dominant in the
field?  Likewise with drones, drone effectiveness, artillery
domination?

There is so much bullshit being slung around, by both sides, that it
is impossible to see more than the haziest outlines of what is
happening.  But it is clear, both sides are losing.  The notion that
either NATO or Russia can sustain an ongoing modern war, with its
prodigious lethality, expenditure of munitions, cost of same.  It
cannot be sustained, not by NATO, not by Russia, certainly not by
Ukraine.

And indignant and determined statement of PRINCIPLES will not actually
be of any significance if Mr. Putin, in a fit of panic, decides to go
for his hole card, and pops a nuclear cap on NATO's ass.  And then,
my dear friends, all the principled stands in the world will make not
one whit of difference.  Fade to black.  Oh, by the way, in case
you're curious, there's nothing on the other side, its all blackness
and silence.  And there are no "lets reshoot that last scene, this
story needs a happy ending to be marketable."  That will be all she
wrote.

Jack Radey

 

YOU HAVE A MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX  --  CARTOON BY MATT WUERKER

 

Matt Wuerker
July 29, 2015
Politico
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RE: FOR THE RICH, ONE NATION ISN’T ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET
 

Fascinating concept, sharing the wealth.

Susan Lowry
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Wait, so they are literally fleeing the country over a 0.25% tax
increase? That’s hilariously absurd.

Jenna Sanz-Agero
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RE: ELON MUSK WANTS $50 BILLION OR HE’LL WALK
 

Other than money, what does he bring to the table? It's not as if he's
the one designing everything. At what point do his personal
shenanigans and reputation become more of a liability to the company?

Robert Laite
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RACIST ASSHOLE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

 

Mike Stanfill
June 10, 2024
Raging Pencils
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RE: ROGER CORMAN’S 1962 FILM ‘THE INTRUDER’ AND THE CRISIS OF
NATIONAL VALUES
 

I found it really powerful and extremely disturbing!  Not to mention
very close to our world today 😕

Liz Redwing

 

MANY WHITE AMERICANS FAIL TO ASSIMILATE  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN

 

  

With all this talk of immigrants assimilating (or not assimilating)
into “our culture,” it’s often implied that said culture is
white and Christian. But if you consider that America is, in fact, a
highly-diverse nation of immigrants — _E pluribus unum,_ anyone?
— the true outliers seem to be those who view the nation as a
monolithic body resembling themselves. If anything, it is these folks
who have not fully integrated, and who reject American values.

In the second panel, I originally drew “Sweet Home Alabama”
blasting out of the pickup truck, but that particular lyric
complicated the message I was trying to convey with the Confederate
flag, since Alabama actually _is_ a part of the United States thanks
to the outcome of the Civil War. So I opted for some fitting lyrics
from “Free Bird” instead

Jen Sorensen
February 12, 2019
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ALBA PRIDE MONTH EVENT: TELLING OUR STORIES  --  ONLINE  --  JUNE
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Join Us!
Tuesday, June, 25 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT

​ONLINE EVENT!

REGISTER HERE!
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FEATURING SHANNON O’NEILL AND BETTINA APTHEKER

O’NEILL, CURATOR FOR THE TAMIMENT-WAGNER COLLECTIONS AT NYU SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS AND EX-OFFICIO ALBA BOARD MEMBER WILL RE-ACQUAINT US WITH
THE ALBA ARCHIVES AND HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF TELLING THE STORIES
OF LGBTQ VOLUNTEERS AND THE CHALLENGES INVOLVED.

Aptheker will discuss her book Communists in _Closets: Queering the
History 1930s–1990s_. Drawing on the ALBA collection, among other
archives, the book recounts the struggles of the Party to come to
grips with the many LGBTQ folks among its rank-and-file.

Please join us for this special presentation and discussion as part of
Pride Month. 
All are welcome. This promises to be a lively and informative
session—don’t miss it!

Pick up a copy of Aptheker's _Communists in Closets: Queering the
History 1930s–1990s_ here
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An audiobook copy can be found here
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BETTINA APTHEKER is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist
Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz where she taught for
more than 40 years, and had over 17,000 students in the course of her
career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC
Berkeley in 1964, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To
End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from
1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late
1970s, She has published several books including, _Communists in
Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s_, _The Morning Breaks:
The Trial of Angela Davis, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work,
Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience_, and a
memoir, _Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech
& Became A Feminist Rebel _that was nominated for a Lambda Literary
Award in 2006. She and her wife, Kate Miller, have been together since
1979. They live in Santa Cruz.

SHANNON O'NEILL is the Curator for the Tamiment-Wagner Collections at
NYU Special Collections, a department within NYU Libraries, and the
repository responsible for the ongoing care, preservation, and access
to the Abraham Lincoln Archives Collection and collections of numerous
Spanish Civil War veterans. She joined NYU in August of 2019. Prior to
NYU, she worked at the Barnard College Archives and Special
Collections as its Director, and the Los Angeles Public Library and
Atlantic City Free Public Library. As of May 2024, she has completed a
master’s in public history at NYU’s Archives and Public History
program. 

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