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TIDBITS – DEC. 5 – READER COMMENTS: TRUMP CABINET; MEXICAN
PRESIDENT LETTER; DEMS TOUTED GROUND GAME; HARRIS TURNED AWAY FROM
ECONOMIC POPULISM; EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHY AMERICA VOTED FOR PLAGUE; MODEL
FOR CITY OFFICIALS PROTECTING TARGETED COMMUNITIES;  
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_ Reader Comments: Trump Cabinet; Mexican President Sheinbaum’s
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Populism; Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague; Model for City
Officials Protecting Targeted Communities; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, AND cartoons - Dec.5, 2024,
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* TRUMP’S ‘MANDATE’ SHRINKS AS VOTE TOTALS COME IN  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM’S LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP
 (DAVID BENTON)
* RE: ELECTION AFTERMATH  (JAY SCHAFFNER)
* RE: DEMOCRATS MUCH TOUTED GROUND GAME WAS NOT ENOUGH. HERE’S HOW
TO FIX IT  (BEN CUPP; JUDY ATKINS)
* RE: ANALYSIS: KAMALA HARRIS TURNED AWAY FROM ECONOMIC POPULISM
 (LOUISIANA CARIBBEAN CULTURES; JUDY ATKINS)
* RE: HOW TO BUILD A CULTURE OF ORGANIZING: A CONVERSATION WITH
MARSHALL GANZ  (MARY-ALICE STROM)
* PETE HEGSETH  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: HOW US SANCTIONS TORPEDOED KAMALA HARRIS  (SAM FRIEDMAN;
KERRY SHAWN KEYS)
* RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 4, 2024  (ETHAN YOUNG)
* RE: AS US CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING, ISRAEL-IMPOSED STARVATION AND
SUFFERING IN GAZA INTENSIFIES  (MALDO CARLOS)
* RE: THE TEXAS OB-GYN EXODUS  (ESCAPING GILEAD)
* RE: WISCONSIN UNIONS SCORE MAJOR WIN WITH COURT RULING RESTORING
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS  (RITA MATTHEWS)
* RE: AMAZON WORKERS PLANNING TO STRIKE FROM BLACK FRIDAY TO CYBER
MONDAY  (VALERIE BRADSHAW)
* TRUMP NAUGHTY LIST  --  CARTOON MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: 6 THANKSGIVING MYTHS AND THE WAMPANOAG SIDE OF THE STORY
 (MITTAL KISHOR KAMAL)
* RE: THE GREAT AMERICAN TURKEY  (JOPPEL REIMER)
* RE: MADELEINE RIFFAUD, ‘THE GIRL WHO SAVED PARIS,’ DIES AT 100
 (TINA BRAXTON)
* EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHY AMERICA VOTED FOR PLAGUE  --  CARTOON BY JEN
SORENSEN

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* MODEL OF LOCAL CITY OFFICIALS PROTECTING TARGETED COMMUNITIES
AGAINST AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS  (DOVE KENT)

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TRUMP’S ‘MANDATE’ SHRINKS AS VOTE TOTALS COME IN  --  CARTOON
BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
December 5, 2024
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RE: MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM’S LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP
 

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to president-elect
Donald Trump, addressing the issues of border crossings and labor
mobility, the fentanyl epidemic, illegal arms trafficking, and tariffs

David Benton
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RE: ELECTION AFTERMATH
 

“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the
lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the
morning after the 2024 general election. She’d turned 21 during the
campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity
to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. “Of
course, they hate immigrants, too,” she added, “and I’m both.”

That morning of November 6th, I sat down with her and four other women
to face the election results. The six of us had spent almost every day
together over the previous three months, recruiting, training, and
deploying volunteers in northern Nevada in the campaign to elect
Kamala Harris president and return Jacky Rosen to the Senate..."

Jay Schaffner
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RE: DEMOCRATS MUCH TOUTED GROUND GAME WAS NOT ENOUGH. HERE’S HOW TO
FIX IT
 

Democrats should stop mocking trump’s ground game and start learning
from it. Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more.
If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push
for change.

Since Kamala Harris’s defeat, even moderate commentators are waking
up to the fact that Democrats need to shift their messaging in order
to increase their appeal to working class voters who have turned away
from the party or toward Trump.

Ben Cupp
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Long, but it makes the point. Door knocking without a message is a
waste of time, mostly.

Judy Atkins
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RE: ANALYSIS: KAMALA HARRIS TURNED AWAY FROM ECONOMIC POPULISM
 

Pressed by influential corporate advisors, Kamala Harris ran away from
a winning economic populist message and ended up losing a campaign. We
have the proof

Louisiana Caribbean Cultures
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Yes, this article rings true. I saw her move towards the center- right
as the campaign went on. Whoever was advising her should take the
blame for losing as well as the candidate herself. I hope they were
fired and the party never hires advisors like that again. The
criticism by Bernie and Thomas Frank are the ones to be learned from.
I think this campaign will turn out to have alienated many voters from
the Democratic Party at least on the national level. If only this
country had a working class party. Oh well, good article.

PS To the author and all: I really disagree with the definition of the
working class as being those without a college degree. There are
thousands if not millions of workers who are educated beyond high
school and have higher degrees. All wage workers and some salaried
workers no matter their education are working class and as well as
those who are temporarily unemployed. Let’s all present a true
picture of the male/female racially diverse working class from now on.

Judy Atkins

 

RE: HOW TO BUILD A CULTURE OF ORGANIZING: A CONVERSATION WITH MARSHALL
GANZ
 

Campaigns—they are about change. They are the rhythm of change. They
have a specific objective. And they may accomplish the objective or
not.  But what is being built? That’s often missing. That is where
organization comes in, which is the rhythm of continuity. When I was
working with the farmworkers’ union, we had lots of different
campaigns, but we were building a union.

So, that’s the missing piece. To the extent that we can bring
mobilizing back into the context of organizing, then it becomes a
tactic, which is all it is. A lot of mobilizing is tactics in search
of a strategy. There is no strategic context to it because there is no
organizational venue in which that strategy is being developed.

Mary-Alice Strom
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PETE HEGSETH  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

It looks as though Pete Hegseth will go the way of Matt Gaetz. The
lack of vetting continues to cause chaos.

Rob Rogers
December 5, 2024
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RE: HOW US SANCTIONS TORPEDOED KAMALA HARRIS
 

In "How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris" by Arun Gupta, he
rightly remarks that price rises started becoming a major problem in
2021. This was in significant part due to the capitalism-induced COVID
pandemic. Yet somehow Gupta sees the Russian full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, and its economic and political consequences, as causing these
price rises in 2021. A lot of people who call themselves "left" or
progressive seize on any argument to attack Ukrainians.

Sam Friedman

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The Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia didn’t just tank
global markets; they also helped Kamala Harris lose the election. The
Democrats’ fate was sealed by a Wall Street–fueled commodity
frenzy that sent gas prices and grocery bills soaring.

Kerry Shawn Keys
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RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – DECEMBER 4, 2024
 

The unions are front and center in South Korea.

Ethan Young
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RE: AS US CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING, ISRAEL-IMPOSED STARVATION AND
SUFFERING IN GAZA INTENSIFIES
 

"The war in Gaza is a war on children. There is no plainer way to
illustrate this than to look at the people who make up the death
figures—over 4 in every 10 people verified killed in Gaza are
children."

Maldo Carlos
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RE: THE TEXAS OB-GYN EXODUS
 

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide
maternal care have been fleeing the state. A new reality set in for
ob-gyns in Texas - “The standard of care can now be construed as a
felony.”

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RE: WISCONSIN UNIONS SCORE MAJOR WIN WITH COURT RULING RESTORING
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS

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Wisconsin public workers have won a major legal victory with a ruling
that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under Act 10, a
2011 state law forced through by then Governor Scott Walker. Seven
unions and 3 labor leaders filed the suit.

Rita Matthews
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RE: AMAZON WORKERS PLANNING TO STRIKE FROM BLACK FRIDAY TO CYBER
MONDAY

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‘Make Amazon Pay Day’ is becoming a global act of resistance
against Amazon’s abuse of power.”

Valerie Bradshaw
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TRUMP NAUGHTY LIST  --  CARTOON MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
December 5, 2024
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RE: 6 THANKSGIVING MYTHS AND THE WAMPANOAG SIDE OF THE STORY
 

The Thanksgiving Day Celebration originated From a Massacre - Let's
Hear the Wampanoag side of the story. Here are some of the most common
misconceptions about the November holiday.(from Indian Country Today,
original published 2017.)

Mittal Kishor Kamal
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RE: THE GREAT AMERICAN TURKEY
 

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The turkey was semi-domesticated and kept in pens in the American
Southwest some 2,000 years ago—but not for the reason you think.

Joppel Reimer
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RE: MADELEINE RIFFAUD, ‘THE GIRL WHO SAVED PARIS,’ DIES AT 100
 

Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French
Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier,
survived torture and captured a supply train.

“Hundreds of young women like me were involved,” Ms. Riffaud
recalled. “We were the messengers, the intelligence gatherers, the
repairers of the web. When men fell or were captured, we got the news
through, pulled the nets tight again. We carried documents, leaflets,
sometimes arms.”

Ms. Riffaud played down her acclaim as a hero of the liberation of
Paris. “I refuse to be a symbol,” she wrote. “I was just a young
girl caught up in history.”

“The essential was not to give in,” she once said. “When you
resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”

Tina Braxton
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EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHY AMERICA VOTED FOR PLAGUE  --  CARTOON BY JEN
SORENSEN

 

When you substitute “plague” for “Trump,” some oft-repeated
post-election analyses become obviously absurd. At this point the
whole conversation is starting to feel tedious, and I find myself
getting annoyed by simplistic arguments.

The bird thing in the last panel is a plague doctor
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plague in the 17th century, doctors wore a mask in the shape of a
giant bird beak filled with aromatic herbs, on the theory that this
would enable them to avoid scents that they thought caused the
illness. The costume may have shielded them from bodily fluids and
thus been useful, if in a slightly different way than they imagined.

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Jen Sorensen
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_[Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These
Times, Politico and other publications throughout the US. She received
the 2023 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning from the National
Press Foundation, and is a recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a
2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is also a Pulitzer
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MODEL OF LOCAL CITY OFFICIALS PROTECTING TARGETED COMMUNITIES AGAINST
AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS
 

Looking for a model of local city officials protecting targeted
communities against authoritarian governments deporting them en mass?
I got one. During WWII, Traian Popovici, the mayor of Chernovitz (now
in Ukraine, a town where some of my people are from), saved 19,000
Jews from the Nazi camps. Under Nazi occupation, he refused the first
governor's order to create a ghetto, and refused the second governor's
orders for deportation of the Jews to the camps, citing the inhumanity
of the orders. He said that City Hall was behind him, that the
leadership of the city stood with him. He wrote publicly that the
deportation, called an "evacuation" by the governor, was about hate,
not protection as the governor claimed, and that he would not be part
of the annihilation of the Jews. In the end, he was allowed to create
a list of Jews "required for the functioning of the local economy." He
listed all 20,000 Jews of the city, and nearly all of them remained
there through the war. There are models like these all over the world.
Let’s organize to protect each other.

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