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TIDBITS – DEC.19 – READER COMMENTS: PARDON LEONARD PELTIER;
FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS; MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DESCENDANTS OF RICH
SLAVEHOLDERS; READERS DEBATE: LIBERATION IN SYRIA; FUNDAMENTALS OF
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_ Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Trump Does Not Have
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Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals
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* DEAR PRESIDENT BIDEN: PARDON ME /SIGNED/ LEON PELTIER  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE MANDATE  (LYNN HAMILTON)
* RE: KNOWING FASCISM REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC FORCES  (JOSE
LUIS MEDINA)
* RE: A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS  (KENTUCKY
ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION)
* RE: WHAT IS THE PROGRESSIVE WORKING-CLASS POLICY ON IMMIGRATION?
 (CARL DAVIDSON)
* RE: THE MORAL SHAME OF US FOREIGN POLICY  (MARINA COBLENTZ)
* RE: PETE HEGSETH IS A TERRIBLE CHOICE TO HEAD THE PENTAGON
 (NORMAN GILL)
* RE: HOSPITALS GAVE PATIENTS MEDS DURING CHILDBIRTH, THEN REPORTED
THEM FOR POSITIVE DRUG TESTS  (DAVE LOTT; ARLENE HALFON)
* RE: MANY WEALTHY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE DESCENDANTS OF RICH
SLAVEHOLDERS - NEW STUDY DEMONSTRATES THE ENDURING LEGACY OF SLAVERY
 (EBONY WALLACE; NANCY KERN; YESHUA AARON HOLIDAY)
* WHY ARE THINGS SO EXPENSIVE  --  MEME
* MAGAZINE COVER  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IS ON TRIAL FOR HIS POLITICAL LIFE
 (GREGORY KESTEL)
* RE: ‘HOW MANY DEAD PALESTINIANS ARE ENOUGH?’ THE UNBEARABLE
PRESCIENCE OF THE LATE POET REFAAT ALAREER  (SANCOCHO NUYORQUINO)
* RE: LIBERATION IN SYRIA IS A VICTORY WORTH EMBRACING  (FELIX
LECHAT; ALAN HART; BERNARD SAMPSON)
* THE SCENT OF OLIGARCHY…  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS
* RE: WHEN DID NEANDERTALS AND HUMANS INTERBREED? GENOMICS CLOSES IN
ON A DATE  (BENJAMIN AMOS GERBER)
* RE: MOCKING THE DISABLED IS CRUEL AND IMMORAL — ESPECIALLY WHEN
THE PRESIDENT DOES IT  (NICHOLAS PAPPAS)
* MODERN NATIVITY  --  CARTOON BY STEVE BREEN

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DEAR PRESIDENT BIDEN: PARDON ME /SIGNED/ LEON PELTIER  --  CARTOON
BY LALO ALCARAZ
 

Lalo Alcaraz
December 15, 2024
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RE: TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE MANDATE
 

Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory
“decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and
“sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion
polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.

Trump’s electoral triumph, and the Republicans’ control of both
houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, certainly puts them in a
position to make significant changes. But in terms of the overall
vote, as well as public sentiment, Trump and the GOP have no mandate.

Lynn Hamilton
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RE: KNOWING FASCISM REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC FORCES
 

Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth:
it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized
that fascism’s form is shaped by class dynamics — an insight we
shouldn’t forget. 

Jose Luis Medina
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RE: A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF FIGHTING DEPORTATIONS
 

The US working class has a long tradition of standing up against
immigrant repression. This history is a reservoir of inspiration and
strategic thinking — and it can help immigrant workers and
communities confront Donald Trump’s promised wave of repression.

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
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RE: WHAT IS THE PROGRESSIVE WORKING-CLASS POLICY ON IMMIGRATION?
 

A good answer to this question is found in Liberation Road's Adelante
#4. Go here:
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Carl Davidson
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RE: THE MORAL SHAME OF US FOREIGN POLICY
 

Thank you for this refreshing read.  Mr. Mark Harris obviously sees
things as they are and is reporting them accordingly
-straightforwardly and honestly.  

Still, what we need is an explanation of why the Harris campaign,
knowing that a majority of citizens wanted a stop to arms supply to
Israel, did not propose to stop it, but continued to support it.

It was a grand read and it is encouraging to know there are others out
there who oppose supporting an oppressive, depraved and nasty state.

Please share my message with the author.

Marina Coblentz

 

RE: PETE HEGSETH IS A TERRIBLE CHOICE TO HEAD THE PENTAGON
 

But he’s what republican voters, voted for.

Norman Gill
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RE: HOSPITALS GAVE PATIENTS MEDS DURING CHILDBIRTH, THEN REPORTED THEM
FOR POSITIVE DRUG TESTS
 

What happened to Salinas and Villanueva are far from isolated
incidents. Across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to
patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities
when they or their newborns test positive for those very same
substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall
Project and Reveal has found.

The positive tests are triggered by medications routinely prescribed
to millions of birthing patients in the U.S. every year. The drugs
include morphine or fentanyl for epidurals or other pain relief,
anxiety medications, and two different blood pressure meds prescribed
for C-sections.

In a time of increasing surveillance and criminalization of pregnant
women since the end of Roe v. Wade, the hospital reports have prompted
calls to the police, child welfare investigations and even the removal
of children from their parents.

Dave Lott
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If more proof is needed about the general societal hatred of women,
these are the relevant kinds of example. Hospital gives you illegal
medication and then has you arrested for using the medication.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: MANY WEALTHY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE DESCENDANTS OF RICH
SLAVEHOLDERS - NEW STUDY DEMONSTRATES THE ENDURING LEGACY OF SLAVERY
 

In a new study,  we found that legislators who are descendants of
slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress
without slaveholder ancestry.

Ebony Wallace
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Sadly, I am not actually surprised.

Nancy Kern
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Y’all waste money on things African American people have been
telling you for free for decades. Rich European Americans wouldn’t
be where they are if it had not been for slavery. Neither would are
working class and poor ones for that matter(indentured slaves).

Yeshua Aaron Holiday
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WHY ARE THINGS SO EXPENSIVE  --  MEME

 

 

MAGAZINE COVER  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Come on, Time Magazine. Really? Again?

Rob Rogers
December 13, 2024
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RE: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU IS ON TRIAL FOR HIS POLITICAL LIFE
 

The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of
genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a
trial for corruption to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars
that could mean the end of his political career.

Gregory Kestel
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RE: ‘HOW MANY DEAD PALESTINIANS ARE ENOUGH?’ THE UNBEARABLE
PRESCIENCE OF THE LATE POET REFAAT ALAREER 
 

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago.
A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories
of Gaza in a plea for change 

Sancocho Nuyorquino
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RE: LIBERATION IN SYRIA IS A VICTORY WORTH EMBRACING
 

[Translated by Google] When I hear some reporters talking about the
head of HTS saying he still allowed people to smoke on the street!!!!
They think it's a step forward towards democracy it reminds me of the
Taliban who promised to improve the fate of women they always travel
in the trunk of the car but they removed the spare wheel to make it
less tight Bashar is gone and that's it good for Syrians but let's be
careful about the new regime let's avoid jumping for joy the future
will tell us

Felix Lechat
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xxxxxx has gone full neocon! The "liberation" that you're
"embracing" (alongside Netanyahu, Erdogan, and every reactionary
warmonger in Washington) already includes pogroms against Syrian
Christians and Alawites, a massive bombing campaign by Israel all over
Syria, and Israel grabbing more Syrian territory. That's your idea of
"liberation"? You are absolutely disgusting!

Alan Hart
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Yes for Turkey, Israel, Jihadists, and US oil companies. Whats wrong
with you ?

Bernard Sampson
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THE SCENT OF OLIGARCHY…  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS

 

Adam Zyglis
December 13, 2024
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RE: WHEN DID NEANDERTALS AND HUMANS INTERBREED? GENOMICS CLOSES IN ON
A DATE
 

Genomic sleuthing can determine how many generations have passed since
a hybridization event. The oldest human genomes ever sequenced reveal
that our Neandertal ancestry came from one “pulse” of
interbreeding and pins down the timing. 

Benjamin Amos Gerber
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RE: MOCKING THE DISABLED IS CRUEL AND IMMORAL — ESPECIALLY WHEN THE
PRESIDENT DOES IT
 

That is what America has come to.

Nicholas Pappas

 

MODERN NATIVITY  --  CARTOON BY STEVE BREEN

 

Steve Breen
December 11, 2022; updated May 10, 2023
Tulsa World
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