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TIDBITS – JAN.9 – READER COMMENTS: GREENLAND, PANAMA CANAL, GULF
OF AMERICA AND HE STILL HASN’T TAKEN OFFICE; TRUMP VOTERS’ RUDE
AWAKENING; JIMMY CARTER; AHA VOTES TO OPPOSE SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA;
ACADEMY FOR SOCIALIST EDUCATION NYC SPRING CLASSES;  
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January 9, 2025
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_ Reader Comments: Greenland, Panama Canal, Gulf of America and Still
Hasn't Taken Oath of Office; Trump Voters' Rude Awakening; Jimmy
Carter; Historical Assoc. Votes to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Jan.9, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE - FOUR MORE YEARS OF DUMBEST SH-T YOU'VE
EVER HEARD INTERSPERSED WITH ACTS OF MASS HARM  (FEMINIST NEWS)
* RE: TRUMP VOTERS ARE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING  (JOSE LUIS MEDINA;
BENJAMIN AMOS GERBER)
* ELECTION CERTIFICATION  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT
* WAY OF LIFE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: HOW TRUMP NOMINEES COULD MAKE PROJECT 2025 A REALITY  (LYNN
HAMILTON)
* LYING IN STATE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: JIMMY CARTER WAS RIGHT ABOUT ISRAEL’S APARTHEID  (BANBOSE
SHANGO)
* RE: JIMMY CARTER WAS NO FRIEND OF UNION WORKERS LIKE ME  (SOPHIA
ANNA; PANCHO VALDEZ)
* NEW ORLEANS  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL
* RE: HISTORY’S LESSONS ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXTREMISM  (REI NALDO)
* RE: ONE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S MOST INFAMOUS CASES IS AS
RELEVANT AS EVER  (SILVIA BRANDON)
* RE: ALABAMA PROFITS OFF PRISONERS WHO WORK AT MCDONALD’S BUT
DEEMS THEM TOO DANGEROUS FOR PAROLE  (KENTUCKY ALLIANCE AGAINST
RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION; TOM NEILSON)
* RE: WHY CONGRESS MEMBERS FACE A LAWSUIT FOR FUNDING ISRAEL’S WAR
ON GAZA  (RICHARD ROSA)
* RE: WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE ISRAELI LEFT IN A TIME OF GENOCIDE?
 (JIM STONE; FELICE SAGE)
* RE: TODAY, AS IN THE PAST, GERMANY CLAIMS THE AUTHORITY TO DEFINE
WHO IS A JEW  (ALICE SLATER; MARK C. ROSENZWEIG)
* RE: THE COMMON GROUND BETWEEN LABOR AND CLIMATE JUSTICE IS THE KEY
TO A LIVABLE FUTURE  (MARY-ALICE STROM)
* RE: THE PLUTOCRACY WINS ANOTHER ROUND AGAINST MAGA NATION  (LANE
RALPH)
* RE: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG  (EVA
PETTERSSON)
* RE: ELVIS, THE POLIO VACCINE, AND US  (KIMBERLY BREEZE)
* RE: ECUADOR HANDS OVER GALAPAGOS ISLANDS TO BUILD U.S. MILITARY
BASE  (VELVA SPRIGGS)
* RE: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT TRADER JOE’S  (JAY SCHAFFNER)
* NEW POLITICAL CARTOONIST  --  CARTOON BY JEFF DANZIGER

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RESOURCES:

* AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC. VOTES OVERWHELMINGLY TO SUPPORT
RESOLUTION TO OPPOSE SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA  (DEMOCRACY NOW!)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ACADEMY FOR SOCIALIST EDUCATION  --  NEW YORK  -- STARTING
JANUARY 28 - CLASSES RUN THROUGH JUNE  (NEW YORK CITY DSA'S ACADEMY
FOR SOCIALIST EDUCATION)

 

* PALESTINIAN CULTURAL FAIR  --  JERSEY CITY  --  JANUARY 26
 (CEASEFIRE NOW NEW JERSEY)

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FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE - FOUR MORE YEARS OF DUMBEST SH-T YOU'VE EVER
HEARD INTERSPERSED WITH ACTS OF MASS HARM  (FEMINIST NEWS)

 

Feminist News
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January 7, 2025

 

RE: TRUMP VOTERS ARE IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING
 

Trump sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025,
he’ll face political reality. For many, he was whoever they wanted
him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters projected their wishes
onto his candidacy, regardless of his stated policy program.

They remembered positive aspects of his presidency and either
memory-holed the negative parts (his deadly mishandling of the
pandemic, say, or his nomination of Supreme Court justices who
eliminated abortion rights) or simply didn’t blame him for them. But
Trump’s rhetorical slipperiness made this possible. His relentless
lying, flip-flopping, and vagueness about his plans made it difficult
to pin him down, thereby attracting voters from both sides of certain
issues.

Jose Luis Medina
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Yet they’re anti awakening?

Benjamin Amos Gerber
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ELECTION CERTIFICATION  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

 

Clay Bennett
January 6, 2025
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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WAY OF LIFE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

New Orleans was in the process of replacing the security bollards for
the Super Bowl. When our security is threatened in any number of ways,
society and government do everything in their power to fix it. I wish
I could say the same response was afforded the threat from guns.

Rob Rogers
January 3, 2025
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RE: HOW TRUMP NOMINEES COULD MAKE PROJECT 2025 A REALITY
 

In the days after his victory, Trump picked major architects of the
Heritage Foundation’s vision for key posts in his next
administration, setting the stage for them to implement a conservative
Christian agenda that has the potential to reshape the federal
government and redefine rights long held by all Americans, though
likely to disproportionately impact women, LGBTQ+ people and
vulnerable populations like the elderly and disabled.

One of these architects is Russell Vought, whom Trump has again tapped
to lead his Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, an
under-the-radar entity to most Americans that wields immense influence
over the federal government by crafting the president’s budget. If
confirmed by the Senate, a very likely outcome, Vought will be
optimally positioned to inject Project 2025’s priorities — many of
which reflect his career-long push to dismantle programs for
low-income Americans and expand the president’s authority — across
the federal agencies and departments that OMB oversees.

Lynn Hamilton
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LYING IN STATE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

Jimmy Carter promised the American people he would never lie to them.
He kept that promise. Meanwhile, Donald Trump told 30,573 lies in his
first term. We miss you, Jimmy.

Rob Rogers
January 7, 2025
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RE: JIMMY CARTER WAS RIGHT ABOUT ISRAEL’S APARTHEID
 

No US president has ever been willing to call the system imposed by
Israel on the Palestinians what it is: apartheid. Except Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was a champion of peace who also foresaw the perils of
apartheid in Palestine.

Banbose Shango
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RE: JIMMY CARTER WAS NO FRIEND OF UNION WORKERS LIKE ME

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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As a worker of that era, I had high expectations for Jimmy Carter, but
ultimately felt betrayed. The administration was far less supportive
of unions and workers than we had hoped, and many of the policies of
that era disappointed me and my union colleagues.

Sophia Anna
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Good description of Jimmy Carter. I was Chief Job Steward in Teamsters
Local 968 at the GAF tile factory during his tenure.
From that time on I have supported the idea of a worker's party.

In Solidarity,

Pancho Valdez, Retiree
CWA Local 6186
San Antonio, Texas

 

NEW ORLEANS  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL

 

Bill Bramhall
January 3, 2025
New York Daily News
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RE: HISTORY’S LESSONS ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXTREMISM
 

The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and
without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a
movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate
in the United States.

Rei Naldo
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RE: ONE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S MOST INFAMOUS CASES IS AS RELEVANT AS
EVER
 

What is amazing to me is how many people of Asian descent are ignorant
of this country’s history… no one knows about the Chinese
Exclusion Act which prohibited immigration from China for ten years.
 The other thing people ignore at their own peril that the statement
that all men are created equal included only white, Anglo-Saxon males
with property.  All others step to the back of the line…

Silvia Brandon
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RE: ALABAMA PROFITS OFF PRISONERS WHO WORK AT MCDONALD’S BUT DEEMS
THEM TOO DANGEROUS FOR PAROLE
 

Alabama With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150
years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced
slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of
mass incarceration.

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
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Shoot 'Em In The Leg
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RE: WHY CONGRESS MEMBERS FACE A LAWSUIT FOR FUNDING ISRAEL’S WAR ON
GAZA
 

More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have
signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to
arm the Israeli military in violation of “international and federal
law that prohibits complicity in genocide.”

Richard Rosa
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RE: WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE ISRAELI LEFT IN A TIME OF GENOCIDE?
 

Israeli leftists have been more divided and marginalized than ever
since the October 7 assault, with joint Palestinian-Jewish struggle at
a breaking point. Yet their sights remain set on long-term political
change.

Jim Stone
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Sadly, it will never be possible, even for an enlightened Israeli
left, to separate the state of Israel from its basis in dispossession
of an indigenous population in the last gasp of the age of European
colonization. The only people who owed Jews a chunk of land for a
state of their own were the Germans, not the Arabs of Palestine where,
prior to modern Zionism, Jews had never constituted more than a tiny
remnant for centuries. It's unsurprising that a state created in the
post WWII 20th century by agreements among western colonial powers
drawing maps, as usual, without regard to the inhabitants is proving
to be a dead end.

Felice Sage
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RE: TODAY, AS IN THE PAST, GERMANY CLAIMS THE AUTHORITY TO DEFINE WHO
IS A JEW
 

"Germany is using a term that was designed to protect Jews as a weapon
not only to silence Palestinians, but also to silence Jews and
Israelis who criticize the occupation.”

Reawakening ghosts from a dark past, Germany once again claims to have
the authority to define who is a Jew. Those who say this are Jews
living in Germany who find themselves the target of processes of
delegitimization from the moment they criticize Israel. Between Israel
and Jews, Germany chooses the Zionist state.

For the philosopher and journalist Martin Gak, “when the German
state puts itself in a position to tell me what the opinions of a Jew
should be and which expression of antisemitism to condemn and which to
protect, the famous phrase of Hermann Göring, one of the main
architects of the police state in Nazi Germany, comes to mind: In
Germany, I am the one who decides who is a Jew.”

Alice Slater
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Germany, once again, decides who is a Jew?

Mark C. Rosenzweig
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RE: THE COMMON GROUND BETWEEN LABOR AND CLIMATE JUSTICE IS THE KEY TO
A LIVABLE FUTURE

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The tale of “jobs versus the environment” does not capture the
full story.

Mary-Alice Strom
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RE: THE PLUTOCRACY WINS ANOTHER ROUND AGAINST MAGA NATION
 

Trump can get rid of Elon Musk with Just One Phone Call!

Trump has an Ace Up His Sleeve in that he can call the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration at any point he wants to and have them
start denaturalization proceeding against Elon Musk for violating his
Visa's and Oath of Naturalization!

Elon Musk didn’t come to the U.S. on an H1B.

He came illegally, scamming his way in on a student visa (F1) he never
used, then violated its terms to work.

His constant lies about his origin story aren’t just to lecture
folks—they’re to protect himself from deportation and avoid the
massive fines and asset seizures that could follow an investigation
into his immigration fraud.

Lane Ralph
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RE: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG
 

First of all, I appreciate your work so much!

This article about the song This land is your land, is great and
interesting.

My question is how can this song be discussed without also mentioning
Native Americans, whose land of course it was to begin with? It's a
serious omission!

Maybe the Kennedy Center  can not do that for various political
reason, but I hope xxxxxx could add a comment about this.

Thank you for all your work!

Eva Pettersson

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    “I saw a sign that said No Trespassing
    But on the other side
    It didn’t say nothing
    This land was made for you and me.”

Lewis Grupper

 

RE: ELVIS, THE POLIO VACCINE, AND US
 

Perhaps the best solution to those who refuse to vaccinate
appropriately is to bar them from international travel.  It was done
before the general availability of vaccines.  I spent over 700
dollars to get a timely vaccine to return to Italy in 2021.  This
would affect the most affluent who would seem to be the most smug.  

Kimberly Breeze

 

RE: ECUADOR HANDS OVER GALAPAGOS ISLANDS TO BUILD U.S. MILITARY BASE
 

TRAGIC NEWS!  Ecuadorians will soon discover what giving in to a
white supremacist, imperial power will do to destroy their
sovereignty.  Have they not witnessed what occurred in Cuba,
Nicaragua, and Haiti?  Short term gain for some Ecuadorians, long
term loss of sovereignty for all Ecuadorians. Have you not witnessed
the African nations that recently castout US military bases from their
countries?  Did you look into why?  Pobrecitos!

Velva Spriggs

 

RE: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT TRADER JOE’S

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Unbelievable? Trader Joe's ripping off small retailers? Read on... 

Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and
bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have
many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive
copycat culture.

Jay Schaffner
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NEW POLITICAL CARTOONIST  --  CARTOON BY JEFF DANZIGER

 

Jeff Danziger
January 6, 2025
Rutland Herald
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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC. VOTES OVERWHELMINGLY TO SUPPORT RESOLUTION
TO OPPOSE SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA  (DEMOCRACY NOW!)
 

The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the
United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide
in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to
comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.” We speak
to Sherene Seikaly and Barbara Weinstein, two scholars who supported
the resolution and helped push for the groundbreaking vote. Seikaly, a
professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says,
“This moment was one I never thought I would experience,” hailing
the resolution as an opportunity for historians to “narrate our past
and imagine our future.” Weinstein, who teaches at New York
University and previously served as the president of the American
Historical Association, adds, “Over the years it has become
increasingly clear that we can’t have a narrow definition of what
our roles are as historians.”

The vote was a vote of 428 in favor and 88 opposed. The resolution was
written by Historians for Peace and Democracy.

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ACADEMY FOR SOCIALIST EDUCATION  --  NEW YORK  -- STARTING JANUARY
28 - CLASSES RUN THROUGH JUNE  (NEW YORK CITY DSA'S ACADEMY FOR
SOCIALIST EDUCATION)

 

 

NYC DSA INVITES DSA MEMBERS AND THE BROADER NYC COMMUNITY TO APPLY TO
THE FIRST OF OUR WINTER/SPRING 2025 COURSE OFFERINGS. COURSES BELOW
WILL CONTINUE TO OPEN TO ENROLLMENT IN EARLY 2025.

The Chapter’s newly launched ACADEMY FOR SOCIALIST EDUCATION just
concluded its first semester. Two classes, one on fascism, and one on
empire, were great successes in the eyes of both students and
teachers. We are excited about the prospects for the future.

The Academy has therefore decided to greatly expand its roster of
forthcoming courses. Below you will see the classes scheduled
beginning in January and continuing into June. They are designed, in
part, to address some of the larger issues raised by the recent
presidential election.
 

We are accepting applications now for the first two courses and will
continue to open enrollment closer to course start dates. Sign up for
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* The Anatomy of Strikes—How to Build a More Militant and
Effective Labor Movement

* Introduction to Political Economy

* The Making of Trump Country

* Socialists and Housing

* Municipal Socialism in the United States

* The Rise and Fall of Ruling Classes: Yesterday and Today

* Capitalism and Democracy

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PALESTINIAN CULTURAL FAIR  --  JERSEY CITY  --  JANUARY 26
 (CEASEFIRE NOW NEW JERSEY)

 

A Palestinian Cultural Festival with vendors, music, crafts, food, and
fundraisers for Palestine.

JANUARY 26, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Grace Church Van Vorst
39 Erie St
Jersey City, NJ 07302

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