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TIDBITS – MAR.27 – READER COMMENTS: TRUMP SHIT SHOW AND WAR
CRIMES MADE PUBLIC; RESISTANCE GROWING; BERNIE-AOC ANTI-OLIGARCHY
TOUR; ICE ABDUCTIONS; TRUMP ANTI-VOTER EXECUTIVE ORDER; MASSIVE
PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATIONS FOR PEACE AGAINST ISRAEL & HAMAS  
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_ Reader Comments: Latest Trump Shit Show and War Crimes Made Public;
Resistance Alive, Growing; Bernie-AOC Anti-Oligarchy Tour; ICE
Abductions; Trump’s Anti-Voter Executive Order; Massive Palestinian
Demonstrations for Peace Against Israel and Hamas; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Shorts, AND
cartoons - Mar. 27, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOGIC - WHAT A SH*T SHOW  --  CARTOON AND
COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: RESISTANCE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE UNITED STATES  (JOSE LUIS
MEDINA)
* SEIU STATEMENT ON ICE ABDUCTIONS
* STATEMENT BY SEIU PRESIDENT APRIL VERRETT ON TUFTS GRADUATE
STUDENT DETAINED BY ICE
* RE: BERNIE’S ANTI-OLIGARCHY TOUR IS SHOWING DEMS HOW TO FIGHT
 (JIM MAYNARD; TED PIERCE; A READER IN TEXAS; MODERATOR RESPONSE)
* SCHUMER'S "RESISTANCE"  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JESSE
DUQUETTE
* WHERE IS YEMEN?  --  CARTOON BY RANDY BISH
* RE: AMID RIGHT-WING ATTACKS ON EDUCATION, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS ORGANIZES FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM  (ETHEL KIRK)

* RE: TRUMP HAS ORDERED A HIT ON JUDAISM  (JAY SCHAFFNER; MARINA
COBLENTZ; HILTON OBENZINGER)
* BURNING TESLA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* CONSTITUTIONAL EDIT  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THIS IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH SINCE THE RED SCARE
 (JONATHAN REISS)
* POST OFFICE IS A SERVICE, NOT A BUSINESS  --  MEME
* RE: WELLS FARGO IS PLOTTING TO PRIVATIZE THE POST OFFICE  (ROB
PRINCE; GAROLD HAYNES)
* NO KINGS!  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: TRUMP’S ANTISOCIAL STATE  (MARY-ALICE STROM)
* RE: WHO STARTED THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE?  (DIETER
SAUERWALD)
* SCRUBBING WEBSITES IS BOOKBURNING  --  MEME
* RE: THE DARK, MCCARTHYIST HISTORY OF DEPORTING ACTIVISTS  (DAVE
LOTT; MATTHEW KNEALE; DAN MORGAN)
* RE: ‘I AM A POLITICAL PRISONER’: MAHMOUD KHALIL’S LETTER
FROM JAIL  (RICHARD WALLNER)

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NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED:

* "OUR CHILDREN'S BLOOD IS NOT CHEAP"  (STANDING TOGETHER)

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* ACLU RESPONDS TO TRUMP’S ANTI-VOTER EXECUTIVE ORDER

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* COLUMBIA PROTEST DOCUMENTARY NARRATED BY MAHMOUD KHALIL HAS U.S.
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOGIC - WHAT A SH*T SHOW  --  CARTOON AND
COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON

 

During Senate hearings today, National Intelligence Director Tulsi
Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe asserted that the group chat
with The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg did not contain any
classified information. Meanwhile, late Monday, the Trump
administration invoked the state secrets privilege in its court battle
over the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants,
once again refusing to disclose details about the flights to the
judge. What a shit show.

Nick Anderson
March 25, 2025
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RE: RESISTANCE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE UNITED STATES
 

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but
research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also
shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Jose Luis Medina
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SEIU STATEMENT ON ICE ABDUCTIONS

 

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Statement by SEIU President April Verrett on Tufts Graduate Student
Detained by ICE
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RE: BERNIE’S ANTI-OLIGARCHY TOUR IS SHOWING DEMS HOW TO FIGHT
 

Sanders is doing some things that Democrats ought to pay attention to.
He is using the theme of oligarchy and class domination as an
overarching message. “We are here to say loudly and clearly that in
our great nation we will not accept oligarchy.”

Jim Maynard
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Great new sort-of Left mag I just found out about. At least
progressive on many fronts-- we need everyone! Take a look--- good
reading on a great variety of topics. Check it out at the website--

Ted Pierce
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I've been reading xxxxxx a few years now and usually find it
topical.  But I just read Zeeshan Aleem's Article about the Bernie
tour -- and he absolutely ignored the fact that Alejandra Ocasio
Cortez was part of the show.  I call out extreme patriarchal bias.

All the other articles, coverages, etc. of the tour have included AOC.
 The invisibility of Women's work and contribution to our world is
not something I expect from xxxxxx.

Shame

A reader in Texas

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Moderator Response:

This was the second article on the Anti-Oligarchy Tour of Bernie
Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that xxxxxx posted on Friday
night, along with a third, one of the Friday Nite Videos - the other
two prominently featured Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Re: AOC, on Fight Oligarchy Tour, Gives Speech of the Year

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SCHUMER'S "RESISTANCE"  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JESSE DUQUETTE
 

It’s weird living in a time when the party that’s supposed to be
the opposition has decided that they would be more useful as human
doormats, but I suppose that’s to be expected from a septuagenarian
with a net worth of $60M for whom the status quo is simply too
precious to oppose.

Jesse Duquette
March 13, 2025
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WHERE IS YEMEN?  --  CARTOON BY RANDY BISH

 

Randy Bish
March 24, 2025
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RE: AMID RIGHT-WING ATTACKS ON EDUCATION, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS ORGANIZES FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM
 

Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Project 2025 puts forward a total attack on education, closing the
Dept. of Education, including book bans and curricular limitations on
classes. They want to cancel the federal student loan program; revoke
Title IX policies; and end faculty tenure.

But resistance to these potentially devastating incursions on human
and civil rights is growing, and unions, including the 110-year-old
American Association of University Professors (AAUP), are
strategizing, organizing and fighting back in the streets and in
courtrooms and statehouses across the country.

Ethel Kirk
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RE: TRUMP HAS ORDERED A HIT ON JUDAISM
 

Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our
rights and telling us we are safe. "The truth is that they hate us. We
should have some pride and return the favor. Jew, not a Jew? Once a
joke. Now an open threat."

“Trump in one fell swoop used Palestinian as a derogatory slur
and—as a non-Jew—elevated himself to arbiter of who is the right
and wrong kind of Jew,” Rabbi Wise said.

The choice now for American Jewry is clear: We can cower in the
clutches of an administration that treats us like trash, or we can
stand with those outside our faith pleading for us to call out the
latest set of Big Lies.

Jay Schaffner
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Thank you: this is a useful article that explains the sometimes
seemingly contradictory bits and pieces we read in the media on the
subject.  

Marina Coblentz

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Dave Zirin, already a great sports writer, lashes out at those who
accommodate Trump's 'fighting anti-Semitism' BS. This is one of the
most anti-Semitic periods in US history, and it's not because many,
including Jews, are speaking out against Palestinian genocide.

Zirin
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'The people whom Trump has chosen to run the military are telling us
what they think through their silence. They are saying that their
Christian-nationalist acceptance of us is conditional upon fronting
for the lie that this group of antisemites are shredding the
Constitution to fight antisemitism. That is why it’s so threatening
to their project when Jews refuse to have our faith weaponized, and we
chant, “Not in our name!”'

Hilton Obenzinger
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BURNING TESLA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

Protesters are burning Teslas, and that is totally wrong. Violence of
any kind is unacceptable. However, when compared to how Trump and Musk
are burning down the entire government, it feels like small potatoes.

Rob Rogers
March 20, 2025
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CONSTITUTIONAL EDIT  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
March 20, 2025
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RE: THIS IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH SINCE THE RED SCARE
 

I submitted this to the NYT as a response to the Michelle Goldberg
article but they didn't publish it.

The arrest and revocation of Mahmoud Khalil's green card, apparently
without due process, are indeed frightening. But is it "the Greatest
Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare"
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 as Michelle Goldberg's column (March 10) claims? There are so many
grave and varied threats to free speech it is hard to choose:
intimidation and coercion of TV networks, SLAPP lawsuits, efforts to
overturn SCOTUS's Sullivan v Times ruling, a president who fantasizes
about reporters being killed, the government threatening law firms
because of the clients they serve, state laws restricting speech and
public assembly.

We need to see the forest, not the trees. The Media and Democracy
Project would assert that the greatest threat to free speech is not
any one action but the collective efforts by the MAGA movement to
silence dissent.

Jonathan Reiss
co-founder, The Media and Democracy Project
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POST OFFICE IS A SERVICE, NOT A BUSINESS  --  MEME

 

 

RE: WELLS FARGO IS PLOTTING TO PRIVATIZE THE POST OFFICE

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m-f@#kers -- Wells Fargo - can't think of a more rapacious bank.

A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a
predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts,
slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.

Rob Prince
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Article I, section eight, clause seven of the US Constitution...

Garold Haynes
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NO KINGS!  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

 

Lalo Alcaraz
March 19, 2025
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RE: TRUMP’S ANTISOCIAL STATE
 

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive
and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast
bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Why do we have governments, in the first place?. In my opinion we
organize in order to find efficient ways to work together so that all
of us can survive. BUT ... some people have decided that ONLY the ones
THEY pick should have the ability to survive. That's an "antisocial
state"... Wow. How totally sad and sick.

Mary-Alice Strom
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RE: WHO STARTED THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE?
 

Matthew Hallinan wrote about the Ukrainian war: "the thoughtless
expansion of NATO..." No it was a THOUGHTFUL expansion. The idea
behind: Either Russia should capitulate in the long run - or attack.
Russia attacked.

Dieter Sauerwald

 

SCRUBBING WEBSITES IS BOOKBURNING  --  MEME

 

 

RE: THE DARK, MCCARTHYIST HISTORY OF DEPORTING ACTIVISTS
 

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.
    
Dave Lott
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Emma Goldman was deported by President Woodrow Wilson way back in
1919.

Matthew Kneale
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In the case of Claudia Jones, it was a gain for England. She became a
noted activist, starting the Notting Hill Carnival in London that put
Caribbean culture on the map.

Dan Morgan
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Re: ‘I Am a Political Prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From
Jail

 

Today the new documentary 'The Encampents
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protests last year at Columbia had its U.S. premiere and it will be
playing for the next week at the Angelika Theaters on Houston St. This
wasn't supposed to come out until late this year for Oscar season but
it was moved up for an urgent reason The narrator of this is Mahmoud
Khalil. The director, producers and others involved will be at many of
the screenings over the weekend doing Q&A's discussing Mahmoud's
incarceration and giving info on various protests. We can show
solidarity by supporting this movie which shows the inside story of
the protests and that they were not hateful or violent Check the
Angelika 's website for screen times and Q&A schedules Surely there is
not more important movie you could see in town this week 

Richard Wallner
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"OUR CHILDREN'S BLOOD IS NOT CHEAP"

 

Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip went out yesterday to
demonstrate against the war, for peace, and against Hamas’ rule in
the Gaza Strip, and this isn’t the first time this has happened.
Doing this takes a lot of courage–not only are they going out to
protest amid Israeli bombardment, but they are also standing up
against Hamas’ regime that suppresses all protests. We admire their
bravery and stand in solidarity from inside Israel.

Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza must end. The bombs must stop,
the siege on Gaza must stop, and the collective punishment and
weaponization of starvation must stop. The people of Gaza deserve to
live safely, without fear for their lives under constant Israeli
bombardment and siege, and without Hamas’ authoritarian rule.

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ACLU RESPONDS TO TRUMP’S ANTI-VOTER EXECUTIVE ORDER

 

 

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The American Civil Liberties Union condemns President Donald Trump's
executive order signed today, which aims to upend U.S. elections and
disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. This directive represents
a significant overreach of executive power and poses a direct threat
to the fundamental right to vote.

The executive order directs the Election Assistance Commission to
change the national mail voter registration form to require
documentary proof of citizenship, such as a passport, to register to
vote. The order also attempts to force states to enact documentary
proof of citizenship requirements and to stop counting absentee and
mail-in ballots received after Election Day in accordance with state
law by threatening to withhold federal funding.

Sophia Lin Lakin, the director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project,
released the following response:

“​President Trump's executive order attempting to require
documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration and restrict
the acceptance of mail-in ballots received after Election Day, among
other measures, is a blatant overreach that threatens to
disenfranchise tens of millions of eligible voters. This measure will
no doubt disproportionately impact historically-excluded communities,
including voters of color, naturalized citizens, people with
disabilities, and the elderly, by pushing unnecessary barriers to the
fundamental right to vote. We deserve better than elected officials
weaponizing xenophobia and the myth of voter fraud to jeopardize our
rights. We will do everything in our power to stop this
unconstitutional attack on the right to vote to ensure that every
eligible American can participate in our democracy. We will see
President Trump in court.”

 

COLUMBIA PROTEST DOCUMENTARY NARRATED BY MAHMOUD KHALIL HAS U.S.
PREMIERE  --  ANGELIKA FILM CENTER (NEW YORK) MARCH 27 THROUGH APRIL
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Courtesy of Watermelon Pictures / "The Encampments"
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A new documentary about the 2024 student protests at Columbia
University, narrated by activist and recent graduate Mahmoud Khalil,
has bumped up its release date by months in response to Khalil’s
detainment and will have its U.S. premiere in Manhattan on Thursday.

The Angelika Film Center on Houston Street will host dozens of
screenings of “The Encampments” over the film’s weeklong
engagement, including several with post-screening Q&As or pre-film
introductions by the directors and producers.

“The Encampments” had its world premiere on Tuesday in Copenhagen
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international documentary film festival.

“We had not planned on doing the North America release so soon, but
given what happened, we felt that we had a duty to get this film out
there,” producer Munir Atalla said, referring to Khalil’s
detention by ICE agents earlier this month and the Trump
administration’s attempt to deport him, which thrust Khalil and
Columbia alike into the global spotlight.

The documentary, which was directed by Michael T. Workman and Kei
Pritsker and executive produced by the rapper Macklemore, follows four
pro-Palestinian student activists, including Khalil, through the
encampment and monthslong protests on Columbia’s campus last spring.

Atalla, who was an adjunct assistant professor in the university’s
film and media studies program at the time, said the team made the
film to “dispel the hysteria around the encampment movement and
portray it how it actually was.”

“It was so striking to me the difference between this incredibly
peaceful, inclusive, accepting encampment space … contrasting that
with the absolute hysteria coming from the university administration,
the mayor, all the mainstream news networks,” Atalla said.

Columbia has not yet returned a request for comment Wednesday
afternoon.

In the spring of 2024, Columbia closed its campus to nonaffiliated
people during the protest, which meant journalists were often
relegated to the campus's surrounding streets. The documentary covers
the tent encampment on Butler Lawn inside the campus, the media circus
outside the campus, the student occupation of Hamilton Hall and the
arrests that happened after the NYPD's subsequent arrival on campus.

The directors embedded with students throughout the protests, gaining
access rarely granted to journalists. Atalla said the result is a
portrait of the movement shaped collaboratively with the students
themselves, many of whom appear masked or blurred to protect their
identities.

“Student safety has been at the forefront of our thinking around
this film,” Atalla said. “It’s a scary moment where it makes
sense to be afraid. It’s perhaps even rational to be afraid.”

Khalil, the film’s narrator, had planned to travel to Copenhagen for
its world premiere, Atalla said. He remains in detention in Louisiana,
with his legal team pursuing his release.

“THE ENCAMPMENTS” SCREENS AT THE ANGELIKA FILM CENTER FROM
THURSDAY, MARCH 27 THROUGH THURSDAY, APRIL 3. TICKETS ARE AROUND $21
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