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TIDBITS- OCT. 9 -READERS COMMENTS: “ANTI-CAPITALISM” AS POLITICAL
PRE-CRIME; ENEMY WITHIN; 94 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AID CANCELED;
PALESTINIANS ARE GOING NOWHERE; THE CASE FOR UNIVERSAL SOCIAL
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_ Readers Comments: “Anti-Capitalism” as Political Pre-Crime;
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* RE: “ANTI-CAPITALISM” AS A POLITICAL PRE-CRIME  (ETHAN YOUNG;
JOHN G MASON)
* THIS ONE'S FOR MAKING IT THROUGH TRUMP'S RAMBLING BLATHER AT
QUANTICO  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL
* ENEMY WITHIN  ---  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: TRUMP CANCELED 94 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AID  (BILL AUDETTE;
JUDITH ANDERSON; NATALIA KUZMYN)
* STEPHEN MILLER HAS HAD IT!  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY LALO
ALCARAZ
* RE: MAMDANI, RANDOLPH, RUSTIN, KING: THEIR CASE FOR UNIVERSAL,
RATHER THAN PARTICULARISTIC, SOCIAL POLICIES  (ETHAN YOUNG)
* RE: THE ISRAELI RIGHT’S ‘TIME OF MIRACLES’ IS OVER. THE
PALESTINIANS ARE GOING NOWHERE  (JESSICA BENJAMIN)
* PEACE  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’S STEALTH SAILORS  (TOM EDMINSTER)

* TRUMP COIN A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW  (JAY SCHAFFNER)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* FORGOTTEN: THE MURDER AT THE FORD ROUGE PLANT OCT 11 IN DETROIT
 (MICHIGAN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY)

* NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY RALLY AND CELEBRATION  --  NEW YORK  --
 OCTOBER 11  (GAYS FOR ZOHRAN)

 

* BOOK TALK - WORKING CLASS POLITICS WITH MICHAEL ZWEIG AND AMY
GOODMAN  -- BROOKLYN  --  OCTOBER 15  (BROOKLYN FOR PEACE)

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RE: “ANTI-CAPITALISM” AS A POLITICAL PRE-CRIME

Anything that opposes him is violence. Any harm inflicted by his
people is justice.

Ethan Young
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A far more serious and disturbing move, around the same time,
attracted far less notice. Trump signed a national security policy
memorandum called “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized
Political Violence,” known as NSPM-7. Such national security
directives are far less common than executive orders. Where the latter
tend to direct day-to-day government operations, the former can set
sweeping new policies across the federal government’s military, law
enforcement, and intelligence bureaucracies. As the name NPSM-7
indicates, this is only the seventh such directive Trump has issued
since taking office.

As journalist Ken Klippenstein reports, NPSM-7 “directs a new
national strategy to ‘disrupt’ any individual or groups ‘that
foment political violence,’ including ‘before they result in
violent political acts.’” Deputy White House chief of staff
Stephen Miller, who’s long been one of the most zealously
authoritarian members of the Trump administration, crowed that the
moment marks “the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism.”

In explaining exactly why this is so bleak, Klippenstein references
the dystopian science fiction movie Minority Report, where people are
arrested not for anything they’ve done but for “pre-crime”
predicted by people with psychic powers. In this real-world case, the
“indicia” (indicators) of future political violence listed in the
report are:

anti-Americanism,
anti-capitalism,
anti-Christianity,
support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
extremism on migration,
extremism on race,
extremism on gender
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on
religion, and
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on
morality."

John G Mason
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THIS ONE'S FOR MAKING IT THROUGH TRUMP'S RAMBLING BLATHER AT QUANTICO
 --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL
 

 

Bill Bramhall
September 30, 2025
New York Daily News
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ENEMY WITHIN  ---  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

_Trump keeps warning us about the "enemy within" while he
systematically dismantles our democracy, takes away our basic freedoms
and destroys the economy for everyone but the rich. I think we all
know who the "enemy within" really is._

Rob Rogers
October 4, 2025
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RE: TRUMP CANCELED 94 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AID
 

Why!  Is this level of cruelty what MAGA voters wanted?  If so, the
joke is on you as I’m sure you are going to feel the pain also.

Bill Audette
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Psychopath.

Judith Anderson
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An urgent survival strategy for states must be implemented. It must go
beyond politics to enshrine citizens' rights to responsible
distribution of their tax dollars.

Given that the GOP-run government is intent on bankrupting the nation
to facilitate tax cuts for billionaires, it now falls on individual
states to make up for illegitimate redistribution of the national
treasury. A coalition of affected states can help each other to
weather the shortages, obviously starting with those most willing to
work around Trump's cruelty, but later could include others -- once
they've peeked out from under their respective veils of Trump cult
worship. Reactions which force the White House to reverse painful cuts
to food programs, health services, housing, and sustainable energy
projects must be supported in numbers difficult for this president to
ignore, or, for that matter, be quelled by a few hundred National
Guard troops.

Though it's good to see thousands protesting, people must also be
willing to strike directly at the profits of billionaires in order to
disrupt Trump's privatization plans for government. Billionaires
depend on wealth derived chiefly from American consumers. National,
rotating general strikes by  influential sectors, along with product
and services boycotts, will lighten those purses and get the elites
complaining to the White House. States are surely capable of
withholding taxes paid to the federal government when federal funds to
which they've contributed (and were Congressionally assigned for
specific State projects) continue to be axed or withheld. Each state
could consequently direct and fund its own prioritized projects, swap
with other states for food, raw materials, and labour -- just like,
well, they used to -- as a largely-functioning government, before
Trump's disastrous time in office.

Conservative SCOTUS judges and Trump's legal teams dig deeply into old
laws still on the books to justify certain decisions; the states
should do the same to thwart current executive branch corruption.

Surely, Americans don't wish for their tax-payer dollars to be wasted
on 24K glitter in the White House ballroom; as another ICE detention
facility; or worse still, as human and infrastructural ash in Gaza.

Respectfully,

Natalia Kuzmyn
Vancouver Island

 

STEPHEN MILLER HAS HAD IT!  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY LALO
ALCARAZ

 

 

_Shadow President and man who keeps the mass deportation trains
running on time, Stephen Miller, is just fed up with being accurately
labeled a fascist and a Nazi. Do not mock his looks, or his height, or
the fact that he IS A FASCIST AND A NAZI. Incredibly, he went to local
school, Santa Monica High, and learned his hatred for Latinos and
other minorities in one of the most multicultural cities in the world.
The World's Smallest Mariachi Violin is playing him a sad song._

Lalo Alcaraz
October 6, 2025
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RE: MAMDANI, RANDOLPH, RUSTIN, KING: THEIR CASE FOR UNIVERSAL, RATHER
THAN PARTICULARISTIC, SOCIAL POLICIES
 

I understand the logic of 'it's the economy, stupid.' But assuming
that because workers have a common concern with life security,
divisions among working people are illusory, will make unity in
struggle tenuous at best. De facto segregation is a reality in
housing, education and jobs, and the reasons for it are too embedded
in our history to ignore.

Ethan Young
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RE: THE ISRAELI RIGHT’S ‘TIME OF MIRACLES’ IS OVER. THE
PALESTINIANS ARE GOING NOWHERE
 

I wonder if anyone more informed than myself can write something about
the larger historical and global significance of the struggle to save
Palestine. In the post-Vietnam-1989 world it is more obvious (again)
 that there are two paths, two tendencies, one struggle: between the
dehumanizing forces of capital/power accumulation in which the peoples
of the world and their environment are mere sources of extraction and
the resistance to those forces that refuses to tolerate the violently
enforced reduction of the majority of our species to bare existence
and servitude.

There is no International, but there is an international struggle, of
which Palestine now is the burning center. Their persistence and
refusal to be exterminated has now become that of all of us. I feel
and think this needs to be said in every possible way, at every
moment, the more so as our own struggle in America is, though less
violent and catastrophic at the moment, the same one.
Perhaps this has been articulated (in a sense it has by Petro) but I'd
like to see it here.

Jessica Benjamin

 

PEACE  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

 

Dr. James MacLeod
October 4, 2025
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RE: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’S STEALTH SAILORS
 

Great book!! & damn fine review
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Tom Edminster
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TRUMP COIN A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW

Federal law prohibits depicting a living person on regular United
States currency, though exceptions have been made for special
commemorative coins. An ongoing debate concerns a potential coin
featuring former president Donald Trump to commemorate the nation's
250th anniversary in 2026.

General Prohibition: An 1866 law, passed to prevent the appearance of
a monarchy, dictates that only deceased individuals can appear on U.S.
currency.

Commemorative coin precedent: Special commemorative coins, which do
not circulate widely, have previously featured living people with
congressional authorization.

Other countries have put living people other than monarch on their
countries coins, such countries and their coins have been:  Italy
issued coins featuring a portrait of dictator Benito Mussolini,
between 1936-1943; Germany issued four coins for Adolf Hitler between
1936 and 1939, which were also then used in countries occupied by the
Third Reich.

Maybe this is just the first coin for our "Great Leader"?

Jay Schaffner

 

FORGOTTEN: THE MURDER AT THE FORD ROUGE PLANT OCT 11 IN DETROIT
 (MICHIGAN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY)

 

 

FORGOTTEN : The Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant

In this jazz opera, twenty-five actors, singers, dancers, and
musicians tell the story of how Detroit became a union town.

FORGOTTEN includes 22 original songs that trace historic events
including the Ford Hunger March, Battle of the Overpass, and the Flint
sit-down strike. A central character is the Rev. Lewis Bradford, who
hosted the Detroit radio show “The Forgotten Man’s Hour,” and
who was found dead in 1937 on the Ford Rouge shop floor, leading to an
investigation forty years later. Other historic characters include
Henry and Clara Ford, Harry Bennett, and Father Charles Coughlin.

Oct. 10 - SOLD OUT
Oct. 12 - SOLD OUT

HURRAY - SATURDAY OCT. 11 TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE - CLICK HERE
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NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY RALLY AND CELEBRATION  --  NEW YORK  --
 OCTOBER 11

 

Saturday, October 11, 1:30pm 
NYC AIDS Memorial @ St. Vincent’s Triangle 
76 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY 10011

Join G4Z in celebration of National Coming Out Day!
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We’re rallying LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and allies to commemorate the
history of our communities and struggles, and to push us into a
progressive future, honoring the Zohran Mamdani for NYC campaign. 🗽

Hear speeches from queer community leaders and elected officials, then
connect with LGBTQ+ organizations, communities, and allies across
generations, cultures, and identities in support of a better future!

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BOOK TALK - WORKING CLASS POLITICS WITH MICHAEL ZWEIG AND AMY GOODMAN
 -- BROOKLYN  --  OCTOBER 15  (BROOKLYN FOR PEACE)

 

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Join us for a book talk with Michael Zweig in conversation with Amy
Goodman of Democracy Now. Michael Zweig is professor emeritus of
economics at SUNY Stony Brook, where he was the founding director of
the Center for Study of Working Class Life and received the SUNY
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to the book
under discussion this evening, he is the author of The Working Class
Majority: America's Best Kept Secret. and continues to be active in
his union (UUP-SUNY, AFT 2190).

Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 pm

Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
1100 Schermerhorn St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201 (2nd floor)

Wheelchair accessible 

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United for Peace and Justice, Peace Action Bay Ridge, New York Poor
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