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TIDBITS-FEB 5- READER COMMENTS: MAY DAY GENERAL STRIKE; TRUMP
“PRISON CAMPS” ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS; WHAT MARK CARNEY GETS
WRONG ABOUT END OF THE ‘RULES-BASED ORDER’; BODY CAMERAS ARE
HANDS-FREE KILLING TOOL FOR ICE; TWO SOLDIERS WHO REFUSED ORDERS  
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February 5, 2026
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_ Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump’s New “Prison
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of the ‘rules-based order’; Body cameras are a hands-free killing
tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders; more.. _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Feb. 5, 2026, xxxxxx

 

* Re: How To Spread the General Strike Beyond the Twin Cities  (Jay
Schaffner)
* Trump pulling guns on Fifth Ave  --  Cartoon by Bill Bramhall
* Re: Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in
MAGA Country  (Nicholas Fici)
* Re: Olga Cherevko Showed the World What’s Happening in Gaza.
Israel Won’t Let Her Return  (Gary Krane)
* Groundhog Day  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson
* Stolen Votes  --  Cartoon by Rob Rogers
* Re: Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada at
World Economic Forum  (David Frank)
* What Mark Carney gets wrong about the end of the ‘rules-based
order’  (Muneeb Javaid in Canadian Dimension)
* Arc d'Trumpism  --  Cartoon by Jack Ohman
* Domestic Terrorism is the MAGA Way!  --  Cartoon by Mr. Fish
* Melania  --  Cartoon and Commentary by Dr. Keith F. Knight
* At least the Nazis showed their faces...  --  Cartoon by DC
Cartoonist

 

Resources:

* Body cameras are a hands-free killing tool for ICE. Coalition
urges NO vote on funding ICE package  (Fight for the Future)
* Trump is pushing to include risky assets like crypto and private
equity in 401(k)s: Why this endangers retirement savers and the
economy  (Economic Policy Institute)

 

Announcements:

 

* Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders - A viewing of the Talk Vietnam
production "Bob Chenoweth- A Dissenting POW Redefines Patriotism" with
a book signing for "Waging Peace in Vietnam." - Washington, DC -
February 8  (Institute for Policy Studies & Veterans for Peace) 

 

..RE: HOW TO SPREAD THE GENERAL STRIKE BEYOND THE TWIN CITIES

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Strikes are difficult. I was a union
organizer/administrator/negotiator for 20+ years, and a local union
executive board member. How to prepare, how to mobilize - both the
membership and the public, these aren't easy.

I admire the nurses - the rank-and-file and the leadership - three
weeks is a long time.

Here is a thought provoking article
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by a friend of mine, Stephanie Luce, on the call for a general strike,
"A strike is one of the best forms of muscle we have, but pulling off
any strike is hard, let alone a general one. Our task now is to build
up our muscles for non-cooperation."

Jay SchaffnerPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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TRUMP PULLING GUNS ON FIFTH AVE  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL 

 

Bill BramhallApril 26, 2024New York Daily News
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RE: TRUMP’S NEW “PRISON CAMP” THREAT UNLEASHES FURY EVEN IN MAGA
COUNTRY 

Stop calling them "Detention Camps " they  are " CONCENTRATION CAMPS"
by every historical definition of that term.

Nicholas Fici

 

RE: OLGA CHEREVKO SHOWED THE WORLD WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GAZA. ISRAEL
WON’T LET HER RETURN 

Maybe I missed it, but what's the point of writing that great article
if you don't provide a call to Action to get her out of Israel and out
of Gaza??!! such journalism does more harm than good by narcotic
people to evil depressing people even more

Gary Krane

 

GROUNDHOG DAY  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON 

Nick AndersonFebruary 2, 2026Pen Strokes
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STOLEN VOTES  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS 

[Stolen Votes] "Trump's self-fulfilling prophecy ..."

Rob RogersFebruary 3, 2026TinyView
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RE: SPECIAL ADDRESS BY MARK CARNEY, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA AT WORLD
ECONOMIC FORUM 

From Canada, the missing critique of the Carney speech at Davos

David Frank

    WHAT MARK CARNEY GETS WRONG ABOUT THE END OF THE
‘RULES-BASED ORDER’

    Carney diagnoses a rupture in the global order while leaving
intact the economic framework that helped produce it

    Muneeb Javaid    January 21, 2026    Canadian
Dimension
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ARC D'TRUMPISM  --  CARTOON BY JACK OHMAN 

Jack OhmanFebruary 2, 2026Jack Ohman's You Betcha!
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DOMESTIC TERRORISM IS THE MAGA WAY!  --  CARTOON BY MR. FISH 

Mr. FishJanuary 27, 2026Mr. Fish - Clowncrack
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MELANIA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY DR. KEITH F. KNIGHT 

I wonder if Brett Ratner
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considered the Leni Reifenstahl of this administration.

Dr. Keith F. KnightFebruary 2, 2026(th)ink: Keith Knight
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AT LEAST THE NAZIS SHOWED THEIR FACES...  --  CARTOON BY DC
CARTOONIST 

DC CartoonistFebruary 2, 2026r/PoliticalHumor
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BODY CAMERAS ARE A HANDS-FREE KILLING TOOL FOR ICE. COALITION URGES NO
VOTE ON FUNDING ICE PACKAGE  (FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE)

Fight for the Future
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28, 2026 

A coalition of nearly 30 tech and justice organizations has ISSUED AN
URGENT LETTER
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rejecting Democrats’ harmful and weak reform proposals, such as body
cameras for ICE agents. Ahead of a critical funding bill that includes
funds for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, Democratic
lawmakers should not be CONSIDERING COMPROMISES
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body cameras that will only cause further harm and endanger people by
increasing ICE’s surveillance capacity. Following the horrific
murders of Alex Pretti, Keith Porter, and Renee Good, and DOZENS LOST
IN 2025
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at the hands of ICE, the groups urge Congress to vote NO and
indefinitely reject all funding for the Department of Homeland
Security and ICE –including efforts that supposedly serve to hold
ICE accountable but in fact just increase ICE SURVEILLANCE
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capacity and power.

The full letter and signatory list is available at:
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The letter reads in part:

_“There is __VIRTUALLY NO EVIDENCE_
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that body cameras statistically reduce violence. A __CRITICAL
PROPUBLICA INVESTIGATION_
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concluded that any potential benefits of such cameras are completely
undermined by the fact police departments routinely refuse to release
footage, including in instances where cops shoot people. Case in point
Alex Pretti’s murder was recorded on multiple ICE agent body
cameras, and __RENEE GOOD’S MURDERER_
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was filming as he shot her. Meanwhile federal agents have __BLOCKED
MINNESOTA STATE OFFICIALS_
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from reviewing evidence and conducting their own investigation. Body
cameras have not and will not tame the aggression and unfathomable
brutality unfolding in Minneapolis. THUS, WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE DEMANDING
EQUATES TO A CHEST MOUNTED PHONE CASE SO THAT ICE AGENTS CAN BRUTALIZE
WHILE FILMING HANDS-FREE.”_ 

Signatories to the letter include a broad selection of tech justice,
racial justice, and human rights organizations, including Access Now,
several Indivisible chapters, Muslims Advocates, Secure Justice,
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, UltraViolet Action, and the
Yale Privacy Lab.

REEM SULEIMAN (SHE/HER), SENIOR CAMPAIGNS DIRECTOR AT FIGHT FOR THE
FUTURE, which organized the letter, said: “Bodycams will not stop
ICE terror. How many more people need to be violently abducted, jailed
and murdered before Congress has the guts to cut off funding for ICE
and its dangerous surveillance apparatus. This agency has no place in
our country, let alone on our taxpayer payroll. A funding renewal in
any form only legitimizes ICE’s actions and sends the message it’s
ok for them to hurt and kill our community.”

“At all levels of government, there is a correlation between the
increasing use of bodyworn cameras and increasing levels of police
violence. The murders of Mr. Pretti and Ms. Good were recorded. We do
not need more video footage of ICE’s evil behavior. We need
accountability, and if Congress continues to fund such behavior, it
will be seen as an endorsement of the Trump Administration’s
policies,” SAID BRIAN HOFER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SECURE JUSTICE.
“This country has survived for hundreds of years without ICE.
Abolish the agency.”

“It’s never been more clear: Congress must stop funding abusive,
lawless and deadly immigration and border patrol agencies. We urge
decision makers to reject mass detention and deportation, invasive
surveillance technologies, and all attempts to silence and punish
dissent.” SAID SUMAYYAH WAHEED, SENIOR POLICY COUNSEL AT MUSLIM
ADVOCATES.

“ICE is designed for cruelty. At this point, there is no way to
reform the agency, and particularly not with bandaid interventions
like body cameras that only put our communities further at risk.
ICE’s terror hurts women and families in particular: they are
already killing mothers in broad daylight, they are using toddlers as
bait, and they are deporting postpartum, nursing mothers. This is an
opportunity for Democrats to show bravery in the face of anti-family
violence and cowardice.” SAID JENNA SHERMAN, CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR AT
ULTRAVIOLET ACTION.

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TRUMP IS PUSHING TO INCLUDE RISKY ASSETS LIKE CRYPTO AND PRIVATE
EQUITY IN 401(K)S: WHY THIS ENDANGERS RETIREMENT SAVERS AND THE
ECONOMY  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

Why this endangers retirement savers and the economy 

By Monique MorrisseyFebruary 2, 2026Economic Policy Institute
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President Trump has veered away from the path that previous
administrations have taken on 401(k) and other retirement plans.
Instead of protecting the millions of workers with retirement
accounts, his administration is trying to knock down guardrails that
protect retirement Trump is proposing to make risky investments more
widely available to ordinary savers and make it harder to sue the
retirement plan sponsors and advisers who encourage these types of
What kinds of problems could these changes cause?

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 
President Trump has veered away from the path that previous
administrations have taken on 401(k) and other retirement plans.
Instead of protecting the millions of workers with retirement
accounts, his administration is trying to knock down guardrails that
protect retirement savers.

Trump is proposing to make risky investments more widely available to
ordinary savers and make it harder to sue the retirement plan sponsors
and advisers who encourage these types of investments.

WHAT KINDS OF PROBLEMS COULD THESE CHANGES CAUSE?

* Some retirement savers might experience life-altering losses if
retirement plan sponsors and advisers steer them into risky and
hard-to-value investments like private equity and cryptocurrencies.
* Investment options that Trump is promoting include privately
traded investments that may be difficult to sell when workers are
ready for retirement and digital collectibles that have no intrinsic
value but are simply a gamble that someone will pay more for them
later.
* Marketing risky investments to millions of retirement plan
participants is a way to bail out billionaires at the expense of
ordinary savers at a time when pension funds and other sophisticated
investors are souring on some of these investments.
* A speculative bubble like the one in the roaring 1920s might grow
and lead to a crash with economywide repercussions.

The Trump family has seen enormous profits from cryptocurrencies in
2025. The crypto-based businesses they set up last year may be worth
as much as $2 billion.

In an executive order
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dated August 7, 2025, President Trump called for a reexamination of
regulations and guidance for retirement plans. Trump asked regulators
to encourage retirement plan administrators to include risky options
like alternative assets (or “alts”) in 401(k) and similar
retirement plans. Alternative assets could be funds invested in
private equity and cryptocurrencies, assets that lack strict
regulation and whose value and risk can be hard to assess compared
with other types of investments. Because of this, many consider alts
to be unsuitable for retirement plans. Trump’s executive order
listed direct and indirect interests in private market investments,
real estate, digital assets, commodities, infrastructure, and
longevity risk-sharing pools.

Currently there are no explicit bans on offering these types of
investments in participant-directed retirement plans, but employers
and advisers who serve as retirement plan fiduciaries can be sued for
including inappropriately risky and costly assets among investment
options. (Fiduciaries are required by law to act in the best interests
of retirement plan participants.) Outside of retirement plans,
marketing private equity and other largely unregulated alternative
assets to small investors is mostly prohibited by securities laws,
regulations, and agency guidance—though cryptocurrencies and other
digital assets can be sold to anyone.

Whether due to fiduciaries’ litigation fear or common sense, alts
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began marketing managed funds with alternative asset components to
401(k) plan sponsors even before Trump issued his executive order.

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TWO SOLDIERS WHO REFUSED ORDERS - A VIEWING OF THE TALK VIETNAM
PRODUCTION "BOB CHENOWETH- A DISSENTING POW REDEFINES PATRIOTISM" WITH
A BOOK SIGNING FOR "WAGING PEACE IN VIETNAM." - WASHINGTON, DC -
FEBRUARY 8  (INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES & VETERANS FOR PEACE) 

 

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 08

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST

BUSBOYS & POETS – 14TH & V2021 14TH STREET NWWASHINGTON, DC 20009

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On February 8, 1968, BOB CHENOWETH's helicopter was shot down
partway through his second tour of duty in Vietnam. During his five
years as a POW, he turned against the war. In the face of threats of
prosecution for treason from superior officers, Bob refused orders to
quit making public antiwar statements from a POW prison in Hanoi.

Months later, SUSAN SCHNALL refused an order prohibiting her from
addressing an antiwar march while in uniform. To promote the march,
she had dropped 20,000 flyers from a small plane over five California
military bases and an aircraft carrier. Susan was court-martialed and
sentenced to six months' hard labor.

Join us to meet these heroes and view a special episode of _Talk
Vietnam_, entitled "A Dissenting POW Redefines Patriotism
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time) about why Bob Chenoweth still celebrates the day he was captured
in Vietnam. The book _Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and
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that includes essays by both speakers, will be available for purchase
and signing at the event. (_Published by New Village Press and
Distributed by NYU Press, September 2019_).

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