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INSURRECTIONIST REMOVED FROM OFFICE; WHAT MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS SHOW;
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV; GDR – VICTOR GROSSMAN RESPONDS; RINGS OF POWER;
UNION APPROVAL HIGHEST SINCE 1965; CARTOONS; MORE…  
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Re: Judge Removes New Mexico Official From Office (Norm Littlejohn;
Deborah R Kingery)
Trump’s ‘F____ YOUR FEELINGS’ faction gets the sads  --
 cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Re: A Justice Department Show of Force in the Mar-a-Lago Case (Peter
M. Filardo; Jennifer Nouri)
Crime in the Cities  --  cartoon by Nick Anderson
Re: Mississippi’s Dry Run for Eco-Apartheid (Dave Lott)
Dr. Oz  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Colombia’s Leftwing Government Unveils Tax-the-Rich Plan To
Tackle Poverty (David Berger)
Re: Gorbachev Couldn’t Reform the Soviet System (Charles)
Re: My Seventy Years and the Departed GDR (Victor Grossman)
That speech by Biden was so damaging to the democratic fabric of our
society  --  cartoon by Dr. James MacLeod
Re: In the Rings of Power, It’s Not Horrifying To Be a Woman (Jack
Radey)

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UNION APPROVAL HITS HIGHEST POINT SINCE 1965 (ECONOMIC POLICY
INSTITUTE)

 

RE: JUDGE REMOVES NEW MEXICO OFFICIAL FROM OFFICE
 

“[New Mexico’s] First Judicial District Court ruled that the
January 6 attack and the ‘surrounding planning, mobilization, and
incitement constituted an “insurrection”’ in accordance with the
14th Amendment and that under Section 3 of that amendment, [Otero
County Commissioner Couy] Griffin is ‘constitutionally
disqualified’ from serving in public office.”
    
Today: The first disqualification of a public official for
participating in the January 6 attack
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Norm Littlejohn
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Next remove the Congress people involved!

Deborah R Kingery
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TRUMP’S ‘F____ YOUR FEELINGS’ FACTION GETS THE SADS  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz

 

RE: A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SHOW OF FORCE IN THE MAR-A-LAGO CASE
 

There is an odd lacunae in the discussion of the some forty empty
folders labeled "classified." As a retired archivist, I can state with
confidence that each folder label also contains a complex
alpha-numeric code, so that 

(1). It is possible to know where to file the folder. 
(2). As a corollary to number '1" these codes must tell something
about the subject of the file. Otherwise, there would be thousands of
boxes of undifferentiated folders that could not be retrieved.
(3). An empty folder, in my experience, is a folder whose contents
have most likely have been destroyed - a serious crime and one that
usurps the province of the National Archives to make this
determination.
(4). It is likely that the search warrant included any paper shredders
that were to be found on the premises [it can safely be assumed that
there were several]. These shredders could provide crucial DNA
information as to which persons used the shredders.

Peter M. Filardo

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Don't underestimate DOJ attorneys. But you can see the trump appointed
judge is a loyalist.

Jennifer Nouri
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CRIME IN THE CITIES  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
August 31, 2022
Reform Austin
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RE: MISSISSIPPI’S DRY RUN FOR ECO-APARTHEID

 

Following torrential downpours last week, Jackson, Mississippi—the
state’s capital and largest city—is still without safe water for
drinking, bathing, or brushing teeth. The city is home to 180,000
people, more than 80 percent of whom are Black and a quarter of whom
fall below the poverty line. The immediate crisis was triggered by
flooding in the Pearl River and Ross R. Barnett Reservoir that
overwhelmed the city’s long-neglected water treatment
infrastructure.

Jackson’s water issues, though, are long-running and well known to
residents; they were first told to boil their water in July. Many
haven’t sipped tap water for years. This isn’t the first time
Jackson has gone without clean water, either. The city suffered
through a similar ordeal last winter, when cold weather froze the
pipes and residents were told to boil their water for a month.

It’s hard to imagine that a similarly sized, richer, and less Black
city—say Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or Providence, Rhode
Island—facing a crisis of this magnitude would have received this
little national attention for so long

Dave Lott
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DR. OZ  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
September 7, 2022
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RE: COLOMBIA’S LEFTWING GOVERNMENT UNVEILS TAX-THE-RICH PLAN TO
TACKLE POVERTY
 

One more attempt to "reform" capitalism. IT WON'T WORK. These folks
haven't absorbed the lessons of Allende.

David Berger
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RE: GORBACHEV COULDN’T REFORM THE SOVIET SYSTEM

 

Tragically, Boris Yeltsin actually told Bill Clinton (shortly before
Yeltsin passed away) that he may have made a mistake selecting Putin
as his successor.  His main motivation for doing so was that Putin
(while mayor of St Petersburg) had been principally involved with
getting western businesses from Europe and the US to invest in Russian
partnerships and development, which Yeltsin was understandably eager
to see take place.  However, he vastly underestimated Putin's
fanatical nationalism, the artifacts of which we are seeing up to this
very moment.  

This latest invasion of Ukraine is only the tip of a long ongoing
iceberg of such fanatical nationalistic policies and fantasies, the
exact opposite of what Yeltsin had tried to envision, and what
Gorbachev was hoping to facilitate as he dismembered the former Soviet
Union.

Charles
Sebastopol  CA

 

RE: MY SEVENTY YEARS AND THE DEPARTED GDR
 

I thank “Tidbits” for printing reactions to my article. I think
Paul Leavin was a bit unfair, writing that I neither “listed nor
explained” GDR blunders or nasty habits. In one essay I could do no
listing or long explaining (which I do attempt in my book “A
Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl Marx Allee”). But I mention
some indeed – and feel that since US media has done nothing but
list, detail, exaggerate and distort GDR sins since its birth (as in
clever films like  “The Lives of Others”) it was proper to offer
something on the positive side. Mr.Leavin does not know what can be
learnt from it: How about free abortions, maternal leave, free
education from cradle to post grad level, evictions prohibited,
medical and dental care, medicine and health aids all covered by one
uniform tax, subsidized low-cost housing, guaranteed  low-cost
vacations, even, for every ex-con on release, an apartment and a job?
And no billionaires thriving from the muscles and brains of others?
And can no lessons be learned even today from the sins: distorted
elections, senile leaders, wide-spread snooping into personal lives,
unjust sentences? Plus and minus!

Victor Grossman

 

THAT SPEECH BY BIDEN WAS SO DAMAGING TO THE DEMOCRATIC FABRIC OF OUR
SOCIETY  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

 

Dr. James MacLeod
September 2, 2022
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RE: IN THE RINGS OF POWER, IT’S NOT HORRIFYING TO BE A WOMAN

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Tolkien on Television. I mean, why not? Donald Trump has been in the
White House, BoJo in 10 Downing, what's next? The Grand Canyon and
Yosemite turned into theme parks? A Sunday morning cartoon show based
on Birth of a Nation? I mean, they already made movies of Tolkien. And
there was Ralph Bakshee, goddess help us. How about a series on the
Civil Rights Movement, made as a sitcom? How about Professional
Wrestling becoming our national sport?

After all, Game of Thrones, the books the work of a talented hack,
rather than a real literary star like JRR, made lotsabucks, and seeing
gold in them thar fantasy stories, it was hardly a surprise that this
would follow.

Do you remember, any of you, when literature, you know, books, well
written books, fired our imaginations? By which I mean conjured images
in our heads? Not on a screen, not designed by an artist, not vetted
by a focus group, or selected by a director or dictated by a producer.
Inside our imaginations. The word become image, a more vivid and real
image, to each of us, than anyone could put on a screen. Assuming our
brains still worked. They would take our imaginations, and replace it
with products they can sell us.

Get your Gladrial lunch box here, Action Figures over on aisle 3,
t-shirts on the 4th floor, get your Middle Earth burger from
McHobbits.

Fuck this.

Jack Radey
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UNION APPROVAL HITS HIGHEST POINT SINCE 1965 (ECONOMIC POLICY
INSTITUTE)

 

A Gallup poll released last week showed that nearly 70% of Americans
approve of unions, an approval rate not seen since 1965. 

For too long, workers have faced inequality and anti-worker dynamics
on the job, which were exacerbated by the pandemic. As a result,
workers see “unions as critical to fixing our nation’s broken
workplace—where most workers have little power or agency at work.”

Americans' approval rate of unions highest in nearly 60 years

More than 70% of Americans now approve of labor unions. Those are the
findings of a Gallup poll
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this morning, and they shouldn’t be surprising.   

Why? U.S. workers see unions as critical to fixing our nation’s
broken workplace—where most workers have little power or agency at
work.  

The pandemic revealed much about work in this country. We saw
countless examples of workers performing essential jobs—such as
health care and food service. They were forced to work without
appropriate health and safety gear and certainly without pay
commensurate with the critical nature of the work they were doing.  

Those conditions, however, pre-dated the pandemic. The pandemic merely
exposed these decades old anti-worker dynamics. Clearly, as the new
poll and recent data on strikes and union organizing shows, workers
today are rejecting these dynamics and awakening to the benefits of
unions.   

Nonunion workers are forced to take their jobs—accept their
employer’s terms as is—or leave them. Unions enable workers to
have a voice in those terms and set them through collective
bargaining.  

We know the powerful impact unions have on workers’ lives, and
broader effects on communities and on our democracy. 

Here’s a run-down based on the Economic Policy Institute’s
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