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Ongoing armed conflicts, 2024. So along with protesting the killing of Palestinians with your US tax dollars, how about protesting the killing of Mexicans with your US Co***ne dollars? How about the killing of Sudanese and Burkina Fasoans with your US gasoline dollars?
If you're outraged that the US government is paying for Israel's weapons, that seems like a pretty legit outrage, and it also seems like that's between you and your government in Washington DC. You're the one literally paying for it.
If the outrage is directed at Israel or its people however, and you're *more* outraged at Israelis for slaughtering innocents in Gaza than you are at al Qaeda and ISIS slaughtering innocents in Africa, or the Burmese slaughtering innocents in Myanmar, or cartels slaughtering innocents in Mexico, have you checked on your racism lately?

Feelin' cute, might firebomb a Zales later.

FYI: the terms Right and Left come from the sides of Assembly Hall in Paris where the constitution for the new Republic of France was being drafted after the French Revolutionaries won and beheaded the king and many of the nobility. The surviving nobility, arguing for a restoration of the monarchy and known as royalists, monarchists, or restorationists, sat on the Right wing of the hall. The revolutionaries, arguing for a democratic republic, sat on the Left. Not much has changed. Look behind the populist facade and you'll find a GOP that is thoroughly dominated by wealthy industrialists and financiers descended directly from the royal houses of Europe. Barons, Earls, Dukes, Counts, Kings, Princes, etc. The DuPonts, Gettys, Rockefeller's, Vanderbilts, Bushes, and on and on and on.... The "Right" is literally anti-republic AND anti-democracy. They want to return to the days of the original multi-national corporation: the Dutch East India Company, and its English brother, the East India Company, more wealthy and powerful than any government or national army on earth, claiming divine right of power over all the planet, literally bestowed by GOD through their "noble" bloodlines, colonizing everything as empire and claiming it, including people-- as serfs, slaves, indentured servants, employees, tenants-- as their property. Yes, this IS reality. Or as Pink Floyd sings, "No, this is not a bad dream."

You've gotta read this. I haven't said much lately about this war because frankly I have outrage fatigue after getting worked up into a profoundly unhealthy mental condition on a frequent basis for 26 years (thank you KPFA and your nearly totally myopic view of world news /s) about 2 relatively small (nation-wise) groups of people on the other side of the world treating each other with absolute barbarity, as they have been doing for 3,000 years, (4,500?) almost constantly. If that sounds like "both-sides-ism", maybe it is, but I'm not equating the two sides, or saying they are the same. I'm saying they have been treating each other with unspeakable barbarity for my entire life, and half of recorded history. I'm done losing my mental health over it, sorry.
But THIS: systematically shooting babies and small children IN THE HEAD. Anyone telling you that professional snipers are "accidentally" putting single bullets into hundreds of babies and toddlers, coincidentally right in the "skull or left side of the chest," is a damned liar.

Opinion | 65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza (Gift Article) “Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die.”

The affirmative action of generational wealth.

Wow. Long, impressive investigative report by WaPo. This is why journalism matters. "she was 16 when a Catholic priest repeatedly r***d her in a church basement... a doctor and several Catholic sisters later forced her to undergo an abortion."

‘In the name of God’: Native American children endured years of s*xual abuse at boarding schools Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced s*xual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.

YES!!!

Bay Area schools grapple with cellphone bans as Newsom pushes to expand them Bay Area schools grapple with cellphone bans as Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes to expand them throughout California.

This is sooooooo good.

Rock, Paper, Scissors: A Guide to the New Victim Politics This article was originally published on Feb. 26, 2015, and is presented here for Campus Week 2017. For all of 15 minutes last weekend, Patricia Arquette was a progressive hero. Arquette, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar Sunday evening for her role in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, used the...

XX athletes should not have to compete physically against XY athletes in a world where ethics exist. Take all the subjective or arbitrary "gender" labels out of it. This isn't about bathrooms, or identification, or equal rights in civil society. This is about the athletic arena, where XY athletes, like the two boxers in the Olympics (and many others), have myriad undisputed advantages from birth by way of the XY chromosomes in their cells, which are defined by the sciences of biology and genetics as "male." I don't care who they marry, which locker room they use, or what their passports say-- that's none of my business. But "In 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport found a “striking overrepresentation” of athletes with XY DSD on the female podium, going back decades." -- Washington Post. That's not fair play.

"Pretending biology isn’t what it is gaslights female athletes." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enough with the lies from the science-deniers in the extremist fringe of the activist community. Their alternative facts are as bad as dump's. This is a great, FACT-FILLED article.

Opinion | Why elite women’s sports need to be based on s*x, not gender Katie Ledecky holds the women’s world record in the 800-meter freestyle. 26 U.S. boys under 17 have beaten it.

Based on the wide disparity in numbers of reactions to different posts of mine, I think I'm being shadow banned. For real. Check my profile for more tips.