Oprah Winfrey hosted a Kamala Harris online event last night that was surprisingly effective, I thought. I’m not usually much for town halls and tend to avoid them unless there’s a special reason to watch. But this one was quite good. maybe it’s the Oprah effect. She is a professional,after all, and very adept at evoking emotion. Here’s the lede in the Washington Post: A star-studded online rally designed to showcase the enthusiasm and energy behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign turned somber as host Oprah Winfrey introduced the mother of a woman who died after waiting for health care in a state that has banned most abortions. “You’re looking at a mother that is broken,” said Shanette Williams, whose daughter, Amber Thurman, died in what was deemed a “preventable” death stemming from Georgia’s abortion restrictions.
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Here’s an angle on The Beatles we hadn’t seen before: Shane O’ Donoghue decided to reimagine four of the Fab Four’s songs as bottles of booze, inspired by the staging of the rehearsal space featured in Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” miniseries. We … Continue reading
I think this is pretty brilliant: You just have to love the guy. Meanwhile, here’s James Comer: This is what the GOP has become.
Thousands of Lebanese citizens, injured or murdered by apparent Israeli planted explosives in pagers and other communications devices, are referred to as Hezbollah operatives, even though victims have included small children. A macabre picture does not end there. The public is given the usual either or account of slaughter in a war depicted as between Continue reading »
A British publication that takes pride in its status as the oldest Jewish newspaper in the world has lately faced enormous embarrassment after highlighting an “exclusive” investigative report that was dismissed as a fabrication by Israeli media as well as military and intelligence spokesmen. The contention in The Jewish Chronicle, more or less continuously published Continue reading »
That question above is both meaningful – and meaningless. A paltry “Day of Peace” — this year, Saturday 21 September — insults the efforts of those who work year-round for something approximating “peace”. Or, at least, who work in multiple ways to promote more intelligent evidence-based possibilities to contain, if not resolve, conflict, and to Continue reading »
Every few years the UN publishes one of these big papers on “world population prospects”, which are… exactly what they sound like: a best guess at what’s going to happen with the world’s population over the next few decades. Nut graph after the jump: So the UN’s current best guess is that world population will […]
Ok wow, it’s finally here!
Trump had a little sad last night Philip Bump: Buried in his efforts to convince a sympathetic audience that he deserved to return to the White House, Donald Trump made an important admission about a long-standing frustration. “With all I have done for Israel,” he said at a campaign event ostensibly centered on antisemitism, “I received only 24 percent of the Jewish vote. Now think of this. I really haven’t been treated very well, but that’s the story of my life.” Subscribe to How to Read This Chart, a weekly dive into the data behind the news. Each Saturday, national columnist Philip Bump makes and breaks down charts explaining the latest in economics, pop culture, politics and more.Z In Trump’s estimation, he deserves both credit and unwavering support from Jewish Americans because of the things he did on Israel’s behalf as president. He said as much at the event. “I said, I’m the best friend they ever had. And still in 2020 — so remember, I got 24, 25 percent [of the Jewish vote in 2016]. Now, I did all of these things and I got 29 percent,” Trump complained. “Think of it.
For the first time in more than 30 years, the Council of UC Faculty Associations filed a formal complaint against the UC system.
The post California Professors Fight Back Against Violent Repression of Palestine Protest appeared first on The Intercept.
God I hope not All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for Governor. It turned out to be a gross and salacious story about his porn habits and comments calling himself a “Black Nazi.” It was reported during the day that the Trump campaign wanted him to drop out, presumably because they suspect he’s already dragging down the ticket, but he refused and because there was a midnight deadline to (possibly) remove him from the ballot, so that seems to be that. N. Carolina is very close according to the polls as are all the swing states. And while this possible help for Trump landed in the Trump campaign’s lap at the last moment, in other states they are working overtime to subvert the vote and contest the election results if they don’t go Trump’s way. Ground zero for those plans is Georgia, one of the states, along with N. Carolina and Pennsylvania, that are considered must win for Donald Trump assuming he manages to hold on to all the other states he won in 2020.
The echoes are pretty strong Here’s a radical notion. People’s worth isn’t based on their citizenship status or economic output. One would think we wouldn’t need an essay on the topic to remind us. But since Team MAGA is floating rhetoric reminiscent of Radio Rwanda, sadly, we do. All this time, Republicans scare-mongered about “illegals” and “migrant caravans” and “bad hombres.” After the fact-free smears of legal immigrants from “Haitia” eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, Sen. J.D. Vance made plain he considers even legally admitted immigrants worthy of deportation en masse. MAGA isn’t interested in documented vs. undocumented immigrant status. What’s at issue for them is nothing new and, dare we suggest, a matter of white, northern Europeans vs. everyone else. SNL spoofed that in 1988 when Gov. Mike Dukakis ran for president against George H.W. Bush: Bush Political Ad: He’s Whiter. President Joe Biden called the smears against Haitians legally in Ohio “simply wrong.” They have “no place in America.” Biden added, “We don’t demonize immigrants.
Chris Hedges delivers a sharp rebuke of the so-called ‘moral reckoning’ faced by Israeli soldiers, showing how they revel in the power to take life without consequence.
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With accusations of Russian ties and inciting pro-Palestine protests, Red Media and African Stream are the latest targets in the West’s crackdown on media critical of Israel.
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Tar Heel Follies By now you’ve heard there is another hole in Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for N.C. governor. “Martin Luther King on steroids” is sinking even faster as of yesterday. Since he is, of course, unwilling to exit the race, and since it is too late to strip his name from the ballot anyway, the big question is how much of a drag Robinson’s porn habits and Naziphilia will be on Donald Trump’s chances of collecting the state’s 16 electoral votes. BTW, MLK III is backing the Democrat for governor. Who’da thunk it? As Digby noted on Thursday, “Trump is terrified he’s going to lose N Carolina.” (Fingers crossed.) He’s up to his neck in Robinson. Robinson is down double digits in multiple polls against A.G. Josh Stein and already dragging down the rest of the state GOP’s MAGArrific statewide slate. Other Democrats used the blanket coverage of Robinson’s porn-Nazi-slavery habits to tie their opponents to him. They didn’t have to work hard at it. State Sen. Rachel Hunt is running against Republican businessman Hal Weatherman for lieutenant governor. Rep.
Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.
. Steve Keen gives a truthful view of the state of economics today. Modern economics has become increasingly irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. This irrelevance comes to a large extent from the failure of economists to match their deductive-axiomatic methods with their subject. Within mainstream economics, internal validity is everything and external […]