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Resistance In the Ruins Last week, the "world's most moral army" bombed and leveled Gaza's much-loved al-Meshal Theater and Cultural Center, rare home to hundreds of artists, dancers and writers and vital symbol of Palestinian identity, to "make residents feel the price of escalation." The next day, the Palestinian band al-Anqaa (or Phoenix) returned in defiance to play for their beleaguered neighbors, because "art is, too, a form of resistance." Read more |
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Maybe Today? Bigly Ratings For Sure With crowds outside chanting, "Jail to the Chief!" and caught in the sordid turmoil of Watergate, Richard 'I Am Not A Crook' Nixon resigned the presidency 44 years ago today in the name of hastening "the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." Revisiting his final speech, most startling in this crudest of eras is his relative gravitas; for those pining for history to repeat itself, Borowitz suggests, "Imagine this, only without the complete sentences." Read more |
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We Rise Together, Homie So this: Over 100 mostly Latino construction workers were on an Indianapolis job site when a white boss known for hassling them tried to fire several workers over a slight. In an impromptu act of solidarity, they all walked out - and were filmed by Antoine Dangerfield, a black welder who exultantly narrated the act and its giddy result: "The Mexicans shut this motherf*cker down!" He got fired for the now-viral video, but also got a vital lesson: "We can all come together. " Read more |
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Deleting Alex Jones Small good news. Every big tech company but Twitter has finally banned conspiracy crank Alex Jones and his loathsome Infowars rants about anchor babies and Sandy Hook actors and gay Pentagon juice in the water. Jones says globalists are removing "outlets of liberty and truth" because " inbred child molesters in Hollywood had some psychotic dream they wanted to kill everybody." The techies say he's spewing bonkers hate and it's not okay. Read more |
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Nothing Is Given, Everything Is Earned: LeBron James Makes America Great Tale of two people. Last week, a small, rich, sick bully who ordered brown children put in cages attacked a big, black, beloved star athlete born poor who has long given back and has now opened a progressive, family-oriented, bikes-to-college-tuition school for at-risk kids, " truly investing in public education," to show them "someone cares." Because he does, we all win, and the loser, as usual, loses. Update: LeBron takes to TV 'cause he still won't shut up and dribble. Read more |
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What Trump Hath Wrought The unhinged Tampa brawl was bad enough, with its jeering, cretinous mobs screeching at Jim Acosta for doing his job. Then a puffed-up Trump posted video, Sarah Sanders called it "free speech," and Hannity - really? - attacked Acosta's "abusively biased coverage." It gets harder, but let's keep it real: Trump has now told 4,229 lies, and they're soaring. He started with 4.9 lies a day. In June and July, it was 16 a day. Don't let them drown you out. Read more |
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Still There: Black Power Behind Bars Almost half a century on, a racist, vengeful American "justice" system still holds captive 19 African-American radical political prisoners representing "the unfinished business of the black liberation struggle." A devastating Guardian series finds them caught in an impossible bind after often-solitary decades behind bars: They maintain their innocence and yearn for freedom, but will not renounce their ideals. "Slavery never ended," says one. "It was just disguised." Read more |
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From Sea To Idiotic Sea: Of Course Roy Moore Fails A Pedophile Test Because the inglorious times sure seem to call for Sacha Baron Cohen's brazen Who Is America?, we just got Roy Moore - moron, racist, bigot, sex offender and can you believe former Alabama chief justice and U.S. Senate candidate - extolling Alabama's heritage of equality before setting off a pedophile beeper waved by Israeli honcho Erran Morad. "I've been married 33," he sputtered, because these days the bar for righteous defense can't get any lower. Read more |
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It's Not Just My Story: Still-Defiant Ahed Tamimi Released From Prison After eight months in prison for having the audacity to protest the brutal Israeli occupation with a childlike slap, Palestinian resistance icon Ahed Tamini, who turned 17 in custody, has been released - though not, it must be noted, really freed. In the long tradition of civility by the region's only "democracy," Israel marked her release by changing its time and location three times to avoid publicity, and arresting three artists painting a tribute mural of Tamini on their Apartheid Wall. Read more |
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Keeping America Great (In China) Okay let's get this straight: The loudmouth Grifter-In-Chief who yaps endlessly about supporting American business except he makes all his crap in other countries is super busy making “Keep America Great!” banners for his supposed re-election in a factory in China - where he's ramping up production to keep the cost of his swag sweatshop-cheap before his own threatened, ill-considered tariffs on Chinese goods kick in. Entirely too much winning. Read more |