Burgis Hits the Nail on the Head
Establishment Dems still think that political theater will win the day. Seizing on the Hegseth misfire of adding a journalist to a text thread detailing war plans, Democrats are lining up to take shots at GOP incompetence. Old news. The GOP hasn’t been an effective governing organization since Lincoln. The real news is that we continue extrajudicial strikes—actual acts of war—on nations we are not at war with. The absurdity beyond this absurdity is that the Democrats actually think the American public gives a shit about this story. (Related: Eggs are $6 a dozen.) This is why Bernie is still going it alone.
From the article:
“Democrats have lined up to accept this framing. Chuck Schumer and the leaders of several relevant Senate subcommittees, for example, sent a letter to Donald Trump expressing ‘extreme alarm’ about ‘the astonishingly poor judgment’ shown by accidentally including Goldberg in the chat. In other words, they’re fine with bombing Yemen. They just want the government to do a better job of keeping it secret.”
Jacobin: Democrats Have Learned Absolutely Nothing From Defeat
Billionaires Battle in Wisco
This is staggering stuff. Upwards of $80 million dollars for a single judicial seat in Wisconsin. Wow. The race hit the national radar when Musk noisily entered the fray offering money to voters for signatures and piling millions of dollars on the GOP candidate. The reason? Swing state shit. As one of the most important swing states and the petri dish for far-right political experiments, Wisconsin has become an ideological battleground. And whoever controls the Supreme Court controls contested elections and district maps. $80 million. What a shame.
From the article:
“The stakes are high. Whoever wins will determine the ideological bent of the seven-member court just two years after Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the court and swung it to the liberals. With Protasiewicz on the court, the majority struck down state legislative maps, which had been drawn to favor Republicans, and reinstated the use of drop boxes to collect absentee ballots.”
ProPublica: How Elon Musk, George Soros and Other Billionaires Are Shaping the Most Expensive Court Race in U.S. History
We’ve Crossed the Rubicon on Detention
An op-ed. A co-authored piece calling for divestment from Israel’s war machine. That’s why Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk is currently being held in Louisiana prison. She’s not alone. Other students are being disappeared. It’s unfathomable to know that we’ve arrived in this place. I don’t know what else to say.
From the article:
“Ozturk’s arrest came just days after she was doxxed by Zionist vigilante group Canary Mission. She was seemingly targeted for an op-ed in the school’s student newspaper that she co-authored last year, which urged Tufts to divest from Israel in accordance with calls from resolutions passed by the student government.”
Truthout: Tufts’s Ozturk Is a “Political Prisoner” Who Was “Kidnapped” by ICE
