Grief, Determination, and Community on Transgender Day of Remembrance
by ARNIE ALPERT, InDepthNH.orgNovember 21, 2024 By Arnie Alpert, Active with the Activists Arnie Alpert spent decades as a community organizer/educator in NH movements for social justice and peace. Officially retired since 2020, he keeps his hands (and feet) in the activist world while writing about past and present social movements. CONCORD—The sky was already …
Americans Didn’t Vote for What Donald Trump Is About to Give Them
https://www.yahoo.com/news/americans-didn-t-vote-donald-154051128.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall By now, every pundit in America has their own 2024 election take, mostly confirming their prior opinions. Every Republican has a take, too, which is that Americans voted resoundingly for — well, for whatever policy that Republican cares about, from opposition to transgender rights to support for prayer in schools. And of course, progressives, …
NEWS 10/01/24 to 10/15/24
When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during last night’s vice presidential debate that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had, once again, lied about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance retorted: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!” As scholar of propaganda Pekka Kallioniemi noted, this was “[t]he epitome of post-truth politics.” …
Presidential Election Nostradamus Reveals His 2024 Prediction
I’m excited that Lichtman predicted Harris will win the 2024 presidential election. Whew! I think he was actually right when calling for Al Gore in 2020. That election was stolen by hanging chads and another corrupt Republican SCOTUS. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/bush-v-gore-and-the-2000-election-never-ended.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/presidential-election-nostradamus-allan-lichtman-reveals-his-2024-prediction TRUE OR FALSE? Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted almost every presidential race since 1984—and he …
NEWS 09/01/24 to 09/15/24
THE DEBATE RATINGS ARE IN While the ratings for Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris represent a massive increase over the 51 million who tuned in for June’s Joe Biden-Trump face-off, the numbers are still much lower than some of the peak debate showdowns in recent political history. [HuffPost] TRUMP CALLS FOR PUNISHING ABC NEWS …
NEWS 08-22 to 08-31-2024
On the Light Side of Democracy vs. Autocracy Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosted what JD Vance would call, “A coven of semi-menstruating witches,” 8 Democratic Women Governors Panel, starts at 16:55 mins in: Bill Maher after the DNC: A month ago the Repubs thought they had it in the can. Now they’ve lost their mojo. Even JD …
WHAT IS A SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY?
I asked Chat (Minerva) about the different political systems. I’m curious to know what aliens would think about the governance systems of planet Earth. Indeed, they must consider us quite brutal, with all the wars, violence, and the fact that our civilization doesn’t even provide for its citizens. They may not think we are a …
