Thursday, September 11, 2025

Some Reactions to Recent News

 

  • Seems pretty clear that the US Supreme Court isn't just conservative; it's a full-speed-ahead supporter of Trump's fascism.
  • Israel is bombing everything in sight in the Middle East. The US is fully behind all the aggression. Are gambling sites putting odds on the next country on which Israel will inflict an act of war?
  • One of the most laughable contradictions in the current ADL antisemitism-on-campus fabrication is that I haven't heard of a single Jewish professor fired for supporting the Israel-US genocide. There have been many profs fired--including not a few Jews--for expressing any pro-Palestinian sentiment.
  • Just so we don't think it's only the US: The UK Labour government is all in on Israel-US genocoide, arresting anti-genocide protesters and expressing solidarity with Hezog just today. Germany, too, is pretty much on board. They talk about recognizing the Palestiniam State but those are empty words if you're supporting genocide and starvation.
  • Bari Weiss's "The Feee Press" is also all-in. Labeling anything that moves antisemitic, and actually denying that starvation is occurring in Gaza. The Venn diagrams of Weiss's principles and Trump's have an overlap of about 90% (and not just on Palestine). The champion of the faux free-speech brigade. What a joke. 

 

 

Saturday, September 6, 2025

In the News

 

  • Headline in The Guardian: "How Google's shift to AI has upended the online news model". My solution? Don't use Google. I know that's functionally impossibe to do completely. But I never use Google--other than Gmail, which I hope to phase out over time. It is an evil company. Same with Meta, Amazon, and most other tech companies. You only have to see who attended Trump's "tech dinner" where the CEOs of these companies groveled and kissed Trump's ass. They are all evil. They will do anything for money.
  • America's genocide and ethnic cleansing--begun under Biden--continues unabated with Trump. Both parties are on board. America's shame.
  • Hakeem Jeffries--arguably the highest-ranking elected Democrat in the country--has refused to endorse the mayoral candidate decisively selected by actual New York Democrats. I will take that as his permission for me to vote for third party candidates in future elections. Jeffries--as well as many other prominent Dems--takes his orders from AIPAC.