Hello, faithful readers and friends!
Just want to cap off Friday evening with a midnight musing/rant about the developments that have taken place over the week and connect some dots.
We should celebrate some good news during this time of chaos and “both sides” fascism. Palestinian student and activist Mahmoud Khalil is finally returning home after being illegally detained simply for advocating for his people not to be killed by Israel in an ongoing genocide. A federal judge also ruled in favor of Harvard and allowed the Ivy League university to enroll international students, in another blow to Trump and Stephen Miller’s white supremacist agenda. Meanwhile, in California, the L.A. Dodgers learned that bending the knee to MAGA brings nothing except more pain and cruelty. They responded to pressure from community leaders and activists and refused ICE access to Dodgers’ Stadium and further pledged $1 million to support immigrant families.
That being said, we have to keep people honest and bring the receipts.
Khalil should never have spent a day in detention and missed the birth of his child. He was persecuted, maligned, and demonized along with other pro-Palestinian activists as a result of a concentrated effort that involved lobbying, media framing, billionaire funding, and elected officials, including Democratic leaders, who decided to throw students and free speech to the wolves for the sake of appeasing AIPAC and their donors. If you don’t believe me, just look at this tweet by ADL on March 9th, applauding the detention of Khalil.
When the victims were pro-Palestinian activists, transgender kids, and undocumented immigrants, those in power were all too happy to betray them either with their silence or complicity to appear “strong” on the border and tough on crime.
As Senator Padilla and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander learned earlier this week, MAGA is coming for all their critics and foes, regardless of citizenship or skin color. Still, the Democratic establishment refuses to evolve, adapt, and change. They’re all in with disgraced predator Andrew Cuomo because his opponent, Zohran Mamdani, is a Democratic Socialist willing to take on the oligarchy and the one percent.
The establishment won’t save us. Our elected officials won’t save us. We can’t outsource our problems to the Avengers, who aren’t coming to save the day. The masses will have to organize and rise, like they did last weekend during the successful No Kings rallies across the nation, to pressure those in power to fight for us or be 86’d. Meanwhile, Trump continues humiliating Tulsi Gabbard, who, in turn, is perfectly fine transforming into Reek, in his pathetic quest to avoid looking weak as Netanyahu attempts to drag the United States into war.
All that and some more in this midnight recap.
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