I haven’t had the heart to watch this, but expect people should. From Talking Points Memo: Trump’s Embrace of Anti-Semitism: We should, among all priorities, not be silent, now more than at any time. Let’s not forget that President Trump closed his 2016 campaign with a final ad rife with anti-Semitic themes and imagery. [Click] Right out in the open. —Josh Marshall
From politicalwire.com Quote of the Day “What I can tell you is in 2016 we saw a 34 percent increase in acts of harassment, vandalism and violence against the Jewish community. But last year, a 57 percent increase, the single largest surge that we’ve ever seen in anti-Semitic acts in the United States.” — Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, on This Week.
Amen, brother! What a refreshing, simple yet revolutionary idea. I'll stash that away with Eugene V. Debbs' "It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
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I haven’t had the heart to watch this, but expect people should.
From Talking Points Memo: Trump’s Embrace of Anti-Semitism:
We should, among all priorities, not be silent, now more than at any time. Let’s not forget that President Trump closed his 2016 campaign with a final ad rife with anti-Semitic themes and imagery. [Click] Right out in the open.
—Josh Marshall
America’s Weaponized Attorneys General [Click] A long read, but worthwhile, I think.
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From politicalwire.com
Quote of the Day
“What I can tell you is in 2016 we saw a 34 percent increase in acts of harassment, vandalism and violence against the Jewish community. But last year, a 57 percent increase, the single largest surge that we’ve ever seen in anti-Semitic acts in the United States.”
— Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, on This Week.
In case someone else wondered, the Philadelphia synagogue gunman was/is reportedly registered to vote, but with no party affiliation.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman? I did wonder, actually. Thanks.
DeleteYes, I meant Pittsburgh. Thanks for the catch.
DeleteThanks. I caught someone on social media trying to paint him as a Democrat. Fat chance.
DeleteProphet of Freedom—a new biography of Frederick Douglass. Interview with the author. [Click] A new to me and very practical political dictum: ”…in 1855, in Rochester, [Douglass] said: ‘I would unite with anybody to do right, and with nobody to do wrong.’”
ReplyDeleteAmen, brother! What a refreshing, simple yet revolutionary idea. I'll stash that away with Eugene V. Debbs' "It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
DeleteI was thinking I ought to memorize it; guess great minds work in the same way!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alan. Not feeling much like a great mind at the moment.
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