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TIDBITS – MAY 1- READER COMMENTS: CHILDREN DEPORTED; JUDGE
ARRESTED; IS AMERICA PISSED OFF ENOUGH FOR GENERAL STRIKE-HAPPY MAY
DAY; LABOR FOR DEMOCRACY; RFK JR ENDS NARCAN PROGRAM; APPEALING TO
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_ Reader Comments: Children Deported ; Judge Arrested; Is America
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Labor for Democracy; RFK Jr Ends Narcan Program; Appealing to
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Shorts, AND
cartoons - May 1, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* TATOO TROUBLE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON
* SHE WAS CARRYING A DANGEROUS WEAPON  --  CARTOON BY BILL
BRAMHALL
* AIDING AND ABETTING  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES
* RE: IS AMERICA PISSED OFF ENOUGH AT TRUMP AND MUSK FOR A GENERAL
STRIKE?  (SONIA COBBINS; MAURA QUINN-STOBIE)
* DOGE DISASTER *AND* TESLA PROFIT DIVE? ELON DID NAZI THIS COMING!
 --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: TRUMP HARVESTS AUTOCRATIC POWERS PLANTED BY BUSH AND CHENEY
 (WENDY KRASNOFF)
* FIRST 100  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: A CALL FOR CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT  (LENORE)
* RE: LEONARD ZESKIND, WHO FORESAW THE RISE OF WHITE NATIONALISM,
DIES AT 75  (MARK C. ROSENZWEIG)
* REAL MAN VS. ECONOMY  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEON

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SHORTS:

* RFK JR. TO END 'GODSEND' NARCAN PROGRAM THAT HELPED REDUCE
OVERDOSE DEATHS DESPITE HIS PAST HEROIN ADDICTION  (M.B. MACK / LATIN
TIMES)

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RESOURCES:

* 12 UNIONS HAVE JUST LAUNCHED LABOR FOR DEMOCRACY.

 

* CALL TO COURAGE: APPEALING TO OUR US MILITARY AND NATIONAL GUARD
MEMBERS TO NOT COMPLY WITH UNLAWFUL ORDERS  (DO NOT TURN ON US)

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* 60 YEARS SINCE THE APRIL REVOLUTION IN SANTO DOMINGO  --
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TATOO TROUBLE  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY NICK ANDERSON

 

 

Three US citizen children — aged two, four, and seven — were
deported to Honduras last week along with their undocumented mothers.
One of the children, a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer, was removed
without necessary medication or access to doctors. Every day brings
more due process violations.

Nick Anderson
April 28, 2025
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SHE WAS CARRYING A DANGEROUS WEAPON  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL

 

Bill Bramhall
April 28, 2025
New York Daily News
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AIDING AND ABETTING  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES

Trump's goons are helping him destroy America

 

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI
and charged with obstructing an immigration arrest operation. This is
a further step away from democracy and toward fascism.

FBI Director (sic) bug-eyed hatchet man Kash Patel announced the
arrest on TwitterX, accusing her of “intentionally misdirecting”
federal agents as they sought to detain an immigrant who was set to
appear for an unrelated proceeding last week. Announcing this on
social media makes it clear that this is political and is meant to set
an example for other judges.

The regime has been publicly attacking judges who are delaying or
halting Trump’s fascist moves, like deporting legal residents and
canceling student visas. One GOP representative has even filed
legislation to impeach judges who go against Trump. Kash Patel,
another Trump appointee not qualified for his position, was more than
happy to send thugs to arrest a judge.

This is another court fight that Trump should lose, and even be thrown
out.

Attorney General (sic) and MAGA hack Pam Bondi said, “These judges
think they’re above the law. They are not. We will come after you
and prosecute you. We will find you.” She also called judges
“deranged.”

Stephen “Baby Goebbels” Miller, the White House deputy chief of
staff, said on social media, “No. One. Is. Above. The. Law,” which
is ironic coming from a guy who works for a felon.

While these fascist idiots are tweeting and yammering about arresting
a judge, the judge can’t comment about it at all because the
judicial code of conduct restricts judges from commenting on pending
or impending matters in any court.

I expect that the regime will cut out the bullshit reasons and excuses
and soon start arresting judges on the charges of “obstructing
Trump.”

Clay Jones
April 26, 2025
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RE: IS AMERICA PISSED OFF ENOUGH AT TRUMP AND MUSK FOR A GENERAL
STRIKE?
 

Thank you Sara Nelson for once again telling it like it is.
Individually pissed off gives you agita. Unitedly pissed off gets
results. Transportation is a crucial part of the economy. And a union
is the best instrument to turn pissed-off-ness into action. But a
strike needs an endpoint, a goal or else may just meander and peter
out. What do you think should be the goals? Constitutional like due
process and voting rights, economic, or some kind of smorgasbord
depending on your union or organization? Really, we have to start
talking about these things right away. I have no idea.

Sonia Cobbins
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I think it will be a roaring fire ??

Maura Quinn-Stobie
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DOGE DISASTER *AND* TESLA PROFIT DIVE? ELON DID NAZI THIS COMING!  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
April 25, 2025
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RE: TRUMP HARVESTS AUTOCRATIC POWERS PLANTED BY BUSH AND CHENEY
 

Exactly! Remember extraordinary rendition!

Wendy Krasnoff
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FIRST 100  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

Trump has only been in office for 100 days, but the damage will take
years to repair, if it's not too late to fix it.

Rob Rogers
April 29, 2025
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RE: A CALL FOR CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT
 

I'm glad that xxxxxx covered this Call, not only because my
university president finally signed it (I teach part-time at
Northeastern), but because so many universities have stood up to
Trump.  However, it puzzled me when I couldn't find any of the
Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the list.  A quick
Google search brought me to the following:
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I'm trying to understand what the ulterior motive is behind this
"White House Initiative".  Do you know of anyone who has written
about this?  

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Lenore 
A Faithful xxxxxx reader (who was proud to be quoted in the obituary
of my dear friend Mark Solomon)

 

RE: LEONARD ZESKIND, WHO FORESAW THE RISE OF WHITE NATIONALISM, DIES
AT 75
 

Author of prescient “Blood and Politics: The History of the White
Nationalist Movement From the Margins to the Mainstream”  dies.

Mark C. Rosenzweig
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REAL MAN VS. ECONOMY  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSON

 

In case you missed it, there’s been a substantial propaganda
campaign from MAGA elites to convince the masses that Trump’s
destructive economic policies will make men more “masculine.” The
dialogue coming from the TV in the first panel of this cartoon is
taken directly from a Fox chyron, “TRUMP’S TARIFFS WILL MAKE YOU A
MAN?”

We see a lot of talk about mining these days while Trump is
actually dismantling rules that protect miners from silica
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Far from creating strong “alphas,” these jobs make men sick.

Jen Sorensen
April 30, 2025
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RFK JR. TO END 'GODSEND' NARCAN PROGRAM THAT HELPED REDUCE OVERDOSE
DEATHS DESPITE HIS PAST HEROIN ADDICTION

 

M.B. Mack

April 29, 2025
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Despite his own history of overcoming heroin addiction, Health and
Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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plans to end a federal Narcan distribution program credited with
helping drive a steep drop in U.S. overdose deaths.

Narcan, the widely-used overdose reversal drug, has played a major
role in reducing opioid-related deaths, particularly amid the fentanyl
crisis.

A $56 million annual grant program through the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has funded the
distribution of Narcan to first responders across the country,
training over 66,000 individuals and distributing more than 282,500
kits in 2024 alone. Recent CDC
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shows a nearly 24% drop in overdose deaths for the 12 months ending
September 2024, the sharpest one-year decline in decades—an
achievement partly attributed to widespread naloxone access.

Speaking at the Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville on Thursday, Kennedy
reflected on his personal struggle with addiction and emphasized the
importance of community, treatment, and hope in solving the drug
crisis, USA Today
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However, behind the scenes, the Trump administration's draft budget
includes major cuts to addiction programs, including the termination
of the Narcan grant, according to The Independent
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"Narcan has been kind of a godsend as far as opioid epidemics are
concerned, and we certainly are in the middle of one now with
fentanyl," Donald McNamara of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department said. "We need this funding source because it's saving
lives every day."

Though Kennedy has previously praised interventions like Narcan as
critical to saving lives, he now frames the crisis as one requiring
deeper, spiritual and societal change rather than relying solely on
"nuts and bolts" medical solutions.

The proposal has drawn swift condemnation from addiction specialists
and public health advocates, who warn that cutting Narcan funding
could reverse the progress made against overdose deaths. Critics argue
that removing life-saving tools while broader societal fixes are
slowly pursued would leave vulnerable communities at risk.

While national overdose deaths have declined, experts warn the
epidemic is far from over, especially in states still experiencing
surges. Ending federal Narcan support could slow or even reverse
recent gains.

 

12 UNIONS HAVE JUST LAUNCHED LABOR FOR DEMOCRACY.

 

 

L4D stands in firm opposition to the Trump administration’s extreme
anti-worker agenda. Specifically, L4D seeks to spotlight the
administration’s attacks on freedom of speech and freedom of
assembly, the targeting of immigrant workers, the shredding of union
rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, and the role of
employers in enabling Trump’s campaign of repression. At May Day
actions around the country, members of L4D unions will carry signs
reading, among other slogans, “Protest rights are workers’
rights,” emphasizing that the administration’s assault on core
freedoms poses an acute threat to workers’ ability to organize.

L4D includes:

* AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS (AAUP)
* ASSOCIATION OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS (AFA-CWA)
* AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION (APWU)
* INLANDBOATMEN’S UNION (IBU)
* INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES (IUPAT)
* NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA)
* NATIONAL NURSES UNITED (NNU)
* NATIONAL WRITERS UNION (NWU)
* OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (OPEIU)
* SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU)
* UNITED AUTO WORKERS (UAW)
* UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO AND MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE) 

LABOR DEMANDS AN END TO THE ASSAULT ON THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND
PROTEST
 

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The labor movement holds one value above all others: solidarity. Labor
demands an end to the Trump administration’s assaults on immigrant
workers, freedom of speech, the right to organize and bargain, and
federal government workers, their unions, and the services they
provide.

We will not stand by as President Donald Trump terrorizes immigrant
workers with abduction, detention, and confinement without due process
in unmarked facilities, far-flung detention centers, and a notorious
prison in El Salvador.

The attacks are ramping up, and we need to act fast. In Washington
state, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents smashed a car window
and detained farmworker Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a leader in the
berry-pickers union Familias Unidas por la Justicia, on his way to
drop off his partner at work. They locked up SEIU Local 925 member
Lewelyn Dixon, a lab tech at the University of Washington, when she
returned from a family trip. They raided a roofing company where
workers recently went on a safety strike, and arrested 37 people.

In Massachusetts, federal immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk,
a graduate student at Tufts University on a student visa and an SEIU
Local 509 member, on her way to break her Ramadan fast. She had
written an op-ed in the student newspaper in support of Palestine. 

In Baltimore, they arrested sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego
Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice and father of a disabled child,
and sent him to El Salvador’s nightmarish prison—then they called
it an “administrative error” and said they could not get him back.

In New York, they abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia
University graduate and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member, for
protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza. They have also taken many
others whose names aren’t public yet. 

This administration attacked these members of our communities on their
way to work, on their way to worship, on their way home. They locked
them up after speaking their minds. And they did that on purpose.

They have also threatened and intimidated university administrations
in an effort to enlist them in suppressing dissent. Sadly, many have
acquiesced to these demands, making a mockery of the concept of
“academic freedom” and the free exchange of ideas. Students have
been suspended and expelled. Faculty members have been disciplined and
discharged.

Further, the mass firings of federal workers and the attempt to
abolish their collective bargaining rights are attacks also on the
services they provide and the very function of our government. Trump
wants a government that only serves the interests of corporations and
oligarchs. Rather than a government of, by, and for the people, he
would create one by and for the privileged rich. He wants to create a
culture of fear. 

We must not bow to any of it. 

* _WE CALL ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO IMMEDIATELY RELEASE OUR
FELLOW WORKERS AND STOP THIS CAMPAIGN OF TERROR._
* _WE CALL ON ALL EMPLOYERS AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO
REFUSE TO COLLABORATE WITH THESE ATTACKS, AND TO DO EVERYTHING THEY
CAN TO RESIST._
* _WE CALL ON UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIONS TO STAND UP TO THE THREATS
AND COERCION, AND TO REFUSE ANY COOPERATION WITH FEDERAL IMMIGRATION
AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES SEEKING TO UNLAWFULLY PERSECUTE
FOREIGN STUDENTS AND FACULTY AND STUDENT DISSENTERS._
* _WE CALL ON ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS TO FIND THEIR SPINES AND STAND
UP FOR THESE WORKERS._
* _WE CALL ON ALL UNIONS TO ORGANIZE RALLIES, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND
OTHER ACTIONS TO DEMAND THAT THE ADMINISTRATION STOP THESE ATTACKS AND
FREE OUR FELLOW WORKERS. THE LABOR MOVEMENT MUST ACT TO STOP TRUMP'S
DEPORTATION, CENSORSHIP, AND INTIMIDATION MACHINE.WHEN NECESSARY, WE
MUST DISRUPT BUSINESS AS USUAL. _

We must not be passive or silent in the face of this authoritarian
assault on our rights, the Constitution, and democracy itself. An
injury to one is an injury to all!

PLEASE SIGN THIS CALL AND ADD YOUR NAME TO A GROWING LIST STANDING UP
TO TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN OF TERROR.
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CALL TO COURAGE: APPEALING TO OUR US MILITARY AND NATIONAL GUARD
MEMBERS TO NOTCOMPLY WITH UNLAWFUL ORDERS.
 

Organizing civilians, veterans and active duty military to refuse
fascist orders

We are facing an unprecedented attack on our Constitutional Democracy
from a President who took an oath to protect and defend it. President
Trump has repeatedly talked of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807,
which would give him the power to deploy US military on domestic soil.
This is a major step toward martial law and a possible Trump
dictatorship. 

As people committed to collective liberation both at home and abroad,
we must be prepared to counter this plan. We have an advantage on our
side: for Trump’s plan to work, it requires that members of the
armed forces follow illegal orders. Article 90 and Article 92 of the
US Military Code make it clear that soldiers do not need to follow
unlawful orders from a President or Commanding Officer, especially if
those orders violate the US Constitution. Trump’s plan to install a
military dictatorship and stifle civilian resistance is blatantly
unconstitutional, and his faith that soldiers will simply follow
orders is a major crack in his plan. 

Members of the military and National Guard will likely soon be forced
to choose between following orders and upholding their oath to the
Constitution. It is not easy to refuse an unlawful order alone. But we
believe most active duty personnel did not join the military seeking
to enact violence on civilians. People in uniform can organize
collective resistance too- by refusing to turn on protestors or comply
with unconstitutional orders. Now is a time to help support them in
making the courageous choice to protect everyday people and defend
democracy.

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60 YEARS SINCE THE APRIL REVOLUTION IN SANTO DOMINGO  --  VIRTUAL
EVENT  --  MAY 3  (MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECT)

 

 

Sixty years ago, on April 24, 1965, tens of thousands of ordinary
people in Santo Domingo (also known as the Dominican Republic) joined
a popular revolt which sought to restore President Juan Bosch to power
after he was overthrown in a US-backed, right-wing military coup in
September, 1963. Posing a threat to both local elites and
Washington’s geopolitical expansion in the Caribbean, the April
Revolution, and the subsequent anti-imperialist resistance that sprang
up against US military occupation, contributed to the development of
anti-imperialist politics in Santo Domingo and beyond.

Join us on May 3 for a panel to commemorate the 6oth anniversary of
the April Revolution and discuss its political implications, the role
of working-class Afro-Dominicans, women, LGBTQ people, Haitian
internationalist fighters, socialists, writers and artists, as well as
the worldwide international solidarity movement that ensued in the
face of imperialist onslaught.

GÉNESIS LARA is a scholar of Caribbean and Afro-Latinx Studies.
Raised in both the Bronx and Miami, her research focuses on gender,
Blackness, social movements, human rights, and diaspora world making.
She explores the ways Afro-Caribbean women mobilized grief and
mourning as ways to contest state violence in the twentieth century.
Her work poses larger questions of ways Black people have conceived
and fought for human rights. Génesis Lara completed her undergraduate
degree at the University of Florida and her PhD at the University of
California, Davis.

* GINA GOICO is a multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and
self-proclaimed _necia_. Goico navigates their identity and the
spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United
States through their work, which ranges from embroidery to
installations, ink drawings, and performances. Goico’s research
focuses on how the aesthetics, performances, and organizing of
self-identifying black Dominican artists and organizers operate as
strategies that queer state-circulated identity in the Dominican
Republic and its New York City diaspora. Goico was a Van Lier Fellow
and artist in residence with Smack Mellon. They also participated in
the AIM fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and were
artist-in-residence at The Laundromat Project Kelly Street. Goico
holds an AAS in Fine Arts and Illustration from Altos de Chavón and a
BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. They also have an MA
in Arts Politics from NYU and are PhD candidate in Performing and
Media Arts at Cornell University.

* AMAURY RODRIGUEZ has been involved in Haitian-Dominican
solidarity activism for more than two decades. His writing has
appeared in _NACLA_, _El Salto_, _Esendom_ and _Jacobin_. He is
co-editor, with Raj Chetty, of a special issue of _The Black
Scholar_ journal dedicated to Dominican Black Studies.

* MATÍAS BOSCH CARCURO studied Environmental Sciences and Arts at
the Central University of Chile. He has a MA in Social Sciences with a
minor in Politics and a MA in Public Management and Policy from the
University of Chile. He is also a University professor and researcher
on political economy, labor, development models, social rights, social
protection and security systems, as well as state policies targeting
discriminated and overexploited working people.

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