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TIDBITS- MAY 29-READERS COMMENTS: READERS COMMENTS: BIG,
NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BILL; IMAGINE BEING SCARED OF DIVERSITY BUT NOT
DICTATORSHIP. NOW THAT’S SCARY; ACCUSING JEWS OF ANTISEMITISM; JEWS
FOR FOOD AID; HARVARD FREE ONLINE COURSES; MARCH TO GAZA;  
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May 29, 2025
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_ Readers Comments: Big, Not-so-beautiful bill; Imagine Being Scared
of Diversity But Not Dictatorship. Now That's Scary; Accusing Jews of
Antisemitism; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Jews for Food Aid; Harvard Free
Online Courses; March to Gaza; and more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Take Action, Resources, Announcements AND
cartoons - May 29, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* BIG BEAUTIFUL INVOICE TO LOWER WAGE EARNERS  --  CARTOON BY
JONATHAN BROWN
* RE: TEN SNEAKY SLEEPER PROVISIONS  (MORRIS OLDER)
* RE: HOUSE REPUBLICANS JUST TOUCHED THE THIRD RAIL  (JOHN EMERSON)

* MEDICARE CUTS HURT THE POOR AND SICK  --  CARTOON BY JOHN COLE
* BIG, NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BILL  --  CARTOON BY SAGE STOSSEL
* RE: THE TRUMP-SUPPORTING CHRISTIANS ACCUSING JEWS OF ANTISEMITISM
 (BILL ROGERS; WILL U. BUZZOFF; KIPP DAWSON; CHRISTINE BIANCHERIA)
* RE: TRUMP CASTS HIMSELF AS A PROTECTOR OF PERSECUTED WHITE PEOPLE
 (NANCY CUFFMAN)
* IMAGINE BEING SCARED OF DIVERSITY BUT NOT DICTATORSHIP. NOW THAT'S
SCARY  --  MEME
* RE: VOTERS DEMAND A BOLDER AND MORE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
 (BILL AUDETTE; DAN MORGAN)
* BIG - YES; BEAUTIFUL - NO  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: COULD A BOLD ANTI-POVERTY EXPERIMENT FROM THE 1960S INSPIRE A
NEW ERA IN HOUSING JUSTICE?  (DAVID BERGER)
* RE: CAN DONALD TRUMP BUILD THE ‘GOLDEN DOME’ OVER THE US?
 (SAM ANDERSON; PETE CHAPMAN; AARON STEPHENS)
* RE: A HOUSE DIVIDED: WASHINGTON, LANGLEY, SAIGON, AND THE PLOT
AGAINST DIEM  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN REMINDS US HOW CIVIL LIBERTIES AND
COLLECTIVE ACTION GO HAND IN HAND  (ED AVERILL; NORA LAPIN; LAWRENCE
ROCKWOOD; LEONARD J. LEHRMAN; BILL ROGERS)
* RE: MY VOTE  (LITA KURTH)
* WHAT LIVES MATTER?  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JEN SORENSEN

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TAKE ACTION:

* JEWS FOR FOOD AID  --  ADD YOUR SUPPORT TODAY

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RESOURCES:

* HARVARD UNIVERSITY FREE ONLINE COURSES - INCLUDING HIGHLIGHTING
BASIC U.S. GOVERNMENT AND THE CONSTITUTION

 

* (NOT QUITE) TINDER FOR NEW ACTIVISTS: “WHY DON’T WE ALREADY
HAVE THIS?”  (ALL OF US DIRECTORY)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* LABOR POWER & STRATEGY MINI-FELLOWSHIP  --  OCTOBER 20 -24  --
 REGISTER NOW - DEADLINE JULY 13  (LABOR FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE)

 

* BREAKING NEWS  --  WE MARCH TO GAZA – JUNE 15 >>> APPOINTMENT
IN CAIRO ON JUNE 12 !   (GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA)

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BIG BEAUTIFUL INVOICE TO LOWER WAGE EARNERS  --  CARTOON BY JONATHAN
BROWN

Jonathan Brown
May 20, 2025
Daily Freeman
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RE: TEN SNEAKY SLEEPER PROVISIONS
 

The new House budget would kick millions off Medicare, and reduce
child care and food stamps for the poorest of us in order to decrease
taxes on the rich. But wait ---it's much worse than that...

Morris Older
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOUSE REPUBLICANS JUST TOUCHED THE THIRD RAIL
 

What do we conclude from this? Apparently Trump plans to cancel the
next election, and the Republicans in Congress are going along with
him. They can't be thinking politically.

John Emerson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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MEDICARE CUTS HURT THE POOR AND SICK  --  CARTOON BY JOHN COLE

 

John Cole
May 25, 2025
The Scranton Times-Tribune

 

BIG, NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BILL  --  CARTOON BY SAGE STOSSEL

 

 

Sage Stossel
May 23, 2025
Drawing Board
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RE: THE TRUMP-SUPPORTING CHRISTIANS ACCUSING JEWS OF ANTISEMITISM
 

US Ziofascists, in effect, and at the same time virulently antisemitic
like Ziofascism itself and MAGA.

Bill Rogers
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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They're pretending to protect the safety of Jews while turning a blind
eye towards the people who marched through Charlotte with tiki torches
carrying Nazi and Confederate flags chanting "The Jews will not
replace us!"

Will U. Buzzoff
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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“Ultra-Zionist gentiles are transforming America into something out
of Jewish nightmares, pretending they're trying to ensure Jewish
safety. The campaign called Project Esther, and it aims to destroy the
pro-Palestinian movement in the United States.” (xxxxxx
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introduction)

Kipp Dawson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Yes, I am so glad you are posting on this. I am no anti-Semite, but I
have been so, so troubled by the attack on institutions and the
attempt to twist their ideologies under this pretense of
anti-Semitism, something most of these "champions" have never seemed
to care about much in the past. Everything is so twisted, this and,
well, just everything
🙁

Christine Biancheria
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TRUMP CASTS HIMSELF AS A PROTECTOR OF PERSECUTED WHITE PEOPLE
 

Bull shit as always with president Krasnov.

Nancy Cuffman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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IMAGINE BEING SCARED OF DIVERSITY BUT NOT DICTATORSHIP. NOW THAT'S
SCARY  --  MEME

 

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_Meme based on Diversity Illustration by Hope McConnell. Creative
Commons NC-CD._

 

RE: VOTERS DEMAND A BOLDER AND MORE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
 

I agree, Democrats need new leadership starting with Removing Chuck
“Capitulation” Schumer.  We need more than strong letters.

Bill Audette
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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You are still hoping the Democratic Party could somehow become
progressive. It is a totally controlled, very slightly liberal,
organization of the capitalist state. Get Real! An alternative is
necessary.

Dan Morgan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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BIG - YES; BEAUTIFUL - NO  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

 

_Needless to say, the only people who think Trump's bill is
"beautiful" are his rich buddies._

Rob Rogers
May 29, 2025
TinyView
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RE: COULD A BOLD ANTI-POVERTY EXPERIMENT FROM THE 1960S INSPIRE A NEW
ERA IN HOUSING JUSTICE? 
 

Why would anyone think that in 2025 this administration or any other
administration, Democrat or Republican, will launch such a program,
forgetting the fact that it was a bureaucratic flop in the first
place.

David Berger

 

RE: CAN DONALD TRUMP BUILD THE ‘GOLDEN DOME’ OVER THE US?
 

At best, US Citizens will get a very very expensive "Golden Shower"
from the Grifter-in-Chief that they will have to pay for.
 
Sam Anderson

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From the man who thought that you could nuke a hurricane...why worry
about the "enemy" knocking out your electronic infrastructure with
EMPs when your own defense system will do it for them?

Pete Chapman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Everything is fucking "Golden" with this asshole. We don't need it.
Trump and Musk have fucked America up so much no one would invade us
now.

Aaron Stephens
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: A HOUSE DIVIDED: WASHINGTON, LANGLEY, SAIGON, AND THE PLOT AGAINST
DIEM
 

For those of us who remember the 1963 coup in Vietnam, in which
President Diem and his brother were assassinated, the report from the
National Security Archive, via xxxxxx
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makes clearer how deeply involved the CIA and the US Government as a
whole were in the coup. For a fictional account that attributes the
coup to the Kennedy’s killing two weeks later? Try “The Tears of
Autumn” by Charles McCarry.

Daniel Millstone
Post on Facebook

 

RE: ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN REMINDS US HOW CIVIL LIBERTIES AND
COLLECTIVE ACTION GO HAND IN HAND
 

So when will you come out with a Manga movie based on your book?
There's lots of young'ns need to be organized.  Maybe the Green Party
would help.  This is sure counter to Maga, either blue or red.

Ed Averill 

      =====

As a red diaper baby whose relatively prominent parents left the C in
1956, I think it's important to acknowledge that Stalin's crimes and
the Hungarian Revolution revealed the bloody side of the CP and caused
thousands of its most intelligent and committed members to leave and
to devote themselves to progressive causes in other ways.

Nora Lapin

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We lost a great IWW activist to authoritarian communism. We will never
forget the original "rebel girl"

Lawrence Rockwood
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Corliss Lamont (1902-95) led the opposition to Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn's expulsion from the ACLU Board, during the Hitler-Stalin Pact,
and afterwards published  a transcript of the minutes of that fatal
meeting: "The Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn." (She was
rehabilitated, posthumously.) Corliss also commissioned my op. 112,
"Love Song Cycle on Seven Poems by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1939)" for
Soprano & Piano (July 1993).

The cycle was premiered by Helene Williams, with me at the piano, at
Bethpage Library, March 4, 1994, and then again with Composers
Concordance at the Kosciuszko Foundation, March 11, 1994, at North
Merrick Library Feb. 5, 1995 Hicksville Library, Mar. 2, 1997, and
WESPAC June 3, 1995 (in memory of Corliss).

The songs are titled:
1) If I can step within
2) To My Jewish Friend in Pittsburgh
3) The beauty of love
4) I lock my heart against you (partially reprised as 5A & 6A)
5) Won't you unlock
6) To Carlo , South Beach (After 14 Years)
7) On "Equality"

Recorded on Capstone Records #CPS-8647 Helene Williams sings Songs of
Love, it was reissued on the Ravello CD RR7951 titled "Harmonize Your
Spirit With My Calm" - which comes from the first song, posted on You
Tube, Jan. 13, 2017, here
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Thank you for all your good work, and for your attention.

Sincerely,
Leonard J. Lehrman

      =====

"Flynn’s understanding of civil liberties was inseparable from her
politics. She believed that freedom of speech, press, assembly, and
the right to a fair trial by jury are necessary for democracy.
However, she did not advocate for civil liberties as a matter of
individual rights. On the contrary, she recognized that in a
capitalist state such as the United States, where material resources
are unevenly distributed, some individuals, typically members of the
capitalist class, wield greater power than others, typically members
of the working class. The only way to remedy the imbalance of power
between these “haves” and “have nots” is collective action by
the latter. Collective action is impossible without civil liberties.
In other words, without guarantees of free speech, press, assembly,
and a fair trial, workers could not possibly hold union drives,
conduct strikes, organize against exploitation, resist oppression,
advocate for worker-friendly policies, or do any of the things
required to secure basic needs and a share of the good life, what
labor activists poetically refer to as “bread and roses.”"

Bill Rogers
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: MY VOTE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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LOVE this! Shared it with a bunch of people who also loved it.

Lita Kurth

 

WHAT LIVES MATTER?  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY JEN SORENSEN

 

Perhaps slightly by coincidence, this cartoon is timely in that May 25
was the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. On one level, the
strip is just documenting what has happened, but it also works as a
moral fable: embracing bigotry ultimately hurts everyone, even the
bigots.

Jen Sorensen
May 28, 2025
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY FREE ONLINE COURSES - INCLUDING HIGHLIGHTING BASIC
U.S. GOVERNMENT AND THE CONSTITUTION

 

* AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS
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* U.S. PUBLIC POLICY: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND FOREIGN POLICIES
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* CITIZEN POLITICS IN AMERICA: PUBLIC OPINION, ELECTIONS, INTEREST
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Here is their # if you'd like to in addition call and speak to someone
there!!
+1 617-495-1000 

The current catalog of FREE COURSES at Harvard is being EXTENSIVELY
EXPANDED, so you'll want to check their website from time to time to
see which new courses are being added if you find that the current
free Harvard courses being offered don't meet your current academic
needs!!! ❤️❤️❤️

 

(NOT QUITE) TINDER FOR NEW ACTIVISTS: “WHY DON’T WE ALREADY HAVE
THIS?”  (ALL OF US DIRECTORY)
 

By All of US Directory Conveners

May 20, 2025
Z Network
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Students at Trafford Middle School took advantage of a beautiful day
in early November to write positive messages on the sidewalk outside
of the school.  (CC image via Penn-Trafford School District  //
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PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR ORGANIZATIONS

People are outraged by the Trump/Musk agenda. They are speaking up at
town hall meetings and getting dragged out by private security. They
are attending protests to protect national parks, defend federal
employees, support immigrants and trans people, takedown Tesla, and
hold the U.S. accountable for genocide in Palestine. Even in deep red
counties, people are turning out in droves to hear Bernie Sanders and
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deliver an anti-oligarchy, pro-populist
message. Many people are looking for a way to do something. They have
heard that we the people — all of us — may be the last functioning
guardrail against fascism.

But how do they take the next step? How do they go beyond showing up
for a protest? What can they do to join with others and engage in the
organizing and mutual aid that is necessary right now? How do they
find a group, organization, or project to assist? 

Let’s say you are one of these people. In the past, you may have
volunteered at your place of worship or pitched in at a neighborhood
clean-up. But you have never really engaged with social change work,
and you are ready to do that now. Maybe you Google it. The search
engine takes a millisecond to ponder your request and then, using
who-knows-what algorithms, throws up a list of internet rabbit
holes.  

Maybe you keep digging and you find an organization near you that
looks effective, but when you click on “Get Involved,” the options
are limited. They include sending a letter to your congressperson,
donating, and getting on the email list. These are not bad options,
but you want to actually sit down with other people, engage with the
work, maybe stick around long enough to build relationships, help
develop strategy, and go through iterations of struggles — building
on the lessons you learn. What do you do? Where do you turn that
doesn’t involve AI-generated advice, auto-reply emails, no real
systems for onboarding new people, and other dead ends?

We have an answer to this question: It’s called the All of US
Directory [[link removed]]. 

The purpose of the site is to provide an easy-to-use and effective
means for you to find organizations or projects that you want to
contribute to. With this new online resource you can now specify your
location, the issue you are interested in working on, and/or the way
you want to engage, and the site will give you a list of relevant
organizations.

ORGANIZATIONS ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE — FIND YOUR MATCH

Not only that – and this is key! – these organizations have
identified themselves as ready and willing to accept and welcome new
volunteers. They’re not just looking for your email address or
donation. They want _you_. 

It’s not quite Tinder for new activists, but it’s close. You have
to do more than “swipe right” if you see an organization that
appeals to you. But after filtering for location, issue, and type of
engagement, you should be pretty close to a good match for your
activist energies! 

All of US [[link removed]] is poised to play
matchmaker for these two groups – newly mobilized and seasoned
activists on the one side and, on the other side, the organizations
that could provide a constructive outlet for their energies. Many
hundreds and thousands of matches will contribute to a critical
guardrail against Trumpism. 

Everyone we talk to about this project exclaims, “Why don’t we
already have something like this?” Well, now we do. 

LISTING YOUR GROUP

Are you part of an organization/group that is not yet listed? Please
go here – [link removed] – and fill
out a simple form that will trigger us to approve your entry. You’ll
then have your own unique page in the Directory, plus a password so
you can log back in at any time and make edits to your page.

MOVING FORWARD

The database will continue to grow with more and more diverse
organizations that will provide the match to those seeking an outlet
for their skills and passions. So please… Share this article! Post
it to your social media and other outlets where people looking for
ways to get more involved will find out about this directory. Spread
the word to all the groups in the U.S. that make up big-tent,
non-sectarian efforts to stop Trumpism and build something better. We
need all of them, and they need all of us.

_By the All of US Conveners [[link removed]]:
Arash Kolahi, Alexandria Shaner, Bill Fletcher Jr., Cynthia Peters,
Evan Henshaw-Plath, Frances Kunreuther, Jeremy Brecher, Leslie Cagan,
& Michael Albert_

_Originally co-published by ZNetwork.org
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Hub [[link removed]]._

All of US Directory Conveners
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All of US is a searchable directory designed to help you get involved
in progressive, people-powered efforts throughout the U.S. confronting
the current attacks on our democracy, people's rights, and needed
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LABOR POWER & STRATEGY MINI-FELLOWSHIP  --  OCTOBER 20 -24  --
 REGISTER NOW - DEADLINE JULY 13  (LABOR FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE)

 

 

The Labor Power & Strategy mini-fellowship is designed for labor
leaders and organizers, including worker centers, looking to build
power and capacity now in service of long-term strategy. Using the
call for a May 1, 2028 national strike, and the examples of aligning
contracts for power in Minneapolis and Connecticut, we will examine
what it takes to build alignment between unions and social movement
organizations around shared demands, fighting common targets, and
building collective power. The course will use the textbook _Practical
Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World_ to study six sources
of power that employers and ruling elites use to maintain the status
quo, and that workers and unions can use to fight for justice. We will
study seven lineages of social change strategies to see what other
traditions might contribute to labor movement strategy. We will
introduce a wide variety of tools to develop strategy from many
disciplines, traditions and sectors inside and outside social
change. 

Program Details

*
ACADEMIC COURSEWORK: All participants will  take the course “Power
and Strategy,” taught by faculty at the School of Labor and Urban
Studies (SLU) at CUNY. The course is focused on strategy fundamentals
and is based on the book _Practical Radicals_ by Deepak Bhargava and
Stephanie Luce.   

*
IMMERSIVE STRATEGY RETREAT: Participants are expected to attend one
week-long residential strategy retreat for in-person learning. The
retreat will be held (location TBA) on the following dates:

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OCTOBER 20, 2025 - OCTOBER 24, 2025

*
STRATEGY COACHING AND MENTORSHIP: Each participant or team will be
provided with an experienced Labor and campaign strategy coach with
whom they will meet for five to seven hour long coaching sessions
after the completing of the course.  

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BREAKING NEWS  --  WE MARCH TO GAZA – JUNE 15 >>> APPOINTMENT IN
CAIRO ON JUNE 12 !   (GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA)

 

Walking together, opening roads to life for Gaza.

Global March To Gaza

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We do not represent any political party, ideology, or religion.
We represent the people, in all their diversity and humanism.
Our only guiding principles are justice, human dignity, and peace.

Global March To Gaza
Supported by NGOs Around the World

IN THE UNITED STATES, SUPPORTED SO FAR BY:

* Doctors Against Genocide
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* Help Fund Gaza
* LEGACY-The Landscape Connection
* Neturei Karta International
* Palestinian Youth movement
* Teachers against genocide
* Codepink Women for Peace

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