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TIDBITS-NOV.27 -READER COMMENTS: THANKFUL FOR FARMWORKERS; MAMDANI
AND WILSON – DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS AND FDR DEMOCRATS; LEGAL ORDERS;
WHAT WE FORGOT ABOUT SOCIALISM; RAISING TAXES ON THE ULTRARICH; NEW
APPROACH TO GETTING RID OF CITIZENS UNITED;  
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_ Reader Comments: Thankful for Farmworkers; Mamdani and Wilson -
Democratic Socialists and FDR Democrats; Legal Orders; What We Forgot
About Socialism; Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich; New Approach to
Getting Rid of Citizens United; The Montana Plan; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Nov. 27, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* WE ARE...THANKFUL FOR FARMORKERS  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZRE:
ARE ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND KATIE WILSON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OR FDR
DEMOCRATS?  (NANCY CUFFMAN; MIKE WILSON; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)RE:
‘WE’VE GOT TO KILL AND KILL AND KILL’  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)LEGAL
ORDERS  --  CARTOON BY DAVID COHENRE: IMMIGRATION RAIDS AT THIS HOME
DEPOT GOT MORE AGGRESSIVE BUT LESS EFFECTIVE. THE LA TENANTS UNION
KNOWS WHY.  (ROBERTA SCHINE)RE: REPUBLICANS WILL NEVER FIND A HEALTH
CARE REPLACEMENT  (DAVE LOTT)RE: IF CONDÉ NAST CAN ILLEGALLY FIRE
ME, NO UNION WORKER IS SAFE  (SALLY STEIN)RE: ORGANIZING FOR A
BREAKOUT  (ROBERT LAITE)RE: TRUMP’S ONE WEIRD TRICK FOR ELIMINATING
BAD NEWS: DELETE IT  (BILL AUDETTE)POOL SPRAY  --  CARTOON AND
COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERSRE: WHAT WE FORGOT ABOUT SOCIALISM: LESSONS
FROM THE RED RIVIERA  (KRISTEN R. GHODSEE)AT LAST, A PEACE PLAN FOR
UKRAINE  --  CARTOON BY JEFF DANZIGERTHE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE  --
 CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDERGREAT AGAIN?  --  CARTOON AND
COMMENTARY BY KEITH KNIGHT.RESOURCES:
* RAISING TAXES ON THE ULTRARICH  (JOSH BIVENS / ECONOMIC POLICY
INSTITUTE) 
* A NEW APPROACH TO GETTING RID OF CITIZENS UNITED  --  ROBERT
REICH 
* THE MONTANA PLAN  (TRANSPARENT ELECTION
INITIATIVE).ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* FIGHTING MAGA & FIGHTING RACISM - LOOKING TOWARDS 2026 - NEW YORK
- DECEMBER 3  (NY LEFT LABOR PROJECT & 1199 SEIU).We Are...Thankful
for Farmorkers  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

 

 

LALO ALCARAZI’M THANKFUL FOR FARMWORKERSNOVEMBER 23,
2022HTTPS://WWW.POCHO.COM/
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RE: ARE ZOHRAN MAMDANI AND KATIE WILSON DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OR FDR
DEMOCRATS? 

whatever - they represent the people and not themselves.

Nancy CuffmanPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Is MAGA the Party of Lincoln or the Party of Rockwell?

Mike WilsonPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Two words, geniuses -- Popular Front.

Eleanor RooseveltPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ‘WE’VE GOT TO KILL AND KILL AND KILL’ 

What is fascism? Here, via xxxxxx
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Dan Kaufman’s review of a book on the murderous Franco regime which
I found useful.

Daniel MillstonePosted on Facebook

 

LEGAL ORDERS  --  CARTOON BY DAVID COHEN 

 

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DAVID COHENNOVEMBER 21, 2025DAVID COHEN FACEBOOK PAGE
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RE: IMMIGRATION RAIDS AT THIS HOME DEPOT GOT MORE AGGRESSIVE BUT LESS
EFFECTIVE. THE LA TENANTS UNION KNOWS WHY.

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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NYC is prepared. 

Roberta SchinePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: REPUBLICANS WILL NEVER FIND A HEALTH CARE REPLACEMENT 

Because the ACA is under attack by the Republicans which would impact
millions we have to defend it. But the Democrats, who are also wedded
to “free markets”, could have created a universal healthcare
system but didn’t.

Dave LottPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: IF CONDÉ NAST CAN ILLEGALLY FIRE ME, NO UNION WORKER IS SAFE

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Great article in The Nation, then rerun on xxxxxx, on Trump’s
smothering NLRB & thus removing the longstanding arbiter since New
Deal of workers’ rights.

Sally SteinPosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ORGANIZING FOR A BREAKOUT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Members in great numbers can be trained and deployed with little
delay. Then mobilized to reach out to the unorganized workers who
surround us on all sides. There is no need for more complicated
“studies” to find them, or expensive conferences to delay the
task. New organizers must be trained basic-training style, and sent to
the workplaces. Older and retired organizer talent must be tapped and
mobilized, offsetting today’s dire experience deficit. It’s time
for salting to be deployed on a massive scale in multiple industries,
joining those salts already in place.

There is no time to wait for perfect targets to be discovered or
developed. The unions who come forward can be pushed to do more. Those
who sit it out will be bypassed. The labor left must mobilize, to
stimulate individual participation as well as to place pressure on the
unions to take this necessary action.

Robert LaitePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TRUMP’S ONE WEIRD TRICK FOR ELIMINATING BAD NEWS: DELETE IT 

If you don’t like the results, don’t measure them any longer - the
Trump effect.

Bill AudettePosted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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POOL SPRAY  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY ROB ROGERS 

 

 

_(FYI: a press pool spray is a brief photo opportunity, like after a
White House meeting.) The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)
visited the Oval Office and Trump defended MBS’ murder and
dismemberment of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi by saying,
“things happen.”_

ROB ROGERSNOVEMBER 21, 2025TINYVIEW
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RE: WHAT WE FORGOT ABOUT SOCIALISM: LESSONS FROM THE RED RIVIERA
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Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems
offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of
everyday life.

Twenty years ago, in November of 2005, Duke University Press published
my first book: "The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on
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 Produced in the wake of socialism's global collapse and the riot of
Western triumphalism that ensued, I deployed both qualitative and
quantitative methods to advance a simple, but unpopular, argument: For
most people in the former Soviet bloc, capitalism sucked.By writing
the "small histories" of men and women laboring in Bulgaria's vibrant
tourism industry in the decade following their country's mad dash to
embrace democracy and free markets, I explored how and why this small
southeastern European country transformed from a relatively
predictable, orderly, egalitarian society into a chaotic, lawless
world of astonishing inequality and injustice. I wrapped my critiques
of the rampant neoliberalism of the "Wild, Wild, East" in thickly
descriptive accounts of the lives of chambermaids, bartenders, tour
guides, cooks, waitresses, and receptionists. I wanted to show, not
tell.Through a close examination of the shattered careers and broken
families of ordinary men and women forced to live through the
cataclysmic decade of the 1990s, I asked readers to empathize with the
sheer scale of the upheavals of banking collapses, hyperinflation,
unemployment, violence, suicide, and the mass emigration of youth.
Capitalism promised prosperity and freedom, but for many it delivered
little more than poverty and despair. The dislocations of the
transition period, as I've documented in my subsequent books, still
reverberate today. One can easily draw a straight line from the trauma
of the 1990s to the rise of right-wing parties and authoritarian
leaders in the region.Full
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Kristen Ghodsee

 

AT LAST, A PEACE PLAN FOR UKRAINE  --  CARTOON BY JEFF DANZIGER 

JEFF DANZIGERNOVEMBER 24, 2025JEFF DANZIGER SUBSTACK
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THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER 

 

 

MICHAEL DE ADDERNOVEMBER 24, 2025THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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GREAT AGAIN?  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY KEITH KNIGHT 

 

Now they’re going after nurses
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We’re only one year in, folks! By year four? They’ll go after
babies. Music. And Providence, R.I. You heard it here first!

KEITH KNIGHTNOVEMBER 25, 2025KEITH KNIGHT
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RAISING TAXES ON THE ULTRARICH 

A necessary first step to restore faith in American democracy and the
public sector

By Josh Bivens

November 17, 2025Economic Policy Institute
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The public has supported raising taxes on the ultrarich and
corporations for years, but policymakers have not responded. Small
increases in taxes on the rich that were instituted during times of
Democratic control of Congress and the White House have been
consistently swamped by larger tax cuts passed during times of
Republican control. This was most recently reflected in the massive
budget reconciliation bill pushed through Congress exclusively by
Republicans and signed by President Trump. This bill extended the
large tax cuts first passed by Trump in 2017 alongside huge new cuts
in public spending. This one-step-forward, two-steps-back dynamic has
led to large shortfalls of federal revenue relative to both existing
and needed public spending.

Raising taxes on the ultrarich and corporations is necessary for both
economic and political reasons. Economically, preserving and expanding
needed social insurance and public investments will require more
revenue. Politically, targeting the ultrarich and corporations as
sources of the first tranche of this needed new revenue can restore
faith in the broader public that policymakers can force the rich and
powerful to make a fair contribution. Once the public has more faith
in the overall fairness of the tax system, future debates about taxes
can happen on much more constructive ground.

Policymakers should adopt the following measures:

* Tax wealth (or the income derived from wealth) at rates closer to
those applied to labor earnings. One way to do this is to impose a
wealth tax on the top 0.1% of wealthy households.
* Restore effective taxation of large wealth dynasties. One way to
do this would be to convert the estate tax to a progressive
inheritance tax.
* Impose a high-income surtax on millionaires.
* Raise the top marginal income tax rate back to pre-2017 levels.
* Close tax loopholes for the ultrarich and corporations.

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A NEW APPROACH TO GETTING RID OF CITIZENS UNITED  --  ROBERT REICH 
Robert Reich
 

...Between 2008 and 2024, reported “independent” expenditures by
outside groups exploded by more than 28-fold — from $144 million to
$4.21 _billion_. Unreported money also skyrocketed, with dark money
groups spending millions influencing the 2024 election.

Most people I talk with assume that the only way to stop corporate and
dark money in American politics is either to wait for the Supreme
Court to undo _Citizens United _(we could wait a _very_ long time) or
amend the U.S. Constitution (this is extraordinarily difficult).

But there’s another way! I want to tell you about it because
there’s a good chance it will work.

It will be on the ballot next November in Montana. Maybe you can get
it on the ballot in your state, too.

Here’s the thing: Individual states — either through their
legislators or their citizens wielding ballot initiatives — have the
authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money
spending, because they determine what _powers_ corporations have.

In American law, corporations are creatures of state laws. For more
than two centuries, the power to define their form, limits, and
privilege has belonged only to the states.

In fact, corporations have no powers at all until a state government
grants them some. In the 1819 Supreme Court case _Trustees of
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, _Chief Justice John Marshall
established that:

“A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and
existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law,
it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation
confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very
existence….The objects for which a corporation is created are
universally such as the government wishes to promote. They are deemed
beneficial to the country; and this benefit constitutes the
consideration, and, in most cases, the sole consideration of the
grant.”

STATES DON’T _HAVE_ TO GRANT CORPORATIONS THE POWER TO SPEND IN
POLITICS. IN FACT, THEY COULD DECIDE _NOT_ TO GIVE CORPORATIONS THAT
POWER.

This isn’t about corporate _rights_, as the Supreme Court determined
in _Citizens United_. It’s about corporate _powers._

When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as
entities _without_ the power to spend in politics, it will no longer
be relevant whether corporations have a _right_ to spend in politics
— because without the _power_ to do so, the right to do so has no
meaning.

Delaware’s corporation code already declines to grant private
foundations the power to spend in elections.

Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power
to spend in elections _also_ denies that power to corporations
chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that
state.

All a state would need to do is enact a law with a provision something
like this:

“EVERY CORPORATION OPERATING UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS STATE HAS ALL
THE CORPORATE POWERS IT HELD PREVIOUSLY, _EXCEPT_ THAT NOTHING IN THIS
STATUTE GRANTS OR RECOGNIZES ANY POWER TO ENGAGE IN ELECTION ACTIVITY
OR BALLOT-ISSUE ACTIVITY.”

Sound farfetched? Not at all.

IIn Montana, local organizers have drafted and submitted a
constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 — the first
step in a movement built to spread nationwide. It would decline to
grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections.

Called the Transparent Election Initiative
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United_ — it would negate the _consequences_ of _Citizens
United_....

Note to governors and state legislators: The _Citizens United_
decision is enormously unpopular. Some 75 percent
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legislators haven’t realized that you have the authority to make
_Citizens United_ irrelevant. My recommendation to you: _Use_ that
authority to rid the nation of _Citizens United_.

Hopefully, Montanans will lead the way.

ROBERT REICHNOVEMBER 24, 2025HOW TO GET RID OF “CITIZENS UNITED”
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THE MONTANA PLAN 

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The Montana Plan, a breakthrough legal strategy, will stop corporate
and dark money cold. It's how Montanans will beat _Citizens United_
and take back our politics. Learn about what it is and how it's headed
toward Montana's 2026 ballot. Montana can do it, and your state can
too!

WHAT IS THE MONTANA PLAN?

The Montana Plan uses the States authority to define what powers
corporations get and stops giving them the power to spend in our
politics. Montana can do it, and your state can too! Learn how!

A POWER MOVE

For more than a century, Montana, like every state, has given all
corporations the power to do everything legal. Turns out, we don't
have to do that.

IT'S UP TO US

States don't have to give corporations the power to spend in politics.
So The Montana Plan simply stops granting that power.

BYPASSES CITIZENS UNITED

_Citizens United_ held that corporations had a right to spend in
politics. But if a corporation doesn't have the power to act, that
right can't be used. That makes _Citizens United_ irrelevant.

HOW MONTANA CAN ACT

Montana's laws include three powerful provisions that give us a clear
path toward keeping corporations out of our politics:

1 POWER TO ALTER OR REVOKE

Montana law explicitly allows the state to change or repeal its
corporate code at any time, for any reason. No corporation has a
permanent claim to any power—or to existence!

2 UNIVERSAL APPLICATION

Changes to Montana's corporation law apply to all corporations—new
and existing alike. Every corporation can be redefined by rewriting
the law behind it.

3 OUT-OF-STATE CORPORATION LIMITS

Montana plays fair: Out-of-state corporations can only exercise the
same powers here that Montana corporations have. If Montana
corporations can't spend in our politics, neither can they.

Together, these provisions mean Montana has full authority to no
longer grant corporations the power to spend in our politics—across
the board, and for good. We'll need your help. The Transparent
Election Initiative is spearheading a ballot initiative that gives
Montana voters the ability to implement The Montana Plan. Volunteer,
engage, and sign the petition when ready!

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 HEART OF BIG SKY COUNTRYPO BOX 1953HELENA, MT 59624

PHONE(406) 430-7337

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