Mystical Politics

  I'm holding the sign that reads "I stand with Israel Palestine Peace" This is the other sign I took to the rally - "Han...

Last night, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American from Gaza who came to the United States in 2005, spoke at Ithaca College about ...

 

From Josh Marshall's newsletter today, The Backchannel: SCOTUS Can Let the President Break the Law, But It Can’t Change the Law Josh M...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-trump.html?smid=url-share Senator Lisa Murkowski, the moderate Alaska Republic...

A short excerpt from a post by Tristan Snell in the Big Picture (Substack). Last year, I did a series called Decoding Project 2025 — and on...

From Jonathan V. Last of the Bulwark , "Inside the Mind of an ICE agent": I know what it is like to lose your job because you won’...

 

Who does this remind you of? King George III, or someone else today? From the Declaration of Independence: He has refused his Assent to Laws...

Peter Baker : “Trump and Vance Berate Zelensky During Testy White House Meeting.” President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Presi...

It seems there is no end to evil.  This morning (between 9:00-10:00 am Israel time, between 2:00-3:00 am east coast US time, Hamas handed ov...

Among the many evil things the Trump administration has already done only in his first month in office (hard to believe!) is their attempt t...

 

The Southside Community Center in Ithaca is hosting a panel discussion on "Solidarity in Struggle: Black and Palestinian Resistance,...

I feel tremendously embittered. The war between Israel and Hamas has gone on for fifteen months since October 7, 2023. The Israeli hostages ...

This year Hanukkah extended over two secular years - into January 1 and 2, 2025. A few years ago the first day of Hanukkah was on Thanksgivi...

 

I'm sad that President Biden will be leaving office in a little more than three weeks, and not just because he will be replaced by Donal...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-thaad-system-deployed-in-israel-participated-in-last-nights-houthi-missile-interception/ In ...

"This is the place of horrors" NBC reports today: Syrian mass graves show the worst abuses 'since the Nazis,' top prosecut...

 

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib  2 hr Let there be no doubt: without a weakened, defeated, tamed & humiliated Hezbollah, the Syrian opposition woul...

From Ben Walzer on Facebook : Astounding to follow the precipitous collapse of the murderous Assad dynasty that has killed half a million Sy...

It has just been announced that Assad has fled Damascus and that rebels have entered the presidential palace. I remember when Aleppo fell in...

Professor Eric Cheyfitz of Cornell University will be teaching a course in spring 2025 with the title of " Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistanc...