Good Morning! We’re in for some more perfect weather today. High 60s, partly cloudy. Can’t get outside today to enjoy it? That’s okay. It’s gonna be like this for the next 10 days at least. Just don’t call it Spring out loud, or it’ll get spooked and go back into hiding.
Alright, let’s do the news.
The Big Beautiful Bill: Trump may have signed a record number of executive orders in his first 100 days, but this legislative session has been exceptionally unproductive. So yesterday, when Trump showed up on Capitol Hill, he was ready to force some action, saying that failure to pass his bill “would be the ultimate betrayal.” Despite some major inter-party concerns about healthcare cuts, House Republicans fell in line. They started their debate before midnight, had a slumber party, and by dawn, they passed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, 215-214. This bill extends $4.5 trillion in Trump 1.0-era tax breaks, and makes good on his campaign commitment to get rid of taxes on tips. It also would cost 8.6 million people their healthcare coverage, and push 3 million people off of SNAP benefits. And of course, it adds $200 million in spending on deportation and border security. Next up: the Senate, who plan to have their version ready by the Fourth of July.
ICE-ing Our Courtrooms: Does anyone still think Trump gives a rats ass about decency? This one will help wipe that glimmer of hope from your mind. ICE agents are lurking in the halls of Seattle’s immigration courts like vultures, waiting to see if judges dismiss people’s deportation cases. If they don’t immediately object or appeal, ICE agents swoop in. “What that means is that they can be on a plane out of here in three hours,” Eilish Villa Malone, one of a handful of immigration attorneys awaiting their clients’ cases, told KUOW. Attorneys are worried that this could scare people out of showing up for their court hearings, but they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Not showing up is a fast track to deportation as well.
Israeli Embassy Staff Members Killed: Last night, while walking out of an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC, two staff members of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed. According to police, the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested. Both Trump and Netanyahu called the attack, which appeared to be a response to Israel’s war in Gaza, “antisemitic.”
Shipwrecked: One man was rescued and three others are presumed dead after a 26-foot fishing boat sank off the coast of Everett yesterday. The weather was extremely mild, so it’s not clear what caused the boat to sink.
Trump’s Having a Bad Week in Court: This morning, a federal judge blocked Trump’s attempt at shutting down the Department of Education through mass layoffs, demanding that he immediately rehire them while the case moves through the courts. And yesterday, a different federal judge determined that the Trump admin violated a court order when they sent eight migrants (who are largely not from South Sudan) to South Sudan. A DHS spokesperson complained about “activists judges” and a White House spokesperson said they “do not apologize for acting to protect the American people.” Boo hoo. Now the question is, will Trump act on the orders of the judicial branch? He hasn’t been great at it so far.
Pour One Out for the University Book Store: Next month, Barnes & Noble will take over virtually all of the book selling in the building, but don’t fear—University Books isn’t completely disappearing. Textbook sales will remain under the University Book Store, and Boon Boona Coffee will still run the cafe. The indie bookseller has been around since 1900, which means it existed before ballpoint pens, motion pictures, and bras.
We have a new Air Force One, and it’s giving everyone the ick. The Pentagon confirmed that they accepted the $400 million gift from Qatar, and “work to ensure proper security measures” to make it safe for use by the president. In case there was any question about what kind of message this “gift” is sending the international community, when the president of South Africa visited the Oval yesterday, he listened to a list of Trump’s accusations about “white genocide” in South Africa, and then said, “I’m sorry we don’t have a plane to give you.” “Me too,” Trump replied.
Speaking of Planes: While trying to land at a small regional airport, a Cessna 550 crashed into a residential San Diego neighborhood this morning, killing everyone on board and setting several homes on fire. The people who live in the neighborhood were evacuated quickly and there were no serious injuries.
The IRS Is a Snitch: On Tuesday, ICE and Border Patrol carried out their second workplace raid in Washington, arresting 17 people at a Kent beverage manufacturing company. But this time, they brought their friend, the IRS, along. In February, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “WTF is Habeas Corpus” Noem told the treasury secretary that she wanted to deputize IRS criminal investigators to help uncover immigration violations, and it appears she’s done it. “I haven’t seen anything like this,” Seattle immigration attorney Adam Boyd told the Seattle Times.
The DOJ Plans to Cyberbully Trump’s Enemies: Faced with the inconvenience that many of Trump’s enemies have done nothing that warrants federal prosecution, Ed Martin, the DOJ’s “weaponization czar” says that if he can’t charge them with anything, he’ll just “name them, and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed.” As the NYTimes wrote, “naming and shaming is antithetical to its mission of pursuing justice impartially.” But it’s perfectly aligned with our cyberbully-in-chief.
You Like Rocks? If you’re looking for something to do tonight, EverOut’s Lindsay Costello recommends that you tap into your inner geologist and head over to Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park for a talk with Alison Jean Cole, author of A Rockhound’s Guide to Oregon & Washington. You might find out that you, too, are a rockhound.
Yesterday, my email was graced with the actual worst thing I’ve ever seen, and now I have to share it with you. “We are working with a faith-based tech firm,” the PR email read, “which is using AI to bring Bible stories to life.” And then they shared a YouTube link to “Noah’s Ark, But It’s a Country Song Music Video.” I watched it, and now it’s my Ring video. So here you go.
“Last night, while walking out of an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC, two staff members of the Israeli embassy were shot and killed. According to police, the suspect yelled, ‘Free, free Palestine’ after he was arrested.”
We keep being told that the pro-Palestinian movement is not pro-terrorism, is not anti-semitic. 😃 And then the movement activists keep proving that yes, yes it is. 😆
@1: Don’t worry, I’m sure the Stranger’s supportive commenters will be along soon, to lecture us in no uncertain terms that yelling “genocide!!” at Israel thrice-daily for a year and a half had absolutely nothing to do with murders of Israeli diplomats.
Just because a superset can’t control a provocateur subset, doesn’t mean that the superset has lost its credibility or purpose.
Of course, the chistyams need AI to make a music video. They have no real human talent that can generate the crap they want to publish. Stupid fucking fairy tales. Thanks for that one Hannah, didn’t help my day.
It was nice watching Ramaphosa squirm uncomfortably when he got played videos of the 4th largest party in South Africa chanting “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer”. Trump should’ve had him arrested right in the Oval Office and dragged off to the Hague. And Netanyahu next!
@1:
Fuck off. The Cheetos-skinned fucktard currently leaving greasy hamberder-stains all over the White House whom you blindly worship recently pardoned or commuted the sentences of nearly 1,600 indicted and convicted traitors and insurrectionists, including members of recognized domestic terrorist organizations, all hell-bent on overthrowing our democratically-elected government. You and your bottom-dwelling ilk have absolutely no moral high-ground to be lecturing anyone about “pro-terrorism”.
If it’s blocked for anyone else, I think I found it here :
https://youtu.be/vmqDRRYup2k?si=SXOr78GSLUgibbsF
My sensibilities cannot decide between laughing until I puke, or puking until I laugh!
The stegosaurus loping up the ramp into the ark with humans and panthers just…
chef’s kiss
AI bringing Bible stories to life:
https://youtu.be/5giyWVfEGn8?
The funniest part of that video was the fact there were literally no trees of any kind, gopherwood or otherwise, anywhere in the vicinity of where a handful of clearly not-Semitic white dudes were building a ginormous boat; not even stumps were visible. I guess Yahweh, among his other reputed powers, had the foresight to make millions of board feet of freshly cut timber suddenly appear in the middle of nowhere.
The second funniest moments were of course the pair of stegosauruses lumbering up the ramp, and later the frolicking Triceratops.
Third funniest were the shots of the ark, clearly under some form of mechanical power, plowing forward through the waves, with lit lanterns fore and aft – like, were they expecting to run into anyone else out there in another big boat?
@9 I’m going to have to assume that pair of Stegs were gay, what with there not being any around post-Ark.
Now I want to see Kirk Cameron do a movie starring Kat and Bobbi Stegg, who tried to tell Noah they were gay, but Noah refused to accept it and thought he could turn ’em around by bunking them next to the rabbits.
The best part of the ICE article in the seattle times:
“Hardly anyone walked into the facility, save for a couple of Eagle Beverage employees and a small handful of people carrying résumés. One man brought his in a manila envelope tucked into his jacket. He said he was there because he had heard about the raid.”
I thought that the jobs immigrants do weren’t popular with americans? I guess that is just another mainstream media lie.
@1 — We keep being told that the Netanyahu is not pro-terrorism, is not anti-Semitic and then
Netanyahu keeps proving that yes, yes it is. The Palestinians are of course Semitic, so murdering tens of thousands of them is both anti-Semitic and an act of terrorism. Oh, and don’t forget that Netanyahu also supported Hamas (as a way to undermine the Palestinian authority). In other words Bibi doesn’t mind terrorism as long as can get more settlements in illegally held territory.
But yeah, some lunatic attacking diplomats somehow excuses all of that.
Jesus Fucked Up Chri$t! How much longer before WWIII and all guns are pointed at Mu$k and his Mein Trumpf ad nauseum already?
Tensorna update: as usual, Tense & Ornery is literally stumping for Trump when it comes to the Zionist state.
“These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!” – DJ Trump on social media
@6, @12: lol, what? Who do you imagine you’re talking to? 😂 I’ve never said a word in defense of either the January 6 insurrectionists or Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. 🤣 You’re fighting against the thumpus who exists in your imagination, but that guy’s not real, man! 🤣🤣🤣
You know who you should be fighting against that actually is real? A pro-Palestinian movement whose goals and methods are pro-terrorism and anti-semitic. Opposing these people is simply a matter of decency. 😘
Palestinian activists using the exact same tactics that have proven remarkably ineffective over the last 78 years.
Reminds me of a Doonsebury that ran back in the 1980s. Phred, the former Viet Cong fighter, had been named Vietnam’s UN Ambassador. He was sent to a tailor to get fitted for a suit, and complained that instead of a suit he should do like Arafat and wear the indigenous clothes of his country. The tailor responded, “Arafat’s a fool, if he wore a nice suit he’d have a country by now.”
In 1947 the Proposed Arab State was 11,592 square km. This was rejected and instead the Arab Nations went to war with Israel.
Now after 78 years of terrorism, hostage, taking and brutality the Palestinians have been reduced to the 365 square km of the Gaza strip.
And yet they never learn and just continue the same failed tactics and strategies.
Arafat was a fool, and his painting of the Palestinians as victims hasn’t helped the Palestinian people one bit.
Capital Jewish Museum in DC – not the Israeli embassy but a museum dedicated to Jewish life in DC. Targeting a Jewish space is what makes the attack antisemitic (the fact he happened to kill two Israeli embassy staff versus two random DC Jews is beside the point).
I don’t care for the current Israeli government (even back in the day when their PM was a regular on PBS, Bibi has been a horrible human being) but to pretend a fringe part of the anti war movement isn’t overtly antisemitic is beyond credulity.
@14: “…is literally stumping for Trump when it comes to the Zionist state.”
WTF does that even mean? If you have a problem with what Trump wrote, at least in the part you quoted, then please tell us what it was. Should he have been in favor of anti-Semitism? In favor of killing Israeli diplomats? Wrote about how hatred should have a large and central place in American life? What do you expect any American politician to say when foreign guests die violently in our nation’s capital? “Sorry, it’s a jungle in here?”
(Look, we know you’re sick of hearing about how someone in Seattle — someone you’d likely supported –stumped for Trump. But misplacing your anger onto the messenger won’t help, and thirsting for payback in the form of throwing that accusation at someone else won’t help either. You might want to spend more time inquiring how that person had fooled you so easily in the first place.)
People always say “Violence is not the answer”, yet with religion – any Abrahamic religion, at least – it seems like it’s always the answer.
That’s why I am a devout surprismeist.
@16: eh, you missed about five thousand square kilometers of West Bank, but your basic premise is correct. The harder the Arabs have fought Israel, the more land they have lost. 😛 The savvier Arabs have figured it out and made peace, but there are still a lot of dumbasses who havent! And plenty of progressives here in the West to cheer them on, ha ha ha!
Oh dear, poor Tense & Ornery. Look back over your several thousand posts to this forum – you have accused political progressives of “stumping for Trump” scads and scads of times. Why don’t YOU explain what it means? It was not even a month ago that you claimed K. Sawant was “literally fist-bumping stumping for Trump.”
Alternatively, you could face reality: you share many positions with DJT, whereas political progressives share none. Therefore your claims that political progressives are stumping for Trump are just pure projection. That’s why I called you out on it.
Stranger 1: “You support terrorists!”
Stranger 2: “You support genocide!”
Stranger 1: “You are a monster!”
Stranger 2: “No, YOU are a monster!”
And scene.
We need kristorian’s take on the matter.
WTF video did I just watch?
The Stranger always brings the very best in songs in their Slog. This one is absolutely bonkers.
As for the rest of the news, I am so pissed about (everything) ICE in immigration court, I can’t handle it. Surely some judge somewhere can kick those monsters out of the courthouse.
Between beach goers being harrassed by cops while sunbathing, to what is happening in Gaza et all, the only joy I have in life this week is getting fabric at 90% off while Joann’s Fabrics stores close across WA. Party while the buildings burn.
Sigh.
“Does anyone still think Trump gives a rats ass about decency?” I’m afraid I do, but also think his moral code is abhorrent.
@11 “The best part […] a small handful of people carrying résumés.” Are you trying to convince us you’re stupid enough to believe any of them were serious applicants? Because that’s SO not obviously a shitty stunt by disciples of a dear leader whose main accomplishments seem to be the same. I mean, the article also pointed out that for all the fear, bluster, illegal/unconstitutional actions and promises, Trump actually lags behind Biden for deportations.
@21: ‘…political progressives of “stumping for Trump” scads and scads of times. Why don’t YOU explain what it means?’
Um, it means advocating for actions which would enable Trump to win the election. Such as:
‘Sawant, a leftist force on the City Council for a decade, admitted the obvious — that Stein has no chance to win.
‘Harris, Sawant said, was slipping in the polls, but “This race is still too close to call. We should not get complacent.”
‘At a rally in Michigan last week, Sawant called the state “ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her.”’
(https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/at-seattle-rally-sawant-says-harris-deserves-to-lose-1000-times/)
“Alternatively, you could face reality: you share many positions with DJT, whereas political progressives share none.”
So, you do NOT agree with this statement: “These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!” Is that correct? Do you believe hatred has a place in the USA? Or do you agree with Trump, that it does not? Please do tell.
@26: Libretto68 is opposed to antisemitism, it’s just that he thinks the source of antisemitism is Jews! 😂🤣😂🤣
26: Your explanation adds no new information – and, if what you claim is true, then logically, yes, you are stumping for Trump by supporting his positions. Which you do, all the time.
I think I’ve made it clear from previous posts that I am far too educated about these issues to equate Zionism or any other right-wing nationalist hoo-hah with Judaism or any other historical religion. It’s up to little you to make a case as to whether you believe “hatred has a place in the USA” – currently you’re the one who’s in complete agreement with a brazen white nationalist.
STUMPING FOR TRUMP! STUMPING FOR TRUMP! TENSORNA IS STUMPING FOR TRUMP! 😂😂😂
27: The Zionist state and its propensity for genocide certainly isn’t helping solve the problem of anti-semitism worldwide, yes. I’m glad you made that point – although, like all of your other points, you made it unwittingly.
@28: Well, the “position” that we should not have foreign guests murdered on the street of our capital city would seem to be a tough one to oppose, but hey, you might just get there if you continue down your current path.
Again, trying to deny the obvious, or throw the accusation back, won’t actually help you. You might want to start with why Sawant advocated for Harris’ defeat, even knowing full well Harris’ defeat would mean a Trump victory, and move on from where that takes you.
In making the story of the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim about Trumps anti-Semitism assertion, Hannah might have accidentally discovered the first accurate Trump utterance of the last 100 days.
Every time Israel claims to have killed a Palestinian government official, even if they did so by blowing up a children’s hospital, you two are here to explain at length why that’s ok actually. According to you government targets are always legitimate wherever they are. This guy killed two Israeli government officials and didn’t even have to blow up any women or children to do it. So why don’t you support his actions?
@29: Like other forms of bigotry, the problem of anti-Jewish prejudice will not be resolved by its targets. Antisemitism will not be expunged by the 0.2 percent of the world that is Jewish but by the 99.8 percent that is not. Sorry bruh but you’re racist! 😂🤣😂🤣
@32: Killing Hamas fighters in combat fine, killing diplomats in Washington DC not fine, this point maybe is not obvious to you? 😂😂😂
Schrödinger’s Sawant, simultaneously a feckless blowhard on the Seattle City Council who accomplished nothing but ceremonial symbolic resolutions, but is somehow also singlehandedly responsible for stunting the Harris campaign by stumping for Trump because The Stranger didn’t condemn her.
What’s even more insane about this shooting is where it happened, right outside the Judiciary Square Red Line Metro stop where there are a gazillion cop cars parked and security for days staffed at all hours, and somehow given the global tension surrounding this event some random pacing loiterer was able to walk up and unload a handgun at passersby. It’s an egregious security failure, like when everyone is watching a kid so nobody is when they chase a ball into the road. Good gravy. May the poor couple rest in peace and share their love together in the great beyond.
@34 right but according to you are “in combat” if a Palestinian officer was there. By that logic did the presence of Israeli officials not make the middle of DC “in combat?” Would the Palestinians not have been fully justified even in dropping a 2000 pound bomb on DC to kill those Israeli officials, who were clearly using DC residents as human shields?
@37: ha ha, sorry but no. First, it’s not the “presence of a Palestinian officer” that creates the condition of combat, it’s whether that Palestinian (officer or otherwise) is engaged in a military activity. An embassy being used for diplomatic purposes is not a military target. An embassy (or any other building) being used for military purposes is a military target. A Jewish museum in a third-party country being visited for diplomatic purposes is not a military target. An Israeli embassy staffer engaged in public diplomacy with a civilian crowd in a third-party country is not a military target.
Second, a would-be combatant must also himself follow the law of armed conflict, including wearing a uniform or other form of visible military identification, obeying a chain of command answerable for the conduct of its subordinates, and carrying arms openly. No dressing up as a college student or whatever to sneak up on a target that you selected for assassination on your own private initiative. The name for that is terrorism, not combat! 😁
One thing I’ve learned since joining here is that progressives really, really struggle to recognize terrorism, so I guess I’m not surprised that you are struggling to recognize it here. 😝 Consider this post the equivalent of me rolling up a newspaper and whacking you over the head with it, repeating “This time it’s terrorism! This time it’s terrorism!” until you finally learn to recognize it yourself. 😂🤣😂🤣
@32: Yeah, it’s almost like there’s some kind of noticeable, definable difference between a war zone and a not-war zone, like they’re somehow not exactly quite the same thing, but yet the distinction still remains beyond your cognitive grasp…
@39: One of the ideological pillars of progressivism is the sorting of individuals into in-groups and out-groups on the basis of immutable characteristics such as race, national origin, gender, etc. To a progressive, more important than the conduct of an individual is his or her various memberships within the universe of in-groups and out-groups.
In the DC shooting episode, a non-progressive is able to look at the conduct of the shooter, the facts of the shooting, and say, “Yep that’s terrorism all right.”
A progressive, on the other hand, has to assess the shooter’s in-group or out-group status as well as that of his victims. This shooter is a card-carrying member of several in-groups, while his victims are very out-groupy. Hence our progressive friends’ sudden perplexity over whether to call this shooting an act of terrorism. In their hearts, they do not believe that it is. 😉
No no you guys are confused, I absolutely recognize this is terrorism. I just also recognize blowing up children’s hospitals is terrorism, and you don’t; that’s the point of disagreement. Although thumpus you stumbled on the source of the problem via pure projection: Israelis are your “in-group.”
@41: “Israelis are your in-group.”
ha ha, not by a long shot, but the war between Israel and Hamas has been an impeccable tool for exposing the rot at the heart of progressivism. Amazing how all that progressive “anti-racism” melted away the instant it was Jews! 😝 In its place, good old-fashioned antisemitism, turns it had been lurking there all along! 🤣
You’re still getting mixed up about terrorism. The hospitals get bombed because Hamas turns them into military facilities. That’s on Hamas, though you’ll have to look past your progressivism to see it. Here’s another newspaper whack for you! 😂
@41 — wormmy’s still ironing
out his sicsokbott’s bugs;
its Innate projections’re
rooted rather Deeply
@43: Someone said “progressive anti-semitism” and Kristofarian popped out like a rabbit from a hat! 🤣🤣🤣
@40. I’m not sure what’s more preposterous, your hilariously twisted appropriation of progressivism or your ham-fisted sophistry on groupthink. I do commend your trolling as too absurd to be taken seriously, while unfortunately some of the other contemptible wretches that post here continue to consume their own droppings and pig vomit ad infinitum with unyielding sincerity.
speaking
of massaging
the facts to fit
your insidious
& evil narrative:
“If you believe
that all the violence
and destruction in Gaza
is the fault of Hamas, then
by your own logic you must
also accept that the coming
wave of antisemitism & violent
extremism which is going to ensue
from the incineration of Gaza will
exclusively be the fault of Israel.”
–Caitlin Johnstone
May 22, 2025
Wrassle
that one
into submis-
sion wormmy and
your wee sidekik too
The Western Media Brought Gaza To This Point
Benjamin Netanyahu
is now explicitly saying
that the complete ethnic cleansing
of Gaza is a precondition to ending the
slaughter in the besieged Palestinian territory.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-western-media-brought-gaza-to
“but it’s NOT
Genocide!!!”
No.
thank
God, eh?
YOUR
Tax Dollars:
IN YOUR NAME
here’s another one for our
HeritageAIPAC/IOF
members to Jusitfy:
Israel Is A Uniquely Evil Society
A former Knesset member
named Moshe Feiglin went on
Israeli television on Tuesday and
proclaimed that “every child, every
baby in Gaza is an enemy” of Israel, and
that “not a single Gazan child will be left there”.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-a-uniquely-evil-society
even if they
hafta blow
‘em to bits
BUT IS IT
G E N O C I D E!!???
ah.
You
Win.
@44
your Projections’re
better when you
get ’em Correct:
“like a Rat out of
an Aqueduct.’
mind your
Vermin.
@46: ha ha ha, it’s been quite a parade today of progressives trying to blame antisemitism on Jews! Nice one, Kristo! 😉
@49:
Israel Is A Uniquely Evil Society
A former Knesset member
named Moshe Feiglin went on
Israeli television on Tuesday and
proclaimed that “every child, every
baby in Gaza is an enemy” of Israel, and
that “not a single Gazan child will be left there”.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-a-uniquely-evil-society
even if they
hafta blow
‘em to bits
lol!
Lol!
LOL!
Enjoying
the Genocide,
are we, thumpfuck?
🤣🤣🤣
@50: Somebody in a non-policy-making position wants to make a bad policy? oh my god call the International Court of Justice, this is an emergency! 😂
@50 if they say it out loud, then it qualifies as genocide, right? And now they are shouting it from the Knesset. Or do they need it signed and notarized?
‘Columbia University violated federal civil-rights law by ignoring the harassment of Jewish students by classmates, a government investigation found.
‘The school acted with “deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students” since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Department of Health and Human Services’ civil-rights office said Thursday.
‘The office said the university didn’t investigate or punish vandalism including repeated drawing of swastikas; didn’t enforce rules for protests; didn’t abide by its own policies when handling Jewish students’ complaints; and didn’t establish ways to combat antisemitism until last summer.’
(https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-investigation-civil-rights-violate-0cc7b7d7?mod=hp_lead_pos4)
Obviously, this is the fault of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, along with persons who tiresomely persist in knowing what the words, “genocide,” and “terrorism,” actually mean. The only proper response demands we smash more buildings at the UW. River! Sea! etc.
@53: “no those were antizionist swastikas, not antisemitic swastikas! We would never condone antisemitism!” 🤣🤣🤣
@53 oh wow the wing of the Trump administration run by a guy with a brain worm “found” that a university Trump has been antagonizing for months did a bad thing? No reason to doubt that conclusion!
@53, @54, @infinitum & @vomitas
@Wormtongue+sicsokbott
aka Heritage Foundation
AIPAC & IO(d)F:
“River! Sea! etc.”
“every child, every baby
in Gaza is an enemy” of Israel, and
“not a single Gazan child will be left there!”
“WHY are there
NO Schools in
GD Palestine?”
“A. IT’S NOT
GENOCIDE!”
and
“never Mind all that!
Pedanticy is MORE
IMPORTANT than
MASS MURDER!”
What would Emily
Fucking POST (&
Jesus!) fucking
Do? seriously!
lol! lol! lol! lol
😘😏😥😂
😉😉😉
🤣🤣
🤣.
Ah! eyou guys
crack me
UP!
@55: I think you meant to say “CIA false flag Mossad.” Isn’t that usually the progressive defense? 😉
@55: The WSJ article continues:
“The civil-rights office said its findings were based on witness interviews, media reports of antisemitic incidents and reports from the school’s own antisemitism task force.”
Yeah, it’s all a secret conspiracy run by RFK, Jr.
@57
see: Left Wing Terrorism
DWARFED BY REICH
50-1, Experts Say
https://www.msm.lookit/up/yourbutt/yourmama//Blewitfailfartfail
@48 If Israel is a uniquely evil what does that make Palestinians?
tensorna 🤝 Trump
exploiting bad faith
antisemitism claims
What does Horseshoe Theory have to say about that?
@35: No, I never implied CM Sawant was harmless. She did a huge amount of damage to Seattle, especially considering the limited time and power she had. Blaming Amazon for a homeless crisis it had no part in creating, assaulting the integrity of the Pike Place Market’s historical district — in an attempt to stop housing from getting built during a housing-affordability crisis! — and threatening a political rival’s family in their own home; all harmed the civic and civil discourse in Seattle. Like her counterpart Trump at the national level, she built no coalitions, relying instead on cartoonishly excessive rhetoric, and destructive exploitations of power, to create polarizingly divisive fractures amongst and within communities, which she then tried to harness for her own political gain.
@60
equating Palestinians
w/Hamas is yet Another
propagandistic Reich-Wing
Trope, best left to the Pages of
Derr Stormer and FOX and Fiends
but
Par for
the Course
for tS’s FAR Right
Commentatiatators
FORE!
@62
“Blaming
Amazon for a
homeless crisis it
had no part in creating…”
so Sayeth the
Anti-Progressive
Denier* of the Reach &
Scale of Vulture Capitalists
Overnite Rentals and the Utter
FAILURE of Housing-as-Commodity
to
Rectify
our Disastrous
Shortage of Affordable
Housing, an Human Right in
the Developed, Civilized World.
Pay that
Wormtongue
No nevermind.
*and hypocritical and
hypercritical Champion of
The Civil Discourse Mandate
@63 you equate all Jews with Israel so seems only right however removing Hamas from the equation do you think Palestinians would accept Israel has a right to exist, give equal rights to women and minorities, allow for free speech and the practice of other religions and live in peace with their neighbors?
@61: Is this part of the “bad faith antisemitism claims” you’re on about?
‘The anti-Israel demonstrations around Columbia University turned threatening and antisemitic Saturday night, as they have repeatedly across the country. On social media, you can find footage of crowds taunting Jewish students to “Go back to Poland!” and chanting, “We don’t want no Zionists here!” There is a masked protester with a sign that reads “Al-Qasam’s Next Target” with an arrow pointing at Jewish counterprotesters nearby. Al-Qassam is the military wing of Hamas. A protester screamed at Jewish students, “The 7th of October is going to be every day for you!”’
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-protest-anti-semitism-campus-israel-jewish-students-justice-palestine.html)
Obviously, having the UW divest from Boeing would fix all of this, right? Or would protestors have to vandalize yet another building on the UW campus for that to work? “We break this lab equipment in the name of a Free Palestine,” perhaps? Do tell.
@65
I got as far as
“… you
equate all
Jews with Israel… “
which is where
your Lies lost me
@66 now do South Africans singing “Kill the Boer”
Here’s a thought: Could Slog do a daily Gaza/Israel news thread? All the other articles get lost in the morass of The Usual Suspects saying The Usual Things.
@68: Why? Do you want to validate Trump’s nonsense concerning South Africa? If not, what has that to do with the stridently anti-Jewish demonstrations on many American college campuses last year?
Tensorna dear, you and a few other commenters just won’t shut up about it. Almost every single thread turns into the same dreary exchange. It’s like that episode of the original Star Trek where the black/white person is battling the white/black person and the crew of the Enterprise doesn’t know what the deal is until one of them explains it to them.
(Yes, I am perfectly capable of being a nerd)
@71: Well, my question was specifically addressed to @68, who was trying to belittle some recent, well-documented harassment of American Jews. I happen to think we should take such harassment seriously, and so I responded. If you don’t like my calling out such belittlements, I’m sorry, but I happen to think the correct response to such speech is more speech, not just letting the denial sit there and possibly take root. (“Silence, like a cancer, grows…”)
Furthermore, this very headline post mentions some recent, murderous harassment of Jews in our own national capital. Do you believe our comments should not address the headline post? If you don’t like headline posts with such material, then please let the Stranger know, as they’ve run a large number over the past two years which address such topics.
I do apologize tensora dear. I’m not at my cognitive best in the mornings.
But I stand by my original post. What’s happening in Gaza is terrible, full stop. The attack on Israel was terrible, full stop. Anger at the Israeli government’s actions should not be directed at the Jewish population anywhere on this planet, and lots of Israelis are as appalled by this situation as we are. Anti-Semitism has no role anywhere, especially on college campuses. Violence is never the answer (except for all the Abrahamic religions, who thrive on it). An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, etc.
That’s about all that can be said about it. But too many threads on Slog just rehash it over and over. At the end of the day, that discourse means nothing. It’s just mental masturbation, and there are much better things to masturbate about.
An exception would be when something happens locally. Like the horrible attack on the Jewish Federation, or the blockage of I-5, or the interruption of civic events, like the Westlake Christmas Tree lighting, or the stuff that went down not only on the UW campuses, but also the community schools. Threats against local Jewish and Muslim sites of worship, etc – all of that deserves discussion.
But that’s just my opinion. It’s tedious to have to wade through the endless discussion/argument/whatever. Like reading an Ayn Rand novel, where you have to skip chapters because a Howard Roark or John Galt is droning on about something.
@73: “But too many threads on Slog just rehash it over and over.”
And I’ll reiterate, the Stranger decides the contents of the headline posts. If you do not want repetitive comment threads, then perhaps you should appeal to the Stranger to cease repetitive headline postings?