True in 1776, 2017, today. Freedom now! Today’s assembly & countless others are peaceful acts of resistance misrepresented & distorted by the criminals in power to justify their expanding efforts to turn the US into an oligarchical authoritarian police state. Free David Huerta!

Surreal to watch & hear LAPD officers audibly threaten a local news reporter covering the scene in downtown Los Angeles followed by newsroom anchors sanitizing the police aggression & shifting the narrative to focus on protecting the city from a small group of unruly protestors.

Of the Epstein Files!

Juneteenth 2025 dispatch

Palestinian-Armenian Varsen Aghabekian will be #Palestine’s new foreign minister. She has also been an advocate for the #Christian and #Armenian communities in the occupied territories. A daunting job, but sure she will approach with her consistent professionalism. #Armenia

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

How many critics lambasting Cudahy, CA Vice Mayor Gonzalez’s extreme comments are likewise speaking out against the authoritarian political violence advocated for and operationalized by the president and his criminal cabal?

Ararat Road street sign in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, handmade by the Karakashian family. The Arabic and English parts date to the Jordanian period (pre-1967). The Hebrew was added after 1967, under Israeli rule.

UCLA Launches Landmark Archive of Stolen Armenian Properties, Now Worth Hundreds of Billions, Seized by Turkey During & After the Genocide 🇦🇲 ➖➖➖ In a historic move for Armenian historical justice and legal restitution, UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute has unveiled a public

Cuomo & Adams will likely compete for an overlapping group of similar voters, thus enhancing Mamdani’s odds.

"Sorry Islamophobes, I'm a Proud Muslim American and, Like Zohran Mamdani, I'm Not Going Anywhere" The insanely bigoted attacks on Mamdani are out of control and designed to intimidate a vulnerable minority – but they will fail. My latest for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/sorry-islamo…

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Beginner's Mind #oud #guitar #composition youtu.be/SSwAEtB0ONQ

Raffi Joe Wartanian @raffijo, Poet Laureate Fellow of Glendale, CA