Columbia University, April, 1968
(54 years ago)

In this week's newsletter, from the archive: Hannah Arendt describing her changing relationship to Zionism for Jewish Currents in 1963 amidst the Eichmann fallout

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This from Sen. Mitt Romney re NY trial happening: “I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump's character, and so far as I know you don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”

I think Trump’s problem here is that, even to his followers, he’s not worth the subway fare.

essentially the QAnon ish vote

This might be the biggest thing for worker's rights in my lifetime.

#FourMoreYears

🇵🇸THE MINNESOTA 9 ARE FREE🇵🇸

Thank you so much to everybody who showed up to support us today! The MN 9 are now banned from campus for a full year as well as charged w misdemeanors for “trespassing” on the campus we pay for

Next up, DROP THE CHARGES!
PROTESTING IS NOT A CRIME!

Elon Musk is conducting a mass layoff of nearly 2,700 employees at Tesla's Austin gigafactory.

Texas gave him $64 million in tax incentives to build this facility where he exploits Tesla workers.

Now, he's cutting jobs.

“We are not yet seeking an incarceratory penalty,” said Conroy, although Trump “seems to be angling for that.”
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If the problem is not guns but, rather, “the human heart,” as Johnson says, why is that heart so much more murderous in the U.S. than in other major countries? Last time I looked, hearts may break but they don’t kill.

Now, in some REAL news, Congress just reauthorized vast and unchecked spying powers for federal agents readtangle.com/congress-reaut…

Not only isn't protesting slaughter anti-Semitism--it is Judaism. Protesting against slaughter – as students in the US are doing – isn’t antisemitism | US universities | The Guardian ⁦Robert Reich⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If you are an American, you paid for this.

Hannah Arendt's relationship with Zionism.
From the archive, by Samantha Rose Hill open.substack.com/pub/samantharo…

Last week, more than 100 New Yorkers had an opportunity—a legal requirement, actually—to tell Trump to his face exactly how they feel about him.

For Mother Jones, I wrote about just how many of the jurors don't like the former president.
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Stetson University law school Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, who teaches courses on election law, said it “smells to high heaven to take political donations from people who can ill afford it to pay for a billionaire’s criminal legal defense fees.”
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.Jeet Heer: A man who has a desperate need to see himself as a domineering winner is forced to live in brutal reality where he is in the precarious position of being a potential felon.
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'Republicans know that this November they will lose the popular vote for president by millions of votes. Their only strategy to overcome this deficit is to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat.'
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