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PhD, BBall coach. Co-founder of Small Schools Workshop. Host of Hitting Left Radio. https://facebook.com/HittingLeft/ michaelklonsky.substack.com
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Ten years ago, Galloway was asked by a zionist, "Are you a racist?" during a debate at the Oxford Union. His response has stayed with me through the past decade. open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

Thieves fall out. It’s their nature.

… Musk today after Trump posted on Truth Social that he fired Elon: “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude.”

Women who miscarry in West Virginia should be prepared to face potential criminal charges, a county prosecutor warned

“The Israelis call it a safe zone, but in reality it’s not. Every day or two, you see them hitting a tent here or a house there, even a person in a car. There’s no safe place in this country.”

Karol Nawrocki was partly elected with far-right, antisemitic support, vowing to oppose Holocaust scholars and end Hanukkah ceremonies with Jewish leaders. He is now threatening to topple the pro-democracy government and derail its constitutional reform efforts.

I reposted this story directly from the Guardian, and the watchers blocked it. Why? www.theguardian.com/.../letter-t....

Support the Freedom Flotilla! open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

ICE THUGS STRIKE AGAIN...High school junior Marcelo Gomes was taken into custody by masked men claiming to be ICE open.substack.com/pub/thesesto...

Blinken's former liar-in-chief Matthew Miller, now admits he knew all along that Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

WEEKEND QUOTABLES: The DOGE-triggered brain drain. open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/... "Amid Trump’s cruelty and avarice, it’s time to fight for a new social contract – one that lifts from the bottom of society so that everybody rises."

According to a staffer, Mace would allegedly order her underlings to identify criticism of her on social media; a slew of fake accounts would then pile on the offending account.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court today again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants for now, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.

New poll shows Zohran Mamdani gaining on Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayor's race www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/28/n...

SEIU spoke about layoffs today at the chicago public schools meeting and called on the City to close all TIFs to return funds to CPS they thanked Pedro Martinez for his treatment of SEIU, a marked difference in how CTU spoke about Pedro today it seems like there is still a rift between SEIU + CTU

Bono’s response and support comes after artists like Neil Young, Tom Morello, Pearl Jam, and others have shown solidarity with Springsteen.

Haaretz Editorial: Don't attack Iran. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

The language of resistance vs. dehumanization open.substack.com/pub/michaelk...

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Without law enforcement, Palestinians' lives, homes and property are left vulnerable, and they soon realize the only way they can protect themselves and their possessions is to leave.

Here's this week's 250th edition of Hitting Left, where we reconnect with old friends from Austin, Texas, Alice Embree and Thorne Dryer. Both have authored new books that paint colorful word pictures and tell stories of those radical 1960s SDS days in Austin. Oh yes...and they're still at it.

Even information on the Arlington National Cemetery website about Black and female service members has been scrubbed. A Harvard epidemiologist called the disappearance of publicly available federal health data “a digital book burning.” Read more at: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

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Just a reminder of who the real assassins are.

“This court cannot be asked to cover its eyes while the Department’s employees are continuously fired and units are transferred out until the Department becomes a shell of itself.”

Eman Abdelhadi, assistant professor in the department of comparative human development, claimed the majority of the university’s board of trustees have some kind of personal investment in Israel. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/22/u...

Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

250 years ago, Americans rejected a mad king. On June 14, we’re gathering again for a nationwide day of defiance to say NO KINGS. Nearly 1,000 events are planned in all 50 states to show the world what democracy really looks like. Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Nationally, the Trump administration terminated nearly $400 million worth of programs last month, the lawsuit said. About the same as the value of his new golden airplane.

Long-winded Cory Booker faces backlash. Only Democrat voting for Kushner's father.

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

The former governor dealt a blow to public employee unions in 2012 when he enacted Tier 6, an unpopular policy that raised the retirement age to 63 and cut benefits for new hires. “That’s ancient history,” Cuomo said of his policy.

The war in Gaza has prompted growing calls across the globe for sanctions against Israel. In New York, progressive politicians, including mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, have voiced support for pulling U.S. funding and investments from Israel. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/19/m...

Johnny Enlow, a self-proclaimed prophet and QAnon supporter, has declared that "in the eyes of the Lord, [Trump] is not just President of the United States, he's King of the World"

These announcements invariably center on a dollar figure, usually one almost preposterously large. Five hundred billion, two trillion, 10 trillion — we are all supposed to marvel at the majesty of this number, to the point where our critical faculties fail us and we accept it without skepticism.

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Haaretz editorial: What Israel is doing in Gaza isn't a matter of public diplomacy, but a collective war crime.

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

My Chicago neighbors.

A website for the office listed fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization and egg freezing, among its services and describes its work helping L.G.B.T.Q. couples have children. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...

Why we can’t have nice things.

Prof Sachs is optimistic. Me? Hopeful. x.com/kerryburgess...

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The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with directives from the White House, including President Donald Trump’s executive order decreeing male and female as two “immutable” sexes.