If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.
We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm.
We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm. The people have bravely stopped or slowed the U.S. war machine before — from Vietnam to Reagan’s mercenary interventions in Central America, to Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. My blog cidelson.medium.com/we-can-count...
Best speech ever by anyone. Lincon's Gettysburg Address and 2nd Inauguration? 3-year old rants compared to Trump. Dr. King's Dream speech in 1963? Nothing compared to the empathy and vision of Trump. FDR's "only thing we have to fear is fear itself"? Like a bad middle school essay next to God Trump
The real "state of the union" artfully described by @jamellebouie.net - and it won't waste 2 hours of your life to get through it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
Responsible law enforcement agencies have a mandatory protocol prohibiting car chases unless there is an actual threat of violence that endangers the public. As usual, ICE could care less about public safety, they believe they are above the law. #AbolishICE
I doubt "the wealthiest people" are spending their billions shopping at Wal-Mart and other consumer product stores that had to jack up prices because of the tariffs. ordinary working class people are. that's what makes it a regressive tax - who its taxes target - as other commenters have noted
What Rev. Jackson said to the strikers: “Your protest for dignity has been heard in this hospital and around the country.” Summit’s opposition to sympathy strike rights, he added, was “another case of corporate greed, arrogance and abandonment.” So little has changed today
Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson. Civil rights champion, also a great friend of labor. Here, during the historic 1992 Oakland 7-week strike by 5 unions for sympathy strike rights, with RoseAnn DeMoro (r) then collective bargaining director of the California Nurses Association @CalNurses
News flash, the @nytimes ten years later has made a major discovery about the Dear Leader, Il Duce, Der Fuhrer. Did you miss the size of his name on his buildings even before he was first elected? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
Love this. Fans of Irish history will recognize the song about the hated British paramilitary Black and Tans she's adapting for Minnesota www.facebook.com/reel/8258167...
Nurses march to Alameda County Board of Supervisors in Oakland #AbolishICE - that money needs to go back to our communities
The violence has escalated as Trump, Miller, Vance, and Noem seek to secure and expand their power through what they believe will intimidate and force consent for their authoritarian rule. But they are also afraid of the growing popular resistance. My views via @commondreams
If Trump is indeed pulling the odious Greg Bovino out of Minnesota, that should only be beginning. We all need to continue to step up the campaign to #AbolishICE and end its terror campaign and the escalating dictatorship. My views: cidelson.medium.com/weve-crossed...
She has turned CBS into a state-run media propaganda organ. Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite would be thrilled (not)
When will Trump just threaten to invade Denmark too if it doesn't agree to his demand for lebensraum?
With the White House and federal departments openly copying Nazi slogans, I fully expect Trump any day to start saying he needs "lebensraum," Hitler's term for invading and occupying other countries for "living space."
The ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good and Trump's colonial invasion of Venezuela. The terrifying week, and the response. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/in-a-truly-t...
Minnesota officials should issue an arrest warrant, seek an indictment and prosecution, despite federal obstruction and the coverup scheme to exonerate the ICE killer. This compelling video alone, added to multiple eyewitness testimony ought to be enough to present a case to a judge and the public
NEW: Senate advances a bipartisan resolution to block President Trump from using military force “within or against Venezuela” unless he gets prior approval from Congress.
The procedural motion sets up a full Senate vote on the measure next week and is expected to pass.
"NNU continues its demand to remove immigration enforcement agents from communities and demands justice for her death." www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/union-...
It's going to last for years... "We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil." - A classic description straight out of the 19th century of imperialism and colonial rule. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump's escalating racist policies are tied to the vision of a Make America Great Again movement that fantasizes a return to eras of Jim Crow segregation, even antebellum, policies in a nation more dominated by white, Christian populations - my blog cidelson.medium.com/trumps-crusa...
During his crusade to obliterate federal spending disliked by Trump/Project 2025, why didn't Elon just defund all the District Courts and sell off their buildings. Any challenge of a Trump policy or directive should just go directly to #SCOTUS so they can save time and rule for him right away
Ditto for my fellow American Jews, who have been repeatedly denounced and mocked by Trump for "disloyalty" to America for criticizing Israel's genocide in Gaza and for daring to not vote for Trump. And watch as his administration has weaponized antisemitism to foster repression and silence dissent
The SS in Nazi Germany had no boundaries in their repression and attacks on civilians. Their spiritual copycats in Trump's secret police share the same devotion to brutality, inhumanity and indifference to law and the Constitution.
I think America would benefit if he would sleep a lot more on the job
The U.S. cultural revolution under RFK Jr. and Trump - "Let a Thousand Childhood Diseases Bloom"... “Any changes they do make could be devastating to children’s health and public health as a whole,” Sean O’Leary, American Academy of Pediatrics. Indeed, Make America Sick Again
Arguably the most racist immigration policy proposal in U.S. history, even beyond the rabid 1882 Chinese Immigration Act and 1924 Immigration Act. And just a Trump fiat, no Congressional vote? Absolutely insane
