Ken Parker

NO KINGS Boston · No Kings # BOSTON SAYS NO KINGS! ### “We’re wicked pissed. Wicked loud. Wicked united.”  ## Join us Saturday, October 18, as we take to the Parade Grounds of Boston Common! ### There is no march -- the entire...

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Take Action Now: Join a No Kings Protest This Weekend In today’s Take Action Now, we are defending civil liberties, rallying against President Trump, and standing up for the most marginalized groups in our country.

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“[T]he second anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war.” Spoken like a true apparatchik.

It’s not a war. It’s a one-sided extermination campaign (aka genocide).

NO KINGS Boston · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** BOSTON SAYS NO KINGS! We’re wicked pissed. Wicked loud. Wicked united. Join us Saturday, October 18, as we take to the streets of Boston. We’re...

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The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

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@bostonreview.bsky.social: «[A]chieving broadly shared abundance [..] calls for a serious revival of New Deal politics, not a doubling down on the ethos of neoliberalism—however appealingly rebranded.»

“Now that it’s done, it’s safe to be uncomfortable with it.”

... that working-class New Yorkers desperately need, but on the side of the man the party has single-mindedly defined itself against for a decade.»

Democrats Have to Choose: Zohran Mamdani, or Donald Trump? With the new reporting that Donald Trump has personally talked to Andrew Cuomo about how to defeat Zohran Mamdani in the mayor’s race, New York Democratic leaders have to choose which side they’re on:...

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@jacobinmag.bsky.social: «It is a true “Which side are you on?” moment in New York, and increasingly national, politics. If Democratic leaders do not get over their fear of Mamdani, they will show themselves not just to be enemies of policies ...

Correction: “how Gaza _was_ starved (by Israel, US, et al.)”

Alrighty then! Can we fix those potholes now? My brain rattles every time I bike through the city! 🫨

It has been another nineteen months since then, and it is now clearer than ever that what Israel has done to Gaza is — objectively, by the numbers — one of the worst things any group of human beings has done to another group of humans in modern history.

Israel’s Gaza War Is One of History’s Worst Crimes Ever Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measu...

jacobin.com/2025/08/isra... Two months into the war, @jacobinmag.bsky.social warned that, based on the mountain of horrific facts, figures, and testimony coming out of it, what we were seeing in Gaza was “not ‘just another terrible war’ but something altogether different.”

The recommendations of the Special Commission to Combat Antisemitism rely on the IHRA definition, conflate critique of Israel with Antisemitism, and go so far as to suggest that teaching or talking about Palestine amounts to "terrorist sympathizing."

Antisemitism Commission: Delay the Vote on K-12 Recommendations What is happening? The Massachusetts Antisemitism Commission - an unelected, non-representative body - is planning to send sweeping recommendations to Massachusetts’ private and public schools to m...

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Before Thurs Aug 7 at 1PM, CALL AND EMAIL YOUR REPS TO tell them an unelected commission should not be voting to force a "Don't Say Palestine" Rule on our K-12 Schools.

Judges Detail Horrors They’ve Experienced Since Ruling Against Trump Federal judges warn the independent judicial system is at stake.

"In recent months, as judges serve as bulwarks against his administration’s lawless actions, the president has lashed out, leading his supporters to inundate them with threats." newrepublic.com/post/198678/...

I would gladly read the article (I’m a subscriber), but if I click on the link I get to a site where pop up ads and multiple requests to log in make it impossible to do it.

www.btselem.org/publications... "The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, & the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent & unequivocal action from Israeli society & the international community."

'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Now released, several tell NPR they endured beatings, sexual abuse, and near-total isolation.

@nytimes.com , I expect an equally prominent article presenting Rashida Tlaib’s or Ilan Omar’s perspective

Gaza facing man-made 'mass starvation', says WHO's Tedros Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation caused by a blockade on aid into the Palestinian enclave, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

"I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear"

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Anyway, I’m sorry — I blame myself for chiming in on this exchange, which is a distraction from the ongoing Israeli/U.S. (_not_ Jewish) genocide in Gaza. It must be stopped.

Sure, “there's dozens of majority-white nations & billions of White people”. But the citizens of those countries calling for a “white nation” are labeled white supremacist.

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This doesn't preclude the Black people from *also* having their own sovereign nation as well, which I support, presumably consisting of land Y.”

If not, please explain. Thank you

I see a problem with this endorsement of an ethno-state. If you stand by those words, presumably you’ll accept the following as well:

“Regardless of how anyone else defines it, being a White-ist simply means recognizing country X’s right to exist as a white homeland.

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Making America Healthy Again Means Banning Toxic Pesticides Americans are getting sicker and sicker — and the billion pounds of pesticides used on hundreds of millions of U.S. acres every year play an outsized role. Pesticides in our air, water, soil, and ...

@actionnetwork.bsky.social: The herbicide atrazine must be banned immediately. It’s far too toxic to continue to be used in the United States. It's so dangerous that it has been banned in more than 60 other countries. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ma...

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

🧪 The EPA is eliminating its scientific research arm and firing hundreds of scientists.

This move, enabled by a Supreme Court ruling, dismantles the office providing independent research for environmental policies.
#Climate

In Memphis, Elon Musk Pilots a Corporate Takeover Strategy To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Mu...

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@jacobinmag.bsky.social: «To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national.»

Media Lens on Substack Media Lens has been a bête noire at the Guardian for two decades since they published us in 2004 saying exactly this. The problem was we said it about the BBC and the Guardian. They didn't find that a...

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WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

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