Jeff McMahon

"Father Coughlin 1939" watercolor by Ben Shahn in exhibit Jewish Museum NYC (closing Sunday). Shahn's work resonates very strongly right now.

actually it's the Introduction: Irish Questions, that I was referring to. But first chapter is strong as well!

Padraic X. Scanlan's ROT: AN IMPERIAL HISTORY OF THE IRISH FAMINE. The first chapter, "A Hungry Island" uncomfortably aligns with a very current (externally created) famine being imposed by another of our allies. The deliberate contempt and dehumanization is horribly familiar.

JW commentary on recent NPR broadcasts have been some of the strongest, clearest and bravest comments regarding our economic chaos.

MAGA/Trump recalls Martin McDonaugh’s horrifying yet awfully funny play, THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE (2001) in which fear of Padraic, a sadistic Irish IRA militant (INLA in the play) causes his cringing minions to attempt resuscitating/replicating his much loved cat, Wee Thomas.

Current THE NATION "Heroism in Small Acts" by Elie Mystal: "...individualized, person-to person acts of political and social resistance work...because it's what the bad guys do. It's how the white-wing movement that Trump only recently has come to embody has been operating for my entire life."

NoPassport Press (2024) All the scripts from the 2016 project in response to Pulse nightclub shooting. Includes my monologue, (Ob)scene

My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner “It feels like the world has forgotten about us,” said artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who recently served four years of his sentence in a maximum-security Cuban prison.

My Dialogues With a Political Prisoner hyperallergic.com/1028230/coco...

Pour-Me-Another Pete decrees that the U.S. Navy's Harvey Milk be renamed for LGBTQ heroes Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover. Waves of nausea as he sinks the Defense Dept. to ever lower levels.

combined with your own excellent piece in Sunday NYTimes this is the kind of knowledge we need right now.

I wondered how my employer for 21 years, Arizona State University, was responding to MAGA bullying. Here's what I wrote. We need to put pressure where we live, where we worked and studied. www.jeffmcmahonprojects.net/post/how-is-...

When Hope and History Rhyme In the summer of 2011, I went to a protest against economic injustice in New York City. I've gone to a lot of demonstrations over the decades, and this one was as forgettable as most of them are--they...

Solnit reminds us that the illegal Trump/MAGA actions are a lot like...MS 13 and other narcotraficante gangs. Fear, intimidation, constant threat. Terrorism.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/when-hope-an...

Kirsten Gillibrand trumps all the wonderful things she's doing for us. Nary a mention of her shameful vote in favor of budget "resolution" She votes against her Dem colleagues, and is the head of the DCCC! Wants us to send her $. Don't. Send it to candidates directly. Like to AOC.

Gillibrand joined him in voting for. They both need to be primaried out.

Print these on card stock and hand them out if you live/work in an area where migrants might be harassed by ICE. Spanish on one side informing them of their rights, and English on reverse to show agents (or those posing as such). www.ilrc.org/sites/defaul...

Columbia University allowing ICE on campus to arrest Palestinian students holding green cards, while accommodating MAGA focus exclusively on antisemitism, Write Columbia President officeofthepresident@columbia.edu Her pathetic response to funding cuts president.columbia.edu

New Yorkers, please call/write Gov. Hochul to protest her meddling in CUNY/Hunter search for Palestinian Studies professor. Objecting to terms in the job listing such as "zionism" "colonialism" "genocide" is a MAGA/Trump strategy she should not be imposing on CUNY.

I just read Omar El Akkad's ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS. Strongly recommend.

brilliant and uncomfortably engaging

thanks for posting this. The details are absurd and horrifying. I'm imagining a collaborative theatre piece, directed by Linda McMahon (no relation) featuring Mel Gibson, Dennis Quaid, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight, and ending in a brawl when they decide "collaboration" is a socialist concept.

in the Brennan Center webinar today, they specifically focused on SAVE act, mentioning that several Dems voted for it the first time around. People need to call their Reps, even the Dems.

A Presidential Lawbreaking Spree YouTube video by Brennan Center for Justice

This is happening later today. Might be good for legal strategizing www.youtube.com/live/xycwn8Z...

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

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Erasure of history is the DOGE/MAGA method of avoiding it, and the present and the future.

Congressman Dan Goldman

My NY Rep, Dan Goldman, hosted an online town hall last night focused on pushing back on unelectedElon and MagaTrump. Some helpful answers. www.youtube.com/@RepDanGoldman

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from the NY Times this morning, referring to DT attack on DEI: "And on Wednesday, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said the company would not back away from its D.E.I efforts in response to activists. “Bring them on,” he said in an interview with CNBC."