Charles Idelson

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

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality

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...

584K views · 34K reactions | A fight song for the Minnesota Revolutionary Army! Fun fact the Black & Tans were also a federal militia being deployed as a police force (this is a rewrite of "Come Out y... A fight song for the Minnesota Revolutionary Army! Fun fact the Black & Tans were also a federal militia being deployed as a police force (this is a rewrite of "Come Out ye Black and Tans" an Irish...

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...

Message from @nationalnurses.bsky.social #AbolishICE

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

We’ve crossed the border to authoritarian rule, but the fight is not over “The border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world.”

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."

In a ‘truly terrifying’ week, the nation responds “Truly terrifying.” That was how National Nurses United Executive Director Puneet Maharaj described this week in a group text exchange in…

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

Senate advances measure to restrict Trump's power to use military force in Venezuela Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who led the bipartisan resolution, said that Trump's actions in Venezuela are "clearly illegal" because he did not seek congressional approval.

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.

Union nurses horrified by Minneapolis shooting, demand ICE out of communities and justice for woman’s death National Nurses United, the country’s largest nurses union, today expresses horror, sorrow, and condemnation following the fatal shooting by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, issuing the following statem...

"NNU continues its demand to remove immigration enforcement agents from communities and demands justice for her death." www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/union-...

Trump Says U.S. Oversight of Venezuela Could Last for Years

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 crusade to re-whiten America intensifies As the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence nears, President Trump’s escalating attacks on immigrants of color has made his…

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

Yes, a profiteering scam they’ve done for years, and an abuse - “patent protection” - they demand in trade deals. It also makes critical meds hard to obtain for global south countries

"Best" what? Best at corruption for personal gain? Best at extrajudicial murder of fishermen? Best at sending U.S. troops to invade American cities? Best at filling his administration jobs with groveling underlings? Best at terrorizing immigrant communities? Best at spouting lies about everything?

Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order High-level discussions, underway for days, have explored a variety of military options for Venezuela, people familiar with the matter said.

Everyone ready for our regime change war on Venezuela? via @washingtonpost - "President Donald Trump said Friday night that he has 'sort of made up my mind' about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela". Chilling. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Military aggression, covert action, and dreams of regime change in the hemisphere are the “oldest moves in the American foreign policy playbook” - my views