Recent content by sunnyheel

Yes. It’s time for pitchforks.

It’s well past time that Democrats took seriously their campaign appeals to democratic values. Talk is cheap. Put the gloves on!

Nonsense. Your type loves the wars against Mooslims and other brown people. The attacks on academia. The defunding of social services and attacks on human rights. The brown-shirt immigration raids. You’d be more tolerable as an honest fascist.

Yes… a deplorable

As a loyal Democrat I agree with this but hasten to add that it is critical that Democrats select its nominees carefully, being particularly discerning in its selection of their 2028 presidential nominee. Repeating the Biden mistake would only serve to revive the MAGA movement and hamper...

I’ve experienced the problem with wsj articles and had others say that my gift links to nyt were behind firewall. Test: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/iran-hormuz-strait-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cFA.fhUK._qqEf2Ykx07a&smid=nytcore-ios-share

I agree. It’s the fealty to the investor/donor class. Same with Democrats. They’re both beholden to the status quo.

Just chiming in to express my dismay, but not surprise, that, as the US marauds the world wreaking massive violence and havoc, undertaking regime change assault and kidnapping, killing hundreds if not thousands of civilians and destroying life-sustaining civil infrastructure, America's...

Just a note here that the “gift” links to wsj never work for me. Always behind the paywall. Others have noted the same for my links to nyt.

Financialization—->Enshitification

But see: recent polling of the Israeli Jewish population shows overwhelming support for the atrocities/war crimes/genocide in Gaza. A mere 5% think the war tactics went too far while a full 40% think the government didn’t go far enough. Point: when you’re talking about a population that has...

Been down on the old alma mater but gotta give ‘em credit for a first class introduction

American-Israeli Political Action Committee

Ethnonationalism is the evil. Trump Putin Netanyahu and some lesser players like Orban Modi and Erdogan

I’m hesitant to offer any optimism given our situation and recent history, but I’m very encouraged by what I see from these new Democrats - Mamdani, Talarico and (more guardedly) Platner. Seems a traditional liberal spirit is rising from the walking corpse of neoliberalism - hopefully early...