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Al Jazeera: Live Tracker: Israel-Gaza War in Maps and Charts
As of 2/3/25 (latest available)
Gaza:
61,709 killed including 17,492 children
111,588 wounded
14,222 missing and presumed dead
Wikipedia: Political Appointments by Donald Trump in His Second Term
Guttmacher Institute: Lessons from Before Roe: Will Past Be Prologue?
Wiki: Criminal Proceedings in the Jan 6 Capitol Attack - As of Jan. 6, 2024: 890 people have been found guilty of federal crimes and 1,200 people have been criminally charged. See entries of 9/29/22, 10/20, 8/31/23 below.
Fact Check: How Many People Died as a Result of the Capital Riot? - 9 people died as a result of the riot, in that if they had not been present at the riot, their deaths would not have occurred.
Debt Limit Drama: The debt limit was raised three times during the Trump administration from $19.9T to $27T with zero drama. Under George Bush it was raised seven times from $5.95T to $11.3T with no drama.
Investopedia: Average Yearly Inflation by President
4/8/25
Substack: America is Bankrolling the Holocaust of Our Time
4/7/25
Guardian: Red Crescent: Gaza Paramedics Shot in Upper Body 'With Intent to Kill'
4/2/25
4/1/25
Mondoweiss: Yemen is Acting Responsibly to Stop Genocide and the US Is Bombing Them For It
Boston Globe: Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts
3/31/25
Caitlin Johnstone: Liberals Believe in Nothing and Remeber Even Less - From the article:
"...because Gaza is just seen as a political plaything by these freaks, they only care about it now that Trump is in office — and only insofar as it can be used to take points away from the Republicans...And that’s exactly why they lost...The Democrats calculated that the Harris campaign could simply ignore Gaza without putting any daylight between Kamala’s policies and Genocide Joe’s and still win the election, and they were wrong. Polls show that among people who voted for Biden in 2020 but not for Harris in 2024, Gaza was by far their biggest reason for not doing so. The Democrats believed in nothing and stood for nothing, and nothing is what they got."
3/27/25
Intercept: Israel Levelee Gaza - Then Killed the Drone Joournalists Who Showed it to the World
3/25/25
Intercept: Attacks on Hamdan Ballal's Village Ramped Up After He Won An Oscar
3/20/25
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel Makes Its Most Explicit Statement of Genocidal Intent Yet - But only after Trump gave genocide his full support. Check out 'No Other Land'.
3/19/25
Intercept: Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire From the Start. Why Won't the Media Tell You That?
3/17/25
AP: Israel Launches Deadly Wave of Airstrikes Across Gaza After Ceasefire Talks Stall
3/15/25
Newsweek: Full List of Democrats Who Voted for Trump-Backed GOP Funding Bill
3/14/25
Guardian: Pro-Israel Group Says it has 'Deportation List' And Has Sent 'Thousands' of Names to Trump - The comments of David Myers towards the end of the article are particularly appropriate.
Newsweek: Full List of Democraps Who Voted for Trump-Backed GOP Funding Bill
Intercept: Why Trump is So Desperate to Keep Mahmoud Khalil in Louisiana
3/13/25
3/10/25
Guardian: Child Deaths Surge Amid 'Gazafication' of West Bank
3/8/25
NYTimes: Trump Defunds US Inspectors Inspecting Iran's Nuclear Sites
3/7/25
The Intercept: Gavin Newsom's Cynical Embrace of the Anti-Trans Agenda
3/3/25
NPR: Israel's Culture Minister Calls a Palestinian-Israeli Film's Oscar a 'Sad Moment'
3/2/25
AP: Israel Has Cut Off All Supplies to Gaza - Israel broke the cease fire agreement in an effort to pressure Hamas for a better deal. What good is Netanyahu's signature on a piece of paper? From the article:
“A tool of extortion,” Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said. “A reckless act of collective punishment,” Oxfam said. Key mediator Egypt accused Israel of using “starvation as a weapon...
Israel is trying to pressure the Hamas militant group to agree to what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government describes as a U.S. proposal to extend the ceasefire’s first phase instead of beginning negotiations on the far more difficult second phase."
2/27/25
New Yorker: Why Aren't We in the Streets? - From the article:
"...counsel from James Carville in the Times: “Roll over and play dead.” (His actual words.)...
Carville’s call for “strategic political retreat” sure seems like something a lot closer to unilateral disarmament. What’s the point of having two political parties in our democracy if one of them is no longer loyal to the Constitution and the other one is so weak and consumed by infighting that its response is to say, Never mind, we can’t get our act together. Sorry that Trump is ruining the country but we’ll be back next year in time for the midterms?...
There’s also a partisan cynicism embedded in this calculation—that Trump’s second term isn’t really the fascist threat that Democrats warned about on the campaign trail but a regrettable interlude that must be waited out. Talk about a risky assumption...
Caitlin Johnstone: They're Fetishizing The Bibas Kids' Red Hair to Sell Genocide to White Westerners - From the article:
"Trump axed bird-flu inspectors in the midst of a bird-flu outbreak and got rid of thousands of Internal Revenue Service personnel at the height of tax season. On Monday, the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump ordered the U.S. to stand not with Ukraine but instead with Russia, in a U.N. vote that put America on the side of dictatorships and against most of our democratic allies
2/25/25
MSN: James Carville: Democrats Should Roll Over and Play Dead - It's this kind of thinking that has lost the Dems 2 of the last 3 elections. Maybe they just don't want to win.
The Intercept: Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left - From the article:
"Die Linke focused on so-called “bread and butter” issues like rent and the rising cost of living, transport, and pensions, and defended trans and immigrant rights. They ran as the only party to robustly oppose far-right politics with strong words and policies...
the German parties that span the liberal-to-conservative center have all lurched rightward on anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy in the last decade, while attempting the impossible balancing act of serving capitalist interests and claiming to stand for the working class...
The centrist strategy, aside from being morally turpitudinous, has been a losing one; it only serves to legitimize far-right frameworks and bolster right-wing parties...
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris warned of the fascistic threat of Trump, but were complicit in genocide, the criminalization of left-wing and pro-Palestine protest, and racist fearmongering over immigration and crime...
The neoliberal austerity paradigms that helped foster 21st century fascist movements will not be the answer. Die Linke’s proposal is a simple one: We don’t need to moderate fascism, we need to oppose it."
2/15/25
Intercept: Columbia University Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Arrest and Deport Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters - So much for 'the free exchange of ideas' at an institute of higher learning.
2/13/25
New Yorker: What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism?
Caitlin Johnstone: The IDF Didn't Just Target Hospitals, They Destroyed Individual Medical Machines
2/12/25
Caitlin Johnstone: Washington Drops Ukraine, Israel Backs Down on Hamas Demands
2/11/25
C. Johnstone: Israel Admits it Violated the Ceasefire And Hamas Did Not - The NYTimes article on this subject put the admission at the very bottom of the article.
2/1/25
Intercept: The Democratic National Committee is Undemocratic. That's by Design - I have wasted my vote in 2 of the last 3 elections by voting the Democratic ticket. I'm done with that. In all three of those campaigns, the Democrats ran truly idiotic campaigns. The basic reasons are outlined in this very well written article - but basically the Dems ignored working people and struggling people. Rev. Barber summarized it very well.
1/30/25
Guardian: How do Democrats Harness #DarkWoke?
1/24/25
Guardian: UN Concerned by Israeli Use of 'Unlawful Lethal Force' in West Bank
1/23/25
Guardian: Bernie Sanders: What Trump Didn't Say in His Inauguration Speech
1/17/25
AP: Biden Says the Equal Rights Amendment is the 'Law of the Land' - Just another delusional servant of corporate America
1/16/25
Intercept: MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After it Was Used to Research School's Israel Ties
1/13/25
In These Times: Michigan's Muslims Take Matters Into Their Own Hands - “Something I think about all the time is, how funny is it that America, the country that’s perpetuating the violence and the destruction and the hurt, is the place where we’re seeking refuge? It’s like … running back to your abuser, and it just feels so wrong.”
1/12/25
Al Jazeera: Israeli Siege of North Gaza Leaves 5,000 Dead, Missing After 100 Days
1/11/25
AP News: Displaced Palestinians Wait For Food at a Makeshift Charity Kitchen in Khan Younis
1/9/25
1/7/25
Caitlin Johnstone: The Biden Administration Declares That a Genocide is Happening...In Sudan
Guardian: Gaza's Suffering: A Deepening Disaster Should Not be Treated As Inevitable
1/5/25
Guardian: Biden Signs Bill to Boost Social Security Payments for Millions of Public Workers
Guardian: Social Order in Gaza on the Verge of Collapse
1/3/25
Guardian: About 30 Killed in Israeli Attacks on Gaza as Truce Talks Set to Resume - "...several children among dead..."
1/2/25
Intercept: U.S. Military Service is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
MSN: Babies Being Found in Dumpsters After Texas Abortion Ban
1/1/25
AP News: Israeli Strikes Kill 12 in Gaza Including Children As War Grinds Into the New Year
Common Dreams: Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Antony Blinken, China, and the Idiocy of Tom Friedman
Politics
Pelosi laughs out loud at the prospect that progressives will not support whatever health care crumbs she decides to throw their way, even if it doesn't include a Public Option.
