Trump and Lippman

What with Trump-troopers gassing babies in self-defense, Gavin Newsom teaming up with Peter Thiel to protect billionaires from society, and data centers under attack from thirsty malcontents saying water is wasted on data, it’s no surprise that Boss Tweet wants to deport citizens. Aliens. Illegals. Except maybe Melania.
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Trump aims to drop oil to $50 a barrel; Chavez offered that years ago.

The US press is confused. Nothing new there. They are confused about the Acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.

The New York Times says Rodriguez “Went From Revolutionary to Trump’s Orbit”

Oh no, she didn’t.

Rodriguez still attacks Trump as an outlaw kidnapper and imperialist invader. But, at the same time, she says she’s seeking the restoration of diplomatic relations with the US and offers tens of millions of barrels of oil to Trump.

I’ve known Rodriguez for years. Is she a militant Leftist or a moderate pragmatist?

The answer is, “Yes.” I’d call Rodriguez a “radical pragmatist.”

Details about event

Monday, January 19, 2026 - 11:00am
Clever Bee Academy, 1977 Cleveland Ave. Columbus, OH 43211

Join us as we honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and continue the work of unity, justice, and community.
March begins at 12PM
MLK Ceremony at 1PM

Ending at Clarence Lumpkin Point of Pride
(Corner of Cleveland Ave & 11th Ave)

Dress for weather, if you're not able to walk the distance you are welcome to drive!

Keynote Speaker: Brian Winston

For more info: 614-402-6875
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In the trailer for All That’s Left of You, there is a brief image of orange trees and heavy machinery. For many, it may pass unnoticed. For me, it opened a wound that has never fully closed.

My great-grandfather Ahmad Sulieman Qutiefan owned an orange grove in Beit Nabala (Bayt Nabala), a Palestinian village just nine miles from Yaffa. Those oranges were not inherited wealth. He planted them himself, beginning as a child, after his own father passed away. Knowing his family depended on him, he stepped into responsibility early, planting tree after tree, tending the land with care and pride. The grove became his life’s work. He nurtured it daily, believing it would one day sustain his children and his children’s children.

He never imagined that it could simply be taken.

Though geographically it lies near Qom, Jamkaran (the site associated with the hidden imam, Mahdi) exists far beyond any mosque, shrine, or well. It is a psychological architecture— a way of relating to power, history, and responsibility. Jamkaran names the belief that salvation arrives from outside human agency, that redemption descends from above rather than being constructed through collective action. It is not theology per se, but a political imagination shaped by waiting.

Karl Marx described this condition as inverted consciousness: a world turned upside down, where material relations are masked by metaphysical fantasies. Michel Foucault would recognize it as internalized power, domination reproduced within the subject rather than imposed solely from without. Antonio Gramsci named it hegemony: the absorption of ruling ideas so deeply that they appear natural, inevitable, even desirable.

Last month, 200 ICE agents converged on Central Ohio targeting Somali and Mexican businesses and schools. For nearly two weeks, businesses and streets were deserted. People feared for their safety as they heard ICE thugs shoot, arrest, and deport US citizens, including veterans without any due process of law. Basically, Central Ohio was being terrorized by ICE agents in an operation called as Operation Buckeye that lasted from December 16 to December 21.
 
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance said in a Jan. 9 news release that the organization identified at least 214 people arrested during "Operation Buckeye." The organization said in an analysis of publicly available jail rosters that 80 percent of the people detained were Latino and less than 10 percent were Africans.
 
Durning that mass hysteria, I had three of my grandchildren with us for the winter break.
Rashida

The ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is the latest in a string of deaths related to ICE raids, traffic stops, and detention facilities. Last year 32 people died in ICE custody―the most in more than two decades. Border Patrol agents have also shot, wounded, and killed civilians during Trump’s mass deportation raids. ICE and Border patrol agents are bullies who intimidate, and attack people based on the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the accents they have. They’ve also shot and killed people in their cars and used deadly weapons against bystanders and people who are standing up for their neighbors. 

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