RICHARD ESKOW: In a recent column you asked, “What’s preventing a united front against the Trump regime?” You say, “America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime.” I get the “wrecking ball,” but why do we need a united front? What’s wrong with a multi-pronged approach from various groups and actors?

 NORMAN SOLOMON: There’s a serious lack of coordination at the political level. The Democratic Party is a constellation of 50-plus state and other local parties, and there are many organizations which are—or should be—independent of the party.

 To the extent there is any governing body, it's the Democratic National Committee. The DNC should provide leadership at times like these. But there’s still no leadership, several months into a second Trump regime that’s much worse than the first. There's energy to oppose, but it’s uncoordinated.

 Rethinking the Left and the Party

There are now credible reports from many sources that the levels of
extermination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza strip is
higher than officially released and in 19 months could be over 250,000 [1].
The evidence is so compelling that all human rights organizations and the
UN documented GENOCIDE and ETHNIC CLEANSING [2]. Over 200,000 are already
out of the Gaza strip (enriching pockets of Egyptian officials who demanded
$5000-10,000/person for exit) and 95% of the remaining population
homeless.  Perhaps that is why Trump is now speaking about taking one
million (who are left) Palestinians to Libya after Israel finished cleaning
them from all areas of Gaza towards the south concentration camp of Rafah.
Meanwhile 'business' goes on as usual: billions milked from corrupt Arab
dictators, Israeli embassies function around the world (no sanctions), the
Zionist lobby infiltrated more organizations and governments globally,
blackmailing/extorting weak politicians like Trump and Bin Salman with
scandalous videos and information gathered by Mossad agents like Epstein,

One of my favorite sections of an afternoon. I'm eating lunch in my living room while reading a new book: Fearless Vampire Killers….Bad Brains Photographs by Akashic Books———> By Glen E. Friedman.

I now am using a Flex Capacitor. Now, I'm at A7 in the 1980’s New York looking at Bad Brains perform is a space the size of either Skylab or the Legion of Doom. I'm looking at PMA inspiring cultural evolution in the context of rejection of our fascist government.

In Fearless Vampire Killers, Friedman follows Bad Brains from A7 into the L.A. Sunset Strip. A7 is a small NY punk venue. L.A. is where Bad Brains sneak Black Flag on stage because Black Flag was banned because of punk riots. Fearless Vampire Killers is Glen E. Friedman in a moment working for skateboard media while participating in hardcore punk. Punk, and Hip Hop unleashed Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, BDP, Beastie Boys etc.  Friedman took iconic flicks of all of these icons.

TransOhio and Equality Ohio strongly condemn the decision by the Ohio Government Oversight and Reform Committee to reject public testimony submitted by both organizations and community members regarding harmful anti-transgender language proposed in the state budget: “It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”

“This testimony was submitted in accordance with all legislative rules, and it was explicitly relevant to language in the budget that aims to strip trans, nonbinary and intersex Ohioans of legal recognition,” said Dara Adkison, Executive Director, TransOhio. “Rejecting our public testimony is just another egregious attempt to silence trans voices and the voices of community members who respect our right to life, liberty, and happiness. This language has the potential to affect people receiving services from every agency in Ohio.”