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RFK Jr,

The embarrassing Health & Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined with the TV Doctor Oz who is now heading CMS, which runs Medicaid and Medicare, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the head of HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a joint op-ed jeremiad demanding that as the headline roared: “If You Want Welfare, and Can Work, You Must.”   

This must be the triumphant pinnacle of what we have long opposed as “workfare,” but it’s worse than that. Their joint fabrication is a less than subtle effort to rebrand all parts of the US safety net as “welfare,” a freighted term that has been made into the equivalent of a hex on any social programs. The fact that this is transparent doesn’t disguise its pernicious callousness.

Bob and Dan with an umbrella and water bottles

Dan-o Dougan and Dr. Bob finish their series of shows about the elements - Wind, Earth, Fire and Water - with lots of songs about water, including Who'll Stop the Rain, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, Down By the Waterline, Take Me to the River, Sail Away and much more!

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Saturday. May 17, 11 am - 5 pm
1101 Bryden Rd

All are welcome.
PLANT SALE 11 am - 4 pm
FREE COOKING CLASS 2 - 3:30 pm with Executive Chef Chris Weldon.
Meal prepared by the class, will be shared at the monthly community meal.

MUSIC & COMMUNITY MEAL 3 - 5 pm - Pianist Gerard Cox playing jazz, enjoy the meal

Join the Four Seasons City Farm: grow on your own plot or help the garden
931 E. Mound St. & other locations
All skill sets and ages are welcome!
www.fourseasonscityfarms.org
Farming on the near east side since 2004
Our vision is to have a healthy neighborhood and healthier neighbors, where local food might come from across the street rather than across the country. Our vision includes teaching job skills, creating jobs and educating the community about the benefits of fresh, local and organic food. Four Seasons City Farm is a 501(c)(3)

Chicago

Anyone who listens to WBBM or WLS radio stations in Chicago or baseball games of the Chicago Cubs has heard them: seemingly incessant jingles selling a drug for an eye condition most have never heard of.

“Slow it down,” tease the ads with a musical lick culled from the 1975 R & B hit by the music group War, Low Rider. "I-Zer-Vay gets GA going slower,” chant the ads, trying to sell the drug IIzervay, which costs $2,220 per treatment without insurance, for the not well known disease of “GA.” (Moreover, the ads target the shrinking demographic of those who remember 50-year-old music hits.)

WHAT IS “GA”?

Geographic atrophy is a condition which can result from dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD)–another eye condition many have not heard of. It has been aggressively publicized by the former Happy Days star Henry Winkler (nee the Fonz) who says he “partnered” with IIzervay manufacturer Astellas Pharma after his father-in-law got the condition.

The mainstream media and US public officials embrace US-born Jews who enlist in IOF as "heroes" and "lone soldiers" whereas their Muslim counterparts who plan on and/or joined Hezbullah or Hamas to defend their native countries against the Israeli invading army as "terrorists" or charged with "providing material support to designated terrorist organization." A charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years. 
 
A lone soldier is someone who does not have support in Israel either because they do not have immediate family in Israel or they estranged from their families because they enlisted in the IDF against their wishes. I should add that Americans who went to Ukraine to fight the Russian invading army are treated the same by the mainstream media (MSM) who usually are portrayed as heroes.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a skilled salesperson, though the product he peddles is deeply flawed. His current challenge is to convince himself, his people, the region, and the world that, despite significant setbacks, he is winning the strategic war against his adversaries.

We start with our great poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN & her usual mystic verse.

From Waldport, Oregon, we hear from ousted & now re-instated MAYOR HEIDI LAMBERT about her incredible saga on the way to remaking this pivotal spot in the American MAGA/saga.

This far-and-wide astonishing attack on democracy by the MAGA Klan is dissected by co-host MIKE HERSH.

Tough questions come from SCOTT KLATT who wants to know why Heide let herself get drafted for Mayor.

From the LAProgressive.com we are updated by SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE on the national assault on the Judiciary & our democratic elections.

Then the great MYLA RESON narrates the amazingly absurd arrest of Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka & three US Congresspeople for attempting to inspect a prison facility under their jurisdiction.

The attack on Mayor Baraka is mourned by DANIELA, who warns us all to carry our birth certificates.

Computer pioneer LEE FELSENSTEIN elaborates on his suggestion that rally organizers use business cards with QR codes, printed in special colors, with colored ink & union labels, feeding into local-generated websites.

People posing

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM.  
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Parsons Branch, 1113 Parsons Ave. Columbus, meeting room 3. 
Trump’s wide array of new executive orders is an attack on the working class. Join the Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists for a presentation and discussion regarding these executive orders, and how we plan to fightback!  
Also accessible at corsrev.org/meeting.

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