Hassan El-Tayyeb of the Friends Committee on National Legislation returns with an update on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the growing movement to end U.S.
Ralph - I have a question, what is the number of dead, if it were published or made known , that you think would trigger enough outrage in Congress or the populace for it to take action to stop it .... if it had been published at 100,000, would that have been enough? 200,000? 300,000? - what makes you think that 500,000 would do it ... I would really like to know, what is the "magic" number that would trigger it ... Considering that it is known there is a genocide, by all criterion, that is going on, how big must that genocide be before we say NO!
I’m worried that Netanyahu is here to cook up an attack on American soil that Trump will sell as an excuse to invade Iran.
Here’s why.
I live in the Vail Valley. Luxury home inventory is up 3x from last year. Homes are staying on the market 90 days or more.
HELOC’s are booming. But people aren’t taking out the money to invest. They’re taking out the money to pay bills. In other words they’re over leveraged.
Sub prime debt is at all-time highs.
The working class can’t get ahead. Buying a home? No way.
Now add-in Trump. We already saw from this week’s social security email that he’s cooking the books. I believe they’re going to cook the economic data too - to hide the weak economy.
I think he’s in the Epstein files.
Add it all up, even Trump can’t get away with it - the economy will slide into recession. He’ll then use war to distract Americans.
Colorado has an unemployment rate of 4.8%, which is one of the highest in the country. Of course, we know about underemployment as well. With this data in mind, is anyone in your state advocating for a job guarantee program, especially a federal job guarantee program?
Let me cite some recently released data from Rice University’s Kinder Institute of Urban Studies’ 2025 Houston area study about my local area:
“A growing supermajority of Houston-area residents want something to be done to address the gap be-tween the rich and the poor. Since 2010, Harris County residents have regularly been asked whether they agree or disagree that “the government should take action to reduce economic inequality between the rich and poor.” Fifteen years ago, only 48% agreed with that statement. In other words, the majority did not think the government needed to act. Harris County residents no longer feel that way: In 2025, about 83% agreed they wanted to see the government take action to reduce economic inequality (Figure 21).
…
Widespread support was even greater for the government making sure that anyone who wants to work can find a job: 88% support in Fort Bend County, 89% support in Harris County, and 83% support in Montgomery County. Majority support existed for addressing economic inequality across political ideology as well.”
For some background, this data in the second paragraph includes data from the central county in the Houston area, Harris, but also one of the most conservative suburban counties in the Houston area, Montgomery County. Even still, look at how high the support is for increased government involvement in ensuring employment. A federal job guarantee program would be the easiest and most productive way to achieve this.
I’m sure the level of support in your area is something similar to what it is here and the need might be even greater given your area’s high unemployment rate and I’m guessing also a high income inequality rate. Is anyone advocating for a federal job guarantee program in your area? If so, how are they advocating for it. If it isn’t being advocated for, why not?
I just got off the phone with a friend who's on the right, but not a Trumper. He's a successful real estate agent.
He's full on with the idea that the working class should be the countries focus. He agrees that Trump ran on a populist platform, and lied about it.
I talked to him about Mamdani's platform. He seemed reticent to embrace it, mainly because Zohran is a self-avowed Democratic Socialist.
I believe your point is that the country should focus on the working class as well? If so I couldn't agree more. I'm an America first guy, something else Trump lied about.
However I think we're a long ways away from a populist/FDR theme taking root in America. Why? Social media. People are hooked on it, they're literally being brainwashed.
My wife gets her lashes done by a woman who's a Trumper. When my wife brings up America first, the working class struggle, or some of Trump's other obvious lies such as "no tax on tips", "no tax on social security", and "no tax on overtime", she won't hear it. If my wife brings up Epstein, she won't hear it.
So these Trumper folks seem to be a long ways from reconciliation that they've been duped.
I believe Trump and his gang know that enough Americans are going to catch on that they pose a risk to their power which they don't plan on ever giving up. Hence, they'll invade Iran.
I'm glad to see the data from Houston. It's a positive sign. It's also a good sign that plenty on the left have had it with Obama era politics. There's a reason why AOC, Bernie, and now Zohran are the stars of the party. It's because they're all focusing on affordability. But we're also seeing a major offensive against this uprising, funded by the Democratic establishment, and donor class.
What is the solution? Reform the Democratic party. Form a citizens group that's millions strong, much like the Tea Party did. This is what I'm trying to do, here:
I can't even begin to describe how hard this is. Because I don't have a platform, I don't have anyone helping me, I don't have the funds to pay for meetings (it costs money to rent meeting space and pay for insurance), I don't have the time to spend on social media all day trying to get people to pay attention. I've already put about $5k of my own money into this. Here's my expenses so far, which I need to update.
Social media is a problem, but I think it helps for all of us to take a step back and evaluate our own narratives. Let’s look at unemployment, for example.
Those on the left tend to view unemployment as a structural problem. Government policies and the inherent nature of capitalism leads to unemployment. Those on the right tend to focus more on factors related to the individuals who are unemployed. To them, the unemployed might lack proper skills or lack the knowledge of job-seeking skills and willingness to seek employment.
The reality is that all of the above contributes to unemployment in some form or fashion. Decades ago, there was some consensus that public education can help solve these problems and so those on the left and right have long been in coalition about using public education to further employment. Even still, we can see that public education alone isn’t enough to ensure full employment.
There seems to be wide agreement that government can do more to ensure employment. This is a great victory and opportunity for leftists as it is, in some ways, an admission by those on the right that government action is necessary to solve this problem. Of course, for this to truly be a victory for everyone involved, some sort of coalition needs to be formed to get meaningful action.
A federal job guarantee program has a lot of benefits for everyone involved, and so that must be communicated. A job guarantee program which is designed to be temporary so that unemployed workers can transition into the private sector speaks to those on the right as it addresses their prime concerns that leftists aren’t concerned about private sector employment and also it keeps unemployed workers skills up rather than letting them become flaccid during unemployment. It is known that employers prefer to hire already employed people versus unemployed people since there are assumptions that those who are already employed are better workers.
The job guarantee program stabilizes the economy by acting as a buffer stock of labor in a similar way that buffer stocks stabilize agricultural prices and so forth. Economies in recovery can sometimes turn inflationary since there is a lack of skilled labor to meet productive demands. Keeping labor in a ready state via the job guarantee fights this problem. This is an inflation-fighting tactic. Setting the job guarantee wage at the lowest livable wage acts as an unofficial minimum wage for all workers, not just those in traditional hourly wage jobs.
As we saw during the Covid era, when unemployment was high for obvious reasons, there were many concerns about unemployment and what it does to individuals’ mental health and society as a whole in terms of crime, homelessness, and so forth. These memories are still fresh in the minds of many, and in many places especially out west, they are still relevant concerns.
The benefits of the job guarantee program are vast, and they speak to both the leftist position of structural failures and the right position of individual shortcomings. Focusing on this, rather than getting into divisive arguments that are common on social media should do a lot to focus the conversation on shared goals.
In the post I link to an AP post that discredits what I think Ralph was mentioning when he said "population shrinkage". It'd be good if either Ralph or someone from the show could provide more support for the 400,000 number, as well as respond to the AP post.
David Cay Johnston has been sounding a lot of alarms on Trump; with Mark Thompson he discussed what would be coming with a nuclear bomb hitting an "enemy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCF24wl0G4 A military dictatorship would follow, we are well on the way for some form of that happening. Another good interview with Johnston on the big ugly bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2st-8ruMQ
Now there is an interesting idea, impeaching SC justices - these Justices, in their furtherance of the concept of a "unitary executive", who, in essence, has not only sidelined Congress as one of the 3 co-equal branches of Gov't, but, in essence, has sidelined the roll of the SC itself in deciding "what the law is", the SC has essentially tossed the Const. into the trash .... As it has gutted Congress and itself, why bother going through the motions of going "up the chain" of the judiciary, just so the Pres can be rubber stamped, "officially"
So Bruce, do you have such articles of impeachment written up - and have you talked to any member of Congress about them - It seems to me that Congress, unless all of its members have been beaten into submission, would at least give them a hearing. The practicality of how to bring it about would be an interesting topic worth pursuing. Did the members of Congress (both Ds and Rs) who voted to confirm those miscreants intend that the decisions of this Court would be the outcome of their votes - did they understand that this Court is making them irrelevant the "business" of Gov't, that both they and the Court are simply appendages of the Pres.. Do they realize that all those folks who ran around with "No Kings!" signs the other day weren't kidding ...
Project Roomkey [1] is a federally (FEMA) funded homeless relief initiative in the state of California. The program was launched in April 2020.[2]
The project was expected to end in late 2020, as it was initially intended to help homeless people socially distance during the peak of the pandemic. However for a time it was continued and was expanded[3] in March 2021 with the Los Angeles City Council approving a measure that would allow the city to compel hotel owners to participate in the program even if they did not want to.
National publications such as Newsweek have noted that the program is reserved for homeless individuals aged 65 or older or who have an underlying medical condition.[4] As of March 22, 2021, LA County had counted 48,038 unsheltered people, 15,000 rooms promised, 2,261 rooms under contract, 2,261 rooms operational and 1,724 rooms occupied. By these numbers, 28% of the operational
You can see the dialogue
And interest begin to interfere with progress in separating ans building of demographics
I haven't been able to listen to the episode yet and my comments are based on the comments here. About the impeachment: if most congresspeople in the republican side are like my congressman, it is a waste of time to call them. I cannot have a meeting in the local office anymore because, according to the staffer, "I don't agree with congressman Cory Mills". Yes, they will only consider the opinion and requests of people who agre with him. Coward Cory is afraid of Trump. And this is true for many others. Nothing will happen
I know Ralph says that the republican congress did eventually turn on Nixon. The problem I see is that we don't have time. Fascism is here and it is winning. I am 99% sure that the masked thugs snatching people off the streets posing as ICE agents are white supremacists, the Proud Boys and others who were pardoned by Trump and deputized by him to violently perform the theater. It is terrible. They are threatening anyone who is not a natural born citizen, we are all measuring our words in fear.
On the genocide in Gaza: it goes on with the full support of the global north (out of fear of Trump, likely, or because they are just as bad) Even countries that could do something to reduce Israel's leverage, like Brazil, that sends a lot of crude oil that will eventually be used to drop bombs are not doing anything President Lula says all the right things and does absolutely nothing, because capitalism cannot survive with deals with the devil. China is betting on the long game, that it will win if the world has the time China believes it has. Russia is "busy" bombing Ukraine. India doesn't care. The other smaller countries have even less leverage than Brazil.
It is depressing. It is also scary and enraging at the same time. I hate to think like this but most days I just think we are waiting for the end of the world, for the actual bomb to drop and ignite the ultimate catastrophe.
The only silver lining, a very thin one, that I can imagine that would at least give the people in Gaza and Palestine a little bit of hope and relief, is a huge workers movement, with people uniting to refuse to ship anything to Israel (happened a few times, in a very low scale).
Or someone who has the ears of Donald Trump to whisper that he could get the Nobel Peace Prize if he stops enabling the Israeli government. But even that could be temporary, knowing the man
The other solution we can all imagine and it doesn't need to be said here.
A magnificent program on the Gaza genocide and nuclear proliferation and nuclear war. How to stop the genocide in Gaza? Hassan El-Tayyeb discusses his work and that of the AFSC. Like the Holocaust, there seems to be no way to stop the juggernaut of both Israel and its allies, including its main supporter and supplier of armaments, the US. We’re dealing with authoritarian and lethal regimes who care nothing for the lives of innocent children, women, and men who are noncombatants. Absolutely beyond belief that a space for humanitarian removal of injured children won’t be supported!
I’ve written and protested and it seems to me, after a lifetime of activism and protest, that nothing can stop these fools and murderers.
In relationship to nuclear proliferation and the almost total lack of international arms agreements, similar arguments, in comparison to genocide, can be made that humankind has reached its nadir, and when the last major arms agreement ends, then the situation becomes worse than it was in October 1962 when there were at least a few adults in the “rooms” of power. We not only have no adults in those rooms now, we have several intellectually challenged imbeciles!
For any caring to read about my comparison of July 4, 1981, and July 4, 2025, please go to my article “The Fourth” at The Last New Leftist. I need readers and commentators...https://thelastnewleftist.com/the-fourth/
I believe monsters are "on" the way....A culture of voyeurs, not a needed correlation between war crimes, Constitutional crimes and pushback--an insidious and building mendacity that will stop at nothing to deliver more and more damage to society's conscience, orderly process and sanity. Trump and Netanyahu were scheming to actually drop a nuclear bomb on Tehran I believe--what stopped this were warnings within the Trump circles, Putin's and others' warnings--even the Christian-Zionists realize the limits of power, reckless abuse of social norms and the putative mandate of the Maga program to put "America first". Trump signaled his possible plans with his "Unconditional Surrender!" demand as well as demand that Tehran be emptied in advance of the "Bomb". The hideous recklessness will continue, new and devastating increases in crises lie ahead, there will be no safe haven, no "safe place", no "peace" for the wealthy. The dollar will collapse, the US reputation will continue to plummet, Trump the former socialite and attention grabber was infuriated at being the target of legal threats and financial death sentences that the best and brightest were aiming at him, he was in severe jeopardy a year ago and he will never permit the inevitable consequences of all his recklessness and unlimited capacity for shamelessness. He and Netanyahu are even now scheming for another and if it were possible yet far greater perfidious assaults on international outrage.
How about Ben meeting with "the Donald " this week in Washington to secure more ammo for the Gaza fiasco, Ben called off the war for 60 days so he could make sure he got the deal done , two state solution, Hamas to negotiate with ,,,are you kidding, not in Ben's Life time ,,. The bully Donald declared a United States war on Iran and dropped the big ones all show and tell to no avail ,,,Smoke that in your United Nations peace pipes , light them if you got them ,, have a dooly on me friends
I have to disagree with Ralph’s view that Hamas has an interest in promoting an under count of the victims of Israel’s genocide. Obviously Israel has this interest but Hamas was, I suspect, counting on an outcome that would shock the world’s moral sentiments. Their Health Ministry has a specific methodology. It is inherently undercounting in this situation by being limited to what they can verify. It dies not help them to offer estimates. They want the true numbers to come out.
Hamas provoked Isael in order to provoke actions that would shock the world, with the hope this shock would cause real change. Remember here Gazans were slowly dying and if nothing changed they were doomed. Hamas accelerated the process. And indeed once the world knows the real numbers, things will change. Not sure how much but they will change.
This seems curiously Gandhian, in that they are trying to force the world to see immortality and respond, but obviously different in their use of violence to do this.
Ralph - I have a question, what is the number of dead, if it were published or made known , that you think would trigger enough outrage in Congress or the populace for it to take action to stop it .... if it had been published at 100,000, would that have been enough? 200,000? 300,000? - what makes you think that 500,000 would do it ... I would really like to know, what is the "magic" number that would trigger it ... Considering that it is known there is a genocide, by all criterion, that is going on, how big must that genocide be before we say NO!
The point is that we the people should stop letting the media get away with the lies.
Here's a post that Ralph wrote last year about this:
https://nader.org/2025/02/22/stop-repeating-the-vast-undercount-of-gazan-deaths-it-is-ten-times-greater/
I'm writing a blog post about it too. When I'm done I'll post a link to it here.
Spin - I think you missed my point - do the numbers really matter when it is clear a genocide is in progress and has been ... and it needs to stop ...
Good morning,
Oh yes I agree.
I’m worried that Netanyahu is here to cook up an attack on American soil that Trump will sell as an excuse to invade Iran.
Here’s why.
I live in the Vail Valley. Luxury home inventory is up 3x from last year. Homes are staying on the market 90 days or more.
HELOC’s are booming. But people aren’t taking out the money to invest. They’re taking out the money to pay bills. In other words they’re over leveraged.
Sub prime debt is at all-time highs.
The working class can’t get ahead. Buying a home? No way.
Now add-in Trump. We already saw from this week’s social security email that he’s cooking the books. I believe they’re going to cook the economic data too - to hide the weak economy.
I think he’s in the Epstein files.
Add it all up, even Trump can’t get away with it - the economy will slide into recession. He’ll then use war to distract Americans.
spinbackwards,
Colorado has an unemployment rate of 4.8%, which is one of the highest in the country. Of course, we know about underemployment as well. With this data in mind, is anyone in your state advocating for a job guarantee program, especially a federal job guarantee program?
Let me cite some recently released data from Rice University’s Kinder Institute of Urban Studies’ 2025 Houston area study about my local area:
“A growing supermajority of Houston-area residents want something to be done to address the gap be-tween the rich and the poor. Since 2010, Harris County residents have regularly been asked whether they agree or disagree that “the government should take action to reduce economic inequality between the rich and poor.” Fifteen years ago, only 48% agreed with that statement. In other words, the majority did not think the government needed to act. Harris County residents no longer feel that way: In 2025, about 83% agreed they wanted to see the government take action to reduce economic inequality (Figure 21).
…
Widespread support was even greater for the government making sure that anyone who wants to work can find a job: 88% support in Fort Bend County, 89% support in Harris County, and 83% support in Montgomery County. Majority support existed for addressing economic inequality across political ideology as well.”
https://kinder.rice.edu/research/kinder-houston-area-survey-2025-results
https://rice.box.com/s/u3oigkr1frmz0hwlexqbuupq986newen
For some background, this data in the second paragraph includes data from the central county in the Houston area, Harris, but also one of the most conservative suburban counties in the Houston area, Montgomery County. Even still, look at how high the support is for increased government involvement in ensuring employment. A federal job guarantee program would be the easiest and most productive way to achieve this.
I’m sure the level of support in your area is something similar to what it is here and the need might be even greater given your area’s high unemployment rate and I’m guessing also a high income inequality rate. Is anyone advocating for a federal job guarantee program in your area? If so, how are they advocating for it. If it isn’t being advocated for, why not?
Good morning,
I just got off the phone with a friend who's on the right, but not a Trumper. He's a successful real estate agent.
He's full on with the idea that the working class should be the countries focus. He agrees that Trump ran on a populist platform, and lied about it.
I talked to him about Mamdani's platform. He seemed reticent to embrace it, mainly because Zohran is a self-avowed Democratic Socialist.
I believe your point is that the country should focus on the working class as well? If so I couldn't agree more. I'm an America first guy, something else Trump lied about.
However I think we're a long ways away from a populist/FDR theme taking root in America. Why? Social media. People are hooked on it, they're literally being brainwashed.
My wife gets her lashes done by a woman who's a Trumper. When my wife brings up America first, the working class struggle, or some of Trump's other obvious lies such as "no tax on tips", "no tax on social security", and "no tax on overtime", she won't hear it. If my wife brings up Epstein, she won't hear it.
So these Trumper folks seem to be a long ways from reconciliation that they've been duped.
I believe Trump and his gang know that enough Americans are going to catch on that they pose a risk to their power which they don't plan on ever giving up. Hence, they'll invade Iran.
I'm glad to see the data from Houston. It's a positive sign. It's also a good sign that plenty on the left have had it with Obama era politics. There's a reason why AOC, Bernie, and now Zohran are the stars of the party. It's because they're all focusing on affordability. But we're also seeing a major offensive against this uprising, funded by the Democratic establishment, and donor class.
What is the solution? Reform the Democratic party. Form a citizens group that's millions strong, much like the Tea Party did. This is what I'm trying to do, here:
https://www.townhallcitizen.com
I can't even begin to describe how hard this is. Because I don't have a platform, I don't have anyone helping me, I don't have the funds to pay for meetings (it costs money to rent meeting space and pay for insurance), I don't have the time to spend on social media all day trying to get people to pay attention. I've already put about $5k of my own money into this. Here's my expenses so far, which I need to update.
https://www.townhallcitizen.com/wheres-the-money-coming-from-wheres-it-going/
I don't have F U money. I can't keep doing this alone. Ralph talks about citizens groups, he's right. But no one talks about how hard this is.
spinbackwards,
Social media is a problem, but I think it helps for all of us to take a step back and evaluate our own narratives. Let’s look at unemployment, for example.
Those on the left tend to view unemployment as a structural problem. Government policies and the inherent nature of capitalism leads to unemployment. Those on the right tend to focus more on factors related to the individuals who are unemployed. To them, the unemployed might lack proper skills or lack the knowledge of job-seeking skills and willingness to seek employment.
The reality is that all of the above contributes to unemployment in some form or fashion. Decades ago, there was some consensus that public education can help solve these problems and so those on the left and right have long been in coalition about using public education to further employment. Even still, we can see that public education alone isn’t enough to ensure full employment.
There seems to be wide agreement that government can do more to ensure employment. This is a great victory and opportunity for leftists as it is, in some ways, an admission by those on the right that government action is necessary to solve this problem. Of course, for this to truly be a victory for everyone involved, some sort of coalition needs to be formed to get meaningful action.
A federal job guarantee program has a lot of benefits for everyone involved, and so that must be communicated. A job guarantee program which is designed to be temporary so that unemployed workers can transition into the private sector speaks to those on the right as it addresses their prime concerns that leftists aren’t concerned about private sector employment and also it keeps unemployed workers skills up rather than letting them become flaccid during unemployment. It is known that employers prefer to hire already employed people versus unemployed people since there are assumptions that those who are already employed are better workers.
The job guarantee program stabilizes the economy by acting as a buffer stock of labor in a similar way that buffer stocks stabilize agricultural prices and so forth. Economies in recovery can sometimes turn inflationary since there is a lack of skilled labor to meet productive demands. Keeping labor in a ready state via the job guarantee fights this problem. This is an inflation-fighting tactic. Setting the job guarantee wage at the lowest livable wage acts as an unofficial minimum wage for all workers, not just those in traditional hourly wage jobs.
As we saw during the Covid era, when unemployment was high for obvious reasons, there were many concerns about unemployment and what it does to individuals’ mental health and society as a whole in terms of crime, homelessness, and so forth. These memories are still fresh in the minds of many, and in many places especially out west, they are still relevant concerns.
The benefits of the job guarantee program are vast, and they speak to both the leftist position of structural failures and the right position of individual shortcomings. Focusing on this, rather than getting into divisive arguments that are common on social media should do a lot to focus the conversation on shared goals.
Here's my blog post.
https://www.townhallcitizen.com/ralph-nader-stop-repeating-the-vast-undercount-of-gazan-deaths-it-is-far-greater/
In the post I link to an AP post that discredits what I think Ralph was mentioning when he said "population shrinkage". It'd be good if either Ralph or someone from the show could provide more support for the 400,000 number, as well as respond to the AP post.
Here's a recent AP post where the writer claims that the 400,000 "disappeared" number that surfaced this week is misleading.
I'd love to hear what Ralph has to say.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-harvard-study-gaza-missing-palestinians-86b40dc1de388e860927495c00880d59
Thank you Ralph, I’ve listened to you for decades. I agonize over Gaza and the cruelty of the US.
David Cay Johnston has been sounding a lot of alarms on Trump; with Mark Thompson he discussed what would be coming with a nuclear bomb hitting an "enemy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCF24wl0G4 A military dictatorship would follow, we are well on the way for some form of that happening. Another good interview with Johnston on the big ugly bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2st-8ruMQ
Now there is an interesting idea, impeaching SC justices - these Justices, in their furtherance of the concept of a "unitary executive", who, in essence, has not only sidelined Congress as one of the 3 co-equal branches of Gov't, but, in essence, has sidelined the roll of the SC itself in deciding "what the law is", the SC has essentially tossed the Const. into the trash .... As it has gutted Congress and itself, why bother going through the motions of going "up the chain" of the judiciary, just so the Pres can be rubber stamped, "officially"
So Bruce, do you have such articles of impeachment written up - and have you talked to any member of Congress about them - It seems to me that Congress, unless all of its members have been beaten into submission, would at least give them a hearing. The practicality of how to bring it about would be an interesting topic worth pursuing. Did the members of Congress (both Ds and Rs) who voted to confirm those miscreants intend that the decisions of this Court would be the outcome of their votes - did they understand that this Court is making them irrelevant the "business" of Gov't, that both they and the Court are simply appendages of the Pres.. Do they realize that all those folks who ran around with "No Kings!" signs the other day weren't kidding ...
Point in time
Project Roomkey [1] is a federally (FEMA) funded homeless relief initiative in the state of California. The program was launched in April 2020.[2]
The project was expected to end in late 2020, as it was initially intended to help homeless people socially distance during the peak of the pandemic. However for a time it was continued and was expanded[3] in March 2021 with the Los Angeles City Council approving a measure that would allow the city to compel hotel owners to participate in the program even if they did not want to.
National publications such as Newsweek have noted that the program is reserved for homeless individuals aged 65 or older or who have an underlying medical condition.[4] As of March 22, 2021, LA County had counted 48,038 unsheltered people, 15,000 rooms promised, 2,261 rooms under contract, 2,261 rooms operational and 1,724 rooms occupied. By these numbers, 28% of the operational
You can see the dialogue
And interest begin to interfere with progress in separating ans building of demographics
Back to the effective sentences
Remove those Obstructionists
I can process my paperwork
The panic of pandemic and the alignment is gone
The census count is routine
A poem to encourage you. https://substack.com/@poetpastor/note/p-167338050?r=5gejob&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Re impeachment of Federal Judges - please note ...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/143/text
If there is to be a battle about impeachment of Judges, let's start at the top ...
I haven't been able to listen to the episode yet and my comments are based on the comments here. About the impeachment: if most congresspeople in the republican side are like my congressman, it is a waste of time to call them. I cannot have a meeting in the local office anymore because, according to the staffer, "I don't agree with congressman Cory Mills". Yes, they will only consider the opinion and requests of people who agre with him. Coward Cory is afraid of Trump. And this is true for many others. Nothing will happen
I know Ralph says that the republican congress did eventually turn on Nixon. The problem I see is that we don't have time. Fascism is here and it is winning. I am 99% sure that the masked thugs snatching people off the streets posing as ICE agents are white supremacists, the Proud Boys and others who were pardoned by Trump and deputized by him to violently perform the theater. It is terrible. They are threatening anyone who is not a natural born citizen, we are all measuring our words in fear.
On the genocide in Gaza: it goes on with the full support of the global north (out of fear of Trump, likely, or because they are just as bad) Even countries that could do something to reduce Israel's leverage, like Brazil, that sends a lot of crude oil that will eventually be used to drop bombs are not doing anything President Lula says all the right things and does absolutely nothing, because capitalism cannot survive with deals with the devil. China is betting on the long game, that it will win if the world has the time China believes it has. Russia is "busy" bombing Ukraine. India doesn't care. The other smaller countries have even less leverage than Brazil.
It is depressing. It is also scary and enraging at the same time. I hate to think like this but most days I just think we are waiting for the end of the world, for the actual bomb to drop and ignite the ultimate catastrophe.
The only silver lining, a very thin one, that I can imagine that would at least give the people in Gaza and Palestine a little bit of hope and relief, is a huge workers movement, with people uniting to refuse to ship anything to Israel (happened a few times, in a very low scale).
Or someone who has the ears of Donald Trump to whisper that he could get the Nobel Peace Prize if he stops enabling the Israeli government. But even that could be temporary, knowing the man
The other solution we can all imagine and it doesn't need to be said here.
Thank you.
A magnificent program on the Gaza genocide and nuclear proliferation and nuclear war. How to stop the genocide in Gaza? Hassan El-Tayyeb discusses his work and that of the AFSC. Like the Holocaust, there seems to be no way to stop the juggernaut of both Israel and its allies, including its main supporter and supplier of armaments, the US. We’re dealing with authoritarian and lethal regimes who care nothing for the lives of innocent children, women, and men who are noncombatants. Absolutely beyond belief that a space for humanitarian removal of injured children won’t be supported!
I’ve written and protested and it seems to me, after a lifetime of activism and protest, that nothing can stop these fools and murderers.
In relationship to nuclear proliferation and the almost total lack of international arms agreements, similar arguments, in comparison to genocide, can be made that humankind has reached its nadir, and when the last major arms agreement ends, then the situation becomes worse than it was in October 1962 when there were at least a few adults in the “rooms” of power. We not only have no adults in those rooms now, we have several intellectually challenged imbeciles!
For any caring to read about my comparison of July 4, 1981, and July 4, 2025, please go to my article “The Fourth” at The Last New Leftist. I need readers and commentators...https://thelastnewleftist.com/the-fourth/
Why doesn’t the US or the world care? Monsters are in the way!
We do care. But getting people to sign petitions is like pulling teeth from a hen.
Comprehensive petition covers US, Gaza Authoritarianism and Fascism..
https://chng.it/xbHFfDgcMN
Signed
Thank you Nathan
Thanks. I know lots of us do. Some of us , most of us are brainwashed by either side.
Thanks Nathan. Sometimes it's hard to see our hand right in front of our face
Anti Authoritarian and anti Fascism Petition.
https://chng.it/xbHFfDgcMN
I believe monsters are "on" the way....A culture of voyeurs, not a needed correlation between war crimes, Constitutional crimes and pushback--an insidious and building mendacity that will stop at nothing to deliver more and more damage to society's conscience, orderly process and sanity. Trump and Netanyahu were scheming to actually drop a nuclear bomb on Tehran I believe--what stopped this were warnings within the Trump circles, Putin's and others' warnings--even the Christian-Zionists realize the limits of power, reckless abuse of social norms and the putative mandate of the Maga program to put "America first". Trump signaled his possible plans with his "Unconditional Surrender!" demand as well as demand that Tehran be emptied in advance of the "Bomb". The hideous recklessness will continue, new and devastating increases in crises lie ahead, there will be no safe haven, no "safe place", no "peace" for the wealthy. The dollar will collapse, the US reputation will continue to plummet, Trump the former socialite and attention grabber was infuriated at being the target of legal threats and financial death sentences that the best and brightest were aiming at him, he was in severe jeopardy a year ago and he will never permit the inevitable consequences of all his recklessness and unlimited capacity for shamelessness. He and Netanyahu are even now scheming for another and if it were possible yet far greater perfidious assaults on international outrage.
Hope the AFSC has excellent Security Detail for EACH of its Members.
DCs ZioNaziCONgress has already tried to criminalize Church Groups that
oppose the ZioHeretic EXPROPRIATION of Judaism and their
RabidlyRacist, NaziApartheid TERRORISTState
On point my friend
https://open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/they-gutted-public-lands-in-the-reconciliation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=10o57p
https://substack.com/@francesc547233/note/c-133756986?r=10o57p
How about Ben meeting with "the Donald " this week in Washington to secure more ammo for the Gaza fiasco, Ben called off the war for 60 days so he could make sure he got the deal done , two state solution, Hamas to negotiate with ,,,are you kidding, not in Ben's Life time ,,. The bully Donald declared a United States war on Iran and dropped the big ones all show and tell to no avail ,,,Smoke that in your United Nations peace pipes , light them if you got them ,, have a dooly on me friends
Good luck America have a great day my friends
I have to disagree with Ralph’s view that Hamas has an interest in promoting an under count of the victims of Israel’s genocide. Obviously Israel has this interest but Hamas was, I suspect, counting on an outcome that would shock the world’s moral sentiments. Their Health Ministry has a specific methodology. It is inherently undercounting in this situation by being limited to what they can verify. It dies not help them to offer estimates. They want the true numbers to come out.
Hamas provoked Isael in order to provoke actions that would shock the world, with the hope this shock would cause real change. Remember here Gazans were slowly dying and if nothing changed they were doomed. Hamas accelerated the process. And indeed once the world knows the real numbers, things will change. Not sure how much but they will change.
This seems curiously Gandhian, in that they are trying to force the world to see immortality and respond, but obviously different in their use of violence to do this.