The absolutely most heartbreaking moment of the DNC Convention was the appearance of Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, American-Israeli parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The entire crowd was in sympathy and in tears as Rachel and Jon told the story of their son’s kidnapping and the 109 people, including 45 Americans, who were still held hostage … Read more
I was going to tear the MAGA Caucus apart today, but woke up to Jay Kuo having already done so quite effectively on in partnership with the Substack the Big Picture, so I am just going to quote him here and encourage readers to subscribe to his own SubStack the Status Kuo, as I do. … Read more
The narrative we are being fed by the Republican noise machine – and that mainstream media is only too happy to amplify for them – that the border is ‘overrun‘, ‘out of control‘ or a ‘crisis‘, is bullshit. And far too many Democrats are buying into that tall tale and blaming Joe Biden for the … Read more
A Ukraine news service reports, Ukraine Says Russia Blows Up Major Dnieper Dam In Act Of ‘Ecocide,’ Orders Mass Evacuation: Ukraine has accused Russia of blowing up a huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnieper River in a Moscow-occupied area in the south, sending millions of liters of water cascading through the region in what President … Read more
A little more than two weeks before the start of summer, the long anticipated spring counteroffensive in Ukraine has begun. The New York Times reports, U.S. Officials See Signs of a Counteroffensive in Ukraine (excerpt): The U.S. and Russia say that a major Ukrainian operation has begun. Ukrainian forces have stepped up artillery strikes and … Read more