The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Mayday! Mayday! U.S. has soft coup d'état May 1, 2024: The day America was Zionized by an "Antisemitism Awareness Act" CAT MCGUIRE NB - There are many righteous Jews in the world, Jews of conscience. This essay is not necessarily referring to you. “Mayday” is an internationally-recognized word signaling “Emergency — All hands on deck!” America  is  in an emergency, and too few people are grasping that what has transpired is just the tip of the iceberg. Soft coup d’états are not foreign to America. For example, our history includes the following soft coups: 1963 - the assassination in broad daylight of President John F. Kennedy 1974 - the forced resignation of President Richard Nixon 2000 - a judicial coup when SCOTUS threw the election to George W. Bush 2020 - the stolen election of President Donald Trump who won by a landslide Yet, on May 1st (a different May Day signal of sorts), by a 320 to 91 vote the  House of Representatives passed H.R. 6090 , a/k/a the Antis...

  Of Journalists, Students and Power PATRICK LAWRENCE The original Gaza Solidarity Encampment, just minutes after NYPD arrested ~100 protesters, and still surrounded by a large protesting crowd of students as well as bystanders. عباد ديرانية, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The American media are never short of red-letter days when it comes to their wonderful combination of superciliousness and irresponsibility. But last week the mainstream dailies and magazines went all the way to scarlet and alizarin crimson. The brighter the better, I say, when the derelictions of our media are on display such that readers can no longer miss the deceptions and distractions that are at this point their intent. I was reading along over breakfast last Thursday in search of the overnight news on the Israeli–U.S. genocide in Gaza when I came upon the headline in The New York Times, “Laundry Detergent Sheets Are Poor Cleaners.” Wow. This is a story The Times had been following since its April 5 opener, “Th...