The Supreme Court didn’t just fail to uphold justice — it enabled a nightmare in which legal protections mean nothing, human rights are ignored, and fear becomes the tool of control…
The term, "homeland," which was used by Nazis and Soviets, and which was pointed out to GWB at the time.
Nazi Germany:
Heimat and "Lebensraum": The Nazis used the term Heimat (homeland) to evoke feelings of belonging and pride in a shared German identity. This concept was then interwoven with their ideology of Lebensraum (living space).
Racial Justification: Nazi propaganda explicitly linked the idea of a German homeland to their racial theories. They argued that the "racially superior" Germanic people had a right to expand their territory and dominate "inferior races," particularly in Eastern Europe. This was used to justify aggressive territorial expansion and the subjugation of Slavic populations.
National Unity: Nazi propaganda aimed to create a sense of a unified German "national community" (Volksgemeinschaft) based on shared racial identity and loyalty to the Nazi regime.
Soviet Union:
Rodina and "Great Patriotic War": The Soviets utilized the term Rodina (Motherland) to galvanize patriotism and motivate citizens to defend the Soviet Union. The "Great Patriotic War," used to describe World War II, evoked the earlier patriotic war against Napoleon, bolstering morale.
Contradictory Nationalism: Stalinist policies promoted a complex form of nationalism. While fostering loyalty to the Russian "Motherland" and Soviet "Fatherland," they also advocated for "friendship of the peoples" within the USSR and even the "ethnicization" of some nationalities.
Political Loyalty: Love of the homeland and the Soviet state became principles of loyalty.
Similarities:
Propaganda Tools: Both regimes used similar propaganda techniques, including visual materials, speeches, and public events, to promote their respective versions of the "homeland" concept.
Appealing to Nationalism: Both the Nazis and Soviets successfully tapped into existing nationalistic sentiments to build support for their ideologies and actions.
Actually the Soviets were pretty smart in giving minorities their own toy governments within Russia and the larger ones supposedly "separate" countries. (Of course when the Lithuanians actually exercised their right to leave the Union that caught Moscow in a bind.) The czars had tried to make everybody Russian in language and culture. That led to horrific push back from the Poles, Finns, and other groups who correctly felt their national identities were being attacked. Lenin and Trotsky handled this more carefully, conquering where they could be leaving local cultures (at least on paper) as acceptable local partners, and Stalin after all wasn't even a Russian. Except for Trump's pushing English as the national language and the long-term assumption that "of course" everybody is a Christian there hasn't been a real attempt to create "an American" since maybe the Chinese Exclusion Act, some of the World War 1 anti-German legislation and the WW 2 internment camps. But that's not to say creating such a "racial" ideal isn't a dream of this rotten gang.
Trump is an ignoramous, but he knows how to invoke hatred of. "the other."
Stalin's homeland for the Jews was a thousand miles from the "pale of settlement" where most Jews actually lived.
In the same village, can have Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish native speakers.
See what I tell Farrar about public education.
The Balkan countries were't part of the Soviet Union until late in the game, after 1939, when they attacked Poland.
Before WWI, Poland, Finland and the Balkans were contriolled by Russia, which forced the Russian language down their throats. In other parts of Poland, German was the official language.
In some countries, like Spain, where Castillian is the national language, most people speak something else or at best a dialect that is completely different than the official language. Ask soimeone from Barcelona where they are from.
In France, they supressed Longemoc which was the predominant language.
My dad could speak Welsh, which is close to Scottish, Irish, and Basque, which he learned from my grandma, who could speak several languages .
I agree about whipping up hate, which is sadly far too easy. Actually Stalin’s Jewish homeland (established in 1928) was even further away, by Manchuria, and didn’t attract many people. Few Yiddish speakers are left there today, though legally it is an autonomous area. And of course the ethnic mixes in eastern Europe made drawing boundaries very difficult (incidentally Czarist Russia did not control the Balkans, although it had a lot of influence in Bulgaria and Serbia). I agree about the languages—I’ve heard a lot of Catalonian in eastern Spain and Gaelic in Scotland. Generally speaking I don’t think Americans understand how people keep their long histories—and feuds—in mind. We go in and offer (truly or not) “democracy” and “freedom” to them having no understanding of the historical and social complexities of tribal societies, or how they view their neighbors. The results are predictable, especially in the Middle East.
At least in Europe people seem to have sometimes gone beyond this to larger viewpoints, such as the wide use of English that I saw in Poland and the Baltic States last year. But old memories simmer, and sometime erupt as between Serbia and Croatia or how Russia still thinks it can take over the Ukraine without paying attention to the bitter memories of the past. There are strong reasons why many Ukrainians fought with the Germans against the Russians, while many also fought with the Russians against the Germans. Maybe Putin hasn’t learned a thing about mixing into such histories either.
For the past 25 years, my spouse and I spend our summers in my spouse's inherited family house in central Bulgaria. Most Bulgarians understand Russian, even today, as they use the same Cyrilic alphabet, and still very much identify with the Soviet or yore. The langauge is more like the distinction between American English and Skootish - sounds different but Americans can get the gist.
Being EU, all street signs include Latin letter versions of the Cyrilic city names. It is also very obvious that over-achieving Bulgarians learn English, and most expatriate embracing dual citizenships.
Putin must have confused Ukraine with Bulgaria in one sense. He probably could have marched into Sofia with welcome arms. But, Crimea had such a great port and could be more lucratively exploited.
I do find the Bulgarian affection for Russia to be odd given that when the USSR imploded, Russia left the next day leaving a country with no government infrastructure or wealth. It feels even today like East Germany after the wall came down. A key difference was that we Americans came into Germany and helped their communist dictatorship evolve into democracy and capitalism. Although Chemnitz is still rather pro-Soviet.
Well I enjoyed visiting when the Iron Curtain was still up (trains from Luxembourg to Tehran). And Bulgaria definitely has a good reputation for how it protected Jews during the war. I guess the affection goes back to the 1885 revolt against the Turks. I would be glad to come back.
Can we discuss ethnicization Daniel. The term is one that is not familiar.
Ethnicization refers to the process by which a group's identity is defined and treated as ethnic, often shaping social interactions and structures. It's a complex phenomenon influenced by social and political dynamics, impacting how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others. Ethnicization can be seen in various contexts, including immigration and the formation of ethnic identities within societies
AFIK, Stalin's approach to ethnicity, is more or less the same as Islam's, he "officially" disregarded race (a necessity since the USSR and the Federation are a conglomerate of race and ethnicities.
Contrast that to America which historically and unofficially is racist, trending to official under Trump.
The organizing principle of Islam is religion, either you are in or you are out, the USSR's organizing principle was the state religion, either you were in or you were out.
Officially the USSR, and the Federation, are inclusive, and actually sponsored the education of Africans in Moscow, but the reality was and is different.
Putins army is comprised of conscripts and bribed foot soldiers from Siberia and Republic which are mostly of Turkomen and Mongol ancestry.
Those mercenaries from Chechnya and the North Caucus, though Muslim, are Caucasian.
In case you missed it, I am the author of Miami'90, where I discuss it in part.
1990 was when DNA became accepted by most courts as valid evidence.
The thing about America is we were born as a refuge, either a melting pot or a salad bowl, regardless of what's in the Consitution. Today I'm wrioting about Josi Marti, who lived in the US for 15 years but never became a citizen. While he was living in NY, attended Walt Whitman's 1887 Lincoln address and wrote "El poeta Walt Whitman." Published in Argentina's La Nación and disseminated throughout the Spanish-speaking world and started a "Whitman cult" in Hispanic literature. While Martí begins his essay citing a portrait of Whitman as aged prophet-bard, the composite he draws is of the New World "natural man" of relation who is transcendental brother and lover, spawn of "man on a new continent" with a "robust philosophy." Martí hears Whitman's charging verse as "sounds [that] ring like the earth's mighty shell when it is trodden by triumphant armies, barefoot and glorious". It is Whitman the bearded bard, the all-embracing liberator, who arrives in Spain and Spanish America in Martí's essay. (Quoting myself.)
Whitman ala the Unitarian movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau etc.
Emma Lazarus published the New Colosius, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty. Gove me...huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The whole idea of public education according to founders like Horace Mann and Thaddeus Stevens was homonization of disparate groups of Americans.
The republican hacks controlling the high court chose an obviously unconstitutional EO to outlaw nationwide injunctions. They did this at a time when our executive is criminally insane, and demonstrably so.
They also did it with originalism rhetoric that makes no sense- Just as they did in Dobbs, they focused on laws from the 1700s and 1800s and shit-canned the relevance of the last 100 years to reach their desired conclusion. That they chose this case- where Trump's overreach so obviously violated the constitution-to reach this outcome is shocking. It delivers the permission structure for Trump to do his worst- he can declare anything he wants, order ICE goons to attack and imprison anyone he wants- and there can be no injunction to stop him. The upshot of this outrageous case is that, to protect your constitutional rights, you have to sue, personally. Or join a class action, the most cumbersome legal vehicle there is. I defended class actions for over a decade; each class takes years to certify.
I wrote a substack about this yesterday- the Roberts court will have blood on its hands within the week.
I share your disgust at the republicans on the SC. I don't know how Sotomayor, Kagan, and Johnson suck it up to be in the same room with them. I actually wrote a letter addressing all three of them about how sorry I was about the distress they must feel going to work (Sotomayor said there are times that she locks herself in her office and cries).
I am absolutely convinced that these "face-hidden thugs" are pardoned insurrectionist. What will keep them from shooting people in broad daylight when trump will keep pardoning them?
At the University of Florida Levin School of Law, named for a Jew in a state founded in large part by Jews like its first House member who became a senator who had two counties named in his honor, whose father envisioned Florida as a home for threatened Jews, a racist antisemite was awarded a prize for an antisemitic rant, based on "originalism."
That student, Preston Damsky, is under investigation for antisemitic social media posts, raising First Amendment concerns. From Talahassee Democrat.
Damsky, who identifies as a white nationalist, quoted a historian advocating for the "abolishment" of Jews but claims his post wasn't a call to violence.
Experts say the case hinges on whether Damsky's posts constitute a true threat, while the university faces pressure amid Florida's stance against antisemitism on campuses.
As a card carrying semite, I've been advocating that groups like the Nazis, who advocate extermination of folks like me should be outlawed. These people don't want to deport us, they want to exterminate us.
I thought names ending in Sky were Jewish, and names ending in Ski were Slavic.
And you are correct Daniel, those people want to exterminate the Jews, thus the puzzlement of Jews like Miller, Cohen, Weiss, palling around with NAZIs.
What about it?And what does your question have to do with the subject, other than displaying your antipathy towards Jews. ( I hate the word antisemitic, is so much propaganda and b.s, but it does address the lamentable prevalence of antipathy, hatred and illogical suspicion towards Jews.
On the subject of a genocidal war. The word genocide has been bastardized till real genocide is unrecognizable, for instance the only war of genocide going on, that meets the definition in the UN Charter for Prevention of Genocide, is that of Vladimir Putin and his war on the Ukrainiian culture, language and people.
Gaza is horrible but there is only one party responsible for it, the party that started it and could have ended it, had not HAMAS been using civilians and hostages as human shields, they could stop it tomorrow, they could have stopped it when all of the leaders and planners of Oct 7th were killed, but it is a war, not over territory, but a religious war a war of extinction waged by Islam against Jews. And to that effect I can quote the HAMAS covenant and Islamic relgious texts.
Supreme Court's death-ruling list just keeps getting longer.
That feeling of being "hunted" is exactly what Trump, Miller, their Syndicate and Cult achieved. It wasn't enough for the sadists; they had to add unbearable conditions while in custody, no contact with relatives or lawyers, no due process, and thanks to this ruling, a possible life sentence or death penalty in a foreign nation. This is the thanks America and SCOTUS gives to the workers that help feed us, build and repair our homes, and take care of our children.
Impeachment and shunning are the only remedy for the corrupt, religious zealots, and sadistic members of SCOTUS. When we take the House, Trump and his cabal of six Justices need to be impeached. Maybe we won't have enough Senators to convict, but they have to go down in history as exactly what they are: the disgusting criminals and ideologues that hi-jacked our Constitution, tore families apart, caused financial ruin, and are responsible for deaths.
Thank you Thom and Company---stay loud. See you in the streets.
Trump would be nothing without a treasonous, fascist Supreme Court. Obviously planned for years, it still is amazing how easy it was to pull the wool over the eyes of so many Americans. I'm not quite 80, but I really think I've lived too long.
Tom Heartmann's genius comes full circle in this article. I was thinking the same thing about Der Furher myself. Somone in Trumps circle is a NAZI at heart ,and must have studied how Hitler was able to take over power and set a template for Trump. Trumps real last name is Drumph a very german name so you can take it from there. Gerbiels did not have Fox news and the internet to spread the fear and propoganda. I fear it is too late we are in a Dictatorship now. The next decade will be lost if we cannot rid our selves of this awful man!!
Well there was barely any protest when Bush's rotten wars led to torture chambers, so the fact that most citizens ignore this too is not surprising. If it doesn't affect them they are more worried about meeting the bills (thanks in large part to the economy created since Reagan's time) than protesting. Anyway, there is no clear path to change things and they've been told that government is "the problem" often enough, so why bother?
Of course there's nothing to stop this from going further...perhaps looking at one's ancestry to make sure that it is "pure" enough? And you know this gang will turn on anyone. Using pro-Palestinian speeches and writings as an excuse to terrorize dissidents was slick but it won’t end with that. In time they could blame Israel (and by extension all Jews, even non-Zionist ones) for whatever problems they want to. That is easier than accepting responsibility for bad decisions. And it doesn't have to be a Kristallnacht either, just looking the other way as "action is taken" will be enough, and only a few have to be made examples of to quiet the rest. When one person is not safe no one is safe, but getting that message out in time is the hard part.
1. Bush rotten wars. My friend and former colleague is running for Congress. https://moedavis.com/
As a prosecutor ethically bound to build a case based on reliable evidence, he said he had no choice but to refuse his superior’s order to use information obtained in that way. As Davis later explained his action under questioning in one of the trials: “The guy who said water-boarding is ‘A-OK’, I was not going to take orders from. And I quit.”
2. DNA. "perhaps looking at one's ancestry to make sure that it is "pure" enough? "
3. I bristle at all the BS told about the middle east. Israel is a diverse country. The PA is opposing Hamas, to the extent that the media needs a score card to tell the players. Same for Iran. Roughly 300,000 Israeli Jews speak Farsi as a first languaguae. More speak Arabic as a first language.....
To whit: 'I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.' In simple words - Homo sapiens' unwise suicide. Time to flow into the field of quantum entanglement, preferably in some woods or a quiet beach or a field of grass. As to those possible choices, Thoreau observed - 'the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
They don't care -- and although their people are targeted for deportation, neither do Republican Hispanic politicians. My MAGAT House rep at Latin CPAP.
“Trump will be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery, and what Reagan was for communism,” said Maria Elvira Salazar.
"Pee Wee German may well have studied this history, as it appears the US deportation schemes to foreign hellholes like El Salvador and South Sudan are explicitly designed to produce terror among brown-skinned immigrants."
Not just brown or black skinned immigrants, But the ruling of the fascist six, basically gives Trump the right to do whatever he wants, including disappearing you, I , any of us. ACB's farcial remedy is a class action law suit, however John Roberts has demonstrated his animosity to such, as has Thomas and Alito, and they can and do kill such with the shadow docket.
I know I am the paragon of doom and gloom, and I take no pleasure, but I don't see any remedy, except overthrowing the regime from within (almost impossible) or from without, and that means that the other nations that prostrate themselves at Trumps feet, begging him to buy their wares, will have to suck it up, for the sake of humanity, and their countries (and ours) endure the pain.
Here is Trump's power over the world, and over us. The credit card, debt. These empower consumerism. America's super power is consumption, the world produces we consume, consumption means jobs, economic activity, financing, and is the life blood of a nations economy.
And we are the worlds greatest consumers because of the credit card, we swipe it for everything from groceries and gas to pet food and shoe laces, and thus create a demand..but also vehicles and housing, as they are made of many parts imported .
A totalitarian regime, like the one we find ourselves living under, can only be taken down from without or without. And as history has proven, when taken down from within, you wind up with something even worse.
The USSR didn't disappear, it simply morphed, the USSR was the KGB, and all the KGB did was change its name to the FSB. The trusts that ran the economy were sold off for pennies to oligarchs, who were either former KGB agents, or had KGB connections.
Hey Kids! Do you have a brown or tan skin color? Is your last name Hispanic-sounding? Then you may qualify for our brand-new ICE-sponsored summer camp program! ICE, sounds pretty cool, doesn't it! Imagine, you — and your parents too (don't want to leave Mom and Dad behind!) — may qualify for an all-expenses paid vacation to the sunny beaches of El Salvador! Or even more amazing, imagine a trip to Sudan! Yes, Sudan, a country you probably have never heard of! Don't have a passport? Don't worry! Are you a natural-born citizen of these United States? No problemo! Why should that be an obstacle to your very own DREAM summer vacation (and autumn... and winter... and spring...)? Don't worry about finding us, we'll find you! Hasta la vista!
I have wondered why DHS (a Bush invention) is not currently referred to by the MSM as the "Trump Gestapo" because that is all they are today.
The term, "homeland," which was used by Nazis and Soviets, and which was pointed out to GWB at the time.
Nazi Germany:
Heimat and "Lebensraum": The Nazis used the term Heimat (homeland) to evoke feelings of belonging and pride in a shared German identity. This concept was then interwoven with their ideology of Lebensraum (living space).
Racial Justification: Nazi propaganda explicitly linked the idea of a German homeland to their racial theories. They argued that the "racially superior" Germanic people had a right to expand their territory and dominate "inferior races," particularly in Eastern Europe. This was used to justify aggressive territorial expansion and the subjugation of Slavic populations.
National Unity: Nazi propaganda aimed to create a sense of a unified German "national community" (Volksgemeinschaft) based on shared racial identity and loyalty to the Nazi regime.
Soviet Union:
Rodina and "Great Patriotic War": The Soviets utilized the term Rodina (Motherland) to galvanize patriotism and motivate citizens to defend the Soviet Union. The "Great Patriotic War," used to describe World War II, evoked the earlier patriotic war against Napoleon, bolstering morale.
Contradictory Nationalism: Stalinist policies promoted a complex form of nationalism. While fostering loyalty to the Russian "Motherland" and Soviet "Fatherland," they also advocated for "friendship of the peoples" within the USSR and even the "ethnicization" of some nationalities.
Political Loyalty: Love of the homeland and the Soviet state became principles of loyalty.
Similarities:
Propaganda Tools: Both regimes used similar propaganda techniques, including visual materials, speeches, and public events, to promote their respective versions of the "homeland" concept.
Appealing to Nationalism: Both the Nazis and Soviets successfully tapped into existing nationalistic sentiments to build support for their ideologies and actions.
Actually the Soviets were pretty smart in giving minorities their own toy governments within Russia and the larger ones supposedly "separate" countries. (Of course when the Lithuanians actually exercised their right to leave the Union that caught Moscow in a bind.) The czars had tried to make everybody Russian in language and culture. That led to horrific push back from the Poles, Finns, and other groups who correctly felt their national identities were being attacked. Lenin and Trotsky handled this more carefully, conquering where they could be leaving local cultures (at least on paper) as acceptable local partners, and Stalin after all wasn't even a Russian. Except for Trump's pushing English as the national language and the long-term assumption that "of course" everybody is a Christian there hasn't been a real attempt to create "an American" since maybe the Chinese Exclusion Act, some of the World War 1 anti-German legislation and the WW 2 internment camps. But that's not to say creating such a "racial" ideal isn't a dream of this rotten gang.
Trump is an ignoramous, but he knows how to invoke hatred of. "the other."
Stalin's homeland for the Jews was a thousand miles from the "pale of settlement" where most Jews actually lived.
In the same village, can have Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Polish native speakers.
See what I tell Farrar about public education.
The Balkan countries were't part of the Soviet Union until late in the game, after 1939, when they attacked Poland.
Before WWI, Poland, Finland and the Balkans were contriolled by Russia, which forced the Russian language down their throats. In other parts of Poland, German was the official language.
In some countries, like Spain, where Castillian is the national language, most people speak something else or at best a dialect that is completely different than the official language. Ask soimeone from Barcelona where they are from.
In France, they supressed Longemoc which was the predominant language.
My dad could speak Welsh, which is close to Scottish, Irish, and Basque, which he learned from my grandma, who could speak several languages .
I agree about whipping up hate, which is sadly far too easy. Actually Stalin’s Jewish homeland (established in 1928) was even further away, by Manchuria, and didn’t attract many people. Few Yiddish speakers are left there today, though legally it is an autonomous area. And of course the ethnic mixes in eastern Europe made drawing boundaries very difficult (incidentally Czarist Russia did not control the Balkans, although it had a lot of influence in Bulgaria and Serbia). I agree about the languages—I’ve heard a lot of Catalonian in eastern Spain and Gaelic in Scotland. Generally speaking I don’t think Americans understand how people keep their long histories—and feuds—in mind. We go in and offer (truly or not) “democracy” and “freedom” to them having no understanding of the historical and social complexities of tribal societies, or how they view their neighbors. The results are predictable, especially in the Middle East.
At least in Europe people seem to have sometimes gone beyond this to larger viewpoints, such as the wide use of English that I saw in Poland and the Baltic States last year. But old memories simmer, and sometime erupt as between Serbia and Croatia or how Russia still thinks it can take over the Ukraine without paying attention to the bitter memories of the past. There are strong reasons why many Ukrainians fought with the Germans against the Russians, while many also fought with the Russians against the Germans. Maybe Putin hasn’t learned a thing about mixing into such histories either.
For the past 25 years, my spouse and I spend our summers in my spouse's inherited family house in central Bulgaria. Most Bulgarians understand Russian, even today, as they use the same Cyrilic alphabet, and still very much identify with the Soviet or yore. The langauge is more like the distinction between American English and Skootish - sounds different but Americans can get the gist.
Being EU, all street signs include Latin letter versions of the Cyrilic city names. It is also very obvious that over-achieving Bulgarians learn English, and most expatriate embracing dual citizenships.
Putin must have confused Ukraine with Bulgaria in one sense. He probably could have marched into Sofia with welcome arms. But, Crimea had such a great port and could be more lucratively exploited.
I do find the Bulgarian affection for Russia to be odd given that when the USSR imploded, Russia left the next day leaving a country with no government infrastructure or wealth. It feels even today like East Germany after the wall came down. A key difference was that we Americans came into Germany and helped their communist dictatorship evolve into democracy and capitalism. Although Chemnitz is still rather pro-Soviet.
Well I enjoyed visiting when the Iron Curtain was still up (trains from Luxembourg to Tehran). And Bulgaria definitely has a good reputation for how it protected Jews during the war. I guess the affection goes back to the 1885 revolt against the Turks. I would be glad to come back.
Shudda said Baltics.
Mybe now with Brexit, English will not be as popular.
Can we discuss ethnicization Daniel. The term is one that is not familiar.
Ethnicization refers to the process by which a group's identity is defined and treated as ethnic, often shaping social interactions and structures. It's a complex phenomenon influenced by social and political dynamics, impacting how individuals perceive themselves and are perceived by others. Ethnicization can be seen in various contexts, including immigration and the formation of ethnic identities within societies
AFIK, Stalin's approach to ethnicity, is more or less the same as Islam's, he "officially" disregarded race (a necessity since the USSR and the Federation are a conglomerate of race and ethnicities.
Contrast that to America which historically and unofficially is racist, trending to official under Trump.
The organizing principle of Islam is religion, either you are in or you are out, the USSR's organizing principle was the state religion, either you were in or you were out.
Officially the USSR, and the Federation, are inclusive, and actually sponsored the education of Africans in Moscow, but the reality was and is different.
Putins army is comprised of conscripts and bribed foot soldiers from Siberia and Republic which are mostly of Turkomen and Mongol ancestry.
Those mercenaries from Chechnya and the North Caucus, though Muslim, are Caucasian.
In case you missed it, I am the author of Miami'90, where I discuss it in part.
1990 was when DNA became accepted by most courts as valid evidence.
The thing about America is we were born as a refuge, either a melting pot or a salad bowl, regardless of what's in the Consitution. Today I'm wrioting about Josi Marti, who lived in the US for 15 years but never became a citizen. While he was living in NY, attended Walt Whitman's 1887 Lincoln address and wrote "El poeta Walt Whitman." Published in Argentina's La Nación and disseminated throughout the Spanish-speaking world and started a "Whitman cult" in Hispanic literature. While Martí begins his essay citing a portrait of Whitman as aged prophet-bard, the composite he draws is of the New World "natural man" of relation who is transcendental brother and lover, spawn of "man on a new continent" with a "robust philosophy." Martí hears Whitman's charging verse as "sounds [that] ring like the earth's mighty shell when it is trodden by triumphant armies, barefoot and glorious". It is Whitman the bearded bard, the all-embracing liberator, who arrives in Spain and Spanish America in Martí's essay. (Quoting myself.)
Whitman ala the Unitarian movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau etc.
Emma Lazarus published the New Colosius, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty. Gove me...huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
The whole idea of public education according to founders like Horace Mann and Thaddeus Stevens was homonization of disparate groups of Americans.
We got.....
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The republican hacks controlling the high court chose an obviously unconstitutional EO to outlaw nationwide injunctions. They did this at a time when our executive is criminally insane, and demonstrably so.
They also did it with originalism rhetoric that makes no sense- Just as they did in Dobbs, they focused on laws from the 1700s and 1800s and shit-canned the relevance of the last 100 years to reach their desired conclusion. That they chose this case- where Trump's overreach so obviously violated the constitution-to reach this outcome is shocking. It delivers the permission structure for Trump to do his worst- he can declare anything he wants, order ICE goons to attack and imprison anyone he wants- and there can be no injunction to stop him. The upshot of this outrageous case is that, to protect your constitutional rights, you have to sue, personally. Or join a class action, the most cumbersome legal vehicle there is. I defended class actions for over a decade; each class takes years to certify.
I wrote a substack about this yesterday- the Roberts court will have blood on its hands within the week.
I share your disgust at the republicans on the SC. I don't know how Sotomayor, Kagan, and Johnson suck it up to be in the same room with them. I actually wrote a letter addressing all three of them about how sorry I was about the distress they must feel going to work (Sotomayor said there are times that she locks herself in her office and cries).
I am absolutely convinced that these "face-hidden thugs" are pardoned insurrectionist. What will keep them from shooting people in broad daylight when trump will keep pardoning them?
They are reborn Inquisitors, the worst of Catholicism, who learned nothing of empathy or compassion while off-planet.
Justice Sotomayor is clearly the exception among the Catholics.
At the University of Florida Levin School of Law, named for a Jew in a state founded in large part by Jews like its first House member who became a senator who had two counties named in his honor, whose father envisioned Florida as a home for threatened Jews, a racist antisemite was awarded a prize for an antisemitic rant, based on "originalism."
That student, Preston Damsky, is under investigation for antisemitic social media posts, raising First Amendment concerns. From Talahassee Democrat.
Damsky, who identifies as a white nationalist, quoted a historian advocating for the "abolishment" of Jews but claims his post wasn't a call to violence.
Experts say the case hinges on whether Damsky's posts constitute a true threat, while the university faces pressure amid Florida's stance against antisemitism on campuses.
As a card carrying semite, I've been advocating that groups like the Nazis, who advocate extermination of folks like me should be outlawed. These people don't want to deport us, they want to exterminate us.
I thought names ending in Sky were Jewish, and names ending in Ski were Slavic.
And you are correct Daniel, those people want to exterminate the Jews, thus the puzzlement of Jews like Miller, Cohen, Weiss, palling around with NAZIs.
Can't go by that.
And, what about Netanyahu’s genocidal war?
What about it?And what does your question have to do with the subject, other than displaying your antipathy towards Jews. ( I hate the word antisemitic, is so much propaganda and b.s, but it does address the lamentable prevalence of antipathy, hatred and illogical suspicion towards Jews.
On the subject of a genocidal war. The word genocide has been bastardized till real genocide is unrecognizable, for instance the only war of genocide going on, that meets the definition in the UN Charter for Prevention of Genocide, is that of Vladimir Putin and his war on the Ukrainiian culture, language and people.
Gaza is horrible but there is only one party responsible for it, the party that started it and could have ended it, had not HAMAS been using civilians and hostages as human shields, they could stop it tomorrow, they could have stopped it when all of the leaders and planners of Oct 7th were killed, but it is a war, not over territory, but a religious war a war of extinction waged by Islam against Jews. And to that effect I can quote the HAMAS covenant and Islamic relgious texts.
Supreme Court's death-ruling list just keeps getting longer.
That feeling of being "hunted" is exactly what Trump, Miller, their Syndicate and Cult achieved. It wasn't enough for the sadists; they had to add unbearable conditions while in custody, no contact with relatives or lawyers, no due process, and thanks to this ruling, a possible life sentence or death penalty in a foreign nation. This is the thanks America and SCOTUS gives to the workers that help feed us, build and repair our homes, and take care of our children.
Impeachment and shunning are the only remedy for the corrupt, religious zealots, and sadistic members of SCOTUS. When we take the House, Trump and his cabal of six Justices need to be impeached. Maybe we won't have enough Senators to convict, but they have to go down in history as exactly what they are: the disgusting criminals and ideologues that hi-jacked our Constitution, tore families apart, caused financial ruin, and are responsible for deaths.
Thank you Thom and Company---stay loud. See you in the streets.
Wow,Alis!
Yup Gloria, killing women in need of a D & C or abortion wasn't enough. Now they want people simply seeking refuge to be eaten by alligators. Psychos!
I just have to keep reminding myself this country is not about them---it is about healers like you and the people out in the streets with me.
Trump would be nothing without a treasonous, fascist Supreme Court. Obviously planned for years, it still is amazing how easy it was to pull the wool over the eyes of so many Americans. I'm not quite 80, but I really think I've lived too long.
Tom Heartmann's genius comes full circle in this article. I was thinking the same thing about Der Furher myself. Somone in Trumps circle is a NAZI at heart ,and must have studied how Hitler was able to take over power and set a template for Trump. Trumps real last name is Drumph a very german name so you can take it from there. Gerbiels did not have Fox news and the internet to spread the fear and propoganda. I fear it is too late we are in a Dictatorship now. The next decade will be lost if we cannot rid our selves of this awful man!!
Ist das kein Schweinehund?
Ja das is ein Schweinehund!
Somewhere, Himmler, Stalin, Tojo, and McCarthy are reaching around to execute an intensely pleasurable [despite the flames and heat] Circle Jerk.
Screaming: "We're doing it, Boys."
Well there was barely any protest when Bush's rotten wars led to torture chambers, so the fact that most citizens ignore this too is not surprising. If it doesn't affect them they are more worried about meeting the bills (thanks in large part to the economy created since Reagan's time) than protesting. Anyway, there is no clear path to change things and they've been told that government is "the problem" often enough, so why bother?
Of course there's nothing to stop this from going further...perhaps looking at one's ancestry to make sure that it is "pure" enough? And you know this gang will turn on anyone. Using pro-Palestinian speeches and writings as an excuse to terrorize dissidents was slick but it won’t end with that. In time they could blame Israel (and by extension all Jews, even non-Zionist ones) for whatever problems they want to. That is easier than accepting responsibility for bad decisions. And it doesn't have to be a Kristallnacht either, just looking the other way as "action is taken" will be enough, and only a few have to be made examples of to quiet the rest. When one person is not safe no one is safe, but getting that message out in time is the hard part.
1. Bush rotten wars. My friend and former colleague is running for Congress. https://moedavis.com/
As a prosecutor ethically bound to build a case based on reliable evidence, he said he had no choice but to refuse his superior’s order to use information obtained in that way. As Davis later explained his action under questioning in one of the trials: “The guy who said water-boarding is ‘A-OK’, I was not going to take orders from. And I quit.”
2. DNA. "perhaps looking at one's ancestry to make sure that it is "pure" enough? "
3. I bristle at all the BS told about the middle east. Israel is a diverse country. The PA is opposing Hamas, to the extent that the media needs a score card to tell the players. Same for Iran. Roughly 300,000 Israeli Jews speak Farsi as a first languaguae. More speak Arabic as a first language.....
To whit: 'I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.' In simple words - Homo sapiens' unwise suicide. Time to flow into the field of quantum entanglement, preferably in some woods or a quiet beach or a field of grass. As to those possible choices, Thoreau observed - 'the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
They don't care -- and although their people are targeted for deportation, neither do Republican Hispanic politicians. My MAGAT House rep at Latin CPAP.
“Trump will be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery, and what Reagan was for communism,” said Maria Elvira Salazar.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article309224165.html#storylink=cpy
Please object to the Cuban National Foundation. https://www.canf.org/get-involved/contact-us
"Pee Wee German may well have studied this history, as it appears the US deportation schemes to foreign hellholes like El Salvador and South Sudan are explicitly designed to produce terror among brown-skinned immigrants."
Not just brown or black skinned immigrants, But the ruling of the fascist six, basically gives Trump the right to do whatever he wants, including disappearing you, I , any of us. ACB's farcial remedy is a class action law suit, however John Roberts has demonstrated his animosity to such, as has Thomas and Alito, and they can and do kill such with the shadow docket.
I know I am the paragon of doom and gloom, and I take no pleasure, but I don't see any remedy, except overthrowing the regime from within (almost impossible) or from without, and that means that the other nations that prostrate themselves at Trumps feet, begging him to buy their wares, will have to suck it up, for the sake of humanity, and their countries (and ours) endure the pain.
Here is Trump's power over the world, and over us. The credit card, debt. These empower consumerism. America's super power is consumption, the world produces we consume, consumption means jobs, economic activity, financing, and is the life blood of a nations economy.
And we are the worlds greatest consumers because of the credit card, we swipe it for everything from groceries and gas to pet food and shoe laces, and thus create a demand..but also vehicles and housing, as they are made of many parts imported .
A totalitarian regime, like the one we find ourselves living under, can only be taken down from without or without. And as history has proven, when taken down from within, you wind up with something even worse.
The USSR didn't disappear, it simply morphed, the USSR was the KGB, and all the KGB did was change its name to the FSB. The trusts that ran the economy were sold off for pennies to oligarchs, who were either former KGB agents, or had KGB connections.
Bye bye America! Most of you knew what was coming and you voted for it! Lol
It is more than just sad that the Supreme Court is enabling this racist and unjust policy. We must never be silent in objecting to this policy.
I'm now about ready to drink myself to death
"The law is a ass, a idiot. I’ll stick to my own understanding of right and wrong."
Charles Dickens
Ich glaube, dass die person ist Stephen Miller.
Hey Kids! Do you have a brown or tan skin color? Is your last name Hispanic-sounding? Then you may qualify for our brand-new ICE-sponsored summer camp program! ICE, sounds pretty cool, doesn't it! Imagine, you — and your parents too (don't want to leave Mom and Dad behind!) — may qualify for an all-expenses paid vacation to the sunny beaches of El Salvador! Or even more amazing, imagine a trip to Sudan! Yes, Sudan, a country you probably have never heard of! Don't have a passport? Don't worry! Are you a natural-born citizen of these United States? No problemo! Why should that be an obstacle to your very own DREAM summer vacation (and autumn... and winter... and spring...)? Don't worry about finding us, we'll find you! Hasta la vista!