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GaryRLundberg

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Oh hi ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿผ Here for the news, local thru global; journalists; thought leaders; thinkers; collaborators; fact based honesty. Retired from a career in print media. From paper, film and metal through photography, prepress, pixels, desktop publishing to digital media and public. Imaging R&D at quad.com (ret).

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Trump is probably done sitting in court till after the election. Unless the Supreme Court rules he clearly does NOT have immunity.

Appeals court halts Trump's Georgia case during appeal of order allowing Willis to stay on case

https://apnews.com/article/1c14171f33e7fb76bf3bdae6aba57d1d

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What to expect now. From Ruth Ben-Ghiat via her Substack.

MAGA Leader Cult Damage Control Talking Points Guide

โ€œ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐. ๐–๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐†๐Ž๐ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ. ๐’๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž.โ€

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/maga-leader-cult-damage-control-talking?r=2wo6i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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For many in this American caste, their money and influence trumps democracy any day or night. End Citizens United!

Wall Street Billionaires Are Rushing to Back Trump, Verdict Be Damned

โ€œThis much is certain: Some financiers who abandoned Trump after his supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 โ€” and kept their distance as he continued to claim falsely that the 2020 election was stolen โ€” are now throwing their weight behind him again.โ€

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-31/billionaires-back-trump-despite-guilty-verdict-in-hush-money-trial

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QUILTY !! ON ALL COUNTS !!

Trump whines and rages to the press. Vicious violent incitement to completely saturate the Trump campaign for โ€œretributionโ€ between now, the election, when Congress certifies the vote, beyond, AND forever. Vengeance will dominate all he does.

Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

https://apnews.com/article/85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0

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Clearly, the Biden Administration is making a point that this story come out now. Netanyahuโ€™s โ€œglorious warโ€ cabinet has probably already calculated they have what they need. Thereโ€™s not much of Gaza left to annihilate. I canโ€™t escape the thought this Israeli government is executing a final solution.

US paused bomb shipment to Israel to signal concerns over Rafah invasion, official says

https://apnews.com/article/432aa51e3569d1a73b22273295b1a53f

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@RememberUsAlways

A final solution to annihilate Palestine, ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Palestinians, Gazaโ€ฆ any/all remaining autonomy of a people in their homeland, forever in diaspora, or dead.

I wonder how many #hostages are crushed under Israeli bombardment along with Palestinians. There are many corpses in the rubble and tunnels.

There is reporting Hamas leaders believe they have already won, even if they donโ€™t survive. Israelโ€™s atrocities unforgettable. Forever branded in โ€œgenocideโ€, victims AND executioners.

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Itโ€™s a shame Joe Biden canโ€™t seem to see or speak to the complexity of the students position. Itโ€™s mostly anti-war, anti-annihilation-of-Gaza, anti-genocide. Yes, itโ€™s mixed and fraught with massive agitprop and inflammatory incitement. With active and malicious influence by Putin, Pro-Israel PACs, and Iran proxies alike.

Biden condemns current antisemitism in Holocaust remembrance during college protests and Gaza war

https://apnews.com/article/f2f84c9e7c52345c35e5cb4c2d00a417

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Anti-war โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-Palestine-civilian-carnage โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-Netanyahu โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-apartheid-Zionism โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-famine โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-USA-offensive-weapons-to-Israel โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-war-crimes โ‰  antisemitism

Anti-genocide โ‰  antisemitism

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@RememberUsAlways

No.

Iโ€™ve said many times. I believe two self-serving and atrocity saturated realities can exist at the same time. Hamas are brutal anti-Israel terrorists who lashed out in the worst barbarity only humans can inflict. The Netanyahu far-right government has unleashed a โ€œglorious warโ€ of annihilation against Hamas, Palestinians, Gaza itself. Final solution? After decades of apartheid repression and taking of their land.

Terrorism vs Apartheid.
Symbiotic Carnage.
By โ€œleadersโ€.

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Weโ€™re in big trouble. Netanyahuโ€™s government is in league with the worldโ€™s genocidal authoritarians. It makes little difference whether itโ€™s implicit or explicit, useful idiots or active agents. Many active measures hope to precipitate and stoke violence in America. I hope protesters can be steadfastly peaceful.

Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah 'with or without a deal' as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue

https://apnews.com/article/f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a

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@FrankFrank @RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel

Yes. โ€œGlorious warโ€. However asymmetrical. With massive global influence operations layered on, raging. Obliteration vs embedded terrorists with hostages. Even now there will be generations of discovery about the autocracies in this war. Psychopathic brutality and hostage taking vs unprecedented civilian killing and infrastructure/societal decimation. Grenades vs 2000 pound bombs. Genocide all.

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@RememberUsAlways @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

War and genocide cohabit โ€œglorious warโ€.

Good point about the forever history of siege in the land of Palestine and Israel. Of course empires have always had a heavy hand in that history. I suspect repression and genocide have also.

When you take it in context of Palestine being almost completely eliminated since 1948 you canโ€™t help but think war + settler colonialism apartheid is a culprit.

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@RememberUsAlways @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

Yes. I was only framing the recent history of Israel since WWII. The most recent generations. Colonial genocide happens over generations or less, not millennia.

Even if all history and origin by indigenous occupation and religion are claimed as the heritage of a place does not validate slaughter inflicted today.

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@Scmurcott @RememberUsAlways @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

Yes. Many competing religion origin stories. Judaism, then Christianity, then Islam. Over ridden often by the empires of democratic republics, kings and pharaohs. Guess not a lot has changed?

My understanding is Zionism โ€” a nationalist movement to live in their indigenous homeland โ€” predates fascism. Immigration and settlement began after the failed Russian revolution in 1905.

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@FrankFrank @RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel

Propaganda; damed if you do, damned you donโ€™t. Was/is there only one genocide?

โ€œWhereas proponents of the singularity thesis regard the making of any comparisons as a blasphemous mockery of the Holocaustโ€™s victims, its opponents raising an analogy to the accusation of Holocaust denial argue that the singularity thesis amounts to a denial of all other cases of genocide.โ€

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@RememberUsAlways @Scmurcott @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

Itโ€™s unfortunate, blaming and attacking โ€œthe otherโ€ is inherently the human animalโ€™s means of โ€œjusticeโ€ it seems. Something โ€œleadersโ€ have always used to accumulate and wield power? I doubt we out grow it in our lifetimes.

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@RememberUsAlways @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

Yet, history includes just yesterday. Saturated in the life and death of today. So, Iโ€™m afraid bias travels across, through, and over time. Inherited and handed down. Replayed by new actors.

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@RememberUsAlways @FrankFrank @palestine @israel

Is it terrorists? Or, massive communications media that enables the reach of terror and divisive bias, implicit and explicit?

I think humanity is living a horrendous and dangerous time of limited ability to digest and understand all we are exposed to.

As for brutality, I think itโ€™s always been inherent among us. Probably ebbs and flows. We always make it more mechanized and condensed though.

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@FrankFrank @RememberUsAlways @Scmurcott @palestine @israel

Perfect share. Thanks! I watched on C-SPAN. Iโ€™ve been following Dr Snyder closely since 2016. And, was attentive before that.

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Foreign aid bills pass. Amazing that โ€œa majority of Republicansโ€ in the House are essentially #Trumpaliban #PutinPuppets.

โ€œEach portion of the package โ€” which was broken down into separate bills โ€” received bipartisan support. A majority of Republican members โ€” 112 โ€” voted against aid to Ukraine, with one member voting "present." Thirty-seven Democrats voted against aid to Israel.โ€

House passes aid bills with funding for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245993370/house-ukraine-israel-aid-bills

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Yep. In sync with #Trumpaliban #MAGA.

Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections

Moscow has found better ways to conceal influence operations that spread arguments for isolationism, officials and experts say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/politics/russian-ukraine-us-interference.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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โ€œRussia has intensified its online efforts to derail military funding for Ukraine in the United States and Europe, largely by using harder-to-trace technologies to amplify arguments for isolationism ahead of the U.S. elections, according to disinformation experts and intelligence assessments.โ€

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Murder by bullying? Bullying (over an extended period of time) > culminating in a bathroom attack by multiple individuals > physical and psychological trauma inflicted > suicide. Should that type of terrorism be ruled only suicide? Similar probably happens many type of abuse.

Death of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict after school fight is ruled a suicide, medical examiner says

https://apnews.com/article/88f403bfd5436a53b636dcc2bc59ebf8

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Trumpโ€™s delay, distraction, disruption legal tactics are working. Heโ€™s been doing this is whole life. Heโ€™s a master of subversion; legal, financial, marketing, personal, and political. All his instincts and experience are being applied to his hostile takeover of America. He plans to own US. He already owns the Republican Party. Vote accordingly.

Judge dismisses some charges against Trump in the Georgia 2020 election interference case

https://apnews.com/article/46e0b68c25719c404130f7e6eab69dcd

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With #SuperTuesday having all but settled the presidential nominees, what would you rather do than have 8 more months of a Trump vs. Biden campaign?

(In all seriousness, this political scientist says apathy and avoidance of democracy this early is a bad omen, especially among young people, and we really should try to stay engaged)

https://theconversation.com/after-super-tuesday-exhausted-americans-face-8-more-months-of-presidential-campaigning-225047

#News #Breakingnews #USPolitics #Election2024

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Stay engaged, and get plenty of exercise. Avoid alcohol, drugs, hydrate, eat healthy, stay safe, help others.

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