@emduwel.bsky.social
Artist, educator, one-time scholar & sometime activist. Eat politics at mealtimes and for snacks.
“Done everything right?” What fkg nonsense — torture is never justifiable. It is never justifiable to traumatize blameless people based on their ethnicity or skin color—just to prove how this nation considers their lives valueless. Only as Minn. proves, real Americans do not. We show up.
They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 AM
“Done everything right?” What fkg nonsense — torture is never justifiable. It is never justifiable to traumatize blameless people based on their ethnicity or skin color—just to prove how this nation considers their lives valueless. Only as Minn. proves, real Americans do not. We show up.
Confusion reigns for non-lawyer here. I thought Congress has the power of the purse. Period. Meaning “a surge in funding” from the pig pootiful pill was still Congress’s to approve and, well, fund. His lawyers think it’s a private trough.
Judge Allows Policy Restricting Lawmakers’ Access to ICE Facilities
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Confusion reigns for non-lawyer here. I thought Congress has the power of the purse. Period. Meaning “a surge in funding” from the pig pootiful pill was still Congress’s to approve and, well, fund. His lawyers think it’s a private trough.
The irony of asserting we need Greenland in order to secure our borders against Russian threat—when we have a Kremlin puppet in the White House…
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The irony of asserting we need Greenland in order to secure our borders against Russian threat—when we have a Kremlin puppet in the White House…
Greenland can take lessons…
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers
China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Greenland can take lessons…
Oh we so won!
China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets
China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets
China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Oh we so won!
China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets
China Announces Record Trade Surplus as Its Exports Flood World’s Markets
It’s not April 1st, but every day is a brand-new fool’s day
France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting on Trump’s birthday
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the new schedule is “the result of our consultations with G7 partners.”
www.politico.eu
January 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
It’s not April 1st, but every day is a brand-new fool’s day
NYT is unable to abandon position that “Machado…led a successful election campaign against Mr. Maduro in 2024 and had the greatest popular legitimacy to lead the nation” although a CIA analysis suggests otherwise? Not 1st time NYT backs right over left in Latin Am either—despite deadly history.
Why Trump Refused to Back Venezuela’s Machado: Fears of Chaos, and Fraying Ties
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM
NYT is unable to abandon position that “Machado…led a successful election campaign against Mr. Maduro in 2024 and had the greatest popular legitimacy to lead the nation” although a CIA analysis suggests otherwise? Not 1st time NYT backs right over left in Latin Am either—despite deadly history.
Bibi has been promoting Hamas from its inception (in effort to destroy 2 state option). And Hamas has inflicted harm not equal to, but not insubstantial on everyone in its orbit (its own & Israelis). I cannot understand this latest willful act of immiseration however as anything but pure evil.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
apnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Bibi has been promoting Hamas from its inception (in effort to destroy 2 state option). And Hamas has inflicted harm not equal to, but not insubstantial on everyone in its orbit (its own & Israelis). I cannot understand this latest willful act of immiseration however as anything but pure evil.
DeSantis is an idiot. Of the one-eyed one-dimensional island-unto-himself kind. The Odyssey is a fantastic boyhood romp. The Iliad was revered by Greeks for imparting life’s key teachings.
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
DeSantis is an idiot. Of the one-eyed one-dimensional island-unto-himself kind. The Odyssey is a fantastic boyhood romp. The Iliad was revered by Greeks for imparting life’s key teachings.
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...
New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...
In the first place, unlike presidential appointees career diplomats are often regional experts schooled in global affairs. In the second, embassies famously (or infamously) are the mother ships of spies. So we lose the ability to gather and act on knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the first place, unlike presidential appointees career diplomats are often regional experts schooled in global affairs. In the second, embassies famously (or infamously) are the mother ships of spies. So we lose the ability to gather and act on knowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
The South (with western friends) rises again. But seriously — what after all were the precipitating events that led to the Civil War? Back then tried to bring in pro-slavery stares to tip congressional balance in their favor. Today trying every trick to do the same.
bit.ly/497PD5P
bit.ly/497PD5P
Official Says 11 States Open to Stopping Residents From Voting at DOJ’s Request
The DOJ’s effort “should frighten everybody across the political spectrum,” said an election expert.
bit.ly
December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The South (with western friends) rises again. But seriously — what after all were the precipitating events that led to the Civil War? Back then tried to bring in pro-slavery stares to tip congressional balance in their favor. Today trying every trick to do the same.
bit.ly/497PD5P
bit.ly/497PD5P
Reposted
As the fascist Project 2025 promised, RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recs for most childhood vaccines, leaving it "to doctors and parents."
RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.
RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.
December 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
As the fascist Project 2025 promised, RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recs for most childhood vaccines, leaving it "to doctors and parents."
RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.
RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.
All good boys, girls & beings of whatever ilk deserve favor. Now we get to guess why this nice favor was bestowed. I say campaign schmampaign .. she hitched her boat to an all-screws-loose Titanic.
(BTW Stefanik once helped my upstate NY-born mother. So did RFK Jr & his Pace clinic. Go figure.)
(BTW Stefanik once helped my upstate NY-born mother. So did RFK Jr & his Pace clinic. Go figure.)
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
All good boys, girls & beings of whatever ilk deserve favor. Now we get to guess why this nice favor was bestowed. I say campaign schmampaign .. she hitched her boat to an all-screws-loose Titanic.
(BTW Stefanik once helped my upstate NY-born mother. So did RFK Jr & his Pace clinic. Go figure.)
(BTW Stefanik once helped my upstate NY-born mother. So did RFK Jr & his Pace clinic. Go figure.)
If you love Rob Reiner, focus on what is good and right. And offer up a prayer for the afflicting sorrow. But do not give that piece of putrid crud crap an iota more of your time. Help move the world forward—not back.
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If you love Rob Reiner, focus on what is good and right. And offer up a prayer for the afflicting sorrow. But do not give that piece of putrid crud crap an iota more of your time. Help move the world forward—not back.
Who can’t be reminded of the Nazi round ups, the Velodrome d’Hiver? What kind of monster have we become?
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Who can’t be reminded of the Nazi round ups, the Velodrome d’Hiver? What kind of monster have we become?
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
What it means to be a Russian agent? “The NSS does not merely ‘shift priorities.’ It flips 75 years of American policy on its head and declares political war on Europe’s democratic institutions while elevating the far-right parties in Europe that Russia has been cultivating for more than a decade.”
We're the Bad Guys Now
Once the U.S. was concerned about Russian interference in our elections. Now we're promising to do the same thing to European countries on Russia's behalf
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What it means to be a Russian agent? “The NSS does not merely ‘shift priorities.’ It flips 75 years of American policy on its head and declares political war on Europe’s democratic institutions while elevating the far-right parties in Europe that Russia has been cultivating for more than a decade.”
It is one thing for Denmark to pussyfoot around US threats & another for NYT. Leaving out shocking degree to which we’ve teamed up with Russia (whose economy btw is failing). Plus Bannon & friends hard work pushing European neo-Nazism with idea of dismantling the EU.
Danish Intelligence Report Raises Concerns About U.S.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It is one thing for Denmark to pussyfoot around US threats & another for NYT. Leaving out shocking degree to which we’ve teamed up with Russia (whose economy btw is failing). Plus Bannon & friends hard work pushing European neo-Nazism with idea of dismantling the EU.
Brilliant piece .. helps clarify why a former Zero Unit member might very well, one day, blow a gasket.
This is my favorite piece on the Zero Units, the Afghan locals who actually fought the war under the direction of the CIA.
The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes
Afghan Zero Units hold clues to many of the war’s mysteries, including how the CIA engineered deadly night raids that contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
theintercept.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Brilliant piece .. helps clarify why a former Zero Unit member might very well, one day, blow a gasket.
What could constitute a more blatant effort to overturn an election? From pressuring GA’s top election official to find votes to blasting media with false reports to tampering with voting machines and intimidating witnesses, it’s not clear what more DJT & allies needed to do to warrant indictment.
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What could constitute a more blatant effort to overturn an election? From pressuring GA’s top election official to find votes to blasting media with false reports to tampering with voting machines and intimidating witnesses, it’s not clear what more DJT & allies needed to do to warrant indictment.
Discovering and falling in love with pockets of the country .. new citizens out flexing their rights, friend and neighbors out honking their horns
‘Why just me?’ Charlotte man says Border Patrol broke pickup window, stole keys
“Are you an illegal immigrant?” the man said an officer asked. He replied that he didn’t have to answer and asked why he was singled out.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Discovering and falling in love with pockets of the country .. new citizens out flexing their rights, friend and neighbors out honking their horns
“I could have easily not gotten the story and…said, you’re a fucking pedophile and I can’t see you anymore.
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
The Journalist, The Murderer, and The Epstein Files
Michael Wolff got the story
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“I could have easily not gotten the story and…said, you’re a fucking pedophile and I can’t see you anymore.
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
“But in order to get the story, … the story of Donald Trump’s relationship with this pedophile, a story that certainly many of the journalists now criticizing me have chosen not to pick up.”
Agog any serious artist can consider representing US at this year's Venice Biennale (even if we are usually a pretty craven lot). Little chance Mexico-based Alma Allen's work can (or aspires to) counteract the toxicity of this regime. Is it to his credit that we'll be spared Curtis Yarvin?
Curtis Yarvin’s Venice Biennale Proposal Proves the Far-Right Can’t Do Art
Not content to help disintegrate democracy here at home, the cheugy shit-poster is seeking to create a new low cultural watermark in a city known for its rising tides.
hyperallergic.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Agog any serious artist can consider representing US at this year's Venice Biennale (even if we are usually a pretty craven lot). Little chance Mexico-based Alma Allen's work can (or aspires to) counteract the toxicity of this regime. Is it to his credit that we'll be spared Curtis Yarvin?
This hurts but here is a bit of glinting light on a stormy sea. In 2001, legions of Muslim men were rounded up, held, aggressively interrogated, persecuted .. and except for a few news reports, everyone stayed mum. No excuse but different times & circumstances. Question: Do we care more now?
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This hurts but here is a bit of glinting light on a stormy sea. In 2001, legions of Muslim men were rounded up, held, aggressively interrogated, persecuted .. and except for a few news reports, everyone stayed mum. No excuse but different times & circumstances. Question: Do we care more now?
So the good news is he is wiping out the talent, which could hurt his plans for a putsch. The downside is perhaps they are the generals with scruples? Their firings too will intimidate the rest. Who hopefully won’t delay coming to their senses, as did the good Prussian officers of the 20 July plot.
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So the good news is he is wiping out the talent, which could hurt his plans for a putsch. The downside is perhaps they are the generals with scruples? Their firings too will intimidate the rest. Who hopefully won’t delay coming to their senses, as did the good Prussian officers of the 20 July plot.
Celebrating, but had to sniff out NYT back-handed compliment.“The Mamdani campaign gave a lonely generation something to bond over. ‘Addicted to their screens, strapped for cash, spiritually unmoored and socially stunted by the pandemic, young New Yorkers needed a reason to get out of the house.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Celebrating, but had to sniff out NYT back-handed compliment.“The Mamdani campaign gave a lonely generation something to bond over. ‘Addicted to their screens, strapped for cash, spiritually unmoored and socially stunted by the pandemic, young New Yorkers needed a reason to get out of the house.”