Bob French
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Retired Teamster, Jayhawks fan now living in Halifax NS. Free Syria. Free Ukraine.
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In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In 2028 I will vote for whoever will send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Nov. 10, 1975 The tradition at Mariners' Church in Detroit is to ring a bell 29 times: To remember each of the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald: 30th time: To honor all sailors lost on the Great Lakes: 31st time Added after the death of Gordon Lightfoot in 2023 to honor the songwriter.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nov. 10, 1975 The tradition at Mariners' Church in Detroit is to ring a bell 29 times: To remember each of the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald: 30th time: To honor all sailors lost on the Great Lakes: 31st time Added after the death of Gordon Lightfoot in 2023 to honor the songwriter.
Watson in his autobiography, since he couldn’t completely erase Rosalind Franklin, pretended she had just provided amateur snapshots for the structure of DNA.
A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Watson in his autobiography, since he couldn’t completely erase Rosalind Franklin, pretended she had just provided amateur snapshots for the structure of DNA.
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ONLINE DISCUSSION
Nepal’s 2025 Gen-Z protests reflected a generation’s deep frustration with marginalization. Revolutions are possible in our time. How do we make them permanent?
DATE: Saturday, Nov 8
TIME: 10 AM Central Standard Time
9:30 PM India Standard Time
Please contact us for a zoom link.
Nepal’s 2025 Gen-Z protests reflected a generation’s deep frustration with marginalization. Revolutions are possible in our time. How do we make them permanent?
DATE: Saturday, Nov 8
TIME: 10 AM Central Standard Time
9:30 PM India Standard Time
Please contact us for a zoom link.
November 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ONLINE DISCUSSION
Nepal’s 2025 Gen-Z protests reflected a generation’s deep frustration with marginalization. Revolutions are possible in our time. How do we make them permanent?
DATE: Saturday, Nov 8
TIME: 10 AM Central Standard Time
9:30 PM India Standard Time
Please contact us for a zoom link.
Nepal’s 2025 Gen-Z protests reflected a generation’s deep frustration with marginalization. Revolutions are possible in our time. How do we make them permanent?
DATE: Saturday, Nov 8
TIME: 10 AM Central Standard Time
9:30 PM India Standard Time
Please contact us for a zoom link.
Seven million people in the streets for No Kings rallies has traumatized MAGAts even beyond the anti-Trump voter turnout on Nov. 4.
Five to 7 million people went out to streets to exclaim there are #NoKings in the USA. The march in Chicago happened to the backdrop of a paramilitary occupation.
newsandletters.org/no-kings-day...
newsandletters.org/no-kings-day...
No Kings Day 2 - News and Letters Committees
A roundup of participant reports: an estimated 7 million rallied for No Kings Day 2 in 2,700 locations on Oct. 18, 2025. The joy of collective revolt mixed with oppressive awareness of the paramilitar...
newsandletters.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Seven million people in the streets for No Kings rallies has traumatized MAGAts even beyond the anti-Trump voter turnout on Nov. 4.
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No Kings 10/18/2025
Favorite signs
Favorite signs
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
No Kings 10/18/2025
Favorite signs
Favorite signs
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We are very far over the cliff here folks
August 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We are very far over the cliff here folks
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Trump's Labor Department is gutting more than 60 regulations, including:
-Minimum wage & overtime pay for in-home care workers
-Organizing rights for migrant farmworkers
-Penalties for companies that don’t maintain a safe workplace
The “pro-worker” president strikes again.
-Minimum wage & overtime pay for in-home care workers
-Organizing rights for migrant farmworkers
-Penalties for companies that don’t maintain a safe workplace
The “pro-worker” president strikes again.
July 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump's Labor Department is gutting more than 60 regulations, including:
-Minimum wage & overtime pay for in-home care workers
-Organizing rights for migrant farmworkers
-Penalties for companies that don’t maintain a safe workplace
The “pro-worker” president strikes again.
-Minimum wage & overtime pay for in-home care workers
-Organizing rights for migrant farmworkers
-Penalties for companies that don’t maintain a safe workplace
The “pro-worker” president strikes again.
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1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
His 2000-year-old Man as interviewed by Carl Reiner gives us hope that he is just getting started.
Mel Brooks is 99 today but doesn't look a day over 2000.
Greatest comedy mind ever
Greatest comedy mind ever
June 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
His 2000-year-old Man as interviewed by Carl Reiner gives us hope that he is just getting started.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months.
If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.
To my knowledge, they have not done so.
If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.
To my knowledge, they have not done so.
Has anyone produced the contract by which El Salvador is holding folks for the US?
April 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months.
If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.
To my knowledge, they have not done so.
If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress.
To my knowledge, they have not done so.
Trump claimed to know nothing about the four soldiers.
April 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Trump claimed to know nothing about the four soldiers.
I expected Jagmeet Singh’s election message would be, “Vote NDP to stop Poilievre/Trump!” Instead, it was, “Vote NDP to stop Carney!” Kinda tone deaf to the moment.
March 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I expected Jagmeet Singh’s election message would be, “Vote NDP to stop Poilievre/Trump!” Instead, it was, “Vote NDP to stop Carney!” Kinda tone deaf to the moment.
Canada can welcome the resistance as the 11th province without even altering the flag.
March 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Canada can welcome the resistance as the 11th province without even altering the flag.
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Trump’s English-only EO will require demanding that Navajo Code Talkers return their medals and military wages, I suppose.
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Trump’s English-only EO will require demanding that Navajo Code Talkers return their medals and military wages, I suppose.
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RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
March 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
RFK Jr. said in his Fox News OpEd that “Good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses”.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
The best diet in the world will not prevent infection if you are unvaccinated and sharing air with someone who has measles.
Now fight for a contract from Union-busting Amazon.
BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW.
Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.
Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.
Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze.
Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.
January 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Now fight for a contract from Union-busting Amazon.
Birthright citizenship, and equal protection guarantees for all U.S. residents, was paid for with four years of blood. Wong Kim Ark made birthright citizenship even more ironclad with his victory before the Supreme Court in 1898, at a time when Chinese workers as well as Blacks were being lynched.
To my own community: this is not just about immigrants.Trump has set up a challenge to the meaning of the provision of the Constitution written & ratified to ensure our full citizenship. We must protect its integrity in full. We can never be silent when the 14th is attacked. It is our legacy.
January 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Birthright citizenship, and equal protection guarantees for all U.S. residents, was paid for with four years of blood. Wong Kim Ark made birthright citizenship even more ironclad with his victory before the Supreme Court in 1898, at a time when Chinese workers as well as Blacks were being lynched.
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Thanks to everyone who are supporting justice for the survivors of the evil institution known as St. Anne's residential school.
Canada suppressed evidence of horrific violence and abuse.
The court battle for accountability continues.
There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's.
Canada suppressed evidence of horrific violence and abuse.
The court battle for accountability continues.
There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's.
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Thanks to everyone who are supporting justice for the survivors of the evil institution known as St. Anne's residential school.
Canada suppressed evidence of horrific violence and abuse.
The court battle for accountability continues.
There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's.
Canada suppressed evidence of horrific violence and abuse.
The court battle for accountability continues.
There is no reconciliation without justice for St. Anne's.
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Here’s what the co-founder of Mr. Hegseth’s church denomination, Doug Wilson, has said about slavery, gay people, women voting. It was co-founded in 2021, so not some ancient denomination.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
January 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Here’s what the co-founder of Mr. Hegseth’s church denomination, Doug Wilson, has said about slavery, gay people, women voting. It was co-founded in 2021, so not some ancient denomination.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/u...
Useful to listen to those born under Stalin or Hitler, who can make the connection to the Trump regime.
January 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Useful to listen to those born under Stalin or Hitler, who can make the connection to the Trump regime.
This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
January 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
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Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...
January 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...