Carolyn Herz
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Carolyn Herz
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jewish chaplain and psychotherapist (retired)/wife/mother/lover of dogs and gardens
this goes a long way towards explaining why people feel enraged even if we are objectively living in good economic times…..so many simple pleasures are no longer affordable. This is a deprivation that doesn’t show up in polls about costs of the basics, but is still keenly felt.
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Carolyn Herz
The media and political class has been completely narcotized by their obsessive, solipsistic need to signal that they “get it” and aren’t going to say anything silly and over the top about Trump, and have maintained that pose as Trump has leveled the constitutional and international order
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Carolyn Herz
This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.

It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

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November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Carolyn Herz
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM