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werdna's JournalKent State May 4, More than just another anniversary.
"‘We Must Do More Than Echo the Past’: Inside the Kent State Protests for Palestine
Students are marking the anniversary of the Kent State shootings by focusing on Gaza."
" I immediately recognize Yaseen Shaikh, Camille Tinnin, and Magdalene Weiss-Vopat, three leaders of the Kent State student movement, by the keffiyehs draped across their shoulders. Last November, in Burlington, Vermont, three college students were shot by a forty-eight-year-old white man who had seen them wearing the Palestinian scarf. . .Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League—which is running a campaign to “fight hate” on college campuses—likened the keffiyehs to a Nazi swastika.
But these American students are no Nazis. I am here to ask them about their place in a new protest movement that, in just over two weeks, has seen more than 2,000 people arrested on campuses across the country. . .For his part, Shaikh says, “I need to believe that, if I do what I can, that there is a sense of providence, that the movement will continue to feed itself, that there will be a free Palestine and an end to injustice. That is something that I have to believe in.”"
https://progressive.org/latest/we-must-do-more-than-echo-the-past-inside-the-kent-state-protests-for-palestine-badawi-20240503/
Looking to cool off this summer?
Ohio water parks ranked among Top 10 in U.S.
Three Ohio water parks are part of larger chains rated in the Top 10 in the United States by USA Today based on opinions from experts and readers.
https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2024/05/ohio-water-parks-ranked-among-top-10-in-us.html
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"In my honest opinion, McDonald's is a poster boy for greedflation in plain sight."
McDonald's is poison. Why are people killing themselves for it? I will never understand."For the price of eating food from McDonald's you can get good meals from Luby's or similar chains which last 2 days. Yes, it actually costs a lot less to get nutritious meals than to eat the poison McDonald's sells. My menu from Luby's yesterday was baked fish almondine with spinach and candied yams, along with a wheat roll. Could only eat half the meal and I was full. Will be eating the rest of it today. "
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/30/2238112/-McDonald-s-is-poison-Why-are-people-killing-themselves-for-it-I-will-never-understand?utm_campaign=trending
They can't be manufactured in team colors?!
"But the caps fit over the helmet and obscure the team logo, which is important for branding — one reason the NFL has not allowed them to be worn during games."
https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2024/04/some-nfl-players-helmets-may-look-different-during-the-2024-season-heres-why.html
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse puts the Supreme Court's "dilemma" into Stark Focus
Can you stand another take on the USSC discussion on Presidential immunity? I hope so:
"The Supreme Court is supposed to decide on sticky-wicket cases before them; to rule for or against the rights being claimed and asserted. Their role is NOT to take every case as a opportunity to rewrite the Laws in their own conservative image. "
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/26/2237383/-Senator-Sheldon-Whitehouse-put-the-Supreme-Court-s-dilemma-into-Stark-Focus?utm_campaign=trending
Hakeem Jeffries role in Ukranian funding vote.
"We wouldn't be voting on this right now if it weren't for Hakeem ... He's the one who created the system that Johnson could follow and get this done," said a House Democrat.
Hakeem Jeffries emerges as Congress' shadow speaker - Axios
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/21/hakeem-jeffries-speaker-mike-johnson-israel-ukraine
Kent State students turn out to protest Kyle Rittenhouse's campus visit
Students demonstrated throughout the day Tuesday at Kent State University condemning an appearance by Kyle Rittenhouse, culminating in a protest outside the student center involving roughly 200 people who booed those attending the talk. The Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA had invited Rittenhouse to campus to speak. Turning Point USA is a youth-focused nonprofit that supports conservative candidates and causes.
Rittenhouse argued in his remarks that he came to Kenosha to offer aid and was not looking for a fight, recounting his view of what happened during the protest, including when he was hit in the head with a skateboard, and chased by protesters. "Thank God I'm still alive and here to share my story. Because they really wanted to kill me. And it makes a lot of these leftists upset that I'm coming to these universities to share my story. And all I can say to them is 'cope harder,'" he said, to cheers in the audience.
Rittenhouse is profiting off the deaths of two people, arguing Rittenhouse-endorsed body armor is being sold and a turkey hunting video game is being developed featuring his likeness, said Yaseen Shaikh, president of the Kent State Students for Justice for Palestine chapter, which helped organize the press conference. He also took the campus Turning Point USA chapter to task. "Are you so lacking in moral leadership that you feel the need to bring Rittenhouse to Kent State? To advocate for gun rights? Which you're welcome to do, as per your right to free speech, but is there no other option for you to choose, except for a teenager who became famous for killing two people?" Shaikh said.
https://www.ideastream.org/education/2024-04-16/kent-state-students-turn-out-to-protest-kyle-rittenhouses-campus-visit
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