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I haven’t read the hard copy story in the North Coast Journal yet. I’ve only found the statement below posted on some Facebook accounts. But Los Bagels could only have been targeted simply because the owner, Dennis Rael, is Jewish. That is a hate crime.
Addendum: Apparently the NCJ only has the below statement – no story. I am informed that the Eureka outlet was defaced with stickers which have been removed.
Pretty funny exchange
Redheaded Blackbelt has coverage and photos.
I don’t agree with divestment, and I think they have a very naive view of the Israel/Hamas conflict. But I respect the passion and compassion.
This is the third poll out of the last four in which RFK Jr. that I’ve seen negatively impacts Trump more than Biden. Maybe this is why Trump is lashing out against him? RFK Jr. claims that Trump asked him to be his running mate.
Kennedy’s family, including his sister, endorsed Biden at a public event last weekend. He says he loves them anyway.
I knew that Putin has a stranglehold on the Republican Party, but what is interesting is the right wing opposition to Taiwan aid.
And note that fewer than half of the Republicans voted to save Ukraine.
I mean, I want to see it just because I really want to see the scenario they dreamed up that has California and Texas seceding and becoming allies.
Brooks and Capehart argue that he has effectively done so, even if it’s in a manner not satisfying to the American left. “He’s not playing politics.”
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Addendum: The article in particular that we are discussing in terms of rural white rage is in the New Republic and it’s responding to a number of indignant responses to a book written by the article’s authors. A couple of key paragraphs.
In recent years, research from political scientists showing some disturbing patterns of opinion among rural voters, especially rural whites, has begun to accumulate. But there is a clear discomfort with the implications of that research, even among some of these researchers. For instance, consider this quote: “Clearly, though, even when we account for composition effects related to race [i.e., the fact that rural America is whiter than the rest of the country], we see that racial resentment is higher in rural than in urban America.” That appears not in our book. It’s found on page 296 of Jacobs’s The Rural Voter.
Soon after, Jacobs and his co-author write, “On a range of race-related questions, responses from rural residents veer from those of other Americans—and even from other Republicans—in significant ways.” As you might have guessed, “veer from” is the euphemism they deploy to say that rural whites express more racist attitudes. “And yet,” they go on, “for many rural residents, attitudes about races are intimately linked to perceptions of hard work, self-reliance, a disdain for government handouts, and the dangers of elites.” What they’re arguing, then, is that it’s not that many rural whites (to reiterate, not all, but many) are racist per se, it’s just that they think nonwhites don’t work hard, aren’t self-reliant, and are the clients of nefarious “elites.”
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What isn’t said enough is that rural whites are being told to blame all the wrong people for their very real problems. As we argue in the book, Hollywood liberals didn’t destroy the family farm, college professors didn’t move manufacturing jobs overseas, immigrants didn’t pour opioids into rural communities, and critical race theory didn’t close hundreds of rural hospitals. When Republican politicians and the conservative media tell rural whites to aim their anger at those targets, it’s so they won’t ask why the people they keep electing haven’t done anything to improve life in their communities.
From Politico
Seven jurors were sworn in this afternoon, filling out the panel that will decide Trump’s legal fate. Here is what we know about them:
- A man who lives in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and works in investment banking.
- A man who lives in the West Village, works as a security engineer and has three children.
- An Upper East Side man originally from Lebanon who is retired and enjoys fly fishing.
- An Upper East Side woman who works as a speech therapist.
- A Murray Hill man who works at an eyewear company and enjoys the outdoors.
- A woman originally from California who lives in Upper Manhattan and works in product development.
- An Upper East Side woman who works as a physical therapist and enjoys tennis and paddle boarding.
These seven Manhattanites join five other jurors who were selected earlier this week. Those five jurors are:
- A West Harlem man originally from Ireland who works in sales and will serve as the jury’s foreperson.
- A man who lives in Chelsea and works as a corporate lawyer.
- A woman who has lived in Harlem her whole life and works in education.
- A woman who lives in Chelsea and works as a software engineer.
- An Upper East Side man who works as a lawyer practicing civil litigation.
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All of them are white collar or at least light blue collar, but Manhattan has been pretty well gentrified so that’s to be expected.
One alternate was selected. Five more will be selected tomorrow. Opening arguments on Monday.
The woman at the site is asking the stupidest questions and thank God the woman in the studio was quick enough to get a little bit of substance from this dismissed juror. The question that should have been asked, “Why do you believe you couldn’t be impartial?” You can have a bad impression of a party and still be impartial enough to sit on a jury, and I would like to know if jurors are being dismissed too quickly without adequate voir dire.
As for this woman – imagine becoming a citizen in August, being called to your first jury duty, walking into the courtroom at 4:00 and seeing Donald Trump!
But why is the media so weird about the way it covers Trump?
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Update: Here’s an interview of someone who recused himself because he’s satirized Trump online.
Sohum Parlance II 
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