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Abby Zimet: ​Let Them Die Alone, and Hungry

The new “conquering of Gaza” formalizes Israel’s plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into “sanitized” Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population “for its own protection.”

May 8, 2025 · 14 Comments

Abby Zimet: Home Growns Are Next

Take note, says historian Timothy Snyder: “This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror.”

April 19, 2025 · 9 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Disaster Of Idiocy | So This Penguin Came Up To Me

Several tariff targets are in fact remote outcroppings of ice and rock populated by no humans but many freeloading penguins and seals, who thank God won’t be “looting and pillaging” us any more.

April 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: No One Cares We Grieve When We Bury Our Children

Of over 600 Palestinians killed this week in savage new US-funded Israeli bombings, officials say over 40% were children in the bloodiest few days of a bloody campaign Israeli leaders call “only the beginning.”

March 23, 2025 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: These Little Men | An Everlasting Shame For America

The attempted ritual humiliation of Zelensky came as Ukraine, a small struggling democracy of 38 million people, is ravaged by a nation of 144 million led by a gangster.

March 6, 2025 · 12 Comments

Abby Zimet: For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed

Gandhi famously said, “Civil disobedience therefore becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless.”

February 21, 2025 · 13 Comments

Abby Zimet: He Practiced the Good

We pay homage to Jimmy Carter, a profoundly decent man, who taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service.

December 31, 2024 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: Deny, Defend, Depose: They Eat Off Your Family Member’s Grave

Exposing “the rotten core of American health care,” the shooting of United Health’s CEO/ mafia kingpin sparked a flash flood of long-simmering fury at the “legalized murder practiced by all … Continue reading

December 17, 2024 · 11 Comments

Abby Zimet: Onward Christian Boot Camps

As a baleful Cabinet of Horrors coalesces, up next to run our vast military is “perfect Trump World monster” Pete Hegseth, a creepy, philandering, “inordinately unqualified” White Nationalist facing charges of drunken sexual assault.

November 29, 2024 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: Cosmic Jokesters Buy Cesspool of Hate-mongering Psychopath Who Is Not Taking It Well

We salute the supremely ironic sale of Alex Jones’ vicious Infowars – now bankrupt thanks to the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook families for claiming the massacre of their children was a hoax – to the satirical wise-acres of The Onion, working with those families.

November 21, 2024 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: Their Lasting Legacy | Talk About A Shithole Country

Because things can always get weirder, the newest statue on the National Mall features a faux-bronze turd sitting on Nancy Pelosi’s desk

October 29, 2024 · 9 Comments

Abby Zimet: U.S. Attorney In Charge of Trump Almost Shooting Is Haitian-American

We love the smell of irony and karma in the morning.

September 19, 2024 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: OMG Now They’re Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks

Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on.

September 11, 2024 · 13 Comments

Abby Zimet: Ceasefire Delegates Insist Palestinian Children Can’t Eat Words

‘Never again’ means ‘never again, for anyone, anywhere, ever.’

August 22, 2024 · 8 Comments

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