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Abby Zimet: MAGA’s Hell On Earth | Women’s Rights, Child Care, Free School Lunch and Cat Hair

From one glad patriot, “The blue wave is coming, and it is covered in cat hair.”

August 13, 2024 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: Unspeakable | We Are Swimming In A Pool of Blood

Israel’s blithe defiance of both world censure and ICJ rulings goes on apace.

August 1, 2024 · 12 Comments

Abby Zimet: Taking On Bigots, Yahoos and Perpetrators Of All Kinds

Talk about flipping the script. Within days, in an historic act of grace, old Joe did the “right and honorable thing” and handed the reins to Kamala, “in every possible way (the) anti-Trump,” who ran with them.

July 26, 2024 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: From Founding Fathers Kermit and Gandalf to Mugshot $2 Bills | Make Crass Stupidity Embarrassing Again

Nazis, yahoos, hacks, thugs, soulless partisans and ahistorical morons are today’s GOP. Have we bottomed out yet (please)? 

July 12, 2024 · 1 Comment

Abby Zimet: To See Our Humanity

Israeli forces just dropped U.S.-made bombs on displaced Gazans, mostly women and children, sleeping in a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 40 and injuring hundreds in yet another massacre of innocents that “contradicts all human values.”

June 11, 2024 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: The 2024 Class of Gaza | The Students Have Done Their Part

Thousands of students at over 100 U.S colleges in all but four states ⁠have embarked on protests and encampments denouncing an Israeli genocide in Gaza that’s now killed at least 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

May 16, 2024 · 3 Comments

Abby Zimet: Biden=Genocide

It is a cruel irony to drop food when at the same time the U.S. is funding the dropping of bombs.

March 9, 2024 · 2 Comments

Abby Zimet: Ironclad Support For Starving, Blinding, Shattering Children

Gaza’s horrors grow. Israel kills 250 people a day, attacks hospitals, bombs survivors in tents, blocks over 75% of humanitarian aid from reaching a place where “every single person is hungry,” a quarter are starving, most are cold, 60,000 are maimed.

January 25, 2024 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Hand Here, A Head There | Israel’s Tremendously Positive War In Gaza

The “systematic effort to empty Gaza of its people,” warns Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, “will haunt this region (and) define generations to come.” 

December 14, 2023 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: In What Is Called A War (Trigger Warning — graphic violence)

Over 420 children a day are killed or injured, roughly one every 10 minutes; over 2,000 children are missing under the rubble, and likely dead; 70% of the dead are children and women…

November 2, 2023 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Hundred Eyes For An Eye

Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines…An international left rooted in values that side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.

October 17, 2023 · 14 Comments

Abby Zimet: May Men Learn to Replace Bitterness and Violence with Love, Love, Love, Love

Birmingham churches rang their bells four times in tribute – in a synagogue, a shofar was blown – as hundreds of people black and white filled the church for a remembrance ceremony.

September 21, 2023 · 10 Comments

Abby Zimet: Big Tough Weird LGBTQ-Bashing American Psycho Guy Wants Your Vote and What Could Go Wrong?

Whew. Latest proof the GOP is truly a malignant flaming clown car.

July 6, 2023 · 9 Comments

Abby Zimet: Stalin Is Dead, Tuckums Is Gone, The Masses Rejoice

Tucker Carlson will be difficult to replace, but the candidates are George Santos, the green M&M and 3 howler monkeys.

April 27, 2023 · 2 Comments

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