Dr. Independent, PhD

I love the US, and NYC, but coming back from five weeks in Japan/Korea can be so demoralizing. The E train from Jamaica to Port Authority was a mess. Filthy, depressing, and a minefield of possible problems. The car I was in had at least six guys in various states of distress. I sat next to one, a clearly mentally compromised man, muttering to himself, who made it clear he didn't like me being so close, but I bet he wasn't having a bad day. He wasn't because he was drugged into lethargy, but you never really can tell, and you always risk a miscalculation. I'm a pretty large guy and I've spent a lot of time around people like this, so I wasn't worried, but I felt bad for the women on there, some with kids, who have to play a far riskier game when riding the subway. Sure, the odds of something bad happening are small, but they should be zero, and they could be, if we only enforced the rules.

Graham Platner on Israel / Gaza: “Not a single taxpayer dollar should be spent on arming and defending a country that commits a genocide. This is a nation right now that is exterminating people. It is going to be very difficult for me to look at them again and see someone we should be working with closely”

Until Zionism, there has never been a singular, unified thing called “the Jewish people” There were Jews all over the world: Egyptian Jews, Iraqi, Jews, Moroccan, Jews, Yemen, Jews, German Jews, French Jews, and so on. Each one of these groups of Jews had their own distinct indigenous heritage in their respective countries. The overwhelming majority of current Israelis have zero relevance to Palestine. Literally zero. And they should go back to Europe or to hell. Their days are numbered in my homeland.