#willbunch — Public Fediverse posts
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This is important. #WillBunch writes about a tiny town in PA that is one of 2,000+ municipalities across the US to execute a formal cooperation agreement with #ICE under the 287(g) program. Local cops get powers to arrest “suspected undocumented immigrants”, towns get training & financial incentives. Bunch includes a link to the #ICE website for this program, where you can scroll down to link to a list of all participating municipalities. https://share.inquirer.com/VDfT2b
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#WillBunch nails the shameful tactics of our governor here in NJ. This is NOT what her supporters voted for! Gift link. | “Mikie Sherrill’s State Police riot in Newark is a national disgrace”
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Commentary from #WillBunch on the #WHCA dinner makes me shudder. Gift link. https://share.inquirer.com/cTfJlb
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CW: "Gunfire of the Vanities" - Will Bunch
Will Bunch puts the incident at the White House Correspondents dinner into perspective. A pliant media legitimising a mad autocrat combined with America's ever-present gun violence.
"There has, of course, been wall-to-wall coverage since the shots rang out, but one thing that seems unexplored is how this all looks to the rest of the world. They see what could have been the best democracy on earth destroyed by madness, in a land where guns are everywhere and a callous elite media dons formalwear to toast its own humiliation by our narcissist king."
Link via @GiftArticles
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One crazy day that defined the decline and fall of the American empire
#willbunch #uspol #grifters #offshorewind
@willbunchhttps://www.inquirer.com/opinion/laguardia-crash-tsa-ice-trump-20260326.html
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Will Bunch’s column today highlighted a term that I hadn’t heard before: neighborism. He defined it as “the powerful reaction from often non-political Americans” to the thuggery of ICE, people standing up for others in their community in a way they never have before. It’s an interesting column and worth a read.
#WillBunch #Neighborism #Community #Hope #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Activism
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#WillBunch: "If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didn’t stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees “garbage” and a patriarchy that mutters “f---ing bitch” as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood. If it lives, it will be because we embraced the higher morality of empathy and compassion for our neighbors — and for people we don’t even know."
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Read ’em. Maybe Weep. Maybe Get Pissed Off. But Read ’em
Life on the Wicked Stage readers will be familiar with the Sunday Morning Reading column wherein I share good writing and interesting topics. Sometimes things fly across my radar after I’ve published the week’s column. Three pieces hit and hit hard late on Sunday after the Chicago Bears continued a mysterious, but gratifying winning streak. I’m going to share those stories here, on a Monday. The writing is too hot to let cool, and the subject matter burns even hotter.
First up, is an excellent piece by Will Bunch called The Night America’s Doomed Ruling Glass Gorged On Lamb, Blood, and Oil. Bunch puts the elite on the menu and carves them up with a bone saw.
Next, check out Anand Girdhardas’ excellent How The Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails. A vivisection that exposes what we all imagine.
Finally, read Tatiana Schlossberg’s A Battle With My Blood. A Kennedy family member, dying of incurable blood cancer eloquently tells her story, and ours.
You might think these pieces tilt into the category of just another round of depressing news and commentary. Partly that’s true. But it’s a small part for small minds. I find each of them reassuring. Reassuring that smart people, spilling words like blood on digital paper, can pour out the pain we’re all living through personal pain of their own, and decipher the day-to-day charades even as the current deadly and dangerous game continues.
I’d say the writing is courageous, but that’s obvious. The real courage comes in reading what’s written and paying enough attention to make it matter. Perhaps sharing them around this Thanksgiving week when we give thanks for our blessings with family and friends. Especially those we disagree with.
Be thankful. Be courageous.
(Image from Militarist on Shutterstock)
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
If you’re interested in just what the heck Sunday Morning Reading is all about you can read more about the origins of Sunday Morning Reading here. If you’d like more click on the Sunday Morning Reading link in the category column to check out what’s been shared on Sunday’s past. You can also find more of my writings on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome.
#anandGirhardas #blogging #culture #healthcare #history #politics #religion #sundayMorningReading #tatianaSchlossberg #willBunch #writing
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A way with words! Will Bunch in Philadelphia Inquirer:
“The night America's doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil”“Time heals all wounds - even those caused by the bone saw of a Saudi dictator's goons in the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Last Tuesday, the leaders of Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, GM, Chevron, Citibank all left their moral compasses at home to toast Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It epitomized the mad cash grab of a U.S. power elite whose world is about to crash down upon them.”
#WillBunch #Capitalism #CapitalismKills #SaudiArabia #MSB -
The always wise #WillBunch. Gift link.
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👉“I encourage any juror who thinks the police or prosecutors have crossed the line in a particular case to refuse to convict.”👈
Via #WillBunch, #Rawstory
https://www.rawstory.com/this-shock-move-has-shown-how-regular-folks-can-cripple-trump/
*OPINION:
This shock move has shown how regular folks can cripple #Trump*As...
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@GiftArticles
#Cryptogate main elements as per Will Bunch Philadelphia Inquirer opinion piece:
Air Force One
Dinner with Trump
Donald J. Trump Presidential Library
Executive Branch
Inaugural fund
Justin Sun
Melania Trump
Pardongate
$TRUMP
Trump Organization real estate deals
Trump Media
World Liberty Financial
#WillBunch #AirForceOne #Qatar #JustinSun
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@GottaLaff #WillBunch is a national treasure.
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From #WillBunch: But there is no Trump mandate. Instead, there is a mandate that’s waiting to be tapped over anger and frustration over a broken society that was met with radio silence in our $16 billion election. The horror stories about United Healthcare and insurance denials are just the tip of the iceberg. #GiftLink https://share.inquirer.com/NfKUnj
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Good article by #WillBunch in the Inquirer today. Gift Link: https://share.inquirer.com/LoB8Au
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#WillBunch
"MSNBC has its flaws, but can you imagine TV news with no liberal voices at all? If you lived through the Iraq War, 2002-3, you can...and it was bad for AmericaIs Comcast's MSNBC spinoff a prelude for an oligarch (Musk?) takeover, like Orban's Hungary? My new column." www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/msnbc-trump-media-university-censorship-20241126.html
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"Some have spoken of a #PalestinianException to #CampusFreeSpeech because of the sensitive accusations that have included both antisemitism and Islamophobia. But experts who focus on #AcademicFreedom say problems were brewing well before last Oct 7, speaking to six decades of radical change in #USHigherEducation." - #WillBunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/berkeley-60th-anniversary-campus-free-speech-20240926.html
https://archive.ph/o3VeM
#FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics @palestine -
CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
#WillBunch on the #2024DNC and how it's so different from all that's come before for at least four decades--and yes, that includes Barack Obama's campaigns.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/chicago-dnc-democrat-vibe-ecstasy-20240821.html#loaded
On that vein, if you haven't, perhaps give this #PoliticsGirl short video a watch:
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If #TimothySnyder wrote it, you should read it (as @GottaLaff memorably and correctly says about #WillBunch).
"The necropolitics is no one’s fault but that of the people concerned. Republicans did not have to nominate an aged coup-plotting felon. The broligarchs did not have to install their candidate to succeed a deceased #Trump and #Vance did not have to join Trump’s ticket."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/veep-stakes