Top GOP candidate nearly drops a child in HUMILIATING rally gaffe
Sunday Dose of Democracy:
Vivek Ramaswamy becomes laughing stock after nearly dropping child
The struggling Republican candidate for Ohio governor somehow decided that trying to pick up a large child onstage at his rally was a good idea – and instantly became a meme after he nearly drops the large lad, who is clearly WAY too old to be picked up like that. “This type of video haunts a candidate forever," laughed independent commenter Nick Field. We certainly hope so.
OMG: Trump goes full desperation with new bribe announcement
The president hit the bottom of the barrel once again with another promise to give voters $5,000 if Republicans win in the midterms. We're sure he really means it this time.
DARLINE GRAHAM IS AN INSULT TO SOUTH CAROLINA VOTERS!
UPSET OF THE CENTURY? New poll shows Dr. Annie Andrews BEATING Darline Graham
Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate: Strap in, everybody. A new poll shows Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews BEATING — not just tied with, but BEATING — Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline 43-39 in the race to become South Carolina's next US senator. Graham is irrevocably tied to Trump and his disastrous economy, disastrous war, and disastrous data-center schemes. If we’re ever going to flip a South Carolina seat blue, this is the year to do it. Trump’s approval rating is underwater, even with Republicans, and the only thing Darline has to run on is Trump and his baggage. Chip in now to help make history and send Dr. Annie Andrews to the Senate!
The morning the U.S. bombed a school in Iran
Jeremy Scahill, Drop Site News:
"On the morning of Saturday, February 28, people across Iran began their day like any other. It was one week into the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and people were preparing for their work and school week. Parents hustled their children out the door for school as the notorious morning traffic jams filled the streets of Tehran and other cities. In the southern Iranian city of Minab, preschool teacher Hossniyeh Salem was getting ready to leave the house. After the prayers, Salem laid out for her students a breakfast sofreh, a traditional Iranian fabric placed on the floor to serve meals. The small girls of the preschool had not yet reached the age of fasting during Ramadan. They did some lessons and then went out to the playground for recess. It was around 9:30 a.m. when Salem received word that the U.S. and Israel had begun attacking Iran.
Local authorities issued a directive instructing schools to send students home. Salem and other teachers immediately messaged parents to come and get their children. When Salem and other teachers stood in the school yard handing off students to their parents, a massive explosion struck not far from the school campus. Salem and her son Yassin raced back into the school where some of the preschool kids were still waiting for their parents to arrive. The blast had shattered the windows and shards of glass sprinkled the carpeted floor. As Salem and her students huddled together under desks, she heard the sound of missiles hitting the building. 'Two simultaneous sounds. They’re still in my ear. My son even describes them—‘Wooosh, boom! Woosh, boom!’—and then the explosion very close by,' Salem said.
What happened that day will go down in history as one of the single worst massacres committed by the U.S. government since the Vietnam War. Multiple direct air strikes, including with Tomahawk cruise missiles, hit a school packed with children and teachers. The attacks killed at least 156 people; 120 of the victims were children and 26 were teachers—all women, including one who was pregnant. Among the dead were also parents who had come to pick up their children.
First responders described a cataclysmic scene of screaming and running, bloodied faces and bodies, with parents frantically searching for their children. 'When I arrived, I saw there in the area of the school yard, it was completely covered in body parts of the children—students who had only their hands left, their legs, their heads, their fingers,' recalled Majid Dadania of the Red Crescent Emergency Response team. 'I was frozen. I couldn’t start working. Even though I was part of the rescue crew, my arms and legs went numb until I snapped out of it and started collecting the body parts of the martyrs—the children who were in pieces.'
That morning, Ehsan Mohseni, Minab coordinator of the Red Crescent Society, was in his office, less than a kilometer from the school. He was scanning the latest breaking news reports detailing the opening attacks of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran when he heard a strong blast in the distance. “I realized that what was attacked was the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. When I got there, the school was destroyed and engulfed in fire and smoke. We saw extremely terrible scenes. 'Mohseni described seeing children’s bodies flung into trees, pulverized against concrete—small, severed limbs of children strewn around. “I saw the most painful scene. Look, I’ve seen many things. I’ve worked 15 years as a rescue worker and member of the Red Crescent Society,' he said. 'My colleague approached me and he was carrying the head of a young student.'
I saw doomsday,” he added.
We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like
Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian:
"Sometimes a story is so so appalling, it captures the public’s attention, including the attention of people who don’t focus on the issue otherwise. Such is the case with the alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell University. For feminists who focus on violence against women or anyone who has ever cared about campus rape, the claims made in Jane Doe’s civil lawsuit against the alleged perpetrators may be unusual in its severity – but we know the statistics that show that somewhere between 20% and 25% of women college students will be the victim of a sexual assault (no statistics tell us what percentage of men students will be rapists). This makes the public outcry to punish seven male students miss the point, which is that there are tens of thousands of campus rape stories, few of which make the news.
We know the Cornell student newspaper editorial that brought this case to light declares that 15% of all students there have experienced “nonconsensual sexual contact” and a disproportionate fifth of those incidents took place at fraternities. The Cornell fraternity in question was suspended from campus for a period, as a November 2024 Guardian piece about the incident reports.
Meanwhile, campus rape is a nationwide issue, and the Trump administration’s assault on Title IX continues. Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.
The only effective, lasting, far-reaching solution is the political, legal, economic and cultural equality of women. This requires the liberation of men from the kind of misogynistic male supremacy Sanday describes in the fraternities, which may give them power and status in the context of that supremacy, but also corrupts and distorts their psyches into the kind of dehumanized grotesquery described in the Cornell case."
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