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A Tsunami of Foul-Smelling Wastewater is Sweeping Across the United States Elizabeth Graham Feb 3   A tsunami of foul-smelling wastewater is sweeping across the United States. It hit Washington, D.C. first leaving pungent echoes of racist narratives about urban crime. “President Donald Trump has taken control of D.C.’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.” (PBS, August 12, 2025, written by Matt Brown). Even as district officials questioned the claims underlying his emergency declaration, the Republican president promised a “historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” (Ibid) His rhetoric paraphrased that used by conservatives going back decades who have denounced cities with majority non-white populations or as lawless. Trump’s aggressive federal troops surging into neighborhood...

THE CRIME OF CRIMES – A GENOCIDE Based on Life-Long Provable and Invidious Evidence of Mr. Trump's Behavior Elizabeth Graham Feb 2 Crimes against humanity are equally egregious as acts of genocide and warrant comparable condemnation. “No country has ever been held responsible for genocide,” (Wikipedia) but individuals who participated in the slaughter of millions of Jews were tried and convicted. In 2025, a new genocide commenced due to the atrocious and gruesome behavior of one man – Donald Trump. Despite the carnage in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, and other nations and even in the face of the Trump administration’s apparent determination to dismantle what remains of the liberal international order, the human rights attorney Philippe Sands insists he is not giving in to despair. It’s too early to write-off the rules-based system or to write off the United States.” ( NYT,  Feb. 1, 2026, “The Crime of Crimes”, written by Michael Steinberger) Only Rwanda and Bosnia have recently face...