Let me start again. Rekha, I recalled that headline for your Des Moines Register column, seven years ago. The mendacity of the GOP controlled Iowa State Governorship, Senate, and House trifecta in combination with handpicked Iowa Supreme Court justices has ravaged rural Iowa. The destructive bills against trans gender youth, the only governor in all the states who successfully stripped civil rights from nonbinary-LGTBQIA+ community members. The primary-ing out of rural moderate Republican Senate and House members who were not supportive of the school voucher program. The cruelty was the point on all fronts. Thank you for being on top of this story , Rekha. Democrats cannot ‘blow’ this opportunity to change the leadership.
She lost me a long time ago, Democrat that I am. I was willing to give her a chance. With the last minute votes in secrecy, the loss of summer food assistance for children, the voucher program, which does not give that opportunity to all school districts of Iowa because only religious-affiliated private schools were the only option in those districts and the awful book banning. For crying out loud”The Grapes of Wrath”???
I felt like I lost my voice in all her changes brought to Iowa. I graduated high school in Iowa 60 years ago, with salutes to our flag, The Lords Prayer, reading of books and a public library card. When I played six girl basketball, no one was concerned about an uneven playing field because of suspicion of trans or gay players. We played, had fun, everyone cheered, and we went home.
She will go down as the worst governor of Iowa in history. Her total focus on transgender issues and bathroom issues is pathetic. The state will virtually go broke paying for private school vouchers. Her cuts to public schools and universities, crumbling bridges, agriculture and chemical runoff into the water and Iowa having the second highest new cancer rate. All of this is the Reynolds legacy. How much more damage can she do with her remaining time ??!?
Absolutely agree— worst governor in Iowa’s history. She’s done an incredible amount of damage. Her hypocrisy and short-sightedness has been an embarrassment.
Kim has been a colossal disappointment. Sometimes I wonder if she is just that mean, or just not that smart, or just that easily persuaded, or just that easily bought off? Likely a combination of all of those. She did not lead Iowa with any distinction or dignity and that will be her legacy.
Probably a combination, Kathi. I just don't get how people can govern like that without any conscience tugging at them as they shred people's rights, starve children and school districts and more.
Good people do not do those kind of things to the people who simply need a hand up. The demonization of groups of innocent people will be the stain that will linger on this state.
Unfortunately, the legacy of this vile and evil creature, will likely take decades to recover from. My perspective is there’s never been a single instance where she produced a positive outcome. Hunger, homelessness, homophobia, racism, mental health & nursing home resources, stripping away citizen advisory boards, ongoing poisoning of our air, land and waterways, centralization of power to the executive branch, turning the judicial branch and “personal Attorney General’s office “ into a toolbox for her grievances, responsibility for our being the first state ever to eliminate a class of citizens from civil rights protections, and her relentless pursuit of destroying our public education and school systems have created an unprecedented disaster of governance. That’s likely an incomplete list.
Her servile compliance with the architects of Project 2025 , has turned our state into a Petri dish for authoritarian and anti democratic extremism. Of course, we have a temporary budget surplus , because she’s shredded and starved every worthwhile public service and institution established over the past fifty years. Good riddance to her and the devastation she inflicted upon our people.
Good summation, Pete. Thanks for adding the wrecking ball of AG Brenna Byrd, who now has her eye on the governor's job -- as Trump after getting her endorsement -- said she should.
Bird’s already shrinking callowness appears to be the only delay of Reynolds 2.0, with money and marching orders from Project 2025 expected to shorten implementation. You appropriately discerned the transition brevity between a fledgling new governor, with a 3% victory margin, into an unquenchable Iron Maiden intoxicated with power. Every taste of blood derived by eviscerating perceived enemies made her grievances more widespread and her ruthlessness unrestrained, and unabated.
Only the slathering toadyism displayed by legislators, flush with corporate lobbying money and willingness to abandon their ethics, honor and sense of moral responsibility was surprising. But, now a dark compact seems to have been reached among them which they wear like a cloak of self righteous pride.
Nothing convinces me that Reynolds will fully abdicate herself from influence, because of addiction to her countless spite. We’ve all observed her relish for gluttony in needlessly hurting others as sport. She’ll continue lurking on the edges waiting like a vulture prepared to selectively choose her time and place for carcass picking.
Bird’s aspirations for higher office, temporarily suspended by not being chosen to join Trump’s inner circle, has only increased her determination for recognition and wanton desire for drawing blood from her targets of derision.
People with such strong and cravenly desires like hers, yet lacking empathy, likability or patience are often prone to make mistakes. I’m hopeful that those of us recognizing things can easily become worse, might be able to open a few doors they’ll inadvertently rush into a little too quickly.
Remember Lt. Governor Adam Gregg’s sudden resignation to pursue a “career opportunity that allows him to focus more on his family.” The Iowa Bankers Association announced his position as the group’s new President and CEO less than 20 minutes after his immediate resignation from office. Hmm, that opened bunches of new family time?
Since, Reynolds sharing her intention not to seek re-election, and citing similar reasons, her reign of terror has only increased in its magnitude and ferocity. Veracity, just like “Fields to Flourish”, are part of a very different lexicon from which I’m familiar. So are their words, methods and actions of protecting and defending our rights and liberties.
The litany of failures rings like a bell! I dare say the Iowa Republican Chair who bullied his way getting Trump elected is going to have his hands full to keep this seat if the Democrats actually get off their collective asses and put up a decent candidate that isn't a developer from Des Moines, or some other deep pocketed rich guy that hasn't the sense to come in out of the rain without someone else holding the umbrella!
No one wants to pay more for schooling their their children, but.. policies favoring transgender boys over girls safety in schools are driving parents, even atheists, to get their girls out of harms way. While the the incidents at the Loudoun School District were covered up or called a hoax, the parents of the two girls who were raped there were not deceived as is true in similar instances. All over the country girls are intimidated, fearful of using school bathrooms and encountering a boy. They wait all day to get home to use the bathroom. This is not healthy. Many parents can't afford the extra cost, but don't want their girls be constantly subjected to anxiety and confusion in these formative years.
As a leftists who has long fought for women's rights I'm disgusted at the current takeover by men's rights activists masquerading as progressives.
I just clicked on one of your links describing a man sexually abusing a little girl in Chicago. NOWHERE in the article does it mention the man being transgender. Try harder.
BTW, I'll bet you can find many more cases of cis-gender males raping girls or women than transgender females doing the same. Think for just a second; what you are doing in singling out transgenders is absolutely appalling. Stop with the wild hating, will you?
Also, BTW, implying that girls are safer in a private school is laughable in the extreme. Two can play at this game.
In the Chicago case it did mention the rapist was a MAN, right? Same goes whether or not he's colonizing a woman's identity as a trans identified men. I have no quarrel with you that ALL men, as a group, have the same profile regarding statistics for criminality, with trans who colonize a women's identity having a higher number for sex crimes than men who don't impersonate women. The Democrats chose to lose the elections by their support of people like Sam Brinton and trans ideology over women's right to exist, and by sending two thousand pound bombs to use on Palestine - despite most of the population being against such actions.
First they came for the women. Didn't Matt Krisiloff say he was going to manufacture human eggs in case "one of the sexes becomes extinct"? Guess which one of the sexes produces eggs. I guess you're one of the Zizian's fans. Some people can spot a con man a mile off.
Betsy, of all the issues I write about, I'm curious why your responses always default to this one alone. Why aren't you calling out the genocide on Palestine, the abandonment of Ukraine, assaults on the press, on universities, on immigrants and people of color on their own, without forcing everything through a gender identification lens?
TENS OF THOUSANDS WAR CRIMINALS will soon be Entering the US. In fact, some of them are already here attacking anti-war protesters with chemical weapons they previously deployed in Israel. Others, who volunteered to participated in Israel's genocidal war, will be returning to countries like France and Britain to threaten our safety and weaken democratic institutions.
Why has no one raised the alarm over 23,000 U.S.A. citizens who have gone to Israel to fight in a genocidal war in Gaza? Isn't it illegal to join the military of another country to give your life & loyalty for the political goals of another government? Anti-war protesters in USA are losing jobs, being expelled, kidnapped and deported for being against the Israeli war and ethnic cleansing. Why aren't U.S. Citizens volunteering for the Israeli genocide being tried for treason, or arrested upon returning, or being stopped at the border and sent back to Israel and having their U.S. citizenship revoked? Over 23,000 Americans working for Israel - WHO ARE THEY? They need to be identified and held accountable for their role in Genocide. ICE refuses entry to innocent refugees yet allows murderous militants entry?
CHEMICAL WARFARE
At Columbia U, on Jan/19/24, two Israel Occupation Force soldiers were identified as two of the perpetrators in a chemical attack on anti-war students. The chemical spray, produced in Israel, is used by the Israeli military IDF on Palestinians to suppress protests against settler terrorists and the Israeli occupation. Both Israeli soldiers were current Columbia students. They were wearing keffiyeh disguises to spray protesters with a chemical weapon imported from Israel. Several of their victims were hospitalized for decontamination. Members of Jewish Voice for Peace reported being spat on and harassed by Israeli pro-war on-lookers. The soldier's names were hidden to protect their identity. The Israeli soldier-students weren't arrested for chemical warfare or even assault, but one who was suspended for a few months sued Columbia over his temporary suspension and was awarded almost half a million dollars ($395,000) by Columbia for his assaults on anti-war students. The Israeli soldiers apparently lied about the chemical spray, characterizing it as a novelty joke item of USA origin and its use by them simplyan expression of freedom of speech. A perversion of justice beyond cynical.
This is an instance of using the US Courts to reward Israeli soldiers using military weapons to attack US students in order to suppress their speech and their protests against genocide and ethnic cleansing. Despite being legal residents, students are too terrified to fight back - for good reason.
The student, (who deployed chemical spray) according to a document, is a Jewish-Hispanic immigrant who served in the Israeli army and holds both American and Israeli citizenship. A senior at Columbia, he was one of two students suspended by the university until the end of the semester for spraying the protesters at a demonstration on January 17th 2024. Their names are being withheld to protect their identity and protect them from personal criticism.
AI facial recognition software company Betar spokesman Daniel Levy says people on his list were identified using a facial-recognition tool called NesherAI created by Hawila's company, Stellar Technologies, located in his apartment in Brooklyn. The software's name is from the Hebrew word for “eagle.” Demonstrating the software, Hawila allowed the computer code to assimilate the upload of thousands of photos from social media accounts. The software matched a screenshot of a masked protester Hawila photographed at a recent demonstration with publicity photos of a woman who he was then able to identify.
USA GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
Anti-war student arrests: Turkish student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was studying for her doctorate at Tufts on a Fulbright scholarship with a student visa was surrounded by six government agents on a street near her home. She was man-handled, hand-cuffed and whisked off in a Gestapo-type operation. She was then secretly taken to a site in a part of the far-reaching USA Gulag Archipelago. Her sin was criticizing Tufts’ response to a student group’s call for the university to divest from Israeli companies.
Alireza Doroudi, a University of Alabama doctoral student originally from Iran, was also detained by ICE. He had been held at a jail, but was transferred to federal custody in Jena, La.
Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell, had his student visa revoked for participating in anti-war protests protests and creating a hostile environment for Jewish students, according to US government officials. “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted,” Taal said, “Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.”
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until December, was in his apartment when several ICE agents entered and took him into custody. Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card,
Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the US since she was 7, filed a suit after immigration agents tried to arrest and deport her for participating in anti-war demonstrations.
HARVARD UNIV
Hedge fund billionaire and Harvard alumni Bill Ackman led the call for the ouster of the Harvard President accusing her of Anti-Semitism. The CEO of Pershing Square is well-known for pressure campaigns, having built much of his wealth by using aggressive propaganda techniques. He called for the names of all the students who signed an anti-war statement (calling on Israel to stop the bombings) so that he and other CEOs could blacklist them from ever being hired by their firms. Ackman had the students faces displayed on trucks around campus labeling the students "anti-Semites." He also sent mailings to everyone in the area naming the Anti-War students. In addition, he hired a helicopter to fly over the area with signs in the sky naming the students. Overkill to crush dissent and support the bombing of Gaza? Ackman said the Harvard Board was worried that if they fired president Gay, it would look like they were kowtowing to him.
UNIV OF PENN
Among the first to call on Elizabeth Magill to resign was Marc Rowan, CEO of private equity giant Apollo Global Management. Rowan is one of the university’s wealthiest donors.
Billionaire Ronald Lauder, another powerful financial backer of school, threatened to do the same if more wasn’t done to fight "antisemitism." Brandeis Center, a Jewish civil rights legal organization, filed civil rights complaints with the US Dept of Education, accusing Penn of nurturing a hostile environment toward Jewish students. Stone Ridge Holdings CEO Ross Stevens, a major donor to Penn, sent a letter to Penn threatening to cost the school approximately $100 million for allowing students anti-war demonstrations.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned after a little more than a year. She's the third female college president to lose her job. Students' protests over how Israel is fighting its war against the Palestinians has exposed cracks in the protection of the right to express an opinion publicly without being penalized or maligned.
New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alumna, was relentless in her condemnation of the women college presidents. Hearing of Shafik's resignation Elise Stefanik said, “THREE DOWN, so many to go.”
A fourth woman, interim college President at Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, has been forced out after seven months. Armstrong’s resignation from Columbia U. comes after the Trump White House called for a ban on masks at campus anti-war protests as part of a list of reforms aimed at cracking down on "rampant antisemitism" that demonstrations against the massive bombing of Palestinians are being cast as.
Fifth woman: tenured Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke is stepping down after 25 years following a university investigation into her comments during an anti-war campus protest on January 2024 involving two IDF Israeli students who sprayed anti-war demonstrators with a chemical made and used in Israel by the IDF to suppress protests in Palestine. In an interview with Democracy Now! Franke claimed that Israeli students who had served in the Israel Defense Forces "have been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth; although grilled by Stefanik, was spared ouster by the pro-Israel billionaires.
Reports have indicated that approximately 100 USA black sites exist all over the world, including in countries like Poland, Romania, Thailand, Lithuania (site Violet recently in the news, where Kalid Shaik Muhammad was waterboarded), Egypt, Guantanamo, etc. to hide prisoners being held and/or tortured by U.S. military or CIA agents.
Thank you for your response: You can't assume that the the misogynist transgender cult is the only issue i write about and am concerned with. On the contrary. But it's the movement that's destroying the viability of half the human race: women. While other events, like war destroy great swatches of humanity and the environment they don't aim to make irrelevant half the human race. My area of work for over the last half century has been opposing violence against women, which work is now being destroyed by trans takeover. Among several other issues like the environment, treatment of the mentally ill, the homeless, money in politics, I am also extremely concerned about the unbelievably cynical, sadistic wars of USA and Israel with the dropping of bombs in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. I have done a little research on the reverberations of this genocide brought to the USA and am trying to alert people to the consequences it will, and is having on our culture and politics. The alert I've been sending to various media outlets I am posting you in another "comment" and I will be happy if you send it along to others:
A disappointing legacy. I'm always baffled by women in power who help destroy the rights of other women.
Same here, Tim. It's so hypocritical.
Let me start again. Rekha, I recalled that headline for your Des Moines Register column, seven years ago. The mendacity of the GOP controlled Iowa State Governorship, Senate, and House trifecta in combination with handpicked Iowa Supreme Court justices has ravaged rural Iowa. The destructive bills against trans gender youth, the only governor in all the states who successfully stripped civil rights from nonbinary-LGTBQIA+ community members. The primary-ing out of rural moderate Republican Senate and House members who were not supportive of the school voucher program. The cruelty was the point on all fronts. Thank you for being on top of this story , Rekha. Democrats cannot ‘blow’ this opportunity to change the leadership.
Thank you Bill. Her policies have been nothing but hurtful to already marginalized communities and so many others.
She lost me a long time ago, Democrat that I am. I was willing to give her a chance. With the last minute votes in secrecy, the loss of summer food assistance for children, the voucher program, which does not give that opportunity to all school districts of Iowa because only religious-affiliated private schools were the only option in those districts and the awful book banning. For crying out loud”The Grapes of Wrath”???
I felt like I lost my voice in all her changes brought to Iowa. I graduated high school in Iowa 60 years ago, with salutes to our flag, The Lords Prayer, reading of books and a public library card. When I played six girl basketball, no one was concerned about an uneven playing field because of suspicion of trans or gay players. We played, had fun, everyone cheered, and we went home.
Well said, Terri.
She will go down as the worst governor of Iowa in history. Her total focus on transgender issues and bathroom issues is pathetic. The state will virtually go broke paying for private school vouchers. Her cuts to public schools and universities, crumbling bridges, agriculture and chemical runoff into the water and Iowa having the second highest new cancer rate. All of this is the Reynolds legacy. How much more damage can she do with her remaining time ??!?
Absolutely agree— worst governor in Iowa’s history. She’s done an incredible amount of damage. Her hypocrisy and short-sightedness has been an embarrassment.
Kim has been a colossal disappointment. Sometimes I wonder if she is just that mean, or just not that smart, or just that easily persuaded, or just that easily bought off? Likely a combination of all of those. She did not lead Iowa with any distinction or dignity and that will be her legacy.
Probably a combination, Kathi. I just don't get how people can govern like that without any conscience tugging at them as they shred people's rights, starve children and school districts and more.
Good people do not do those kind of things to the people who simply need a hand up. The demonization of groups of innocent people will be the stain that will linger on this state.
Unfortunately, the legacy of this vile and evil creature, will likely take decades to recover from. My perspective is there’s never been a single instance where she produced a positive outcome. Hunger, homelessness, homophobia, racism, mental health & nursing home resources, stripping away citizen advisory boards, ongoing poisoning of our air, land and waterways, centralization of power to the executive branch, turning the judicial branch and “personal Attorney General’s office “ into a toolbox for her grievances, responsibility for our being the first state ever to eliminate a class of citizens from civil rights protections, and her relentless pursuit of destroying our public education and school systems have created an unprecedented disaster of governance. That’s likely an incomplete list.
Her servile compliance with the architects of Project 2025 , has turned our state into a Petri dish for authoritarian and anti democratic extremism. Of course, we have a temporary budget surplus , because she’s shredded and starved every worthwhile public service and institution established over the past fifty years. Good riddance to her and the devastation she inflicted upon our people.
Good summation, Pete. Thanks for adding the wrecking ball of AG Brenna Byrd, who now has her eye on the governor's job -- as Trump after getting her endorsement -- said she should.
Bird’s already shrinking callowness appears to be the only delay of Reynolds 2.0, with money and marching orders from Project 2025 expected to shorten implementation. You appropriately discerned the transition brevity between a fledgling new governor, with a 3% victory margin, into an unquenchable Iron Maiden intoxicated with power. Every taste of blood derived by eviscerating perceived enemies made her grievances more widespread and her ruthlessness unrestrained, and unabated.
Only the slathering toadyism displayed by legislators, flush with corporate lobbying money and willingness to abandon their ethics, honor and sense of moral responsibility was surprising. But, now a dark compact seems to have been reached among them which they wear like a cloak of self righteous pride.
Nothing convinces me that Reynolds will fully abdicate herself from influence, because of addiction to her countless spite. We’ve all observed her relish for gluttony in needlessly hurting others as sport. She’ll continue lurking on the edges waiting like a vulture prepared to selectively choose her time and place for carcass picking.
Bird’s aspirations for higher office, temporarily suspended by not being chosen to join Trump’s inner circle, has only increased her determination for recognition and wanton desire for drawing blood from her targets of derision.
People with such strong and cravenly desires like hers, yet lacking empathy, likability or patience are often prone to make mistakes. I’m hopeful that those of us recognizing things can easily become worse, might be able to open a few doors they’ll inadvertently rush into a little too quickly.
Remember Lt. Governor Adam Gregg’s sudden resignation to pursue a “career opportunity that allows him to focus more on his family.” The Iowa Bankers Association announced his position as the group’s new President and CEO less than 20 minutes after his immediate resignation from office. Hmm, that opened bunches of new family time?
Since, Reynolds sharing her intention not to seek re-election, and citing similar reasons, her reign of terror has only increased in its magnitude and ferocity. Veracity, just like “Fields to Flourish”, are part of a very different lexicon from which I’m familiar. So are their words, methods and actions of protecting and defending our rights and liberties.
Very points that reflect her leadership and her parties failures.
The litany of failures rings like a bell! I dare say the Iowa Republican Chair who bullied his way getting Trump elected is going to have his hands full to keep this seat if the Democrats actually get off their collective asses and put up a decent candidate that isn't a developer from Des Moines, or some other deep pocketed rich guy that hasn't the sense to come in out of the rain without someone else holding the umbrella!
No one wants to pay more for schooling their their children, but.. policies favoring transgender boys over girls safety in schools are driving parents, even atheists, to get their girls out of harms way. While the the incidents at the Loudoun School District were covered up or called a hoax, the parents of the two girls who were raped there were not deceived as is true in similar instances. All over the country girls are intimidated, fearful of using school bathrooms and encountering a boy. They wait all day to get home to use the bathroom. This is not healthy. Many parents can't afford the extra cost, but don't want their girls be constantly subjected to anxiety and confusion in these formative years.
As a leftists who has long fought for women's rights I'm disgusted at the current takeover by men's rights activists masquerading as progressives.
https://www.womenarehuman.com/trans-identified-man-brutalizes-woman-who-questions-his-presence-in-womens-restroom-patrick-hagan/
https://wjla.com/features/i-team/loudoun-county-public-schools-lcps-sex-assault-suspect-offender-released-buta-biberaj-office-commonwealth-attorney-scott-smith-hunter-heckel-national-sex-offender-public-website-us-department-of-justice
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fITMYR1h-aI&si=UYgMhsGSQaG4uiUG
https://www.kxii.com/content/news/Transgender-woman-allegedly-sexually-assaults-teen-in-walmart-505820451.html
https://www.kxii.com/content/news/Transgender-woman-allegedly-sexually-assaults-teen-in-walmart-505820451.html
https://abc7chicago.com/man-sexually-abused-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom-at-museum-of-science-and-industry-chicago-police-department-says/14739540/
https://globalnews.ca/news/3300518/concerns-over-transgender-client-at-okanagan-shelter/
I just clicked on one of your links describing a man sexually abusing a little girl in Chicago. NOWHERE in the article does it mention the man being transgender. Try harder.
BTW, I'll bet you can find many more cases of cis-gender males raping girls or women than transgender females doing the same. Think for just a second; what you are doing in singling out transgenders is absolutely appalling. Stop with the wild hating, will you?
Also, BTW, implying that girls are safer in a private school is laughable in the extreme. Two can play at this game.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/parents-sue-fort-worth-private-school-over-alleged-cover-up-sexual-abuse-by-former-teacher/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-private-schools-kept-decades-of-sexual-abuse-secret
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56567390
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/miss-halls-boarding-school-sex-abuse?srsltid=AfmBOoq0DvFUYXjiv_dOQHwFv8CRW-z8jbCEy5r6nQHN_grAHDIldsyU
In the Chicago case it did mention the rapist was a MAN, right? Same goes whether or not he's colonizing a woman's identity as a trans identified men. I have no quarrel with you that ALL men, as a group, have the same profile regarding statistics for criminality, with trans who colonize a women's identity having a higher number for sex crimes than men who don't impersonate women. The Democrats chose to lose the elections by their support of people like Sam Brinton and trans ideology over women's right to exist, and by sending two thousand pound bombs to use on Palestine - despite most of the population being against such actions.
UK Parliament
https://committees.parliament.uk
PDF
Evidence and Data on Trans Women's Offending Rates
The findings show that transsexual individuals were more likely to be criminal than non-transsexuals of the same birth sex.
https://open.substack.com/pub/evakurilova/p/statistics-show-that-half-of-trans?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=17i9pe
https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-male-criminality-sex-offences/
And how many transgender women are there? Yeah, pretty rare. Stop this unholy war of yours. You could learn a lot by revisiting Niemöller’s poem.
First they came for the women. Didn't Matt Krisiloff say he was going to manufacture human eggs in case "one of the sexes becomes extinct"? Guess which one of the sexes produces eggs. I guess you're one of the Zizian's fans. Some people can spot a con man a mile off.
Betsy, of all the issues I write about, I'm curious why your responses always default to this one alone. Why aren't you calling out the genocide on Palestine, the abandonment of Ukraine, assaults on the press, on universities, on immigrants and people of color on their own, without forcing everything through a gender identification lens?
Bye bye. I learned a long time ago not to have pen pals who are wackadoodles.
23,000IsraelSoldiers
IsraelSoldiersInUSUseChemicalWarfare
TENS OF THOUSANDS WAR CRIMINALS will soon be Entering the US. In fact, some of them are already here attacking anti-war protesters with chemical weapons they previously deployed in Israel. Others, who volunteered to participated in Israel's genocidal war, will be returning to countries like France and Britain to threaten our safety and weaken democratic institutions.
Why has no one raised the alarm over 23,000 U.S.A. citizens who have gone to Israel to fight in a genocidal war in Gaza? Isn't it illegal to join the military of another country to give your life & loyalty for the political goals of another government? Anti-war protesters in USA are losing jobs, being expelled, kidnapped and deported for being against the Israeli war and ethnic cleansing. Why aren't U.S. Citizens volunteering for the Israeli genocide being tried for treason, or arrested upon returning, or being stopped at the border and sent back to Israel and having their U.S. citizenship revoked? Over 23,000 Americans working for Israel - WHO ARE THEY? They need to be identified and held accountable for their role in Genocide. ICE refuses entry to innocent refugees yet allows murderous militants entry?
CHEMICAL WARFARE
At Columbia U, on Jan/19/24, two Israel Occupation Force soldiers were identified as two of the perpetrators in a chemical attack on anti-war students. The chemical spray, produced in Israel, is used by the Israeli military IDF on Palestinians to suppress protests against settler terrorists and the Israeli occupation. Both Israeli soldiers were current Columbia students. They were wearing keffiyeh disguises to spray protesters with a chemical weapon imported from Israel. Several of their victims were hospitalized for decontamination. Members of Jewish Voice for Peace reported being spat on and harassed by Israeli pro-war on-lookers. The soldier's names were hidden to protect their identity. The Israeli soldier-students weren't arrested for chemical warfare or even assault, but one who was suspended for a few months sued Columbia over his temporary suspension and was awarded almost half a million dollars ($395,000) by Columbia for his assaults on anti-war students. The Israeli soldiers apparently lied about the chemical spray, characterizing it as a novelty joke item of USA origin and its use by them simplyan expression of freedom of speech. A perversion of justice beyond cynical.
This is an instance of using the US Courts to reward Israeli soldiers using military weapons to attack US students in order to suppress their speech and their protests against genocide and ethnic cleansing. Despite being legal residents, students are too terrified to fight back - for good reason.
The student, (who deployed chemical spray) according to a document, is a Jewish-Hispanic immigrant who served in the Israeli army and holds both American and Israeli citizenship. A senior at Columbia, he was one of two students suspended by the university until the end of the semester for spraying the protesters at a demonstration on January 17th 2024. Their names are being withheld to protect their identity and protect them from personal criticism.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-groups-identify-report-student-041123910.html
STALKING STUDENT DEMONSTRATORS:
AI facial recognition software company Betar spokesman Daniel Levy says people on his list were identified using a facial-recognition tool called NesherAI created by Hawila's company, Stellar Technologies, located in his apartment in Brooklyn. The software's name is from the Hebrew word for “eagle.” Demonstrating the software, Hawila allowed the computer code to assimilate the upload of thousands of photos from social media accounts. The software matched a screenshot of a masked protester Hawila photographed at a recent demonstration with publicity photos of a woman who he was then able to identify.
USA GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
Anti-war student arrests: Turkish student, Rumeysa Ozturk, who was studying for her doctorate at Tufts on a Fulbright scholarship with a student visa was surrounded by six government agents on a street near her home. She was man-handled, hand-cuffed and whisked off in a Gestapo-type operation. She was then secretly taken to a site in a part of the far-reaching USA Gulag Archipelago. Her sin was criticizing Tufts’ response to a student group’s call for the university to divest from Israeli companies.
Alireza Doroudi, a University of Alabama doctoral student originally from Iran, was also detained by ICE. He had been held at a jail, but was transferred to federal custody in Jena, La.
Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell, had his student visa revoked for participating in anti-war protests protests and creating a hostile environment for Jewish students, according to US government officials. “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted,” Taal said, “Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.”
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia until December, was in his apartment when several ICE agents entered and took him into custody. Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card,
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/columbia-alumni-diplomas-mahmoud-khalil Current student and a friend of Khalil’s, said: “Students are terrified to set foot on campus. I’m one of them, so just the fact that I’m here is scary because [of] the way that our colleagues have disappeared."
Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the US since she was 7, filed a suit after immigration agents tried to arrest and deport her for participating in anti-war demonstrations.
HARVARD UNIV
Hedge fund billionaire and Harvard alumni Bill Ackman led the call for the ouster of the Harvard President accusing her of Anti-Semitism. The CEO of Pershing Square is well-known for pressure campaigns, having built much of his wealth by using aggressive propaganda techniques. He called for the names of all the students who signed an anti-war statement (calling on Israel to stop the bombings) so that he and other CEOs could blacklist them from ever being hired by their firms. Ackman had the students faces displayed on trucks around campus labeling the students "anti-Semites." He also sent mailings to everyone in the area naming the Anti-War students. In addition, he hired a helicopter to fly over the area with signs in the sky naming the students. Overkill to crush dissent and support the bombing of Gaza? Ackman said the Harvard Board was worried that if they fired president Gay, it would look like they were kowtowing to him.
UNIV OF PENN
Among the first to call on Elizabeth Magill to resign was Marc Rowan, CEO of private equity giant Apollo Global Management. Rowan is one of the university’s wealthiest donors.
Billionaire Ronald Lauder, another powerful financial backer of school, threatened to do the same if more wasn’t done to fight "antisemitism." Brandeis Center, a Jewish civil rights legal organization, filed civil rights complaints with the US Dept of Education, accusing Penn of nurturing a hostile environment toward Jewish students. Stone Ridge Holdings CEO Ross Stevens, a major donor to Penn, sent a letter to Penn threatening to cost the school approximately $100 million for allowing students anti-war demonstrations.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned after a little more than a year. She's the third female college president to lose her job. Students' protests over how Israel is fighting its war against the Palestinians has exposed cracks in the protection of the right to express an opinion publicly without being penalized or maligned.
New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alumna, was relentless in her condemnation of the women college presidents. Hearing of Shafik's resignation Elise Stefanik said, “THREE DOWN, so many to go.”
A fourth woman, interim college President at Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, has been forced out after seven months. Armstrong’s resignation from Columbia U. comes after the Trump White House called for a ban on masks at campus anti-war protests as part of a list of reforms aimed at cracking down on "rampant antisemitism" that demonstrations against the massive bombing of Palestinians are being cast as.
Fifth woman: tenured Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke is stepping down after 25 years following a university investigation into her comments during an anti-war campus protest on January 2024 involving two IDF Israeli students who sprayed anti-war demonstrators with a chemical made and used in Israel by the IDF to suppress protests in Palestine. In an interview with Democracy Now! Franke claimed that Israeli students who had served in the Israel Defense Forces "have been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth; although grilled by Stefanik, was spared ouster by the pro-Israel billionaires.
Reports have indicated that approximately 100 USA black sites exist all over the world, including in countries like Poland, Romania, Thailand, Lithuania (site Violet recently in the news, where Kalid Shaik Muhammad was waterboarded), Egypt, Guantanamo, etc. to hide prisoners being held and/or tortured by U.S. military or CIA agents.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2016-10-10/site-violet-how-lithuania-helped-run-a-secret-cia-prison
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