Is there any way Kamala Harris could have won the 2024 election? Certainly. If a series of circumstances beyond her control had occurred, she might have become president. If Biden had died in February 2021, she would have served out most of his term. If Biden had died in October 2024, the outpouring of sympathy votes might have been enough to help her win the election in November. If Biden had become seriously ill and resigned in October 2024, that also might have given her a boost. Also, Biden might have resigned after Harris lost the election to let her be president and make history even if she didn't serve long.
However, none of these events happened. We can only imagine what having a woman as president might have been like because now that possibility has passed and there may never be a situation where a woman could be president again.
“I left you for God, Daddy.”
Let those words resonate across the planet. The speaker is Yahya Al-Batran, a Palestinian man – a dad – imagining the words his newborn son would have said. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent. The infant had a twin brother who was also lying still in their bed one morning recently. The parents rushed the boys to a functioning hospital, where Jumaa’s brother, at the time NBC’s story came out last week, was still fighting for his life.
Jumaa was one of half a dozen Palestinian babies (so far) who have frozen to death in their family’s tents since the onset of winter – just one more fragment of hell the Palestinians are enduring as Israel’s US-complicit genocide continues . . . one death at a time.
Terrifying reports from the Ukraine-Russia front underscore an inescapable new nuclear reality: In the age of drone warfare, the myth of atomic reactor safety has been exploded.
No matter how thick the containment domes, or how vehement the industry denials, a quantum leap in the killing power of weaponized drones has completely blown past official atomic safety assurances.
The unwelcome new reality has been brought home by two recent features in the New York Times.
A devastating, Pulitzer-level dispatch from C.J. Chivers in the Times Magazinecovering the Ukrainian killing fields seems to announce a total transformation in trench warfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/magazine/drones-weapons-ukraine-war.html
In excruciating detail, Chivers documents the new-found ability of remote drone operators to overcome with lethal force virtually any defensive barrier or evasive maneuver.
TATANKA BRICCA discusses the chances that Joe Biden will save the life of Leonard Peltier, who’ll be released before 1/20 or die.
A minor correction comes from MYLA RESON…and still more from MIKE HERSH.
Young Progressive Democrats of America is represented by HARTZELL GRAY, who inspires our movement to recruit young activists.
NICOLE UNG urges us to help free whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.
Myla and DAVID SALTMAN talk about beloved corporate-assaulted attorney STEVE DONZIGER who has been privately prosecuted by Chevron Oil.
GAVRILAH WELLS of Amnesty International recalls Trump's mass killings of 13 federal prisoners and urges Biden to keep pardoning folks, especially Peltier.
NICOLE CORRADO evokes the need to sanction a Russian billionaire helping Musk buying Twitter.
Election expert RAY LUTZ shows disturbing statistics from Nevada indicating serious irregularities in the Democratic turnout.
The insane prosecution against JOHN BRAKEY for merely making a public records request is explained by SUSAN PYNCHON.
DON MCCANNE emphasizes the need for youth in the progressive movement.
Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones wants to restart his ICE contract during the second Trump presidency. However, Butler County Jail officers abused immigrants and violated the jail’s contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly during the first Trump administration.
In 2021, Sheriff Jones claimed he terminated the Butler County Jail’s ICE contract himself after claiming the Biden administration was going to fire him. A lawsuit to hold this jail accountable for abuses against immigrants remains pending in federal court.
Sheriff Jones – as many Ohio immigrants know too well – is an ultra-conservative anti-immigration blowhard from outside Cincinnati who is a regular guest on right-wing media such as Glenn Beck. He has been referred to as Ohio’s “mini-Trump” and has struck fear in hardworking Ohio immigrants who work jobs rejected by white American workers. Butler County, for instance, has a large chicken rendering plant where many workers are Hispanic.
Building on and extending the work of Elana Freeland's, books The Geoengineered Transhuman and Under an Ionized Sky, as well as that of atmospheric scientist Clifford Carmicom, and Dr. Hildegarde Staninger, Dr. Anna Mihalcea has published a two-volume work entitled TransHuman – The Real COVID 19 Agenda.
The books summarize in detail the evidence documented in her dark-field microscopy research and confirmed by similar research of many others around the world:
The Presidential Election
Trump barely won the presidential election in November. Although he claims that his victory gave him a mandate to implement an extreme right-wing agenda, the numbers say otherwise. His margin of victory was the smallest of any presidential election since 1900. And we should bear in mind that Trump’s vote is unfairly buttressed by widespread right-wing gerrymanding in “red” states. James M. Lindsay cites the following “official” numbers in an article for the Council for Foreign Relations (https://cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers).