Illiberalism
Gilead
Right-wing militias
Police White supremacist gangs
Fig. 1. Photograph by Lorie Shaull, April 1, 2021, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Nothing new here, except a Pennsylvania state trooper made the mistake of stopping and abusing the husband of a Philadelphia city official who filmed a portion of the encounter.[1] My guess is that officer will, after all is said and done, be sacrificed to a righteously howling mob in order to spare the rest of white supremacist gangsters and enable them to continue as before. Will this solve the problem of white supremacist gangsters in Pennsylvania? Of course not. What would the point of the sacrifice be then?
Wendy Ruderman, “Mayor Parker says video of state trooper detaining top city official is ‘very concerning,’” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2024, https://www.inquirer.com/news/trooper-pennsylvania-police-celena-morrison-mayor-parker-20240302.html
Imperialism
Israel
Palestine
Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[2] fair use.
Gordon Lubold, Nancy A. Youssef, and Annie Linskey, “U.S. to Deliver Aid to Gaza Through Military Airdrops,” Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2024, https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-expected-to-deliver-aid-to-gaza-through-military-air-drops-79814c51
Ishaan Tharoor, “Gaza’s spiraling, unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” Washington Post, March 1, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com//world/2024/03/01/gaza-humanitarian-catastrophe/
Tara Copp, “US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation,” Associated Press, March 2, 2024, https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084
Felicia Schwartz, “US begins Gaza aid airdrops after Joe Biden rebukes Israel,” Financial Times, March 2, 2024, https://www.ft.com/content/c36c0386-8acb-48bc-a84b-8dfa636d00b4
Felicia Schwartz and Mehul Srivastava, “Israel has ‘basically signed on’ to a ceasefire, US official says,” Financial Times, March 2, 2024, https://www.ft.com/content/b42490ae-8ea1-4744-8745-87123450c6c6
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Infrastructure
Fig. 1. Post-collapse scene at the Fern Hollow Bridge, photograph by National Transportation Safety Board, January 29, 2022, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Neena Hagen, “Despite progress, Pittsburgh’s busiest bridges languish without repairs,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 3, 2024, https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2024/03/03/pittsburgh-bridges-repairs-fern-hollow-infrastructure-herron-ave/stories/202403030064
- [1]Wendy Ruderman, “Mayor Parker says video of state trooper detaining top city official is ‘very concerning,’” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2024, https://www.inquirer.com/news/trooper-pennsylvania-police-celena-morrison-mayor-parker-20240302.html↩
- [2]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩