I have had this ready to post for several days. But due to how hard it is to watch and the way the settlers openly abuse the Palestinians with the Israeli government’s blatant permission I was not sure if the viewers wanted to see it. But we have to show how things are going and Israel is doing a genocide by trying to kill and drive the Palestinians from the West Bank and has decided to take all of Gaza now. The Palestinians that survive after the killing of so many of them and the milisous shooting of children for target practice, the killing of medical personnel, and the starving of the people along with now Israel cutting off all sources of water will be forcibly removed / deported. Any that refuse to leave will be killed. One of the Israeli ministers posted AI videos of Palestinians in a concentration camp that implied they were abused. This is what the entire program was for: to retake all of Gaza and the West Bank for Israel like they did all other Palestinian land so there could never be a two state solution and no Palestinians left in what Israel illegally calls their country. They are illegally taking over parts of Lebanon. Their goal has always been the greater Israeli. And the only reason they are getting away with these atrocities and horrors is because the US is protecting them from the retailation of those that Israel abuses and attacks. Biden was too blinded by the past and his age to force Israelis to stop and wouldn’t even cut off the largest 2,000 pound bombs dropped on tent cities. tRump’s military protected Israel rather than US military bases resulting in the deaths and injuries of US military personnel. Plus a large part of the US Congress is deeply in the pocket of the Israeli lobby called AIPAC. The corporate democrats are so beholden to the large sums of money that they are helping AIPAC try to destroy the campaigns of progressive and DSA democrats even if it means not gaining control of the Congress. Corporate Israel supporting Democrats would rather stay a minority party if it means keeping the huge sums of money given to Israel with no strings flowing. Hugs
I am sorry this is late. I had a long doctor appointment this morning, and after I did two days of dishes. Right now Ron is chopping peppers, onions, and celery for me to make a thick chili max supper. So I need to post this now with what is here. My eye sight is so bad that the memes and cartoon posts are the easiest for me to do. Sorry. Hugs
On the picture above, I once worked for Walmart. A young kid was ordered to put heavy grills up on the top of a shelf (riser). I noticed he was struggling to lift these heavy boxes by himself and was struggling. So I took another ladder and started to help him work together. Then this boy had reached his limit, and as he tried to pass a grill box up to me he lost it, his shoulders gave out, he lost the strength in his arms, and the heavy grill came down on him and started to knock him off the ladder. I realized what was happening and pushed out with my arms knocking the heavy grill box out over the boy. Walmart tried to blame me and make me pay for the damaged grill. I quit on the spot. I saved the boy and had a choice: either let the company blame me for their mistake or lose my job. Lucky for me I never took that job out of need, and I never regretted walking away from it. When I got home Ron wanted to sue them. I just never wanted anything to do with a company that would let a kid try to stack very heavy things over his head alone and then when he / his body failed, try to blame the guy who kept him from being knocked off the ladder to the concrete floor with a heavy grill box landing on him. The kid was so grateful to me; I was a decade older than him. I simply told him, if you see someone your age now when you are my age in trouble help them not caring what happens. Like I did you. I simply instinctively moved to use both arms to push the heavy box out over him. I have since learned it caused the damage in my left shoulder to accelerate that took the brunt of the grill box fall. Would I do it again? Oh yes. The local Walmart manager tried to make me pay them for the grill. I told them to sue me for it and we will see how a jury sees what I did. They mailed my last check, and I never saw any of them again. Hugs
Hello folks! I’ve got big news : my newest book, “Sex Ed for Everyone”, is O U T!
“Sex Ed for Everyone : comics about relationships, identities and puberty” is exactly what it sounds like : two sarcastic queer and trans teenagers being sassy and somehow educational talking about sex education. I’m particularly excited about this book, as it is the type of content I would have needed as a queer and trans teenager. You can get it right here
A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.
The entrance to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on April 22, 2025.Kyle Mazza / Anadolu via Getty Images
The Trump administration’s findings that three Ivy League schools violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures, according to a whistleblower account provided to Congress.
The disclosure, by Haley Van Erem, a veteran Justice Department civil rights attorney, involves investigations into whether Harvard, Brown and Columbia universities broke the law by allowing antisemitism to flourish on their campuses.
The whistleblower account comes just days after a federal judge dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit against Harvard that was based on the investigation, which was conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services and lawyers detailed from the DOJ.
Both Brown and Columbia reached settlements, with Columbia agreeing to pay $200 million over three years and Brown agreeing to spend $50 million on Rhode Island workforce development, with no admission of wrongdoing.
Harvard fought and won.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns ruled in that case that the Trump administration’s allegations relied on incidents that occurred more than a full academic year before it filed its lawsuit — incidents he said were “too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference” that Harvard was violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Van Erem’s whistleblower account, reviewed by MS NOW, says the findings “overrode knowing deviation from investigative procedures, statutory noncompliance, and potential constitutional violations.”
“Hundreds of millions of dollars were suspended from these universities prior to the completion of Title VI investigations and the investigative team’s conclusions were frequently disregarded,” the complaint says.
In a letter to Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said the whistleblower findings exposed a “large scale fraud.”
“Antisemitism at American universities and medical schools is real,” Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote.
“But your ‘investigation’ into antisemitism was fake, a pre-baked frame-up operation thoroughly political in nature. Before an actual investigation took place and regardless of what you actually found, the whole project was designed to harass professors and administrators at major universities, to curtail their freedom of speech and academic freedom, and to strip targeted institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants that they had already been awarded on the merits of their applications.”
A Department of Justice spokesperson told MS NOW, “While at the DOJ, Ms. Haley Van Erem did not work on university investigations. And for all matters, the Department stands behind the integrity of these investigations.”
The whistleblower complaint says the investigation was launched based on a single article in the New York Post that described antisemitic activities at medical school graduations.
“The article described protests that included protected expression such as students shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and students wearing Palestinian flags or keffiyehs,” the complaint says, adding: “It was not unheard of for news reporting coupled with additional evidence to lead the DOJ to initiate further scrutiny of potential statutory violations, but opening an investigation based on a single article was highly unusual.”
The complaint said that after being informed that there was no evidence to support a finding of a Title VI violation based on antisemitism at Brown, a senior Trump administration official at HHS, Daniel Shieh, agreed that there was “not a Title VI violation,” but told Van Erem and other DOJ team members at the meeting that “there’s no way we’re going to get a letter of no violation cleared.”
He pushed instead to obtain a settlement from Brown, and that ultimately happened.
The whistleblower complaint also accused Trump officials of telling investigators to interview Middle East studies professors, particularly focusing on Muslims, noting that one such interview of a Muslim professor was not to “get information,” but instead to see “what he will say.”
Raskin called that “a craven willingness to racially and ethnically profile faculty members while ostensibly investigating racial and ethnic discrimination.”
HHS did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment.
According to her complaint, Van Erem left the Justice Department in May 2025, “unwilling to be made vulnerable to further participation in politically motivated investigations unsupported by facts and contrary to law.”
Her complaint asks for an investigation by the HHS inspector general, the DOJ inspector general and the Office of Special Counsel.
“The full extent of your misconduct remains unclear,” Raskin wrote to Dhillon. “At the very least, you have shown gross negligence in supervising the activities of your office. It is also a distinct possibility that you deliberately orchestrated a scheme to attack universities and their faculties and administrators while defrauding the American people and the courts.”
