Trina's Kitchen

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Chicken Pot Pie Bubble Up Casserole

Nettie e-mailed to note The Cookin' Chicks' Chicken Pot Pie Bubble Up Casserole:

Ingredients

2 cups chicken, cooked/shredded
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
1 1/2 cups mixed frozen veggies
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
2 cans refrigerated biscuits *6 oz cans

Instructions

In a medium mixing bowl, combine the chicken, cream of chicken, sour cream, cheddar cheese, veggies, garlic powder, and salt.
Cut each biscuit into fourths and toss pieces into chicken mixture.
Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray and spread chicken biscuit mixture evenly.
Place pan in preheated oven, 375, and bake for about 35-45 minutes, or until cooked through. *Could take longer depending on oven.
Remove from oven and serve!!

Renee e-mailed asking me to please link to Cheapism's "8 'Mexican' Dishes No One Actually Eats In Mexico." I found that very interesting -- especially the American women who got nachos.

I also found Daniel Villarreal's report for LGBTQ Nation interesting:

Big Mama Thornton — a six-foot tall, 300-pound, Black, gender-nonconforming blue musician who wore men’s apparel and sang with a growl — has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her influence on the genre. Though Thornton didn’t personally identify as LGBTQ+, modern commenters have noted her “queer” influence on mid-20th-century music.

The self-taught singer’s best-known song, “Hound Dog” (1952), gained widespread fame when covered by the white rock-and-roller Elvis Presley; but she saw no royalties from this and some of her other original songs, due to not owning the copyrights.

“My singing comes from my experience… I never had no one teach me nothing,” she reportedly said. “I never went to school for music or nothing. I taught myself to sing and to blow harmonica and even to play drums by watching other people. I can’t read music, but I know what I’m singing. I don’t sing like nobody but myself.”

The child of a Baptist minister, Thornton grew up in Ariton, Alabama listening to blues songs by bisexual Black singer Bessie Smith. Thornton’s mother died in 1939, when Thornton was just 13 years old. Thornton dropped out of school and began working odd jobs that same year — one year later, she successfully auditioned for a touring variety show called “Sammy Green’s Hot Harlem Revue.”

From 1951 to 1954, Thornton began nationally touring with a group called “Johnny Otis’ California Rhythm and Blues Caravan.” She regularly sang in a men’s suit jacket, tie, and cowboy boots. In 1952, her large body, voice, and personality compelled Apollo Theatre manager Frank Schiffman to give her the nickname “Big Mama.”

That same year, she also recorded “Hound Dog,” a song about leaving a selfish, exploitative romantic partner. Its album sold over 500,000 copies and spent seven weeks as the number-one record on the national R&B charts. Despite its success, she only ever received one $500 royalty check for it (roughly $5,900 by modern standards).

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Monday:

Monday, Arpil 22, 2024. The death toll in Gaza passes 34,000, a mass grave is discovered, protests continue on Columbia University's campus and spreads to other American campuses, Joe Biden mischaracterizes and lies about the protesters, and much more.

Today The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University continues into week two. From Friday's DEMOCRACY NOW!

AMY GOODMAN: Here in New York, riot police moved in on a peaceful student protest encampment, arresting at least 108 people at Columbia. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called the NYPD to clear the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the campus’s South Lawn, where Columbia and Barnard students had set up one day earlier to demand university leadership divest from Israel. New York Police Chief John Chell said Shafik identified the demonstration as a “clear and present danger,” but that officers found the students to peaceful and cooperative. Shafik warned all students participating in the encampment would be suspended. At least three suspensions of Barnard students were confirmed Thursday before the arrests, including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Congressmember Ilhan Omar.

Thursday’s showdown with the NYPD was the largest arrest on the Columbia campus since 1968, when police arrested over 700 students protesting the school’s ties to the Vietnam War and its plans to expand in Harlem by building a gymnasium there.

Following the arrests yesterday, students gathered on the campus throughout the night as large protests continued and are ongoing. Students got support from many Columbia faculty online and a visit in person from Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West, just nearby, who is also a 2024 presidential candidate. Democracy Now! spoke to professor West after he climbed a fence to visit with the encamped protesters.

CORNEL WEST: Well, you know, in light of our stand in deep solidarity with our precious Palestinian brothers and sisters who are undergoing vicious genocide, wrestling with apartheid conditions for so long and still being ethnically cleansed, we want the world to know that their suffering does not have the last word. There is resilience, and there’s a willingness to fight.

And Columbia president ought to be shame on herself that she cannot zero in on an actual genocide taking place before our very eyes, and be concerned about a potential and possible call for genocide of Jews. Nobody here is calling for the genocide of Jews. Nobody is here calling for annihilation. We’re calling for the end of an actual genocide and the end of an actual annihilation.

How sad that Columbia University could teach so many courses on the canonical texts of Western civilization and can’t listen to Diderot or Karl Marx. They can’t listen to a Martin Luther King Jr. They can’t listen to a Muriel Rukeyser. Most importantly, they can’t listen to the cries of our precious Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

So, I’m in deep solidarity with these students. They represent the best, not just of Columbia, not just of the American empire, but the human spirit, fighting in the face of domination and occupation and subjugation, and doing it with tremendous determination.

AMY GOODMAN: That’s presidential candidate and Union Theological Seminary professor Cornel West speaking to Democracy Now! at Columbia University in the midst of the protest. Special thanks to Hana Elias. President Shafik called in the New York police a day after she testified in the U.S. Congress.

Over the weekend, Sarah Huddleston and Shea Vance (COLUMBIA SPECTATOR) reported:

As the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” entered its fourth day on Saturday, dozens of protesters prepared for the University’s second admitted students weekend of the semester by establishing a “People’s University Student Fair” and an “alternative tour” committee.

The encampment remained on South Lawn two days after University President Minouche Shafik ordered a massive police sweep of the demonstration during which the New York Police Department arrested 108 individuals. All individuals had been released from custody as of late Thursday evening.

Spirits remained high on South Lawn throughout the day as protesters intermittently repeated chants like “Minouche Shafik, you’re a clown, we demand that you step down,” and “Say it out, say it clear, liberation is here” while waving small Palestinian flags. Students lounged on the lawn on top of blue tarps, chatting among each other or working on laptops. Toward the north end of the lawn, food and blankets lay in protected piles.

As the action continued over the weekend, so did the increase in support for it. Chimen Keys and Surina Venkat (COLUMBIA SPECTATOR) report:

Over 50 people congregated on Sunday in front of the 115th Street and Broadway entrance to “stand with students and a liberated Palestine” following three protests that drew around 150 people outside of Columbia’s campus along Broadway on Saturday.

Coordinated by People’s Forum NYC, New York City chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, PAL-Awda NY, and ANSWER Coalition, the protest coincides with the fifth day of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

Protests led by community members began on Friday after University President Minouche Shafik authorized the New York Police Department to sweep the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” resulting in the arrests of over 100 students.

Sunday’s protests followed the Within Our Lifetime’s “Flood Columbia for Gaza” protest, Uptown for Palestine’s “March Against Displacement,” and the “Stand with the Students” demonstration that took place on Saturday.

While people supported it, officials did not. Instead, officialdom attacked the students. From high offices, they attacked them verbally. Jesse Thomas and Daniel de Vries (WSWS) explain:

Amid a mass mobilization of New York City riot cops and surveillance teams, Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, a former cop, attacked pro-Palestinian protestors on Sunday, issuing a statement that ominously warned:

We will not be a city of lawlessness, and those professional agitators seeking to seize the ongoing conflict in the Middle East to sow chaos and division will not succeed.

President Joe Biden added his voice to the increasingly strident, bipartisan attack on the right to protest against war and mass murder, based on the lie that the campuses have become centers of antisemitism. Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s chief arms supplier and accomplice, issued a statement on Sunday saying:

Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.

In their statements, Democratic officials falsely implied that pro-Palestinian demonstrators were instigating violence. Meanwhile, the Democrats joined with Republican fascists in the House of Representatives to pass a series of bipartisan bills providing $95 billion to continue funding the US/NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, increase the supply of weapons for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and step up preparations for war against China.

The statements of Biden and Adams make clear that the attack on students at Columbia is not simply a matter of overreach by a university administration, but part of a coordinated political attack aimed at criminalizing and suppressing opposition to the policies of US imperialism.

Last week’s arrest of over 100 Columbia and Barnard students who were carrying out a peaceful encampment to protest the Gaza genocide marked a major escalation in the assault on democratic rights not only in New York, but across the country and internationally.

University President Minouche “Nemat” Shafik first suspended the students and then called the NYPD to remove them for supposedly “trespassing.” Students have reported being held by the police in zip ties for over seven hours.

Protesting a genocide is not attacking Jewish people. Netanyahu, who is Jewish, is carrying out the murders but a protest against him is not a protest against Jewish people. Nor is charging him with corruption -- as the Israeli government has done -- charging Jews around the world with corruption. It's a distinction that's easy to make unless you're just interested in lying and using your lie to silence the truth.

ALJAZEERA reports:

The public opinion poll by Israel’s Yediot Ahronoth media outlet and The Institute for Freedom and Responsibility of Reichman University suggests 85 percent of Israelis have little or no trust in their government.

About 64 percent of Israelis believe their country faces an existential threat, and 65 percent have not been sleeping well since the outbreak of the war, it said.

At least 73 percent of Israelis have grown anxious in the past six months.

So what's the White House response to that? To have Joe Biden attack the Israeli people for 'anti-semetic' sentiment that he sees in the polling results? Where does the nonsense end?

As the White House, US President Joe Biden and the mayor of New York attacked the student activists, support spread across other campuses. Saturday, ALJAZEERA reported:

Students at three prestigious universities in and near the US city of Boston have set up protest camps, demanding that their institutions cut off ties with Israel, according to campaigners.

The universities are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Emerson and Tufts, the National Students for Justice in Palestine said.

The moves came after students at the Columbia University in New York launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at their campus. That protest is now in its fifth day. Some 100 students were arrested there on Friday.

Isha Banerjee, Apurva Chakravarthy, Joseph Zuloaga and Manuela Silva (COLUMBIA SPECTATOR) reported on the growing support as well:

As the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia enters its fifth day, students at over a dozen universities across the country—and the globe—have begun protesting in solidarity with the encampment after 108 affiliates were arrested on campus by the New York Police Department on Thursday.

Protests ranged from walkouts to marches to encampments in solidarity with the Columbia efforts, garnering anywhere from 50 to hundreds of protesters. At Yale University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, students started encampments in solidarity with the Columbia “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

In a Friday evening Instagram post, the national chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine called on all chapters to follow Columbia SJP’s lead and pressure their administrations to divest from Israel.

“Our universities have chosen profit and reputation over the lives of the people of Palestine and the will of their students,” the national SJP chapter wrote in the post. “President Minouche Shafik’s cowardly testimony to Congress heralds an unfortunate shift: university administrators have capitulated to the pressure of the Zionist lobby and allied Right Wing, selling out the Student Movement for Palestinian liberation to save face in the eye of the state.”

[Read more: Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100]

“In the footsteps of our comrades at … Columbia SJP, we call on all SJPs across the nation to seize the university and force the administration to divest, for the people of Gaza!” the post continues.

Carrie Zaremba, a member of the national SJP chapter, said that the support from other universities across the country is “absolutely unprecedented.”

This morning, Alysha Palumbo (NBC's 10BOSTON) reports:

A large group of students were gathered Monday in an encampment that blocked Boylston Place alley on Emerson's campus. They're part of the non-affiliated student organization "Students for Justice in Palestine."

Boston police were also on site, but they say there have been no arrests at this time.

There were also student encampments at MIT and Tufts as well. These protests began at 7 p.m. Sunday and continued throughout the night.

These students say this is an act of solidarity with 100 pro-Palestinian protestors arrested at Columbia University in New York last week.

And Boston's WCBA filed this video report.

In other news, THE INDEPENDENT notes this morning:

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to fight any impending US sanction on the Israeli military amid a slump in bilateral ties following the Israeli military onslaught in the Gaza Strip.

President Joe Biden’s administration is expected to sanction a unit of the Israeli military after a ProPublica investigation claimed that the State Department sat for months on evidence of serious human rights abuses

The investigation published on Wednesday revealed that an internal State Department investigation had, months ago, identified several Israeli police and military units facing credible accusations of violating human rights, including allegations of torture.

Meanwhile, an Al Jazeera has reported bodies being recovered from a mass grave inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis.

“In the hospital courtyard, civil defence members and paramedics have retrieved 180 bodies buried in this mass grave by the Israeli military. The bodies include elderly women, children and young men,” the outlet reported, quoting its reporter and Palestinian emergency services from Khan Younis.

Olivia Rosane (COMMON DREAMS) adds:

Palestinian civil defense discovered hundreds of bodies buried by Israeli forces in a mass grave inside the complex of Khan Younis' Nasser Medical Complex on Saturday.

Rescue workers said they had removed at least 200 bodies as of 12:00 pm local time on Sunday, and they estimated that at least another 200 remained, Middle East Eye reported.

"We found corpses without heads, bodies without skins, and some had their organs stolen," the director-general of the Government Media Office said in a statement shared by Quds News Network.

"Following the mass graves at Al-Shifa hospital, it looks like Israel is a voracious death machine turning hospitals in Gaza into graveyards."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrew from Khan Younis on April 7. While they occupied the city, they stormed the Nasser Medical Complex in February, arresting several doctors, damaging the structure with shelling, and rendering it unable to function as a hospital.

Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud said the bodies found in the Nasser grave included children, young men, and older women. Rescues said that some of the bodies they found had been buried with their hands tied behind their backs, according to Middle East Eye.

On Saturday, the death toll in Gaza passed the 3400 mark. Earlier this month, the assault passed the six month mark. There appears to be no end in sight. And the answer from the White House? Attack US college students.

And that helps how?

Sunday, Mohammad Jahjouh and Samy Magdy (AP) reported, "Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people, including 18 children, health officials said Sunday, as the United States was on track to approve billions of dollars of additional military aid to Israel, its close ally." 18 children killed. And the White House pretends this is about October 7th? It's about eradicating the Palestinians, it is a genocide. Saturday, the Israeli government killed an ambulance driver. THE NATIONAL noted::

The head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has called for humanitarian and medical workers to be protected after a volunteer paramedic was killed in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.

Mohammed Allah Musa was the 18th member of the Palestine Red Crescent to be killed since the war began in October.

"How many more?" asked Jagan Chapagain, secretary general of the IRFC.

"I cannot stress this enough: Humanitarian and healthcare workers must be respected and protected. It is a moral and legal obligation."

Save The Children notes:

The rate of attacks per month on healthcare in Gaza since the beginning of the war has been higher than in any other recent conflict globally, standing at an average of 73 attacks each month, according to new analysis by Save the Children.

There have so far been at least 435 attacks on health facilities or personnel across Gaza in six months of conflict between 7 October 2023 and early April 2024 – equivalent to 73 attacks per month of war, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This number exceeds the number of attacks per month in all other war-torn countries since 2018, including Ukraine who have the second highest number at 67 attacks per month, and the Democratic Republic of Congo with an average of 11 attacks per month.

Attacks on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory haven’t been limited to Gaza, with 369 attacks also reported in the occupied West Bank in the last six months. These include 302 obstructions to health access, and the use of force within health facilities.

The WHO classifies an attack on health care as any instance of violence against or any obstructions that interfere with delivery or access to, health services during emergencies, including psychological threats and intimidation of patients and workers.

Six months of constant bombardment, siege and obstruction of aid deliveries have annihilated the health system in Gaza. Only 11 hospitals out of 36 are partially functioning and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported that some 350,000 people suffering from chronic diseases in Gaza are unable to access vital medicines, supplies, and services.

Save the Children’s Emergency Health Unit are currently assisting children through a field hospital recently established by a partner in Rafah that offers primary health care to over 200 people a day, 40% of them children.

The corpses pile up but Joe Biden's answer is attack college students.

Gaza remains under assault. Day 199 of the assault in the wave that began in October. Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence." CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund." ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them." NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll. The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza." The slaughter continues. It has displaced over 1 million people per the US Congressional Research Service. Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) points out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide." The death toll of Palestinians in Gaza is grows higher and higher. United Nations Women noted, "More than 1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza -- have been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million people -- are in crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse." THE NATIONAL reports, "The death toll in Israel's war on Gaza rose to 34,151 on Monday afternoon after 54 people were killed in the previous 24 hours. About 104 others were wounded, taking the total number of injured to 77,084, according to the latest update from the enclave's health ministry.Intense air strikes and shelling were reported across Gaza overnight, particularly in central and southern areas." Months ago, AP noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing." February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000 Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of their former home." February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe Lazzarini Tweeted:

April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "In addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into Israeli prisons. In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."

As for the area itself? Isabele Debre (AP) reveals, "Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape. Whole neighborhoods have been erased. Homes, schools and hospitals have been blasted by airstrikes and scorched by tank fire. Some buildings are still standing, but most are battered shells." Kieron Monks (I NEWS) reports, "More than 40 per cent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, according to a new study of satellite imagery by US researchers Jamon Van Den Hoek from Oregon State University and Corey Scher at the City University of New York. The UN gave a figure of 45 per cent of housing destroyed or damaged across the strip in less than six weeks. The rate of destruction is among the highest of any conflict since the Second World War."

And ALJAZEERA reports:

“We believe that the response has been fully disproportionate and has also been, in our view, a breach of humanitarian law in terms of the destruction of Gaza and also in terms of the killing of civilians, innocent men, women and children,” Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheal Martin says.

“The population of Gaza has been collectively punished because of the activities of Hamas, that’s not acceptable,” he said ahead of a EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.

Martin said Ireland and Spain are calling for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which is based on trade relations with Israel.

Ministers will discuss a proposed Gaza peace plan, the recognition of a Palestinian state, and humanitarian aid issues, he added.

Let's wind down with this:

Shellenberger and Musk are working hand in hand, and I’m sure their goal is to be players in the US elections, and that’s why they have joined the international far right. Obviously they have chosen Brazil because it is also an important player in the international far right. They have taken advantage of all this discourse about regulating social media, which Musk obviously opposes. But I think their immediate goal is to attack the established powers in Brazil.

Our far right was completely isolated, because its main leader is Bolsonaro and he couldn’t lead, because he was cornered: the criminal investigations against him for crimes that have been proven, thanks to very robust investigations by the Federal Police. He was powerless, because the whole coup plot has been uncovered by the Federal Police. He really tried to implement a coup d’état, together with military leaders, and there were direct actions, like the attack on the Federal Police headquarters the day Lula arrived in Brasilia to sign documents in preparation for his inauguration.

This attack was very serious, but some people seem to have already forgotten it. I was there. I personally witnessed a car full of jerry cans filled with gasoline parked in front of a gas station, and later jerry cans full of gasoline were found in the hotel where Lula was staying. There was an attempted bombing in Brasilia airport on Christmas, which only failed to explode because the detonator didn’t work. Then we had the attack on January 8, which was also very serious.

So at the moment when were were managing to finally hold the main leaders of this attempted coup accountable, Elon Musk and Michael Shellenberger came onto the scene to attack the institutions that are prosecuting them, to usurp their power so they can’t convict them anymore. That was clearly their short-term goal, and in the long run, Elon Musk obviously wants to be a player in the international far right, and interfere in elections around the world, especially in the US.

That's Estela Aranha speaking to Brian Mier (FAIR) about the lies that are The Twitter Files.

Kat's "Kat's Korner: The tortured lyrics (not poetry) of Taylor Swift" went up Sunday. The following sites updated:

Friday, April 19, 2024

Mashed Potato Patties in the Kitchen

Cooking can be stressful. Any time. You've got an in-law coming in who you feel is critical (not that I would ever in a million years know anything about that, honest, never, ever -- I'm being sarcastic) and suddenly the meal you thought would be a breeze becomes stressful. Or it's a new recipe. Or you're a new cook. I noted a new cook recently and that had Wally's mother thinking. She looked around online for a potato recipe where you use mashed potatoes and make patties out of them. She found a good one at Kitchen Divas -- Mashed Potato Patties:

4 cups leftover mashed potatoes - approximately
¾ - 1 cup cheese, shredded to taste
10 slices bacon optional
¾ cup crispy fried onions, finely crushed

1 large egg
3 tblsp all-purpose flour plus ¾ cup
¼ cup vegetable oil for pan-frying

Chop and cook the bacon. Place on paper towel.
Combine the mashed potatoes, cheddar cheese, bacon, eggs, crispy fried onions and 3 tablespoons of flour in a mixing bowl.
Roll approximately 6-8 balls of the mixture and then flatten into 1 inch thick “burgers.”
Put the ¾ cup of flour in a bowl and then dredge the burgers in the flour. Heat about ¼ cup of oil in a large skillet. Using medium heat fry the burgers in the oil until each side is brown and crispy which usually takes about 4 minutes. Add more oil if you need to.
Transfer patties to a paper towel covered plate. Serve with whatever you want – sour cream, more cheese, more bacon, green onions, ketchup or anything else you can think of. Enjoy!

Don't have left over mashed potatoes? You can make some from scratch or you can use some instant potatoes. But this is a fun and easy recipe. You could even make it with your kids to get them comfortable cooking. (I wouldn't let my young grandkids do the skillet part, but I would let them do the mixing and making the patties.)

News? Daniel Villareal (LGBTQ Nation) reports:

A self-described hacker group of gay furries called SiegedSec claims to have leaked data from the far-right media outlet Real America’s Voice and publicly released the cell phone number of a transphobic pastor.

The hack of Real America’s Voice allegedly included the names and phone numbers of over 1,200 users of the outlet’s phone app as well as information about the network’s top shows, including ones hosted by anti-LGBTQ+ Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and other far-right figures.

Real America’s Voice has broadcasted numerous segments accusing the LGBTQ+ community of “targeting” and “grooming” children. The outlet has also platformed the views of anti-LGBTQ+ religious leader Bryan Fischer.

Earlier this year, SiegedSec claimed to have hacked the River Valley Church of Burnsville, Minnesota — and to have spent $6,200 in church funds to purchase 100 inflatable sea lions — after its lead pastor, Rob Ketterling, allegedly made transphobic remarks. In the past, Ketterling said the legalization of gay marriage would lead to the legalization of pedophilia, polygamy, and bestiality.

Well good for the hackers. Sounds like they're doing needed work. More power to them.

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Friday:

Friday, April 19, 2024. Protests, deaths and more take a back seat as the media wets itself in excitement over the prospect of war on Iran.

Bernd Debusmann Jr, (BBC News) reports:

More than 100 students have been arrested after police cleared a camp of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University in New York.

The university's president said that the "extraordinary step" came after multiple warnings and was necessary to provide a safe environment.

Among the participants in the protest was Minnesota politician Ilhan Omar's daughter, who has been suspended.

Protests have rocked US campuses since the Israel-Gaza war began last year.

And THE NEW ARAB notes:

Isra Hirsi, the daughter of American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, said she has been suspended from New York's Columbia University and its associate institution, Barnard College, after participating in a pro-Palestine protest on Thursday.

Writing on X, Hirsi said she is "one of three students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide".

Hirsi said that despite being an organiser with Columbia University Apartheid Divest, she had never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings in her three years at the college. The organisation advocates for the university to divest from "companies complicit in genocide".

Dropping back to yesterday's DEMOCRACY NOW!

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. As Columbia University President Shafik testified before Congress about accusations of antisemitism at the school, Democracy Now! spoke to Columbia and Barnard College students yesterday who set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment early Wednesday morning with dozens of tents, occupying the South Lawn of the campus outside the main library. As we broadcast, students have been threatened with suspension and discipline action but are still refusing to leave until their demands are met. They spoke about what they’re calling for.

PROTESTERS: Down, down with occupation! Down, down with occupation! Up, up with liberation! Up, up with liberation!

MARYAM ALWAN: My name is Maryam Alwan, and I’m with Columbia SJP, Students for Justice in Palestine. And we are here today to demand that Columbia divest immediately from all stakes in Israeli apartheid. Over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed. And as we speak, our president is testifying in front of the House in a game of political theater that is conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. We want to focus the attention on what’s going on in Gaza and tell Columbia that we are not going anywhere. No matter how much government suppression we face, we will keep fighting until they divest.

They have been completely repressive. I mean, we’ve faced police brutality. We have faced countless policy changes. I mean, my group, along with Jewish Voice for Peace, was suspended in the fall semester completely illegitimately. And I filed a lawsuit to counter that action. And it seems like the repression is only getting worse and worse and worse. But the more they repress us, the more we rise up. And that’s why we’ve escalated — that’s also why we’ve escalated here today.

Not only are they not listening to us when we peacefully protest, when we attempt to just pass referendums for student voices to even be heard, they don’t even want to listen to the students. They don’t want to know what the students think. And so, we’re here to tell them that we will take up space and presence on this campus, and they’re not going to be able to erase our support for Palestine.

PROTESTERS: What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! If Gaza doesn’t get it, shut it down!

SOPH: My name is Soph. I am with Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia. And I am here today because I will not stand by while thousands and thousands of people are dying because of our tax dollars in this country, as Columbia’s money is going towards a genocide. The money that should be funding our education is going to the bombs that are dropping on Gaza right now. Columbia is a majority share — has massive amounts of shares in various organizations, like Lockheed Martin, that are supplying Israel with bombs right now, and we will no longer be complicit.

In a campus like this that is filled with repression, that is — every day we wake up, and the administration tries to silence us more and more. We are here to say, “The more you try to silence us, the louder we will be.” We will not be complicit. We will stand in solidarity, because we know that we keep us safe.

We refuse to believe that Israel is in any part related to our Judaism. In fact, our Jewish values inform why we’re here, why we’re standing in here — Jewish values of tikkun olam, of love, of appreciation, of respect, of mutual liberation. And so, as Jews, we are here to say that we will always support the liberation of Palestine, because that is what historically Jews have done. We have stood up for other oppressed peoples, because we know that there can be no freedom until we are all free.

PROTESTERS: Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine! Free, free, free Palestine!

SARAH BORUS: My name is Sarah Borus. I’m a student at Barnard College. And I’m here because I was raised as an anti-Zionist Jew. It is important for me to stand with Palestine. I go to a university that is actively profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and then is hiding behind Jewish students by saying that they want to crack down on us because of antisemitism. But as an anti-Zionist Jew, I know that that is the farthest thing from the truth. They are doing that because they know that we are on the right side of history, that they are doing something that is profoundly wrong. And it is our job during this genocide to come out and resist.

There were Jews protesting against this genocide who were harassed and then attacked with a chemical weapon. That is not being addressed. This is — quite frankly, we’re seeing McCarthyism once again. And our administrators need to be aware of the experience of anti-Zionist Jews, the way that antisemitism is being weaponized in order to crack down on this movement.

AMY GOODMAN: Voices from the South Lawn of Columbia University, where students have set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Special thanks to Democracy Now!’s Hana Elias and Tey-Marie Astudillo and Eric Halvarson for that report.

When we come back, we go to Tel Aviv, Israel, to speak with a senior Israel analyst for the International Crisis Group about why Israel-Iran war is a lifeline for Prime Minister Netanyahu. Back in 20 seconds.

At COUNTERPUNCH, Jeffrey St. Clair notes:

Columbia students were right in 1968. History proved it. Columbia students are right today. The university has no good answers to their demands that the school stop investing in genocide. Calling in the NYPD proves it.

+ Abbie Hoffman: “The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.” In Columbia’s case, the administration is doing the job for the students.

+ Columbia Professor Rebecca Jordan-Young: “The faculty who are supporting the students do not all agree on the issue of Israel and Palestine, [but] we are astonished and disgusted with the way the university has cracked down on the students.”

+ From Wednesday’s House interrogation of Columbia University’s President, Minouche Shafik…

+ God also wanted Abraham to slit his son Isaac’s throat, which is pretty much what Shafik did when she called the NYPD goon squad on the kids in her care. Giordano Bruno she’s not…In fact, Shafik is a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and also enjoys a life peerage in the House of Lords.

Meanwhile, this morning SKY NEWS reports:

Antony Blinken has been asked why he's refusing to comment on the apparent Israeli attack on Iran in the early hours of this morning.

He responds: "I am going to be incredibly boring and not make your day by saying again I am not going to speak on what's been reported."

He also reiterates the line he's been saying throughout the conference: "The United States has not been involved in any offensive operations."

I am not Secretary of State Antony Blinken. But I'm also not going to spend time this morning on Israeli's attack on Iran. Sunday, as we noted Sunday, you couldn't find news of Gaza -- protests over it, deaths caused by the Israeli government, not even a death toll -- because the media was foaming over the thought of a bigger war. We're there again today and it's not just western media, it's the Arab media as well.

We cover Gaza, we cover Iraq, we cover feminism, we have a scope here. The world doesn't need more wars -- or actually any wars.

Ellen Francis and Helier Cheung (WASHINGTON POST) report:

World leaders reacted to Friday’s strike with calls to avoid further escalation. Egypt expressed its “deep concern about the continuing escalation between Israel and Iran,” calling for “the highest levels” of restraint and warning against expanding “conflict and instability in the region.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, “It is absolutely necessary that the region stays stable and that all sides refrain from further action.” China’s Foreign Ministry also said it opposed any actions that escalated tensions, Reuters reported.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry in a statement also called for restraint from “all parties,” but it pointed the finger at Israel. “It is becoming increasingly evident that the tensions that were initially caused by Israel’s illegal attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus risk turning into a permanent conflict,” the ministry said.

At COMMON DREAMS, Brett Wilkins writes:

As the United Nations Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on Palestine's bid to become a full U.N. member, the Biden administration—which claims to support Palestinian statehood—is lobbying UNSC nations in an effort to wrangle enough "no" votes so that the United States can avoid resorting to a veto.

Leaked cables obtained by The Intercept show U.S. pressure on Security Council members including Malta—which currently presides over the body—and Ecuador.

While claiming that President Joe Biden backs "Palestinian aspirations for statehood," one of the cables asserts that "it remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors."

"We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of 'Palestine' as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks," the document advises.

The U.S. argument essentially is that the U.N. should not create an independent Palestinian state by fiat—even though that's precisely how the world body voted in 1947 to establish the modern state of Israel.

The renewed push for Palestine's U.N. membership comes as Israel wages a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority, which hasn't controlled Gaza for nearly two decades, rejected the Biden administration's requests to hold off on seeking full membership.

"We wanted the U.S. to provide a substantive alternative to U.N. recognition. They didn't," one unnamed Palestinian official toldAxios on Wednesday. "We believe full membership in the U.N. for Palestine is way overdue. We have waited more than 12 years since our initial request."

As The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein and Daniel Boguslaw noted:

Since 2011, the U.N. Security Council has rejected the Palestinian Authority's request for full member status. On April 2, the Palestinian Observer Mission to the U.N. requested that the council once again take up consideration of its membership application. According to the first State Department cable, U.N. meetings since the beginning of April suggest that Algeria, China, Guyana, Mozambique, Russia, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, and Malta support granting Palestine full membership to the U.N. It also says that France, Japan, and Korea are undecided, while the United Kingdom will likely abstain from a vote.

Along with the United States, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom are permanent members of the UNSC, so they also have veto power.

Read Brett in full.

Gaza remains under assault. Day 196 of the assault in the wave that began in October. Binoy Kampmark (DISSIDENT VOICE) points out, "Bloodletting as form; murder as fashion. The ongoing campaign in Gaza by Israel’s Defence Forces continues without stalling and restriction. But the burgeoning number of corpses is starting to become a challenge for the propaganda outlets: How to justify it? Fortunately for Israel, the United States, its unqualified defender, is happy to provide cover for murder covered in the sheath of self-defence." CNN has explained, "The Gaza Strip is 'the most dangerous place' in the world to be a child, according to the executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund." ABC NEWS quotes UNICEF's December 9th statement, ""The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Scores of children are reportedly being killed and injured on a daily basis. Entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school have been turned into stacks of rubble, with no life in them." NBC NEWS notes, "Strong majorities of all voters in the U.S. disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of foreign policy and the Israel-Hamas war, according to the latest national NBC News poll. The erosion is most pronounced among Democrats, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza." The slaughter continues. It has displaced over 1 million people per the US Congressional Research Service. Jessica Corbett (COMMON DREAMS) points out, "Academics and legal experts around the world, including Holocaust scholars, have condemned the six-week Israeli assault of Gaza as genocide." The death toll of Palestinians in Gaza is grows higher and higher. United Nations Women noted, "More than 1.9 million people -- 85 per cent of the total population of Gaza -- have been displaced, including what UN Women estimates to be nearly 1 million women and girls. The entire population of Gaza -- roughly 2.2 million people -- are in crisis levels of acute food insecurity or worse." Yesterday, THE NATIONAL noted "The death toll in Gaza rose to 33,970 on Thursday after Israel killed 71 Palestinians in the previous 24 hours, the health ministry announced. More than 100 others were wounded, taking the total number of injured to 76,770 since the war began on October 7." Again, no one has a death toll today, they're all frothing in delight over the prospect of war on Iran. Months ago, AP noted, "About 4,000 people are reported missing." February 7th, Jeremy Scahill explained on DEMOCRACY NOW! that "there’s an estimated 7,000 or 8,000 Palestinians missing, many of them in graves that are the rubble of their former home." February 5th, the United Nations' Phillipe Lazzarini Tweeted:

April 11th, Sharon Zhang (TRUTHOUT) reported, "n addition to the over 34,000 Palestinians who have been counted as killed in Israel’s genocidal assault so far, there are 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza who are missing, a humanitarian aid group has estimated, either buried in rubble or mass graves or disappeared into Israeli prisons. In a report released Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the estimate is based on initial reports and that the actual number of people missing is likely even higher."

Since everyone else appears to be is in war mode -- with no concern for the victims of war -- let's go to a different topic.

I thought Medhi Hasan was trying to do something different. Thought he was building something different, a media that was going to be real. Now it appears he's just built another media that attacks women and hides behind a forty-something female with Mommy issues to attack women. Before we get to that special prize let's review some headlines to provide the context that Mehdi apparently doesn't believe in despite giving one interview after another in recent weeks talking about the importance context.

Let's start. October 7th, Hamas carried out an attack in Israel.

Not content to deal with what took place, liars had to invent claims of beheaded babies. Claims of gang-rapes soon followed.

No women did.

And as I've said repeatedly here and at THIRD, it doesn't play. If you bought a ticket to a film and some bad guy got a woman alone and raped her? You would buy it. If the bad guy raped her in front of her family, you'd even buy that. But the rapist has invaded and is taking time out from the assault -- and risking it being stopped as a result -- so that he and his accomplices can indulge in gang-rape?

It doesn't play. You hit the targets, you get out.

Could it have happened? Many believe it or not moments do happen.

But this didn't happen.

I'm a survivor. I do not buy that another woman -- let alone many women -- would be raped on October 7th and be so fragile that they couldn't come forward. It's April 19th.

So what did Mehdi do? He published the gadfly Fatima Bhutto. And her awful column "Gaza Has Exposed The Shameful Hypocrisy Of Western Feminism."

From the title, some may think it belongs to other recent literary fictions such as:

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, November 23rd, Amelie Botbol, "Global women’s rights groups silent as Israeli women testify about rapes by Hamas"

NBC NEWS, November 25th, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, "How feminists have failed Israeli victims of sexual violence: The skepticism that met Israeli women’s claims perpetuates traditions of dehumanizing Jews."

SLATE, November 30th, Dahlia Lithwick, Mimi Rocah, Tamara Sepper, Jennifer Taub, Joyce White Vance, and Julie Zebrak, "The World’s Feminists Need to Show Up for Israeli Victims: Solidarity for victims of sexual assault should trump other politics."

THE FORWARD, December 13th, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, "Jew-hating is not a new feminist phenomenon: I refuse to let Hamas’ brutal assault on Israeli women and girls be forgotten in the fog of war"

THE NATION, December 15th, Katha Pollitt "Why Have Feminists Been So Slow to Condemn the Hamas Rapes?"

THE JERUSALEM POST, January 19th, Carly Pildis, "Why are feminists silent on Hamas's use of rape as a weapon of war?"

WINNEPEG FREE PRESS, January 26th, Jen Zoratti, "The battlefield between feminism and rapes of war"

We could include about forty more articles but hopefully you get the point. The articles in bold are trashing western feminists for not rushing to endorse and support these mythical rape victims.

We're such mean western feminists, we don't care about these fictional women. That's what we've endured for months and along with columns there have been speeches and remarks and we've been attacked over and over and over.

I can't support women who are fiction. Created solely as propaganda to promote war? Can't support them. Didn't buy the lie about Iraq tossing babies out of incubators in the 90s either. Or the WMD lie leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

And I don't buy that women were gang-raped on October 7th and all these months later can't come forward. Again, I'm a survivor. That doesn't mean everyone raped has the same experience I do. I doubt, for example, they repeatedly stabbed their rapist once he fell asleep. I doubt that they were in the single-digit years as I was. But there I was a small child, just raped, and I had the sense to wait for him to fall asleep and then to ensure that he couldn't come back after me and then to figure out where he had taken me and how the hell I got to safety.

So spare me the lie that grown ass women are raped six months ago and are still too traumatized to come forward.

Fatima Bhutto does a list twist though. She wants to blame western feminists -- remember, we've already been attacked for months for not taking up the cause of these mystical and mythical women -- Fatima wants to blame us for -- well her entire pathetic life, actually, let's be honest. Her Daddy love for a father who was a failure, her hatred for her aunt that she claims killed her father, her mother who just wasn't there for her and the entire world which really didn't ever want her bad fiction and still doesn't want any novels from her as evidenced by poor sales. Oh, if only she could 'date' George Clooney again, life might be good for her.

We, western feminists, just aren't doing enough for Fatima or, for that matter, anything.

This week, I mentioned Matilda Joslyn Gage in a snapshot and noted that, if you didn't know the name, your media was failing you. I then noted how so few women are guests -- even on left and 'left' public affairs programs and YOUTUBE programs, et al. I stand by that and I feel the need to repeat it now due to Medhi Hashan's new outlet publishing Fatima Bhutto's "Gaza Has Exposed the Shameful Hypocrisy of Western Feminism."

No, dear, what it's exposed is your shameful ignorance.

I'm a feminist -- a western one. I've called out the attack on Gaza since it started. We have largely skipped Iraq coverage to cover this and to cover it daily. Susan Sarandon spoke out and got dropped by her talent agency. She's a feminist as well. Melissa Barrera will not be silenced. She's a feminist as well.

Your media is failing you.

I'm also getting damn tired of feminism being stolen from us.

Gloria Steinem?

People still don't get it.

I was Gloria's friend and her friend for years. I believed her lie about the CIA. It wasn't until the '00s that I found out differently. And Ava and I wrote about it repeatedly at THIRD. Excuse me but people just say "Oh, she was CIA!" That's Max Blumenthal and all the other lazy asses. Uh-uh. She was CIA who ratted out leftists from other countries. That's why she went overseas. She was to document dissidents and turn that over to the CIA which then used it to 'barter' with other governments. She is responsible for deaths so stop saying, "Oh, she was CIA!" and thinking you've said something. You've said nothing unless your noting that she harmed European activists -- some of whom ended up tortured and some of whom were killed. Gloria hates it when Ava and I write about this. And some friends say to me, "Can't you just leave it alone?" No. I cannot. First off, I'm guilty and feel guilty because I believed her lies. She looked me in the face and told me she was not a part of the CIA. She'd just, in college, done some work on an international festival. She lied. And what's appalling is how long the lie held. Thanks to YOUTUBE, we can now all see her bragging about being in the CIA because, before she was a feminist, she gave on camera interviews bragging on it. But I believed her and I defended her.

I can't be silent now that I know I was wrong. It's not something I need to bring up every day, no, but when it's appropriate it needs to be brought up and that's why Ava and I have written about it repeatedly. And done more than that, we've also lobbied -- since we discovered Gloria was lying -- corporate media to stop providing cover for her and you can now go to any mainstream media outlet and find that, yes, she was CIA. (And that's why it's nothing for Max Blumenthal to tweet that obvious reality.)

Feminism in the west has always railed against media figureheads -- including Gloria and I agreed with that long before I discovered she was lying.

Bhutto knows nothing about Western feminism other than what the corporate media has told her. First thing any feminist learns is: Don't count on the media to reflect us honestly.

I love how we're ignored by the media over and over.

But Gaza's under assault and suddenly we're the cause and we're the reason and everybody attack us.

Western feminists have been speaking out against that slaughter in Gaza for months now. Maybe Fatima doesn't know it because she doesn't understand the real world.

Reading her bad column, I had to drop back two paragraphs to see who Carrie Bradshaw was. I couldn't find her in the previous paragraphs and then I realized, "Oh, she means Sarah Jessica Parker's character in SEX AND THE CITY." And that may be SEX IN THE CITY. If I write of it, I have to look it up because it was not my show and Carrie was not my touchstone.

Fatima fumes over the 90s TV character. Way to utilize your space to deal with reality, Fatima.

And we get BARBIE trashed because Fatima hates women. Mommy issues. BARBIE is a movie mainly aimed at young children -- girls and boys who love Barbie. If the scorn and hate that so many of you have aimed at the movie was ever aimed at a GI Joe movie, we might actually be able to end wars. But you only trash a film, rip it apart, if it's aimed primarily at females. Then it can be mocked and held accountability for every crime in the world. But target children with a movie where everyone's shooting each other and it just passed by without comment -- even as school shooting continue to multiply in the US.

Stop it.

We're not all powerful. If feminists were all powerful, why would we have to constantly point out how we're not given equal seating at the table?

The mainstream media has spent the last six months ripping apart everyone who calls for a cease-fire or just ignoring them outright. How nice of Mehdi's new outlet to render those of us in the west who are feminists and are calling for a ceasefire invisible.

At the same time, the biggest nobodies in the world have been treated as voices to listen to. Julianna Margulies? No one likes her. She can't get work because of her image that she made on the set of THE GOOD WIFE. She was a freak show and a nightmare to work with which is why so many people left that show. After that? She went slumming to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC because that's all she could get. Do you not realize how awful that is? She starred in a network TV show but is such a nightmare to work with that no one -- no one -- wanted to work with her and she had to go to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

Now she's on APPLE!

Uh, now she's like the eleventh billed in an APPLE show, let's not pretend she's a star because she isn't.

And where are we getting this idea that she's a feminist? What has she ever done?

Don't give me when the cameras are around and recording her 'good' moments. What did she do for women? In season one of THE GOOD WIFE, women directed five episodes. In season two, they directed six episodes. That was embarrassing low. In season three, she becomes a producer. And the number of women directing episodes increases, right? Women direct at least 11 of the episodes now each season because Julianna is a woman, right?

Wrong.

The number directed stays the same or dropped. (It dropped to only four out of 22 episodes directed by a woman in the final season.) She's not a feminist.

Mayim Bialik? She was producer of her show CALL ME KAT. Third season had 22 episodes. How many women got hired to direct? Two. Well one woman, she got to direct two episodes.

That's not a feminist producing a TV show. A feminist would be creating equal opportunities.

Stop calling these people feminists when they aren't.

Hillary Clinton is not a feminist. She's a Me-ist. It only matters if effects her. If she's not impacted, she's not there. Which is why she could and did betray Iraqi women when she was Secretary of State -- as we documented here repeatedly including when her last remaining real friend called her out for it. Julianna's a Me-ist.

Stop mistaking these women who give lip service to feminism to advance themselves as feminists. Just stop it.

There are many different strands of feminism in the west. And I don't think the term's elastic nor should it be treated as such. "Oh, it's good because the more women that use it, the better."

No.

Because misusing it means we get blamed as in the Bhutto column.

If you're not willing to help other women -- I mean real women, not mythical women who supposedly were raped over six months ago but can't come forward and have no evidence or proof -- I guess they're all taking the rest cure, maybe dealing with some YELLOW WALLPAPER (don't get it, then your media has failed you).

The same media that trashes those of us demanding a ceasefire is not your go-to -- or shouldn't be -- for the pulse of the feminist movement.

The only people who think Julianna is a feminist are the same idiots who didn't realize two decades ago that you weren't seeing her real hair, that it was a wig. You have to be that stupid to think she's a feminist.

Stop calling those women feminists. They're false representations and you're ignoring the voices and actions of so many women in the west who actually are feminists.

I don't want to hear any whining about how this or that is distorted when you've got Mehdi's outlet distorting feminism.

When you start calling those genocide apologists "feminists," you silence those of us who are feminists -- just like the corporate media silences all of us calling for a ceasefire.

Mehdi, do better. And do it quickly.

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