Trump’s ceasefire theater in Gaza is not unique in its grotesque self-service, though it is exceptionally dangerous. Accuracy and accountability matter. We have seen premature “mission accomplished” declarations and exaggerated optimism too many times before.
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The term Unprecedented is used repeatedly regarding the behaviors of Donald Trump but the fact of the matter is he’s Unpresidential.
If history teaches us anything, it’s that no empire dies naturally — it collapses under the weight of its own arrogance. Heed history’s epitaph: Rome crowned Caesar and lost its Republic. Germany followed Hitler into the grave. Italy worshiped Mussolini’s vanity and drowned in shame. Japan bowed to a “divine ruler” and awoke to devastation.
America’s lying President loves to blame “Antifa” for everything he doesn’t like and every protest, march, or gathering that he wants to disparage!
Hypocrisy in Holy Robes
I can only begin here, at the emotional knifepoint of the ongoing ICE news. ICE in Chicago!
Hamas has accepted Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Gaza war. Under the plan, Hamas, in exchange for the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans in prison, will release all remaining hostages and the remains of others; will disarm; and will accept an Israeli security presence in Gaza that eventually will be internationalized.
You don’t have to be radical leftist to be concerned about the way Donald Trump and his MAGAs are threatening the well-being of ordinary Americans—and government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
On October 10, María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Machado has been a key figure in uniting the once-fractured opposition parties in Venezuela. The Nobel Committee praised Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
On a damp morning in Hamilton, Ontario, Rabbi David Mivasair leans over a laptop in his home office, toggling between WhatsApp threads filled with names he now knows by heart — families in Gaza he has been speaking with for nearly two years. A father searching for insulin for his daughter. A grandmother whose house was turned to dust. A young man, newly displaced, who still dreams of teaching.