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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The “Ceasefire” Fraud by Gaza: Tod Macht Frei | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Gaza: Tod Macht Frei
Some friends of mine associated with Jewish Voice for Peace of North Jersey have taken out a paid ad in the Star-Ledger this morning (Newark, New Jersey), condemning Israel’s violation of the ceasefire agreement signed January 17th (see below, under the fold). You might not, by reading legacy (“mainstream”) media, have grasped the blatantly obvious…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Gloomy Sunday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Hi and Lois, 3/23/25 Look, you know I’m a genuine fan of Hi and Lois’s new melancholy, punchline-free…
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(Policy of Truth) In Your Darkness, We Shall See the Darkness
Columbia’s CapitulationIn Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen–“In Your Light, We Shall See the Light,” Columbia University’s motto Of all the pathetic abdications of moral responsibility and expressions of cowardice I managed to see during the quarter century I spent in academia, few approximate Columbia University’s abject surrender to the Trump Administration the other day. I won’t…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment?
This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we took the opportunity presented by Adar’s absurd plan to dam a river using catapults to collapse a mountain to discuss the capabilities and functioning principles of historical counterweight…
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(Policy of Truth) In Defense of Mahmoud Khalil
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025 My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people…
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