I got some Rothman over at John Meisheimer’s blog trying to scare me into a bar mitzvah!!!f
Nov 24, 2025
And then she posts this from the fucking GUARDIAN!
What do we know about the reported US-Russian plan to end the Ukraine war?
Full details are not yet clear but 28-point deal is believed to include proposals for Ukraine to hand territory to Russia
Oh, those fucking sad sacks:
Oh, that JEW:
Zohran Mamdani Avoided Campaigning Against the Police. Will They Work With Him?
To implement his sweeping agenda, Mamdani will have to navigate the New York Police Department and its influential union.
Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the mayoral election on Nov. 4, 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo
Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday night, ushering in a rare moment of optimism for progressives seeking to push the Democratic Party left and New Yorkers hoping he’ll make the city more affordable.
But in order to implement his sweeping agenda, Mamdani will have to confront an establishment that tried to keep him out of office and tackle one of the key issues it sought to leverage against him: the New York Police Department and its powerful union.
As Mamdani’s opponents seized throughout the race on his past criticism of police, his public safety pledges on the campaign trail reflected an attempt to thread the needle between the NYPD and its critics — strengthening the power of the department’s civilian oversight board, keeping NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in her job, and building a Department of Community Safety to “ensure that no New Yorker falls through the cracks of our social safety net.” Together, the proposals simultaneously aim to make it harder for police to escape accountability, preserve one of the department’s institutionalist leaders, and take certain responsibilities away from police as a way to lighten their load.
The Department of Community Safety, Mamdani’s marquee public safety proposal, would do violence prevention, crisis response, and mental health work by deploying non-police personnel throughout the city. The idea, successfully modeled in other cities, is to free police officers from spending time on those issues and let them focus instead on responding to the most violent crime.
According to Alex Vitale, a sociology professor who runs the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, police have “mixed feelings” about the proposal. On one hand, rank-and-file cops largely don’t want to be in the business of responding to mental health crises. On the other, they’re part of an establishment coalition that may not want to support Mamdani for political reasons.
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
The city’s influential police union, which represents 50,000 retired and active police officers from the New York City Police Department, has said Mamdani’s plan won’t make a dent in their workload. “The NYPD responds to roughly 180,000 calls involving an emotionally disturbed person each year, out of roughly 9 million total 911 calls,” said NYC Police Benevolent Association spokesperson John Nuthall in a statement to The Intercept. “That means that mental health emergencies constitute less than 2% of calls the NYPD responds to.”
“We are really focused on a positive vision for change New York City,” said Grace Mausser, a co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, at the Mamadani campaign’s election night party at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn. “We know governing is going to be complicated, we knew it when we ran for mayor that it meant electing someone who was going to be in charge of the NYPD, but we can’t let complications stop us from taking power. Certainly the oligarchs don’t, so the working people can’t either.”
The Mamdani administration will also have to determine who will run the agency, who will staff it, how it might affect the next round of police union contract negotiations, and what relationship it will have with the NYPD and its oversight body, the Civilian Complaint Review Board. That, according to Mac Muir, a former CCRB investigator, represents “a serious bureaucratic and infrastructural challenge ahead.”
While Muir said the new department seems “designed to succeed,” he noted that it’s never been tested on New York City’s scale — or with a police force as big and influential as the NYPD. “It appears very clear that that entity could only succeed with an effective relationship with the NYPD,” Muir said.
Even if rank-and-file officers get on board with Mamdani’s plan, his administration will likely confront obstacles from department and union leaders.
“His biggest issue, in my opinion, is going to be the extreme recalcitrance and push back from the rank-and-file members of the department and their union leaders to change and to reform,” said Sarena Townsend, the city’s former deputy commissioner for intelligence and investigation. Townsend was pushed out of city government under Mayor Eric Adams after she refused to dismiss a backlog of use-of-force cases in city jails, and she’s currently leading whistleblower lawsuits by former NYPD officers who say they were forced out after reporting alleged corruption and misconduct within the department.
“In situations where the rank and file don’t trust the mayor or the decision that the mayor is making, or their leadership,” Townsend said, “the rank and file just won’t do the things that they’re being asked to do, or they’ll revolt in other types of ways.”
Under Bill de Blasio, a progressive and vocal Mamdani supporter, the police union battled the former mayor to such a ferocious extent that he largely backed down from many attempts at police reform.
If the cops don’t like Mamdani — whether on the grounds of his specific ideas or the leftist policies he represents — they can attempt to stymie him in a variety of ways, Vitale pointed out.
“Mamdani is going to have to dismantle a lot of phony task forces and committees,” he said, “and also deal with a workforce that may not share his vision on public safety.”
From Twitter, a writer with gusto: Jessica Tisch is actually a fanatical genocidal Zionist maniac Likudnik. Listen to her speech at the ADL event recently, where she fully identifies as an Israeli genocidal Zionist and describes October 7 as “a war on us”, launders the genocide and smears anti-genocide protesters as evil anti-Semitic terrorists while citing bullshit fake ADL statistics about “OMG SPIKE IN ANTISEMITISM OMG” by which they mean anyone who said anything even slightly critical of Israel. She then vows the NYDP under her command will “combat anti-Semitism no matter where the threats originate”, meaning any protest and criticism of her precious Israeli death and rape-cult.
That includes Zohran btw. She is literally talking about Zohran himself too. She praised repulsive fanatical genocidal Zionist smear-merchant Jonathan Greenblatt, who has done nothing but say that Zohran is an evil anti-Semite Hamas lover terrorist while himself saying that Jews who marry outside their ethnicity are evil race traitors and laundering actual Nazi anti-Semites as long as they are pro-Israel fanatics like himself and Tisch.
And now Zohran is rewarding and laundering her by praising her as a “highly effective change agent”. That is fucking insane.
Not only does Tisch gleefully launder her Zionist death-cult’s genocidal mass murder and rape of Palestinians, she also then launders the NYPD’s brutal fascist crackdown on anti-genocide protesters by smearing them as evil terrorist anti-Semites who are “targeting Jews”. She also has further extended the already deep NYPD collaboration with the genocidal Israeli police. Literally a police force from a regime Zohran Mamdani pretends to believe is genocidal.
Instead of removing her over this grotesque violation of the basic civil rights of New Yorkers and Americans and the disgusting smears and lies to justify it, and her vow to make the ADL and Israeli police run the NYPD as a Zionist police force through her, which Zohran has the full ability to do and would do if he actually believed anything he claims to believe, he has decided to use his own status as the epic radical pro-Palestinian to launder Jessica Tisch and ensure that the NYPD can keep working with the ADL and other Zionist fanatical freak scum to continue their fascist crackdown on anti-genocide protesters and to further extend their institutional embedding with Israeli police.
Being the pathetic cuck bitch he is, he’s using the mandate he received to oppose this very disgusting grotesque genocidal Zionist rot that has infected these institutions through scum like Tisch by rewarding her for it and laundering her as a “highly effective change agent”.
Thanks DSA, we needed your epic based radical to launder Zionist scum like Jessica Tisch. Now they will all go “well Zohran backs her so she and the ADL and the Israeli police being deeply embedded in the NYDP and having it extended is actually epic and if you oppose it you’re just an evil purist because daddy Zohran told me so.”
You fucking pathetic loser hacks.
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Instead of launching a massive fight to win demands like free universal childcare and a $30/hour minimum wage, Mamdani is cozying up to the establishment of BOTH billionaire-backed parties, Democratic and Republican — including Donald Trump.
Only days ago, Mamdani came out in opposition to any left challenger in the Democratic primary election next year against Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries.
At a time when working people are outraged at the Democratic Party’s repeated betrayals and their failure to fight on any front, whether it is the cost of living crisis or the ICE raids or the genocide in Gaza, Mamdani said this week, “I think that right now is not the time to be engaging in that kind of a primary.”
Now is not the right time to have a left candidate challenge corporate politicians like Hakeem Jeffries????
Hakeem Jeffries is as much of an establishment politician, devoid of any soul or integrity, as you can imagine. Jeffries stands for everything Mamdani claims to stand against. Like my opponent, Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, Hakeem Jeffries has voted for tens of billions of dollars for the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza, AND he has voted to ban U.S. funding for United Nations food assistance to the Palestinian people. Jeffries has gotten a whopping million and a half dollars to date from the Israel lobby.
And just like my opponent Adam Smith, Jeffries is a darling of the billionaires and multimillionaires who profit from health insurance corporations, for-profit hospitals, and sky-high pharmaceutical costs. Big Pharma and health insurance CEOs know that Jeffries is a reliable ally for them, who has and will always act as gatekeeper against any effort for universal public healthcare. As an example of the revolving door between billionaires and politicians like Jeffries, United Healthcare, one of Jeffries’ major donors and a corporation notorious for making money by denying healthcare to people, keeps former staffers of Jeffries on their payroll.
And just yesterday, Hakeem Jeffries was one of the 86 Democrats who voted in favor of a resolution demonizing and vilifying the ideas of socialism.
AOC has also publicly opposed any left challenge to Jeffries by saying: “I certainly don’t think a primary challenge to the leader is a good idea right now.”
The leader of what? Of selling out working people and overseeing skyrocketing costs of living? Of preventing universal healthcare? Of being a cheerleader of genocide and having the blood of half a million Palestinian people on his hands? Of failing to stop Trump’s and the Republicans’ attacks on healthcare, on immigrants, on federal workers, and on the working class as a whole?
Removing Hakeem Jeffries from office is the least we should do. Instead, AOC and Mamdani are defending him.
AOC’s first election in 2018 against entrenched corporate Democratic Congressmember Joe Crowley and Mamdani’s own recent election show how hungry working people are, and have been, for a fightback against Wall Street, the billionaire class, and politicians like Jeffries. Back in 2020, AOC said she wanted to build a Democratic Party that would be “first and foremost accountable to working-class people … and to marginalized people.” Mamdani has said he wants to stage a fight for “the soul” of the Democratic Party.
Now, I think a party that serves billionaires and warmongers, as the Democratic Party does, HAS no soul. It will never be accountable to working-class people. I was able to win the nation’s highest minimum wage and the historic Amazon Tax on the Seattle City Council only because I fought against the opposition by the Democratic Party.
But Mamdani and AOC aren’t even actually fighting for what they claim to be fighting for. … Sawant
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TRUMP and Mandami going to get popcorn and soda for this one?
Hanady Salman is a journalist based in Beirut. She contributed to the book Inside Lebanon. The film “Letters from Beirut: the War of 33” is based on her writings. See her writings in Jadaliyya. I interviewed her Monday afternoon for Flashpoints (audio) and here:
Hanady Salman, an editor at the Beirut-based newspaper As-Safir, knew the worst images of the war between Israel and Hizbullah would not reach many outside the Middle East. The gruesome photographs of the Lebanese dead and injured were simply out of bounds for Western print or television. So Salman began dispatching regular email updates to a group of friends and colleagues, relaying her personal accounts, analyses of developments and dozens of graphic photographs from around Lebanon:
Dear all, Some of these pictures are very strong. I can not confirm reports talking about the use of unconventional weapons, but for those of you who dare to look, you will notice the nature of wounds and burns is not very ‘familiar’. Today the Israeli government said its “operations” will not end before at least one week. People are afraid the next few days will be worse than the past ones. They’re expecting that as soon as the evacuation of the foreigners will be completed, the Israelis will have a ‘freer’ hand
Salman specifically asked her readers, many of whom kept blogs, to circulate the images widely, especially to Western viewers who would almost certainly not encounter them in their mainstream press or on television. Many bloggers inside and outside Lebanon prominently featured Salman’s messages, and would make hers one of the most powerful voices emanating from Beirut during the war.
Dirty Jews:
Israel has killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which comes only two days after Lebanon’s president announced the country had succumbed to an Israeli pressure campaign and agreed to hold negotiations.
Hezbollah confirmed that its chief of staff, Haytham Ali Tabtabai, was among five people killed and 28 others wounded in the Israeli strike on Beirut’s Haret Hreik neighbourhood on Sunday.
Israel “has got the upper hand militarily at the moment, and they don’t seem to be interested in negotiating in earnest,” Nicholas Blanford, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, told Al Jazeera.
“They’re quite happy sniping away at Hezbollah on a daily basis … Lebanon is doing what they can under the circumstances, but I don’t think they have a willing interlocutor in the Israelis at this stage.”
On our radar
UN endorses US control of Gaza as Israeli attacks and aid restriction continue
Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 33 people between 19 and 20 November, in some of the deadliest attacks since Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire last month, which has seen repeated Israeli violations. The attacks came several days after the UN Security Council passed a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump’s so-called 20-point peace plan for the enclave. The resolution “welcomes” the establishment of a Board of Peace, headed by Trump, to govern Gaza during an indefinite interim period. The plan effectively gives the US a leading role in occupying Gaza and establishes a system reminiscent of the mandates established by colonial powers in the Middle East after World War I, as our CEO Tammam Aloudat and Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri discuss in a new podcast episode. As international political jockeying over Gaza’s future plays out – without the input of Palestinians – conditions inside the enclave are still dire as Israel has continued to restrict the entry of aid and obstruct humanitarian efforts. Palestinians who spoke to The New Humanitarian described days that revolve entirely around trying to secure the basic necessities to survive. US and Israeli officials claim that aid is flooding into Gaza, but much of what is being allowed to enter is heavily processed snack items, rather than the nutritious foods needed by a population that has been deliberately starved for the past two years. As a result, people with money in Gaza can buy chocolate more easily than eggs, and powdered cappuccino mix more easily than milk – and these items are beyond the means of many who remain wholly dependent on aid. For more, read: Hobbled by obstruction and uncertainty: Gaza’s post-ceasefire aid response.
Trump wades into Sudan deal-making
After several dubious (to say the least) “peace” interventions in various conflict hotspots around the globe, President Trump appears to have turned his attention to Sudan, following a request from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a visit to Washington. The State Department was already working on a humanitarian ceasefire between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the “Quad”, which also includes Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt, but Trump’s involvement could give the process more bite. A ceasefire will require Trump to convince the region’s main meddlers to de-escalate – especially the UAE, which is heavily backing the RSF, and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which side with the SAF – though a deal cut between Middle Eastern states could end up sidelining Sudan. So far, both Trump and previous US administrations have soft-footed around the UAE’s role, though recent comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio hint at a shift in tone. Trump’s preference for deal-making over actual peacemaking will be worrying for anyone hoping for a durable process centred on civilians, and Sudan has plenty of precedent for transactional “payroll peace” deals that simply divide the cake between armed men. Still, whether today’s armed actors are ready for any kind of deal is far from certain. The SAF has consistently snubbed truce offers, and although the RSF keeps accepting them, it only does so on paper, while continuing to massacre civilians on the ground. The large number of rebel groups, militias, and civilian defence forces lined up behind both sides only adds to the chaos of an incredibly messy war that is having horrific consequences for civilians, as our latest report from Darfur lays bare.
What regime change might really mean for Venezuelans
As the US steps up its carrot-and-stick bid to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, concerns are growing over the unintended consequences of the Trump administration plans. According to a New York Times report, Trump – who had already deployed a massive military presence in international waters near Venezuela and ordered deadly strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats – has now authorised CIA plans for broader military operations in Venezuela whilst also continuing to float the idea of a negotiated exit. Maduro reportedly offered to step down after a two-year transition, but the White House rejected it (and the Venezuelan regime denied it). Maduro has expressed his willingness to talk, but he isn’t backing down on the military front either. On 20 November, he presented a “comprehensive defence plan” that includes heavy weaponry and missiles and relies on the eight million Venezuelans who his government claims to have enrolled in the Milicia – the civilian branch of the country’s armed forces – since August. While the odds of a US invasion remain anyone’s guess, some experts worry that the US has no plan for the aftermath of any regime change, which could plunge Venezuela into chaos and violence. In an oil-rich country ready for a guerrilla-type response, fighting could ensue between military units, rival political factions, and organised crime groups, further deepening a humanitarian crisis that has seen at least one in four Venezuelans leave the country since 2015.
Nicki Minaj joins campaign over “Christian genocide” in Nigeria
In a world of digital diplomacy, Nicki Minaj fits the bill. She has lent her star power to a growing social media campaign calling on President Trump to halt an alleged “Christian genocide” by Muslims in Nigeria. Despite many well-reasoned arguments pointing out that the crisis is not about religion, Trump doesn’t see it that way and has again threatened military action. There has been a backlash by Nigerians on X to Minaj’s intervention – although to be fair there was also support. Two events this week have turbo-charged the tension. Gunmen attacked a church in central Kwara state during a service, killing two people and abducting 38 worshippers. CCTV footage showed the masked men methodically picking up the abandoned handbags of the congregants, reinforcing the point that much of the violence is criminal. Armed men also stormed a predominantly Muslim girls school in northwest Kebbi state, kidnapped 25 students, and killed the Muslim deputy headmaster. In a viral tweet, US lawmaker Riley Moore claimed the attack had occurred in a “Christian enclave” – a categorisation rejected by residents. “Americans, either do not understand the complexity of Nigeria’s insecurity challenges, or you are deliberately pushing unholy narratives,” a former presidential adviser noted.
The neglected humanitarian crisis
One in three women around the world have experienced partner or sexual violence, a new UN report warns. As this year’s international day for the elimination of violence against women nears (25 November), the report adds up the data for a crisis that remains neglected and underfunded: The top-line figure has barely moved in 25 years, the World Health Organization said. The risks are amplified in humanitarian emergencies, while the prevalence of partner violence is triple the global average in climate-vulnerable and conflict-affected areas. And new tech is adding another dimension: think extortion, doxxing, revenge porn, or cyberstalking using app location data, among many examples. Meanwhile, funding is collapsing, including global aid budgets. Programmes on gender inequality or even the prevention of violence against women are among the first to be cut as aid money evaporates (only a fraction of a percentage point of aid funding went to this latter category in the first place), while countries’ domestic funding for prevention is uneven. But there are steps forward, which some governments are taking faster than others, the WHO says: scale up prevention programmes; strengthen health, legal, and social services for survivors; track data; and enforce laws and policies that empower women and girls.
G20: A US semi-boycott tests South Africa
President Trump doesn’t like global institutions – but he’s also doubling down on South Africa. Earlier this month, he announced a US boycott of the G20 summit in Johannesburg – the first time it has been held on the continent. He said South Africa’s hosting was a “total disgrace” (a reference to his “white genocide” hoax). Then, virtually on the eve of the 22-23 November gathering, President Cyril Ramaphosa said he’d heard Washington would attend “in one shape, form or other”. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shot back that Ramaphosa was “running his mouth”. She and other White House officials insisted that although the US acting ambassador would show up, this would only be at the closing ceremony when South Africa hands over the G20 presidency to the US as next year’s host. The South African government, feeling understandably testy, insisted it wouldn’t hand over to an envoy. Ramaphosa noted instead that an empty chair has been reserved for the US in the summit hall. “I don’t want to hand over to an empty chair, but the empty chair will be there,” he said. The summit was supposed to be about global issues like debt and climate heating. Washington has been stubbornly obstructionist in the pre-summit negotiations, but that may not be enough to block a final declaration by world leaders.
Oh, god, the Jew Yorker: The name is of Ashkenazic Jewish origin, derived from the German “still” (calm, quiet) and “Mann” (man).
New Yorker staff writer Sarah Stillman received a video call from a group of eleven people who had been forcibly deported from the United States and flown to a secret detention camp in the forests of Ghana. “My stomach is really hurting, and we have to beg for food,” one man told her. “We fear we’ll be tortured and killed,” another said.
In this week’s issue, Stillman, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards, reveals how the Trump Administration has been deporting scores of people, including some who had lived here for decades and others who have no criminal records, to countries where they have no known connection––to Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Panama, Ghana, and the small African nation of Eswatini. Many of these people had been granted legal protection in the U.S. from being deported to their home countries, based on credible claims that they would face persecution, torture, or death there. By using this shadowy process, known as third-country removal, the Administration has found a way to sidestep that obligation; what happens to deportees abroad is out of the U.S. government’s hands.
“It’s absolutely shocking and illegal,” an immigration attorney and activist says. “And it fits this Administration’s general pattern—draconian, cruel processes that create a spectacle and coerce people into leaving of their own accord.”
That fucking ELEPHANT in the IMMIGRATION torture rooms:
- Policy Architect: As a senior advisor and later Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Trump White House, Stephen Glosser Miller was the driving force behind numerous restrictive and controversial immigration measures, including the “zero tolerance” family separation policy, the “Muslim travel ban,” and efforts to end DACA.
- Enforcement Push: Miller was known for aggressively pushing ICE and other Homeland Security officials to increase arrests and deportations, reportedly setting daily targets and demanding a ramp-up of raids on specific locations and businesses.
- Influence and Strategy: His approach to immigration enforcement was described as a strategy to create a climate of fear and convince people to leave the country. He was considered so influential in crafting the administration’s agenda that he earned the moniker “Trump’s brain” on the subject of immigration.
- Financial Stake: It was reported in 2025 that Miller held a personal financial stake (via a child’s trust) in Palantir, a technology company that provides data analytics software critical to ICE’s deportation operations, raising significant ethics concerns.
And, some nematode, calling him-her-them SELF Jacob Rothman, is on a bender, and he tried to comment on this Substack, threatening me with, of all things — “I’m referring you to the district attorney [or is that the state’s or county’s?] and have sent Rep. David Gomberg your name for examination, Paulokirk, and his friend, Haeder.”
This human creep is referring to this one, and I blocked him and took down what I paraphrased, agove. RE: One Jew from Oregon Planting an Olive Tree for Genocide Speaks a Million Photos of Dead Gazans
ROTHMAN?
Harold “Hooky” Rothman was a Jewish mobster and enforcer who served as the right-hand man to Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen during the infamous “Battle of Sunset Strip.” This power struggle centered on control of illegal activities in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. During World War II, Rothman served as a private in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, earning an Honorable Discharge. Following his military service, he relocated to Los Angeles in mid-to-late 1945, where he became deeply entrenched in the criminal underworld. Following the 1947 murder of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Mickey Cohen attempted to seize control of the gangster’s operations but quickly encountered resistance from Los Angeles crime boss Jack Dragna, sparking a violent turf war. On August 18, 1948, Dragna’s men opened fire on Mickey’s Sunset Strip haberdashery. Rothman attempted to disarm one of the men, causing the shotgun to discharge. The blast struck Rothman in the face, killing him instantly. Cohen’s obsessive handwashing habit turned out to be a stroke of luck, as he was in the restroom when the chaos erupted.
Pictured here is an original 1945 LAPD mugshot of Rothman that originated from the files of Gangster Squad member Con Keeler.
[Simcha Rothman, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Amichai Chikli]
Simcha Rothman turned around and wrestled a megaphone away from one of the demonstrators, in an incident that was caught on camera. And he did this on the Sabbath, when religious Jews like himself are forbidden from handling electronic devices. Suddenly, what would have been an unremarkable protest in America became national news in Israel.
Paul Haeder, Author 