Jim and Diane, WALK AND TALK, May11, 2025 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, Student Released from LA; “Good” War; Free Speech Crackdown; Critique; Teeth; W&T May 10, 2025
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Published on May 11, 2025
*** Happy Mother’s Day
*** Turkish student who criticized Israel returns from ICE detention in Louisiana - ‘We welcome you home’: Rümeysa Öztürk returns to Massachusetts after 45 days in ICE detention center
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/we-welcome-you-home-rmeysa-ztrk-returns-massachusetts-after-45-days-ice-detention-center/K66JVGKDWBGE5DYMXN43EFYP24/?utm_email=9a045d0fd4d627ca93b67388a32e979c1d2ce21f&utm_source=WFXT-TV%20News%20Daily%20Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=348250&utm_email2=1dedd037683c52ae098347a844f75e64a50633208dc835c448010d8a9f1466eb
*** IHR News and Comment, May 10, 2025
*** Was the `Good War’ Really Good? Tim Kelly - FFF
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/was-the-good-war-really-good/
The Second World War is often called “the good war.” ... That description comes from the war’s popular portrayal as a necessary Manichean struggle between the good Allied powers and the evil Axis powers ... It is understandable that many would see the Second World War as a morally clear-cut conflict between good and evil. This view has persisted for almost 70 years, particularly in the United States — reinforced by countless motion pictures, documentaries, and books ... Since 1945, American political leaders have frequently invoked the mythology of the good war to justify their bellicose, reckless, and arrogant foreign policy. Those expressing misgivings or skepticism toward Washington’s wars have often been accused of “appeasement” or forgetting the “lessons of Munich.”
*** Meet the Think Tanks Behind MAGA’s New Free Speech Crackdown Robert Inlakesh - MintPress
https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/01/meet-the-think-tanks-behind-magas-new-free-speech-crackdown/
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump — and many of his most prominent right-wing supporters — are directly linked to some of the most radically pro-war, pro-Israel organizations in the country. These connections form a sprawling web of lobbying groups, tech billionaires, and media figures who consistently promote Israeli interests above those of ordinary Americans. Why has the pro-Trump right suddenly pivoted from branding itself as a bastion of free speech to openly supporting censorship and state-led crackdowns? This MintPress News investigation uncovers a donor-driven advocacy network driving that ideological shift … This same network, once obsessed with defending free expression, now embraces censorship, blacklists, and government surveillance — so long as it targets their ideological opponents.
*** BitChute comments - about the catholic church, ad hominem attacks: An ad hominem attack is a type of logical fallacy where the focus of an argument shifts from the issue at hand to personal attacks on the person making the argument, rather than addressing the argument itself.
*** Martin Luther’s 95 theses - https://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html
*** Teeth - Dental and medical care
*** W&T, May 10, 2025
