Monday, July 14, 2025

News and Ideas Worth Sharing

Mickey Friedman

A founding member of redcrownews.com, and former filmmaker, Mickey Friedman is the author of “A Red Family,” published by the University of Illinois Press. He is almost finished with a novel, “Danger Times Two.” Addicted to iced lattes, he can often be found pretending to write at Fuel GB. And while under the influence of caffeine, he has been known to travel as far as Price Chopper to the north and Big Y to the south.

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THE OTHER SIDE: Send in the clowns

Since Karl Marx reminded us about the farcical nature of our politics, I guess it is my task to do the best I can to fully explore what awaits us. Unfortunately, there are too many clowns and not enough space.

THE OTHER SIDE: Going back

Yes, anger, disappointment, and resentment, even hatred, won over hope and an optimism that so many distrusted and believed undeserved.

THE OTHER SIDE: January 6, 2021

Clearly, everything has changed with Donald Trump’s return to power. We already know he considers Jack Smith one of the enemies of his people.

THE OTHER SIDE: Presidential immunity—or the lack thereof

On November 5, 2024, we will either throw away centuries of progress and revert to the unchecked impulses of a tyrant or re-embrace a commitment to the rule of law.

THE OTHER SIDE: Hang Mike Pence!

I am no longer surprised by anything Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, or their MAGA collaborators have to say, but I have to respond to their latest attempt to lie about the 2020 election and the horrific events of January 6, 2021.

THE OTHER SIDE: Just declare victory

Jack Smith reveals the extraordinary ways candidate Donald Trump and those working on his campaign broke multiple laws in their efforts to win, as well as the many times they threatened those state and local officials who refused to go along with their conspiracy.

THE OTHER SIDE: It doesn’t matter if you won or lost

The Declaration of Independence makes crystal clear that the Founders fought for the proposition “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...

THE OTHER SIDE: Grift and graft over party

It is folly to imagine that greed and the arrogant abuse of power are the province of any one political party. It does a great disservice to pretend otherwise. And, it is worse to take and extend that pretense and turn it into a political crusade.

THE OTHER SIDE: A fact of life

As the innocent die, as our students are murdered in their classrooms, the ideological divide seems to grow wider every day. And those in power seem unwilling or unable to do anything to actually help.

THE OTHER SIDE: Revenge of the childless cat ladies

Now what J.D. Vance has said about childless cat ladies is moronic, but much of it ultimately was insultingly harmless. But his decision to politicize public-health policy was and is completely irresponsible.

THE OTHER SIDE: Jack Smith v. The Supreme Court

Despite the remarkable obstacles thrown in his way by the Supreme Court, Jack Smith and his team are still hard at work trying to satisfy the claims of justice.

THE OTHER SIDE: Jack Smith schools Judge Aileen Cannon

More than ever, I am thankful that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Special Counsel Jack Smith continue to fight for justice and accountability.

THE OTHER SIDE: When we fight

You can use whatever term you want—course correction, renaissance, rebirth, resurrection—but the Democrats have finally found their fighter.

THE OTHER SIDE: Knee-deep in COVID

As recent statistics demonstrate, the COVID virus is ever adaptable. And, as a result, we are engaged in an incredibly complex chess match with a worthy viral opponent where the losers get sick.

THE OTHER SIDE: Donald John Trump is batsh*t crazy

Do batsh*t crazy people know they are batsh*t crazy, or are they convinced it is really the rest of us missing those marbles? Or, in Donald Trump’s case, does he just play batsh*t crazy on TV?

THE OTHER SIDE: Counting the dead in Israel and Gaza

Look to Israel and Gaza to see evil unloosed, the bonds of all restraint gone, when, as essential as it is, counting the dead becomes nearly impossible
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