What’s an H-1B Visa?

Gabrielle Clark The Conversation
Photo of Trump and Musk from waist up.
A Brief History of the Controversial Program for Skilled Foreign Workers

Bring In the Clowns

Jean Chacona
Poet Jean Chacona offers a satirical view of the hucksterism at the heart of the new administration.

Trump-Three Days of Wannabe Presidency or Dictatorship

Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American
Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.

Federal Judges in Jan. 6 Cases Slam Trump’s Pardons

Kyle Cheney Politico
A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a “revisionist myth.”

No Innocents in Gaza’: Reflecting on Israel’s First Fascist War

Gideon Levy Haaretz
The only war that resembled this was the 1948 war that caused the Nakba, the motivations behind that war were different. That was a war to establish a Jewish state; this is a war to establish a fascist state. The State of Kahane has risen in Israel.

Tidbits – Jan.23- Reader Comments: WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES TO YOUR DOOR; KNOW YOUR RIGHTS; Israel Intensified Its Violence Against Palestinians in the West Bank; Betrayed by Vote on Laken Riley Act; LA Burned, Karen Bass; José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez; More

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Reader Comments: WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES TO YOUR DOOR; KNOW YOUR RIGHTS; Israel Intensified Its Violence Against Palestinians in the West Bank; Author Sara Paretsky Betrayed by Vote on Laken Riley Act; LA Burned, Karen Bass; José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez;