*Democratic Officials Lied About Role in Alex Morse Smear.*

The smear turned out to be nothing but hot air, dressed up to look bad, but it was enough to destroy Morse's chances.

One of the Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia, Raphael Warnock, is being hit with false accusations of antisemitism.

It's because he has criticized Israel's occupation policies, particularly in the Palestinian town of Hebron, where a commercial neighborhood has been shut down so that a few fanatical "settlers" can live in it.

US citizens: call on Congress to block a proposed arms sale to the UAE.

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After curator Gary Garrels said he would not refuse to consider art made by white men, some employees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art condemned his "white supremacist language" and bullied him into resigning.

Garrels made a big effort to collect work by people other than white males. (I think that was a good thing to do; the museum aims to represent the world of modern art, not focus on white men.) So he is not a white supremacist at all. But he used a term "reverse discrimination", that white supremacists have used when arguing against affirmative action. For those bullies, using a term they disapprove of is equivalent to actually being a white supremacist.

Contrast this with what I say when someone describes me as "the father of open source" or refers to the GNU operating system as "Linux". I do not demand that perse change per way of speaking, let alone demand that perse be fired. Instead, I calmly explain why it is an error and ask per to correct it.

Their petition (on a site that I never link to because it requires nonfree software) accused Garrels of using "violent language". They do not explain that they have given "violence" a nonstandard definition, namely "not supporting their ideas of how to end racism."

That makes the accusation disingenuous. People who don't know exactly what Garrels said, and don't know about this nonstandard definition, may suppose he was nasty and belligerent, and be misled into misjudging him.

The deportation thugs deported six women who accused a deportation prison of performing unnecessary operations on women. Some of the operations were hysterectomies; I don't know whether all of them were hysterectomies.