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Republicans aren’t just redrawing congressional districts. They’re drawing new political realities. From Florida’s whitewashing of Black history to the Supreme Court’s gutting of voting rights, the GOP is waging civil war by other means. iPINIONS argues that Democrats must stop mistaking restraint for principle and start fighting Republican redistricting fire with fire. Read my full… Read more.
Last week’s UK local elections humiliated the Conservative-Labour duopoly and showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is no longer just a protest vote. iPINIONS argues that Britain is relapsing into Brexit politics just as America relapsed into MAGA politics … voters choosing entertainment over governance, their own welfare be damned. Read my full take on Substack:… Read more.
The Canvas hack turned finals week into digital chaos, with ShinyHunters threatening to leak student records, grades, emails, messages, and ID numbers unless Instructure paid up. But iPINIONS asks whether this was just the tech-age equivalent of some kid calling in a bomb scare to get out of final exams … or a warning that… Read more.
The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak has already been linked to three deaths, even as the WHO assures us it is not another COVID. But iPINIONS notes that cruise ships were floating petri dishes long before COVID, thanks to norovirus outbreaks, environmental dumping, and passengers packed together socializing like sardines. Now Trump’s WHO withdrawal adds another layer… Read more.
Ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo toured the West Bank and warned that settler violence is sowing the seeds of another October 7. Colette Avital sounded a parallel alarm about Netanyahu’s Israel, where fascism exported to Palestinians is now coming home to roost. iPINIONS argues that Gaza was the proving ground, the West Bank is the sequel,… Read more.
Cinco de Mayo marks Mexican resistance and pride. But in Trump’s America, that celebration now comes with fear, canceled parades, and immigrant families afraid to gather in public. iPINIONS argues that a country celebrating Mexican culture while terrorizing Mexican-American communities is missing the whole damn point. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/happy-cinco-de-mayo-not-in-trumps Read more.
Sergey Brin and other tech billionaires made fortunes in blue California, then fled to red Florida to dodge a proposed wealth tax. iPINIONS calls it what it is: greedy tax-dodging by billionaires who resent paying back the state that helped make them rich. Their flight may look like financial prudence, but it reeks of self-owning… Read more.
Russell Brand can strut and fret with Bible in hand, but sexual assault allegations are not erased by performative piety. His public display of repentance looks less like redemption than a celebrity legal strategy dressed up as salvation. iPINIONS cuts through the sanctimony to illustrate the oldest trick in the sinner’s playbook. Read my full… Read more.
Here’s how iPINIONS thinks EU leaders should respond: Sure, Don TACO, just like you’re “considering” invading Iran. You launched this war without consulting us, demanded we bleed for it, and now you’re throwing a tantrum because we said no? NATO is a defense alliance, not your foreign legion. You’re acting like a spoiled kid threatening… Read more.
The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.
