Abby Zimet

As pro-Palestinian college students confront weekend commencements - with walkouts, keffiyeh-draped gowns, signs noting, "There Are No Universities Left In Gaza" - their historic role as "the most reliably correct constituency in America" is celebrated by an earlier generation of activists "seein...

Happy Disinfectant Injection Day to those survivors who four years ago ignored the “stratospherically insane” advice, even for him, of a demented buffoon babbling hokum in the face of a pandemic he couldn’t spin his way out of - which, thanks to his ineptness, needlessly killed over 200,000 Americans. “I see the disinfectant, it knocks it out in a minute,” he raved to a stricken Dr. Birx. “And is there a way we can do something like that?” Yeah, sure, let’s elect him again.Tuesday’s fourth Bleac…

On the anniversary of the murder of Malcolm X - “Culture is an indispensable weapon (to) forge the future with the past” - we salute Rep. Justin Pearson, a young black man who wore a dashiki - “This dress is resistance” - to mark his first fiery day as Tennessee’s newest lawmaker. America on a GO...

Boasting the usual hype, glitz, plugs and some football, Sunday also showcased what was arguably “the Blackest, most woke Super Bowl ever”: Black History Month, two first-ever black quarterbacks, black performers, and sweet white Jesus a soaring Black National Anthem?! MAGA-land heads exploded:...

Hoo boy. This week a vengeful GOP House - puffed up with power and paranoia, led by “jock asshole” Gym Jordan, screechy “Taliban Barbie” and “Tonya Harding in a fur coat” - thrashed through lots of grievance-laden claptrap on corruption, collusion, and the “weaponization” of government in a grim ex...

Exquisitely merging their sacrosanct tenets - reproductive rights, separation of church and state, the freedom to offend and playing artful devil’s advocate - The Satanic Temple is opening the first-ever “religious abortion clinic” to offer free, virtual, medication abortion to “involuntarily preg...

Full Disclosure: We couldn’t watch the entire video of the savage beating to death of Tyre Nichols by five armed thugs of the state, all twice his size, all seized by “a wild, punishing violence” as they screamed a barrage of orders to their prostrate victim. What struck us: The “wolf-pack” patholog...

Hoo boy. Now that Kevin McCarthy’s sold the farm and House Oversight Committee to a ragtag band of shouty MAGA “chuckleheads” - Gym, Lauren, MTG who’s finally gonna get Hillary for killing RFK - the House is working hard to expose “the Biden crime family,” shred the safety net, and ignore news that...

In a surreal spectacle that juxtaposed the best and worst of abstruse humanity - its big beating heart, its enduring injustices - an international audience of 1%ers haggled for a while before one bought the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize of independent Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov for a record-shatteri…