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“Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?”
https://yasminnair.com/have-you-seen-my-wife-mr-jones/
Published: June 20, 2025 05:58
If you like this, please support my work. Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (June 9-13) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a…
Compromise or Surrender?: Leave No One Behind
https://yasminnair.com/compromise-or-surrender-leave-no-one-behind/
Published: June 20, 2025 05:33
In memory of George A. Stotis and John Chapman If you lived in Chicago’s north side any time between 1977 and the early 2000s, you were probably familiar with George Stotis and his famous Chicago Recycle Shop. Known to all simply as “George’s,” the store…
On Coal Miners, Welsh or Otherwise
https://yasminnair.com/on-coal-miners-welsh-or-otherwise/
Published: June 20, 2025 04:15
I keep straining my ears to hear a sound Maybe someone is digging underground Or have they given up and all gone home to bed Thinking those who once existed must be dead — “New York Mining Disaster 1941,” the Bee Gees Is there a more iconic figure…
“Just Another Soldier Boy”
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Published: June 12, 2025 21:38
If you like this, please support my work. Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (June 9-13) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a…
The Leonard Peltiers of Our Time
https://yasminnair.com/on-ice-and-leonard-peltier/
Published: June 12, 2025 03:34
If you like this, please support my work. On June 26, 1975, a little before noon, FBI agents Ronald Arthur Williams and Jack Ross Coler were shot to death on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The man accused of killing them, Leonard…
People Are Fighting for Strangers
https://yasminnair.com/people-are-fighting-for-strangers/
Published: June 7, 2025 22:40
As I write this, late in the evening of June 7, Donald Trump has just ordered 2,000 National Guard members to be deployed in Los Angeles County “after federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive…
“There Is a Crack”
https://yasminnair.com/there-is-a-crack/
Published: June 6, 2025 03:19
Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (June 2-6) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a historical understanding of our current…
On AOC’s Endorsement of Mamdani, and Hope
https://yasminnair.com/on-aocs-endorsement-of-mamdani/
Published: June 5, 2025 14:59
If you like this, please support my work. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) has finally endorsed Zohran Mamdani. This says little about AOC’s worth, value, and integrity as a politician but everything about shifting public tides, which is all she responds…
“Hypocrisy”
https://yasminnair.com/hypocrisy/
Published: May 30, 2025 04:43
Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (May 26-30) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a historical understanding of our current…
On Bernie Sanders and the Left’s Fantasy about Class
https://yasminnair.com/on-bernie-sanders-and-the-lefts-fantasy-about-class/
Published: May 30, 2025 03:42
If you like this, please support my work. Bernie Sanders recently appeared on the Flagrant podcast, featuring Andrew Schulz and his Indian American sidekick Akaash Singh, along with AlexxMedia and Mark Gagnon (the Black guy and the white guy,…