This week, Eddie reminds us to keep informed on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions on CHNV applicants, and the economic turmoil stemming from trade policies. He reflects on the fracturing of the Trump coalition and the assault on higher education, emphasizing the need for critical discourse. Eddie, concludes with a call to imagine a new struggle for civil society, urging you to engage in meaningful action and community support.Watch now | Summary
My parents were both Holocaust victims who took circuitous routes to make it to America in 1938 and 1939. I am applying for dual citizenship for myself, my sister, and my two daughters, from ironically, Germany! Fascism is here in America now. Terribly frightening but while I am here, I continue to protest and fight for justice, just as I have always since the 1960’s.
Thank you for today’s message. We don’t have a guide to tell us how long it will take to correct the many things Trump and Co. have dismantled . In time we will become stronger and wiser. I believe that we will realize that we can recover from this crisis/insanity!
Please check into your health. Take care of YOU. (I felt crappy and I had pneumonia! I took myself to the ER and found out. It's running around communities around the nation.) I 🙏 you do this for yourself.
I hear your message, and I am with you. We are in deep dooh dooh. It's constant and violent. Trump is demonic. He surrounds himself with fellow demonic, heartless ... Nazis and "Christian Nationalists", that is so sad and profoundly troubling. I spend a lot of time in my head trying to process why is this happening. What I came up with is that America has really never dealt with slavery, racism and policing, "ghettoizing", working poor and poverty, drugs and gun violence, hopelessness and now homelessness, not really addressed. It's a package deal that rots from the head. Trump is all about that. He's always been. We had Obama and then the racists recoiled and Trump plowed on through. That's a sad reflection on Christian folk. Because we have to add "Nationalists". And that's disgusting. Daily chaos is 24/7 so we won't have relief without a whole lot of resistance.
Thank you so very much. Have you read One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This. I think you will appreciate it. Heartbreaking and brutally honest.
Of course, exposure to different ideas and cultures and religions creates critical thinking students who have to figure out where they are in comparison. Critical thinking leads us to questioning the things we have taken for granted and considering other possibilities. This doesn’t mean we reject our traditional beliefs but can accept that others’ beliefs have merit and are worthy of respect and maybe we could learn something that would make us better people. And maybe we SHOULD learn how to be better people and not just a member of the herd of sheep.
Didn't a great many of the folks who populate the Trump regime graduate from universities? Why weren't THEY captured? Isn't there a glaring contradiction here? I once thought higher education might be able to expand the mind and foster critical thinking but then I got to college and was sadly disappointed. Not in every professor or classmate but in enough. On a completely different note---Andy Borowitz's post today reminded me of Country Joe and the Fish----"Whoopee we're all gonna die"--it made me smile--maybe it could do the same for you.
Hi Sharon, let me see if I can shine some light on the first part of your question. Trump himself "graduated" from The Wharton School of Business at U of Penn - one of our elite Universities here in the United States. I am most positive, from my own experiences in college and working for extremely wealthy people, that the college experience is different for someone who wants to be there, and someone who is "forced" to go and gets in because of legacy and/or wealth. This is not to say EVERY person who is wealthy falls into this camp, but in my personal experience, I worked for a very wealthy family whose daughter went to Georgetown. I worked as the bookkeeper at the time and I was always shook by the fact that the daughter had a full-time "tutor". We paid someone $70K a year to assist her daughter during college. We also paid for living expenses or the "tutor". After working there for over a year, I finally met the daughter when she came home for break - and let me tell you, I was shooketh at the low level of social skills, intellect, manners and just her sheer presence. Her entitlement and lack of etiquette would never -- and I mean NEVER - make it anywhere in my upbringing as a child. When the scandal came out called "Varsity Blues" in 2019 that involved celebs Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, I completely gasped. Not because I believed my clients back then did anything of the sort 🙄but because I now could put two and two together and understood more fully how someone could get into The Wharton School of Business at U of Penn or let's say "Georgetown", Yale or Harvard... and still be so easily batshit delusional and just absolutely dumb.
Thank you for your wonderful reply. I am the daughter of an iron worker ( who didn't graduate from high school) and an office manager. I got a scholarship and worked my way through Indiana University. I'm the granddaughter of farmers. I loved college and got a lot out of it but honestly expected more social consciousness from my teachers and classmates. (Don't know where I got that idea, really.) I have always found it difficult not to be a reverse snob about wealth and almost nothing I've seen of it has changed my mind. I know it's bad to generalize but we just have so many good examples of bad behavior.
You are the essence of what was once the American Dream! I love it! It gives me so much hope! It's interesting that I also expected more social consciousness from my professors as well, but maybe, in a way, that was a good thing? I'm not sure, but I hear you 100%. I know it's bad to generalize, but yeah, so many examples -- and when I could see it for myself...well, it's just hard not too generalize!
My parents were both Holocaust victims who took circuitous routes to make it to America in 1938 and 1939. I am applying for dual citizenship for myself, my sister, and my two daughters, from ironically, Germany! Fascism is here in America now. Terribly frightening but while I am here, I continue to protest and fight for justice, just as I have always since the 1960’s.
Congress fears AIPAC more than Netanyahu's genocide. Disgraceful.
Dr. Eddie,
Thank you for today’s message. We don’t have a guide to tell us how long it will take to correct the many things Trump and Co. have dismantled . In time we will become stronger and wiser. I believe that we will realize that we can recover from this crisis/insanity!
Please check into your health. Take care of YOU. (I felt crappy and I had pneumonia! I took myself to the ER and found out. It's running around communities around the nation.) I 🙏 you do this for yourself.
I hear your message, and I am with you. We are in deep dooh dooh. It's constant and violent. Trump is demonic. He surrounds himself with fellow demonic, heartless ... Nazis and "Christian Nationalists", that is so sad and profoundly troubling. I spend a lot of time in my head trying to process why is this happening. What I came up with is that America has really never dealt with slavery, racism and policing, "ghettoizing", working poor and poverty, drugs and gun violence, hopelessness and now homelessness, not really addressed. It's a package deal that rots from the head. Trump is all about that. He's always been. We had Obama and then the racists recoiled and Trump plowed on through. That's a sad reflection on Christian folk. Because we have to add "Nationalists". And that's disgusting. Daily chaos is 24/7 so we won't have relief without a whole lot of resistance.
I just march on ever day, the best I can.
You're a jewel of aan with a great heart.
So go get your health checked out please.
Thank you for your inspiring message. We must re-imagine America!
Thank you!
Thank you so very much. Have you read One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This. I think you will appreciate it. Heartbreaking and brutally honest.
I call him Orange Pol Pot. The educated class are presently just being deported and not murdered. But, why stop there? 🤬
Of course, exposure to different ideas and cultures and religions creates critical thinking students who have to figure out where they are in comparison. Critical thinking leads us to questioning the things we have taken for granted and considering other possibilities. This doesn’t mean we reject our traditional beliefs but can accept that others’ beliefs have merit and are worthy of respect and maybe we could learn something that would make us better people. And maybe we SHOULD learn how to be better people and not just a member of the herd of sheep.
I always appreciate your perspective!
Didn't a great many of the folks who populate the Trump regime graduate from universities? Why weren't THEY captured? Isn't there a glaring contradiction here? I once thought higher education might be able to expand the mind and foster critical thinking but then I got to college and was sadly disappointed. Not in every professor or classmate but in enough. On a completely different note---Andy Borowitz's post today reminded me of Country Joe and the Fish----"Whoopee we're all gonna die"--it made me smile--maybe it could do the same for you.
Hi Sharon, let me see if I can shine some light on the first part of your question. Trump himself "graduated" from The Wharton School of Business at U of Penn - one of our elite Universities here in the United States. I am most positive, from my own experiences in college and working for extremely wealthy people, that the college experience is different for someone who wants to be there, and someone who is "forced" to go and gets in because of legacy and/or wealth. This is not to say EVERY person who is wealthy falls into this camp, but in my personal experience, I worked for a very wealthy family whose daughter went to Georgetown. I worked as the bookkeeper at the time and I was always shook by the fact that the daughter had a full-time "tutor". We paid someone $70K a year to assist her daughter during college. We also paid for living expenses or the "tutor". After working there for over a year, I finally met the daughter when she came home for break - and let me tell you, I was shooketh at the low level of social skills, intellect, manners and just her sheer presence. Her entitlement and lack of etiquette would never -- and I mean NEVER - make it anywhere in my upbringing as a child. When the scandal came out called "Varsity Blues" in 2019 that involved celebs Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, I completely gasped. Not because I believed my clients back then did anything of the sort 🙄but because I now could put two and two together and understood more fully how someone could get into The Wharton School of Business at U of Penn or let's say "Georgetown", Yale or Harvard... and still be so easily batshit delusional and just absolutely dumb.
Thank you for your wonderful reply. I am the daughter of an iron worker ( who didn't graduate from high school) and an office manager. I got a scholarship and worked my way through Indiana University. I'm the granddaughter of farmers. I loved college and got a lot out of it but honestly expected more social consciousness from my teachers and classmates. (Don't know where I got that idea, really.) I have always found it difficult not to be a reverse snob about wealth and almost nothing I've seen of it has changed my mind. I know it's bad to generalize but we just have so many good examples of bad behavior.
You are the essence of what was once the American Dream! I love it! It gives me so much hope! It's interesting that I also expected more social consciousness from my professors as well, but maybe, in a way, that was a good thing? I'm not sure, but I hear you 100%. I know it's bad to generalize, but yeah, so many examples -- and when I could see it for myself...well, it's just hard not too generalize!
You better come on 'closing musical selections' - We see you Brother Eddie!
Thank you. May your congestion clear up soon. Reimagine. ☮️💜
Thank you for sharing your thoughts are on all of this. Even though there is so much bad news, you are a bright light to me.
Take care of yourself Eddie we need you
Is it true that Barron couldn’t get into Harvard?
NYU isn’t b exactly Ivy League
Actually, a fantastic school that costs a fortune. Yes though not Harvard or Smith