Innocent people are rotting in these camps for months in horrible conditions, for no reason at all except to satisfy the sadism of that bald asshole. This is who we're supposed to negotiate Reasonable Guardrails with

There is no clearer English than a three-drink Bostonian saying "Fack you."

(6) "Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than 'politics.' They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away." -- Naomi Shulman

(5) There's only so much that most of us can do, so don't surrender the one tool you have, and do not comply meekly in advance because it's "mean" to fight.

(4) You cannot fight evil with strongly worded letters, especially when you're forbidden by the very mores your enemy gleefully disregards from using the strongest in your repertoire.

(3) If you're facing an enemy with zero regard for the lives, the dignity, or the fundamental rights of your fellow human beings, they will not suddenly gain it because you refrain from using four-letter words.

(2)...or when the despair it engenders in its targets brings them to the point of harming themselves instead, you are not the villain for fighting back.

I hope I'm just cynical...but very little has happened in the last decade to make me optimistic.

And I have heard that part of my duty as Board Chair is fundraising. So, hello world...if you'd like to be part of this work...and part of the founding of Complexly as a non-profit, our new website is Complexly.org. We will very happily take your donations!!

He'll throw the community under the bus the moment it's politically convenient. Not to mention his total inability to accept the reality of Gaza.

If he runs, it'll be Kamala all over again, and whatever monster the GOP hocks up will win because no one will want to vote for his opponent.