Since Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation this week in protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, his detractors have warned about the risk of “contagion,” suggesting that his protest will encourage imitators (who, they imply, share his alleged mental instability). There may or may not be additional self-immolators before the slaughter comes to an end, just as Bushnell was proceeded by a woman, yet to be identified publicly, who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in December. But the purpose of lighting yourself on fire is not to encourage other people to light themselves on fire. It is to scream to the world that you could find no alternative, and in that respect it is a challenge to the rest of us to prove with our own freedom that there are other ways to meaningfully resist a society whose cruelty has become intolerable.
(St. Paul MN-) DFL Senator Jen McEwen of Duluth has a bill this session banning assault weapons. McEwen told the Minnesota Reformer she believes lawmakers are hesitant to touch gun
After failing just last week to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, House Republicans had a very narrow window Tuesday to try again, and they succeeded by just one