AOC's non-hypocritical hypocrisy, Trump's parade, Ukraine, more

A few tidbits pulled from around the interwebz:

Per Ken Klippenstein, even AOC blamed Elias Gonzales' actions on antisemitism, not a violence-misguided version of antizionism.

It's why, per Ryan Grim's Substack note, I expect her to be a sellout on any Congressional resolution calling the phrase "Free Palestine" antisemitic. If she is, we'll see how Grim reports it, given his past bromancing of her.

Hence, the "non-hypocritical hypocrisy."

I will be looking in more detail at this issue tomorrow, but not knowing when the congressional resolution might come up, wanted this out first. And here you are.

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I like me some Joe Costello, but the idea that Jerry Brown, especially being advised by Pat Caddell, was the guy to fix American presidential politics in 1992 is laughable. It also partially undermines Costello's credibility in deconstructing Democratic politics.

Caddell screwed Jimmy Carter over the "malaise" speech and was an informal advisor to Trump in 2016, as I have written. Costello knows all of this, and the former was likely known to him at the time of the Brown 1992 campaign, as was the fact that Brown was even more of a neolib than Carter 1976.

Brown was also a hypocrite on Cal water rights as governor, between his two incarnations, and more.

Sadly, Costello talks little to nothing about Mo Udall among past Dem presidential candidates.

Interestingly, in his next piece, Costello admits he had never heard of Murray Bookchin until just recently. That would be the Bookchin who crushingly deconstructed Bernie Sanders. I was going to tell him that, but forgot only paid subscribers can comment and Ghost doesn't appear to allow "restacks."

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You quickly hit Medium's paywall, but this piece suggests we shouldn't overestimate the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian air bases.

John Mearsheimer touches on both that and the INCREDIBLY stupid US geopolitics behind assisting Ukraine on this.

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Trump's "big birthday parade" June 14 is also the 250th anniversary of the US Army's formation. Even a leftist like Chris Hedges misses that, and misses the opportunity to critique American militarism before criticizing Trump.