Abby Zimet has written CD's Further column since 2008. A longtime, award-winning journalist, she moved to the Maine woods in the early 70s, where she spent a dozen years building a house, hauling water and writing before moving to Portland. Having come of political age during the Vietnam War, she has long been involved in women's, labor, anti-war, social justice and refugee rights issues.

A Sea Of Sorrow: Mindless Cruelty is the Point

Still held in a Louisiana detention center for the crime of denouncing the slaughter and starvation of Gazan children, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil told a judge Thursday his deportation would likely mean death for him and his family. Cruelty is the point. His testimony came hours after Khalil…

Marks of the Fascist, Tacky, Insatiable Beast

As we approach the 100-day milestone (yes it's only been that long) a sadistic, repressive regime increasingly reviled by its own people defiantly hurtles on - arresting judges, crushing dissent, abducting migrants, citizens, pregnant mothers, sick toddlers - while grotesquely cashing in on its…

ICE Barbie is Always Ready, Sorta

Kristi Noem likes to play dress up, go on field trips with muscled men, point rifles at their heads, and talk tough about the brown people she hates. All while wearing a $60,000 Rolex.

We Will Not Comply

A Jewish Voice For Peace protest took place in Trump Tower against the ICE arrest of Mahmoud Kahlil for speech in support of Palestine. 10 protesters were arrested.

Oh For F**k’s Sake

The new orange king is busy choosing his viper's den of crooks, misfits and "comically inappropriate" zealots, aka bootlickers to "run" his "government"

Fascism is back!

Replicating another racist, toxic, unnerving hate fest 75 years ago, Trump held a vitriolic rally Sunday in New York vowing to end "the migrant invasion of our country."

19-year-old Engineer Burned Alive.

Honestly, harrowingly, what to say. After a year of bombing, maiming, starving, killing Palestinians, mostly children, Israel just burned alive before the world a sleeping, wounded, 19-year-old…

A Monument To Cruelty

Unfathomably, it's been a year since a horrific Hamas assault set off a more horrific Israeli genocide in which an insatiable, unraveling Zionist project has slaughtered, burned, starved, maimed and broken hundreds of thousands, mostly women and children, in the ungodly name of vengeance. A…