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He co-created #SpiderMan2099 and #YoungJustice. He also wrote some of the best #IncredibleHulk stories ever.
I followed his struggle for wellness on #GoFundMe for at least a year.
He was 68.
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Book Mini-Review: Macbeth Has No Clothes But Plenty Of Loyalists
Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover Up, And His Disasterous Choice To Run Again.
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
New York: Penguin Press, 314 p., $32.
The election-insider story never gets old because America’s elite political class, like everyone else, loves a good reality show, particularly if it’s starring them and their family members and loved ones in longform narrative text. In this downer Election 2024 tale, which would have made a better magazine article and will one day make a better major block in a chapter on a future Vol. 2, 800-page Biden autobiography, Tapper and Thompson use reporting and transcripts to document a decline everyone saw and understood in real time, including the whys–why he refused to recognize it at first, why he is now saying he could have won, etc. Normally, a book like this would be dominated by fast-paced acts designed to win an election; here the repeated scenes of lying, denial, protection and delusion–“a theology that bordered on zealotry” is how the authors put it–just add up to a sad tale of a 20th-century Delaware power couple, the Fates’ tough-as-nails playthings, who survived very dark times to get the crowns and scepters too late. Leading the world when you have to be personally led around is an amazing spectacle but power demands complete, mobster-like loyalty. So Special Counsel Robert Hur, the book’s coal-mine canary and his supervisor U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland get eventually vindicated but not publicly apologized to for, respectively, telling the truth and exhibiting ethics over partisanship because, well, politics ain’t beanbag. The idea that Biden’s roundtable would “Weekend-at-Bernie’s” a president is disturbing but most of the Monday-morning, anonymous quarterbacking by the politicos reads shallow because it is that; they signed on to the (lucrative) Washington political establishment with their blood a long time ago. With the Republican and Democratic parties about to experience a youth spurt in 2028, perhaps this almost-necessary book is just part of the last chapter of the Boomer and pre-Boomer political dynasties. For political diehards only.
Ladies and Gentlemen, #TheDailyShow ‘s #JonStewart
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP CONDEMNS CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST U.S. REP. #LAMONICAMCIVER
PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP)
PO BOX 22505
NEWARK, NJ 07101
973 801-0001
http://www.njpop.org
CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM
MAY 20, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP CONDEMNS CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST CONGRESSWOMAN MCIVER
The following statement was issued by Lawrence Hamm, chairperson of the People’s Organization For Progress:
The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) condemns Alina Habba, interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, for bringing charges against Congresswoman LaMonica McIver.
The charges have been filed in connection with the incident involving the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka that occurred on May 9th at Delaney Hall in Newark.
POP believes that Congresswoman McIver is innocent and that these charges are false. We demand that Habba dismiss these charges against the congresswoman just as she dismissed those against Mayor Ras Baraka.
The fault lies with the ICE agents who precipitated the incident. They escalated the event, overreacting with excessive force in a reckless, abusive, and totally unprofessional manner.
The ICE agents were armed. Congresswoman McIver, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman, Congressman Robert Menedez Jr, and Mayor Baraka were unarmed. The ICE agents created a dangerous situation.
The behavior of ICE personnel and the response of the U.S. Attorney’s Office is characteristic of what happens in police brutality cases.
The police abuse someone and then pile charges on the innocent victim to deflect attention from their own misconduct and to coverup their misdeeds.
Rep. McIver did nothing wrong. She and the other House representatives were at Delaney Hall to conduct an oversight visit which they have a right to do as members of Congress.
We also believe the charges against the congresswoman are politically motivated. McIver, Baraka and other elected officials across the country are being targeted because their policies and positions on immigration are opposed to those of the Trump administration.
The filing of these charges against Congresswoman McIver is a grave injustice. In so doing U.S. Attorney Habba is violating her oath of office when she swore to be impartial and to do justice.
These charges and the pursuit of Congresswoman McIver in this manner is a waste of taxpayer money. The dismissal of the charges against Mayor Baraka should have been the end of this unfortunate episode.
Finally, Habba has said she is doing this because “no one is above the law.” It is difficult to take this pronouncement from her seriously.
Her boss and the man who appointed her, President Trump, places himself above the law almost every day of the week. He blatantly defies the laws of this nation at every turn.
Trump violates the constitution, ignores court orders, attacks attorneys, locks up judges and denies people their rights. Rather than charging McIver she should consider bringing charges against Trump.
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