It's not just Americans and the U.S. Empire. Apparently, the post-imperial Japanese also do it -- whitewashing history, hiding war crimes, colonialism, occupation, and their atrocities.
(Meeka le Fey) Why does Japan keep lying about its history?
International Workers' Day ("May Day" to most of the world outside the U.S.): International Workers' Day, also called Labor Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as "May Day" [2, 3] is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May 1st [4, 5] or the first Monday in May [6, 7].
Traditionally, May 1st is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. The International Workers Congress held in Paris in 1889 established the Second International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties.
It adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the 8-hour day.
The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886, and culminated in the Haymarket affair on May 4th.
The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event [5]. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace" [8]. More
International Workers' Day is observed on May 1st. It is also called "May Day" but differs from the pagan/heathen European fertility festival May Day (like Shinto Japan's Steel Phallus Fest), which is of ancient origins.
It marks the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on May 1, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox and midsummer solstice [1, 2].
Festivities are also held the night before (on April 30th), which is known as May Eve. Traditions include gathering green branches and wildflowers ("bringing in the May") [3] that are used to decorate buildings and made into wreaths. Plus there's the:
Crowning a May Queen (ask Led Zeppelin), sometimes with a male companion (Jack in the Green) decked in greenery;
setting up a Maypole, May Tree, or May Bush, around which celebrants dance and sing;
parades and processions involving these [4].
Bonfires are also a major part of the festival in some regions.
Regional varieties and related traditions include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe [1], the Gaelic festival Beltane [5], the Welsh festival Calan Mai [5], and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary (a Christian-Jewish version of Kwan YinorMother Maya). It has also been associated with the ancient Roman festival Floralia [6]. More
Zionist Jews and Christians PANIC over American Muslim NYC Mayor Mamdani
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani
(Kim Iversen)
Nov. 6, 2025: NYC’s popular young new Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being smeared as an “Islamist” by biased pro-Israel mainstream media and Republican politicians — with zero evidence.
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Rabbi’s MELTDOWN after Zohran Mamdani exposes IDF and NYPD conspiracy
(Katie Halper) Nov. 8, 2025: Activists Sumaya Awad and Beth Miller respond to a rabbi’s accusation that Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic, explaining the NYPD–IDF training link and how criticism of Israel is used to silence justice movements.
3:03 Halper pushes back on the idea that naming genocide is antisemitic
4:09 Miller explains the NYPD–IDF training link and the real meaning of Zohran’s comment 4:34 How “End the Deadly Exchange” exposed police–IDF collaborations and ADL involvement 6:56 The myth of “singling out Israel” and why activists call it de-exceptionalizing
8:26 Awad on how Zohran refused to throw anyone under the bus and ran on solidarity
9:58 Halper calls out the hypocrisy of equating Judaism with support for genocide
GUESTS
Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian New Yorker, writer, organizer and member of NYC-DSA. She is co-editor of "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction."
Beth Miller is the political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action, where she spearheads the organization’s Congressional advocacy and electoral organizing. She has worked in the movement for Palestinian rights since 2011.
Older generation of Bibi/Trump-worshipping Zionist Jews in agony: "But WE own this city!"
Now that The WQ Oracle is officially psychic and able to successfully predict wins, we have to extend a special thank you to hated Dictator Trump and Madman Musk for backing corrupt sexual harasser Andy Cuomo. New Yorkers hate Trump and Cuomo, and most love breath-of-fresh-air Mamdani, who is for all the people, including Brooklyn's massive Jewish population, the largest in US.
(Keith Edwards) Mike Johnson Grindr Johnson gets heckled live in post-disaster press conference, lying about who closed down the government, trying to blame Democrats when everyone knows it was the Trump administration. Gerrymandering, California's Prop. 50 (temporary redistricting will hurt Trump's third re-election dream), Muslim Mayor Mamdani, and a member of Congress (Arizona's Adelita Grijalva) is still being kept from her office and official swearing in so she can vote for what the people want and demand: Release the Epstein Files!
Statistics know all. No one can beat the stats. If the stats say it, that's the way it'll be.
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(Saturday Night Live) Nov. 1, 2025: Zohran Mamdani [pronounced So Ran Ma'am Donny] (here played by Ramy Youssef), corrupt Andrew Cuomo (Miles Teller), and Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis) debate one another in the race to become New York City's next mayor. #SNL #MilesTeller #BrandiCarlile. NYC Mayoral Debate Cold Open - SNL. The election takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, so get out and vote.
See, Kids, sometimes it doesn't work out. If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Corrupt Trump pardon's corrupt NY Mayor Eric Adams, who kissed the Orange One's butt and appeased his ego as well as pledging his allegiance to crooked Republicans. He had to to stay out of jail.
Sometimes it does work out, but who would bet on it? Trump keeps winning in court, the court of public opinion, and de facto on the ground.
I should run to be Trump's choice!
Judges may order him to keep ICE in his pants and out of our cities, but does he listen? Judges may order him to fund SNAP or food stamps to keep 1 out of 8 Americans from food insecurity (going hungry, malnourishment, malnutrition, and starvation), but does he listen?
He's got corrupt likely-rapist Justice Kavanaugh and others on the Supreme Court back his Agenda 2025 crimes, which Homan and Bannon must have had a grand time writing.
I run this country, Ghislane, I pick who wins.
Now if Andrew Cuomo can be resuscitated and put to work for Trump and Israel, what was the chance that millennials, youth, idealists, anti-Zionist Jews, and the diverse array of New Yorkers were going to be able to stop him?
What if Trump becomes official U.S. Dictator?
Progressive Democrat self-proclaimed socialist (like successful Kshama Sawant and hopeful candidate Katie Wilson) Mamdani meant well, even though progressive commentator Jimmy Dore points out that he has already caved to the power elite. He's an improvement but far from ideal, far from perfect, far from a real solution.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration come under fire for underreporting COVID deaths in nursing homes after he controversially directed homes to accept infectious elders.
The acronym WWJD can mean many things. In Berkeley, it stands for, "What would Jello do?" Jello is Jello Biafra, the brilliant if slightly preachy former lead singer of the patriotic punk rock band the Dead Kennedys and founder of Alternative Tentacles Records.
(It is more patriotic to critique and try to improve one's country than to mindlessly go along with anything it says or does in the name of capitalism, assassinating presidents, hegemony, imperialism, racism, sexism, war-profiteering, and other misdeeds).
"Welcome to 1984" (DKs)
Some people think the "J" should really only refer to Jesus, but that is contradicted by the fact that those who say they talk to Jesus are deemed "good," whereas those who say that Jesus talks to them are deemed "nuts."
It is, in fact, not about talking but calling to mind a role model. What would the Buddha do? What would an arhat (an enlightened person) do? What would a saint do? What would kindKwan Yin or rebelMother Mary do? (Both are goddesses of compassion in the world).
If we call to mind our best example of a human person or spiritual being, then that can help guide our own decision-making when it comes to sorting out tough dilemmas or forks in the road of life.
Is trans different from non-binary? D'uh! (lol)
Forget the sandal. It's the gourd!
Some think Jesus is best, so to be able to stay on his team, they imagine he would be very "woke." Other followers hate this idea. As with most things, Christians are divided. It's like that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The Messiah figure runs because so many followers need something from Him.
He takes off so quickly that he drops a sandal and his water gourd. Followers pick up these items, reasoning that the sacred object must have been left behind by the Savior as a guide symbolic of his presence.
Is the gourd the water of life, or is the sandal expressive of the path we must follow? Gourd, sandal? Sandal, gourd? And then they begin killing each other for the crime of worshiping the wrong symbol.
Woke Jesus
(The Babylon Bee) Want proof that Jesus was a woke socialist? Look no further than these classic quotes straight from the Bible.
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WARNING: Foul language and not nice things about Jesus and God. For
God so ordained that Nicholas Bowling get a lot of view but have
a hard time doing so at the Louisville Gay Pride Festival, Pt. 2
The Babylon Bee, May 6, 2024; Nicholas Bowling; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
GUEST: Jewish academic Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend.
He is the author of the forthcoming book, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, due out this fall (Verso Books).
He sits in conversation with Mitch Jeserich on Letters & Politics (KPFA.org, Berkeley) about American Jewish thinking, once very anti-Zionist until the 6 Day War.
Then Zionism, the idea of having a right to return to a land your ancestors (Jews) wrote in a book (the Bible) was yours for all time, started to get a foothold. If when you arrive on that land and find it full, say, "These are not a people," therefore the land is empty.
"We'll take it over with British and American help and say we built it out of nothing. Never mind that we work for empire, our own, British globalism, and a nascent American urge to control the oil-rich and geopolitically strategic region."
Even Leftist Jews can get behind that, right? If not, they're antisemites and need to be expelled from the culture and community if not the religion. But we're secular so that doesn't matter, and the Ultra-Orthodoxreligious Jews assure us we're behaving in an anti-biblical way in complete contravention to religious dictates.
Setting up a CIA-groomed dictator in Bibi Netanyahu, as well as his brother, to run the settler colonial project is a mere expedient, and soon Israeli prime ministers will align with their own interests, sell weapons to whomever they want, and take over all the land they can conquer from Lebanon to Egypt, to Jordan to Qatar. Israel will be the capital of a new empire for and by Zionist Jews.
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(Saturday Night Live) Nov. 1, 2025: Zohran Mamdani [pronounced So Ran Ma'am Donny] (here played by Ramy Youssef), corrupt Andrew Cuomo (Miles Teller), and Curtis Sliwa (Shane Gillis) debate one another in the race to become New York City's next mayor. #SNL #MilesTeller #BrandiCarlile. NYC Mayoral Debate Cold Open - SNL. The election takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, so get out and vote. 
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