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Abby Zimet

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.
10 Articles

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake

Air Force veteran and former DOJ attorney Sean Dunn, 37, who “brought a sandwich to a fascism fight” - specifically, a salami…

Pity the Nation Whose Shepherds Mislead Them

Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept manchild faces growing resistance to his kingship.…

King Donald the First: F&#! That.

Bernie Sanders on labeling No Kings protests “Hate America”: “Really? Because people are defending the Constitution (and) are not going to…

Sandwich Guy Redux: In Your Fascist Face

In the now-famous "assault with a deli weapon," Sean Dunn, a 37-year-old decorated Afghanistan veteran threw a Subway sandwich at…

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…

Fascism is back!

Replicating another racist, toxic, unnerving hate fest 75 years ago, Trump held a vitriolic rally Sunday in New York vowing…

Fighting Obdurate Hate: Exonerated Five Sue Little Man With Big Mouth

With more righteous reason than most, the five men of color of the Exonerated Five have filed a defamation suit…

19-Year-Old Engineer Burned Alive in Gaza

Honestly, harrowingly, what to say. After a year of bombing, maiming, starving, killing Palestinians, mostly children, Israel just burned alive…

Speaking of Moral Bankruptcy: Aiden Clark death used for political gain

The father of an 11-year-old who was killed in a car accident has demanded that Republicans stop using his death…

Moronic MAGA: America Is So Ready For A Better Story

Vance is a cringey horror and a blithering felon calls "Comrade Kamala" a moron. "What kind of America do we…