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Once every quarter or so, Em Bowen holds forth at Crooked Tooth Brewery with a standup comedy show like no other in Tucson. It has what can only be called standards.

Theyre not the sort of standards some might consider censorship. The subject matter isnt proscribed; rather, Bowen is concerned with quality the quality of the composition as well as the quality of the joke. But their priority concern is how audience members, of any kind, will feel when they leave the show.

As for the name, Bowen said we should regard it as we do any other name Felix, say, or Amanda. Like a humans, the name contains multitudes.

A middle-school teacher by day, they are working toward an advanced degree related to community development. To that end theyre currently focused on publishing their research in learned journals.

For more than a decade, though, Bowen has enjoyed a leadership role in the rarefied company of Tucson writers and storytellers gifted in their craft.

Like Bowen, some are also gifted crafters of jokes, as intelligent as they are gut-busting. Their material is original and their delivery expert. They are comfortable on the stage. They love making people laugh, Bowen said, but There was a lack of spaces that I really wanted to perform in.

Then a friend made it easier. Bowen said. I had this one friend who was a rugby teammate who was working at Crooked Tooth, and I know the owners of Crooked Tooth very well. Ive been drinking the beer that Ben (Vernon) brews since before they were a brewery. So, my friend said, you should do a show on the Crooked Tooth patio.

Bowen considered it, considering all the competing demands on their time. They feared they might drop the ball unless, they speculated, they wanted to do it badly enough to make it sustainable. The No. 1 caveat: It couldnt be a regularly scheduled grind.

Tucson notoriously doesnt show up to things, Bowen said, so I thought, Well, Im just going to make it novel so you cant say, Ill just go next month because it might not happen again for four months.

The particular scene that I tried to create is one that is a bit more curated in terms of content. Comedians making vulgar jokes and jokes with sexual overtones thats still comedy. But I wanted a space in which I was asking people to do punch up comedy.

For example, Bowen said, If I am a white masculine person, Im making jokes about that, but Im not making jokes about black folks or disabled folks. Im not making disparaging jokes of any kind unless theyre in alignment with my own experience.

And I wanted to take it a step further, Bowen said, because, I wanted comedy that, when you walked away from the show, you felt a little bit better about the world, and better in some comedy spaces.

Then they mixed one more challenge into their vision. What if comedy was also being used to critique systems of power? What if this show were a place where we learned what it was like to do comedy that had a little extra stuff in it?

The success of Bowens comedy project can be measured in the fan-base it turns out. The crowd for The Liberal Agenda regularly ranges from 60 to 90 people.

Reflecting on their own standup sets, Bowen said, When I write comedy, it needs to give me a different perspective or make me look at a situation that is challenging and hard, and use it in a way that it creates another meaning, so I can hold it a little lighter and make joy.

I work with children, they said, and I need to have a particular presence of mind in order to go into a classroom with a bunch of 12- to 14-year-olds and hold a world view for them that is hopeful.

Its a writer-mindedness, an impulse. Its how I figure out what I mean and what life means to me.

The Liberal Agenda, Crooked Tooth Brewing Company patio, 228 E. Sixth Street, Tucson, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15, Em Bowen hosts Amie Gabusi, Morgan Kuehn, Allana Erikson-Lopez and Zo Thomas

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Matt Ziemak and Autumn Horvat host The Switch.

OTHER SHOWS THIS WEEK

Corbett Brewery, 309 E. Seventh Street, 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, free, touring comic Jonathan Gregory headlines, w/Nicole Riesgo, Tony Bruhn, Jordan White and Cory Lytle.

Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress Street, http://www.hotelcongress.com

7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, free, The Switch, a curated cast of comedians makes up jokes around topics guests text in. Matt Ziemak and Autumn Horvat host. Reservations recommended.

Laffs Comedy Caffe

2900 E. Broadway Boulevard,

http://www.laffstucson.com

8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, and 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, $15, $20 preferred seating, Sean Finnerty, left Ireland for the United States as soon as he was old enough to drink here and became the first Irish guest of Jimmy Fallon.

Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street, http://www.rialtotheatre.com

7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, tickets start at $30, Ali Siddiq; Saturday, Dec. 9, noon, tickets start at $22.50, Old Pueblo Holiday Radio Show benefitting Doctors Without Borders

Tucson Improv Movement/

TIM Comedy Theatre,

414 E. Ninth Street,

http://www.tucsonimprov.com

$7 each show, $10 for both shows, same night, free jam, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, Cage Match; 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, Improv Jam; 7:30 p.m. The Soapbox with Corey Seemiller; 9 p.m. Improv vs Standup; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, The Meeting and Shatfan; 9 p.m. Ugly Sweaters and Auld Laugh Syne

Unscrewed Theater,

4500 E. Speedway Boulevard,

unscrewedtheatre.org, $8. Variety of comics and shows.

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A Trump reelection bid could influence the timing of Canadas next election or deal a wild card to the race, with the odds currently stacked heavily against Trudeau.

A second Trump presidency almost certainly creates a situation where the next election wont be about Pierre Poilievre or Justin Trudeau it will be about Donald Trump and Canadas relationship with an America that is led by an angry, vengeful creature, said Scott Reid, who worked in former Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martins office.

I dont know if that might benefit Poilievre or if it may benefit Justin Trudeau, but I think it is the kind of event that has the force to reset the next election in Canada.

Poilievre, a career politician, has fashioned himself as an outsider to the countrys political elite. When he won the party leadership in 2022, the Liberals did not bother to try to define him or launch a major ad campaign to slow his momentum strange to many Canadian political insiders.

These days, Trudeaus Liberals keep repeating that Poilievre is not worth the risk. They say hes reckless and unhinged with moves straight out of the Republican playbook in efforts to link him to the Trump arm of the party.

They recently mashed up Trump and Poilievre clips in a compare-contrast video, showing both politicians attacking the press as fake news and going after woke censorship and political correctness.

Reid says they are a year late to the punch. If its a deliberate, conscious strategy if they could pay for that paid media and theyve decided not to well, then thats mind boggling and in my view an egregious strategic error.

Trudeau can trigger an election any time before the fall of 2025, so the U.S.-Canada election calendars could sync in a way that would plaster Trump across Canadian media in 2024.

Canadians got a sampling of what that might be like during the past week.

One moment that left no doubt about the strategy occurred when Trudeau attributed a Conservative vote against the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement to the the rise of a right-wing American, MAGA-influence thinking that has made Canadian Conservatives, who used to be among the strongest defenders of Ukraine turn their backs on something Ukraine needs in its hour of need.

The Conservatives said they were opposed to a carbon tax clause in the document, but Trudeau accused the lawmakers of starting to parrot Russian disinformation and misinformation and propaganda.

The rhetoric dialed up.

Liberal lawmaker Adam van Koeverden said in Parliament this week that Canadas support for Ukraine should have been unanimous in this House, but, just like Donald Trump, the leader of the Conservatives is cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Another Liberal lawmaker, Ken Hardie, was forced to apologize for controversially linking Poilievre and hard-right rhetoric to a shooting in Winnipeg that left four dead aiming to draw a link between the unintended consequences from escalated rhetoric.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is currently leading in the polls, a career politician who won a landslide leadership vote in 2022. | Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Conservatives have a word for this: desperation. And they think the gambit will backfire when voters look at Trudeaus record.

Kory Teneycke, former communications director in former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harpers office, said the Liberals making Trump a proxy is a bad play.

Theyre flailing around for arguments and ways to try to pull their numbers up and pull Poilievres down, he said, and it doesnt ring true.

The Conservative Party is leading with female voters, with new Canadian voters. Its a party that embraces those new Canadians as opposed to having undertones of nativism and xenophobia. Thats why it doesnt work.

On top of that, at least one poll found Poilievre is Canadians preferred leader to deal with a Trump presidency.

You want to find things that people agree with you on, and then turn the lens on those, he said. This is not a winning strategy.

Teneycke suggested Poilievre is probably closer to a Paul Ryan figure, as a more conventional conservative campaigning on lower taxes and personal freedom with more of a libertarian complexion to many of his arguments.

Poilievre may not be that same pure heroin source of entertainment, bombast and astonishment, but there is some hard right, populist appeal, Reid said. There are at least elements of the MAGA movement present in his message and methods.

They are playing the same cards, he adds. It is anti-institution. It is challenging the establishment, both in real terms and in mythically exaggerated, self-serving bullshit terms. And its fundamentally autocratic strongman politics.

Alex Marland, a political science professor at Acadia University who researches political branding in Canada, says this marks a major turning point for Trudeau, who has spent much of his political career trying to emit Obama-esque positive energy and messaging to voters.

Trudeau has absolutely avoided going negative, he said, instead getting other people to be the ones to say negative things.

No longer.

Something is changing, he said. It tells you that through research, theyve determined that this is the best line attack, their best communications approach against an opponent who is beating them, frankly, in the polls.

In past elections, he said, what the Liberals have done with their opponents is focus on domestic policy: social issues, gun control, abortion.

Past polling shows Canadians have a distaste for Trump, after his presidency upended Canadas historically strong relationship with the U.S. when Trump tore up NAFTA and Trudeau could position himself as standing up for the countrys interests.

Conservative lawmaker Michelle Rempel Garner wrote this week that the emerging boogeyman narrative is the early stages of a Hail-Mary election play, and it appears the Liberals need Trump. A MAGA-messaging-reliant Liberal campaign narrative with Justin Trudeau still at the helm has only one optimal window for an election: the October before a Biden vs Trump presidential election day.

But Supriya Dwivedi, senior counsel at Enterprise Canada, dismisses the idea.

If interest rates start to come down, if particularly grocery prices start to come down and folks arent seeing like C$4 for a head of mini lettuce anymore, then a lot of the anger youre seeing and the disaffection will start to subside, she said.

She said in trying to define Poilievre, Trudeau should simply point to what he is saying and doing: The constant demonization of the free press, calling the prime minister a Marxist and making references to radical gender ideology.

The compare/contrast with MAGA messaging would also actually have to stick to work and a lot of that would hinge on what their opponents say in the future.

If theres a drumbeat of certain messaging and catchphrases coming out of Donald Trump supporters that are finding their way into Canadian politics and are being emanated by conservatives, then theres no question the Liberals are going to draw upon that and try and create this connection, Marland said.

But if theres totally different language going on, it becomes very hard.

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FILE - Norman Lear, executive producer of the Pop TV series "One Day at a Time," poses for a portrait during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour on Jan. 13, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as "All in the Family" and Maude and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, has died, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.. He was 101. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) Norman Lear has died.

The producer who made TV topical in the 1970s with the sitcom All in the Family, died Tuesday night at the age of 101 years old.

All in the Family starred Carroll OConnor as diehard conservative Archie Bunker, who clashed with his liberal son-in-law over racism, feminism and the Vietnam War.

It was one of a string of TV hits for Lear and then-partner Bud Yorkin that also included Maude and The Jeffersons.

Lears series reflected his political beliefs, which he put into action by founding the nonprofit liberal advocacy group People for the American Way.

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Russian businessman Alexei Nechaev will stand in as President Vladimir Putins liberal rival during Russia's 2024 presidential race, the independent news outlet Mozhem Obyasnit reported Tuesday, citing two anonymous sources in the pro-business political party he created nearly four years ago.

Nechaev, who owns one of Russias leading cosmetics companies Faberlic, stepped into politics when he founded the New People party in the run-up to the 2021 State Duma elections, which saw the party secure 15 seats in the 450-seat lower house of parliament.

According to Mozhem Obyasnit, the businessman-turned-politician's role in the 2024 presidential race will be to attract liberal voters to the polls, just as his party has done in other elections in recent years.

New People has reportedly already begun work on Nechaevs campaign and is expected to announce his candidacy at its December convention.

Nechaev is also a member of the All Russia Peoples Front (ONF), a political coalition created by Putin in 2011. He has made several pro-Putin remarks during his time in politics, and he has also backed Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Putin is widely expected to announce his re-election bid in the coming weeks, though he has said that he plans to wait until after Russia's parliament officially calls the presidential campaign in mid-December.

The Kremlin has said before that Putin would face no competition if he ran in 2024.

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Norman Lear, producer of TV's 'All in the Family' and influential liberal advocate, has died at 101 - WV News

The liberal activist organization MoveOn laid off at least 18 employees this week, in the latest sign of a slowdown in donations from small donors to left-leaning causes and candidates.

We are retooling our team to meet the urgent needs of this moment and to have the resources necessary to do so, Rahna Epting, MoveOns executive director, said. I extend my sincere gratitude to our departing colleagues and for the incredible contributions theyve made to the MoveOn community.

The job cuts are part of a broader restructuring before the 2024 election cycle that the group announced in June, according to a MoveOn employee who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The staff members who lost their jobs were told this week that they would be leaving the organization, the employee said.

The MoveOn employee said that the group would be adding up to 18 new positions, but that it was cutting more positions than it would add. The staff members who were laid off have been invited to apply for the new roles, many of which will have lower pay than the posts eliminated this week, according to the employee, who said the group expected to have roughly 80 to 90 staff members overall in 2024.

As the employees who lost their jobs told friends and turned to progressive email lists to look for work, MoveOn gave its remaining staff members at its Washington headquarters Thursday and Friday off from work.

One of the first progressive organizations formed online, MoveOn was formed in 1998 out of opposition to Republican efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton. It later became one of the largest groups organizing opposition to the Iraq war. MoveOn endorsed Barack Obama early in the 2008 campaign and ran an unsuccessful movement to draft Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts into the 2016 presidential campaign.

The group is now involved in a broad Democratic effort to stop No Labels from mounting a centrist third-party presidential bid in 2024.

Democratic candidates and liberal organizations have been struggling to keep up the fund-raising pace they enjoyed during the presidency of Donald J. Trump and even in the early years of President Bidens administration.

Officials at liberal groups and Democratic campaigns have attributed their cash crunch to changes in how tech companies like Google and Apple filter fund-raising solicitations, as well as to dampened enthusiasm for Mr. Biden and an economy that has left donors less willing to fork over money.

MoveOns layoffs came days after it sent a 15-foot inflatable balloon likeness of Representative George Santos, the disgraced New York Republican, to the National Mall, a few blocks from the Capitol, as lawmakers returned from their Thanksgiving recess.

The balloon, which the organization said was part of its efforts to pressure lawmakers into ousting Mr. Santos, sported his characteristic thick-rimmed glasses as well as a red tie emblazoned with the phrase full of lies.

It was unclear whether any members of Congress saw the balloon on their commutes, though it attracted attention from the news media and tourists.

Michael Gold contributed reporting.

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Norman Lear, producer of TV's 'All in the Family' and influential liberal advocate, has died at 101 - El Paso Inc.

UW System President Jay Rothman suggested in an email to campus chancellors that they should consider cutting liberal arts programs at schools that serve a large number of low income students, the UW-Madison student newspaper the Daily Cardinal reported this week.

In the email, in which Rothman lists a number of suggestions campus leaders can make to deal with declining revenues and stagnating state support, he said campuses should seek a long-term path to return to financial stability.

Consider shifting away from liberal arts programs to programs that are more career specific, particularly if the institution serves a large number of low-income students, Rothman wrote.

The email, which Rothman sent in early September, was revealed after a number of cuts have been made across the UW System, including to schools that predominantly serve low income students. This fall, the system announced that it would be shutting down in-person instruction at two of its two-year campuses in Fond du Lac and Washington counties. That announcement came after the two-year campus in Richland County shut down this spring.

Make the painful cuts and adjustments at one time and then move on, Rothman said in another suggestion.

On the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) Rothman denied that he was pushing campuses to cut liberal arts programs and attacked the Daily Cardinals reporting, while criticizing the students at one of the schools hes responsible for because they quoted him directly.

Let me be crystal clear: I have not asked our universities to move away from liberal arts programs, he wrote. I have repeatedly stated that the liberal arts develops critical thinking and problem solving skills vital to a knowledge economy and to winning the war for talent. I am a product of the liberal arts, and I am deeply disappointed by the mischaracterization of my communication with chancellors by the [Daily Cardinal], both in its egregiously false headline and the framing of its story.

The Daily Cardinal story linked to the email in which Rothman suggested shifting away from liberal arts programs and quoted directly from its contents.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with "All in the Family," The Jeffersons and Maude, propelling political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of TV sitcoms, has died. He was 101.

Lear died Tuesday night in his sleep, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles, said Lara Bergthold, a spokesperson for his family.

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Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 4, 2023. Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Jacob Kornbluh December 4, 2023

Asaf Zamir, the former Israeli consul general in New York, resigned in March rather than support the Israeli governments judicial overhaul plans. But he said some New York liberals are misguided in their opposition to Israels offensive in Gaza, which has resulted in massive civilian casualties.

Zamir, a Tel Aviv resident who is running for deputy mayor in upcoming municipal elections, singled out the progressive New York Jewish Agenda for supporting a statement signed by six Jewish elected officials saying they are deeply distressed by the military campaign and approach being taken by the Netanyahu government in Gaza.

When you take that stand, you are basically saying that Israel has a right to defend themselves, but cant do it in the way every other government in the world would, he said, during a calling it an anti-Israel position.

Zamir, now at the end of a five-day visit to the U.S., suggested that the same group would have condemned Israel had it acted in advance to thwart Hamas planto kill and kidnap thousands of Israeli civilians. We literally have to be raped and die and kidnapped before we have the right to retaliate, he said.

These critics, he said, should balance their sympathy for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza with an understanding of Israels need to root out a terror network that has promised to attack again.

Phylisa Wisdom, NYJAs executive director, said that at a moment of real rising anti-Zionism and antisemitism it was both baffling and short-sighted that an Israeli leader would attack supportive progressive Jewish elected officials and organizations in the diaspora. She said the group is aligned with President Joe Bidens approach, supporting Israels right to defend its borders and citizens while expressing real concern over Palestinian civilian casualties.

After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the onset of Israels campaign in Gaza and the subsequent surge in antisemitic attacks targeting Jews in New York, Zamir made an usual offer to Israels government: to fill the yet unfilled consular job for a short period of time, unpaid.

He said proposed working within the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again because Israelis of all political stripes needed to pull together since the attack. Amid the mounting calls for a permanent cease-fire in the U.S., he thought he could be of help, but said he was not surprised that the government declined his offer.

It was not the Netanyahu-led government but its predecessor that selected Zamir as Israels representative in New York in 2021. He resigned amid spontaneous mass protests across Israel following the firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for refusing to support the governments judicial overhaul, which had riven Israeli society, with many considering it a blueprint for undermining democracy and further empowering right-wing parties.

Zamir has kept himself in the public eye since his resignation. In addition to running for office, he has increased his engagement on social media, conducting webinars with Jewish leaders and student organizations. And he recently returned to New York to speak with Jewish leaders and media.

Zamir said he is trying to rekindle efforts he launched during his tenure as consul to reconnect younger, more liberal-leaning American Jews to Israel particularly those who had distanced themselves from it because they disliked Netanyahus policies.

He said he sees American Jews who, still shocked and heartsick over Hamas massacres on Oct. 7, now feel hesitant to speak up for Israel because of the casualties in Gaza and the protests against Israel rocking American college campuses. Physically distant from Israel, he said, they struggle to fully comprehend the complexities Israelis face.

He said hes aiming, in his five-day visit to the U.S., to help younger American Jews understand what happened on Oct. 7 and why Israel must root out Hamas.

Zamir himself affiliates with the left in Israel. He said he has consistently voted for left-leaning parties and as a teenager played an active role in the International Center for Peace in the Middle East, a group comprised of both Jews and Palestinians. But its so clear this time that you have to be very cynical not to call it out as it is, he said.

At the start of the war, Zamir said he was pleased by Jewish Americans support for Israel, and in particular their work to push back against fringe progressive criticism of Israel and politicians and celebrities failures to condemn Hamas. But he said that in recent weeks, progressive American Jews, trying to maintain their standing in progressive circles, have been far quieter on Israels behalf. Many, he said, are condemning not just Hamas, but Israel.

Opting for a middle path during times of war is making a choice, Zamir said. Just like not voting for any candidate implies supporting the one you dislike. Saying both sides are not okay is giving a prize to the bad guy.

Zamir said hes worried that people will forget Oct. 7 in a few months and may revert to blaming Israel for antisemitism in the Diaspora. He suggested that Jewish Americans should follow President Joe Bidens approach to the war, and fully support Israels right to self defense.

I guess he knows something you guys dont, he said.

This post was updated to include a statement by the New York Jewish Agenda.

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Israels representative in New York resigned to protest Netanyahu. Now hes got some tough words for liberal New York Jews. - Forward