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  • Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel

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  • Yeah, his alternative energy push was definitely positive, he just didn't have the political capital or savvy to make anything of it. He admittedly walked into a pretty raw deal with stagflation and an energy crisis, but he handled them so poorly it's hard to justify cutting him any slack. Telling the public energy is in short supply so they're going to have to make sacrifices is a losing strategy no matter what you're advocating for.

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    TIL that at age 17, in 1980, Jodie Foster already had a decent handle on why some in the US are so thick about the situation in Palestine

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  • The NFL wants to use facial recognition at games. Police say it's a bad idea

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  • The AP article for those that don't want to listen: https://apnews.com/article/raiders-nfl-vegas-police-allegiant-stadium-5239b9962c23a6512fa2f694add9b9ea

    The highlight for me is this:

    The Las Vegas Police Protective Association, with the backing of the department, said they are concerned such technology compromises the officers’ privacy.

    It's worth noting they're only doing this for workers, not for attendees. The police would presumably by fine with it if it were just attendees and not workers, because it wouldn't include them.

  • Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel

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  • It worked out pretty well for Carter's policies, even if he only got one term. Carter ran openly as a centrist, and his fiscal conservatism was very popular. The left-ish wing of the Democratic party started an "Anybody But Carter" campaign during the primaries for exactly that reason. Lots of policies he advocated for got passed during his presidency: he deregulated the airlines, the trucking industry, railroads, banking - and that was a great trial run for Reagan's followups (and Bush, and Clinton, and W).

    But Carter was both too conservative and wildly incompetent for the job. With somewhat liberal Dems having the majority in both houses and universal health care being a big issue at the time, and with Ted Kennedy as majority leader trying to push it through, Carter still opposed it on the basis of cost. Of course it died, as did any other progressive or even moderately liberal ideas that cost money.

    What I'm saying is fuck Carter. He's done a great job rehabbing his image but he was a bad president his presidency is rightfully maligned by both the right and the left. But he got a lot of policies through that he liked.

  • Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel

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  • Being in a position where the entire country hears his very reasonable, very easy to understand words over and over again would eventually have an effect. Even the die-hards would eventually be asking themselves if it is in fact reasonable that corporations are assfucking each and every one of us every single day. Some of them would vote in a more progressive representative.

    Would he get everything passed? Absolutely not. But he would get some good stuff through.

  • Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar’s Head inspections are horrifying

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  • Most things are pretty easy. One problem is having the time to do literally everything yourself. The other is deciding whether that time spent doing optional tasks is worth the time not spent doing more meaningful activities.

  • Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.

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  • Seems bizarre that people are okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public, but not okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public from a foreign country.

  • Originally coined as "invcel" around 1997 by a queer Canadian female student known as Alana, the spelling had shifted to "incel" by 1999

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  • Salmon (although there are pockets of people who still pronounce the “l”)

    See, this is a weird one, because I don't know anybody who pronounces the "L" here, but calm, balm, or psalm you would.

  • Scientists warn grocery shelves may soon be missing pantry-staple food because of poor crop conditions: 'Emphasizing the importance of sustainable farming'

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  • This article presumably intentionally totally fails to address the fact that you could prevent this by stopping further climate change. It takes continued global warming as a foregone conclusion and is just like, "Welp, how can we deal with the impending hellscape the wealthy and powerful are creating?"

  • The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

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  • They really grabbed us by the Purcell.

  • Key mediator Egypt expresses skepticism about the Gaza cease-fire proposal as more details emerge

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  • I don't think they've released the text nor a comprehensive list of what it includes. They've only alluded to a few things, like the occupation.

    This AP article says as much when it says, "Blinken, who is back in the region this week, said Monday that Israel had agreed to the proposal without saying what it entails." https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/why-is-israel-demanding-control-over-2-gaza-corridors-in-the-cease-fire-talks/

    Al-Jazeera and similar have all said some variation of that as far as I've seen.

  • Key mediator Egypt expresses skepticism about the Gaza cease-fire proposal as more details emerge

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  • On first read, it gives an understanding that both sides are willing to approach a deal - but lack trust in the process and the mediators ability to coerce the other side to actually commit and follow through.

    I don't think this is a bad reading of the article in vacuum, but I don't think it's a fair reading of the situation because AP intentionally or unintentionally has left quite a bit out. Hamas agreed to a US-backed ceasefire back in May that Israel refused. There was plenty of trust on both sides that they'd get what was in the deal, but Israel didn't want that particular deal at that particular time.

    What's happening now is Hamas wants Israel to remove their troops and generally stop killing Palestinians, in addition to the other parts of the deal. Israel refuses to put this in writing, saying they'll stop killing people for now, but they're going to leave troops behind to occupy the area - but eventually they'll remove those troops. You're right that Hamas doesn't trust Israel's going to remove those troops, and I think that's entirely reasonable given how the "bridging proposal" is a variation of May's proposal, but striking out things like withdrawing troops. Seems like if that's those are the major changes they're making to the written proposal, they probably don't plan on following through.

    But it's also entirely unreasonable for Israel to strike that in the first place. The Palestinians don't want Israel to be an occupying force. There's nothing they can do about the civilians continuing to settle and take their land, but at the very least they're asking for the additional soldiers that have invaded the land in the last year to get out while they're not actively killing Palestinians.

    On top of that, Israel's occupation of the Philadelphi Corridor and Rafah crossing is in violation of the Camp David agreements with Egypt. It's really difficult to trust you can make a deal with somebody who's currently not following the agreement they have with your mediator.

    This is a helpful article that explains the original deal in more detail than most people want to know: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/text-of-the-ceasefire-proposal-approved-by-hamas

  • 'Let's Go!' Top Economist Applauds as Harris Signals Support for Billionaires Tax

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  • This is actually really helpful clarification, I did just miss some of that. It's no wealth tax, but it's better than nothing.

  • 'Let's Go!' Top Economist Applauds as Harris Signals Support for Billionaires Tax

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  • Nobody would be happier than me to see that happen, but seeing how nobody's ever done something like that before I have my doubts. Can't remember the last Democrat that actually got more radical than the platform they ran on. Certainly wasn't anybody in the last 50 years.

  • Journalist Richard Medhurst 'detained under UK Terrorism Act'

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  • "I believe I'm the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act. I feel that this is a political persecution and hampers my ability to work as a journalist," he said in his post.

    Honestly, it's surprising if he's the first, but at least it's not (yet) something journalists can expect!

    Terrorising .. with truth?

    Almost like the British were the terrorists the whole time.

  • 'Let's Go!' Top Economist Applauds as Harris Signals Support for Billionaires Tax

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  • The commondreams article says "endorsement of taxes on ultra-wealthy individuals and large corporations" - your linked article says she's raising the corporate tax rate not even up to what it was before Trump. So, sure, I guess that technically counts as the "large corporations" part, but it doesn't meet the "ultra-wealthy individuals" language or the "billionaires tax" claim in the headlines.

    I love that she says she wants to raise it somewhat. I love that she wants to give tax breaks to working class people. I don't love that this makes it out to be something it's not.

  • New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez to resign from Senate after bribery convictions | PBS News

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  • Considering these are bribery charges and "investigators found $480,000 in cash and more than $100,000 worth of gold bars" just at his home, I think he has plenty of money.

  • Schumer floats history-making votes on abortion and voting rights

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  • Strom Thurmond was already 53 when he did his 24-hour filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I'm convinced he still could've done it at 100 years old when he left office fueled by nothing but hate.

  • 'Let's Go!' Top Economist Applauds as Harris Signals Support for Billionaires Tax

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  • Correct if I'm wrong here, but is this article just "Economist comments on something it has been claimed the Harris campaign team said, but is not explicitly mentioned anywhere in writing or in speeches"?

    If she planned on taxing billionaires, she'd be shouting it from the rooftops. That's a popular policy. It's not going to be something she keeps in her back pocket and then when she's president goes SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS. Not that she could do it by EO anyway, but honestly, this is so far from a reality it just barely qualifies as news.