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'I Think We Should Kill 'Em All,' GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Says of Palestinians in Gaza
  • I just hope they learn before it's too late that the people who stand idly by and/or vote in support of genocide of Palestinians because they're not Palestinian are the same people who will do the same with queer people like us because they're not queer.

    They're already turning the corner on immigrants. The recent Dem bill is more extreme than any border laws passed under Trump. And now it's getting even more extreme with the new bipartisan version.

    Stop using us as a shield to protect your horrific genocide. I wonder if their daughter even knows they're appropriating her queerness to support slaughtering tens of thousands of children.

  • US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call
  • The US didn't propose a ceasefire yet. In response to this ceasefire proposal they've said they're working on a draft for a proposal. With an indeterminate ceasefire of indeterminate length to start at an indeterminate date.

    But strangely, once actual dates and times get proposed, they bring out the veto.

    One could argue that it sure looks like they're trying to muddy the waters and give Israel cover.

  • electrek.co Biden may cave to pressures from automakers and Trump on EV ambitions

    US President Joe Biden may walk back his yearly EV requirements through 2030 due to political pressures and pushback from automakers.

    Biden may cave to pressures from automakers and Trump on EV ambitions
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    www.rollingstone.com The GOP's Key Hunter Biden Witness Was Just Charged With Making It All Up

    Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant, was charged with fabricating claims related to Hunter Biden's association with Ukrainian company Burisma.

    The GOP's Key Hunter Biden Witness Was Just Charged With Making It All Up
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    www.aljazeera.com Mother, two children among Lebanese killed by Israel in air raids

    Others wounded in attacks on Lebanon towns of Souaneh and Aadchit while a woman was killed in Israel.

    Mother, two children among Lebanese killed by Israel in air raids
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    www.aljazeera.com Mother, two children among Lebanese killed by Israel in air raids

    Others wounded in attacks on Lebanon towns of Souaneh and Aadchit while a woman was killed in Israel.

    Mother, two children among Lebanese killed by Israel in air raids
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    Blue Anon?
  • No, our goal is to steer Democrats to produce a candidate that will beat Trump in November.

    If Biden continues taking planks from the Republican platform then he won't win.

    If Biden appoints an AG that completely ignores Republican crimes and instead appoints special counsels to trash Biden, then he won't win.

  • Amnesty International finds no evidence of military targets at Rafah sites targeted by Israel
  • I'm guessing Israel wasn't bombing hostages. Although that guess has been wrong a lot.

    “Even if Israeli forces had intended to target legitimate military objectives in the vicinity, these attacks evidently failed to distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and would therefore be indiscriminate,” Amnesty International said in the report. “Indiscriminate attacks that kill and injure civilians are war crimes.”

  • thehill.com Amnesty International finds no evidence of military targets at Rafah sites targeted by Israel

    Human rights group Amnesty International said four sites hit by Israel in separate targeted attacks in Rafah that killed 95 civilians — including 42 children — were not lawful military targets, acc…

    Amnesty International finds no evidence of military targets at Rafah sites targeted by Israel
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    thehill.com Amnesty International finds no evidence of military targets at Rafah sites targeted by Israel

    Human rights group Amnesty International said four sites hit by Israel in separate targeted attacks in Rafah that killed 95 civilians — including 42 children — were not lawful military targets, acc…

    Amnesty International finds no evidence of military targets at Rafah sites targeted by Israel
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    Kamala Harris Says She Is Ready to Serve as Biden Faces Age Scrutiny
  • The Florida Democratic Party's executive committee voted to cancel their primary at the end of October 2023 and declare Biden the winner

    The Tennessee Democratic Party decided to list only Biden as a ballot option for its primary after a November 11 meeting

    The North Carolina Democratic Party acknowledged receiving requests for ballot access from Phillips and other candidates, but chose to only include Biden for its primary

    The Democratic Party of Wisconsin left Phillips off the ballot; he appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on January 26, 2024. The court unanimously ruled on February 2 that Phillips should be included on the ballot.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips_2024_presidential_campaign

  • Biden Sets Internet Alight With ‘Dark Brandon’ Super Bowl Reaction
  • Damn those Macedonian trolls must be working overtime to hijack polls to put Biden's approval 17 points underwater and put him 5 points behind Trump.

    Apparently 86% of Americans are Macedonian trolls who think Biden is too old to serve a second term.

    All these Macedonian trolls that barely trust Biden more on climate change, gun violence, and abortion than trust neither Trump nor Biden.

  • apnews.com Israeli strikes kill 44 Palestinians in Rafah after Netanyahu says ground invasion is coming there

    A hospital official and AP journalists say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 44 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

    Israeli strikes kill 44 Palestinians in Rafah after Netanyahu says ground invasion is coming there

    > > > including more than a dozen children > >

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    Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’
  • The Florida Democratic Party's executive committee voted to cancel their primary at the end of October 2023 and declare Biden the winner

    The Tennessee Democratic Party decided to list only Biden as a ballot option for its primary after a November 11 meeting

    The North Carolina Democratic Party acknowledged receiving requests for ballot access from Phillips and other candidates, but chose to only include Biden for its primary

    The Democratic Party of Wisconsin left Phillips off the ballot; he appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on January 26, 2024. The court unanimously ruled on February 2 that Phillips should be included on the ballot.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips_2024_presidential_campaign

  • Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’
  • Biden is the worst candidate of the bunch by that metric. His favorability is 17 points underwater right now, and he's losing to Trump in most recent polls by around 4 to 6 points. And keep in mind that that's measuring popular vote, not electoral votes. Hillary won the popular vote by 2 points and still lost the election. Biden needs to lead Trump by at least 3 points to even have a chance, it took a +4.5 margin to win last time around. And while we're comparing to Hillary, her favorability was only 15 points underwater in October after the Comey report.

    Cornel West would be a way better choice. Even Dean Phillips would be less bad of a choice (y'know that whole "lesser evil" thing and all that). In polls, a generic Democrat leads Trump by 6 points.

    But it's all a moot point because Democrats keep shutting down primaries and removing candidates from the ballot. They're attempting another coronation just like they did in 2016 - why would any candidate try to run when the party leadership is shutting them down?

  • www.thedailybeast.com Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’

    The president may have wanted to squash reports questioning his mental acuity, but it appears he’s done the exact opposite.

    Biden Confuses Presidents of Egypt and Mexico During Presser About His ‘Memory’

    Biden is self-destructing his own campaign.

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    Israel plans to evacuate Rafah, full of refugees, and attack Hamas

    > The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) estimates that the city’s population has grown to at least 1.4 million, more than five times its prewar count, with thousands of people sleeping in tents with little protection.

    That's nearly 3/4ths of the whole population of the Gaza Strip at this point.

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    apnews.com Biden's memory is 'hazy' and 'poor,' says a special counsel's report raising questions about his age

    The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents.

    Biden's memory is 'hazy' and 'poor,' says a special counsel's report raising questions about his age
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    Wells Fargo District Manager arrested for Target shoplifting spree across at least three cities

    alachuachronicle.com Wells Fargo District Manager arrested for Target shoplifting spree across at least three cities - Alachua Chronicle

    Ivey Marie Weiss, 49, of Ocala, was arrested yesterday and charged with shoplifting and engaging in a scheme to defraud after allegedly stealing over $160 in items from the Target store in Gainesville.

    Wells Fargo District Manager arrested for Target shoplifting spree across at least three cities - Alachua Chronicle
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    Biden-Backed Bipartisan Senate Bill Targets Key Humanitarian Aid For Palestinians

    www.huffpost.com Bipartisan Border Bill Would Block Key Humanitarian Aid For Palestinians

    Democrats made a stunning turn-around in joining Republicans to cut off future and current funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the chief aid group helping Gaza.

    Bipartisan Border Bill Would Block Key Humanitarian Aid For Palestinians

    > Democrats’ stunning turn-around on U.S.-provided funding for UNRWA is a triumph for hard-right activists and Republican lawmakers who have long sought to undermine the U.N. agency.

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    www.nytimes.com Federal Records Show Increasing Use of Solitary Confinement for Immigrants

    A new report based on records from the Trump and Biden years found the average length of solitary detainment was longer than the duration the U.N. says can constitute torture.

    Federal Records Show Increasing Use of Solitary Confinement for Immigrants

    The cages are getting smaller and more abusive.

    > The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years, and the average duration is almost twice the 15-day threshold that the United Nations has said may constitute torture, according to a new analysis of federal records by researchers at Harvard and the nonprofit group Physicians for Human Rights.

    > The report, based on government records from 2018 through 2023 and interviews with several dozen former detainees, noted cases of extreme physical, verbal and sexual abuse for immigrants held in solitary cells.

    > Overall, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining more than 38,000 people -- up from about 15,000 at the start of the Biden administration in January 2021

    > Solitary confinement placements in the third quarter of 2023 were 61 percent higher than in the third quarter of the previous year, according to ICE's quarterly reports.

    > More than 680 cases of isolation lasted at least three months, the records show; 42 of them lasted more than one year.

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    www.aljazeera.com Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack

    The strip’s photojournalists, videographers and camera operators are paying the ultimate price for their work.

    Shooting war: Gaza’s visual storytellers under ‘blatant’ attack
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