Trump suggests Supreme Court is ‘illegally’ blocking his lawless deportations
Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court for halting his efforts to deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process
On Saturday, Trump shared a post on Truth Social from lawyer Mike Davis, one of his most extreme MAGA allies, claiming that the Supreme Court put “an illegal injunction on the president of the United States, preventing him from commanding military operations to expel these foreign terrorists.”
Davis added in the post that Trump “should house these terrorists near the Chevy Chase Country Club, with daytime release.” (Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh both live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.)
Trump shared another post from Davis complaining that the justices had blocked Trump from deporting undocumented immigrants “without years of court process.” The president wrote, “The Supreme Court must come to the RESCUE OF AMERICA.”
Trump Suggests Supreme Court Is ‘Illegally’ Blocking His Deportations
Donald Trump is furious at the Supreme Court after it halted his efforts to deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act without due process.Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)
‘Elderly child’: Trauma of Israeli bombing turns Gaza girl’s hair grey
‘Elderly child’: Trauma of Israeli bombing turns Gaza girl’s hair grey
Lana al-Sharif was just eight years old when Israel’s war on Gaza began. Nineteen months later, the Palestinian girl is now known in her displacement camp as the “elderly child”.Maha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)
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Vitiligo occurs when pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) die or stop producing melanin — the pigment that gives your skin, hair and eyes color. The involved patches of skin become lighter or white. It's unclear exactly what causes these pigment cells to fail or die. It may be related to:
- A disorder of the immune system (autoimmune condition)
- Family history (heredity)
- A trigger event, such as stress, severe sunburn or skin trauma, such as contact with a chemical
Vitiligo - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
Learn more about this condition in which your skin loses pigment cells, resulting in very light or white patches on parts of the body.Mayo Clinic
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Weißrußland, 1943. Der 14jährige Fljora schließt sich gegen den Protest seiner Mutter den Partisanen an. Für ihn ist der Krieg noch ein Kinderspiel. Als es in den Kampf geht, darf er nicht mit an die Front.The Movie Database
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Iran’s leaders slam Trump for ‘disgraceful’ remarks during Middle East tour
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s political and military leaders are pointing the finger back at Donald Trump after the United States president sharpened his rhetoric during his first major tour of the Middle East.
“The level of those remarks is so low that they are a disgrace for the one who uttered them and a disgrace to the American nation,” he said, to chants of “Death to America” and others from the crowd.
Khamenei added that Trump “lied” when he said he wants to use power towards peace, as Washington has backed “massacring” Palestinians and others across the region. He called Israel a “dangerous cancerous tumour” that must be “uprooted”.
Iran’s leaders slam Trump for ‘disgraceful’ remarks during Middle East tour
The pushback comes after the US president accused Tehran’s leadership of being ‘corrupt and ineffective’.Maziar Motamedi (Al Jazeera)
“I’m gonna stop reading news articles and it’s the word I don’t like that’s making people dumb! Not my refusal to read stuff!”
I feel like as often as I see the word “slams,” I see someone making almost your exact comment. I’m gonna stop reading comment sections any time I see someone slamming the word “slams!”
Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations
MADRID (AP) — Spain has ordered Airbnb to block more than 65,000 holiday listings on its platform for having violated rules, the Consumer Rights Ministry said Monday.
The ministry said that many of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company. Others listed numbers that didn’t match what authorities had.
Spain is grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has spurred government action against short-term rental companies.
https://apnews.com/article/airbnb-spain-rental-listing-a91e605f6342db1b169d4f9d1681e9d4
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I saw this headline and just assumed it was an anti-tourist thing, but I was wrong.
On a Monday morning, it's just nice to see that somewhere on this planet there are countries willing to take federal action to attack the hoarding and purposeful scarcity in housing created by a greedy few sons of bitches.
I expect housing scarcity to become the next problem that gets solved somewhere in the world while the US pretends it's unsolvable. (Not unlike homelessness and gun violence.)
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Otoh, it also provides jobs for the community, either directly (cleaning, handyman work, management) or indirectly (additional tourist dollars in local establishments).
The reality is, in almost all places, short term rentals have an extremely negligible impact on the housing market. And in the few places where they have a measurable impact, we need to ask: why can't that area just build more housing? And the answer, almost invariably, is restrictive zoning codes, coupled with land speculation. Solving the problem of lack of housing doesn't require banning short term rentals, an action which would likely have a significant negative impact on local businesses who rely on the tourist dollars. Solving the problem involves liberalizing zoning ordinances to allow more housing to be built, and adopting Georgist Land Value Taxes which preclude investors' ability to speculate on land value rather than only earning money via value they provide to other people.
Dude the issue in Barcelona is that AirBNBs take up housing that's supposed to be occupied by supercomputer researchers. The city also already has plenty of Hotels. Licensed ones.
If more tourists want to come than there are hotel rooms tough luck why should Barcelona tank its economy for them. Barcelona is a city, not a theme park. The reason it's beautiful is not because it was built to attract tourists, but because it's an economical powerhouse run and lived in by people who value things like architecture and urban planning.
Take your tourism dollars and spend them in Extremadura, Barcelona won't mind. Great food there, nature, small places, little industry, Roman architecture, they can actually use that money.
And by the way, housing scarcity has been the underlying problem to most economical divides and class discrimination since decades now.
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Being a consitutional monarchy or republic doesn't have anything to do with federation.
Being a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic just means that they have a predesignated figurehead that represents the country, instead of electing that figurehead. The person is just a figurehead that rubberstamps things, but doesn't take decisions at all. Be it the king (in a constitutional monarchy like Spain, Norway, UK, Denmark, Sweden, etc) or however you want to call it (in a republic like France, Germany, etc).
The government gets elected.
Always appreciate people who comment to start an unprompted argument when we've already come to an understanding in the thread.
Thank you for that. You're a distinguished gentleman and I honestly hope you have a nice day tomorrow.
Spain's Autonomous regions have way more leeway and freedom than regions in federal governments.
Spains regions lack of their own police, tax collection (the German federal level doesn't even have a tax office), only partial cultural autonomy. Also the powers they have are only devolved, they're not guaranteed those rights.
German states are fully formed states in themselves, they have their own sovereignty, delegating the exercise of parts of it to the federal level just as EU member states delegate sovereignty to the EU. "Fully formed state" here meaning that they do not rely on the federal level for their administration, in fact living in Germany you generally don't come into contact with federal bureaucracy at all, it's all state or municipal level (district level is technically state level, they're devolved public bodies).
I'll grant you that among unitary states Spain is quite federal, but it's not "more federal than federal countries".
Spanish regions have their own police. These police forces are autonomous from the central ones.
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Some even have a specific name: Mossos, Ertzaintza, policia foral, etc..
The Spanish regions have autonomy on both collecting taxes, and assigning their own budgets. They are autonomous in the case of emergencies, healthcare, education (which allows them to set their culture), cultural ministeries,, with their own regional bodies that make their own decisions.
All this is more federal than the federal states of Germany.
Found a paper (a bit older, 2001, but should still be mostly accurate) comparing the two. Cliff notes:
- Despite legislative power going by default to the central state in Spain and to the states in Germany, distribution of power is overall comparable. Less uniform in Spain as every region gets its own autonomy statute instead of all German states pooling their sovereignty in a uniform way.
- Administration is practically completely state matter in Germany, while Spain retains central administration structures in all regions. Those largely delegate matters to the region's administrations, though. So again overall not too dissimilar in practice.
- Regarding the judicature: The regions don't have courts. They have some say when it comes to how court districts are drawn and that's pretty much it. German states all have their own courts and appeals courts, the federal level only has cassation courts. In this area German states have way more autonomy. States elect judges for their own courts as well as 50% of federal judges, or 50% of the people who elect them are designated by the states, depending.
- Spanish regions have very limited means to influence central legislative. No right to initiative, no own legislative body, just a right to petition. German states can initiate federal law, have their own legislative body, and much federal law needs passing by both federal and state bodies because it tangentially affects state prerogatives.
- Interestingly, the federal level has larger powers of oversight over the German states than Spain does over the regions. In both cases the oversight isn't large, though, in Germany it only exists in so far states are administering federal law on behalf of the federation, which isn't often the case. E.g. (practically all) criminal law is federal law, but administered by the states on their own behalf.
- German states have more financial autonomy. I won't get into details the distribution of taxes between federation and states in Germany is complex AF, also, has been renegotiated multiple times. Regarding administration, though, as said: The federation has no tax office, they couldn't collect taxes if they wanted to.
- German states have much, much, much more power when it comes to asserting their power. Maybe that's why they're not as hell-bent on carving out power for themselves: Autonomous regions have to rely on public sentiment and the good will of the constitutional court, otherwise the central authority can just walk straight over them, so they take whatever they can get their hands on while German states are much more relaxed about it.
In Italy we got 5 indipendent statute regions as well, still not a federation.
I believe a federation by definition is comprised of exclusively equal member states forming common governmental organs.
I expect housing scarcity to become the next problem that gets solved somewhere in the world while the US pretends it's unsolvable.
To solve that you need to antagonize NIMBYs so I'm not hopeful.
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My city has a snitch email, which you can contact and ask if a certain rental place is licensed
Already used it on two apartments my landlord is renting out. Turns out only one of them was properly licensed
Well it is an anti-tourist thing in the sense that regulations on AirBnBs and the like are meant to close the "hotel license" loophole. Touristy places generally don't mind new short-term accommodation and give out licenses like candy, likewise small places with relaxed property markets, non-touristy places are much more restrictive because they don't want to tank their economy.
For grandma in a village renting out some rooms to visitors getting delisted will result in her going to the municipality, asking for a license, getting one, and putting the listing up again. For an investor buying up apartments in big cities to illegally use as a hotel because renting long-term has lower ROI, well, they won't get a hotel license, their listings are going to stay down. If you want to build only hotels and have no long-term accommodation may I suggest building a theme park somewhere.
Your downvotes make me wonder if I misunderstood your post, but you seem to be saying that Spain's Airbnb regulations make it harder for people to buy flats with the intention of using them as short-term holiday lets, while not really stopping people who just want to rent a room in their own house for short periods. Which does sound good to me, given that those empty rooms in grandma's house wouldn't otherwise be on the market.
So is your point that this is "anti-tourist" in the sense that it does make things more difficult for tourists, but that should be expected given that tourists are generally indifferent to the long term negative effects of tourism on a city?
I'm not really acquainted with the details of how Spain does it but it's common practice in Europe to need a license for short-term rentals, it's usually municipal statute as an extension of zoning law. Details differ vastly depending on location because every municipality is different.
Before the days of AirBnB circumventing those municipal regulations was very hard as big hotels are kind of hard to hide, they're rather obvious, and if you have small apartments where are you going to get your renters from. AirBnB made it possible to get renters for small properties that fall under the radar of authorities. So requiring AirBnB to, effectively, ensure that what they list is licensed is closing that loophole.
The "anti-tourist" thing only really comes into play when municipalities are actually limiting the number of licenses they give out: When licenses are abundant it doesn't matter that you can skirt them with AirBnB. Cities like Barcelona do limit them, other places don't, as such only places like Barcelona had an actual problem with AirBnB, as such cracking down on AirBnB is helping the anti-tourist "agenda" of places like Barcelona. With agenda I mean allow people to continue to live and work in their own city doing something else but wipe tourist asses.
My neighborhood i rent in is really expensive. I'm well off but not well off enough to ever be able to afford a house here. Especially not now with a one year old kid. My rent is $3500 but the cheapest house here would be at least $10000 (all expenses considered) a month on a 30 year mortgage.
Most of the people that live in the single family homes here are old with no kids. Most families with kids here rent.
Every so often I see one of the homes get all it's landscaping cleaned up, the house painted and sometimes an extension added onto it. Those are all the Airbnb's. Just a house that sits there empty for 3/4 weeks.
The other ones get torn down and turned into what I'd call a "box" house. Basically that ugly style of house that takes up the entire plot of land but still is only meant for one family. These are bought by the inherited wealth families that have a couple kids and want to get out of the main city but still don't want to live in the deep car dependent suburbs.
All of this because housing is used as an investment vehicle. From large corporations to individuals in retirement.
I really wish we could treat it for what it is. Shelter.
I really wish we could treat it for what it is. Shelter.
Agreed.
$3500
Yowza. I was fortunate to get my condo two years ago before this stuff accelerated to the point of hopelessness, and now that the US is having its credit downgraded, that was an even luckier thing to do.
It means humans seek out patterns and similarities even when there are none going so far as to perceive was isn’t even there.
In this instance it’s simply that the number in this article/legal action is close by a few hundred to a number that is a common number found in computing due to how electronic computation works.
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It's not necessarily just a coincidence (but probably is).
Maybe they're using a spreadsheet that counts row numbers in an unsigned int, so the maximum number of rows is 65,535.
Someone accidentally counted the number of rows instead of the number of non-empty rows, then added 400 because they think about 400 properties were omitted from their data for whatever reason. That's 65935.
Maybe it is pareidolia, but it's notable enough that you'd check your numbers again before passing it on.
I'm not a data scientist but in a semi related field. Sometimes numbers just trigger a feeling that you need to review your work / or "sanity check".
I see mistakes several times a year caused by similar mishandling.
I'm not a "master" but it's the type of thing you associate with mastery that comes from decades of experience (or debilitating anxiety).
Trump orders the government to stop enforcing rules he doesn’t like
Critics say the administration is breaking the law and sidestepping the rulemaking process that presidents of both parties have routinely followed.
If this were a Democrat as President, we'd be seeing impeachment, and not just "critics say"
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Because it was from this month and not from 7 years ago...?
The Onion's reporting is pretty consistrntly 5-10 years ahead of everyone else's.
So if you go there now, you'll see stories like "U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat" and "State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization-" which probably won't show up in any other media until mid-way through Don Jr.'s second term.
If this were a Democrat as President, we'd be seeing impeachment, and not just "critics say"
A Democratic president would be facing impeachment votes at every opportunity regardless of what they did. The MAGA party (formerly the Republican party) is no longer a legitimate political movement in the confines of rules and norms. They are a rogue fascist element that seeks the seizure of total power as quickly as possible. They are at war with all of us and they are winning, in part because the mainstream refuses to act like we are at war.
Trump calls for ‘major investigation’ into Bruce Springsteen
Trump calls for ‘major investigation’ into Bruce Springsteen after singer brands him ‘incompetent’
Donald Trump’s diatribe comes just days after Bruce Springsteen told an audience that he believed the current US administration was ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous’Tom Watling (The Independent)
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Surely attacking the musical embodiment of the working class in New Jersey will be good for the conservatives.....right?
I feel like if he wanted Jersey to file articles of succession all he would have to do at this point is ban pork rolls.
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They would never figure that out with any amount of money.
Source: YMCA, Fortunate Son
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I mean, you can fill a book with stories of the Right not getting music.
There was Paul Ryan thinking Rage Against the Machine was on his side.
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And Heart sued Sarah Palin to get her to stop playing their stuff.
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But they'll always have the ultra relevant Kid Rock.
Heart to Sarah Palin: Don't Play 'Barracuda'
The '80s rock band Heart is not happy about John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin using their song "Barracuda" at the Republican National Convention.Fox News
This is a feature of the right. The Nazis couldn't create anything artistic, they had to steal from ~~Buddhism~~ Hinduism and the Roman Empire. They lack imagination, which I'm sure is linked to their lack of empathy, and they suppress the counter-culture, which is where art comes from. They fundamentally lack the ability to critically think, which is required for understanding art. The USSR, an authoritarian but (at least in theory) leftist society, produced a LOT of art that's pretty good.
It's also the same reason why they think "jokes" are just a way to make fun of someone and they can't fight back because it's "a joke", and they think that's what jokes are for. They lack the cognitive ability to parse out cleverness and only understand the subversion of expectation part.
If they could think deeply about things, they wouldn't be conservatives.
The Nazis couldn't create anything artistic, they had to steal from ~~Buddhism~~ Hinduism
I don't give that brain dumb asshole any credit. I don't think he's ever being smart and distracting from things. His old, drugged ass just let's his mind wander this much, while his handlers keep their eyes on the prize.
I'm guessing this time, he wants his bribe plane, and was accused of accepting corrupt money, so he naturally has to invent the idea that Kamala was taking bribes first
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Love this. For years, tax exempt Churches have been praising Donald Trump and his Christofascist cronies. Despite this being forbidden, no one does jack-shit.
And then a few ultra-rich musicians share that they are not 100% on board with Trump’s 2020’s remake of the movie Idiocracy and he’s calling for a “major investigation”?
Someone’s mommy really didn’t love him
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Unfortunately the childishness pretty much gets ignored because their Facebook feeds and Faux News blasting t.vs all shout "the Democrats cheat and lie and steal elections! They want communism and everything bad that has ever happened to the US is because of them!!! Donald Trump is always lied about in the MSM, he is our savior! Anyone who says otherwise is lying to you!! Here's a selection of clips of Republican lawmakers doing investigations into Democrats and omitting facts, misleading with facts, and denying the reality of similar context! Be mad at Democrats!!! EGG PRICES!!!"
So Republicans can say "yeah Trump exaggerates a bit when he talks, but that's his charm! The Democrats would kill us all!"
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Despite this being forbidden, no one does jack-shit.
The U.S. Constitution is no better than toilet paper now. Thanks conservatives!!!
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Free speech is a cancer. Letting artists express opinions contrary to the party line is dangerous. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
If you haven't read 1984 and don't get the sarcasm, shut up.
It is so tough because its crazy pants to begin with but given how he does all the stuff he accused others of doing like weaponizing the doj its also scary but then its so nonsensical:
"the president suggested that his 2024 rival Kamala Harris could have paid Springsteen for an “illegal campaign contribution”"
its like which way you think the money is flowing???
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“WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS? ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION?"
...does he think Bruce Springsteen was running for office?
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Well, he thinks that Mattel is a country and that Abrego Garcia literally has "MS13" tattooed onto his knuckles, so yeah, probably.
When he dies, I hope there's a full autopsy because I really wanna know wtf is going on with his brain. Frontal cortex must have been chewed up and spit out or something.
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U.S. identifies fentanyl superlabs in Canada as a 'growing concern'
The annual threat assessment from the DEA points to the clandestine labs as a threat to Americans' safety.Tyler Dawson (National Post)
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This guy has to be the whiniest pathetic loser the human species has ever produced.
No wonder conservatives identify with him.
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In a world where entertainers - ohai Taylor Swift - regularly make songs about things they're worried or disappointed about, I feel harassing people who can regularly get on a mic and speak coherently - let alone rhyme those words into a catchy aural meme - has the potential to go badly.
I further feel that Bruce Springsteen is often part of the listening choice on radios or stereos of many people in the 'red zone' where smart American voting and simple reason usually goes to die, and I worry that he's providing the muse for a hundred great campaign songs for the opposition.
Have you heard of this phenomenon known as Classic Rock? People have been listening to catchy songs for DECADES. Some guy - get this - some guy actually composed a song, like hundreds of years ago, and it's still being played regularly today. It energizes the people, unifies them against a common enemy of the time, and is a great start to so many sporting events that 'play ball' is often thought to be the last line of the song.
This could finally go badly for the Commander in Cheese. Please, if there is a god, I want this to blow up in his face like the cheeto bag before every speaking engagement.
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Photos: Tens of thousands join worldwide protests to mark Palestinian Nakba
Published On 18 May 202518 May 2025
"Tens of thousands [actually, hundreds of thousands - PL] of people have rallied across the world in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and to mark the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Jewish militias, remembered as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The Nakba resulted in the permanent mass displacement of Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948. Activists say that history is repeating itself today in Gaza and the occupied West Bank."
Pro-Palestinian protesters rally around the world to mark ‘Nakba Day’
Tens of thousands of people stage mass protests worldwide to mark 77 years of Palestinians dispossession.Al Jazeera
Photos: Tens of thousands join worldwide protests to mark Palestinian Nakba
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/30291990
Published On 18 May 202518 May 2025"Tens of thousands [actually, hundreds of thousands - PL] of people have rallied across the world in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and to mark the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Jewish militias, remembered as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The Nakba resulted in the permanent mass displacement of Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948. Activists say that history is repeating itself today in Gaza and the occupied West Bank."
Photos: Tens of thousands join worldwide protests to mark Palestinian Nakba
Published On 18 May 202518 May 2025"Tens of thousands [actually, hundreds of thousands - PL] of people have rallied across the world in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza and to mark the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Jewish militias, remembered as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The Nakba resulted in the permanent mass displacement of Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948. Activists say that history is repeating itself today in Gaza and the occupied West Bank."
Pro-Palestinian protesters rally around the world to mark ‘Nakba Day’
Tens of thousands of people stage mass protests worldwide to mark 77 years of Palestinians dispossession.Al Jazeera
In Graduation Speech, NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed Israeli War in Gaza
In Graduation Speech, NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed Israeli War in Gaza - World-Outlook
On May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU.world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
Explain then. What happened before then that gives anyone the right to starve millions of people to death and bomb 10,000's of children?
What magical mystical process bequeaths one all power over life and death?
Is it written in a book somewhere? Perhaps an old one that's been translated and transcribed a whole bunch over thousands of years so the original meaning is lost to the ages? Sounds EXCITING!
I'm not really sure what you are insinuating. That I think history in the Middle East started with the division of Palestine and Israel maybe?
My comment was that nothing happens in a vacuum, unlike what the Zionists and other extremists would have you believe.
It certainly WASN'T PERMISSION for Israel to turn around and murder Palestinian children.
Holy shit. You are actually attempting to defend child murder.
I don’t understand why there’s any crackdown on any of this. Not liking a war is kinda traditional around here. Or was.
Maybe that’s it. Maybe they’re planning another unpopular war and this is the preliminary work.
Now I’m reading items that state this is Heritage groundwork for routing out the liberal elite, eventually. Starting with this, context just a distraction.
Maybe. As a side effect. I still think it’s likely about squelching protests that may gain momentum. Again though, context as a distraction.
Wtf does withholding some twenty year old's diploma for criticizing an ACTIVE GENOCIDE have to do with "rooting out liberal elites"?
What a nonsense comment.
Japanese farm minister apologises after saying he has 'never had to buy rice'
Japan's farm minister Taku Eto apologised on Monday after saying he had "never had to buy rice" thanks to gifts from supporters, angering consumers grappling with sky-high prices for the staple food.Footage aired by public broadcaster NHK showed Eto at a lectern making the comments at the event on Sunday, including how he "had enough (rice) to sell."
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He's probably losing his job over this.
Reuters: Japan PM Ishiba to sack farm minister Eto over rice remarks, Kyodo says
IDF tells Palestinians to evacuate Khan Younis ahead of ‘unprecedented attack’ – Israel-Gaza war live
In a post on X, the IDF’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee has told residents living in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, Bani Suheila and Abasan to “evacuate immediately” ahead of an “unprecedented attack” he claims is targeting Hamas infrastructure.
“The IDF will launch an unprecedented attack to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organizations in this area,” he wrote in the social media post.
“You must evacuate immediately west to the Mawasi area. From this moment, Khan Younis governorate will be considered a dangerous combat zone. Terrorist organizations have brought you disaster. For your safety, evacuate immediately.”
The latest evacuation warning comes after Israel’s military issued a separate evacuation order for areas of central Gaza yesterday, as it continues with its expanded offensive across Gaza which is being accompanied by an intensified deadly bombing campaign.
UK, France and Canada threaten action if Israel’s offensive continues as first aid crosses into Gaza in weeks – as it happened
Joint statement warns of ‘concrete action’ over Israel’s latest Gaza offensive; nine trucks allowed through but UN aid chief, Tom Fletcher, says significantly more are neededYohannes Lowe (The Guardian)
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The sender of the goods was a company from Spain, and the recipient was from Azerbaijan.
I'm sure these legitimate businessmen could perhaps consider transporting their wares via Turkey and Georgia? You know, along the well established transit route for commercial cargo between the EU and Azerbaijan.
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Federal judge in Texas rules LGBTQ+ people can be discriminated against at work
Texas judge: LGBTQ people can be discriminated against at work
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, ruled on the EEOC's treatment of Title VII employment discrimination claims on gay and trans people.Erin Reed (Advocate.com)
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All people are created equal.
Equality subject to change without notice.
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Federal Judge in Texas? Dont even need to open the article to know that has to be that fucker in Amarillo.
Damn it I hate this timeline
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So any time they need a convenient MAGA cout ruling,
I read this as MAGA cunt ruling
When I was in high school, in government class we had an assignment where we had to draw different districts for Texas - that depending on how you divided it, you could make either party win.
It’s disgusting. It’s ultimately about denying African Americans representation.
Anatomy of the Texas Gerrymander
Here’s how Texas Republicans crafted one of the most politically and racially skewed maps of this redistricting cycle.Brennan Center for Justice
It will eventually lead to the end of American based hegemony. It is going to take about a decade and a lot of suffering of the American people.
But on the flip side China will have more room to grow wheat.
I had the unpleasant experience of having to stay a night in Amarillo on a road trip. I went to a bar close to my hotel, and every single person including the fucking bartender was smoking.
It was disgusting, I got a large round of drinks for my group and we went to the patio where nobody was and away from the smoke, we did roshambo to determine who had to go back into the cancer room to get more drinks.
I had to go in twice and each time this man was over explaining pool to some woman, over what was probably 30 to 40 minutes I don't think she ever took a shot, and that dude was still talking out his ass.
Also, just like in the movies some guy comes out and walks up to us and says, "y'all aren't from around here", I kinda got anxious, but it turned out he was a nice person and even educated and just desperate for a decent conversation.
Amarillo is a shit hole, and Lubbock is even worse, probably the most toxic air I have ever had to endure, it was nauseating.
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Oh, no! It’s not just harassment!
You can destroy someone’s life and livelihood because you think they’re gay!
Getting fired from a job at a time when the federal gov is actively cutting social supports, and intentionally driving the economy to ruin when most U.S. citizens have meager savings (if any), and are dependent on employer provided health care is an instant path to free fall for most people! Unless those peasants have family that is willing and able to support them, or a high demand skill that will overlook a recent firing (an automatic D/Q on most HR systems), they are going to lose their ability to feed themselves, pay for their housing, and their transportation in this car-poisoned society.
It’s not merely a little ‘fuck you’ but you can end their relationships, destroy their health, prevent them from working in their chosen field, and make them die on the streets! Even barring the most extreme outcomes, the health and financial implications from the stress or loss of income can permanently adjust the trajectory of their life (and the life of everyone that is close to or dependent on them) downward.
Exciting times for soulless bigots!
I really dont get how you could be anything less than humiliated to take pride in, and belittle others, over something you have absolutely no part in.
While this 2008 bit is about Nationalism, the point is the same.
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Why can’t people be punished for being anti-lgbt? There is no non-religious reason to belive so
The non-religious reasons aren't discussed as often in the US but they do exist. As a great example, look at the USSR. Very not-religious and very, very against homosexuality.
LGBTQ should just start their own religion, with blackjack and hookers!
Fr tho lol
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Yeah like would not this mean that we couldst nowen discriminate against cishet people?
Most welcome tidings, twere it not for the inverse of such.
Many states never agreed with LGBT people having employment at all. Much of the history involves homelessness as a result of not being able to have sustained work because in many states, society would label and sabotage the ability for LGBT or people believed to be LGBT to have employment which is necessary to maintain housing. It was very much a sustained, methodical, approach that was taken. This is true going back to the Lavendar Scare in the Federal Govt, where like rooting out communists during the McCarthy era, they made sure to take all the Govt jobs away from anyone believed to be gay. Discrimination at work is a key means of taking away the right for someone to work.
Now they have many new weapons to enforce this end result in the lives of people living in the states that want to bring this back.
The same for fascists and nazis then too, right?
OoOooOO!! Someone likes a STWONG MAN :3 UwU You gonna suck Trump's dick? That's very LGBTQ+ of you...
Discriminating based on political ideology was always allowed.
It just doesn't matter and isn't a good rebuttal because the fascists and Nazis are the ones with the power, so discrimination against them doesn't hurt them the way their discrimination hurts others.
My work photo is my brother-in-law and I posing in tuxes at his and my sister's wedding
Objectively, I look super gay in the photo
I haven't changed it because I'm waiting for the homophobe to yell at the straight guy for his gay-looking photo
Page 21 of the ruling:
First, the Enforcement Guidance contravenes Title VII's plain text by expanding the scope of "sex" beyond the biological binary: male and female. Although Title VII defines "sex" to also include "pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions," §2000e(k), the Enforcement Guidance concludes that "sex" under Title VII "includes 'pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions' and sexual orientation and gender identity." Enforcement Guidance, §I(A)(5) (emphasis added). Notably, the Guidance uses quotation marks around "pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions"—but not "sexual orientation" or "gender identity." Because neither the plain text of Title VII nor Supreme Court precedent defines Title VII "sex" this broadly. Thus, the Enforcement Guidance lacks statutory or jurisprudential authority to expand Title VII's definition of "sex" to include these new categories.
Interestingly, this also seems to provide a legal basis to discriminate against straight people and cis people. It'll be interesting to see how Republicans attempt to close that extra loophole without also closing the loophole for discrimination against LGBTQ people.
Israel's Netanyahu acknowledges pressure from allies in resuming limited aid to Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his decision to resume limited aid to Gaza after a weekslong blockade came after pressure from allies who said they wouldn’t be able to grant Israel the support it needs to win the war so long as there were “images of hunger” coming out of the Palestinian territory.
Israel has faced condemnation from the United Nations, aid groups and some European allies for its blockade of goods into the war-ravaged territory, including food, fuel and medicine.
On Sunday it said it would allow a “basic” amount of aid into Gaza to prevent a “hunger crisis” from developing. Food experts have already warned that the blockade risked sparking famine in Gaza, a territory of roughly 2 million people.
The decision to let in aid comes as Israel steps up its offensive in the Gaza Strip in what it says is a bid to pressure Hamas to agree to a ceasefire deal on Israel’s terms. On Monday, a military spokesperson ordered the evacuation of Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis, where Israel carried out a massive operation earlier in the war that left much of the area in ruins.
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MAGA quickly turns Biden’s cancer into another conspiracy
Donald Trump Jr. and MAGAworld pounced on the news of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis with wild speculation about a long term “cover-up” of the former president’s disease.
Hours after Biden’s office announced Sunday that he had been diagnosed with a “more aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, Trump Jr. boosted a conspiracy that was already circulating among MAGA influencers and pundits.
“What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???” he wrote on X.
MAGA Immediately Turns Biden’s Cancer Into Another Conspiracy
Hours after Biden’s cancer diagnosis was announced, conservatives raised their eyebrows at what they claimed was another cover-up.Julia Ornedo (The Daily Beast)
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Well...
I highly doubt that Jill is keeping a close personal eye on his prostate...
However I think if Gerry Connelly wouldn't have gotten so much blowback for "finding out" he had cancer like the day after the election, I believe this would have been announced earlier.
And I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if they found out while Biden was president and just didn't say anything.
There's a new DNC now, but I wouldn't have trusted the last one on anything
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It's been three months now...
They're redoing a vice chair election the old DNC fucked up instead of just picking one
They're openly, publicly, and repeatedly saying they're be impartial and backing that with their actions.
They've been pushing local meetings in areas where local politicians refuse to meet with their constituents...
What more did you want in 3 months of taking over?
Seriously, what will make you feel more comfortable in trusting the new DNC?
What do you want?
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So you personally wanted the new head of the DNC to dissolve it?
Ok, that's literally never going to happen.
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In what way?
That when the loser of an election complained the DNC didn't follow the DNC's rules, the chair sent it to a committee who suggested a revote, which will now go to all voting DNC members and if they decide to redo the Vice chair election in accordance with rules they will then revote?
Because...
- I really don't think that's what would have happened, I feel like they would have admitted no fault since it was their mistake or just sat who they wanted anyways. I can't see any prior chair kicking it to committee instead of just unilaterally making the decision they personally wanted.
- How do you think a Democratic political party should handle something like this? And keep in mind current leadership weren't the ones to cause it and couldn't have prevented it. What would you have done as chair?
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They’re openly, publicly, and repeatedly saying they’re be impartial and backing that with their actions.
Martin isn't going to "go after" anyone.
But he's not going to protect incumbents just because they're incumbents.
It's all progressives need to kick out the dinosaurs, we don't need the party to do it for us, just to not put a gun to our head and say it's a neoliberal or a Republican.
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They
Who is "they"? The people no longer in power?
Fuck them, you'll never see me defend them.
But it's Ken Martin now, and he didnt just show up 3 months ago fully formed...
We can look at how he ran Minnesota's state party, turned a purple state blue and made it one of the most progressive states in the country.
Because while he isn't overtly progressive, what he cares about is winning elections. And he knows voters want progressive policy and fair primaries.
It's not like he's gonna be our Superman, but after 50+ years of Lex Luther running the party, we really don't need anything more from the party.
A fair primary is all it takes to get neoliberals out of office.
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We can look at how he ran Minnesota's state party, turned a purple state blue and made it one of the most progressive states in the country.
All by himself? Did he fix the Minnesota party by protecting conservative Democrats there too? This reads like all the delusion about Musk establishment Democrats had in ages gone by. "Look at all the great things he's doing for the planet!"
while he isn't overtly progressive, what he cares about is winning elections.
That's a contradiction. It's also the definition of who "they" is.
after 50+ years of Lex Luther running the party, we really don't need anything more from the party.
Alternative definition of "they". "You got your marginal surface level improvements, now sit down and shut up or we'll blame you (again) when we lose."
Fuck them, you'll never see me defend them.
You are them, just nextgen.
All by himself?
Yes...
Chairs are dictators accountable to no one.
So the Buck always stops with the Chair.
here too?
Didn't then, isn't now.
reads like all the delusion about Musk establishment Democrats had in ages gone by. “Look at all the great things he’s doing for the planet!”
What?
This is saying it safe to assume he'll run this political party like he ran the last one.
If you're looking for something with the direct skill transfer, a state party chair to DNC chair is about as close as you can get.
That’s a contradiction.
This word, I do not think it means what you think it means...
You got your marginal surface level improvements
No, it's foundational improvements....
After literally 50 years of rightwing bias from the party. We finally have a chair willing to run fair primaries...
If you don't understand how huge of a win this is, then you need to read up on party history.
You didn't just sleep in past the battle, you woke up ready to fight after the war is over. We won, the goal was never to be as bad as neoliberals when they were in charge, it was to even the playing field.
Yes... Chairs are dictators accountable to no one.
Thanks for telling me that you aren't a serious person. I see no reason to continue.
You didn't know that about our political system either?
Wait, I shouldn't assume "our", it would explain a lot if you weren't American
They are redoing a vice chair election because one of the vice chairs they picked decided to push for primary challenges to the old guard. And you think that's a sign that the old guard has fallen? That's some Republican level bullshitting right there.
You don't redo an election once the elected people take office - especially for something like the questionable reasons they offered. Trump's election had a stronger basis for being challenged than this, but the Democrats accepted that on this basis.
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They are redoing a vice chair election because one of the vice chairs they picked decided to push for primary challenges to the old guard.
The process started almost immediately after the election. Long before Hogg made any comments as a Vice chair, and he has been aware it has been happening this entire time.
You don’t redo an election once the elected people take office
Again, the process started at latest right after the election.
How were the people who hadn't been seated yet supposed to clean up the mess before they were seated?
Seriously, how is that logically supposed to have worked out in your mind?
The process started almost immediately after the election.
Yet the decision just happened. What a coincidence that the decision was to do what the establishment has always done and protect old guard Democrats.
The country has been taken over by fascists because of the Democrats weakness. Approval ratings for Democrats are in the toilet. Yet the very idea that there should be standards for Democratic politicians is treated as heresy. It's literally insane.
Again, the process started at latest right after the election.
Again, you don't get to just redo an election - especially for something as ridiculously petty as the excuse they found. No rule was broken, only the suggestion that the spirit of a rule could have been better adhered to. The entire point of the rule was to seek gender parity and there were two male VPs and two female. To undo an election instead of adjust the process for future elections is ridiculous - especially when they knew everyone with a brain would notice that they put this issue ahead of rescuing the country from fascists. THIS IS HOW OLD GUARD DEMOCRATS ACT.
I've heard all this cope before when I argued that Clinton would be just another Reagan Republican,band when I argued that Obama wasn't going to be a new kind of Democrat. I've been in this fight a long time, and this is just the same old cope. You believe what you want, most people do, but your just more blue MAGA from where I'm sitting.
I’ve heard all this cope
It's always trumpets using that word ....
Even when they say they're something else
No rational adult has ever used that word this way
No rational adult has ever used that word this way
So I'm a Trumpist now? Or just not rational? Uh, sure, whatever you say.
The DNC admitted they influenced internal elections? Got a source?
Seriously, what will make you feel more comfortable in trusting the new DNC?
Replacing First-past-the-post voting with STAR or Ranked Choice voting in every single blue state. Democrats believe in democracy right?
Replacing First-past-the-post voting with STAR or Ranked Choice voting in every single blue state. Democrats believe in democracy right?
Ok, but the state parties run their own primaries...
Like, you really need to understand how our political system works in order to change it. But the good news is we already fixed one of the two parties! You're upset for no logical reason right now, and you can just let it go.
They wouldn't hide something like that.
Anyway, Biden is a sharp, healthy, active young man who is fit to run for president again.
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I highly doubt that Jill is keeping a close personal eye on his prostate...
Hey, dont kink-shame....
a long term “cover-up” of the former president’s disease.
Once again, every accusation is a confession with these people. Every. Fucking. Time.
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“What I want to know is how did Dr. Jill Biden miss stage five metastatic cancer or is this yet another coverup???”
Does this guy think Jill Biden has a medical degree? Her doctorate is in education. This is yet another case of a MAGAt showing how ignorant he is just by opening his mouth....
(Now that I read the link, it looks like this was Trump Jr, so the ignorance tracks....)
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That white house doctors just missed stage 5 cancer? Accidentally?
All you need to know if he is fit to do his duty, and that is not your decision to make.
Literally go watch video interviews with the Boomers’ parents in the 1980s when seatbelt laws actually went into effect…
They react almost identically as depicted in the meme.
Maga is not wrong about this one.
Someone who supposedly gets medical checkups as part of the job, please don't tell me this wasn't covered up just to get through elections. U gonna tell me wh doctors missed stage 5 cancer?
I mean he's a dead man walking, but still - this is 100% shameful coverup by Dems. Shit like this is why Dems lost. Biden should have realized his health challenges and stepped aside early on and let real competitive primaries to take place.
Recordings of Biden Justice Department interview emerge, highlighting his memory lapses
Recordings of Biden Justice Department interview emerge, highlighting his memory lapses
Former President Joe Biden's speech is marked with long pauses and a halting delivery in a recording of his interview about classified documents released Friday.Joe Walsh (CBS News)
NATO corruption probe 'reminder' of defense boom risks
The military alliance's procurement agency is under scrutiny for deals on arms and munitions. In a sector with notoriously patchy oversight, defense boom corruption risks are very real.
Revelations of an unfolding corruption investigation involving staff and ex-staff at the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) have continued to emerge, with a total of five detentions — two in Belgium and three in the Netherlands — made public so far.
The Belgian public prosecutor reported the first detentions late Wednesday, saying they concerned "possible irregularities" in contracts awarded to buy ammunition and drones via NATO.
The Belgian authorities said in a statement that NSPA employees or former employees in Luxembourg may have passed information to defense contractors. "There are indications that money obtained from these illegal practices would have been laundered, partly by setting up consultancy companies."
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Ashbourne school evacuated as boy takes grenade to show-and-tell
Ashbourne school evacuated as boy takes grenade to show-and-tell
Head teacher Jeanette Hart says she placed the grenade behind a "substantial" tree and called 999.Dan Martin (BBC News)
Liberal Bucharest mayor leads Romanian election, exit polls say, as Poland and Portugal also vote
Romania’s liberal mayor wins presidency, as Portugal and Poland’s election results come in
Romanian, Portuguese and Polish nationals have been casting their ballots, with millions of Europeans taking to the polls on Sunday.BBC News
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in reply to MicroWave • • •mkwt
in reply to MicroWave • • •neukenindekeuken
in reply to mkwt • • •But they don't make law. Only rule on what is lawful. Congress can change the rules at any time and the SCOTUS would be required to uphold it.
In a functioning democracy...
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in reply to neukenindekeuken • • •SCOTUS has been effectively making laws for a while. Interracial marriage is legal because of a SCOTUS ruling. Gay marriage is legal because of a SCOTUS ruling. Abortion was legal because of a SCOTUS ruling.
These are all legal in Canada because parliament passed laws making them legal, and not because of Supreme Court rulings. I get the sense that the US Congress is so bad at passing any laws whatsoever that the only time laws change is when SCOTUS changes them.
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in reply to ImplyingImplications • • •Fun fact, abortion is only legal because of a supreme Court ruling in Canada.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborti…
termination of pregnancy in Canada
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)ImplyingImplications
in reply to DoPeopleLookHere • • •canada.ca/en/public-health/ser…
Abortion was legal with restrictions. The Supreme Court only removed the restrictions.
Abortion in Canada - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca