GOP unveils health bill without ACA subsidies
https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/5647134-gop-unveils-health-bill-without-aca-subsidies/
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A nighttime airstrike on a hospital leaves 34 dead and 80 injured in Myanmar
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-military-rakine-hospital-bombing-a172351a33cfd747d71fba740f1c0882
What have they been doing about Israel / Palestine? Outside of a bunch of protests the West hasn't been "doing" anything about either one (well, aside from arming the Israelis the whole time).
Also, it's not really an either/or if that's what you are implying. What's happening in Gaza is so much worse than Myanmar that it kind of makes sense that they would be more vocal about it... but I suspect that outside a handful of openly partisan actors, most people either care about both (because they care about human rights) or neither (because they don't). Right? Or no? I'm just a little confused about what viewpoint you're taking here.
"Stand your ground" means you can use lethal force if masked, unidentified men don't leave your house or threaten you in your car. Wondering when we'll have the first case already...
Does Texas Have a Stand Your Ground Law? - LegalClarity
Discover the legal framework governing self-defense in Texas. Learn the critical distinctions for when a person is justified in using force without retreating.LegalClarity Texas (LegalClarity)
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Guns are expensive, bullets are expensive, training with bullets enough to know you won't miss a moving ice bucket is expensive.
Dealing with the subsequent court case, even if the shooter was legally in the right, would also be expensive. That's if they survive shooting at "law enforcement", of course
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No court in the country would uphold Stand Your Ground used against a law enforcement officer of any kind, no matter what.
"Yeah but what if--"
"Except ICE doesn't--"
"The person in the house doesn't know--"
No
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Charges were dropped and then dismissed with prejudice against Brianna Taylor's boyfriend for firing at police officers who broke down his door. His defense was that he didn't know they were police though.
usatoday.com/story/news/nationā¦
Charges permanently dropped against Breonna Taylor's boyfriend for shooting officer the night she was killed
Kenneth Walker, Breonna Taylor's then-boyfriend, faced charges from the night he shot a Louisville officer before police fatally shot Taylor.Tessa Duvall, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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The fact that we havenāt yet is only more proof that the people being picked up are not and have never been dangerous criminals.
Not that we needed proof of this.
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[Schedule 1] is the same category as LSD, ecstasy and peyote.
That's not only wildly stupid for cannabis, it's very stupid for these three as well.
LSD and MDMA (ecstasy) were both used for therapeutic reasons prior to the hysterical drug warriors and their wild delusions swept in...thus demonstrating the truth behind Leary's quote: "LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it." This applies to other things like peyote and MDMA, too...
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It cures my anxiety pretty good...
What they should really be doing is creating a foundation for modern life that doesn't make people want to escape life.
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My glass of bourbon every Friday night is a necessity to continue working in the "joys" of the insurance world.
More would be preferable but alcoholism runs deep on both sides of my family.
Not true, it has 1 medical use. To treat severe alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal.
Assuming of course you ignore the fact it's also the cause of that issue.
No it wasn't. The 2018 farm bill removed Hemp from the list and specific it as different from marijuana, and derivatives as long as they have less than 0.3% Delta-9 THC. This is also why CBD products are available essentially across the board. CBD is excluded and listed as separate from THC, because it is not psychoactive.
There have been multiple subsequent court rulings that have had differing conclusions regarding various products that came on the market after that. More specifically around arguments about Delta-8 THC derived from <0.3% Delta-9 products and natural vs synthetic derivatives.
Marijuana in general was by no means "legalized" by the 2018 Farm Bill.
So they're not actively enforcing the weird grey area they made by defining only one THC cannabinoid, and allowing derivatives that don't have to conform to the same level.
Is it that surprising that they fucked up trying to define something they don't actually understand? Although it's more likely the loophole was intentionally made by the lobbyists for the various cannabis companies that actually wrote that part of the bill, as is tradition now.
Definitely intentional. DEA tried to argue against thca years ago and courts said to follow as written.
Big canna is fighting it because it shows almost anything to be called hemp and sold without regulation, lot numbers, etc.
Bulgarian lawmakers approve government resignation, snap election looks likely
Bulgarian lawmakers formally approved on Friday the resignation of the country's minority government, a day after it bowed to mass street protests and said it would quit, paving the way for talks on forming a new coalition or most likely a snap election.
This article from last week provides some context for the protests: bbc.com/news/articles/cjezwzw0ā¦
Critics of the abandoned budget plan said they were protesting against increases to social security contributions and taxes on dividends to finance higher spending, as well as state corruption."We are here to protest for our future. We want to be a European country, not one ruled by corruption and the mafia," Ventsislava Vasileva, a 21-year-old student, told the AFP news agency.
Bulgaria ditches budget plan after tens of thousands join protests
Demonstrators said the plan - the country's first in euros - attempted to hide widespread government corruption.Ian Aikman (BBC News)
Monthly customs revenue falls for the first time since Trump rolled out his tariff program
A simmering cost-of-living crisis pushed the Trump administration to announce rollbacks in November on a number of food-related tariffs.
For the first time since Donald Trump rolled out his sweeping global tariff program in April, month-over-month customs receipts declined in November.
Last month, the U.S. government collected $30.75 billion in import duties. This was down from $31.35 billion collected in October.
Over the last few months, the monthly increase in tariff money collected by customs has slowed, but Novemberās total was the first month that collections were lower than the previous month.
Tariff revenue falls for the first time since Trump rollout
Tariff receipts declined in November, the first monthly drop since President Donald Trump rolled out his sweeping global tariff program.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
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Rollbacks? But why tho? I thought tariffs were going to make us the bigliest, strongliest country we've ever been? If things are going badly, and tariffs are so great and magical, why wouldn't you double or triple down?
Then Pedonald would have even MOAR money to bribe rubes he inflicted harm on, so he can buy votes for Republicans? Am I doing 'conomy as well as the biggest, most importantest bidness man evar? I'm told bidnessmen do 'conomy better than everyone else, and the country should be run like a business, because reasons. Even though the country is supposed to be a representative democracy, which is entirely unlike the way a business is run.
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DHL contacted me about unpaid duties. At first I thought it was a scam given that I've never had to before and I didn't recall any recent foreign purchases. Did some digging and the fees are legit. Well... somewhat legit. I should've been charged ~33% of the purchase price (flat fees included) for my item but the duties were actually more than the item itself! I asked the seller if they could help correct the "miscalculation" but chances are high I'll eat the shipping costs (to send it back) and never see the item.
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Growing number of House Republicans sign on to effort to force vote on ACA subsidies -- defying Speaker Johnson
As House Speaker Mike Johnson eyes a vote next week on a to-be-announced health care package, a growing number of House Republicans are revolting against leadership by trying to force a vote on extending the expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies.
Nearly a dozen Republicans -- many from swing districts -- have signed onto dueling bipartisan discharge petitions to extend and reform the subsidies in the hopes of bypassing leadership and triggering a vote on the House floor.
This move comes as the subsidies are set to expire at the end of the month, which will prompt health premiums for more than 20 million Americans to soar.
Growing number of House Republicans sign on to effort to force vote on ACA subsidies -- defying Speaker Johnson
Nearly a dozen Republicans have signed on to dueling measures.Lauren Peller (ABC News)
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The pressure is high enough to rebel against the Trumpdoesntcare? Good.
Still, replacing any Republican is a good idea.
Indianaās rejection of new voting map shows Trumpās might is not unlimited
Defeat complicates the picture for Republicans across the US as they seek to redraw districts in an increasingly messy battle
The Indiana legislatureās rejection of a new map that would have added two Republican seats in Congress marked one of the biggest political defeats for Donald Trump so far in his second term and significantly damaged the Republican effort to reconfigure congressional districts ahead of next yearās midterm elections.
The defeat showed that Trumpās political might is not unlimited. For months, the president waged an aggressive effort to twist the arms of Indiana lawmakers into supporting a new congressional map, sending JD Vance to meet in person with lawmakers. Trump allies also set up outside groups to pressure state lawmakers.
Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, which has close ties to the Trump administration, issued a dramatic threat this week ahead of the vote: if the new map wasnāt passed, Indiana would lose federal funding. āRoads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame,ā the group posted on X. The stateās Republican lieutenant governor said in a since-deleted X post that Trump administration officials made the same threat.
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Remember, that's even with all the death threats the Republicans are getting from their crazy base that is being goaded on by the Annoying Orange...
the Republican Party acts like an organized crime outfit - they threaten the non-compliant and their families if they don't go along with the marching orders come from their leader.
EU to freeze ā¬210bn in Russian assets indefinitely
The decision is a significant step towards using the cash to aid Ukraineās defence ā but Moscow is threatening to retaliate
The EU has agreed to indefinitely freeze Russiaās sovereign assets in the bloc, as Moscow stepped up its threats to retaliate against Euroclear, the keeper of most of the Kremlinās immobilised money.
The decision by the EU to use emergency powers to immobilise ā¬210bn (Ā£185bn) of Russiaās central bankās assets marks a significant step towards using the cash to aid Ukraineās defence.
European Council president AntĆ³nio Costa confirmed on Friday that EU leaders had delivered on a commitment, made in October, to ākeep Russian assets immobilised until Russia ends its war of aggression against Ukraine and compensates for the damage causedā.
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China would destroy US military in fight over Taiwan, top secret document warns
A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had āredundancy after redundancyā for āevery trick we had up our sleeveā, The New York Times reported.Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that āwe lose every timeā in the Pentagonās war games against China, and predicted the Asian countryās hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.
China would destroy US military in fight over Taiwan, top secret document warns
Beijingās hypersonic missiles ācould sink US aircraft carriers within minutesāBenedict Smith (The Telegraph)
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Eh, a carrier is a whole nother thing.
One carrier with a flight detail would be in the top ten most powerful Air Force's on the planet, and we've got like 7 of them?
And that's not counting all the support in a carrier group.
There are certain types of drone attacks that might have some effect on a carrier, but it would take an insane amount of preparation and be inconceivably expensive.
At most theyd have 1-2 attempts, it would be the modern equivalent of the WW2 nukes if someone could sink a modern US carrier, even in a surprise attack to start a war.
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An Aegis missle can knock it down tho...
They cost 4.7 mil a pop, which isn't much to the US military. And don't even need launched by the carrier, it'd be launched by ships between the middle and the carrier.
Apparently China claims they have hypersonic rockets made out of concrete for the low low price of 99k each, but that's not exactly believable. Especially since they're claiming 99k and not 100k. I mean, even that they're using "round" US dollars.
That's pretty common propaganda to claim something is cheaper and more widely available than it really is. It's why we split our uranium into two bombs in WW2. Because a country might use all of it at once as a bluff. But only idiot would make just two and then use them both days apart. It made it look like we could have a bunch. Not enough to keep up the pace, but how many? 5, 12?
It was more psychological warfare than anything. So is China claiming these are so cheap and mass producible when if that was true we'd see the same cost savings in commercial spaces.
No other country would be able to compete
We split our PLUTONIUM into 2 bombs because one was gadget, the test. Little boy (Hiroshima) was a uranium gun design and fat man (Nagasaki) was plutonium implosion.
Edit: To be clear your point about our bluff absolutely stands. It would likely be months at best before we would be able to drop another fission weapon of any design
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From a different comment in this thread:
The big country always wants to make it look plausible theyād lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.
Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?
They're fear mongering
Quantity has a quality of its own
This is a lesson America knew back in the WWII days when they countered the superior Tiger and Leopard Panzers with Sherman tanks, but seems to have forgotten in recent times with its multitude of white elephant projects for "superior systems" which are much more expensive whilst yielding tiny improvements over existing systems.
Meanwhile the era of the drone is upon us, and that's all about using said "quality of its own" of masses of cheap and easy to make drones.
These war games are bullshit and the US and other powerful countries intentionally tie one hand behind our backs as a reason to increase the defense budget.
Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and "destroys" them too.
The big country always wants to make it look plausible they'd lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.
At the end of the day no country can counter our nuclear powered subs with nuclear interballistic missiles. Sinking a carrier would be responded to like attacking a US city, it's just not a risk China would take.
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Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and "destroys" them too.
I'm not a radar operator but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. Banging on the hull doesn't produce radar emissions.
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"Secret reports" my ass. If you're reading it on the internet it's most likely plain old FUD.
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Yeah, but we all know that Russia is a country run by slovenly drunken morons with institutional ignorance, while China is country who has its shit totally together. I'm not that afraid of Russia, but China is terrifying.
After MAGA, China will be the dominant world power, and we will find out what it feels like to be a country who has to sit back and hope the machinations of other governments are good for us, and accept whatever we get.
they also have massive corruption, which is the biggest problem the russians have.
the russian military was massively undertrained, underequipped, and underexperienced. all of their 'stats' were massively inflated due to the instiutional corruoption rampant form bottom to top that inflated everything.
Russia had prepared itself for the usual American strategy of a Carrier Group sitting out far way from the coast and throwing long range cruise missiles and fighter jets at it whilst too far away to be hit by return fire - as used for decades now, for example in the Gulf War - by developing hypersonic missiles and advanced AA capable of shooting down those fighter jets and cruise missiles.
Then they went and started a land war with their next door neighbor - which is almost the opposite military scenario of that which they prepare themselves for - plus on top of it it turned out EVERYBODY was on the take in their Military so it was a hollowed out shell far lesser than it seemed on paper and finally, to add insult to injury, the era of the drone was upon us changing the nature of land warfare as well as on the long range side making mass attacks with cheap quasi-cruise missiles possible.
Given the geography of it if they attack Taiwan, China is - unlike Russia - almost certainly going to be facing the decades old way of American sea-based force projection in the form of the Carrier Group, which is the one they've prepared themselves to counter.
America has long wasted tons of its military budget in things with tiny or even no Return On Investment in terms of additional effectiveness for every extra dollar spent.
In a sense the greatest enemy of the US is itself, in the form of the MIL and Corruption from the lowest levels to the highest.
I mean, notice the recent change in the budget for the military which this year removed the Right To Repair for the Military, something which does nothing other than hinder Military effectiveness whilst further enriching military hardware suppliers.
The way the money is misused and redirected to feather the nests of large military companies' shareholders and CxOs, as well retired Procurement Generals who move to cushy jobs in the very companies they bought overpriced items from and MIL-friendly politicians in subcommittees approving white elephant military projects, is sort of a twisted mirror version of what happened in Russia were everybody in positions of power was on the take and their military when finally faced with a proper adversary at the same technological level - in the form of Ukraine - turned out to be a lot less than it seemed on paper.
Also America went down a route similar to Germany in WWII when they went for tanks like the Tiger Panzer which were peak-tech and very costly to manufacture, which the Allies countered by just throwing lots and lots of not-quite-as-perfect yet much cheaper and faster to manufacture tanks like the Sherman at it.
America has the biggest military budget in the World by a large margin, but also outright wastes a huge fraction of it and pays top premium for small incremental improvements, so the results aren't as impressive as one would expect from just looking at money spent.
If you want to see efficient use of a military budget, look at Ukraine.
Well, it does make some sense that China's plan's to counter the US during an invasion of Taiwan would focus on nullifying America's main far-from-home force projection method, which has for decades been fighter planes and cruise missiles launched from naval assets 1000km plus off the coast of the target nation.
Since the US has been using the same overall strategy again and again for decades now, China would have had lots of time to develop counters for it, and it's not as if Chinese Engineering is any less than Western Engineering.
I mean, Russia too developed hypersonic missiles exactly to counter that very same American strategy. Now, Russia is well in range of lots of land-based assets of America's allies in Europe so it could be targeted by those, but that's not at all the case for China which America has to approach by sea, and that will be done with the usual Aircraft Carrier Group and hence that's exactly what China would have set itself up to counter.
Metropolitan police chief accuses Trump of talking 'nonsense' about London crime
Metropolitan police chief accuses Trump of talking 'nonsense' about London crime
While admitting the situation was "not perfect" for the UK's largest force, Sir Mark Rowley insisted that some attempts to "rubbish London" were "driven by politics".Sky News
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"that was a different London than you have today. Today you have people being stabbed in the ass or worse... it's crazy," he said.
Donald needs to stop believing all the bullshit Fox News and their ilk are spewing out. Because the only thing involving asses in this situation is Trump talking out of his (yet again).
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Or when he thought Portland was a war zone because he saw it on Fox News?
presswatchers.org/2025/09/trumā¦
Trump: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' | Press Watch
Why is this quote not all over the national media? Because it raises questions about his mental competence.Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)
Actually watching street fights from years ago in a different city...
But what is remembered more? POTUS utterance or the debunk?
He also needs to stop embellishing his logorrhea with qualifiers like "or worse", "or better" etc.
stabbed in the ass or worse
It tickles the imagination in a way that probably wasn't intended and makes no sense.
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"driven by politics"
Understatement of the year. Factually 100% correct but I don't think anybody bothered to even point that out in US politics for a long time.
How many school shootings did you have today? Or just "regular" shootings, where someone dies of a bullet wound?
I'd rather be stabbed in the ass than shot dead at school.
For 2 Hours, a Soccer Match Offers Palestinians a Rarity: Joy
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40248576
The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.Dec. 12, 2025
In Gaza, nearly 50 men, teenagers and boys made their way through a stormy night and muddy, flooded streets to a makeshift cafe in a tent on the outskirts of Khan Younis, where a technician worked frantically to get the gameās livestream playing on a big TV powered by solar panels and batteries, and the cafeās owner fed cardboard boxes and paper scraps into a fire to make hot drinks and heat the room.Ismail Nasser al-Din, 20, sat dripping wet, clutching a Palestinian flag. He said he had lost his brother, a cousin and a friend in the war. āI hope our team will win,ā he said. āWe need any reason to laugh, enjoy and get some relief.ā
For 2 Hours, a Soccer Match Offers Palestinians a Rarity: Joy
The national soccer team made it to the knockout stages of the Arab Cup for the first time, uniting fans from Gaza to the West Bank to Cairo to Arab cities in Israel.Dec. 12, 2025
In Gaza, nearly 50 men, teenagers and boys made their way through a stormy night and muddy, flooded streets to a makeshift cafe in a tent on the outskirts of Khan Younis, where a technician worked frantically to get the gameās livestream playing on a big TV powered by solar panels and batteries, and the cafeās owner fed cardboard boxes and paper scraps into a fire to make hot drinks and heat the room.Ismail Nasser al-Din, 20, sat dripping wet, clutching a Palestinian flag. He said he had lost his brother, a cousin and a friend in the war. āI hope our team will win,ā he said. āWe need any reason to laugh, enjoy and get some relief.ā
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/middleeast/palestine-soccer-saudi-arabia-arab-cup.html
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At the Arab Cup, Palestinian football is uniting what politics has divided
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40247167
Khaled Hroub
9 December 2025 09:16 GMT
In a time of deep Palestinian anguish, the national football team's successive victories in the Arab Cup, currently taking place in Qatar, have ignited a rare and precious sense of unity.This joy begins in the rain-soaked tents of displaced families in Gaza, stretches to refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and ripples across Palestinian communities worldwide.
From Rafah comes Ihab Abu Jazar, the team's coach, whose family home was destroyed and whose mother was moved to a tent in the Mawasi area. He becomes, suddenly, a beacon of hope.
For a fleeting moment, his squad delivers triumph on the green pitch, qualifying for the next round and dedicating the victory first to Gaza and then to Palestinians everywhere.
Behind the Fida'i, the team's nickname meaning fighter, a collective spirit emerges. It transcends sport, reflecting a profound yearning among Palestinians to reclaim an unfragmented identity, free from the suffocating grip of political division and despair.
At the Arab Cup, Palestinian football is uniting what politics has divided
Khaled Hroub
9 December 2025 09:16 GMTIn a time of deep Palestinian anguish, the national football team's successive victories in the Arab Cup, currently taking place in Qatar, have ignited a rare and precious sense of unity.This joy begins in the rain-soaked tents of displaced families in Gaza, stretches to refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and ripples across Palestinian communities worldwide.
From Rafah comes Ihab Abu Jazar, the team's coach, whose family home was destroyed and whose mother was moved to a tent in the Mawasi area. He becomes, suddenly, a beacon of hope.
For a fleeting moment, his squad delivers triumph on the green pitch, qualifying for the next round and dedicating the victory first to Gaza and then to Palestinians everywhere.
Behind the Fida'i, the team's nickname meaning fighter, a collective spirit emerges. It transcends sport, reflecting a profound yearning among Palestinians to reclaim an unfragmented identity, free from the suffocating grip of political division and despair.
At the Arab Cup, Palestinian football is uniting what politics has divided
Amid genocide and despair, the Palestinian team's victories have offered the people a rare moment of triumph and defiance, as national identity transcends political fragmentationMiddle East Eye
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Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40386341
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 15, 2025
DOHA, QATARāIf President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.Meshaal, who is currently the head of Hamas outside of Palestine, was a founding member of the movement and is one of its most experienced and internationally well-known leaders.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 15, 2025DOHA, QATARāIf President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.Meshaal, who is currently the head of Hamas outside of Palestine, was a founding member of the movement and is one of its most experienced and internationally well-known leaders.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
In an exclusive interview, Meshaal makes the case that Trump should definitively end Israelās multi-decade war of annihilation and open a new era in U.S.-Palestine relations.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40386341
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 15, 2025
DOHA, QATARāIf President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.Meshaal, who is currently the head of Hamas outside of Palestine, was a founding member of the movement and is one of its most experienced and internationally well-known leaders.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 15, 2025DOHA, QATARāIf President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.Meshaal, who is currently the head of Hamas outside of Palestine, was a founding member of the movement and is one of its most experienced and internationally well-known leaders.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
In an exclusive interview, Meshaal makes the case that Trump should definitively end Israelās multi-decade war of annihilation and open a new era in U.S.-Palestine relations.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about the 21st century nabobs, striding over politics and society with their unheard of wealth andā¦Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 15, 2025
DOHA, QATARāIf President Donald Trump wants to achieve stability in the Middle East, he should put an end to Israeli interference in U.S. policy toward Palestine, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Drop Site. Instead, Meshaal said, the U.S. should enter into a genuine process of direct negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian political factions aimed at establishing friendly, bilateral relations.Meshaal, who is currently the head of Hamas outside of Palestine, was a founding member of the movement and is one of its most experienced and internationally well-known leaders.
Hamas Leader Khaled Meshaal: Trump Should Heed the Growing Calls Within MAGA and Reject Israelās Agenda
In an exclusive interview, Meshaal makes the case that Trump should definitively end Israelās multi-decade war of annihilation and open a new era in U.S.-Palestine relations.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
Poll Finds 62% of Republicans Believe Govāt is āHidingā Info on Epsteinās Clients
Poll Finds 62% of Republicans Believe Govāt is āHidingā Info on Epsteinās Clients
A majority of Republican voters believe that the Trump administration is āhidingā information on people who were involved in Epsteinās sex trafficking crimes.David Gilmour (Mediaite)
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Yeah? How do you suppose we go about taking away their right to vote? Last time I checked, that's not going to happen. Nor should it. Yet, here we are.
They're a symptom of the education nightmare, of disingenuous "news" media, poverty, social media echo chambers, and a cadre of other factors. Think any of those things are going away soon either?
The sooner we all realize that this country needs a reset, the sooner we can move forward.
Edit: people are taking my first paragraph too literally. The point is that they cannot be ignored.
You don't have to rake it away, just make it irrelevant. They only have so much power now because First Past the Post voting systems don't need anywhere near a majority, just a little more than everyone else. So with as few as 3 candidates you could win with only 34% of the vote.
Switching to an actually representative election style like ranked choice voting means the outliers are represented more accurately instead of getting an oversized platform their size doesn't warrant.
You don't have to take it away, just make it irrelevant.
Correct.
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I'm not even sure Democrats can take back power with a fractured right, and if the current form of the Democratic party did take power, it would do almost nothing to stave off the waxing fascism in this country.
The current leadership of the Democratic party is as core to how and why fascism is ascendent in this country as the actual fascists. It would have been practically impossible for what has already happened to occur with out this incredibly compliant "opposition" party, all the while with an electorate trained on ABWD media and a meme of "strategic voting" which never seems to accomplish its strategic goals.
With out a strong, vociferously clear opposing vision of what to be as a country; without accountability, not just for the past year, the past 10 years, the failures of the Obama bank bailouts, which set all of this into motion, there is basically no point in putting Democrats into power, because every unearned push back to BAU or failure to address the genuine pain people feel as a result of ** both** Democratic and Republican policies, these failed launches as a resituating normalcy only further entrench and embolden fascists.
Yeah, they've been doing that for a decade? Two? A while, let's just say a while.
There will be a really upsetting documentary in 50 years or so (maybe)
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Mind you it says 62% of Republicans.
100% of those not up the arse of the orange cunt think he's hiding people from the Epstein list.
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This being a poll, the most important information is the exact question they were asked. If you ask the same question in a different way, you can get wildly different results. I clicked through to the Reuter's link from this article, but I'm not sure it says the exact question.
From the graphic on that page, it says:
"The federal government is hiding information about Epsteinās alleged clients"
From Republicans, the "Yes" is 61% (I'm assuming this is a rounding issue with their software), and "No" is 17%.
So, strangely, the headline of this post and of the article that OP linked seem to be accurate, but if you read the content of that article, it's quite a bit less accurate. It's the opposite of what you normally expect from clickbait news articles.
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"but at least they aren't Democrats"
A refrain I've heard so often from them after bemoaning some inhumanly bad thing they think a Republican has done.
Which means 38% of Republicans are stupid.
#1 way to produce conservative voters is to cut public education.
Well, of that 38%, probably 8% are undecided. That leaves 30%. Of that 30, as someone else mentioned, some of those are sheeple from religious stuff. The rest? They're literally holding up Swastikas and chant "Jews will not replace us". Maybe not all of them are supporters of the Nazi party. Some are probably just klansmen.
You're basically looking at the evil underbelly of America. You know, Republicans.
Oh no no no, we really can't say that yet. We need another statistic to say something like that: Is the government responsible for hiding info on Epstein run by democrats or republicans?
I would wager that a considerable amount of those 62% would answer that it's Biden or Obama who's behind the cover up.
BREAKING NEWS!:
62% of republicans believe Trump is hiding Epstein ties, but still actively support him.
āThis Is Historicā: FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israelās War Crimes
Itās likely you heard the surreal news that FIFA President Gianni Infantino awarded Donald Trump a āPeace Prizeā amid the backdrop of protest outside the Kennedy Center.
Itās less likely that you heard about a far more serious announcement the previous week: that Infantino will be formally accused of aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes against Palestinians.
The ICC filing parties will include a group of Palestinian footballers, Palestinian clubs, land owners, and advocacy groups Irish Sport for Palestine, Scottish Sport for Palestine, and Just Peace Advocates, with support from an expert legal team.
According to a public statement from the filing parties, Infantino, as well as Union of European Football Association President Aleksander Äeferin, are facing accusations that FIFA and UEFA funded settlement clubsāthat is, football clubs that operate on land illegally seized from Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
āThis Is Historicā: FIFA and UEFA Presidents Are Accused of Aiding Israelās War Crimes | The Nation
A coming filing with the ICC accuses FIFAās Gianni Infantino and UEFAās Aleksander Äeferin of crimes against humanity for their financial support of settlement clubs.The Nation
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If I was a terrorist (Iām not), the World Cup in the USA would seem an excellent target. Theyāve been making entry to the USA more and more difficult. But, theyāll have to let up if they want overseas visitors especially if it looks
like interest is lagging. And, theyāve been focused so much on āundesirableā countries and critics of the president that thereās got to be gaps in their normal security.
I think people from everywhere would be wise to stay away.
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in reply to supersquirrel • • •On the other hand, the GOP, along with some Democrats, just approved a huge military budget, $900 billion IIRC, and what have they been doing with that? Blowing up fishing boats, hijacking oil tankers, and basically gearing up for some sort of larger military action in South America, perhaps. More suffering and death.
The GOP knows that causing suffering and death is in their best interests. They need "others". They need victims. And they need hate. If people were able to calm down and rationally vote in their own best interests, instead of billionaires' best interests, the GOP would be gone within a few years. And after that, the Democratic party would have to change quite a bit if they wanted to stick around, as well.
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