Recent content by gry60

Some people are comfortable living with the delusion that if nobody votes, the White House will remain empty until the next election. Authoritarians only need to win once.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/doug-skaff-snake-campaign-signs

You're not looking then. Members of his war cabinet are starting to publicly distance themselves from him over the lack of direction of the Israeli response. The US also suggested that Israel should change leadership a few months ago. The thing is, you won't find any of this in this thread...

I don't know why you bother explaining all of this. You're trying to reason with someone who thinks Biden is leading the Knesset, who's making fun of the women's march at the beginning of Trump's term, and who's has completely ignored everything about Trump's disdain for Muslims. Yes, they...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/israel-war-cabinet-split-looms-as-defence-minister-demands-plan-for-post-war-gaza

Conservatives are very intentional in their use of the "Bill of Rights" when referring to constitutional amendments. The term only refers to Amendments 1-10. So, it's not used as a shortcut, but as a signal of what they value and what they want to get rid of.

What she also found was an effort by conservative billionaires to decrease trust in public education in order to funnel public funds towards private and religious schools via vouchers.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/att-paid-bribes-to-get-two-major-pieces-of-legislation-passed-us-govt-says/ Straight up bribes though... :smh:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/14/texas-voting-map-case-appeal

Woody Allen right now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/world/middleeast/gaza-war-hamas-yahya-sinwar.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/world/europe/secret-hamas-files-palestinians.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/world/europe/secret-hamas-files-palestinians.html Propaganda goes both ways. In an environment where people's ability to dissent is systematically watched and taken away, it's hard to give weight to the numbers that indicate Hamas support among Gazans. The...

You're a clown. After the Camp David talks fell through, there was another series of talks mediated by Clinton that didn't amount to much because Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ran out of time. Meanwhile, the Israeli public decided to shift towards Sharon and the right-wing (basically...