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(DIR) Post #AcEAqwJHERXexF7sx6 by GW@newsie.social
2023-11-27T07:08:20Z
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1,500 Block Manhattan Bridge Demanding Lasting Gaza Cease-Fire"We will make business as usual impossible until the U.S. stops funding and fueling a #genocide," #Jewish Voice for #Peace said.In what organizers said was the largest action of civil disobedience in New York City since the Iraq War, more than 1,000 protesters blocked traffic on the Manhattan Bridge for hours Sunday to demand a permanent cease-fire in #Israel's war with #Hamas in #Gaza.https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-manhattan-bridge-cease-fire
(DIR) Post #AcF2goE5pKH8VqJtSK by GW@newsie.social
2023-11-27T19:33:17Z
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@takarybka @kravietz What they had on Oct. 6 was Attica waiting to happen!
(DIR) Post #AcGS5SGdIbU1exJgnY by GW@newsie.social
2023-07-28T06:36:21Z
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Just a reminder that it's not always so damn hot!
(DIR) Post #AcHkmbHhdpmQPYV3pI by GW@newsie.social
2023-11-28T21:06:05Z
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'Treacherous #criminal': #Lawmaker slams #Trump over claim of never taking oath to support #ConstitutionSection Three does not apply, because the presidency is not an office 'under the #UnitedStates States,' and #President #Trump did not take an oath 'to support the Constitution of the United States,'" the filing read.https://www.alternet.org/criminal-lawmaker-trump-oath-constitution/
(DIR) Post #AcNXWmhvGqKokXeTSq by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-01T21:56:03Z
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Israel's AI-Aided Targeting Creates Massacre 'Factory' in Gaza"This is the first AI-facilitated genocide in history," said one observer.As Israel on Friday resumed bombarding Gaza following a weeklong pause, a joint investigation by a pair of progressive Israeli media outlets sheds new light on the Israel Defense Forces' use of artificial intelligence to select targets, essentially creating what one former Israeli officer called a "mass assassination factory."https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-civilian-casualties-2666414736
(DIR) Post #AcQ2N1LpSO00AK3t56 by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-02T03:51:14Z
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Liz Cheney: The U.S. Is 'Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship'Trump has "told us what he will do," the Republican former congresswoman said“People who say ‘Well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted. … One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States.”https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liz-cheney-trump-dictatorship_n_656a5c7ae4b028b0f3d0313f
(DIR) Post #AcQ2N3RZfzmceilVJY by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-02T18:15:52Z
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@DrBonesMD You are so right, The House is already in his pocket and SCOTUS goes wherever the money tells them to go.
(DIR) Post #AcZBj29FozHT1EOHb6 by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-07T03:45:32Z
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Mike Johnson Likens Himself to Moses, Tells #Christian #Nationalists #God Charted His Path to Speaker"These guys usually have some kind of kinky sexual sin they are guilty of. I'm anxious to find out what Mikey's is!"Mike Johnson, delivering the keynote address to a far-right #Christiannationalist group Tuesday, likened himself to Moses and declared God had charted his path to become the #Republican Speaker of the House, after telling him in his #prayers to preparehttps://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/12/mike-johnson-likens-himself-to-moses-tells-christian-nationalists-god-charted-his-path-to-speaker/
(DIR) Post #Acd8JyAUqwXanyPRoW by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-09T05:47:39Z
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#Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an #abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a #fatal #diagnosis.Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge's ruling that approved an abortion for a #pregnant #woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the #U.S."Another Old White Man deciding what a Woman Can and Can't do with her own body"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abortion-texas_n_6573e471e4b0fca7ad20d39b
(DIR) Post #AcgmYkxunopBqE0gue by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-11T03:59:10Z
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FO° Exclusive: The Far Right Soars in the #Netherlands and #Argentina#Far-right candidates won elections in both the Netherlands and Argentina. In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders won the most seats in parliament with an anti-immigrant, #anti-Muslim platform. In Argentina, Javier Milei won the presidency promising a radically #libertarian economic program.https://www.fairobserver.com/video/fo-exclusive-the-far-right-soars-in-the-netherlands-and-argentina/
(DIR) Post #Acj47JmNxTE9CKbRyq by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-12T04:38:32Z
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#Doctors Plead for an End to #Gaza’s #Massacre“We are watching as #hospitals are turned into #morgues. These supposedly protected facilities are being bombed, are being shot at by tanks and guns, encircled and raided, killing patients and medical staff World Health Organization has documented 181 attacks on health care that have led to 22 fatalities and 59 injuries of health workers on duty. Medical staff, including our own, are utterly exhausted and in despairhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/11/doctors-plead-for-an-end-to-gazas-massacre/
(DIR) Post #AcrkHBJP9uVuf2QgqG by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-16T04:18:41Z
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#Conservatives Want to Destroy Public #Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.“The decision to hate your neighbors and reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or preferable path for most people.”Conservative firebrand Ryan Walters became Oklahoma’s top education chief in January, waging what he called “a #spiritual #war for the souls of our kids.” He declared the teachers’ union “a #terrorist organization” https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/conservatives-want-to-destroy-public-schools-communities-are-fighting-back/
(DIR) Post #AcsXks2gGNrhL2OSEi by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-16T17:44:32Z
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#IDF Kills 3 Shirtless #Israeli #Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in #Hebrew'#Palestinian civilians don’t stand a chance.'The three Israeli hostages who were shot and #killed Friday by Israeli forces were shirtless and one of them was waving a white flag of surrender, a military official has said. Two hostages were killed immediately; the third was wounded and yelling for help in Hebrew before being shot again.https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-kills-3-shirtless-israeli-hostages-waving-white-flag-calling-for-help-in-hebrew
(DIR) Post #AcstIHbqKAKdE8c7N2 by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-16T17:38:06Z
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#Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the #UnitedStates States this springLeaders of the Texas #Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 #Republican primary ballot this March.https://www.alternet.org/texas-secede-referendum/
(DIR) Post #AcvLhiENfXIM44TPkW by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-18T05:15:03Z
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Netanyahu's Bold Boast: 'Proud' to Thwart Palestinian State Creation'Netanyahu not just admitting to monumental deception but gloating about it'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was "proud" of preventing the creation of a Palestinian state during a press conference in Tel Aviv Saturday night.https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-s-bold-boast-proud-to-thwart-palestinian-state-creation
(DIR) Post #Acz7noGJXKE1mWEMaW by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-20T00:02:42Z
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Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies 'Insurrectionist' Trump from 2024 Ballot"Trump is disqualified from holding the office of president," the state's highest court found, citing his role in fomenting the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former U.S. President Donald Trump—the 2024 Republican frontrunner—is barred from holding future office under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause due to his incitement https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-disqualified
(DIR) Post #AdIigg0mxCBtRdZdsO by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-29T02:38:56Z
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Nikki Haley Backtracks on Civil War Gaffe: “Yes, I Know It Was About Slavery” The GOP presidential candidate is getting backlash for her botched comments about slavery's role in America's civil war.Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley retreated on Thursday from an answer she gave during a presidential town hall in New Hampshire a day earlier, in which she did not mention slavery when asked about the cause of the US Civil War.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/nikki-haley-backtracks-civil-war-gaffe-new-hampshire
(DIR) Post #AdIo54tCbuJBK2Tq0u by GW@newsie.social
2023-12-28T14:53:30Z
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#UN Condemns #Israel's 'Unlawful #Killings' and Settler Violence in #WestBankThe U.N. high commissioner for human rights called surging settler attacks on #Palestinians "very disturbing."A United Nations report released Thursday warned that conditions in the occupied West Bank have worsened rapidly since October, with Israeli settlers and soldiers ramping up violent attacks on the Palestinian population and subjecting people across the territory to frequent abusehttps://www.commondreams.org/news/un-west-bank-violence
(DIR) Post #AdTw8kYxavjxwZ4LZY by GW@newsie.social
2024-01-03T21:52:31Z
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https://medium.com/illumination/i-uI Used To Identify as Misanthrope. Humanity was a Blight on The Earth and All The Living Things On ItPublished in ILLUMINATIONGeorge Carlin, the great comedian, taught me that I was more and that I could love the beast and hate the herd, and for that, I am eternally gratefulGift linksed-to-identify-as-misanthrope-7b5cc39d9ae1?sk=03098b39ab939eda98756f4b40b6f1ec
(DIR) Post #AdXzcVgmXKgUzmRwKu by GW@newsie.social
2024-01-05T17:53:34Z
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'I will not help the Democrats': GOP rep says he’ll torch border deal to deny Biden a winIn 2024, Republicans and Democrats have a mutual interest in security on the U.S./Mexico border. But in an article published on January 4, Rolling Stone's Nikki McCann Ramirez describes Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) as a Republican who has "made clear" that his motives are "purely political" when it comes to a possible Biden/GOP deal on border policy.https://www.alternet.org/biden-border-deal/