Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages unless opinion polls show it is politically advantageous for him, a top Israeli security official told the families of those held captive, a person in the closed-door meeting and an advocacy group said Friday. (…)...
People who think Biden has a choice wrt Israel and Gaza are fucking clueless as to how powerful aipac is in the USA.
Wow. I’ve heard some absolute shit excuses for Biden’s support for genocide, but “We have to keep supporting genocide because the antisemites are right and The Jews do secretly run everything” takes the fucking cake.
Let’s say Biden stopped all aid to Israel tomorrow, you can bet you sweet ass that Trump will win by a landslide purely through all the Jewish votes suddenly transferring to him
Jewish voters are better people than you’re giving them credit for.
Alexander Smith’s PowerPoint presentation doesn’t appear designed to court controversy. The slides, focused on declining maternal health in Gaza, cite public health data from the United Nations and World Health Organization. His employer, the U.S. Agency for International Development, had selected him to share it at the...
He did something serious. He told the truth about Gaza. It’s not like he did something minor, like sabotage the nation’s postal network to try to throw the election.
I can’t pin it on Biden, but Democrats had the majority in the House and Senate for the first 2 years of his presidency. They had the opportunity to protect LGBTQ+ people. The catch is that they would have had to end the filibuster forever. They chose to protect the filibuster.
There was a majority in the House, and it was 50-50 in the Senate. With Harris being the tiebreaker, that’s a majority.
I also remember the line from 2022 being “If you want to pass things progressives are clamoring for, we need more Democrats.” So we elected an additional Democrat. Then Sinema left the party. Then Fetterman was like “Sucker!” and sprinted toward the center. And now Manchin has left the party.
2 additional progressives and we could have told Manchin and Sinema to pound sand.
Please. We elected an additional progressive in '22 and wound up with two fewer Democrats and the progressive we picked up turned out to be a centrist.
It doesn’t matter how big a majority we give Democrats. There are always just enough Manchins.
We gave Democrats a supermajority. They killed the public option with it. They made damned sure to bail out their owners in the banking industry and make sure the only one of them who saw any consequences was the guy who scammed rich people. And had no interest whatsoever in codifying Roe.
And just like Biden’s first two years, they could have ended the filibuster forever with a simple majority, so your “four months” argument is just another pro-failure excuse.
On the other hand, that last sentence makes it clear that Netanyahu wants this to be a non-starter. His terms involve Hamas choosing to cease to exist, for all intents and purposes.
If Joe had no red line, and it’s clear that he never did, he should not have announced one. Now that Netanyahu has sprinted across the announced line, Biden has to lie for him and pretend he didn’t cross it instead of withholding aid like he said he would.
Once again, in the spirit of an actual constructive conversation, how would you get someone more progressive into a West Virginia federal senatorial seat?
Why is your arbitrary bullshit goal the one I need to meet before I can level any criticism at your god?
Manchin is leaving the senate because he knows he will lose if he runs again. Moving to the right has failed. Democrats have no one who can win they can run in that state. There’s none to Manchin’s right.
So who would you run for that seat? You can’t run Manchin, he can’t win anymore and even he knows it.
I would work on getting progressives elected in better states. Manchin is wet dogshit on his single best day, and it’s why centrists will always go to bat for him.
2008? When we gave Democrats a supermajority and they found enough no votes to kill the public option? When we gave the Democrats a supermajority and they didn’t bother to codify Roe? That 2008?
Sanders reups vow to boycott ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu’s address to Congress (www.thehill.com)
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Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did. (eu.jacksonville.com)
Netanyahu won’t agree to hostage release deal unless it polls well for him, Israeli families say they were told (www.nbcnews.com)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to end the war in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages unless opinion polls show it is politically advantageous for him, a top Israeli security official told the families of those held captive, a person in the closed-door meeting and an advocacy group said Friday. (…)...
I'm driving I get to control the radio! (lemmy.world)
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He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job. (theintercept.com)
Alexander Smith’s PowerPoint presentation doesn’t appear designed to court controversy. The slides, focused on declining maternal health in Gaza, cite public health data from the United Nations and World Health Organization. His employer, the U.S. Agency for International Development, had selected him to share it at the...
Eight Senate Republicans vow to oppose all Biden nominees, Democratic legislation (www.politico.com)
President Joe Biden calls on LGBTQ+ community ‘to wave their flags of pride high’ this June (www.advocate.com)
Trump brands US a ‘fascist state’ in 40-minute rant amid wild scenes outside his Manhattan home (www.independent.co.uk)
Live updates: Biden Endorses Israeli Proposal for a Cease-Fire in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post coverage
Biden sets out new Israeli proposal to end war in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
Ending the Gaza war: Three phase proposal...
Manchin leaves Democratic Party, files as independent (thehill.com)