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KimPerales

@KimPerales@toad.social

Californian with a wide variety of interests, but since 2016, seeking justice, democratic norms, improving public: education & health, access to the arts, inclusivity, ethics in government, finance & business, human rights, IMG, ENVIR & worker protections, accountability for the oligarch criminality in the US & helping America turn blue.

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UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution Supporting Palestinian Statehood. The measure declares that Palestinians qualify for full-member status, a largely symbolic move that reflects the growing isolation of IL.

How does the Israeli AMB to the UN react:

"Gilad Erdan used a paper shredder to shred the UN charter on the podium of the UN general assembly ahead of a vote that will give new privileges to the Palestinians at the UN."
-B Ravid

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/10/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20240510&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=92086289&segment_id=166266&user_id=3b2a548aa15b78c60b9b60a53474447e

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It's about time that some of the Republican traitors serve time:

Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon contempt of Congress conviction. A fed appeals court on Fri upheld the criminal contempt of Congress conviction of former Trump WH senior aide Steve Bannon for refusing to testify and provide docs to the HSE CMTE that investigated . It makes it more likely that Bannon will soon have to begin serving a sentence of 4 months in jail for his conviction.


https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/10/appeals-court-upholds-steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress-conviction.html

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The Earthrise photo played a pivotal role in encouraging people to take part in environmental activism -gave rise to Earth Day in 1970.

Biden & Dems will prioritize .

/FF cos. reject science, will doom🌎. The willingness to destroy our collective home in exchange for riches is one of the most extreme examples of greed run amok…

Top climate scientists believe🌎is going to crash thru the 1.5° C threshold -previously defined as a disaster scenario.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-willing-to-trade-our-childrens-806

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The US healthcare system is failing Americans. The situation has become untenable. A #UniversalHC system may only be realized if Dems win a trifecta:

In the past, MED centers have broadly provided procedures first & settled the bill with patients later -something they are legally required to do in emergency cases.

Now, in non-emergency cases, SOME HOSPITALS WANT TO BE PAID UP FRONT BEFORE THEY OPERATE, & customers -patients -not thrilled.

#Healthcare #VoteBlue2024
https://www.businessinsider.com/american-hospitals-corporations-charge-upfront-surgery-healthcare-2024-5

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GAZA IS HELL ON EARTH: famine, lack of water & fuel, untreated injuries, disease, ..

Rafah has a spiraling HC crisis.
Israel’s MIL ops. have overwhelmed hospitals -already struggling to treat patients suffering from malnutrition & disease.

Bodies lay where they fell, in the “red zone” -few ambulances available could not reach bc of Israeli bombardment. Border crossings remained closed Thurs, stranding critically ill patients-.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/09/rafah-hospitals-gaza-israel-airstrikes/

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More💀:

"IL security CAB approved last night the "expansion of the area of ​​operation" of the IDF in Rafah. 2 sources: this is a "measured expansion" that doesn't cross Pres Biden's red line. 3rd source: approved expansion incl. actions that could be interpreted by the US as crossing Biden's red line The 3 sources: CAB also instructed the Israeli negotiations to continue efforts to reach a hostage deal & try to formulate a new initiative that'd lead to a breakthrough."
-B Ravid

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Alarming:

The Israeli CAB decision comes as concern grows in the Biden admin re the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Rafah area since IL took control of the PA side of the Rafah crossing earlier this week. IL didn't coord. the capturing of the crossing well enough with the Egyptians who got "extremely upset" *refused to send aid trucks, incl. fuel trucks, thru: Kerem Shalom crossing b/w IL & Gaza. Biden admin: pressing the Israelis to reopen-.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/israel-gaza-rafah-operation-expansion

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Biden's tax plan is far better for than 's gift to the 1%.

Pres Biden wants to extend the middle-class tax cuts while raising taxes on highly profitable cos. & the richest Americans. The expiration of Trump’s 2017 tax pkg next year will put tax fairness front & center. The pres. won't raise taxes on anyone making <$400K & will cut taxes further for workers & families, paid for by corps./wealthy. 2017 tax cuts failed to deliver the growth promised by Rs.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-tax-taxes-brainard-8380c835515aa1f855be6e665d530bed

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Israeli #warcrimes, Palestinians abused in detention💔:

MIL base -now doubles as a detention center in IL’s Negev desert: Rows of men in gray tracksuits seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire -blindfolded -heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights.

Whistleblowers: doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing -air's filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.
#IsraelHamasWar https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

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would end , ...

Poll-driven “balance” reps. a dubious safe harbor when the central issue is preserving or abandoning free & fair elections, sovereignty & the . wrote Trump’s intentions in blood. He promises more depredations & his authoritarian platform calls for turning the fed bureaucracy into his personal instrument. He vows to make the DOJ a weapon of “retribution” against his enemies, & raises the specter of violence “if we don’t win.”
https://zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran-reporter-ive-always

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parrots his mentor's xenophobic rhetoric & says he'll help round up undocumented immigrants & deport ppl who've paid taxes & contributed to their communities & the workforce for years, sometimes, decades:

"Less than 24 hours after Democrats saved his job, Speaker Johnson vows to ‘round Up’ 11 million undocumented people, & likely deport them."


https://www.rawstory.com/greatest-challenge-of-our-generation-johnson-vows-to-round-up-11mm-undocumented/

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Good news:

VT is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting cos. to help pay for damages caused by the , in a move being closely watched by other states incl. NY & CA.

Modeled after the EPS’s Superfund program, which forces cos. to pay for toxic waste cleanup, the bill would charge major FF cos. doing bus within VT Bs$ for their past emissions -would make VT the 1st state to hold FF cos. liable for their planet-heating POLUT. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/vermont-charge-oil-industry-climate-crisis

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IL belittles/threatens US🚨:

Snr security official lamented in a prv. meeting: "The Americans want us to create perfect living conditions, even expecting us to put chocolate on their pillows." IL's insistence on full steam ahead in Rafah could spell a weapons embargo from the W -limiting precision munitions might lead to increased civilian casualties, contrary to US intentions -would force: IDF to use a larger stockpile of less precise bombs & missiles -. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1lzoqcfr

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Does AG Garland FEAR , R Sens., Reps...? *Silent for 3 years re R senators/MOC who were complicit with & has done little to hold resp. for his crimes.

"Rs, incl. Trump have targeted the DOJ, accusing -agency/staff of weaponizing the DOJ -rhetoric has contributed to “toxicity” & an “unprecedented rise” in threats agst. public officials -DEP AG Monaco. “You've Rs who'll say -the DOJ is full of pol operatives who're working to help Pre Biden, hurt Pres Trump-." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gop-rising-threats-public-officials-1234935800/

AG Garland photo:

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@ellynthomps I gave him the benefit of the doubt for the first 6 months, but after that, I think that he's either complicit with Republican leaders, or he lives in fear for his life.

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This is rich from a #MAGA traitor:

Rep Scott Perry said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tues that the KKK is the “the military wing of the Dem party” & that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” acc to audio of Perry’s comments.

Perry has repeated elements of the anti-immigrant & antisemitic replacement theory before, said this during the House Oversight CMTE's member briefing.

#GOPTraitors #GOPLies #GOPRacism

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/politics/scott-perry-closed-door-comments/index.html

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There's evidence some agents in the #SecretService have been compromised for years, but now...

There's a petition circulating inside the USSS that flags concerns about "a number of recent Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training," a double standard in disciplinary actions, & a vulnerability "to potential insider threats" that could pose a risk to US nat. sec. It was first shared Mon, I'm told, & has 39 signatures so far. Aim is to call for a congress. investigation."
-J Jacobs

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It's impossible for Pres Biden to please the Zionists & pro- . Accusing those who care about the fate of the Palestinian ppl by calling them pro-Hamas, is disingenuous, inflammatory & harmful:

"Dem mega-donor Haim Saban wrote an email to Biden's aides Steve Ricchetti & Anita Dunn about Biden's decision to put on hold a weapons shipment to Israel: "Let's not forget there are more Jewish voters who care about Israel than Muslim voters who care about Hamas." -B Ravid

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We need to amplify Republican's deceit, their plan to further cut taxes will be so costly, that the social safety net will be eliminated:

"Within this new document from the Congressional Budget Office, you can see that Trump’s current plan to extend every expiring tax break in his 2017 tax law would cost $4.6 trillion — with trillions of that going exclusively to very wealthy households."
-Bharat Ramamurti

#GOPLies #GOPCorruption #TaxTheRich

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60114

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bribes, extorts, threatens, bullies...

Trump reportedly asked oil executives for $1B last month, promising he'd roll back Biden's climate measures. Meanwhile, fossil fuel lawyers & lobbyists are already drafting executive orders for Trump to sign if he wins in November. Trump vowed to target EVs:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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#Netanyahu is defiant:

"The Biden admin has said a major invasion would be a red line -noting that it could result in more civilian deaths. Aid groups -already having difficulty distributing much needed aid to the >1.4M ppl -current fighting: killed dozens of people in the last 24 hrs -more robust IDF presence now. 2 brigades, one’s a specialist in tunnels & the other one were the perpetrators of the WCK incident. Those are the 2 brigades operating now & in South Rafa."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-scott-anderson-unrwa-00156924w

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Netanyahu is going it alone? IL officials sound like & Rs.

DEF Min. Galant: "I'm telling IL's enemies & its best friends -the State of IL cannot be subdued -not the IDF, not the Min. of DEF, not the security estab., not the State of IL. We'll stand, we'll achieve our goals."

Minister of Nat. Sec. Ben Gvi's X post:
Hamas ❤️Biden

"We stand by allies, we don’t second guess them. Biden’s dithering on Israel weapons is bad policy & a terrible message to IL, our allies, & the world."
-M Romney

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Netanyahu's alliance with was known, but the fact that he did the IL PM's bidding, is why he'd prefer TFG to Biden in Nov:

"Back in the day Netanyahu asked Trump to support his request, sent via then-Mossad director Y Cohen, to Qatar, to get more money to Hamas. Trump agreed. Billions flowed. Trump was 100% all in.

, under the illusion he's a Jewish Churchill in a bunker fighting Hitler, reposts his Armageddon "WE WILL STAND ALONE." 5/5/24 speech
-N Tarnopolsky

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With pressure from Jewish & pro-Israel donors & Republicans, the WH is already walking back their plans to curtail arms to Israel💔:

"DOD spox says right now the Pentagon assesses that Israel's campaign in Gaza is "a limited operation... meant to secure that particular area."
-L Seligman

"Weapons shipments are still going to Israel. They're still getting that the vast, vast majority of everything that they need to defend themselves," Kirby.
-J Jacobs

Rafah: 1.5M live in tents.

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Cringeworthy donors & their VP picks:

is under pressure by bus-friendly Rs to select a particular VP.

Ike Perlmutter, a billionaire & former CEO of Marvel ENTMT, thinks Trump should choose Rep Stefanik.

Rupert Murdoch has hinted to several friends who move in TFG’s social circles that he would be happy with a R ticket that included VA Gov Youngkin.

Oracle CEO L Ellison & billionaire Trump backers in the RE IDU have told his advisers that they like Sen Scott.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/donald-trump-vp-corporate-leaders-and-wealthy-donors-want-a-say-.html

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