"The #protesters carried a banner that said “It is right to rebel, #Hillel go to hell,” with an inverted red triangle on it, which has come to signify support for #Hamas on social media because the terror group uses the symbol in videos of its attacks. The student demonstrators repeatedly formed inverted triangles with their hands, flashing the symbol at the counter-protesters. Another protester brandished a banner that had a #swastika inside a Star of David while shouting: “#Synagogue of Satan.”
The pro- #Palestinian, anti- #Israel demonstrators chanted “From #CUNY to #Gaza, globalize the #intifada,” and “Hillel, Hillel, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”
@TonyStark@dukepaaron Do any of these people look in the mirror before they go out? My parents would prefer that I didn't go to protests because they want me to be safe, but I know they wouldn't be ashamed of what I'm wearing or carrying if a photo of me gets published. (Isn't our interpretation of honoring thy mother, don't be a shanda?)
Great. Appoint a couple of people who blindly support a guy who stole government secrets (which he confessed to and shipped the evidence that he had done so directly to the government he stole them from) and left them lying around a public country club where literally anyone could see them to the Intelligence committee.
@TonyStark Who would have thought there would be people Speaker Johnson could nominate to the committee that could make current Republican members French Hill, Dan Crenshaw, and Mike Garcia look like reasonable human beings? Perry and Jackson are two of the worst. What, Lauren Boebert didn't have time in her schedule of campaigning not to lose her seat come November?
@TonyStark I know most of our friends are no longer reading WaPo, but I have my subscription paid through December so I am. It's so bad. They went to the Roots Picnic in Philadelphia this weekend (a festival that attracts young Black people) and interviewed people willing to say Biden is too old and they are either staying home or considering voting for Trump (or RFK Jr). Way to make people think that's how Gen Z in a swing state is voting. Half of them live in New York too, not Pennsylvania.
Hillel and Hubbard aren’t “Zionist organizations” and even if they were, that’s not a good reason to try and expunge them from campuses, so I don’t think “rethinking” your language is going to help.
It’s also pretty ironic for the “college is where you air out all your ideas regardless” crowd to try and eliminate one group of people. Unless they’re just antisemites.
@TonyStark They're getting closer to saying what they actually mean, which is "we don't want any Jews on campus." Unless those Jews express the right amount of self-loathing, that is.
@TonyStark This is so important. We still have a long way to go for cost prescription reform– I have a friend in Belgium who pays €1 for the same inhaler that costs me $30 – but it’s a lot more affordable than what many people have now. Thank you, President Biden.
@TonyStark I'm paid up for a full year. Fortunately, a very cheap holiday rate. The DMV coverage is important to me but I am just going to start paying local, independent outlets like the Baltimore Banner for the Maryland coverage I want. I can't take this any more. For a major USA-based paper, it's time to look elsewhere.
@PamelaBarroway@TonyStark It will make me sad not to renew WaPo this time. I'm digital-only now but I felt so grown-up at 24 or 25 when I finally got my own paper subscription delivered to my apartment and didn't just snitch discarded sections on Metro in the mornings or my building's break room at lunch! But it's one more thing Bezos has ruined.
Not sure how a tyrant can write ‘do not oppress and do not be oppressed’ with a straight face but a lot of this reads like he cribbed it from accounts I’ve blocked in left Fediverse.
@TonyStark Maybe if he hadn't pushed for the death penalty for five innocent young Black men, I'd celebrate a little less. He brought every bit of this on himself with his hubris. Funny, if he'd had a little thicker skin when our first Black president made fun of him at a dinner, he wouldn't be a convicted felon today and would just be an old man with bad hair hosting season whatever of a dumb reality show.
They should add footnotes, too. Like Babe Ruth’s entry should say “Never had to hit against Satchel Paige.”
This is a very good thing although 80 years too late.
If only white men were not so insecure about everything and have to create artificial barriers and rules to give themselves an advantage over people of color and others.
@Heimdall It's about time these players are getting their due.
It's fictional, but for those who haven't seen it, the newer A League of their Own series on Amazon Prime has a story line about a barnstorming Black baseball team.
It’s a pattern. Clinton balances the budget and hands it to Bush #43. Bush #43 gets a second term because of 9/11 and then tanks the economy due to flimsy regulation on lending and Obama is left with the an economy in tatters. Obama fixes it.
Trump got off to good start because Obama teed it up for him.
What were you doing 4 years ago?? Besides fighting other shoppers for toilet paper as the unemployment rate soared to 14%?
@TonyStark Four years ago? I remember waving to my parents when I dropped off their groceries and not being able to see family who lived across the state line. I did have niblings in my bubble and got to spend a lot of time with them, but my pleasure in that was surely not worth the school and socializing with their peers it set them back.
Another day, another climate action by the Biden administration, this time providing another $900 million from his signature infrastructure law for school districts to buy 3400 clean school buses, which not only reduces emissions but improves student health and positively impacts lower-income and non-white communities the most.
Nobody else running is as qualified or has a better platform.
@TonyStark I hope the climate action people will take note and vote for Biden in November. Anything else is a vote to watch the world burn.
Also, one of my frustrations is how many kids are driven to school, by their own parent. Some of that is poorly-planned neighborhoods without sidewalks so even the closest kids can't walk, which also makes for long bus rides for kids who live further out. At least if you're going to drive your kid, carpool with other families for fewer idling cars.
@HankPym The article does mention this, but I'd like to emphasize that hormonal birth control treats medical conditions other than pregnancy. It can make a huge difference in quality of life. It's obvious that Republicans don't care about women's quality of life, but all of these politicians trying to come for hormonal contraception really worry me.
Asking everyone out there to vote blue and to think about the years ahead of their children and grandchildren or a woman who has to put up with this crap of Republicans telling them they can't make their own decisions about their bodies but that Republicans are making decisions about their bodies. Fuck this.
@Pepper The state senator trying to pass this law is inspired by his brother-in-law giving his sister the miso/mife combo without her consent. States already criminalize assault, and provide for extra penalties for assault on someone who is pregnant and miscarries. There's no need to criminalize possession of safe medications unless all you want to do is force women to stay pregnant or have severe hardship not to be. Drive across how many state lines to pick up a prescription.