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ZhiZhu

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Journalism #News #USPolitics #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.

I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.

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ZhiZhu, to Women
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"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the #Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa #hospitals, including of #women and #children, with many reportedly showing signs of #torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.

...as of 29 April 2024, of 34,488 #Palestinians killed in Gaza, 14,500 have been children and 9,500 women."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

#Palestine #Israel #War

foser, to random
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New from me and Will Royce in @theprospect on a SCOTUS corruption angle that often goes overlooked in coverage of decisions: https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-02-covering-friends-of-the-court/

ZhiZhu,
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"The flagrant of the has received a great deal of media attention & public scrutiny in recent years. But that scrutiny has been largely siloed away from coverage of the Court’s substantive deliberations & . It’s time to break out of those silos.

The story of the justices’ lucrative relationships with -wing is inseparable from those billionaires’ judicial shadow-lobbying via amicus briefs."

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I just learned that Jed Shugerman wrote a piece for the New York Times evaluating Bragg's case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/bragg-trump-trial.html

Edited: I have now read it, thanks Joel.
As I have done, Jed leaves open the possibility that the prosecution may develop the case better.

@joelman in the comments offered a gift link. Thanks again.

My weekend blog post should help anyone with questions.

ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of this explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

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ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of @jaykuo 's explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

ZhiZhu, to business
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"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday banned #noncompete agreements for most #US workers with a new rule that will bar employers from enforcing clauses that restrict #workers from switching employers within their industry...

The new rule makes it illegal for employers to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires companies with active noncompete agreements to inform workers that they are void."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

#Jobs #Employment #Business #FTC #Law #USA #News

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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The Nevada Current telling it like it is in and lede:

Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states

"Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass officials and their employees and discredit in Nevada and a dozen other states."
https://nevadacurrent.com/2024/04/21/trump-rnc-promise-aggressive-election-interference-in-battleground-states/

ZhiZhu, to Texas
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"One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her... [another horror story]... And in , a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby died.

Complaints that pregnant were turned away from emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. overturned "
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-20/emergency-rooms-refused-to-treat-pregnant-patients-leaving-one-to-miscarry-in-a-lobby-restroom

anneapplebaum, to random
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The pro-Russian caucus inside the GOP was defeated on Saturday. Now it's time for the US and Europe to join forces and win the war

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/republican-ukraine-russia-aid/678150/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31Myo7gT0JLHWazLZU02WIY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

ZhiZhu,
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"What is now clearly a pro-Russia caucus has consolidated inside .

The lesson is clear: Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the , whether the tin-pot autocrat in or the Communist Party of , now knows that a carefully designed campaign, when targeted at the right people, can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible."

JuliusGoat, to random
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I wrote about American Nazis and what they believe, and the white Christian movement that calls itself "conservative," and the differentiators between the two. Or perhaps I should say, the lack of them.

The danger that's coming, and that which is here already.
https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

ZhiZhu,
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"I'm reminded today that the were defending statues erected in public spaces to honor leaders of the , who were a traitorous gang of who back in the Sixties (the eighteen sixties) waged a war against their own country, and murdered hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens in order to preserve and expand their practice of enriching themselves by enslaving Black people."

https://www.the-reframe.com/americans-who-want-to-kill-americans/

TexasObserver, to poetry
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“Freshly roused children flock toward school ...”

Sara Bawany shared this heartbreaking , in this month's magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/poem-elegy-for-the-insert-school-shooting/

ZhiZhu,
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@TexasObserver
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ZhiZhu, to Ukraine
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"If you knew that most of the military aid that approves for was being spent right here in the , quite possibly in your own congressional district — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing for workers — would you want your representatives in Washington to support it?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/18/ukraine-map-districts-weapons/

ProPublica, to Israel
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BREAKING: Secretary of State Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes

A special State Department panel told Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken any action.

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

ZhiZhu,
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"Multiple State Department officials who have worked on relations said that Blinken’s inaction has undermined Biden’s public criticism...

The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum...

requires the to cut off assistance to any foreign or law enforcement units... that are credibly accused of flagrant violations."

molly0xfff, to random
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really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

ZhiZhu,
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@drexer @molly0xfff

The once published an article saying that wasn’t really that bad. He was just using as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his campaign.

The NYTimes more recently published an article saying that isn’t really that bad. He is just using threats of & as a way to attract followers & keep them excited about his political campaign.

ZhiZhu, to Russia
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"The [Russian Foreign Ministry] document for the first time provides official confirmation and codification of what many in the elite say has become a hybrid war against the West. is seeking to subvert Western support for and disrupt the domestic politics of the and countries, through campaigns supporting isolationist and policies”


https://wapo.st/3vMlQ39

ZhiZhu, to Israel
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"For three-and-a-half long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness, surrounded by bodies, as she told emergency dispatchers that tanks were rumbling closer.

...Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on."


https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

ZhiZhu,
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"Twelve days later, when a #Palestinian civil defense crew finally reached the area, they found Hind’s body in a car riddled with bullets...

The ambulance lay charred roughly 50 meters away (about 164 feet) from the car, its destruction consistent with the use of a round fired by #Israeli tanks, according to six munitions experts."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #WarCrimes #Genocide #News #WorldNews

ZhiZhu,
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"Humanitarian officials have warned that a system of coordination with Israel’s military, designed to protect their aid deliveries and lifesaving ambulance maneuvers, is broken. strikes on a convoy that killed seven aid workers in on April 1 and stirred global outrage...

Hind’s case touched a nerve around the world... her recorded cries for help offered a glimpse into the terrors faced by civilians."

https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

ZhiZhu,
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"Around 1 p.m., Hind’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan, called [her uncle] Samir. She told him they were surrounded and the Israeli army had opened fire on their car.

​​Everyone in the vehicle, except for Hind and Layan, were dead, she said. Samir called another uncle, Mohammed, who eventually reached the PRCS."

Listen to Layan's call using this
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #WarCrimes #War #Children #Genocide #News #WorldNews

ZhiZhu,
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"The girl screamed, and the call dropped. "Hello,” Qam shouted. “Hello?”
...
After Qam’s call with Layan ended, the PRCS operations room called back immediately and Hind answered. Layan was dead and tanks were moving toward the car, she told another dispatcher, Rana Faqih. Hind described the presence of tanks at least 5 more times throughout the call."

Listen to 6 yr old Hind's call using this :
https://wapo.st/4aCoCqA

dangillmor, to random
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This headline should have read, "Lake Mead vandals caught on video destroying ancient rock formations"

"visitors" is far, far too kind a word for these creeps.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/15/lake-mead-video-rocks-destroyed/

ZhiZhu,
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@dangillmor

"Earlier this month, a posted to captured two men destroying ancient formations at National Recreation Area in . National park rangers are asking for the public’s help in identifying the visitors, who could face federal charges for vandalizing protected land."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/04/15/lake-mead-video-rocks-destroyed/

Link to Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5qM2V-g7KX/v

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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@lolgop @georgelakoff

To refute lies:

Always LEAD with the TRUTH, not the lies.

DO NOT put the lies first in your tweets, headlines, and/or articles.

Giving lies primacy, gives them validity.

Give the truth primacy, not the lies.


(<for the )

ht: @georgelakoff

ZhiZhu, to politics
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"The modern #GOP is supposed to be pro-family, pro-tax-cuts and anti-“waste, fraud and abuse.” So why are #Republican #senators trying to tank a bill that is all three?

In January, lawmakers hammered out a kids-and-companies #tax deal: #Congress would extend a few business tax breaks that had recently expired in exchange for expanding the #ChildTaxCredit. The bipartisan compromise turned out to be a very good bill"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

#US #Politics #Taxes #Family #USPolitics #USA #News

ZhiZhu,
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"the legislation would improve the living standards of 16 million low-income and lift 400,000 out of poverty in its first year. It would increase incentives for research and development. And the icing on the cake: The whole thing would be paid for by curbing a pandemic-era break that has produced an avalanche of fraudulent claims...

It also offers a chance to prove their pro-family bona fides after ."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

ZhiZhu,
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"Today, senators are trying to kill the legislation...

Some worry about handing President a win so close to the (I’d argue the 400,000 kids lifted out of poverty would be the real winners, but to each their own.)

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said this explicitly in January: “Passing a bill that makes the president look good... means he could be reelected.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

ZhiZhu,
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"Some allege more substantive concerns...

He and his colleague Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) have also complained about the bill’s cost.

Specifically — it’s hard to believe I’m actually writing this — they’re mad that it doesn’t cost anything.

Seriously. They have both said they don’t want to set a precedent of paying for tax cuts, since congressional have a multi-decade-long record of not doing so."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

ZhiZhu,
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"As a reminder, the pay-for in this bill is the elimination of a fraud-riddled pandemic program, whose continuation would waste tens of billions of dollars. Usually, ending a program like this is something would cheer. But not, apparently, if it threatens their ability to add to the in the future...

One thing in common among all these obstacles to the bill’s passage: They have nothing to do with the well-being of poor "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/11/child-tax-credit-republicans-senate/

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