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adaitsman

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“What is love of one’s country; is it hate of one’s uncountry?” Ursula K. LeGuin "He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good." Philip Pullman

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majorlinux, to random
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So, these kids at public universities and the surrounding communities don't matter?

I can also point this man at a whole city in Michigan, a state Biden needs, who isn't voting for him.

They must be getting swimmer's ear from swimming in all that cash!
https://newsie.social/@LALegault/112394651894115019

adaitsman,
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@majorlinux
Who are you calling under informed, white boy?

Those students who understand what’s happening in Gaza ten times better than you do?

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I understand that Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin committed battery on a police officer's fist with her head while he was arresting her for asking why he was finally restraining a nonviolent Gaza protester. After committing that battery, her head then struck the concrete pavement and the officer applied zip ties to her wrists. She then spent the night in jail.
All hail the brave Atlanta PD for keeping us safe from rogue professors!

adaitsman, to random
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Any journalist incapable of distinguishing between Judaism and Zionism commits a category error that should bar them from the profession.

For example, uncritically allowing Jonathan Greenblatt to call the Columbia protest antisemitic, eliding the fact Jewish Voice for Peace is one of the organizers, should be grounds for firing.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Oh and LAPD at USC. This is probably not going to end well.

And all reporters are like "The cops don't want to be jackboots but these people keep exercising their constitutionally protected rights...!"

adaitsman,
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@BruceMirken @Adam_Cadmon1
Eight stitches on my forehead. My hands were in the air when he hit me. And I had to spend the night in jail.
My crime? “Failure to disperse.” And the arresting officer didn’t even show up at my court date so the charges were dismissed.
Yeah. I know the LAPD.

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@Teri_Kanefield
I wonder if you could help me out on this. The Speech and Debate Clause provides near absolute immunity to members of congress, especially for their official acts in Congress.
Does that immunity extend to treason? Say, for instance, the Chairman of Oversight knowingly uses false information provided by a hostile power in an effort to bring down the president. Does Speech and Debate prevent judicial action against him?

adaitsman,
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@Teri_Kanefield
Thanks for the reply. I hope you don’t mind if I push back a little but I really do want to get this straight.
The same sentence prior to the semicolon, referring to arrest, does carve out a treason exception. Has it been adjudicated that exception does not apply to speech and debate?

adaitsman,
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@Teri_Kanefield
Thank you again for the reply and that makes a whole lot of sense.
Obviously, my hypothetical was a lightly disguised reference to a real person. But let's make it fully hypothetical. If Comer were pulling his antics while there was a declared war with Russia already in progress, would the Speech and Debate clause protect him?
My question really is about how firm the guardrails are, not so much can we go after these guys right now.

GottaLaff, to Ukraine
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GOP can go straight to hell.

Via Natasha Bertrand:

New: "We're basically taking it out of hide."

Without a confirmed budget or supplemental, Army officials say US Army Europe and Africa—which provides training & logistics support to Ukraine—will run out of operations $$ by May.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/19/politics/us-army-ukraine-support-pressure?cid=ios_app

adaitsman,
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@GottaLaff Ah, yes. The party of “National Security.”

What a fucking joke.

majorlinux, to random
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I wonder what "Blue no matter who" will do when their boogeyman can't run anymore?

adaitsman,
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@majorlinux
Hopefully Biden will step aside.

adaitsman, to random
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When Hamas carried out the Oct 7 attack it was clear they were baiting Israel into a broad counterattack on Gaza. What wasn’t clear, though, was why.

With the collapse of the ceasefire following Hamas rocket strikes, our worst fears have been realized.

Hamas doesn’t care about civilian life. Its objective is to destroy Israel. Israel seeks to depopulate Gaza, technically genocide. Hamas calculates this will collapse Israel’s international support, leading perhaps to the collapse of Israel.

adaitsman, to random
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This news makes me sick to my stomach. Israelism is a movie about Jews like me, raised as Zionists but after travel to Israel and observing the profound repression Israel imposes on Palestinians have come to reject the Zionist project. (In my case, the Sabra and Shatila massacres during the invasion of Lebanon were the final straw.) Zionists recognize the ideological threat Jews like me pose to them so they paint us as anti-Semites, closing down free debate on campus.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/university-pennsylvania-hunter-college-israelism-screening_n_6568e323e4b028b0f3cf8517

Likewise, to books
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Tell me a good book you’ve read this year that you’d recommend.

I’ll start: Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
@bookstodon

adaitsman,
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@Likewise @bookstodon trite, maybe, given the movie just came out, but Killers of the Flower Moon was a very good read.

adaitsman, to random
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I'm a liberal American Zionist. When I see news like this, I cover my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and scream as loud as I can "Hamas!" "Antisemitism!" "Israel can do no wrong!"


https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/9/23945651/west-bank-israeli-settler-palestine-gaza-war-violence

adaitsman, to random
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Israel's response to criticism of its genocidal policies is to silence its critics.

"Only Democracy in the Middle East"tm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/01/palestine-us-activism-firings-speech

adaitsman, to random
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I can’t get past the Pod Save America guys in Cleveland last night calling settler colonialism an ahistorical take. Like they’ve never heard of Benny Morris or Ilan Pappé and are unable to see the ethnic cleansing taking place right before our eyes in Gaza and the West Bank.

adaitsman,
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In 2nd grade I used to bring dimes to Hebrew school to plant trees in Israel. 40 yrs later I learned those trees were planted on the ruins of Palestinian villages evacuated at gunpoint in 1948-9 and then bulldozed by the Israeli military. Many of the refugees resettled in Jabalya and other camps, where their descendants are now being killed by Israeli bombs. Israel now wants to cleanse north Gaza, perhaps to annex it as well.

adaitsman,
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"Settler colonialism" is personal to me. My mom's aunt made aliyah in the 1920s, after escaping pogroms in E. Europe she settled with her husband on a moshav near Tel Aviv. I don't know if they bought the land from the inhabitants or from absentee landlords who expelled the residents from their land -- both things happened in the 20s -- but I do know her children and grandchildren grew up as racist as the worst Jim Crow rednecks in the US South.

adaitsman, to random
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Fascists in Israel and the Occupied Territories take advantage of the moment to further their agenda of ethnically cleansing Palestine.

(A Bedouin community in the West Bank has no relationship whatsoever to Hamas, but as detailed in this article is cleansed nonetheless by neighboring Jewish terrorists.)

“You Started a War, You’ll Get a Nakba” - The Atlantic https://apple.news/A-tzj7gJITgy0qboNQJugCw

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    @marcelias The Emerging Democratic Majority.

    Judi’s and Teixeira wrote that book 25 years ago. I’ll believe it when I see it.

    adaitsman, to random
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    One day I was walking around the Upper East Side and came across a Botero sculpture (not this one) in front of an apartment building.

    Years later I went back to look for it but it was gone. The doorman told me Botero had an apartment there and had loaned it to the building, but it had been moved to someplace in Europe.

    Se nos fue ayer el maestro.

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    stevesilberman, to random
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    Overdue: An investigative exposé of this fraud, Joseph Ladapo, Harvard-educated surgeon general of the state with the highest rate of new hospitalizations, telling people not to get vaccines. When will this murderer be held accountable? (Excerpt: https://wapo.st/3LltbuZ)

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    @stevesilberman Who has standing to sue him for dereliction of duty?

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    @Teri_Kanefield Remind me not to get in a legal fight with Jack Smith.

    He's a cold-blooded killer.

    adaitsman, to random
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    I met these guys Wednesday in a little tourist mall in Grand Case, St Martin in the West Indies. The ginger deigned to receive one skritch before walking away. The tuxedo just slept through the whole thing.

    A sleeping tuxedo cat in partial sunlight against the wall and behind a chair leg with a large blue planter near its head

    markwyner, (edited ) to design
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    This wall of historical craft beer from a southern Oregon museum was captivating. Especially their designs, which felt unfamiliar. And the names. Beer names are weird.

    adaitsman,
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    @markwyner Nice to see both Hudepohl and Wiedemann, old time Cincinnati beers my dad used to drink when he worked for the Brewery Workers union whose international headquarters were based there.

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    adaitsman,
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    @ojala I admire your initiative. While I do lots of stuff in the kitchen, arepas just feel too ambitious to me. (Though I have made arepas dominicanas, which is more like a pudding than a bread.)

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