chargrille

ProPublica, 4 days ago to random

A New Mexico judge has lifted a temporary order that had stopped the city of Albuquerque from throwing away the possessions of homeless people without providing notice and an offer to store their belongings.

https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-lifts-order-albuquerque-homeless-encampments

chargrille, 9 days ago to H5N1

Who is tracking #AvianFlu #H5N1 closely?

Somewhat closely?

Who should I be following?

I have questions about the quality of research identifying temperature at which the virus is guaranteed to be killed.

Other questions too. Always with the questions.

mekkaokereke, 9 days ago to random

🤔This is an article attempting to understand Black men voters' lack of enthusiasm for Biden... that doesn't include the word "police" once. Like, not even included once!

Y'all aren't even pretending to listen.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-voters-opinions-michigan-joe-biden_n_6647a22ce4b00e1a0a6c0fd5

The article also repeats the lie that Black people didn't turn out for Hilary like they did for Obama, which is another not so veiled way of victim-blaming Black people for the most successful and egregious voter suppression campaign in modern US election history

chargrille, 9 days ago to random

CNN reporters identified an 18yo high school student from Beverly Hills who beat UCLA students with a stick, who were encamped on their own university to protest the #genocide in #Gaza.

CNN approached his parents, "who expressed support for him & revealed that he will soon leave for Israel to join the Israeli occupation forces"

He should be awaiting charges in the US, not fleeing the country.

Query: what happened to Meir Kahane's cousin who tried to kill NYC students with his car?

BlackAzizAnansi, 9 days ago to random

Do y'all think other countries committing atrocities will receive the same type of rightful and long due backlash that Israel has been receiving.

Will there be a boycott against China for their treatment Uyghurs?

What about Saudi Arabia's treatment of folks in Yemen?

chargrille, 10 days ago to random

Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was targeted by US CBP this week. They took his phone & asked him questions like did he believe Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, &if he had any Palestinian friends.

My first reaction was that CBP doesn't know the first thing about Israeli historians, & likely Israel's govt told the US to target him. Turns out Pappe believes Israel's govt was involved.

It would be a good time to read his work. #Histodon #Lawstodon

https://www.huckmag.com/article/zionism-is-not-judaism-myths-about-israel

gerrymcgovern, 10 days ago to random

What good is AI if you don't have a planet to use it on?

Microsoft released its 2024 Sustainability Report on Wednesday, and it's mostly bad news. Last year, Microsoft's emissions went up 29%, and it used 23% more water, primarily due to "new technologies, including generative AI."

https://au.pcmag.com/news/105283/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources

The Great Lying Machine is eating our environment and spewing out toxic misinformation. Big Tech has become a clear and present danger to all our futures.

inquiline, 11 days ago to Columbia

Well well well

"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

#GazaProtests #policing

chargrille, 11 days ago to random

chargrille, 19 days ago to random

Among Kahane’s other visions were an ethnically-segregated education system [&] dismantling…democracy, calling for a state based on Jewish religious law…Israel outlawed Kach as a terror organization in 1994 (the U.S. followed a year later) [but] the core members of Jewish Power—Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Michael Ben-Ari, & Benzi Gopstein—are all disciples of Kahane…they have variously persecuted Palestinians, leftists, African asylum seekers, & the LGBTQ community"
https://www.972mag.com/as-kahanists-return-israels-fascist-sideshow-takes-center-stage/

Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League and for whom the Kahanists are named, was a fascist. He wanted to remake Israeli society by expelling Palestinians and making Jewish law the law of the land. He believed in Jewish supremacy, was fixated on ethnic purity, and declared antisemitism in the diaspora necessary in order to prevent assimilation. Violence and militarism were, for Kahane, instruments through which to ensure national rebirth. The JDL manifestos Kahane wrote in the 1960s and '70s in New York contained seeds of this fascist ideology. The policy platform his party, Kach, ran on in the 1984 Israeli elections, and which got him elected, was explicitly fascist. It's important to state this unequivocally. Referring to 'Kahanism’ without naming its ideological pedigree makes it impossible to have an honest discussion about this latest evolution in Israeli politics. From fringe to mainstream Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last
Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last point was a particular obsession for Kahane: his political rallies in Israel regularly featured histrionic, concocted tales of scores of Jewish girls kidnapped and taken to Palestinian villages; and during a Kach election broadcast in the 1980s (delivered, curiously enough, in English), he warned of “the destruction of Israel not through bullets but through Arab babies.” His party’s security principles, meanwhile, continued the theme of righteous Jewish violence that informed his writings for the JDL — violence that he invested with both a biblical lineage (Bar Kokhba, Judah Maccabee) and a redemptive potential (an end to Jewish oppression). His Second Amendment-style JDL slogan, “Every Jew a .22," made aliyah in the form of a call to give the Israel Defense Forces a “free hand” when dealing with Arabs — in other words, a shoot-to-kill policy with no questions asked.