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.
🤔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!
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
I have the strong impression that the people who are running the Democratic party are committing electoral malpractice on a number of different levels. I began to panic when they decided to dump the entirety of our legislative political capital on infrastructure instead of voting rights.
I hope so too. I think if the US were directly arming those countries with weapons while they flattened 70% of the buildings, there would be a much greater pressure towards big protests and boycotts here in the US.
Are we still arming SA against Yemen? There were a lot of protests against Trump's/Pompeo's policy of arming SA and I thought Biden made changes to Trump policy in 2021?
I am not wanting to minimize harm to Yemen but the scale of bombing of Gaza is worse than anything I've seen since US attacks on Baghdad. Maybe even worse than that?
I looked back & while I correctly recalled that Biden made big, consequential changes in early 2021 (in his first foreign policy speech to State Dept) to fulfill his campaign promises, including a commitment not to sell arms to Saudis to use against Yemen, HRW says that he left a loophole. We are still selling arms to SA - ostensibly for use in other conflicts. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/15/biden-doubles-down-failed-yemen-policy
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.
The US shouldn't be using our vast border patrol - which Trump converted into his political instrument, a burgeoning SS, during his regime - to arrest Jewish historians for thought crimes.
All at the bidding of a right-wing authoritarian like Netanyahu.
Do you really want to live like this in the US? Everything must be done to halt this. The Biden Administration has not condemned the police attacks on peaceful protesters.
"A spokesperson for CBP did not comment on Pappe's specific claims, saying in a statement: "Respecting privacy rights of travelers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) does not disclose specific details about individual encounters during inspections at a port of entry."
Pappe: "they took my phone and copied everything on it." #Privacy
"Over the decades, Arab American advocates in Michigan have raised concerns about being profiled at airports"
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."
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.
"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"
Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to #Netanyahu, raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.
I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve #Gaza. His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to #Palestine.
I hope it averts starvation for every man, woman & child in #Gaza.
I hope it averts the deaths of the dozens of children under 5 who are presently dying every week in Gaza.
And I hope everyone who celebrates this step, thinks about the reasons it wasn't taken earlier, even though it could have easily been done by picking up the phone.
So the question is, what will it take to rein in Netanyahu's #genocide that is being carried out by the IDF?
Because this phone call isn't going to be enough. The genocide has been underway for months. Genocide's soldiers, primed with Bibi's #Amalek speech & sent into the ground invasion, will not turn on a dime.
US citizens still want a #ceasefire, an end to war crimes, an end to starvation. The US will need to stop sending them weapons. So call your reps & tell them that.
the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:
He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].
"It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]
"[I understood] that it was going to be some sort of working dinner" re "the humanitarian catastrophe in #Gaza"
"The President walks in…he just says: 'This is a listening session, we're here to hear you guys out…we're working very hard on it.' There's no mention of Gaza, or Palestine, or #WorldCentralKitchen, people who have been killed, the starvation or the famine in the north, or the looming invasion in Rafah, which we're all very concerned about & trying to communicate a sense of urgency"
[Contrast this to Biden's famous empathy for & personalized outreach to grieving people.
There is none of that here. None of it.
He knew the ER doctor was Palestinian American and had just been serving in a hospital in Khan Yunis & must have seen absolute horrors. He didn't ask if he'd lost anyone.
The reception sounds cold AF.
I think you can compare it yourself to other receptions Biden has given to other Americans - or even his embrace in the Oval Office of an Italian fascist.]