It is simply not possible to evacuate over one million people in 24 hours from the zone of attack in Gaza. The answer to horrific atrocities by Hamas cannot be collective punishment upon an entire population, 50 percent of which are children.
Yes, in the confines of the tiny Gaza Strip, third most densely populated territory on the planet, where are one million people to go? The other side of the street? They would remain fodder for Israeli carpet bombing.
Slaughtering more civilians would not seem to be a solution to the slaughter of other civilians. It would perpetuate vendetta - already a cancer - and further delay political resolution between Israelis and Palestinians.
"Trump fraud trial: Allen Weisselberg grilled on financial report discrepancies."
What journalists writes "fudged" when they mean that the court ruled that Donald Trump committed pervasive fraud when he issued his financial statements "to broker deals and obtain favorable loans?" When he found fraud so pervasive, he ruled the companies should put in receivership (wound up) as a threat to the marketplace?" What competent editor lets it through?
I'd like to apologize to the nice people seeking my advice about writing digital privacy and security guides for vulnerable populations. All of that yelling is just PTSD and I probably shouldn't swear so much.
In your line of work, you need a better safety valve than most. Swearing is the least problematic one I can think of. Better for your long term health than a Highland malt. :-)
Ex-Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro wants a new trial after being convicted of contempt of Congress for bucking the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol but before he is sentenced in a few months, he has also asked a federal judge to let him leave the United States for a medical procedure.
Convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress, Harvard PhD, Pete Navarro, faces up to a year in prison on each count.
But at 74, the ultra-hard right, well out of the mainstream Navarro wants to leave the US for a medical procedure? Last time I looked, he was a millionaire. That gives him options for care, and the ability to pay for it, within the US. If so, that would make his going overseas a choice, one the court should not entertain.
"Associate Justice Peter H. Moulton temporarily paused the September 26 summary judgment decision by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron that set in motion a receivership process and the dissolution of the Trump Organization."
That description by the WaPo is way out over its skis. The appellate court stayed only the cancellation of the business licenses. The trial continues, as does the work of the monitor and all of Engoron's other rulings.
A year ago, all major economists were predicting a recession as the Fed moved to raise interest rates to battle inflation. But Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ investment in infrastructure and manufacturing kept the job market strong and resilient, and now there is almost no talk of a recession. Bidenomics is working. Inflation is down, unemployment at historic lows, real wages rising. We should proclaim it far and wide and push back against the doom and gloom the media feeds us and feeds upon.
And the doom and gloom spread by the Fed, which still seems to want to raise interest rates. That might protect banks. But it would claw back the gains made by Bidenomics that Main Street Americans badly need to survive.
This is standard language to describe historical events, including atrocities, but it needs revision. The error is a form of passive voice, laying blame on an event rather than its perpetrators.
The "early 20th century rubber boom" is not what "enslaved and exterminated Indigenous communities" in the Amazon, the Congo, and elsewhere. It was American and European corporations, and sometimes kings, backed by their govts, that did the enslaving and exterminating.
Given that Trump's lawyers avoid the main holding in US v. Nixon, that presidential immunity is not unlimited, but gives way in the context of a criminal prosecution, I'm not sure "creative" is how I would describe their arguments.
NOW: Donald Trump has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss his election subversion indictment in D.C. outright, arguing 'absolute presidential immunity' protects him from the allegations charged.
LINK to DOC below.
Story to come. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24016064-trump-motion-to-dismiss
Twitter was good at providing one of the most useful things on the internet: surfacing interesting stuff elsewhere. But Musk doesn't get the internet or why that's useful.
After he bought it, the old Twitter being good at pointing readers to interesting stuff elsewhere might be one of the things that bothered Musk most. Those things are not about him. Nor do they advance his apparent goal of making Xitter the ne plus ultra platform for the ultra-right wing.
The justice's clerk was a woman, naturally, who had the temerity to be in a photo with a Democratic congresscritter. The clerk has no control over the court or how it deals with Trump's case. They just do a hard job for a modest salary in an expensive town.
But Donald can't help but reach out with his tiny hands to slam the weakest person within reach, to make himself feel better. And Republicans want so volatile and predatory a personality to retake the White House. Uh, huh.
It is hilarious, in an evil way, for Trump to complain about this first trial taking place, "in the middle of his campaign." That's exactly when he wants. Trump's legal woes are his campaign - and his principal fundraising tool.
That's the same false argument he uses to complain about not having a jury trial. His own lawyer refused to ask for it, instead, checking the box that says, no jury trial, which comes just below the box about asking for a jury trial.
When opening windows for toddlers to throw things out of, it helps to be on the ground floor and to remember that one of those things will end up being the toddler.
Today I read about a 29 year old who makes 115k a year and still cannot afford to buy a house.
I am almost a decade older and I am living paycheck to paycheck. I am going to die paying someone else's mortgage aren't I.
Hire the young and inexperienced, underpay and overwork them, provide little or no training, suck them dry, lay them off is not a business model restricted to journalism. It pretty much describes American capitalism.
To borrow from another industry, clear cutting is cheaper and more profitable, regardless of its consequences to others.
Is Nikki Haley wrong that listening to Vivek Ramaswamy makes the listener more ignorant? Not one bit. He's a con man, only more successful and well-dressed than George Santos.
BREAKING: Federal judge in #GeorgiaDENIES#JeffClark's bid to transfer the criminal charges against him to federal court.
Judge JONES also rejects Clark's bid to characterize the special grand jury process that preceded the indictments as civil, rather than criminal. #legal#TrumpIndictment
Kevin McCarthy actually said this: “If we have to play into overtime to curb spending and secure the border, I’m prepared to do it.” Let’s get one thing straight. There is NO OVERTIME. Overtime means you shut the government down and don’t pay federal workers, including military personnel, for their service and time. What a joke. What a loser.
The story of why Elon Musk fired most of the election integrity team after saying he would expand it is stupider than I even imagined. The team's manager liked a tweet calling Elon a dipshit.
