If you honestly believe that fascism hangs in the balance in the November presidential election, then you should be volunteering to canvas door-to-door, to phone bank, to stuff envelopes; anything to GOTV for Biden. Venting your spleen on social media at those who won’t vote for Biden seems like smug self-indulgence if you aren’t walking the walk.
“Despite efforts by #Biden and Congressional leaders to assert that the #ICC has some kind of anti-#Israel bias, nearly every leader ever prosecuted by the ICC prior to 2023 has been African, including presidents of Liberia, Libya and Sudan. #Netanyahu and Gallant would be the first US-allied leaders ever indicted by the ICC.
It appears, then, that in Washington’s view, international humanitarian law should only apply to leaders not supported by the #UnitedStates”
“Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces were shooting indiscriminately at any Palestinian who moved in their vicinity, including people in their cars and families who went to pick up their children from school ….
“‘#France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence and the fight against impunity in all situations,’ the foreign ministry said in a statement late on Monday.
While U.S. President Joe #Biden called the legal step against Israeli officials ‘outrageous’, the French foreign ministry took a different stance.” #ICC
University of #Michigan president calls in #police to end campus encampment 2 days before he testifies to #Congress on pro-#Palestine encampments at universities. These college administrators are terrible at hiding their fear of #GOP fascists:
“Officers from the university’s Division of Public Safety and Security dressed in riot gear were on scene to sweep the 50-person encampment as early as 5:45 a.m., May 21”
“White nationalists and neo-Nazis joined forces with Zionists (including some saying they were Israelis) to attack #UCLA’s #Palestine Solidarity Encampment, whose residents included a large number of Jewish students. The assailants were not affiliated with the university. One neo-Nazi was heard shouting, ‘we’re here to finish what Hitler started,’ without any apparent protest from the self-identified Zionists.” #studentprotests#freepalestine https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/uclas-unholy-alliance/
“Unlike immunity to influenza .., prior immunity to #SarsCoV2 … doesn’t inhibit later vaccine responses. Rather, it promotes the development of broadly inhibitory antibodies …. people who were repeatedly vaccinated for #COVID19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and … some distantly related coronaviruses” https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/
“When a #police department upgrades its #guns, what happens to the old ones? A CBS #News investigation found #law enforcement agencies routinely resold or traded in their used duty #weapons, a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
In a 16-year period ending in 2022, the ATF identified more than 52,000 guns recovered from #crime scenes that were once used by police agencies. It took a federal court order for the ATF to release that data”
“By a slim margin, #Dartmouth undergraduate #students have voted ‘no confidence’ in President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership in the wake of a controversial crackdown on pro-[#Palestine] #protesters earlier this month, Dartmouth Student #Government announced on Wednesday.