KimPerales

KimPerales, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

It's wonderful that the hostages were freed, but why was there no effort to protect civilians?

Largest hostage rescue op. since the latest war began, taking 4 to safety out of central Gaza amid the MIL’s heavy air & ground assault. At least 94 dead Palestinians,💔incl. children, were brought to local hospitals.

Israelis were jubilant as the army said it freed N Argamani, 25; A Meir Jan, 21; A Kozlov, 27; & S Ziv, 40 -all were well.

#IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #Netanayahu https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-8-6-2024-a5d1ef04763a5ed17de2d050ebc5d490#

KimPerales, 3 days ago to random

“How was a DAYTIME rescue effort, when civilians were out and about at the market that was bombed as part of the effort, consistent with the legal duty to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians?” -K Roth Children & shoppers wouldn’t have been in the area at night. Netanyahu’s IDF has no respect for innocent civilians. Current estimates indicate there’re 274 Palestinians dead💔, including many children, from the attack. #IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #Netanyahu https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/6/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-nightmare-as-hospital-copes-with-nuseirat-dead

KimPerales, 3 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to journalism

How many newspapers' editorial boards will join the Philadelphia Inquirer?

The former president’s criminal conviction and broadsides aimed at the legal system further demonstrate why he is unfit for any office, let alone the Oval Office, writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.

#Biden #Media #Newspaper #TFG

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/inq2/when-it-comes-law-donald-trump-believes-rules-dont-apply-editorial-20240609.html

KimPerales, 3 days ago to humanrights

Tragic, three hostages were killed by the IDF in the attack, while, thankfully, four were saved, ~274 Palestinians were killed & hundreds injured💔:

"Hamas says 3 hostages, including an American, were killed in Israeli rescue raid."

#HamasIsraelWar #Palestinians #IHL #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #HumanRights

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/06/09/israeli-war-updates-gaza-hamas/74035396007/

KimPerales, 4 days ago to random

Rs'🚨existential threat:

No going back to some more innocent conservatism. If Trump wins -bad. If he doesn't win -might be worse. Logic: imperative to achieve, lest civilization collapse, & good ppl suffer a kind of living death. Conservatives talk in every GEN about whatever it is they identify as the latest existential threat to civilization.

The demand is for the abolition of all distinctions… attacks the integrity of the family/eternal decrees of God...

#GOPFascism https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-29-my-political-depression-problem/

KimPerales, 3 days ago to climate

Depressing, esp. for our planet, conservatives are winning in Europe, but the US & UK can change the trajectory. Please share what's at stake with your followers, friends, family, colleagues...

We have but one🌎!

"Europe’s center of political gravity is veering to the right.

Center-right & far-right parties are set to be first past the post in Sun’s EU election in the most populous nations: Germany, France, Italy, Spain & Poland."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-european-election-results-2024-swings-right-france/

KimPerales, 4 days ago to journalism

MSM is still failing miserably, & unless the they change, America is doomed: “Earth to media: The criminal prosecutions of Trump are legitimate. The “revenge” he’s promising would be wholly illegitimate. Time to make that a whole lot clearer. He’s vowing evidence-free prosecutions. #Media #TFG #Felon https://newrepublic.com/article/182480/trump-dr-phil-hannity-bizarre-moments-alarm

KimPerales, 4 days ago to random

The Biden administration is delivering for American workers, creating jobs that blows away those generated in #TFG’s & the Bushes’ administrations, combined: “In May 272,000 jobs were created in US, far exceeding expectations. Wage growth was robust. My job tracker now comes in at:

33.8m jobs - 16 yrs Clinton, Obama
15.6m jobs - 3+ yrs Biden
1.9m jobs - 16 yrs 2 Bushes, Trump

Biden 8x jobs as last 3 GOP Presidents combined.” -S Rosenberg #Bidenomics #VoteBlue2024

KimPerales, 4 days ago to workersrights

A victory for Waffle House workers, but their pay is still abysmal. One employee in Georgia said she would receive a raise of $3 per hour or more. After working 30 years with the company, she currently earns $2.92 per hour before tips. #WorkersRights #CorporateGreed https://www.huffpost.com/entry/waffle-house-is-raising-servers-pay_n_666359c9e4b0bf0f8165771b

KimPerales, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

A federal grand jury is investigating NYC Mayor Adams on allegations that his 2021 campaign received illegal donations from the Turkish govt, 2 of the sources told the Daily News on Fri. A 3rd source noted that in the past 3 weeks at least 1 person connected to the mayor has received a federal subpoena from the Manhattan US ATTY’s office with specific instructions prohibiting the recipient from speaking publicly about its contents. Justice may finally prevail. #Corruption https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/07/federal-grand-jury-reviewing-evidence-as-part-of-probe-into-mayor-adams-campaign-sources-turkey/

KimPerales, 6 days ago to random

#Netanyahu isn't welcome:

Multiple news sites report that the Netanyahu govt, via its MIN of Diaspora Affairs, ran a multi-M$ AI-powered disinfo. campaign designed to generate support for their Gaza war among US elected officials & gen. public.

Our so-called ally—within weeks of the #Oct7 Hamas terrorist attack—was covertly creating fake SM accounts pretending to present American voter views in support of IL. Their targets were esp. ones who're Black & Dems.”
#WarCrimes
https://www.thedailybeast.com/benjamin-netanyahu-is-no-ally-hes-a-liar-and-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-address-congress

KimPerales, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to journalism

RW #Media & groups step up the lies & #disinformation, but thankfully for Dems, they're losing their touch. Their judgement is misguided. Dolly is universally beloved, esp. by Gen X & seniors & Gen Z & millennials are concerned about #climatechange. Defending #TFG is⬆️fraught.

The Federalist on 6/6:

"Dolly’s right that all should be treated with love & kindness, but when we refuse to label sin a sin, we’re doing more harm than good."

"Fed Judge Caught Stumping For Biden’s Green Agenda In MT."

KimPerales, 5 days ago to journalism

Uninformed voters are a challenge to Dems:

“Imagine if the Biden campaign Twitter feed posted video of a supporter confronting Laura Ingraham, cursing at her, & saying this: ‘Biden will get rid of all you fucking conservatives. You conservatives are gone when he fucking wins.’”

“Do you think the press would cover that?”

The answer is obviously yes! But I’m not concerned here with #media bias or hypocrisy. I’m interested in the reach of information, & how it propagates. https://www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-journalists-cover-news

KimPerales, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Russia

#Russia has caused many of the crises in the world. Rs continue to align with #Putin:

It's likely that the Russian services had something to do with the Marywilska fire -further bolstered when a fmr RU soldier was arrested north of Paris this week after explosives detonated in his hotel room. Warnings from European intel. agencies that RU is plotting acts of sabotage-in its escalation of the stand-off with the NATO MIL alliance. RU is turning to criminal gangs-.
#Ukraine https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1nLAyR

KimPerales, 5 days ago to random

Swift is contributing to the spread of #Covid. She missed an opportunity to not sicken her fans. She could've had cute 'Swifty' masks made, & included them in the ticket price. She's a billionaire. Studies show, masking at superspreader events slows the spread of Covid.

Taylor Swift spreads Covid: thousand of fans fall ill after Madrid & Paris concerts
More than just the music was viral as Swift concerts in Madrid and Paris ended with thousands of fans ill with Covid.
https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/taylor-swift-spreads-covid-fans-ill-madrid-paris-concerts_1230525_102.html

KimPerales, 5 days ago to random

Even Bloomberg agrees, #TFG's immigration 'crackdown' solution would be disastrous. But Bloomberg also unfairly accuses Pres Biden of causing the current debacle. It's Republicans, that for decades, who have thwarted all attempts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that solves many of the problems:

"The former president’s policies would maximize chaos & cruelty while doing little to address the underlying problem."

#Immigration #GOPSabotage #GOPCruelty

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-07/donald-trump-won-t-fix-america-s-immigration-crisis

KimPerales, 5 days ago to ArtificialIntelligence

#Algorithms are generally bad, esp. for workers, but good for corporations:

Variable pricing (surge pricing) has a much more insidious effect on workers than on consumers. When a worker is selling their labor… it's about their ability to survive.

Hospitals have begun using apps to allocate tasks based on⬆️sophisticated calculations of how workers move thru space & time -fastest nurse -not necessarily the best at sanitation or skill.

#CorporateGreed #WorkersRights
https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-07-urge-to-surge/

KimPerales, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Republicans are lying about the jobs data again, some are posting on SM that 'illegals" are taking Americans' jobs.

"Labor force participation rate for prime-age workers at highest level since 2002. Hiring is still being driven by foreign-born workers, as US born workers-who skew older -increasingly age into retirement.

On net, number of native-born workers with jobs is about flat relative to pre-pandemic. Unemployment rates for native-born workers are super low *3.8%."
-C Rampell
#Bidenomics

KimPerales, 5 days ago to random

Fed judges are bribed by RW dark$.

Doomed😷mandate:

Weeks before she issued the ruling, Mizelle had attended an all-expenses-paid luxury trip from a conservative group whose primary mission is to persuade more fed judges to adopt the use of corpus linguistics. For five days, Mizelle & more than a dozen other fed judges listened to the leading proponents of corpus linguistics.

The Judicial Education Inst., received >$1M from Koch’s network & DonorsTrust.

#GOPCorruption https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa

KimPerales, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Russia

Russia is better at spreading #disinformation than Republicans *they're in cahoots:

A deepfake video of a State Dept official falsely claiming a RU city is a legit. target for UA strikes using US weapons.

Pro-RU #socialmedia accounts amplifying stories about pol topics such as immigration & campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Sham news sites spoof real publications or pose as legit-sounding outlets. “#Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our #elections."
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/g-s1-2965/russia-propaganda-deepfakes-sham-websites-social-media-ukraine

KimPerales, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Shop at Kohls *rebuffed the RNC.

WI-based Kohl’s will not sponsor any events re to the RNC in Milwaukee.

We need a current list of companies to avoid *include Fiserv & Northwestern Mutual.

Kohl’s is one of the FEW big cos. in WI that’s opted out of the convention. WI based Northwestern Mutual & Fiserv are among the cos. sponsoring the event.

R Priebus, CHM of the city’s host CMTE: virtually all of WI’s Fortune 500 cos. have pledged FIN support.

#CorporateCorruption https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/kohls-donation-trump-republican-national-convention.html

KimPerales, 6 days ago to random

#Netanyahu has escalated his attacks. He has no regard for Pres Biden, will continue the war through yearend, esp. if his wish comes true, that #TFG wins... The famine is worse, there's a lack of water, not enough #humanitarianaid, #warcrimes & #IHL violations are more frequent...

MSF: "MIL strikes continued last night in the Middle Area, Al-Aqsa hospital is barely coping with the influx of patients and dead people. “It’s a scene of devastation. This hospital is a sinking ship.”

• K Huster, MSF

KimPerales, 6 days ago to journalism

Disseminating #TheBigLie can be expensive:

Lying about our #democracy can cost you. A jury awarded R Freeman & S Moss $148M from Giuliani. Fox News settled with Dominion for $787M after facing the prospect of a lengthy & damaging trial. #Media orgs like OANN/Project Veritas/Salem Media have issued retractions & apologies for their false election claims. We don’t know exactly how this rebalancing towards truth will impact the 2024 election. Those actors-certain to pause-. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/lying-about-the-2024-election-will

KimPerales, 6 days ago to random

They're going to get voters swatted, injured, killed...

TX's' top election official Thurs issued emergency guidance to counties aimed at protecting ballot privacy after Votebeat/Texas Tribune confirmed the private choices some voters make can later be ID'ed using public, legally avail. records.

“It's imperative that we make every effort possible to provide protections to voters while balancing the public’s interest in transparent #elections,” Adkins -election div. dir-. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/06/texas-voting-ballot-secrecy-public-records-elections/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1717700390&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook