David Rosnick

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Fallen physicist. Avid bridge player. Longtime CEPR (DC)

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At what point do we admit Israel declared war on the UN?

An Israeli attack has killed at least 16 Palestinians and injured 50 others at UNRWA's Al-Jaouni school sheltering displaced people in al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the strip said on Saturday.

Israeli attack kills at least 16 at UNWRA school for the displaced in Gaza, ministry says | CNNwww.cnn.com The Israeli military says militants were operating in the area. A displaced man at the school says children are among the injured.

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Among other questions, I wonder how we got to the point where “separation of powers” means the judiciary can prohibit the executive from holding itself accountable. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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Trump tells his rally crowd Chuck Schumer has “become a Palestinian.” Second time this week he’s used “Palestinian” to describe non-Palestinians he dislikes as if the word is a slur. I remain skeptical of the claim that Trump becoming president next year would improve the lives of Palestinians.

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1/9 Fascists are not civil, but they demand that you be civil. Fascists crush up feelings of personal resentment and snort it in lines, like cocaine. Aggrievement is their drug.

Please subscribe if you can to Forever Wars. Even when aggregating news @attackerman.bsky.social is offering important stuff. And he doesn't beat around the bush, as you'll certainly notice several times over in this latest installment. Respect

"With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate?" asks @attackerman.bsky.social

Netanyahu, As Predicted, Humiliates Bidenwww.forever-wars.com With Lebanon on the brink, how many wet willies is Biden prepared to tolerate? PLUS: The "most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II" is a failure

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Jamaal Bowman was called antisemitic for saying Israel's claims to represent all Jews make Jews less safe. But that's not antisemitism—it's just a statement of the very, very obvious. www.discourseblog.com/p/of-course-...

Of Course Israel Makes Jews Less Safewww.discourseblog.com Jamaal Bowman is getting attacked for saying that Israel claims to represent all Jews. But Israel does exactly that, all the time.

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It is difficult to fully express how deeply the Israeli state was built on horrific war crimes that in order to exist they literally have to keep doing. But it is rot all the way down.

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life hack: add “hospitality” in your search terms and you’ll find them.

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...an early script called for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton to walk by two dogs humping on the campus, but specified that "it must be beautifully shot." Nichols said he showed the scene to Sylbert and she said, "I know just how to do it! Afghans and lots of fans!" She was one of the greats.

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I don't want to drink it, I just want a chance to swirl it around a little, ostentatiously sniff around it, and then confidently proclaim that it is "corked" and demand they open another tomb that has been stored properly

new death juice just dropped

Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remainswww.theguardian.com Reddish-brown liquid found in untouched 2,000-year-old Roman tomb is a local, sherry-like wine

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This is a real AP story from 1991. Yitzhak Shamir, then the prime minister of Israel, straightforwardly explained that it was fine for the Zionist movement to use terrorism to establish Israel — Shamir himself had been a terrorist — but it was unacceptable for Palestinians.

The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line

Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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I feel like it doesn't help Israel to have so many prominent supporters who are frothing sociopaths

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This is your reminder that antitrust law is a criminal offense and if anything should lead to jail time, jacking up rents across the country in unison should do it.

Landlords use RealPage to jack up rents, often with the majority of units in a city using the software, allowing it to raise rents in unison - leading to FBI raids and a criminal investigation Turns out RealPage is the brain-child of Harlan Crow, most famous for taking Clarence Thomas on vacations

FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixingwww.dailykos.com A tip of the hat to David Cay Johnston, who opened his interview on the Mark Thompson Show yesterday by noting a story that, so far as I can tell at this time, has been completely blacked out of the n...

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for only $30 you, too, can give your 9-year-old the gift of brined, homophobic drudgery.

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Well this is bad

Yikes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing the sample size of the household survey in the monthly jobs report due to budget constraints. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via Bloomberg #econsky

US Jobs Household Survey Size to Be Cut Due to Budget Constraintswww.bloomberg.com The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing the sample size of the household survey in the monthly jobs report due to budget constraints, the head of the agency said at a conference Friday.

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So it was a land grab after all. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/w...

In the West Bank, Guns and a Locked Gate Signal a Town’s New Residentswww.nytimes.com Since the war in Gaza began, armed Israeli settlers, often accompanied by the army, have stepped up seizures of land long used by Palestinians.

Kitten has figured out how to open drawers and cabinets… noisily. Has decided doing so is a fine nighttime activity. Sigh

WTF doesn’t even begin to cover it

A plastic bag. Over a student's head. At UC Santa Cruz.

Disappointed but #pwhl Minnesota deserved this game. Not even an exciting final game

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I dream of the day we don’t have to listen to national anthems before sporting events (or “God Bless America” during them). (And even as I say this, I’m continually annoyed by flag code violations during this stuff.)

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alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does

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My wife, an avid amateur vexillologist, loves flying controversial historical flags at our various properties and I am powerless to stop her. I hate my flag bitch wife.

SCOTUS gutting the VRA was predictably awful

The Texas GOP might recreate the old schemes that segregationist Democrats used to shut out urban voters & let white rural conservatives dominate politics. The Warren Court struck those schemes down, but the Roberts Court seems ready to roll the clock back. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Coward of the Countyopen.substack.com I noted in my last post that the Republican Party is engaged in an anti-democratic campaign of minority rule, and the Texas GOP has helpfully provided yet another stark illustration of that fact. The ...

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Here is every current law clerk for Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. What are their backgrounds? What are their specialties? What are their links to matters, people, or institutions before the Court?

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PWHL Boston plays better when they play an aggressive, physical game. This has been true of all Boston pro women's hockey teams.