Silberdachs

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Bucking pressure from the Biden administration, the new Labour government of the United Kingdom is expected to drop its objections to ICC arrest warrants being issued against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. The UK will also contemplate whether to restore funding to UNRWA in the near future.

Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrantwww.theguardian.com Exclusive: UK government appears unlikely to go ahead with legal bid, while Keir Starmer has spoken with Israeli PM over Gaza ceasefire

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Watch this thread of clips from Bidens WI rally (compiled by @atrupar.bsky.social) & note that Biden is not just cogent, but forceful, here. This is the sort of "evidence" that many ppl, mostly in news media, claim that they want for reassurance that they continue to ignore. x.com/atrupar/stat...

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If you haven’t called your senators and congressperson, take five minutes to ask them to support Liz Warren & AOC’s calls for impeachment of justices and expansion of the court.

#ElizabethWarren

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POST: To be a socialist in the 21st century is to reckon with the horrors of 20th century socialism and still feel that there's a path forward that allows the human race to outgrow capitalism. Or to give a pass to those horrors in a glib and meaningless way.

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

The people I know in Arizona are working like hell to get this on the ballot, and get women out to vote for it. And my experience of Arizona was that, while evangelicalism and conservatism are big out there, "You can't fucking tell me what to do with my life" is even bigger. This will matter.

BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

Smarter people than myself have said it, but a second Trump presidency would look less like Franco’s Spain or Hitler’s Germany and more like “nationwide Jim Crow”. Which is not a relief.

Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

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One thing you can do from the comfort of home is write postcards to voters in swing states. Lots of ways to sign up including with Progressive Turnout Project www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/ and Third Act thirdact.org/act/write-po.... A good project to take on this summer.

Write Postcards to Voters in 2024 - Third Actthirdact.org

The fear I wrestle with: whether Biden wins (as I suspect he will) or whether we get some unholy Trump autocracy, politics from here on out looks very different. I know we would still have politics under a dictatorship, but I don't know what they look like or how to navigate them. And that's scary.

The prospect of a second Trump administration is terrifying to me as an immigration lawyer. Mostly because of what it would mean for my clients. But also, in the back of my mind, because it would turn my only marketable job skill into wet toilet paper.

Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” As someone once wrote.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement

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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

No kings in America. We don’t bow to kings.

“No kings in America” is a great slogan

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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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I am still impressed that the axiomatically true statement "the occupation of Palestine is as illegal as the occupation of Ukraine" got so many people mad yesterday.

The GOP is the party of making women obey men. They are also the party of many other bad things, but I think more and more that "making women obey men" is central to their ideology and project.

"Between 1976 and 1985, states that passed the laws saw their domestic violence rates against men and women fall by about 30%; the number of women murdered by an intimate partner declined by 10%; and female suicide rates declined by 8 to 16%." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorcewww.theguardian.com Republicans in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or restricting such cases

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The ERA is trans rights. The ERA is Obergefell. It’s abortion access. It’s fair pay. It’s parental leave. It’s the transformation in our society and thinking that we desperately need, because so many people have given up on thinking we can do anything at all. The Equal Rights Amendment is hope.

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I know I sound like a broken record, but this is why the ERA matters. It changes the standard for any decision the Court makes on gender and sex equity. It binds them to the Bostock ruling, where two of the current conservatives were in the majority. And that’s just the beginning of what it can do.

🚨🚨🚨 “The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18. The case will be the first opportunity the justices have to consider the constitutionality of such restrictions, which 23 states have passed since 2021.”

Supreme Court agrees to review Tennessee ban on gender transition carewww.washingtonpost.com The case will be the first in which the justices consider the constitutionality of restrictions on gender transition care, which 23 states have passed since 2021.

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"If Biden shows that his red lines are meaningless in Gaza, why should Russia, China or Iran find him credible? If he is too timid to take on an ally dependent on American arms, what reason is there to think he would confront a rival?" Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times.

Opinion | Why Netanyahu Doesn’t Take Biden Seriouslywww.nytimes.com By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.

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Again - above and beyond normal Islamophobia or orientalism, there is a specific animus towards Palestinians that many Americans hold and which we desperately need to confront

Texas woman Elizabeth Wolf arrested for charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian American child www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/u...

A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old child in possible hate crime incident | CNNwww.cnn.com A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to p...

We must deal, too, with anti-Palestinian racismapplyliberally.substack.com The problem is largely unaddressed

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People try their hardest to argue why Israel being exempt from the rules the US imposes onto plenty of other countries is logical or reasonable or actually in America's interest but it really just boils down to "I want Israel to be exempt therefore Israel being exempt is good".

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That’s a normal thing to say, man. That’s a reasonable concern. The other thing that my Jewish friends have articulated to me is that you don’t want to insist that Israel is the place for all Jews because then you’re going to get bigots telling all the Jews to go there.

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Even setting aside the morality, it was extremely obvious from a political, economic, strategic, and logical perspective that the Union should have confiscated the land and resources of the Southern aristocracy and redistributed it to loyal Americans.

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Way too much thought was given to making rebels ok with rejoining the government and not enough to punishing them for being so fucking stupid to think that they should rebel against the government

Worth stating explicitly and often that justice really demanded that the liquidation of every asset of every slave owner to then be distributed to their emancipated former slaves. There shouldn't have been a single slave owner/family with a dime left to their name.

One of a very select few who might actually have been the greatest to ever do it. Almost impossible to exaggerate how good he was at every aspect of the sport.

Baseball legend Willie Mays has died. The dynamic Hall of Famer, who shined in all facets of the game, was 93 years old. cnn.it/3RzMEem