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Just another former grunt NCO with bad takes.
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes
Just so disgusted by the (all but 2) Republicans and 62 Democrats (see below) who voted to ban US officials from acknowledging the death toll in Gaza. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024313
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Israel’s push to create a ‘dead zone’ in Lebanon: Over nearly 9 months of simmering conflict with Hizbollah, Israel’s military has laid waste to swathes of southern Lebanon. We spent the past couple of months looking at the extent of the damage: www.ft.com/content/9b4c...
Israel’s push to create a ‘dead zone’ in Lebanonwww.ft.com As Hizbollah and Israel trade cross-border fire, radar data and interviews show attacks have ravaged 5km-wide strip of land
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The foundation that owns Wikipedia said it respects the decisions of volunteer editors after receiving a letter from Jewish groups calling on the foundation to override a move by editors to declare the Anti-Defamation League an untrustworthy source on Israel & Zionism. www.jta.org/2024/06/25/u...
Wikipedia’s operator rebuffs Jewish groups’ call to override editors on ADL trustworthiness - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org More than 40 Jewish groups told the Wikimedia Foundation that the decision to label the Anti-Defamation League "unreliable" makes the Jewish community less safe.
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Here's to the destruction of slavery and defeat of slavers! Since we don't have an Emancipation Proclamation Day or an Appomattox Day, I'm celebrating them both today going to Gettysburg, where treason and slavery received one of their death blows
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Just contributed to a worthy cause. Please help if you can.
Guy I served with as an airborne infantry officer fifteen years ago has taken responsibility for his interpreter and his interpreter's family. It's a big lift. Anyone who's in Michigan near Ann Arbor or who can spare a few bucks, please consider helping in some way. www.gofundme.com/f/help-justi...
Help Justin Assist HD's Family's Transition to America, organized by Tara Campbellwww.gofundme.com My cousin Justin is a former U.S. Army Captain who attended… Tara Campbell needs your support for Help Justin Assist HD's Family's Transition to America
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A reminder that the reason that Republicans like cops is that cops are typically targeting Black and Brown people. When cops actually keep right-wing extremists in check, Republicans hate them. newrepublic.com/post/182420/...
Pennsylvania Republicans’ Disgusting Reaction to January 6 Officersnewrepublic.com Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were booed by state lawmakers.
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The current cowardly establishment take is that the nyc trial of Trump was unserious and the only legitimate things to try Trump for just happen to involve getting past the veto of federalist society stooges who would support a violent overthrow of the government if it meant putting Trump in power.
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This is the piece I wrote for the JRB back in Sep. 2023. After Oct, 7 it didn't make sense to publish it. I'm posting it now as-is because I think it might help think about the Haredi conscription crisis. Hopefully, you find it useful. LMK what you think.
Just before the war, I wrote a piece about Haredi conscription for the JRB that ended up getting scrapped because of Oct 7. I wonder if it's worth posting it without modification.
The IDF and Israel’s political crisis - September 2023docs.google.com
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TIL: The 1st Maverick was Black? How did I not know this?! I could have been annoying in dozens of viewings of Top Gun over my lifetime! "Y'know, the first Maverick was a Black man... " 🤔 I'll have to work this into the Black History Month megathread somehow...
Tuskegee Airmen won the 1st ever "Top Gun" competition in 1949 (flying older planes) but the United States Airforce didnt recognize the African American winners until 1995?!? 😑
‘Mission Accomplished’ – Tuskegee Airmen recognized for 1949 Top Gun victorywww.af.mil In 1949, the 332nd Fighter Group from Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, won the U.S. Air Force’s inaugural Fighter Gunnery Meet “Top Gun,” a worldwide gunnery competition where the best pilot teams came together
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While attempting to purchase a condo, I learned that the seller did not want to sell a home to me because I am Black. You can read the full article in The New York Times, written by Debra Kamin, with photos by Erin Schaff here: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/r...
She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.www.nytimes.com A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.
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Yeah, if tape comes out of Trump actually saying the N-word, his supporters will start saying it publicly and they’ll have it branded on campaign hats within a week.
I mean, Trump has said many things that would normally have ended his political career. If he began using such words now, there'd be an initial shock, but his core supporters in the GOP we be, "Well, finally. It's about time we get to say '****** ****** ******.'"
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They could not care less about the hostages, and yet in America you’d think this war is actually to save them.
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there’s a powerful set of educated but out-of-touch liberals who still don’t quite grasp (1) how far the conservative base has drifted into radicalism and (2) how close most “educated” conservatives are to that base
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“My classes gave me the vocabulary to understand dehumanization, the portrayal of the colonized as a violent primitive.” Hisham Awartani’s poignant reflection on violence, education, and identity is sure to earn him the ire of those who would prefer their symbols stay silent.
Opinion | I Was Shot in Vermont. What if It Had Been in the West Bank?www.nytimes.com The dehumanization of Palestinians has become a norm.
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There's a dynamic which I see repeatedly. Diaspora Jews who support the Palestinian struggle call out antisemitism among the wide solidarity movement - because antisemitism it's wrong, and because antisemitism undermines the struggle. They then get pushback, called Zionist and worse. 1/
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“Part of the problem is that items critical for hospitals are banned by Israel which says they can be used by Hamas for military purposes. The list of items it considers dual-use include some water disinfection materials.”
Volunteer U.S. docs in Rafah hospital say they've never seen a worse health crisiswww.npr.org Because of the Israeli operation, they lack the most basic supplies and must face the decision whether to let one patient die to save another. They also say malnutrition is contributing to deaths.
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I haven't been very keyed in to the news for a few days so I missed the stories about Airman Roger Fortson who was killed by a cop in his own home in Florida. I just saw these pictures and they're breaking my heart. He clearly loved being in the Air Force and his family. He didn't deserve to die.
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Great Princeton University Press sale: 50% off all books, including my Divided Armies, for the month of May using code FIFTY.
Divided Armiespress.princeton.edu
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i think the cack-handed Big Hammer brought down on the elite colleges over the protest camps is both a panic response to elites realizing that their consensus isn't getting transferred to the next generation of Right People and also something that will significantly accelerate that problem for them
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Do normies know that there've been at least 4 attempted vehicle rammings against pro-Palestine demonstrators in the past week, one of them successful? A knife brandished at student campers at Chapman U last night? Scores of students hit by cops with pepper spray and batons in past 24 hrs?
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Israel says they won't accept the ceasefire deal agreed to by Hamas, according to Reuters.
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The American right is telegraphing their intent: Weaponize federal science grants, and use them for political purposes. Scientists have no choice but to get out ahead of this. The world has changed from the bipartisan advocacy for NIH, and it wasn’t changed by us.
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The people who complain about class warfare won the war - the richest 400 Americans now pay the same effective tax rate as the poorest half of America. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...