Saeed Jones

Ugh I wrote about this back in January: “There’s something particularly cruel about a decision to willfully deprive millions of parents the comfort of knowing that their child won’t go to bed hungry.”

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

Opinion | These Republican governors chose to let some kids go hungry this summerwww.msnbc.com The GOP rejection of funding for the Summer EBT program will effect an estimated 8 million school-age children.

*twerks while waving corndog scented-sparklers*

I just had my first corn dog in a decade because I found a mythical box of plant-based alternatives I don't often feel like this country is worth celebrating, but damn, this corn dog is

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Erik Inglis

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Don’t talk too loudly about Democrats increasing funding for cops, it helps Trump! Don’t talk too loudly about Biden bankrolling a genocide, it helps Trump! Don’t talk too loudly about the man y’all say will protect us from Trump being too incapacitated to protect us from Trump, it helps Trump!

It would be nice if the aging president stopped funding a genocide and stopped being coddled by white people who can apparently only perceive one problem at a time.

Be nice if that existential threat to democracy got as much coverage as the president's aging, wouldn't it?

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Saeed Jones

Gaza City in the north is experiencing really horrific bombardments right now- while families are on the streets trying to go to a safe place that doesn’t exist 😢

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gdeck

Yeah, that’s basically it. Like, this season is just leading us directly toward a January 6 parallel and ummm, no thanks?

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Self-deprecating ghost

I read show recaps.

I really need to stop watching #TheBoys. I don’t enjoy it. The satire doesn’t really make me laugh or think. I’m more of a rubbernecker than a viewer at this point.

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Saeed Jones

An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of Gaza.

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

“Even some Democratic allies have said they believe the White House failed to address the president’s aging with transparency and candor, allowing it to fester while the party lost key months in the effort to vanquish Trump, who they believe is a potentially existential threat to democracy.”

Interviews with more than three dozen aides, advisers, lawmakers, governors and other Biden allies paint a picture of the Biden team’s failure over the past nine days to contain a crisis that is tarnishing his legacy and threatening his presidency.

Biden thought he had it under control. Then it got worse.www.washingtonpost.com The inside story of the Biden team’s failure over nine days to contain the crisis from his debate with Trump.

I was being sarcastic, jesus.

Someone should just tell Biden there’s another wave of college students protesting genocide, that’ll put the pep back in his step. He’ll be renewed, revivified, reinvigorated!

Biden thought he had it under control. Then it got worse.www.washingtonpost.com The inside story of the Biden team’s failure over nine days to contain the crisis from his debate with Trump.

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Saeed Jones

It’s been clarifying to see people express resentment for anyone not in lock step discipline in pushing a party line rather than express any honest criticism or doubt as an obligation to be seen as responsible citizens.

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Saeed Jones

UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

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Perhaps more than anything else in this war, Rafah's destruction and depopulation is a resounding US failure to stand up to its words www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/w...

In Rafah, We Saw Destruction and the Limits of Israel’s Gaza Strategywww.nytimes.com Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.

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Saeed Jones

The US and Israel owe Palestinians hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations and aid after this conflict is over.

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The fact that the US is actively pretending that the Israeli government has accepted a deal that it hasn't accepted at all probably isn't good.

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Jerry Newmark

Really makes you think!

Oh, wow. Truly good and inspiring news.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

“Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its objectives are met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as talks over a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war were expected to restart.”

Hamas says it's waiting for Israeli response on Gaza ceasefire proposalwww.reuters.com Hamas is waiting for a response from Israel on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the militant Islamist group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part of a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war in Gaza.

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Nikki Columbus

Because Biden wants it to happen. And the US is the biggest player (and funder) in the geopolitical game.

“Dozens of Palestinian civilians are killed and wounded after Israel’s air force attacked another school sheltering the war-displaced.” “Another day. Another month. Another school hit,” UNRWA’s chief says.”

Dozens of Palestinian casualties after Israel attacks another Gaza schoolwww.aljazeera.com Facility sheltering 2,000 war-weary civilians is targeted a day after a school attack killed at least 16 people.

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Sela of the Disastral Clocktower

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run, don’t walk!!!

It’s all good. I knew the plot.