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Every critique of Biden seems obligated to start with "he's a good man but..." but he very clearly doesn't view palestinians as people. His career is full of support for racist policies, but just his response to Gaza and even muslim americans should be enough to dispel this.

I wrote about one of the most infuriating subplots of the Biden crisis: the insistence that he is a "good man." Please look at the genocide in Gaza and then try to tell me that. www.discourseblog.com/p/please-don...

Please Don't Try to Tell Me Joe Biden Is a Good Manwww.discourseblog.com It is simply not true.

Good shout. Also just in general stop trying to apply euro election results to the US as if the US has an actual left wing party! Its just Macron v Le Pen! The metaphor just doesn't work, but the lesson below is still worth learning.

easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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(Via Ben Ansell from the other place)

How much lower can these hacks sink? Shorten had a presser with Pauline fuckin Hanson!

Fatima Payman’s decision to quit Labor party will ‘empower opponents on far right’, Wayne Swan says

Fatima Payman’s decision to quit Labor party will ‘empower opponents on far right’, Wayne Swan sayswww.theguardian.com Government MPs express disappointment over WA senator’s decision as Greens and crossbench praise move Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Fatima Payman says she is “grieving” after deciding to quit Labor to sit as an independent, a move the party’s president, Wayne Swan, claims will “empower Labor’s opponents on the far right”. Payman said on Thursday she felt she had no choice but to quit Labor after her advocacy for the Australian government to recognise a Palestinian state. She claimed voters were “frustrated” at Labor’s position on the war in Gaza, and that she was displaying “Labor values” in the positions she had taken. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...

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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady

Change in Headline

Just really sick shit done by Labor in response to her having principles. Continously leaking racist bullshit to pliant journos while complaining out the other side of their mouths that she is derailing their agenda.

Fatima Payman resigns from Labor party 'with a clear conscience' and moves to crossbench – video

Fatima Payman resigns from Labor party 'with a clear conscience' and moves to crossbench – videowww.theguardian.com Western Australian senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party but will stay in the upper house as an independent. Payman has told a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra that she was 'deeply torn', but saw 'no middle ground' and did not believe her principles aligned with the leadership of the Labor party over Palestine. The 29-year-old was elected to the Senate in 2022 for a six-year term representing Western Australia ► Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube Fatima Payman quits Labor but will remain in upper house as independent Continue reading...

I describe this phenomenon as the "not having an ideology be your ideology" position and it has governed the Democratic party for 40 years.

Something real bad is happening over on Twitter holy shit. I just saw some real bad tweets about immigrants from folks I had previously thought were anti-racist progressives

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Time to see who the centrists hate more, actual ethnonationalist fascists or socialists who want a more generous welfare state. Common sense would indicate they should block the far right everywhere... reality however...

JUST IN: Polls closed in first round of France elections. Two main French TV estimates (combines early results & exit poll) show strong far-right. Far-right bloc: ≈34% Left bloc: ≈28-29% Macron bloc: ≈20-22% What does this mean? What'll happen? Follow this thread ⬇️

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I presume anyone who follows me know this, but: Macron called elections 3 years early, for no clear reason. Even his cabinet didn't know until 1-2 hours before he announced it. Now far-right on brink of power, & his party is poised to lose at least half its seats.

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my normie facebook friends are now expressing wishes for biden to drop out and i'm just amazed at months and months of "don't criticize biden or the bad orange man wins" has now become "biden's brain doesn't work, that guy needs to go tomorrow" all from the same people

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absolute worst moment of the debate: on the topic of abortion, Trump's weakness + the issue that has propelled Dems to victory across the country... ...and Biden decides to just pivot to a favorite talking point of Trump's, migrant crime? i still can't get over that one. how

I can't comprehend such a level of copium. Might as well point to a debate in the 60s as a reason Biden will be fine in a comoletely different election 60 years later.

never happened before www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/u...

Democrats Fret Aloud Over Obama’s Chances (Published 2011)www.nytimes.com Elected officials and party leaders at all levels said that their concern about President Obama’s vulnerability in 2012 has intensified as the economy has displayed fresh signs of weakness.

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Bluesky yesterday: all of you dang leftists are underestimating Bidens chances and don’t realize how unhinged you sound to normal america Bluesky five minutes into debate: the Mayan prediction about the end of the world was about 2024 and soon the great wind bird Azacuatel will descend upon us all

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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Julian Assange reunited with family after landing in Australia

Julian Assange reunited with family after landing in Australiawww.theguardian.com Supporters and family members, including his father, John Shipton, and wife, Stella Assange, gathered in Canberra to welcome him Follow live: WikiLeaks founder lands in Australia Julian Assange has landed in Australia and been reunited with family after accepting a plea deal that brought his 14-year legal saga to an end. The WikiLeaks founder touched down in the Australian capital of Canberra just after 7.30pm on Wednesday, before walking across the tarmac to embrace his wife, Stella Assange. Supporters who had braved the cold could be heard applauding as he arrived, with some cheering “we love you Julian” and “welcome home”. Continue reading...

Somewhat accurate and another reason the democratic party needs to be burned to the ground in order for the US to become an actual country

I am going to say it again - blaming all of this on money is going to keep progressives and leftists from learning lessons from all of Bowman’s unforced errors. Once you are elected you have to recognize that you’re a Democratic insider, and that your constituents are Democrats. AOC is good at this!

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I guess they're going full Hitler now www.discourseblog.com/p/i-guess-th...

I Guess They're Going Full Hitler Nowwww.discourseblog.com Is it bad if you approvingly invoke the Nazis while demanding genocide in Gaza?

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To all those one degree to the left of me politically: you are fools who do not understand how the mechanisms of politics actually work To all those one degree to the center of me politically: you are fools who do not understand how the mechanisms of politics actually work

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Comparisons to apartheid South Africa often flatten one's ability to understand Israeli society but vis a vis the relationships to the regions they inhabit, South Africa's apartheid system fell in large part because the white government over extended itself in multiple simultaneous fronts of war.

Times of Israel article on agitation by Israeli far-right activists for settlement of southern Lebanon also highlights remarks by various Israeli politicians (in and out of current government) advocating invasion, occupation of Lebanon's south: www.timesofisrael.com/fringe-far-r...

Fringe far-right conference to advocate occupation and settlement of south Lebanonwww.timesofisrael.com Uri Tzafon organization sends eviction notices to residents of Israel's northern neighbor by balloons and drone, says Jewish settlement is 'only solution to conflict in north'

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Users of Elon Musk's twitter discovered that any upload of the Nova Music Festival photo is instantly met with a community note no matter what the text says

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It's difficult to describe all the ways in which the foreign policy media and govt apparatus is unable to have a complex discussion about something when the US state has a clear position on it. The US is on Israel's side here and every statement they or their media makes is polluted by that fact.

"Hamas wants U.S. guarantees that the war will de facto end. But the Americans cannot provide them since Israel won't commit to that. The United States wants a clear path to postwar Gaza and regional realignment. Israel [yet again] refuses."

Netanyahu conned the U.S. Now Biden must make tough decisions on how to end the Gaza warwww.haaretz.com ***

Home | mainstream.newsmainstream.news Weiterlesen

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European voters when they see Hitler particles

🤯 WILD scenes in Paris right now. Head of conservative party *locked down* party headquarters after striking a deal with far-right, to prevent party leaders who want to fire him from holding meeting. Others are in front of building, say they'll find way to get in, say he's "gone crazy."

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"Biden [is] the best domestic policy president ... since at least Johnson. But like Johnson, Biden has done his level best to mar that record with an indefensible foreign policy project," writes @ositanwanevu.bsky.social. www.ositanwanevu.com/where-were-a...

Where We're Atwww.ositanwanevu.com Writing from Osita Nwanevu.

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There Are Cathedrals Everywhere For Those With The Eyes To See

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surely the biden admin and campaign team actively WANT to lose, right? not even 24 hours after calling trump a felon, something that is basically the freest shot ever, they choose to implement an unpopular trump policy so that a search of "biden trump" shows Yet Another L.

President Biden announced an executive order on Tuesday to essentially block asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, a major shift in how the U.S. has historically handled claims for protection. Here’s how it will work.

How Biden’s Asylum Order Workswww.nytimes.com The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.