Yastreblyansky

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Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?

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Neyanyahu and Mossad sabotaging the latest ceasefire proposal www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Israeli government accused of trying to sabotage Gaza ceasefire proposalwww.theguardian.com Mossad chief gave mediators list of new demands and it was not clear whether Hamas would accede to them, reports say

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Since so many of you have cancelled the NYTimes, here is a gift link to an incredible story. Really it is two stories, interwoven, about themes I’ve been thinking about - kidnapping, misogyny, inheritance, survival, and trauma — a sometimes difficult read and very thoughtfully considered 🎁

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escapewww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

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Melissa Gira Grant

On A1 today? When it came out on Thursday, I did a thread on Twitter and reprised a few bits here. More than her Vaseline-coated lens, I was upset about the ahistorical nature of the piece. Sort of a history textbook acting like the West was empty before settlers arrived. Nazis? Never heard of 'em.

I checked Kressin's CA home address. It's an hour and a half from Palmdale where Richard Butler moved from in the 1970s to found the Aryan Nations in a Coeur d'Alene suburb. Far from "new," this "resettling" is a continuing migration. tweet link: x.com/clancynewyor...

Vive le peuple www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Live Updates: France’s Far Right Is Denied a Majority by a Left Surge in Elections, Projections Showwww.nytimes.com The far-right National Rally appeared to have fallen short of predictions, but no coalition captured an absolute majority in Parliament, according to projections. Months of gridlock could lie ahead.

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1/ One of the shocking things that has been brought to light in the last two weeks is how little the ruling clique of the Democratic Party believes in its candidate, its stated purpose, its core values, its policy platforms, its party loyalists, its voters, and the general public.

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Yes, please.

some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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“Christian” nationalism/fascism writ large

For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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1/21 Four great thinkers of the early industrial capitalist era who created schools of thought, who still resonate today, even though the majority of people misunderstand them if indeed they even try to understand them: Darwin, Marx, Einstein, and Freud.

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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

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It’s starting to break through, keep talking about how batshit crazy and evil Project 2025 and the GOP are

Interview with Rep Jared Huffman, mostly about Project 2025 lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/jun/29/...

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Project 2025 and the Environmentlostcoastoutpost.com

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hilzoy

I suspect I already know the answer, but did the reporter ask what "architecturally significant" meant?

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“I personally would happily pay high H.O.A. fees to be in a neighborhood where I have to drive by an architecturally significant church every day, and I can hear church bells,” he said." My neighborhood is like this, but has no HOA fees. He might not like the Pride flags on the churches, though.

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.

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lmao, they’re running from *threads*? PG-rated twitter? twitter for people who can’t fight? lol

Wow. @nytimes.com has closed their Threads account and left the platform after days of getting just shredded in the replies for their handling of Biden post debate. Now they're getting dog piled on Instagram for running from Threads.

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With Trump off Twitter and speaking just to his most diehard fans by tin can and Truth Social, most people have no idea or have blocked out what a--pardon my English--bloody maniac he is. They don't get that he will replace the government with, essentially, Proud Boy suck-ups who learned to blog.

“Explaining Project 2025” with Don Moynihan | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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Wow, maybe competence and experience really does matter for public services. Who knew? (Anyone who studies public organizations. Or, really, anyone with an ounce of common sense).

According to research from @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social, in TX "Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math."

Texas kids lose up to 4 months of learning with new uncertified teachers, study findswww.dallasnews.com Students with new uncertified teachers lost the equivalent of about four months of learning in reading and three months in math, the Texas Tech study found.

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HOW THE PRESS LEARNED TO LOVE THE PUTIN/TRUMP ALLIANCE Trump said one interesting thing at the last debate. And the media ignored it.

How MAGA trained the press to love the Putin/Trump alliancei-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io Trump said one interesting thing at the last debate. And the media ignored it. With the press primarily dedicated to flaming concerns or concern trolling about the age of the president of the Uni...

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Matt Shipman (he/him)

Veterans have been organizers and movers of every modern anti-war movement and the official discourse about “the troops” almost always erases them completely, it irks to no end

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something something when measure becomes target it ceases to be good measure

Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far right www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

‘We’ve been there’: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far rightwww.france24.com In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking pow...

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Mike Fragassi

Also re: David Axelrod chicagoreader.com/news-politic...

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David Axelrod endorsed Paul Vallas for Chicago's Mayor, so, he can fuck all the way off. Receipts: twitter.com/davidaxelrod...

so less than 2.5% of Congressional Dems plus the guy took the credit for Howard Dean’s accomplishments before decimating state level Dem numbers and helping UK’s Labour and Italy’s center left get trounced

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The Economist has some astonishing figures on Russian losses in Ukraine. They surpass all losses by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation from 1945 to 2022 combined. Up to 728,000 soldiers eliminated, confirming Ukraine’s figures. 1/2

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Don Moynihan

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

The apocalypse of "do your own research"

Well this is grim

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It's genuinely helpful that the press has successfully signalled that they will not treat Kamala Harris generously or fairly if Biden steps aside for her. Clarifying!

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Chris Fitzgerald

They never liked Biden. And if you think it isn’t rooted in classism then you’re just wrong. The guy from Scranton who didn’t go to an elite school for undergrad or law just isn’t good enough for the spoiled asshole publisher who had his way bought into Brown, which tells me a lot.

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Cowboy “Hipster Dufus” Socialist

No, of course I don't. I don't live anywhere near the water, for one thing.