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Local media on what appears to be an attack on a synagogue in a town in Michigan. Please don't cite unverified outlets or randos on social media and stay safe. Love to my Jewish friends.
And on the flip side stand conscientious objectors. Young people who have every practical reason and social pressure to join in the abuse. Kids who face prison and even torture (from solitary to hours in stress positions) to refuse service in the IDF.
Two visions of very different futures.
This is so goddamn sickening.
Sodomy of a helpless prisoner with a knife, horrible injuries, video evidence, and nothing.
We can choose not to prop up this horror show of a military.
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
Will Ogles be censured for his comments?
Because it's quite hard to read this as anything but a call for the expulsion (or worse) of 4.5 million people on the basis of their religion.
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
“An organization like FAFO could allow prosecutors to trade research on novel legal theories designed to head off immunity arguments, share recommendations for expert witnesses, and even help strategize on how to sue the federal government to access evidence or get a case back into state court. It could facilitate collaboration between prosecutors in neighboring counties both subjected to CBP and ICE deployments, or between a local DA and their state AG. “A lot of what we’re looking at has not been tried yet in the court system,” Conover said. “Rather than each one of us facing something, God forbid, like Minneapolis and finding ourselves having to invent the wheel, we can do it together.””
Struck by this quote from Tuscon’s local prosecutor on why she joined a nationwide group discussing how to prosecute federal agents
boltsmag.org/how-state-an...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
So we have yet another incident where a US citizen was shot and killed by ICE, and the official ICE account differs from bodycam footage.
This is the story that took nearly a year to break and now we have the bodycam footage.
This is one of the things that drives me crazy about our legal system: penalties for illegal government action are purely defensive.
Why not do tons of illegal things if the worst that happens is some are ruled illegal?
(In theory contempt of court or impeachment are solutions but they're so rare)
"Rising sea levels are a major threat to coastal communities across the world... Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling... Average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is horrific and can't be tolerated.
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.
🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐡🐟 Fishes
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Snopes also sits at 'Unrated', which feels about right for now. If true, persistent and as widespread as alleged, should be independent reports / recordings soon:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Until / unless confirmed independently from MRFF, some reasons to be skeptical of this story here:
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...
Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
So sorry you had to go through that growing up. This news is so totally consistent with everything we know about Hegseth & his loyalists, but still also shocking to me to see it happen at scale in the US military if that makes sense?
I know it must hit different when it's personal.
This is possibly the wildest thing I have ever read. US military commanders across dozens of units allegedly saying that the attack on Iran is to bring about Armageddon in keeping with Biblical prophecy.
Await confirmation, but ...
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
✏️ A Marginal Note in the Shape of a Duck in an Ottoman Manuscript, 18th Century
This (and continuation in next post) is a pretty good list:
A hover fly resting on a green slender leaf. It has black and yellow bee-mimicking stripes on its abdomen, but distinctly fly shaped wings amd eyes.
I also really love Hover Flies
Hard same! Post yer (native) bees (and flies! And wasps!)
Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon
Interesting backstory around Fetterman, Lamb, and Kenyatta in the 2022 Senate election:
Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?
Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.
The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.
"There’s nothing preemptive about these strikes [on Iran], and there’s certainly no legitimate self-defense claim."
Read the latest piece by international law expert @alonso-gd.bsky.social on the reasons why Trump's war on Iran is illegal.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/internatio...
the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also
It's not even that weird vs other countries: UK spends ~$100/person/year on public media vs <$2 in the US.
John Olivwr had a good discussion of this huge spending deficiency and it's ties to democracy:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...