Senator Duckworth also said this year that the Iraq war (in which she was gravely injured) was "endless, needless, unjustified", but that she is nonetheless "proud of every mission [she] completed in Iraq."

Jim Apple@jimapple.bsky.social · last wk.

On June 11, you issued a press release calling this an "illegal war of choice". Do you generally think that military personnel who are killed or injured in illegal wars of choice are, as you say here, "fallen heros"? On both sides of the conflict?

I wonder if there is another person on the planet (excluding people already in custody) whose arrest would poll this positively among the US public. Maybe Putin?

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.

New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

Elon Musk is offering premium Twitter users a savings account with 6% APR.

Jim Apple@jimapple.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵The "depositors" of Yotta Technologies, a company that, like X Money, used a multi-bank sweep program, lost tens of millions of dollars with no FDIC recourse. Yotta paid a single one million dollar fine for deceptively advertising FDIC coverage, and was required to inform their previous (1/?)

I'd be interested in finding any other major publication that has framed the reaction to any other police department as "protesters, many of whom were Black" disrupting an event for "white concert attendees".

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2w ago

Wisconsin’s capital city cancels signature summertime events after police shooting

Scott Yenor, who authored the article and who does not have a medical degree, has said that "independent women" are "more medicated than they need to be". I was unable to find a claim from him that he is "EXACTLY AS MEDICATED AS [HE] NEEDS TO BE". https://youtu.be/EOu9Fby4pro

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

In Illinois, this is illegal to do while driving. I assume this is true in many states. It's not clear to me if the apps have alerts that prompt drivers to do it anyway https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/drivers/traffic-safety/distracted.html

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w ago

Drivers get about 15 seconds (!) to decide whether to accept a job, which means they have 15 seconds to calculate the mileage and time-based rate on offer, all while operating a vehicle in traffic. 27/

That's enough money, from a single year of settlements, to buy every sworn officer a new car. If it continues, it will be enough money to buy every sworn officer a new Bentley every ten years.

Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Chicago taxpayers spent nearly $259 million in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging CPD officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including wrongful convictions & improper pursuits, according to a city report required by the federal court order known as the consent decree. @wttw.bsky.social

Elon Musk has enough wealth to bribe every person in the House and Senate $10 million every year for the next 50 years. After that, he'll have enough money left to pay 10,000 people $50,000 per day to storm the Capitol building every day for four years. After that, he'll have $100 billion left.

🧵 Jesse Watters, whom Miller is speaking to, has said that men must not: eat ice cream in public, eat soup in public, use a straw, shop for food with their wives, drink a vanilla shake, say the phrase "vanilla shake", cross their legs, or wave with two hands. One thing men are allowed to do is ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Stephen Miller: "It's very bold that Democrats would choose Texas to nominate their first transgender Senate candidate who's transitioning into a female. When Talarico goes in for a blood test, blood doesn't come out, instead soy milk comes out. This man has less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett."

🧵I called the Indiana headquarters of the Republican Party (317-635-7561) to see if they had an official stance on Beckwith's public proclamation a week ago that Islam is a "demonic death cult". They did not. Beckwith also announced that, unlike Jesus, who took an unconditional stance that his ...

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says the key to saving America is "giving people permission to hate" Islam, like he does: "I hate Islam. It's a demonic death cult." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

1/? Bill O'Reilly is a disgraced sexual predator. This is body shaming. Out of 8 billion humans, there's certainly some other person (not a predator) who looks like this but is now catching strays because bakoon couldn't find something else to mock disgraced sexual predator Bill O'Reilly about.

bakoon@bakoon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

looking good sir

In democracies, do residents potentially subject to state violence also elect those who control that violence? What percent of adults in areas under state control, including arrests, orders-at-gunpoint, shootings, and demolitions by the IDF or Shin Bet, have the right to vote in Knesset elections?

en.idi.org.il/articles/56081 83% of Israeli Jews rated the IDF’s ethical conduct during the war as 4 or better on a 5-point scale. Only 34.5% support even INVESTIGATING allegations of prisoner abuse, and most of those supporters only support it “somewhat“.

Public Opinion Survey Marking a Year of the “Iron Swords” War

A public opinion survey marking the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks and one year into the

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@karaswisher.bsky.social on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's show: "They gave power to their employees. Now they're talking back. What did you think they were going to do? You indulge children for long enough and give them sugar all day long, they're going to become terrible people."

🧵The Palestine Royal Commission Report is available at unispal.un.org/pdfs/Cmd5479.... Chapter XXII covers, in part, population exchange. It discusses a risk that the existing occupants of what is to become the Jewish state will become a landless proletariat. Additionally, it notes that:

Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social · last yr.

The 1937 "Peel Plan" for an "orderly" and "agreed" population "exchange" - was buried, but its principles - partition and expulsion - lived on to be implemented in 1948 through war, violence and chaos. And that's exactly where the Trump statements are taking us.

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

According to the USDA, 42% of "hired crop farmworkers" did not have work authorization in 2020-2022: www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-...

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brooke Rollins, the Trump official who would oversee agricultural policy said during her confirmation hearing today that "mass deportation, at a scale that matters, is something I support." At least 40% of the workers on America's farms are undocumented people.

In 2023, FIDE, the international chess governing body, prohibited trans women from participating in women's events because they were AMAB, but they also stripped trans men of any titles they won before they transitioned, even though they were AFAB: doc.fide.com/docs/DOC/2FC...

On October 30, 2000, Israel became a party to the amended "Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices", which states in article 7, paragraph 2, that "It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form 🧵 treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDe...

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2y ago

60 Minutes's story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it justified war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/60-minutes-program-on-leban…

From a link in the below ProPublica story, I learned that (globally) governments spend $7 trillion on oil subsidies yearly but only $4.2 trillion on education. www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Art...

Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion

Scaling back subsidies would reduce air pollution, generate revenue, and make a major contribution to slowing climate change

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y ago

NEW: Although Tom Ragsdale’s oil companies owe New Mexico more than $3.5 million for pollution and unpaid fees, the state has recovered only about $50,000. Drillers across the industry have employed similar tactics in what is known as “the playbook.” propub.li/3PiaWZ4

🧵Nuclear winter is the predicted global cooling caused by particulate matter resulting from a massive nuclear war. In 2019, Dinesh D'Souza tweeted "Remember nuclear winter? Of course you don’t. That’s because it didn’t happen. Yet it was all the rage on the Left in the 1980s. A generation from

Peter W🤓@wang.social · 2y ago

Wait, what??

The Trump administration began (but did not complete) withdrawal from the WHO in 2020, and Reuters is reporting that they want to start the process again on January 20. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says

Members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team are laying the groundwork for the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization on the first day of his second term, according to a health law expert familiar with the discussions.

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Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization. Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

On December 26, Gaza's health ministry confirmed the fourth case of an infant freezing to death in 72 hours. A day later, a 28-year-old doctor also died due to hypothermia.

Children are freezing to death in Gaza

On December 26, Gaza’s health ministry confirmed the fourth case of an infant freezing to death in 72 hours. A day later, a 28-year-old doctor also died due to hypothermia. There was one common…

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The union that represents Chicago police officers has printed a column advising members that their spouse might "sneak into court" to get a restraining order by "presenting enough evidence to convince the judge that the petitioner was abused". web.archive.org/web/20241221... or archive.ph/XpJgY

Dan Hinkel@danhinkel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's the Chicago FOP's lawyer in the December issue of the union's newsletter with a column headlined, "Preventing, Avoiding Orders of Protection." "Many times, the spouse doesn’t even understand the repercussions of filing for an order of protection." www.chicagofop.org/news/newslet...

Here is the report: bjs.ojp.gov/document/p22...

John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yearend 2021, only 12.5% of those in prison are there for drugs, vs 63% for violence. My point has only gotten stronger, not weaker, in this age of contested reform. There is no mass decarceration without looking at hard cases.

"A censorship board composed of five Cabinet members prohibited former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first‐person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab‐Israeli war." www.nytimes.com/1979/10/23/a...

Israel Bars Rabin From Relating ‘48 Eviction of Arabs (Published 1979)

Israeli censorship board composed of 5 Cabinet members prohibits former Prime Min Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs account of expulsion of 50,000 Palestinians from their homes near Tel Aviv...

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In a poll by Tel Aviv University from August 2024, 47% of polled Israelis though that Israel should "obey international laws and maintain ethical values in war". www.inss.org.il/publication/...

Joshua Wright’s bio page extols his “concern for students” and “significant public impact”. He has resigned at least two jobs after sleeping with subordinates, including students. He admits this, but he suing some of the students for $108M for his lost wages anyway. web.archive.org/web/20240617...