I’ve decided to quit sharing any further reports coming out of the Middle East.
There is so much Bias and Misinformation about the Conflict between Hamas and Israel that I simply don’t know who to trust anymore.
Better to withhold an opinion than to further an erroneous one.
#MiddleEast #Israel #Palestine #Hamas #War
Rock Climbing Anyone?
#Support
Public Citizen, Labor Network for Sustainability, Greenpeace USA, Jobs with Justice, Sunrise Movement, Democratic Socialists of America, 350.org, Working Families Party, Evergreen Action, and Green New Deal Network, today announced plans for a national day of action on October 7, supporting striking auto workers and urging the Big Three automakers—#Ford, #GeneralMotors, and #Stellantis —to meet the demands of 150,000 members of the United Auto Workers #UAW
Trump’s ‘Dollar Store Reject’ Truth Social Platform Ridiculed Amid Investor Crunch
attorney George Conway had this to say about it:
“Wait one MOMENT. You’re telling me [Trump] and [Devin Nunes] couldn’t make a go of Truth Social? You’re telling me a man who went bankrupt 5 times, a wet-brained lower-quartile Congressman, and their Dollar Store reject social platform blew it? No. WAY,” he wrote on Saturday.
#trump #truthsocial
Ladies and Gentlemen, Behold the Standard Bearer Of the GOP
The “communist Democrats in Atlanta made a mugshot” of Donald #Trump, he tells the world on Truth Social. But he’s going to show them, he’s going to make money with it. Okay. We’ve certainly seen this show before.
What is stunning is that America has fallen to such a depth, where this huckster, this P.T. Barnum wanna be, this trash-TV maestro, is in fact the leading candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://politizoom.com/ladies-and-gentlemen-behold-the-standard-bearer-of-the-gop/
#Conservatism
“There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country’s future.” — Noam #Chomsky
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/08/conservatism-conserves-nothing
From Quashing Teachers Unions to Pardoning Trump, Voters Reject GOP Positions: Poll
"The first Republican debate was nothing but a race to the bottom," said the head of Data for Progress. "Major candidates succeeded in turning off Independent voters and failed to offer voters a positive vision."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2024-republican-agenda
‘Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow’ Didn’t #Indict #Trump, ‘Regular People’ Did: Fox News Host Destroys ‘Two-Tiered’ Justice Claims
Jessica Tarlov, the lone liberal co-host on the conservative cable channel’s popular afternoon show, “The Five,” reminded her right-wing counterparts on Friday that Trump was indicted in four different jurisdictions by “regular people,” while pointing to a new poll that finds majorities of Americans believe he is guilty of the federal crimes...
"The historic vote sets a remarkable example for other countries in democratizing climate politics."
Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the increasingly endangered Amazon rainforest.
#heroic #climatecrisi
https://www.commondreams.org/news/yasuni-national-park-ecuador
Chill..........
#Trump gloats about USA’s Women’s World Cup elimination
Ex-president’s open criticism of team started in 2019, when #MeganRapinoe said she wouldn’t visit White House after winning
“Many of our players were openly hostile to America — no other country behaved in such a manner, or even close,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot, Megan, the U.S. is going to Hell!!! MAGA.”
"What a hateful little man"
just sayin
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/07/trump-uswnt-world-cup-loss-rapinoe
'I Cried for Joy': Texas Judge Blocks Texas Abortion Ban for Dangerous Pregnancies
While the Texas Supreme Court instantly blocked the injunction by filing an appeal, it was seen as a victory by advocates.
In what The AP reports is the first legal pushback since an abortion ban took effect in Texas in 2022, State District Judge Jessica Mangrum issued a temporary injunction against the ban late Friday afternoon in the case of unsafe pregnancies.
#abortionrights
https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas-judge-blocks-abortion-ban
Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle
As temporarily disgraced American idiot-prince George W. Bush put it, ‘war is good for the economy.’ Of course, his war wasn’t good for the million Iraqis that died in it, nor for the wider Middle East that was lit on fire by it, nor for the European and Scandinavian nations that faced the ‘inexplicable’ surge in refugees that it produced. But for the titans of war, the benjamins are flowing again.
#fascism #war #Bush
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/04/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle/
Are humans a cancer on the planet?
There's a very distinct possibility we could trigger our own extinction or, at the very least, greatly reduce our population while completely altering the way we currently live. Little things like going outside during daylight hours or growing food in the dirt could become relics of the past, along with birds, insects, whales and many other species. War, famine, pestilence and death
#ClimateCrisis
Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya specifically told Trump that it is a crime to "influence a juror or try to threaten or bribe a witness or retaliate against anyone" connected to the case, which Trump told the judge he understood.
Several legal and political experts believe he may have already crossed that line and are calling for the former president’s pretrial detention.
#Trump posted on Friday that “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
#trumpindictment #Judge
One of Louisiana’s Only Pediatric Heart Transplant Doctors Is Moving Because of #Anti-#LGBTQ Laws
“I came back here after a fellowship to dedicate my career to Louisiana. And Louisiana pushed me out.”
he eventually became medical director of Ochsner Hospital for Children’s pediatric heart transplant, heart failure and ventricular assist device programs. He met and married his husband, Tom, a chemical engineer for Shell. They have two children, a 4- and a 6-year-old
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/jake-kleinmahon-louisiana-anti-lgbtq-laws/
Trump Made It 24 Hours Before He Disobeyed Judge’s Instruction, By Trashing Jack Smith Publicly
The judge was crystal clear in her instruction to not insult people, talk to witnesses, tamper in any way. That edict was levied at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET and Trump made it just a little over 24 hours before he broke the rules by calling Jack Smith “deranged” and “a lost soul.” Trump is speaking at a Republican dinner in Montgomery, Alabama tonight.
#trumpindictment
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Cardiovascular ER Visits Plunged After Pittsburgh Coal Plant Shut, Study Finds
"Our analysis adds to the growing body of scientific evidence that policies implemented to regulate and reduce fossil fuel-related air pollution have real public health benefit," said a study co-author.
Emergency room visits by people suffering heart attacks and strokes significantly decreased almost immediately after one of the largest coal-processing plants in Pittsburgh
#healthcare
‘The extreme events scare me the most’: climatologist warns of Italy’s vulnerability to climate crisis
Luca Mercalli describes Italy as ‘one of the most fragile places in the world’ after recent storms, wildfires and glacier collapse
The collapse of a glacier in the Dolomites and a landslide on the island of Ischia. Devastating floods, wildfires and record-breaking heatwaves. The worst drought of the Po, Italy’s longest river, in 200 years.
#ClimateCrisis
How’s Trump Going To Win After Habba Admitted Jack Smith’s Indictment Was Spot On?
Trump’s lawyers were out in force on TV. And frankly, I would not be surprised if clips of both John Lauro selling out his client and Alina Habba admitting on the air that Trump knew that he lost, (thereby shooting his already weak defense, that he believed he had won, clean out of the water) ended up being screened in Professional Responsibility classes (in law school)
#trumpindictment