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VFalcone posted...

The universities receive funding from Israel and the students are protesting that.

Other way around; universities have massive financial investments through their endowment funds.

The approach mirrors that of anti-apartheid protesters in the 80s, who sought to pressure their universities into divesting from South Africa.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/ccdcaea8.jpg

New yawk

Cool stuff. I know there have been rumors of Canadian expansion for the NWSL as well.

I wouldn't be caught dead in Albany

https://bsky.app/profile/illumi.me/post/3ks5kxjnj322z

It's more lucrative for him to bite his tongue about racism than to do otherwise.

conduit posted...

The generational shift will be damning to Israel in the coming decades. The older generations still get all their propaganda from the legacy media, but younger generations are seeing the true face of Israel and once seen it can never be unseen. The current generation won't forget. They'll always see Israel now as a genocidal racist apartheid state that has complete contempt for international law.

I think this thread does a good job of explaining the generational gap: https://bsky.app/profile/notalawyer.bsky.social/post/3ks46zkp4nk2q

If you were of a certain age at 9/11, you basically hold it as a given principle that routine state violence and terrorism hold separate moral weights. And younger generations don't make that distinction.

Fenriswolf posted...

Israel's far right national security minister:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a2dc4bb3.jpg

Setting aside for a moment the humanitarian concerns that should be at the forefront of decision making, at some point doesn't Biden have to recognize that this is an unreliable ally at best? The US can be the lone voice at the Un opposing Palestinian statehood, and Israel will return the favor by angling to get Trump elected again.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/07/dea-agent-fatal-crash/73542632007/

Attorneys for a Drug Enforcement Agency agent who struck and killed a Salem woman riding her bicycle in March 2023 argued Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that he had shown a plausible defense for immunity and should be allowed to continue, and seek dismissal of, his criminal case in federal court.

Prosecutors say Landis acknowledged he ran a stop sign at High and Leslie streets SE and had no lights or siren on when he hit Marganne Allen while she was riding her bike home from work on March 28, 2023.

Allen, 53, died at nearby Salem Health hospital.

Landis, 38, did not face immediate charges, and the case was transferred from Salem Police to Keizer Police due to a potential conflict of interest. Months later, the Marion County District Attorney's Office charged Landis with criminally negligent homicide.

Landis' attorneys argue he is entitled to use the federal defense of immunity under the Supremacy Clause because he was actively surveilling a "dangerous fentanyl supplier" while on duty, and his case was taken out of local circuit court and into federal court.
...
Marion County prosecutors said Landis was not in danger or responding to an emergency at the time of the crash. There were no plans to arrest an individual being surveilled that day or to immediately stop a drug deal, prosecutors said. Other agents were ahead of him.

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3ks5jylcxg22s

I've seen it described by one critic I trust as "Metroid meets Outer Wilds" which sounds cool

Anyways you should keep this in mind come October when there's a refinery shut down and gas prices go up just before the election.

Doesn't seem great

The best time to do this was months ago, but right now is the second best time.

Pothead was right there

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/08/health/tandem-insulin-pump-app-recall/index.html

https://youtu.be/xqXAW2snGMI?si=B2TsCzmTlNTZOCrd

Her fault for asking cops to do something they don't want to.

Google Hague Invasion Act

Takes by Serious People like this one
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/opinion/aileen-cannon-trump-documents-case.html

Aged a lot worse than simple "oh the Trump appointee is gonna tank the case" analysis.

Where else will college kids find some libertarian on drugs telling them to buy bitcoin?
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-state-university/ohio-state-speaker-says-he-took-psychedelic-drugs-to-write-bitcoin-commencement-speech/

https://apnews.com/article/hochul-black-kids-bronx-computer-comment-e0c3c69b1ebf9639d8f9e402096f8446

Hey, thank you for sharing a bunch of accounts committed to white nationalism and their posts on the website for white nationalists.

emblem-man posted...

Yep. We (liberals, progressives, etc.) shouldn't give up policing demographics to the right.

I don't think you can "professionalize" your way to a progressice police force. The institution is one of welding state violence against out-groups to keep in-groups safe

Sabotage in this is in reference to Netanyahus comments:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war, just as cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/19409d90.jpg

Crime goes up: "we need to hire more cops!"
Crime goes down: "we need to hire more cops!"

creativerealms posted...

He said he would give them more money back in 2020 when he was running for office.

It's still bad!

Mussurana posted...

I expect TC is having fun, having made something up and watching people nod along or attempt to rationalise it

I mean I am having fun but it is based on a couple kernels of fact:
1. Beer is often served warmer in Britain than in the US
2. The Dutch tourists at the diner I was at tonight were struck by ice water being the default

Prismsblade posted...

This just reminds me that we printed and spent trillions during Covid that caused untold inflation over the years but today have literally nothing good to show for it.

We avoided the sort of prolonged recession experienced post-08 crash and have fared better than the economies of comparatively austere Europe: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/america-europe-post-pandemic-growth-comparison/677617/

They can't get enough of that shit

Isn't there some story about Ghostface specifically requesting his finisher?

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

While he's grossly out of touch, lots of Americans did get a lot more money than just the stimmies. There was the pause of student loans which put hundreds back in the wallets of some. Rise of the child tax credit up to 3,600 for 2021, meaning that most families got that amount for EACH child. The small business loans that were forgiven that MANY GROSSLY misused to buy luxury items. Think my neighbor used it to remodel his home.

Also a lot of low income workers, myself included, got better jobs
https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/#:~:text=Key%20findings,the%20prior%20four%20business%20cycles

gamepimp12 posted...

how often is the #7 pick arguably the most famous and popular person in the draft.

It is less often the case in basketball than football, but there are plenty of examples of guys who were the best known, most popular players in college but not the top pro draft pick.

emblem-man posted...

One thing that he's done that people won't like, but that has objectively helped...he's drilled drilled drilled.

I would not cite this as a positive, personally

People on GameFAQs have a big issue with people on Twitter

divot1338 posted...

I think Netanyahu is the 2024 version of Russia meddling in 2016.

Either China or Russia told him that theyd support him if he invaded Gaza after 10/7. Now they can just sit back and agitate MAGA people over twitter until they start attacking people.

This is too clever by half. Netanyahu wants Donald Trump to win because Donald Trump will support him.

Mostly I'm annoyed by Biden's use of the term "politics" in that tweet. What is any of this discussion about, if not politics? What does he think politics means?

"Now is not the time for politics." My dude, you run the politics store.

Not good!

https://bsky.app/profile/thewanderingjew.bsky.social/post/3krm5ui65ps2h

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567

The Justice Department is expected to announce the indictment of longtime Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Cuellars home and campaign office in Laredo, Texas, were raided in January 2022 as part of a federal investigation into Azerbaijan and a group of U.S. businessmen who have ties to the country, law enforcement said at the time. His office had pledged to cooperate with the investigation. In April, Cuellar's lawyer, Joshua Berman, told some news outlets that federal authorities informed him he was not the target of the investigation.

It wasn't immediately clear if the indictment was related to the 2022 raid. The Justice Department declined to comment.

Cuellars staff were calling other member offices Friday seeking advice on how to handle the situation, one source with knowledge of those calls told NBC News.

In a statement Friday, Cuellar denied any wrongdoing, saying that he had "proactively sought legal advice" from the House Ethics Committee, which had issued "more than one written opinion" about the matter. Much of his statement focused on his wife, Imelda Cuellar, though it wasn't immediately clear why.

hockeybabe89 posted...

We need to advocate for everyone to vote against Trump no matter what.

I don't think the tact you're taking is the best way to accomplish that.

The law is clear that the federal government supersedes states. But you have to enforce it.

If another country was at fault, you'd see a much stronger response. It's why discussion of Russian bots takes a different tenor than discussions of Fox News' role in any given election.

It's good for you

Biden referred to people as illegals like last month.

invertedlegdrop posted...

BOOM!!! Battlelines have been drawn by one word...

Joe is sticking by Israel...

Now what will the protestors do?!?

Probably keep protesting

Penn asked the Philadelphia Police Department for immediate help to disband the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a source familiar told The Daily Pennsylvanian. However, PPD declined, asking that the University provide proof that the encampment and the rally today, which is entering its fourth hour presents an imminent danger.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/04/live-updates-penn-pro-palestinian-gaza-solidarity-encampment-day-eight

_____Cait posted...

I thought they loved Israel though

Israel is an ethnostate, of course they love it.