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A lot of smart kids aren't smart enough for Harvard's admissions process, and they'll do just fine in the end.

Yeah sure why not

This guy was specifically riled up by conservative talk radio spreading the "day of jihad" nonsense
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/10/16/23919242/jospeh-czuba-plainfield-stabbing-palestinian-boy-wadea-al-fayoume-hate-crime

People have couched Manchin's conservatism as an electoral necessity, but it's been clear to anyone with sense that he wasn't going to defeat a Republican on the same ballot as Donald Trump regardless of what he did.

StealThisSheen posted...

Just couldn't help yourself, eh? Atleast know what you're talking about, first. It was BORDER funding, not "wall" funding. There's a very big difference.

The Senate version of this bill, the one that ultimately was signed into law, included slightly more border funding.

thronedfire2 posted...

it says border funding, not wall funding

Which is another reason why TC's title shouldn't use the word wall.

This appears to be the bill in question:
https://apnews.com/article/nancy-pelosi-ap-top-news-bills-az-state-wire-immigration-1da70ca1789149a5a2aaf49a869c985c

In a letter Monday threatening the veto, White House officials told lawmakers they objected that the House package lacked money for beds the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency needs to let it detain more migrants. Officials also complained in the letter that the bill had no money to toughen border security, including funds for building Trumps proposed border wall.

Republicans opposed the House bill because it placed more requirements on CBP's treatment of migrants than the Senate bill at the time, which is the one that ended up passing:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-bill-house-passes-4-6-billion-senate-bill-for-emergency-funding-along-border/
In the future, I think it wouold be good to find sources beyond contextless C-Span screenshots before making declarations.

I think some (any) context about the "border funding bill" in question would be useful.

LSGW_Zephyra posted...

No, but I want to be. Is it streaming anywhere?

Peacock

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767880

Four out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of Hamas terrorists into Israel and the massacre that followed, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found.

An overwhelming majority 86% of respondents, including 79% of coalition supporters, said the surprise attack from Gaza is a failure of the countrys leadership,
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Furthermore, almost all the respondents (94%) believe the government must bear some responsibility for the lack of security preparedness that led to the assault, with over 75% saying the government holds most of the responsibility.

Every time I see highlights come across the timeline I'm fascinated

My gf works in a middle school and said kids will sneak off to watch porn together in the auditorium

Where should I go?

Society existed a long time without prisons in their current form

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-internal-emails-gaza-israel_n_65296395e4b0a304ff6ff95d?ykm

As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, the State Department is discouraging diplomats working on Middle East issues from making public statements suggesting the U.S. wants to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.

In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: de-escalation/ceasefire, end to violence/bloodshed and restoring calm.

Huffpo's website went wonky and I couldn't copy more

What if I am?

We're all familiar with the saying "two wrongs don't make a right." What my essay asks is: what if they do?

The difference between a banned protest and a regular protest is just how quick the police will use force against you

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/12/israel-palestine-letter-ceos-blacklist-harvard-students

Several CEOs are urging Harvard University to release the names of the people in the student organizations who signed a pro-Palestinian letter that criticized Israel.

Driving the news: Billionaire Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager and Harvard alum, said in an online post Tuesday that he had been asked by "a number of CEOs" if Harvard would disclose the list of students in the groups that issued a letter that said it held "the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence."

Several business leaders backed Ackman's call including Sweetgreen's CEO Jonathan Neman, who replied to the post, saying: "I would like to know so I know never to hire these people."

Jake Wurzak, CEO of DoveHill Capital Management, also replied to the post, saying: "I second this."
Michael Broukhim, FabFitFun's CEO, added: "We are in as well."
At least five of the 34 student groups that co-signed Saturday's letter have since retracted their support for the letter, per the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

Among them is the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association, which said in an online post Tuesday it regretted that its decision had been "interpreted as a tacit support for the recent violent attacks in Israel."
Harvard's president Claudine Gay said Tuesday that she condemns "the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas" and "while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group" speaks for the college or its leadership.

Harvard did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment Wednesday, and neither did letter co-signatories the Harvard Islamic Society, Harvard South Asian Law Students Association and the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee.

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Disney is paying him for this
https://theathletic.com/4957700/2023/10/12/pat-mcafee-aaron-rodgers-money/?source=user_shared_article

You know how cleave can mean not "split apart" and "stick to?"

That's how I use shitpost. There are good shitposts (me firing off something funny without really wanting to get into the subject) and bad shitposts (anything VD has ever posted)

Update: now with a photo! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/1/AAWHm8AAE7H_.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/a-sacrifice-zone-east-palestines-wastewater-is-flooding-into-this-ohio-community

Coshoctons natural beauty and outdoor pursuits industry attract thousands of people worldwide, generating $60m annually for the local economy. The local visitors bureau sends packages to people in countries as far away as Poland.

But Mills and many other locals are afraid all this is now under attack: in recent weeks, thousands of gallons of wastewater from Februarys toxic chemical derailment site in East Palestine 100 miles to the north are being delivered to an injection well outside the town.

Owned by Buckeye Brine, a private company, the injection wells will see the wastewater pumped thousands of feet underground for storage. It has become a major concern for Coshocton residents and fueled protests.

If you pump millions of gallons of something into the ground, at some point its going to affect everyone, Mills told the Guardian recently.

It doesnt take a Nasa scientist [to know] that all it takes is one geological occurrence or ground shifting [and] were going to be stuck with this issue.

On 3 February, 51 cars derailed from a Norfolk Southern train outside East Palestine, dumping about 100,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals and triggering a huge fire that burned for days. Hydrogen chloride and phosgene, a poisonous compound, were released into the air.

Cleanup has lasted months and produced tens of millions of gallons of wastewater laced with vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen. Ohios emergency management agency reported in August that crews had collected and disposed of 88,500 tons of hazardous and solid waste and 28m gallons of surface and groundwater categorized as hazardous waste.

Buckeye Brine told the Guardian that the wastewater being injected underneath Coshocton is rainwater and runoff from vehicles cleaned after operating in the affected site. The federal and Ohio environmental protection agencies say the wastewater has been treated to drinking water safety levels.

The water is treated in batches and then sampled and sent to an Environmental Protection Agency-approved lab, Buckeye Brines manager, Susie Patterson, said. The data for each individual batch is then sent to Norfolk Southern, [the] Ohio EPA and [the] US EPA for analysis and approval before being scheduled for transportation to Buckeye Brine.

A sample of each load that arrives at the injection wells in Coshocton is taken to confirm compliance with our operating permits, Patterson said. But these measures cleaning the water before pumping it deep underground have baffled locals.

The EPA says that its safe. My question then is: why pump it in the ground? Mills said.

Patterson suggested that due to the sensitive nature of this project, I would imagine that [Norfolk Southern] want to take any measure necessary to make the citizens of East Palestine and downstream communities feel safe going forward.

In July, Norfolk Southern said the cost of the cleanup and other derailment-related expenses had rocketed to $803m, including $222m in legal fees and $63m in payouts to the East Palestine community. It also faces several class-action lawsuits resulting from the accident and has sued the owners of the rail cars carrying the chemicals to help pay for the cleanup, according to Reuters. In the months after the derailment, firefighting wastewater and other potentially toxic material were transported for treatment to facilities in Michigan, West Virginia and Texas.

For locals, thats a frightening prospect. Tim Kettler, a founding member of the Coshocton Environmental and Community Awareness (CECA) group, said there are at least 22 oil and gas wells within two miles of the injection wells that present a danger of an overflow of the East Palestine wastewater because they are drilled to the same depth.

Youre talking about the [underground wastewater] plume spreading laterally underneath the aquifer [and potentially going] up into these oilwells, he said.

Within a mile of Buckeye Brines injection wells flow the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers that a few miles downstream form the Muskingum River. That in turn flows into the Ohio River, which supplies drinking water for millions of people downstream in Cincinnati and elsewhere.

For decades, theres been mounting evidence from around the country that injection wells can leak contaminants. Twice in 2021, tens of thousands of oil and gas waste leaked from idle or abandoned wells one less than 40 miles from Coshocton killing fish and threatening drinking water. In nearby Athens county, four fracking waste injection wells were suspended by Ohio authorities last month due to fears of contaminants getting into water supplies.

Useful thread here
https://bsky.app/profile/sheeraf.bsky.social/post/3kbibmqp4m32d

what are we supposed to do with this topic

If only had any curiosity of his own

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/9/AAWHm8AAE68Z.jpg

Yeah! I got into it through videogames, Forza, F1, Dirt

NightingaleMD posted...

That's not the mark of a run of the mill terrorist organization. That's military style planning

I have seen enough b-roll footage of Al-Jazeera members climbing monkey bars to know that run of the mill terrorist organizations love military style planning.

Man who could foresee the rich real estate guy being bad

NightingaleMD posted...

Israel has an excellent intelligence network and suddenly Hamas breaks through using strategy never seen?

People really overstate what intelligence agencies are capable of.

He's still with us

That guy's got some takes, yeah

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1711340677571674567

Some people die, others get killed.

The Dell dude got arrested?!

When the Pope is right, he's right

How's his hog?

Justin2Krelian posted...

That and there's probably some Democrats in their 70s and 80s who will vote for a Kennedy no matter what. Hopefully not many.

The last race a Kennedy ran was a primary loss in Massachusetts

Bump

https://www.themarysue.com/scholastic-under-fire-for-allowing-schools-to-opt-out-of-diverse-books-for-book-fairs/

Several librarians have taken to social media to allege that Scholastic allows schools to opt out of providing diverse books at Scholastic book fairs. Scholastic annually hosts an estimated 120,000 book fairs in schools across the United States. Its a day where students get to wander through gymnasiums, libraries, and auditoriums to explore and buy all kinds of books sent over by Scholastic. The whole idea is to expose kids to a variety of books they might not otherwise have access to. Unfortunately, book fairs may look very different this year as the right-wing effort to ban books continues to gain momentum.
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The first allegation came from a Reddit user, who accused Scholastic of offering a bigotry button for school book fairs

The poster explained that their schools librarian was upset when Scholastic asked her the bizarre question of whether she wanted to include diverse books at her schools book fair. Apparently, Scholastic has compiled all of its diverse booksbooks with BIPOC characters, LGBTQ+ topics, immigration issues, and racisminto one case. The posters noted that these books ranged from kindergarten to middle school, so it did appear that Scholastic specifically looked for diverse books across all age ranges to separate from all the rest of the books. This way, conservative and bigoted school officials can easily decide that they dont want diverse books and refuse to have the diverse case sent over.

A week later, librarian and TikTok user Tegan B posted a video making similar accusations. They recounted being asked if they wanted diverse books, and even though they confirmed that they did, the diverse bookcase wasnt sent until three days into the fair. While a few books with BIPOC characters were still included in the non-diverse book selections, the majority of the librarians books were about animals or white characters. This meant that many of her predominantly Hispanic students didnt get the option to buy books they saw themselves reflected in.

Meanwhile, author Kelley Jensen revealed that Scholastics optional diverse books case came up at The Association of Illinois School Library Educators meeting. She called the decision insidious and stated that librarians must raise hell about this.

https://www.welcometohellworld.com/being-made-to-collapse/

Violence comes in many forms and can be either slow and grinding or sudden and percussive. What a victory of messaging it is then to be able to define what violence is and what violence is not and expect for good reason that much of the western world will adopt your terms. Leaving your enemy having to fight back against a force that isn't even hitting them.

I think it should go without saying that I abhor war crimes against civilians even in what I consider to be a just cause of liberation. And Palestinians yearning for escape from decades of oppression and confinement and apartheid is indeed a just cause.

I also think that it is very convenient that the dominant power in any given conflict almost always gets to commit their own war crimes from a remove via blockade and sanction or missile and bomb. Each resulting individual civilian death observed from an abstract sanitized distance in the form of a building collapsing. Being made to collapse.

Solidarity.

ai123 posted...

Israel did fund Hamas.

They did it to disrupt the power of the less fundamentalist, but left wing, PLO.

(That's not a conspiracy theory, it's well-documented and discussed by senior Israeli military and politicians).

The Wall Street Journal wrote about in 2009
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123275572295011847

ssk9716757 posted...

literally all of those reasons apply to the President as well.

I think the author would argue the same about the presidency. I would. Like, since FDR, how many presidents have still been popular at the end of 8 years? It's not a long list.

Umbreon posted...

How did I know nytimes would be behind this article before even clicking on the topic?

The Times is mostly garb, but Bouie is right here

The recent death of the long-serving California senator Dianne Feinstein at age 90 has raised, once again, the issue of congressional term limits.

Its understandable. The median age in the United States Senate is 65, and the median age in the House of Representatives is about 58. The current Congress, the 118th, is the third oldest since 1789, with the second-oldest Senate and the third-oldest House. There are members of Congress, like Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who have held their seats since the 1980s.

Its no wonder, then, that when asked, a large majority of Americans consistently say they want term limits for Congress. Just last month, in fact, Representative Ro Khanna of California announced a political reform bill that would institute 12-year term limits for members of Congress and 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices.
I think it makes sense to have term limits for the federal judiciary, since these are unelected officials who are intentionally insulated from public opinion. But for a few reasons, I think enthusiasm for congressional term limits is misplaced, even as like many Americans I would prefer if Congress were a little younger than it is.

First, term limits violate the basic democratic principle that voters should be allowed to choose their representatives. If the people of a state or district believe that a lawmaker has represented and will continue to represent their interests in the legislature, they should have every right to elect him or her to office for as long as they like.

Second, and related to the first point, is the fact that term limits do not discriminate between effective and ineffective lawmakers. Term limits would, by design, force competent, conscientious and talented legislators out of office, depriving the legislature of their skill for no reason other than a knee-jerk distaste for long-serving lawmakers.
Which leads us to our third point: Term limits reduce congressional capacity and destroy any incentive that might exist for a lawmaker to develop policy or procedural expertise. Its easy to forget at a moment when some of our most prominent lawmakers are little more than influencers, but legislating is real work that demands actual expertise. Any elected official who hopes to do anything serious must build relationships with other members, as well as learn the ins and outs of writing laws. This takes time, the same way that expertise in any profession takes time.

To deprive a legislature of expertise and knowledge is to create a vacuum that will be filled, since the legislature still needs to legislate. In states where term limits exist, the executive bureaucracy tends to wield greater influence over policy than the publics elected representatives. So do lobbyists and interest groups, who simply have more time to build their own expertise. They, rather than lawmakers, become the stewards of institutional knowledge.

Term limits are a good way to create the appearance of change. They are also a good way to weaken a legislature. They are not a good way to solve the problem of political competition, which is what their proponents seem to want most.

If the problem they hope to solve is that of incumbency and a lack of rotation in office, then the solutions should be aimed at making challengers more viable and elections more competitive. This means campaign finance reform, it means an end to partisan gerrymandering, and it might even mean an end to single-member districts and a move to some form of proportional representation.

Those are much harder lifts than limiting the ability of lawmakers to serve their communities. But they have the critical advantage of actually tackling the problem, which is more than you can say for term limits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/opinion/term-limits-congress.html

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1711185184177975447
The article itself is behind a paywall:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000

BLM and the Palestinean struggle are linked. But that's obviously not the point shit stirrer Charlie Kirk is getting at.

https://progressive.org/latest/us-police-trained-by-israel-communities-of-color-paying-price-shahshahani-cohen-191007/