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 It is appalling how many Americans have made it obvious that they would have enthusiastically supported Hitler’s rise to power.

"If you took Trump's statements about immigrants and replaced the words for "immigrant" with the words for "Jew", what would you see?"

#Trump #Hitler #Antisemitism #Immigrants #Bigotry #Hate #Intolerance #Meme #Memes #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USA #US

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 "U.S. warns Israel that arms transfers could halt unless humanitarian situation in Gaza improves"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/15/israel-iran-lebanon-war-news-gaza-hamas/

Finally. 

Hopefully, the Biden administration will follow through.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #Biden #News #US

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 "After the war’s detritus is cleared, the real work of rebuilding can finally begin...

A vast amount of building material would have to be brought in through Gaza’s heavily controlled border crossings. In the past, #Israel put restrictions on key materials...

If the pace of reconstruction mirrors previous conflicts, the #UN estimates it will take 80 years to rebuild all of Gaza’s destroyed homes."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink 
https://wapo.st/401Kauk 

#Gaza #Palestine #War #News #WorldNews

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 "The Long Road to Reconstruction" is an #interactive news article.

I highly recommend that you read/experience it for yourself. You can do so even if without a subscription to the #WashingtonPost by using this #GiftLink: 

https://wapo.st/401Kauk 

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #Infrastructure  #Press #Media #News #WorldNews

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 "I worked as a trauma surgeon in #Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in #Ukraine & #Haiti, and ... I’ve seen #violence & worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a #hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young #child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk4.sPpq.UsM_P_52hC_i&smid=url-sharev

#Palestine #Israel #War #Children #News

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 This editorial cartoon by Ann Telnaes seems appropriate right now.

Donald Trump’s unfinished business
By Ann Telnaes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/28/ann-telnaes-cartoon-donald-trump-jack-smith-indictment/

#JackSmith #Trump #TrumpTrial #Indictment #Crime #Jan6 #Chutkan #JudgeChutkan #USPol #US #USA #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #Humor #funny #Meme

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 "Residents had been attending a funeral reception for a local soldier, Andriy Kozyr, when the missile hit, reducing the cafe & grocery store where they had gathered into a pile of rubble & killing about a sixth of the village population.

If the attack is found to have intentionally targeted the funeral with the knowledge that most attendees were civilians, it could be categorized as a #WarCrime."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/06/hroza-kharkiv-missile-strike-ukraine/

#Hroza #Ukraine #Russia #War 
#RussiaUkraineWar #RussianWarCrimes #News

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 "Trump shared apparently classified information about #American #nuclear #submarines with an Australian businessman during an evening of conversation at #MarALago...

The businessman, Anthony Pratt... went on to share the sensitive details about the submarines with several others... 

Trump’s disclosures... potentially endangered the US nuclear fleet."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/politics/trump-nuclear-submarine-classified-documents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 

#Trump #NationalSecurityThreat #Politics #USPol #USA #News

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 "Of course, it’s not remarkable for Trump to issue a baseless (yet incendiary) allegation against one of his critics. What is noteworthy — or at least, should be — is a leading presidential candidate deliberately trying to intimidate his perceived enemies through tacit threats of violence. And it seems fair to conclude that this is precisely what Trump is up to."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/trump-milley-death-fbi-threats.html

via: @098a11ae

#Trump #StochasticTerrorism #Violence #Politics #USPol #USA #News

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 @098a11ae @e814e036 

Thank you! for finding that link. It's a really worthwhile article. I've created a #Thread of it on #Mastodon 

Here's the beginning of the thread: https://newsie.social/deck/@ZhiZhu/111193125834682165 

Thanks again! 
 "Trump suggested a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserves execution... And in an utterly disturbing, profanity-laced speech last week in #California, he said we should shoot robbers in the back...

No #Republican official or presidential opponent denounced his rant; no major #newspaper or #news broadcast suggested that his mental soundness rather than Biden’s age should be a top issue in the race."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/06/republican-fascism-media/

#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #Journalism #Media #USA

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 "Those investments began to diverge sharply along red & blue lines, with conservative lawmakers often balking at public #health initiatives they said cost too much or overstepped. Today, people in the #South and #Midwest, regions largely controlled by #Republican state legislators, have increasingly higher chances of dying prematurely compared with those in the more #Democratic #Northeast and #West."
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3PJpoZI

#GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Politics #USPol #USA #News

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 @kravietz 🦇 

"A photograph of a fierce blaze raging in the city of Shchyolkovo near Moscow has appeared on social media.

Source: Astra Telegram channel

Details: The fire broke out in the industrial zone west of the city....

So far there is no official information on the matter.

Russian journalists assume the 857th Training Centre of the Russian Railroad Troops (military unit 11300) is on fire."
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/09/27/7421570/ 

#Moscow #Russia #Ukraine #War
#RussiaUkraineWar #News #WorldNews 
 "researchers found that switching from working onsite to working from home full-time may reduce a person’s #CarbonFootprint by more than 50 percent. Hybrid schedules where people work remotely for two to four days a week could also cut emissions by 11 to 29 percent, according to the study.

The findings help shed more light on the factors that can influence the #environmental and #climate effects of different #work models"
#GiftArticle 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/09/18/work-from-home-carbon-footprint/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk1MDA5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk2MzkxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTUwMDk2MDAsImp0aSI6ImU2MzljZmZkLWVjMjEtNDZlNC1hYjE1LWQ0NTVlZTQyMGIzNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLXNvbHV0aW9ucy8yMDIzLzA5LzE4L3dvcmstZnJvbS1ob21lLWNhcmJvbi1mb290cHJpbnQvIn0.TgKF27hhZo7yaWpvawsuOPSyRjarF3Kcjm3pCFyVLro 

#Environment #WorkFromHome #News 
 "child #poverty more than doubled between 2021 & 2022...

And the thing is, this didn’t have to happen... It was instead a #political choice. The story is in fact quite simple: #Republicans & a handful of conservative #Democrats blocked the extension of federal programs that had drastically reduced #ChildPoverty over the previous two years, and as a result just about all of the gains were lost.

The cruelty of this choice should be obvious."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/opinion/child-poverty-america.html

#Politics #USPol #USA #News

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 @e396cd52 

The GOP's #disinformation campaign about #COVID is literally killing their own voters at a much higher rate than it's killing Dem voters.
(See: https://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1433556149123485701 )

Do #Republicans realize that dead people can't vote?

Or are they planning to just deny/ignore election results from now on?

#GOP #Republican #Trump #MAGA #Death  
#Health #Politics #USPol #USA

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 NBC press release:  “This Sunday, Sept. 17 on NBC, the inaugural broadcast of Meet the Press wi... 
 @e814e036 

"There is nothing in journalistic standards that says you have to give a platform for someone to spread lies, even if they are a senator or representative (or even the [ex-]president)...

We do not need to reward bad behavior with airtime...

If there are no consequences, how will we teach that this behavior is reprehensible?"
~Dan Rather
https://steady.substack.com/p/do-republicans-believe-in-democracy 

#Journalism #Journalists #Trump #GOP #Lies #BigLie #USPolitics #USA #News #Media

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 🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 78F at L... 
 @30ce86c6 

"The small sharks that damaged a catamaran off the coast of Cairns have been described as “pencils with teeth” and they have a history of trying to eat inanimate objects, including submarines...

Marine biologists believe the attack was “a classic case of mistaken identity” from a “supercool” little shark that glows in the dark and has a very big attitude, despite its size."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/07/cookiecutter-sharks-what-are-cairns-catamaran-attack

#Nature #Science #Sharks #News

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 "ERCOT's massive Riot payouts came as the agency asked #Texans to reduce power use during peak demand periods multiple times during the same month...

#Bitcoin mining now accounts for a huge chunk of #Texas' energy consumption: #ERCOT estimated in 2022 that bitcoin projects accounted for 33 gigawatts (GW) of energy in its interconnection queue. All #Houston households combined use an estimated 6 GW per year by comparison."
~@74e61afd 
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-bitcoin-riot-ercot-grid-energy-18352398.php

This is #Insane 

#USA #News

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 @927f6975 

ICYMI, this is NOT a good thing.

When ONE percent of the population is given more than 1/4 of all income, it creates an unhealthy unequal society. This is NOT good for democracy nor for the working classes whose #Labor supports the one-percenters' obscene wealth.

And yet the #GOP wants to give the already rich even more tax-breaks and tax-payer funded handouts. Using the known lie of #TrickleDown as justification.

#Wealth #WealthInequality #Inequality #Politics #USA #News

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