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SCOTUS: [rules on immunity]
Biden: [Picks up phone on Resolute Desk]. It’s Joe. Get me Seal Team 6.
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USC cancels 2024 graduation ceremony following chaotic pro-Palestine protests
More than 90 protesters were arrested after police clashed with protesters during the demonstrations on the Californian campus on Wednesday #press
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Wut? That's totally me. Unless I get so drunk that I no longer give a shit. Then I go sit in a corner and stare at the cats/plants/people's shoes.
https://mastodon.social/@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to/112333532268546924
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I'm sorry but I'm gonna say it again.
It is appalling and unjust and ugly that our (US) tax dollars are being used to fund Palestinian genocide in Gaza. It's gotta stop. It is appropriate to protest and keep pressure on to stop it.
All the other genocides we are currently supporting with our tax dollars, arms sales, and favorable trade conditions—the Kurds in Turkey, the Shiites in Saudi Arabia, and the Uyghurs in China leap to mind—are also appalling; why just *these* protests? Really, why?
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Malaria is still killing people in Kenya, but a vaccine and local drug production may help
Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help #press
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/kenya-ap-malaria-covid-africa-b2534435.html?utm_source=press.coop
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Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left
When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases #press
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Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose "False Idol of Zionism" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75KcMUjMyI
#Palestine #Israel #USA #StudentProtests #NaomiKlein
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Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose "False Idol of Zionism"
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We need an exodus from Zionism
We don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our nameNaomi Klein (The Guardian)
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UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds
Study by World Health Organization shows more than half of children in Britain had drunk alcohol by age 13Tobi Thomas (The Guardian)
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US Supreme Court to decide if Trump has immunity
The top court will hear arguments on Thursday in a case that could redefine presidential power. #press
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68893364?utm_source=press.coop
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Arizona House votes to overturn abortion ban
It was the third attempt to take up repealing the near-total ban, which was recently resurrected by a state court. #press
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Arizona takes major step toward repealing near-total abortion ban from 1864
It was the chamber's third attempt to take up repealing the near-total ban. Now the senate must vote.By Holly Honderich (BBC News)
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Man, I wish. Mine fight with each other and chase each other around the house, and make one HELL of a racket.
And they poo the bed.
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder - The Guardian
“We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands-year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state,” Morgan Bassichis, an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the crowd.
https://apple.news/AntJ7g2YdTviEJn8m7Lr_BQ
‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder — Guardian US
About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn homeapple.news
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Arizona voters elected a serious attorney general in 2022.
She's gone after the Trump world election fraud scams in a big, big way, charging major pols, lawyers, et al in the fake elector scheme.
Looks like the Arizona Republic wisely dropped its paywall on this huge story.
Grand jury indicts fake electors who falsely certified Donald Trump as 2020 winner in Arizona
The grand jury's decision could levy criminal consequences for a plot intended to subvert the will of Arizona voters.Stacey Barchenger (Arizona Republic)
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Trump could not be investigated or prosecuted because a Republican AG Bill Barr thwarted both.
The Arizona coup plotters couldn't be investigated or prosecuted because a Republican AG Mark Brnovich thwarted both
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-brnovich-hid-findings-debunking-election-fraud-claims-arizona-1234684606/
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/ex-arizona-ags-ethics-probe-follows-him-to-boies-schiller-job
Election denial in Texas couldn't be investigated or prosecuted because GOP AG Ken Paxton thwarted both.
Seeing a trend ...until these corrupt GOP AG's are turfed out by voters, crimes go unpunished
Mark Brnovich Hid Findings Refuting Election Fraud Claims in Arizona
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich excluded findings debunking fraud claims in a report to the state’s Senate, The Washington Post reported.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Is antisemitism a problem? Of course.
But the issue at these protests isn't antisemitism because as Erin Burnett pointed out to Mike Johnson, there have been no attacks against Jewish students at these events.
Well, at least not by anyone other than cops.
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Taiwanese Drag Queen's Victory Sparks Quiet Joy Among Fans in China
Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen, has won the 16th season of the American reality TV competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race.Alexander Boyd (China Digital Times)
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‘Teslastoppen’ Elon Musk’s Water War in the Heart of Europe
“Welcome to the Utopian Gigafactory,” reads a banner hung across a path in a Brandenburg Forest outside Berlin, Germany. At the end of the path, Tesla’s -very real- Gigafactory is visible behind the trees. The banner has been hung byUnicorn Riot (Anarchist Federation)
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I've seen a number of writers remark on the fact that it's stupid to wait around for inspiration to try to writing something good. This is of course true, because often inspired writing is, in retrospect, terrible, while lines you suffered over are quite good.
BUT, there's this other thing, which is that as a project wears on, there's inevitably less inspiration, more just carrying out the initial vision. This is where, to my mind, the real craft often comes in.
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What's that old saying (Stephen King iirc) "Writing is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
In my limited experience, inspiration is great for getting down a bunch of random ideas, but the real work is weeding out the crud and the ones that don't fit with the others and then weaving what's left into something cohesive that hopefully still resonates with the reader.
That said, I'm a pretty crap writer, so what do I know? 🤷♂️
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I can't think of any historical event that could predict where this could go
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If the money coming in is tithes from members, income tax has already been paid on it. If it is money earned through a church enterprise then yes tax it.
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Virtual reality can motivate people to donate to refugee crises regardless of politics
Political conservatives who watched a documentary on Syrian refugees with a virtual reality headset had far more sympathy for the people depicted in the film than those who viewed the same film on a two-dimensional computer screen.Science X (Phys.org)
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Bad: #Israel got more funding to massacre #Rafah with. Also #Tiktok is now force to sell its american app to an American, which fixes no problems it just moves the power over the algorithms and spy way from a foreign state to our giant greedy bloodsucking corporations because xenophobia.
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Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight
The Department of Transportation (DOT) issued final rules requiring airlines pay passengers back if they cancel their flights or make significant changes.Sheena Vasani (The Verge)
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