Exec laughs in accountability and fires people

“because I feel like it” is a good enough reason to give a stranger.

They low key tell you that the reason you’re not closer to your family is because you’re too close to society. The sort of person that appeals to has a very fearful psyche, perfect for the lead role in a cabin horror film.

In this case I don’t think it would hurt to have a popular vote decide (the next president)

It also explains why he treats the GOP the way he does, he’s remembering a much older Senate.

For instance, it’s impossible to have an apartheid system against another country. Israel is, by definition, not an apartheid state.

What other country has their roads, electricity, water, trade, and police controlled by another?

Like there are words, and then there are facts on the ground. It walks and quacks like an apartheid.

The Abraham Accords is often cited as an escalation towards the situation we are now in that it tried to politically isolate Hamas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords

Maybe the orange man wouldn’t make a difference on the arms front, but he is really good at planting seeds for conflict.

I wonder if there will be another lawsuit over bombing / shooting the hostages. Just horrific.

You should familiarize yourself with project 2025, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The plan would perform a swift takeover of the entire executive branch under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory

This should be bigger news, but I guess with everything else going on it gets lost in the noise…

Well the tanks sold without congressional approval is legally questionable, but not like Congress is going to investigate him over it.

Honestly I cried when I heard. It encapsulates my own views on grief but is also prescient and speaks as a father would asking someone to comfort their son after they’re taken away. But his children will receive no comfort, they were killed as well. It is little solace that he was with his family at the end. It makes me angry beyond words so I will lean on this poem to communicate what I can’t. Which brings me back to this Refaat Alareer’s views on teaching and using English to liberate. I’m autistic, I struggle with language sometimes and it was strangely familiar to hear his view. I guess my own words to add would be (WIP):

Be open to grief. Be open to seeing others As they see themselves. Be open to seeing yourself In another person.

Invite in the sorrow of others. Know their burden Is much like your own. Know your needs Are shared by others.

Let yourself be changed.

Heard the poem on the radio. The man understood the transformative power of grief.

If you labor there’s only two ways you get paid your full worth: you own the means of your production or your boss is a chump. However much the job pays, you are going to have a larger impact than your salary (hopefully).

Sat on jury duty. We literally said not guilty because the officer was supposed to follow a process for line ups and they didn’t even do the bare minimum. They were like we got out guy

At first I didn’t believe. Now I just want to know where the new outhouse is going to be installed.

Those qualifiers got me 🤣

True and here’s hoping Biden is right to think the indiscriminate bombing has at least subsided: https://youtu.be/ECtBwO9hlTI?si=3QnNV2sopzF-lpbe

I thought it was obvious due to OP literally dropping names: Avi Dichter, Netanyahu, cabinet members. The three have a lot in common but most would zero in on the fact they run the Israeli government. If you want to insist their most notable trait in this context is that they’re Jewish… that’s a choice.

MTG to be sure: https://www.politico.com/video/2023/10/26/mtg-moves-to-censure-tlaib-over-israel-comments-1117328

You’re right of course, but I don’t see how that makes any of this better. If anything, it seems you’re saying we should expect the casualties to be even higher because a city is being bombed.