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I know there's a lot going on, but the Senate just passed a reckless amendment that would prohibit the enforcement of mask mandates on public transportation at the federal level for the next fiscal year.

Shamefully, 10 Democrats voted in favor of a ban:
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO
Brown (D-OH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Rosen (D-NV)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Tester (D-MT)

@GottaLaff What a pity. Cause putting that on PPV could have given the US a balanced budget for the next 50 years - even with Republicans in charge!

A Moms for Liberty chair who previously fought a library for having an adaption of Anne Frank’s diary recently promoted her organization on a network that warns viewers about “seditious Jews,” “Jewish tyrants,” and how Jewish people “have forsaken God” mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/

“I never thought I'd grow up and get a bullet in my leg. And it's just like, why? Like, why do people do this?”

— 10-year-old Zoey Levesque recounts a bullet grazing her leg in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting at a bowling alley.

“The Gaza Ministry of Health is just a front for Hamas ... a terrorist organization … We can’t take anything coming out of Hamas, including the so-called ‘Ministry of Health,’ at face value.”

— NSC’s John Kirby on Biden saying he has “no confidence” in Palestinian death count

Pentagon says 900 US troops have deployed or are deploying to Middle East amid heightened tensions

cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/us

“The House has a new Speaker who said he’s ready to get to work and to find common ground. Now is the time … Let’s work together to ban assault weapons…”

— White House Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre addresses the mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine

“What’s harsh is taking ... hostages … What’s harsh is dropping in on a music festival & slaughtering a bunch of young people … Hamas is preventing people from [leaving Gaza] — that is what is harsh.”

— John Kirby reacts to “harsh” criticisms of WH comments on civilian deaths

War 

@CaringKinderSociety

There's plenty of complexity in war, but some things aren't complicated at all.

Civilians are, categorically, not POWs. And treating civilians as if they were, is a war crime.

un.org/en/genocideprevention/d
#GenevaConventions

So. Where was the good guy with a gun? Asking for the families of the killed and wounded.

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