Syrian Kurds call for urgent investigation into Turkish military actions in North and East Syria
🔶 The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has demanded an impartial investigation into Turkey's military actions, which have led to severe infrastructure damage and humanitarian crises in the region.
@ElBeeToots @AlliFlowers @Patrickoldhiker @wolleysegap @lednabwm Good point about the 'newest testament'. They left out the Sermon on the Mount but deified the apostle Paul, famous misogynist.
@AlliFlowers @Patrickoldhiker @wolleysegap @lednabwm I think they're following the Newest Testament, which was written by copy-pasting the best (ahem) parts of the Old and New.
Jim Jordan's whole purpose in life is to shut down DOJ efforts to bring traitor Donald Trump to justice. Jim Jordan CANNOT be Speaker of the House!
#Israel forces have carried out local raids in #Gaza to search for hostages taken captive by Hamas, the Israeli military says. Follow live https://breaking.iavian.net/article/348117
House Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries urges Republicans to elect the next Speaker and criticizes party "extremists." After #SteveScalise withdrew his Speaker nomination, Jeffries suggests traditional Republicans partner with Democrats for a bipartisan solution. Jeffries might contend for the Speaker role if Democrats nominate him.
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Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Federal prosecutors added the new criminal charge against the New Jersey Democrat and his wife.
By ERICA ORDEN
10/12/2023 12:55 PM EDT
Updated: 10/12/2023 06:53 PM EDT
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors accused Sen. Bob Menendez on Thursday of secretly acting as an agent of the government of Egypt while serving as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding to the slate of criminal charges for which the New Jersey Democrat was indicted last month.
Prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office unveiled an updated indictment adding the charge of conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent, alleging that Menendez; his wife, Nadine Menendez; and a New Jersey businessman, Wael Hana, used his Senate position to benefit the government of...
Okay, big news for everyone with a WordPress blog, including people with a free blog on wordpress.com!
You can now turn *any* WordPress blog into a Fediverse server which can be followed from Mastodon etc.
I've updated the instructions on how to do this at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/
Just to repeat, this is now available to ALL WordPress blogs including free tier ones. The free tier has slightly different instructions, but effect is same.
I am so angry that the Israeli government had to release photos of mutilated murdered babies in an attempt to refute denial. This is a spectacle of death and the dead should be protected from it. It is profoundly disrespectful and it shows the contempt in which many hold the Jewish victims of violence, even the ones too young to have learned their first word.
But the thing is, public documentation will never be enough. The Holocaust is the most well-documented genocide and that does not stop Holocaust denial, not at all. “People love dead Jews” but only when it serves their narrative. Otherwise we are lying manipulators with a sinister agenda.
I have not seen the photos and hope never to. If more people would see the victims of massacre and war as real people, they would stop clamoring for such “evidence” which serves no purpose other than to desecrate the dead. #Israel
On Oct 13, 1920: Black Community in Roxboro, NC, Required to Leave or Face Racial Violence http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/oct/13
The monstrous Hamas attack used brutal techniques Putin’s butchers tried out in Ukraine. We must help fund both Israel’s defense and Ukraine’s, not choose between them. And here’s a way to do both without any added tax burden on Americans: Make Putin pay.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4250867-now-is-the-perfect-time-for-biden-to-transfer-russias-frozen-assets-to-ukraine/
“Only the Russians, among Hamas's allies, have experience in the use of drones with drop mechanisms, and it was the Wagner mercenaries who allegedly handed them over to Hamas militants during exercises in Africa.”
About 35 days until the next government shutdown deadline. No work appears to be happening on any funding bills because there’s no speaker. Nor has the House had either a symbolic or real response to the events in Israel. No sign there’ll be a speaker anytime soon. The Senate has been doing appropriations work, but w/o the House, they have nowhere to send their versions of bills which would require negotiation anyway.
Genuine question: in light of how we've witnessed disinformation spread in the pandemic, is anyone anywhere on earth effectively addressing the digital literacy and science literacy gap?
I'd love to know about who is doing good, *effective* work.
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