The report documents how Israel’s extensive bombing campaign in Gaza has decimated essential services and unleashed an environmental catastrophe that will have lasting health impacts. By early 2024, over 25,000 tons of explosives—equivalent to two nuclear bombs—had been dropped on Gaza, causing massive destruction and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, agricultural devastation, and toxic pollution.

I knew it was a lot but the equivalent of 2 nukes really puts it into perspective.

Biden has had literally all the evidence you could need to trigger the Leahy Laws and stop the arms shipments but has been complicit in this the entire time.

The only bright side is that it showed that the Dems can’t win while supplying and funding a clear genocide, courting neocons (who thought it was a good idea to campaign with a Cheney, the Hillary advisors lol), and just campaigning on being “not republican”.

It should be another slap like 2016 that they need to center around the working class that is desperate for change but given the leadership is beholden to the wealthy donors class and the fact that they didn’t learn last time I’m not expecting much outside of more incrementalism.

Leftist orgs definitely need to be pushing hard the next 4 years since there will be a lot of disillusionment among people like in 2016.

Think it’s like the free space in bingo, don’t even need to mention it because it’s assumed that we’re to blame lol

Fun to watch and glad to see Levy win! I enjoy his YouTube walkthroughs of openings more than any others I’ve found.

It might not be the top issue but Non-reactionaries even in the US are against Israel’s actions. it’s just people’s political education is limited to see voting for the lesser of two evils as the only option. That’s even factoring in that the US is the most propagandized country.

Great to see! Finally some light at the end of the tunnel of suffering caused by the blockade.

Disgusting.

Cori Bush was one of only six Democrats who partnered with 200 Republicans to vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Anyone who has driven in St. Louis lately understands , and how desperately we needed that investment.

IIRC this was because they split the bill with the social programs part that was originally all supposed to be 1 package. She was originally for the combined package.

Nope, not for Cori Bush, who’s repeatedly voted against defense spending.

Is this supposed to be bad…?

Despite the fact that Defund the Police was never effective, is wildly unpopular , and is overwhelmingly unpopular with Black voters, Cori Bush stubbornly continues to support the cause. She did in 2022, and she’s not backing away in 2024.

But here’s the kicker: Bush spends more on private security than just about any other member of Congress, having spent close to $500,000 on private security in the 2022 cycle. Just to be clear, this is highly aberrant. Combined, the rest of Missouri’s House delegation has spent a grand total of $0 on private security.

Without getting into a whole separate thing on defund the police I will say the spending is eye raising, she has said:

“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do,” she said.

I would agree the spending is a bit much but I don’t know the number of threats either. He does later mention she employed her now husband as security as well which is being investigated.

With a national platform, she fails to take even basic steps to help St. Louisans

This whole section feels like it’s reaching. Like maybe she felt the best route was to push to give her constituents more time? Why aren’t other state reps also getting heat for the unused funds?

To a fault, Cori Bush is uncompromisingly partisan

Like this is meaningless in a vacuum, reaching across the aisle isn’t some automatic good.

Take her “no” vote on sanctions against Russia

There are leftists that believe sanctions primarily hurt the working class of countries and not the people in power and so are against them. They haven’t removed Putin from power so far and trying to sanction a third of the countries in the world also has other downsides.

US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen said she is concerned about the strength of the US dollar going forwards, after widespread implementation of sanctions by the country has pushed other financial institutions to seek trades in other currencies.

Overall not a lot in there outside of the security spending/investigation which I’ll agree should be looked at.

Edit:

Also before any tries to frame voting No on H.R.6679 as problematic look at the actual bill:

The bill also expands an existing admissions bar against officers, representatives, and spokespersons of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Under this bill, all PLO members are barred from admission into the United States.

Per Wikipedia:

the PLO recognized Israeli sovereignty with the Oslo I Accord, and now only seeks Arab statehood in the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) that have been militarily occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.

In place of the Chromecast, the company will offer the newly announced $99.99 Google TV Streamer, which launches on September 24th. The set-top box comes with some significant spec bumps over the Chromecast with Google TV, such as a processor that’s 22 percent faster, along with Thread and Matter integration.

Replacing it with something 3x as much that more or less does the same thing.

Damn really unfortunate for the owl but would have been an interesting day at the zoo to watch that whole thing play out.

Going to add this report from Amnesty International back in 2009 showing Israel is the one using human shields

Thank you! I know they only recently spun off from the intercept with this, so I believe a website is on the way but will try not to post from here until then unless it’s some unique reporting I’m not seeing on any actual websites.

Thanks for posting this. Drives me crazy when although “inflation is over” because the YOY level isn’t rising the media acts dumb and doesn’t understand why the average person feels worse off than 4 years ago.

According to this the median household income has actually fallen since 2020 too.

Awesome to see they’re planning this out and giving time for support to build. With wildcat strikes being illegal in the US timing the auto workers contact dates to end on the same day is a clever way around that.

Found this from Shawn Fain (UAW President) that goes into some more detail.

I’m not holding my breath but if they want the best chance they should go with someone else. I think she’ll have a tough time beating trump

I know just wanted to have a brief moment of hope lol

Hopefully we can get a halfway decent candidate that isn’t going to continue support and fund a genocide.

Many within the South African business elite actively lobbied for an ANC-DA partnership, fearing an alternative that was termed by the DA as a “doomsday coalition” between the ANC and one of its far leftist split-offs in the EFF and/or MK party. The fear included the possibility of the government seizing land and assets currently owned by wealthy, predominantly white business owners.

The ANC ultimately decided against the MK party’s ultimatum, instead forming a coalition with the DA, and a number of its smaller right-wing party allies — including the white nationalist Freedom Front Plus or “FF Plus.” In this way Ramaphosa was able to keep his position as South African President in exchange for a number of executive cabinet positions, which had been previously reserved exclusively for high ranking ANC party members.

More notable, the leader of the white nationalist FF Plus, Pieter Groenewald, was appointed Minister of Correctional Services. It’s the first and only cabinet position that the party has ever obtained and is a remarkable advancement for them considering they actually lost votes and were only able to secure around 2% of the vote.

Rather than side with leftists, they went with white nationalists. Sure that’ll work out great /s

No break next week either so we’ll get to see the 2 Nikas versus the elder!

Think Vegapunk was about to say there’s a traitor among you but hard to tell