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I was thinking about the number of Indian Americans that have occupied this role (tho more usually on the dem side)

I'm sure most people on here realize this; I haven't been keeping up with discussion about the war the last few days!

What's crazy about this discourse is that it's the *absence* of WMDs --and thus any deterrence effect --that is the reason for the horrific, amoral, apocalyptic destruction that is occurring

scoop -> Israel's strikes on 30 Iranian fuel depots went far beyond what the U.S. expected when Israel notified it in advance, the first significant disagreement between the allies since the war began, according to a U.S. official, Israeli official and a source with knowledge. Scoop: U.S. dismayed by Israel's Iran fuel

This should for all intents and purposes be treated as a straight up lie and misinformation on the part of the US until proven otherwise

99% of indias broad gauge is electrified, half of it done since 2018.
Here’s a WAG 12 hauling a doublestack on western freight corridor. Imagine the number of diesel freight trucks this replaced. Awesome!

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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Green degrowth Trump is here

Can anyone help me understand why #Kids&CaretakersOutOfCamps isn't one of the conditions for DHS funding? Why confine only to DHS/ICE conduct on streets and not inside concentration camps?

I'm really just wondering aloud why Republicans decided to care about this of all things

But wasn't the flinch because of the ad campaign/ saying he approved it rather than anything else? ... I suppose the argument is that the importance of that to him was still due to pressure

Whoa

"WH apparently did not realize that starting a war with Iran *with strikes aiming to remove the regime from power* would trigger Iranian action against Hormuz and regional energy infrastructure.
They directly threatened this regime's survival.
What did they think would happen?" -- Gregory Brew

AOC: It’s beyond just the American service members who have tragically died in this, and our hearts do go out in prayer to their families, but also the over 100 Iranian schoolgirls who have been killed in these attacks, and the countless people who are affected, possibly displaced as well.

I’m no medical doctor* but does this look like a man with a healthy gut? I don’t think so….

* I do however have a PhD and “restorative” diets were certainly part of my research on the first restaurants

Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”

It's interesting that NYT comms is openly having this public debate with a left-wing commentator!

Man, why the fuck are we bombing Iran.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Raskin should be the House Democratic Leader

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Indeed. At least slotkin has a fumctioning brain.

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968.

Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.

Every time i see slotkin i think "that could've been andy levin." Still, gotta focus on the future

And the politico framing on this is trash obviously bsky.app/profile/jona...

Electorally Michigan can support significantly better senators

So just like the US?

And if you think about it, it would be a kind of a weird fairy-tale planet-divided-into-nations if that conjunction of things just *happened* to be true for the whole existing set of national economies... that's why he's making a stronger claim

😭😭😭 I mean this *can* be true - and certainly the country/economic unit in question would be in a much better position if this were *also* true for their "comparative advantage" - but ricardo actually makes this distinction very explicit! I am away from my copy or I'd share the pages