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American voters were crazy enough once before Brian Beutler offers thoughts on Donald Trump dissing the Israeli prime minister on Wednesday when Benjamin Netanyahu is down. And Netanyahu is down after the Hamas attack last Saturday per Noga Tarnopolsky at Intelligencer: Netanyahu Is Losing the War at Home. It wasn’t Israel’s failure to aid in Trump’s drone strike on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani that soured Trump on the Israeli PM, as Trump’s Florida rally comments suggest. Nor even Netanyahu upstaging Trump at a past White House event. NBC News: Trump has long sought to emphasize his appeal to Jewish Americans and has complained when he feels he has not been recognized sufficiently. Even after having left office, Trump has maintained he has done more for Israel and the Middle East than any other U.S. president, holding up the historic peace agreements he forged with Arab nations. He wants Jewish votes. They owe him. Yet 7 in 10 overall support Democrats.

MintPress founder and director Mnar Adley is joined by activist rapper and host of the Watchdog podcast on MintPress Lowkey, and MintPress senior staff writer Alan MacLeod to break down media narratives surrounding the crisis in Gaza and what you need to know.

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Mnar Adley explains the events that led up to the October 7th uprising that shook Gaza, occupied Palestine, and the world.

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Israel appears to be seeking collective punishment for Hamas atrocities, and this is not self-defense under international law

French co-operation with Armenia in its conflict with Azerbaijan is a welcome step towards ending Russian domination in the region

It’s Friday the 13th Donald Trump’s attorneys this week argued in a Colorado case brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) that the Constitution does not prohibit him from running for office. Based on Trump’s Jan. 6 actions, CREW hopes to disqualify Trump from the state’s ballot under the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause prohibiting any officer who has “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding a civil, military, or elected office unless approved by a two-thirds majority of the House and Senate. But this is Donald Trump we’re talking about. And Trump attorneys. They argue the Constitution does not apply to him becuase he never took an oath “to support the Constitution of the United States” per the amendment’s language (Law & Crime): “Section Three does not apply to President Trump,” the filing reads.

Where’s my uterus? Wouldn’t you like to know. I’ll give you a clue. Last week my uterus was in one of the undisclosed locations where DICK CHENEY USED TO HIDE.

But it’s not there anymore, SUCKERS.

What’s that? You want to know what’s inside my uterus? Well, I hope you have a portable sonogram machine that works with a generator, because if you want to find my uterus, you will have to travel to THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN.

But be careful; my uterus is currently wearing a string of WATERPROOF LED LIGHTS and is perfectly camouflaged in the middle of A FLOTILLA OF STINGING BIOLUMINESCENT JELLYFISH.

On Wednesday, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman MP, wrote to Chief Constables across the country, instructing them to further crack down on expressions of solidarity with Palestine. She suggested that protestors chanting ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ could, in certain contexts, breach Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 […]

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Clearsprings received the most complaints of any company providing asylum seeker accommodation. It is privately owned by a Conservative Party Donor

Exclusive new polling finds voters are not convinced by the Prime Minister's party conference claim to represent ordinary people's concerns, Adam Bienkov reports

The joy of being dull – if you love roundabouts, collect milk crates or appreciate biscuits, there’s a club just for you

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Training individuals to support one another through difficult times is a profound step forward in our mental health crisis

- by Arjun Kapoor & Jasmine Kalha

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Horrific unverified claims about the conflict spread like wildfire by news outlets and on social media, rapidly fueling tensions and violence.

The post Fog of War: The Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict appeared first on The Intercept.

Episode 16 of my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. Coming today from Kyoto, Japan In this episode, we discuss the way that governments shed their responsibilities to provide adequate housing and public infrastructure through the use of the ‘de-risking’ narrative. This is core neoliberalism and has been used to…

John Mitchinson on why Shakespeare’s most problematic play still has plenty to teach us