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Trump lifted sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Within hours, Netanyahu launched a new invasion.

The post Trump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes Investigators appeared first on The Intercept.

Fueled by settler movements and messianic ideology, Israel’s advance into Syria signals a troubling push for territorial dominance.

The post Israel Isn’t Leaving Syria: Settlement Plans Signal a Permanent Land Grab appeared first on MintPress News.

Time to bring back that WW1 marching song? Donald Trump represents everything that for my entire lifetime this country flattered itself it was not. His reelection puts the lie to that national fantasy. The long arc of the moral universe took a nose dive on Nov. 5 like the stock market on Black Monday. Trump’s “United States of Backlash,” Paul Waldman calls it: What is the society Trump now seeks to create? It’s one in which virtually all the social progress of the last half-century is reversed. Not only will efforts to address racism in both public and private institutions be eliminated, even talking about racism will be either forbidden (as in schools) or banished through intimidation. Even the most milquetoast efforts to improve diversity will no longer be allowed. Millions of undocumented immigrants and their families — including both legal immigrants and U.S. citizens — will be deported, while legal immigration is drastically reduced, the result of which will be a re-whitened nation in line with a blood-and-soil conception of American identity.

On 20 July 2003, Tony Benn was being driven to Dorset for a festival. In the car with him was Eva Dunn, a union organiser in the sex industry. Later that night, Benn wrote in his diary: ‘I have to brace myself for the idea that sex workers are organised.’ It was a strange comment, […]

Trump’s “intramural kampf” goes national Mongol General : Conan! What is best in life? Conan : To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. In his first unexpected term, JV Last explains, Trump discovered to his disappointment that, while his party superficially supported him, there were pockets of energy-sucking resistance that needed purging before he could fully work his will. Plus, there were “two other spheres in which structures prevented a president from acting as emperor”: the federal government and the broader culture of decency and honesty upon which he’d long preyed. Now with the Republican Party fully subjugated, “he’s going to war against America.” Last outlines a strategy I’ve watched North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature pursue for over a decade. Take actions that starve blue cities of revenue to induce budget crises. Force cities to raise taxes, cut services, or both, generating popular discontent. By the time the crises bite, voters have forgotten whose actions precpitated them.

These jokes were written by students in Shannon Barker’s high school English class in Chicago, Illinois.

1. DAD JOKES

Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
No one. Never. You’re alone in life. No one cares about you.

What did Kate Bush say to Sisyphus?
Be [rollin’] up that road, be [rollin’] up that hill, be [rollin’] up that building…

My boss said: “Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.” So I dressed as Batman. Unfortunately, Batman couldn’t save anyone from the endless nothing after death.

2. Recipes

Recipe for the best meal ever: Doesn’t matter. There is no end goal. Goals are pointless. Reject this recipe. Do whatever you want. Unless you’re a woman. Then you have to conform.

Thanksgiving turkey recipe

The threat was brought under renewed scrutiny following reports that billionaire Trump aide Elon Musk could bankroll British political parties

Actuaries are probably the world’s foremost experts on risk. The Institute & Faculty of Actuaries has weighed in on the likely effects of climate change (pdf):

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual

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Ever worry that you don’t measure up? These CBT-based practices can make social comparison less painful and more productive

- by Joel Minden

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Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson

Donald Trump and his associates are already cashing in handsomely from his presidency

It blows a hole in the party's claim to have 'fixed the roof while the sun is shining'

Al Sussman chats with Bill King about his days covering popular music, as well as some of the big names that are featured in the book “LARGE TIME: On the Southern Music Beat, 1976-1986” (available on Amazon). For those who … Continue reading →

After distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pages.

Everyone seems to be very upset with Biden for pardoning his family members ahead of Trump’s restoration. Considering that Trump made clear that he planned to pardon at least some of the people who tried to overturn the election by storming the capitol as it was counting the electoral votes, you’d think it wouldn’t ‘t really be necessary. He wouldn’t have the balls to go after Biden’s family after that, right? And since he is flamboyantly swallowing a firehouse of corrupt money without even trying to hide it, no one would think it makes sense for him to try to continue the jihad against the Bidens. Well, he went even further and pardoned almost all of them, even the ones who tried to kill cops. And he granted clemency to those who plotted it. Does anything still think he has any limits? Well, not everyone agrees with that. This is from Townhall: Congress should immediately launch an investigation into this, both the House and Senate. Subpoena everyone.

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