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I knew a guy in New York who was DACA. Dude grew up in Boston and had a Boston accent. He rooted for the Patriots. He's only ever lived in the Northeast. It's been several years, but by now he's probably married a US citizen he was seriously dating. But Trump and the rest can only see an Other.

According to activists from the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, where the shooting took place, the killing happened after a settler in a bulldozer drove through their land, destroying trees and property.

When a resident approached to ask the driver of the bulldozer to stop, the driver knocked him down with the blade of the bulldozer. Residents began to throw stones, and Levi allegedly emerged from the settlement and began firing. Hathaleen, who was standing a distance away from the confrontation, was then struck by a bullet.

Here are a couple of things the article doesn't mention:

Hathaleen (the victim) was recently deported from the US back to the West Bank while preparing to embark on an interfaith speaking tour. He was a nonviolent peace activist.

Levi (the perpetrator) is a terrorist who has repeatedly attacked Palestinians on their own land, set fire to their fields, destroyed their property, and threatened them. He's a menace who attempts to provoke confrontations. He was sanctioned by the US and EU, but Trump ended his sanctions earlier in the year. Genocidal forces within the Israeli government back Levi, along with many other so-called "settlers."

Since October 2023, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli terrorists like him, and 7,000 more have been injured. Israel has demolished the homes of over 6,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. But it's not like it started then; this has been ongoing for years.

Many of the "settlers" are Zionist Jews from the United States, particularly NYC. A disproportionate number of US immigrants to Israel move to the West Bank, which leads to situations like extremists from Brooklyn invading Palestinian homes. Even setting aside the genocide in Gaza, no ethical person aware of the facts can look at this situation and conclude Israel has the moral high ground. (No, this doesn't mean a terrorist group like Hamas does either, but when faced with a government actively committing genocide, Palestinians have been remarkably restrained.)

Edit: Oops, I got fired up before seeing that this was posted in a movie community.

We've destroyed enormous shareholder value and gotten even more filthy rich in the process. Capitalism!

Anything to not support actual progressive values. They just need to do a better job explaining why the status quo of a 45-year-long lurch to the right with massive income inequality, institutionalized corruption, and corporate serfdom are in our interests, right?

Many of these things are timed to take full effect after Trump's term. Republicans in Congress expect the next president to be a Democrat and for that person to take all the heat if they do nothing to stop it, to have to raise taxes to offset the cuts, or to incur additional deficit spending. Republicans can campaign effectively against all three, and Republican voters will lap it up like hogs at the trough.

It's always been about slavery for this subset of the population, right from the very beginning of the formation of the country. Not just money, not just power in an abstract sense, but the kind of power that only comes with slavery.

The fascism is only a means to slavery. They'll take it as far as they're allowed.

When you told them they probably didn't realize at the time that Democrats could be involved

Interesting article. Just one of these vessels can cost $5M to remove and destroy. One of them sank in the Columbia and it would cost Oregon $25M to remove it and clean up environmental damage, which Oregon doesn't have the funds for. Yet the federal government is selling them for as low as $5,000, often without verifying means and insurance. Sounds like the federal government should be paying to do the removal directly, but of course then they couldn't shift the cost to states.

Notable here is that the only shipbreaker companies in the country authorized to do business with the federal government are located in Brownsville, Texas, so in the event the ships are large enough to justify the cost and seaworthy enough to make the journey, this effectively becomes yet another tax Pacific Northwest citizens pay that goes to red states.

Abandoned and derelict vessels are quietly piling up in Washington and Oregon waterways, posing a threat to fragile marine ecosystems. At least 37 of these vessels in the Pacific Northwest, including the Pacific Producer, were formerly property of the Navy, Coast Guard or another federal agency, then bought by someone who later abandoned it. Together, these former government vessels have cost Washington state and Oregon over $21 million to remove and destroy.

They're busy enacting their final solution to the Gaza problem, so just wait a few more months and world governments can sigh a breath of relief that they don't have to pretend to care anymore when the last Palestinian in Gaza has starved to death or been shot

Not yet, but we all know it's coming

What worries me is using this as "evidence" to arrest Democrats in office.

"Viewpoint diversity"

The approval by the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, comes after Skydance made commitments to the agency in three areas: ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at Skydance and Paramount have been shut down; appointing an ombudsman to review “complaints of bias or other concerns” involving CBS as part of ensuring “viewpoint diversity”; and investing in local news and working with its affiliated broadcast stations to serving local communities.