There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

They should raise it to seventy but give you 2 years of retirement a working decade

Graham Platner: “The fact that Jeff Bezos exists and the fact that I know someone in Sullivan who works three jobs and pays 60% of her monthly income in rent, those two things are directly connected. There is no metric of hard work that justifies a billionaire when people in Eastern Maine work three jobs just to put food on the table”

This is the GOP operative who NYT used as their primary Platner source without being able to corroborate her claims.

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation. Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years. In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor. The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns." In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe. That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it. Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’” Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back. Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

oldest version of the zoomer broccoli haircut

Well, if you have a MENU, then that completely erases the dozens and dozens of direct personal statements from people who said the food was often spoiled and at times not provided, that they were subject to abusive conditions, and denied medical care. After all, you have a MENU.

For those of you who don't know: Bernie Sanders does not believe in equal rights for Palestinians and Jews in the Levant. "If that happens, then that would be the end of the State of Israel. And I support Israel's right to exist". Bernie Sanders is a Jewish supremacist.

so the white house themselves are admitting to deporting US citizens??

would you prefer that i say the falklands are argentinian vs the malvinas are british

some people are saying 30 books a year is a lot but I read like 3 books a week.

can we PLEASE normalise achievable reading goals??? 30 books a years it’s NOT common

should be Desian, to be more inclusive

This is how National Security Minister Ben-Gvir treats detainees when he knows the cameras are rolling — to say nothing of what happens to Palestinians behind closed doors. This conduct is abhorrent. He should've been sanctioned by the U.S. long ago.

Israel massacred over 10 civilians today in Lebanon, which it seeks to militarily occupy A week ago, it bombed a man on a motorbike in Lebanon, then killed his 12 year old daughter when she tried to run away These are their values

🔴Six children were killed by the Israeli army in the Deir Qanoun massacre.

Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona. Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti. L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano. Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.

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Bernie was the genuine populist hero; but the US elected the con-man faux-populist hero. how different all of our lives would be, including the lives of MAGAs, if Bernie Sanders had been president within our lifetimes. but the US preferred hating immigrants to taxing billionaires; preferred ICE & detention facilities to improvements in their own neighborhoods & decent health care.

There has been an active shooter at the Islamic centre in San Diego. There appears to be multiple victims. Chopper footage shows at least two people dead on the ground A massive EMS response is underway