Peace Is Our Profession
The median age in the United States is 38, which is the highest it’s ever been. That makes some of us the most middle-aged people of all time.
An inauspicious debut if so. This one is the worst in a while. I like seeing '70s Kelly, though
Some more of his vetoes, mostly from last year:
A union-supported bill that would have banned driverless testing of autonomous trucks
A bill that would have banned solitary confinement lasting longer than 15 days - something that the UN considers torture.
Compare this (and Biden’s) statement to what the Democrats all said when Trump’s ear was pierced. Not one mention of bloody hands!
It has me very worried, the way Biden and Harris and Blinken and the New York Times are all insisting that anything and anyone “Iran-backed” deserves to die.
He’s going to pull a Mr. Burns and block out the sun so as to induce demand for his fake sun, even though he doesn’t believe induced demand is a thing
He’d provide much-needed age balance to the ticket, but they would never
Truthout: Kansas City Tenants Launch National Rent Strike to Demand Federal Rent Cap
Tenant unions protesting dismal living conditions at two apartment complexes in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted to withhold rent on October 1 if their demands are not met — the opening salvo in what organizers say is the first coordinated rent strike aimed at pressuring federal regulators to cap rent increases and protect tenants from abusive corporate landlords.
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The Tenant Union Federation said tenants organizing in North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana and Illinois are preparing to join the picket line and vote in the coming weeks on withholding rent from corporate landlords that similarly benefit from federally guaranteed financing.
The “underground metropolises” could be damaged or unsafe in some way, perhaps due to the pager / walkie-talkie explosions.
Senior foreign affairs correspondent Iago Iagoson reports that China and Iran “are now making the beast with two backs.”
For anyone who’s not familiar with the reference. It’s as genocidal as you’d expect.
26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. 29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal. 31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.
Chapter 12 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. 3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
It seems like the NYT is really ramping up anti-Iranian rhetoric lately. 26 articles (including some round-ups) since Sept. 18 have used the phrase “Iran-backed.” Almost every article that even mentions anyone in the Axis of Resistance uses the phrase “Iran’s proxies” or “Iranian proxies.” This was not happening even a month or two ago. (“Iran-backed” is all over, yes, but “Iranian proxies” and its variants were mostly absent from the paper all summer.)
I can’t get Google Trends to stop bugging out on me, but I wonder if this is the case for other State Department mouthpieces or if this is a NYT-specific editorial decision.
The target of the strike was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, according to two Israeli and two American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Nasrallah was in the buildings when they were hit.
20:17: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was speaking with his Israeli Security Minister as the operation was ongoing: Pentagon
20:16 The United States did not have advanced warning of an Israeli strike in Beirut: Pentagon
20:08 Senior US officials denied Israeli claims that “Israel” notified the US minutes before the strike in Beirut, telling Axios they had no prior warning
The envisioned changes would make it much harder for officials to end the partial asylum ban by tweaking the threshold at which it would be deactivated.
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Under the changes, however, the asylum restrictions would only deactivate if the seven-day average stays below 1,500 for 28 days. It would also include more migrants in the deactivation trigger’s calculations. Currently, crossings by non-Mexican unaccompanied children are excluded. The updated calculations would include all unaccompanied children.
Naturally the article goes on to accept all sorts of false premises about immigrants, refuses to examine the ways in which Biden and Trump have violated international law (beyond some token, detail-free quotations from the ACLU), and never once uses the word “refugee” or asks why people might want to flee their homes.
Yeah - the article says “for the dozen states, including Texas and California, where sports gambling is still illegal, the solution is simple: change nothing,” but because of these apps, it’s trivially easy for Californians to gamble on sports.
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