Tag: GAZA

Why Did Elon Musk Just Kick Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Off X?

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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You’ll Never Guess What the Right Is Blaming George Soros for Now

Parnas, who had been tasked with helping Giuliani connect with Ukrainian officials in his effort to “find dirt on the Bidens” ahead of the 2020 election, has been unearthing the inner workings of his former associates since the scheme blew up. On Tuesday, Parnas revealed that Giuliani had basically insisted on bribes while meeting with […]

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The Grotesque Slander of Comparing Gaza Protesters to Neo-Nazis

This, in turn, has fueled racist narratives that these college students, many of whom are themselves Jewish, are antisemitic terror supporters, often implicitly encouraging outside violence against them. Instead, these students have been smeared as fake Jews, a slur of convenience that allows those who are ostensibly concerned with the safety of Jewish students to […]

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GOP Senator Shreds “Uninformed” Marjorie Taylor Green for Party Drama

“Only pregnant women will be forced to surrender their EMTALA rights to make healthcare decisions about their bodies, and only pregnant women will have treatment guaranteed under federal law limited to Idaho’s prohibitory terms,” the brief reads. “Pregnant women stripped of their EMTALA rights under bans like Idaho’s have already experienced devastating harms because of […]

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Democratic Rep. Slams Columbia Protest with Outrageous Insult

“Only pregnant women will be forced to surrender their EMTALA rights to make healthcare decisions about their bodies, and only pregnant women will have treatment guaranteed under federal law limited to Idaho’s prohibitory terms,” the brief reads. “Pregnant women stripped of their EMTALA rights under bans like Idaho’s have already experienced devastating harms because of […]

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Democratic Rep. Makes Outrageous Comparison to Columbia Protests

“Only pregnant women will be forced to surrender their EMTALA rights to make healthcare decisions about their bodies, and only pregnant women will have treatment guaranteed under federal law limited to Idaho’s prohibitory terms,” the brief reads. “Pregnant women stripped of their EMTALA rights under bans like Idaho’s have already experienced devastating harms because of […]

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The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime Is a Snooze

Unlike in 2020, however, the unprecedented aspects of the 2024 election help explain what most voters hate about it. Biden and Trump are both known entities, and thus neither can honestly claim to be the candidate of change. Yes, Trump is promising to upend the federal government and remake it in his image, but his […]

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If Biden Wants Young Climate Voters, He Should Back a Gaza Cease-Fire

Climate has been a core part of Biden’s appeals to young voters. Announcing a temporary pause on natural gas export terminal permitting last year, Biden credited the “younger people” advocating a shift away from fossil fuels. Asked during a press call on Monday about the importance of winning over young voters, a top White House official […]

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If Biden Wants Young Climate Voters, He Should Back a Gaza Ceasefire

Climate has been a core part of Biden’s appeals to young voters. Announcing a temporary pause on a natural gas export terminal permitting last year, Biden credited the “younger people” advocating a shift away from fossil fuels. Asked during a press call on Monday about the importance of winning over young voters, a top White House […]

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Mitch McConnell—Yes, Really—Gives Sickest Tucker Carlson Burn

“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump posted in March. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.” Since then, two possible explanations for Trump’s dramatic shift in position have emerged. One of Trump’s allies, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, revealed plans to purchase […]

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The Absolute Dumbest Things Republicans Said About Columbia University

“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump posted in March. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.” Since then, two possible explanations for Trump’s dramatic shift in position have emerged. One of Trump’s allies, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, revealed plans to purchase […]

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Republicans Have Outrageous Response to Columbia University Protest

“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump posted in March. “I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.” Since then, two possible explanations for Trump’s dramatic shift in position have emerged. One of Trump’s allies, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, revealed plans to purchase […]

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What’s Happening on College Campuses After Columbia University Protest

And like Sotomayor, the other liberal justices weren’t so impressed. The Grants Pass legal team tried to argue that homelessness is “conduct,” something someone does, rather than “status,” something that someone is. But justice Elena Kagan pushed back saying matter of factly “homelessness is a status, it’s a status of not having a home.” “Sleeping […]

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Here’s What the Columbia University Protests Have Started Elsewhere

And like Sotomayor, the other liberal justices weren’t so impressed. The Grants Pass legal team tried to argue that homelessness is “conduct,” something someone does, rather than “status,” something that someone is. But justice Elena Kagan pushed back saying matter of factly “homelessness is a status, it’s a status of not having a home.” “Sleeping […]

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Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene

Screenshot Trump Media fired back with a statement of their own.  “Citadel Securities, a corporate behemoth that has been fined and censured for an incredibly wide range of offenses including issues related to naked short selling, and is world famous for screwing over everyday retail investors at the behest of other corporations, is the last […]

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Trump Issues Dangerous Warning to Followers Before Hush-Money Trial

Screenshot Trump Media fired back with a statement of their own.  “Citadel Securities, a corporate behemoth that has been fined and censured for an incredibly wide range of offenses including issues related to naked short selling, and is world famous for screwing over everyday retail investors at the behest of other corporations, is the last […]

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Republicans Can’t Stop Pointing Fingers Over Congressional Chaos

Omar, on the other hand, asked Shafik about protests specifically, pointing out several attacks against antiwar as well as Palestinian solidarity protests, including an alleged chemical attack against pro-Palestinian protesters in January that is still under police investigation, according to Shafik. Columbia has also been sued by five Jewish students and two student organizations after […]

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Republicans Are Tearing Each Other to Shreds Over Foreign Aid Package

Omar, on the other hand, asked Shafik about protests specifically, pointing out several attacks against antiwar as well as Palestinian solidarity protests, including an alleged chemical attack against pro-Palestinian protesters in January that is still under police investigation, according to Shafik. Columbia has also been sued by five Jewish students and two student organizations after […]

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Columbia University’s Horrifying Response to Students’ Gaza Protest

“The point is, HB 1285 is not ‘mission accomplished’ on stopping the needless censorship happening in FL schools, but it might slow it in certain areas,” posted the Florida Freedom to Read Project on X. “So for that, thanks for this small amendment to 1006.28. Let’s tackle this again in 2025.” Despite repeatedly insisting that […]

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Columbia University Horrifyingly Turns on Its Own Students Over Gaza

“The point is, HB 1285 is not ‘mission accomplished’ on stopping the needless censorship happening in FL schools, but it might slow it in certain areas,” posted the Florida Freedom to Read Project on X. “So for that, thanks for this small amendment to 1006.28. Let’s tackle this again in 2025.” Despite repeatedly insisting that […]

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The Long and Deadly War on Humanitarian Workers in Gaza

The United Nations established UNRWA in 1949 in order to serve all of the people displaced during the war that founded the state of Israel. Its mandate originally covered Jewish refugees as well as Muslim and Christian Palestinians (that’s why the name is “Palestine Refugees,” not “Palestinian”). But since 1952, its role has been to […]

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It’s Time for Biden to Press for a Regional Cease-Fire With Teeth

Such a regional cease-fire needs to include Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, and Israel, as well as the waterways on the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf and of course Gaza and the West Bank. Multinational peacekeeping forces might be required, especially in occupied Gaza and the West Bank, to ensure compliance by the Israelis and the […]

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Wait Till You Hear What GOP Has to Say on Tom Cotton’s Latest Remarks

But none of this should be news to Trump, who so far has been hit with two other gag orders in his prior legal trials. In October, Judge Arthur Engoron silenced the former president after he ushered a wealth of far-right venom onto Engoron’s chief law clerk. Trump was later fined $15,000 for violating the […]

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Wait Til You Hear What GOP Has to Say on Tom Cotton’s Latest Remarks

But none of this should be news to Trump, who so far has been hit with two other gag orders in his prior legal trials. In October, Judge Arthur Engoron silenced the former president after he ushered a wealth of far-right venom onto Engoron’s chief law clerk. Trump was later fined $15,000 for violating the […]

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House GOP Realizes There Are More Important Issues Than Woke Fridges

In reality, providing trans and nonbinary children with gender-affirming care actually makes them safer. Gender-affirming care decreases the amount of depression and anxiety that trans and nonbinary teenagers feel, and it makes them less likely to consider suicide. Planned Parenthood derided the decision for allowing Bailey to pursue his “sham investigation,” arguing in a statement […]

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House Republicans Ridiculed into Dropping “Appliance Week”

In reality, providing trans and nonbinary children with gender-affirming care actually makes them safer. Gender-affirming care decreases the amount of depression and anxiety that trans and nonbinary teenagers feel, and it makes them less likely to consider suicide. Planned Parenthood derided the decision for allowing Bailey to pursue his “sham investigation,” arguing in a statement […]

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Trump’s Bonkers Comments on Jews Need to Be Heard to Be Believed

Over the last week, Kennedy’s campaign has flip-flopped more than once on its January 6 messaging. On Thursday, the independent presidential candidate issued a fundraising email referring to the rioters as “activists.” The next day, Kennedy claimed that particular language was made in error but he still didn’t believe the event amounted to a “true […]

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Stop Weapons Shipments to Israel

But as Peter Beinart, a former editor of this magazine, pointed out in a 2019 essay for The Forward, Bush’s imposition of limits on Israel was no departure. Throughout the Cold War, presidents we “think of as pro-Israel routinely used American aid to influence Israeli policy.” When Israel, during the Suez crisis, considered annexing Egyptian […]

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“Genocide”: Elizabeth Warren Sounds Alarm About the War in Gaza

Screenshot The gruesome reports the world has seen have come from Gazan journalists on the ground, who have to balance their own safety—as well as that of their families—with the duty of documenting the attacks, atrocities, and daily life as the war continues into its sixth month. A small amount of media has been allowed […]

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