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  • Or just anyone who's not clued in. Trumpland will vote even if they know he's lying. It's the people that barely pay attention to politics that will hear a confident politician say something and assume it's true.

  • Israel threatens to 'take Lebanon back to the stone age'
  • We're there. Netanyahu referenced Amalek in his war speech, a story where god commanded the Jews to kill every last infant of an enemy nation. The deputy speaker in parliament explicitly said there are no innocent civilians in Gaza and it must be wiped off the face of the earth.

  • Democrats groan at AIPAC "overkill" against Jamaal Bowman
  • Around the same time Bowman had his own poll (the DMFI poll is effectively a pro-Latimer poll) with him up +1. Also weak for an incumbent, but there's no reason to place the baseline at -17. AIPAC money almost certainly had a strong effect on the race, otherwise they wouldn't have felt spending $14.5 million was a good use of their donation money. That's fully half of all their expenditures reported thus far. The people with full time jobs focused on influencing US policy very much believe spending money influences elections.

  • Democrats groan at AIPAC "overkill" against Jamaal Bowman
  • He's carrying on a tradition for the House leader to endorse and support (with varying levels of "support") all House incumbents. It's not an indication of policy agreement or friendship, it's just if you're an incumbent, he supports you.

    Which is... fine. It's probably good that the House leader isn't supporting primary opponents to people in his caucus. But of course some support will be a lot more substantial than others. Pelosi (when she was leader) went to the mat for Henry Cuellar in his previous close primary against a progressive, but would just give perfunctory endorsements to progressive incumbents. When most people know you endorse based simply on incumbency, it's not really much of an endorsement.

  • Boebert faces first election Tuesday since switching districts and the vaping scandal
  • You literally started the argument you're now upset about. For some reason you thought it was important enough to tell me I was wrong, but after people told you your interpretation is wrong (or at best, in your evaluation, pointless) you're suddenly wondering why we're even talking about it.

    You didn't read the summary and felt compelled to make a point no one else here or in political coverage agrees with, just tuck your tail and slink away.

  • Israel's high court orders the army to draft ultra-Orthodox men, rattling Netanyahu's government
  • Two solutions to that problem:

    1. Choose the answer you like. Those other rabbis are wrong.
    2. Avoid breaking anyone's rules (this is, I believe, roughly the actual method). If one rabbi says it's forbidden to spin counter clockwise while dancing and another says it's fine, don't spin counter clockwise because maybe the first rabbi is right and the second just said it wasn't required, not that you had to do it. There's no electricity in the Biblical rules, but it's kind like fire and there are rules about fire on Shabbat, so they're not supposed to use electricity on Shabbat. It might be overkill, but better safe than sorry.
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    On Politics: Brad Lander's scheming shows Eric Adams' weakness
  • Could Adams actually lose? The short answer is yes, even if it’s historically difficult to oust an incumbent mayor. Adams only managed to win the 2021 Democratic primary by fewer than 10,000 votes. Kathryn Garcia almost became mayor, and a large swath of the city also voted for Maya Wiley, the leading progressive candidate.

    And yet centrists everywhere acted like it was a landslide victory demonstrating a new mold for Democrats nationwide.

  • Prosecutors say gag order is needed to keep Trump from inviting 'violent act' on law enforcement - ABC News
  • And that was from a "tough" judge who was doing everything he could not to jail him. Eileen Cannon is absolutely not going to meaningfully enforce a gag order. And she'd probably set aside 3 weeks to hear motions for each violation before refusing it.

  • Boebert faces first election Tuesday since switching districts and the vaping scandal
  • Not even mentioned in the article! In what world does the author live that "vaping" was the scandal that prompted her to flee her district? Conservatives couldn't care less that she was being rude with vape smoke at a play.

  • Prosecutors say gag order is needed to keep Trump from inviting 'violent act' on law enforcement - ABC News
  • That's the most frustrating thing about all these back and forths. So much angst and arguments when the first question that needs to be asked is "do you live in a state that's in play?" If not, then you don't need to tell anyone who you're not voting for and no one needs to tell you you shouldn't, because your vote doesn't matter and you're not making the decision based on who you'd prefer to see in the White House. Deep-X votes are being decided in relation to their irrelevance and both shouldn't be shamed as supporting migrant death camps and also shouldn't be an opinion someone in a swing state should look to when making their own decision.

    I'm in a deep blue state. Usually I vote for Democratic presidential candidates merely to drive up the popular vote total and make the argument against the electoral college stronger. That's all my (presidential) vote is worth, so if I decided not to cast it, it's in that context, and someone in Georgia should be making their decision in an entirely different context and ignoring the position declarations of people whose votes really don't matter.

  • President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue
  • My only guess would be people can get better propaganda elsewhere and the CNN propaganda was supposed to fly under the radar as coming from a "real" news station. CNN has had various stories about right-biased reporting which actually damages their brand, unlike Fox where the target audience is all in.

  • President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue
  • the city’s mayor, who called for more police patrols.

    You don't need more police patrols, this was a protest with insufficient police staffing, not a random event the police would need to stumble upon. Somehow even with planned events the police knew about and were already present at, mayor's answer is just more police wandering around.

  • President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue
  • Wild that the Times of Israel, reporting second-hand, has a more factual accounting of the event.

    Violent clashes broke out Sunday between pro- and anti-Israel demonstrators in Los Angeles after the latter held a protest outside the Adas Torah synagogue, where an Israeli real estate fair was being held.

    The first line establishes the relevant information, not some vague idea that there were protesters just stopping Jews from worshipping. The only context missing is that the real estate fair probably isn't for apartments in Tel Aviv. It's probably for West Bank settlements, which are heavily populated by Americans.

    CNN surprisingly actually had a more detailed accounting, albeit surrounded by the dominant anti-Palestinian narrative.

    Synagogue hosted Israel real estate event

    The protest stemmed from an Israel real estate event on Sunday at the Adas Torah synagogue, according to the synagogue’s security director and social media posts from organizers.

    The event at the synagogue was organized by My Israel Home, a firm that markets real estate in Israel and West Bank settlements and was advertising on social media. CNN has reached out to My Israel Home for comment.

    In one video, two men appear to be wrestling on the ground as others kick at them. Later, one of the men – holding an Israeli flag – appears to have a bloodied face and mouth.

    Additional video showed an egg thrown at a pro-Palestinian activist and a man wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, chased and punched on the ground by a man wearing a Jewish yarmulke or kippah.

    During many of the altercations, bystanders worked to pull and hold people apart.

  • House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
    www.nbcnews.com House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security

    A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.

    House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security

    A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare.

    For Social Security, the budget endorses "modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy." It calls for lowering benefits for the highest-earning beneficiaries. And it emphasizes that those ideas are not designed to take effect immediately: "The RSC Budget does not cut or delay retirement benefits for any senior in or near retirement."

    Biden has blasted Republican proposals for the retirement programs, promising that he will not cut benefits and instead proposing in his recent White House budget to cover the future shortfall by raising taxes on upper earners.

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    Cornel West Responds to Criticism Over Campaign Cash From Right-Wing Billionaire Harlan Crow
    www.commondreams.org Cornel West Responds to Criticism Over Campaign Cash From Right-Wing Billionaire Harlan Crow

    "Despite my deep political differences with brother Harlan Crow (who is an anti-Trump Republican), I've known him in a nonpolitical setting for some years and I pray for his precious family," said the presidential candidate.

    Cornel West Responds to Criticism Over Campaign Cash From Right-Wing Billionaire Harlan Crow

    Harlan Crow (of the Clarence Thomas patronage scandals) donated the max individual donation ($3,300) to Cornel West's campaign, which invited obvious criticism.

    Text of his response on Twitter: >As an independent candidate and a free Black man, I accept donations within the limits of no PACs or corporate interest groups that have strings attached. I am unbought and unbossed. Despite my deep political differences with brother Harlan Crow (who is an anti-Trump Republican), I’ve known him in a non-political setting for some years and I pray for his precious family. I find it hypocritical for those who highlight his $3300 donation to my campaign but can’t say a mumbling word about the PAC-driven billion dollars to support the genocidal attack in Gaza sponsored by their candidate! I’m fighting for Truth, Justice, and Love! Onward!

    Frankly, the pleasant words make this look much worse than just saying "if some asshole wants to send me money, I'll keep it". Sounds like someone he wants to keep on the good side of, but y'know they're only political differences, not stuff that really matters.

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