Very clear double standard at play with Platner reporting because he is anti-zionist and anti-oligarch. For example, Newsom dated a 19 year old when he was 39 and slept with his best friend’s wife but for some reason this isn’t the subject of breathless exposes. Reporters aren’t banging down the door of all Newsom’s ex’s to dig for more dirt. It’s not considered potentially disqualifying or really considered at all.
The most consistent position, and the one most people actually take, is "are my political goals helped or hindered by this person dropping out". Nobody will admit this obviously but that's the standard, and honestly I don't see much wrong with that. These are politicians.
⚡️ Economist: Gulf rulers have imposed emergency measures resembling martial law across the Gulf under the guise of war. More than a thousand people, including expatriates, have been arrested in the UAE on charges of filming missile attacks.
Donald Trump literally has a whites-only refugee policy. If you're fleeing Syria, Venezuela, or Sudan, you're not considered a real refugee. If you own a McMansion in South Africa, you're a refugee.
Yes Jon Ossoff is correct. The Trumpy GOP is white nationalist.
🚨The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health says death toll from Israeli attacks since March 2 rose to 3,355 killed and 10,095 wounded by Friday morning, an increase of 31 deaths and 68 injuries over the previous day’s figures.
▪️ The dead include 3,073 adults aged 19–65, 234 children, and 48 people over the age of 65.
▪️ Lebanese nationals account for 94% of all casualties, while Syrians make up 3%, Palestinians 1%, and other nationalities 1%.
▪️ Southern Lebanon has borne the brunt of the violence, recording 4,158 injuries and 431 deaths, followed by Nabatieh with 4,126 injuries and 1,323 deaths.
▪️ The health sector has also come under sustained attack. The ministry reports 157 attacks on emergency medical services, damaging 159 ambulances and emergency vehicles.
▪️ At least 127 healthcare and emergency workers have been killed and 311 injured, including 122 EMS personnel killed and 234 EMS personnel wounded.
▪️ The ministry says 16 hospitals have been damaged and 3 hospitals forced to close due to the attacks.
The figures cover the period from March 2 until May 29 and were released by Lebanon’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center.
Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.
As someone living under a US-backed dictatorship, I can tell you this is how it begins. 2 years and 21 State of Exceptions later, we’re ruled by perpetual martial law with Pentagon bombs, sexual torture, military checkpoints, activists starved, waterboarded or disappeared by soldiers. A little DEA operation turns into the opening of an entire FBI Office in our capital, the military killing protesters at a general strike turned into targeted assassination plots on indigenous labor activists, a few visits from a U.S. Envoy turns into U.S. boots-on-the-ground operations where campesinos are electrocuted. Ecuador has lived all of this already: the hijacking of a once socialist nation literally beat into a Yankee colony. We cannot let it happen to our sister nation of Bolivia too.
A rare albino buffalo in Bangladesh nicknamed “Donald Trump” for its blond tuft was spared from Eid al-Adha sacrifice after going viral online.
The 700-kg buffalo had already been sold, but the government intervened over security concerns as crowds flocked to see it.
Authorities refunded the buyer and moved the animal to the Dhaka zoo.
Source: Reuters
Texas Democrats better be prepared for Abbott to welcome Trump and Stephen Miller's deployment of ICE Gestapo to polling stations to intimidate Latino Texans in November. They have already test-run this tactic, and they will have a fervent voter suppression ally in the governor.
“During the ceasefire alone, 700 Hezbollah [fighters] were eliminated…”
That is not how a ceasefire works. Also many of these were journalists and medics.