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Living in a small town in a desert state park. Worried about my country & world. Retired, volunteer. Have worked on water issues & town planning group.

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@MOSSADil @elonmusk I really like and agree with your post. After reading it, when I went to "like" it, the post disappeared. This has happened before. And I don't get posts from many accounts that I follow. I remembered your account name, so I found the post again by searching for your account.

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@TerryMoran @amil_eoj It is perfectly representative of how we've been supposed to overlook the obvious with Trump on all matters.

[Marni von Wilpert for Congress @marnivonwilpert]

Thank you to everyone who made their voices heard on Tuesday — and for putting their trust in me to represent our communities. Now, let’s join together to flip #CA48 blue and take back our country!

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

MYTH: A slow release of election results means it can’t be trusted.

FACT: Counting election results has always taken time and different factors can prolong the process.

If you have questions about your ballot, call your election office. They have the answers.

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@Acyn Bad, Rubio, if you hope to run for President .

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Actually, Brad, here’s the full clip you’re trying to spin.

Are you seriously arguing that we shouldn’t do literally everything in our power to win back the majority?

I know what it takes to beat Trump, and you are proving that you are simply not ready to meet the moment of beating a Republican Party that is wholly controlled by a fascist.

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@SenWarren Can you break it down per household for his grifting?

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Let me get this straight.

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s Commerce Secretary, got caught lying about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats grilled him about it and finally got him to agree to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

Four weeks later, Lutnick wrote a $5 million check to the super PAC that funds House Republicans, including members who sit on that committee. Then he showed up for a closed-door interview where, despite pushback from Democrats, no cameras or recordings were allowed.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history and it’s not even close.
https://t.co/KsrdJ5ypQ3

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@RepMikeLevin No!

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

In interview with @jmart, Josh Shapiro on AIPAC spending:

“I think it's been used cynically by some to try and silence certain voices, to try and say that certain people participating in politics shouldn't count or should be viewed in a toxic way….

“What you are seeing is not, ‘AIPAC money’ or however it was termed, but you're getting ‘the Jews who give to that candidate who also support AIPAC.’”

[Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet]

Calls for creation of a Palestinian state are oft-repeated by politicians (such as Macron) and on this website. But those calls are usually not accompanied by any focus on critical issues regarding the nature of such a state and its functioning.

The focus, as always, is on Palestinian rights and Israeli responsibilities. But actual statehood entails responsibility - and sensitivity to neighbors' rights. It is past time to go beneath the surface of glib mantras.

For those who spout platitudes about the need for a "two state solution" - it is incumbent on you to address questions such as the following (just a sampling of issues).

I submit that if one is realistic, the answers to these questions are unsatisfactory.

-Will it be formally and irrevocably recognized both by the Palestinians themselves and as a matter of international law that the creation of that state will end *all* Palestinian claims against Israel, including for the so-called "right of return" to Israel itself - i.e. an end to the conflict? What evidence suggests that the Palestinians would be willing to do that?

-In the Oslo process, the Palestinians agreed to seek redress for their grievances through negotiation, not terror. Israel took "risks for peace" and despite the Palestinians gaining autonomy over their population centers in Gaza and the West Bank, that agreement was broken over the course of Oslo and collapsed utterly with Arafat's launch of the Second Intifada. And yet since Oslo's collapse Israel has borne the brunt of international opprobrium all the way up to October 7 and beyond. Based on this experience, how can Israel have confidence that a Palestinian peace commitment is strategic, not a tactical prelude to the next phase of conflict i.e. an Oslo repeat?

-Will the new state be demilitarized?

-Will the new state maintain adequate police power to act against terror groups, and would it actually use that power?

-What security arrangements will be in place to ensure that the new state is not a launching ground for attacking Israel, as has been the case with all previous Israeli territorial withdrawals, and that there is no ingress of heavy weaponry or terror operatives, construction of attack tunnels, etc.?

-If those security arrangements are proposed to include an international component, what basis is there to think it would be any more effective than UNIFIL in Southern Lebanon, which has been an utter failure?

-Must that state be Judenrein, or could it have a Jewish minority, just as Israel has an Arab minority? And if it will have a Jewish minority, what security arrangements will be in place for them?

-How will that state be governed? Will it be a democracy? If so, how can it be ensured that Hamas 2.0 will not use democratic means to seize power, such as occurred in Algeria (and as has precluded any Palestinian election since the early 2000s)? And if not, how would that work?

-Enmity for Israel runs extremely deep. What educational reforms and other steps will be taken to cause Palestinians to accept actual coexistence with Israel?

-What would be the precise territorial contours of the state?

-What arrangements would prevail in Jerusalem?

-If special arrangements are made to compensate Palestinian refugees and their descendants, will there also be arrangements made to compensate Jewish refugees from Arab lands and their descendants?

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Take your time with this one…

Looking at Becerra’s healthcare plan and one thing jumps out immediately:

This is what government looks like when you’re trying to keep people alive instead of turning healthcare into a shareholder extraction scheme.

📌Lower drug costs
📌Expand telehealth
📌Protect Medi-Cal
📌Keep rural hospitals open
📌Invest in actual healthcare workers

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

Haviv Rettig Gur dropping one truth bomb after the other, on the Jewish community of New York

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@bluedoggeosh For some it is hard to accept the idea that Israel has been and is in the position of having to secure its existence in the face of continual attacks. Israel's internal politics has made a counter idea too easy. But what county doesn't have obnoxious crazies (see our own)?

[Jasmin Mujanović @JasminMuj]

With the (sadly) unsurprising revelation that the San Diego mosque killers directly cited the Christchurch terrorist as inspiration, I am resharing my 2021 essay on the Serb nationalist roots of the proto-genocidal 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory. https://t.co/8DfEweIUYY

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

First current political candidate suggests concentration camps for American Jews.

This should be national news!

National Democratic leaders must call this out immediately

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

NEW: @Axios interviewed two dozen Jewish members of Congress and congressional candidates about their experiences w/ antisemitism and reviewed dozens of blatantly antisemitic voicemails, letters and emails to their offices.

Here’s what we found: https://t.co/QSW5WBgN56

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@James_J_Marlow Best wishes for his healing and health.

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@CoreyWriting @ElliotMalin Was watching this show until Omer Bartov came on. I recognized him as a type I've run into in academia and had no desire to hear more from him. Turned the show and TV off. It is hard enough to track events and what they mean without being misled by sophistry.