BREAKING: CBS News fires ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley after he clashed with the show's new executive producer in a heated meeting. https://t.co/onEowEHW4H
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
@Rockenjud Dude, my 84 year old mom had esophageal cancer last year. When she was finally hungry, her oncology nutritionist advised her to eat, and I quote: "whatever she wanted". Cancer patients need nutrition. Period. Processed foods ALSO HAVE NUTRIENTS. Hope that helps.
the whales will not be watching the new hbo harry potter show. you might think this is because very few whales watch any television at all, but it is actually because jk rowling is a terf ass bitch
@UofOklahoma The student wasn't asked to state their religious beliefs in the assignment; that she did is immaterial. She didn't satisfactorily do the assignment. Her writing simply DID NOT MEET THE CLEARLY EXPLAINED CRITERIA the instructor provided. This is an injustice to the instructor.
Netanyahu says one thing in English and another in Hebrew. While saying in English that the genocide in Gaza is over, in Hebrew, he says that "the campaign has not ended," indicating that Israel plans to break the ceasefire once the hostages are released. This ceasefire, unfortunately, is a trick.
“Nazi” isn’t a slur. It’s a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.
I keep running into racists who think that it’s not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. No…that’s the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and don’t think it’s an idiotic, hateful belief doesn’t mean it’s not an idiotic, hateful belief.
Nazi isn’t a word that means “bad evil boogeyman” it means “someone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.”
Make sure the people you’re cheering for don’t believe these things because otherwise…
After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben & Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by @MagnumGlobal#FreeBenAndJerrys
We were deeply concerned by the incident involving the Israeli military delegation at the entrance to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. The Museum had not been informed in advance about the planned official ceremony involving a military formation marching with flags through the grounds of the former camp. Failure to follow the required procedures led to an unfortunate and entirely avoidable situation.
The regulations about ceremonies and commemorations at the Memorial Site clearly state that flags and banners on poles „may only be brought onto the grounds of the Museum during organized and registered ceremonies, commemorations, or assemblies.”
These measures are in place to protect the dignity, solemnity, and neutrality of the space that is the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered here, primarily Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, and others. The special safeguards exist due to numerous past attempts to misuse this historical site.
Under no circumstances can the grounds of the former camp be a space for uncoordinated manifestations or ceremonies, even those carried out with good intentions. This is in no one’s interest. What is at stake is our shared and solemn responsibility to protect this site and honor the memory of all its victims.
In this case, the organizers submitted a request solely to hold a ceremony at the monument in Birkenau at the end of their visit. The entrance into the Memorial in the form of a procession with flags and banners had not been declared in advance. Therefore, the Museum Security had to intervene (not the Polish Police).
The failure to follow procedures by the organizers was the primary cause of this completely unnecessary incident. It is clear that had they, like many others before them, submitted a request for such a ceremony, the necessary permission would have been granted.
Therefore, we appeal to all those organizing similar visits to adhere strictly to the established procedures. Doing so helps to prevent any misunderstandings, which is surely in the best interest of everyone who carries the burden of this difficult memory.
The instrumentalization of the tragedy of all those imprisoned and murdered in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz for political messaging is a profound moral failure. Auschwitz is not a prop. @KyleLangfordCA, your post is an affront to the dignity of the victims and a disturbing display of insensitivity and disregard to horryfying human history.