Jennifer Welch: “JD Vance is this country’s top prostitute. He believes in nothing. He’s changed his name three times, changed his religion three times. ‘Trump is America’s Hitler,’ we’ve done a complete 180 on that. He is a two-bit hooker”
NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.
The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.
This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.
Trump's pardons will be the capstone on his corruption. He's going to prove the anti-federalists right. An unchecked pardon power is a grave mistake that an unscrupulous president can use to wreck the rule of law.
Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.
It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
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"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."
💢 GAZA | June 29
Israeli forces killed at least 8 Palestinians, including two young girls, and wounded more than 40 others across Gaza on Monday, pressing their violations of the ceasefire into a 263rd straight day, Palestine Online reported, citing medical sources.
🔸 Diana Mohammed Salem Abu Draz, 23, and her one-year-old daughter Sawar Thaer Abu Draz were killed when Israeli aircraft struck displacement tents in the Ard al-Basal area of Mawasi Khan Younis, causing heavy destruction
🔸 Mohammed Fathi Abu Fakhr and Khalil Hussein Khalil al-Louqa were killed and 8 others wounded in a drone strike on a seaside rest area in Khan Younis.
🔸 Salim Khader al-Ashqar, 31, was shot dead by an Israeli tank northeast of Hamad City, north of Khan Younis. Married only months ago, he was expecting his first child.
🔸 Three people, including a child, were killed in an airstrike near a bakery in southwestern Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 1,041 Palestinians have now been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October, part of a cumulative toll of 73,054 since October 2023.
BOMBSHELL reporting finds Princeton climate researchers took tens of millions of dollars from BP to publish research, shaped and edited by BP, promoting carbon capture & storage and fossil fuels.
Landmark "Wedges" climate paper promoting CCS now confirmed to be BP propaganda.
The level of criminality here is breathtaking.
I don’t wanna hear MAGA claim they love this country and are deep patriots when Trump is robbing the country blind. You don’t do this to a country you love.
The Trump DOJ has dropped an investigation into a company whose contaminated baby formula may have led babies to die.
The Justice Department spent years investigating Abbott Laboratories over how it managed a baby formula facility where potentially deadly bacteria was discovered and suspected of causing infant deaths.
Some prosecutors believed they had evidence to criminally charge the company, but top decision makers instead closed the probe.
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For the millionth time there is no “fracture” over Israel and Iran among Democrats. Among Dem voters support for economic and military aid to Israel is at 20% (74% oppose) and support for war on Iran is 6%. The only fracture is between Dem voters and AIPAC-funded party leadership
💢 A 13-year-old girl was among at least four Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes and shelling across Gaza on Sunday, local health officials said, as Israeli attacks continue despite the “ceasefire.”
The girl, Eileen al-Farra, was killed by shrapnel from Israeli tank shelling in southern Gaza, according to Nasser Hospital.
This one sneering tweet somehow explains and encapsulates everything about how corporate Democrats managed to lose to Donald Trump twice https://t.co/j7O0Pbtbos
Joy Reid: “Israel does not represent all Jewish people anymore than Saudi Arabia represents all Muslims. Let’s stop pretending this foreign country equals Jewish people. My friends who are Jewish got nothing to do with no Bibi Netanyahu. Zionism stems from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Judaism is 4,000 years old. These are not the same thing”
Pretty revealing that what galvanized “centrist” Dems was losing to a couple DSA candidates not for example, losing to a bunch of corrupt fascists who want to end Democracy.