youtu.be/8w7KOoD8sCs?... Frum the last of the neocon elite is frightened, of Trump! Fully behind the 'freedom' for Iranians, he's terrified that Iranian terrorism will cause massive change in the Freedom of Americans.
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newrepublic.com/article/2072... via @newrepublic.com Ain't nobody important turning against this pig. It's a 'survival war' for Israel and they won't be let down by their besties. Besides there's an American adage about changing horses while they're standing in the 'crick.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 7 WVWatch WV Senate passes 2 bills: 1 prohibits drag shows as “adult cabaret performances” on public property or where minors cd see them; 2 wd charge trans people using right locker rooms with indecent exposure as sex offenders. Most WV Dems backed both measures.
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"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."
Buying back stock during a run on a fund demonstrates the staying power and trustworthiness inherent in the investment. A buyback screams out, "We should never have taken this great ennerprise public! Thanks suckers, now there's more for us! "
A BlackRock fund said it would not buy back more than 5% from investors. Facing a similar situation, rival Blackstone took the opposite stance. on.wsj.com/3OLXoYP
Some courts require a legal political entity to present a case to the court before the court will take investigatory action. Not that that is in the motion. It might be someday.
Dublin city councillors backed a motion condeming the US/Israel attack on Iran, despite chief executive's legal concerns. At their monthly meeting Monday, they also, separately, supported a motion opposing the government’s plans to abolish the Triple Lock.
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For professor Clotilde Perez, spoken to by Pública, contemporary geopolitics has become “media-performative”, where no image is neutral.
45 days ... or lose it? An automated application/evaluation system will get those cheques into the mail. Once the software is in place.
Customs and Border Protection said it would work on a streamlined system for refund payments rather than manually processing individual tariff requests. on.wsj.com/3OS73Ns
It's supposed to make the military more intelligent? AI works best with lowest common denominators. The stupid will simply be more convinced they're right. They'll have evidence, to back them up.
Commentary: If the Trump administration succeeds in giving the military unconstrained use of AI, the interventionism we’ve seen to date might look quaint compared with what is coming.
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Bhagwant Sandhu: The prime minister’s global rhetoric champions rule of law and sovereignty. But his decisions suggest those principles are flexible when politics demand. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
Being forced to use a toilet? Or being permitted to use a toilet assigned to the opposite gendered 'others'. Most people would agree that toilets should not be 'gender specific' but designated for use by a single adult of whatever gender - to ensure privacy.
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: At hearing about anti-trans law, frustration simmers over enduring discrimination against Kansans #ksleg
Women would have been the ones 'effecting cost savings' by being there to look after the house and the kids. Big savings in travel, meal planning, paid housekeeping and child care .... or not. Depending on 'household' income and overall expenses.
Years after the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase of people working from home, public and private sector organizations are having more workers return to the office — but experts say the switch back is disproportionately negative for women.
Well, yeah. Sweden to-day impounded a ship full of "grain" heading for Russia. That's something akin to "shipping coal to Newcastle" used to be. Russia is the world's 4th largest producer. Maybe the grain was quinoa or something exotic. EUkraine immediately claimed it was 'stolen'.
Trump shouldn’t ease Russia sanctions – they are choking its economy
Most women don't die of 'pregnancy'. There are underlying conditions that can be exacerbated by pregnancy, which, if left untreated, can and do kill women. But that's not the part of 'women's heath' that is at issue here. Neither is not becoming pregnant.
State abortion restrictions in the US are creating risks to pregnant people nationwide. Women are dying preventable deaths because abortion care is denied or delayed.
That "advantage" however doesn't involve 'losing' this war. So the election will have to be 'about' something else. The economy? The weather?
With employers cutting jobs and gas prices rising amid the war in Iran, Democrats see an opportunity to press their advantage. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
Iraq even more 'biblical' - Abraham came home. Afghanistan was purely political. Libya was 'for fun'. Like Syria. As the good book says, "Smite the Amalekites. Smite them hip and thigh", eh? Like IDF snipers do.
How the Iran war is underpinned by ‘end times’ religious fervour in Washington and Tehran
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A young couple with a 10-month-old child are facing eviction from their dilapidated Crown Heights apartment owned by Pinnacle Group—the corporate slumlord that Mayor Mamdani promised to hold accountable on his first day in office.
The National Writers Union, which Ms Mlotek helped organize, was one of the few western media organizations to take a strong stand on the silencing of some western journalists, and the deaths of hundreds of others, in the Zionist onslaught against Gaza. That took real courage.
This week marked 30 years since the death of Marguerite Duras. In this edition of The Weekend Read, Haley Mlotek explains what the writer taught her about labor organizing. https://bit.ly/3N8defD
EUkrainia had a bad night. But it is still "inflicting massive damages" on the Russian, 'bibby-kiilings', invaders. Think how much more it could do with a paltry 90 billion more.
Zelensky called on foreign partners to respond to the brutal strikes on Ukraine, from which the international community's attention has been diverted by the war in Iran.
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The Evanston Reparations Program is questioning how to compensate longtime Black residents for suffering housing discrimination now that the funding source, cannabis tax revenue, is producing less revenue than expected.
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Don't tax income, or wealth. Tax money that moves, every time it moves ... in and out... for any reason. Untaxed money, being used, is the real problem. Tax it like bank fees. No more income tax filing, sales or VAT taxes. 7% taken at source, should pay for everything.
“A tax system that treats its richest citizens like the Second Estate of yore is not just bad for the public purse,” argues Ray Madoff. “It is bad for democracy”
Rahm blamed the genocide on who? Not Israel and he didn't mention anybody else. So he'd call that 'being fair'. Fair like Reinhard Heydrich who could rhyme off atrocity stories too. He didn't think he was doing much wrong - just solving a problem - finally. Israelis literally quote him.
“The amount of Palestinian deaths was not necessary for Israel's security or reestablishing deterrence.” Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel talked to Vox’s Astead Herndon about whether he considers Israel’s actions in Palestine to be genocide.
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DEMOCRACY: "These three women sicken me. Other women have disgusted me, too, in the ways they sell out women and people of any color but theirs and prop up bad men and systems meant to hold women back," Donna Ladd writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-wo...
Apparently Beirut is the whipping post for Hezbolleh. Israel has been trying, for almost 30 years, to have Lebanon 'change their regime'. Unsuccessfully. They have repeatedly destroyed 'Hezbolleh areas' of Lebanon only to see them rebuilt. Israel builds NOTHING outside Israel.
After 15 months of a fragile ceasefire, Lebanon woke up on March 2 to the familiar sounds of Israeli bombs. As the violence escalates and tens of thousands are displaced, Lebanon’s social divisions threaten to worsen an already dire situation. mondoweiss.net/2026/03/mill... #Palestine #Israel
Doesn't Winnipeg have mental heath support services. Police aren't equipped to deal positively with mental issues or emotionally critical situations. There should be organizations able to assist with this - within the constraints of public safety.
A mental health clinician will be added at Winnipeg’s 911 call centre to divert some calls to agencies other than police.