They're bombing the safe zones you lying shit. No where is safe. The goal is to make Gaza uninhabitable so they are forced to flee the country and then Israel can annex the strip and make it part of Israel proper. Multiple politicians and government agencies have openly said this!
Ethnic cleansing through mass killing. Genocide.
Also? A multiethnic democracy from the river to the sea is not genocide. Making Israeli Jews into Palestinians is not genocide.
Israel is a settler colony made from a British imperial mandate and it doesn't have a right to exist. Deal with it.
Regulations don't work when they don't get implemented, which means your ideas are purely ideas and not materialistic solutions. There aren't going to be any regulations, don't you get it? That ship has so obviously sailed.
There isn't a better solution that's not radical and that's why radical solutions all that's left!
This is literally idealism.
You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you've solved the problem.
The problem isn't a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.
As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.
The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don't like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it's going to be okay. No need to break shit.
There is nothing wrong with Satanism. She was the first rebel to defy her master. A true hero 🥲
Fascism always goes hand-in-hand with vigilantism.
Chicken and egg situation.
Did Russia make them into this, or did Russia seek them out because of who they already were?
Honestly, Colorado is a desert state. Sometimes that means having gravel with only a couple plants.
I've heard grass referred to as "green concrete"
It's the year 2050. The robot apocalypse didn't happen because the robots just want to play vidya and smoke cyber weed.
Ban lawns. Period.
We're in this mess because millions and millions of people that voted for Trump and they're going to vote for him again.
The lesson here is that we need to do something about Trump voters, not waste time on a few percent of dorks that think voting 3rd party matters.
"Customize"
If I can't have a prehensile penis that can weild a third weapon or gain a bite attack with vagina dentata then can I really customize?
Sometimes (the freak lobster men like top right aren't what most women are into lol), but Hollywood doesn't give a shit about what women want. This is what men want. It's all power fantasy.
We could run Clinton again. It's Her turn!
But is our contribution minuscule compared to theirs? Like let’s say one man sells (an equal amount of) gasoline to a thousand people. Is that one man now contributing 1000x more to greenhouse gas emissions than any one of those people?
But that's not all he's doing!
He then takes the revenue from selling gasoline and uses it to bribe politicians and hire lobbyists and invest in more oil refining/exploration; he's making the problem even worse.
Meanwhile, the people he sells the gasoline to don't have any real choice but to buy it. They need to work to live, and they can't get to work without gas because Mr. Gasoline destroyed public transportation infrastructure.
Stop trying to flatten everything down to only the carbon footprint (a metric made by the oil industry to absolve themselves on responsibility). They used that money from selling gasoline to convince you that you are equally to blame for climate change as billionaire oil families and it's absolute nonsense.
Uh huh, and if a rubber stamp judge gives wiretapping permission every time the cops ask for it?
They tried, but "violating everyone's privacy works" was also an inescapable point. Really undercut the message by making it so effective.
Absolutely! Doesn't change the fact that Biden's warning is toothless bluster. If he actually tried to end US investment in China it would collapse the world economy. It's a M.A.D. world
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has called on the state Legislature to convene for a special legislative session for the “sole purpose” of restricting abortion in the state. Reynolds’s office made the …
I did not see this coming! I thought for sure that Reynolds would look at how abortion restrictions impacted Republicans in other States and realize the only reason Iowa avoided the same setbacks was because abortion wasn't on the ballot.
Republicans don't seem to care about electability anymore. Spooky.
The city of Cedar Rapids agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a lawsuit over the makeup of the Police Department’s Citizen Review Board, Iowa Capital Dispatch reports.
Poor white people, they have it so hard. 🙄
Damaging new state laws won’t deter CR Pride from celebrating love and authenticity July 8
To make up for missed deadlines and late data from the state, Iowa Auditor Rob Sand this week had his office for the first time push out “single audit reports” for each of Iowa’s public universities to spare them from threats to federal funding and certifications that require annual financial report...
>“Despite billions of dollars in surplus, the governor and Republican legislative majorities responsible for your tax dollars have for years undervalued their own financial management team that prepares the material that we review for required audits,” he said. “The bottom line is we cannot audit what we have not been provided.”
Fiscal responsibility is when you store all your surpluses under your mattress
For almost 80 years, it was illegal in Iowa to buy, sell, or use fireworks privately. The reason fireworks were banned for so long was because of a massive fire caused by fireworks in a small Iowa town.
>It was 92 years ago today that a terrible fire took place in the Iowa town of Spencer. It didn't help that the weather was hot even for an Iowa summer, according to Jeff Stein and the Iowa Almanac. The temperature in Spencer in northwest Iowa topped off at 97°. The lack of recent rain made things dry, as well.
>The story goes that there was a large fireworks display in the front window of Bjornstad's Drugstore at the corner of Fourth and Main, downtown. A little boy took an interest in the display, which was not uncommon. What happened next was quite uncommon.
Let's hope we don't get a rerun...
The money is coming from the federal bipartisan infrastructure law, which Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed in 2021. It is part of the national $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.
>Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican, was the only of Iowa’s current congressional delegation to vote for the infrastructure bill. Rep. Cindy Axne, a Democrat who lost re-election in 2022, also voted for it.
Well yeah, everyone knows the internet makes you trans. Not surprising the vast majority of Republicans opposed this. Good on Grassley for going against the grain, I guess.
As lawmakers prepare to discuss abortion legislation, abortion providers navigate staffing, funding shortages in the face of growing demand.
>The court maintained the injunction in a in a 3-3 split vote that automatically upheld the district court ruling. Konfrst said the court’s verdict was “good news,” but said Democrats know it will be “short lived.”
Chuck Holden sees parallels between the culture war the Irish state waged for decades and policies Iowa Republicans are now enacting.
FTA -
>While not all Catholic, Iowa’s political leadership is comprised of deeply conservative Christians, solicitous of their fundamentalist base. Like Ireland’s leadership decades ago, they are consumed by their own anxieties over sex and sexuality. Here is the painful review of their recent efforts:
> In March 2022, the state enacted a law prohibiting transgender girls from playing on female sports teams in schools.
> In January of this year, Reynolds and her allies in the legislature pushed through a sweeping bill that directs significant amounts of state funds to private (mostly Christian) schools.
> In March, the GOP trifecta banned gender-affirming care for minors and mandated that Iowans of any age use school bathrooms or other facilities matching their "biological sex," their gender assigned at birth.
> The same month, Republican lawmakers attacked diversity and inclusion initiatives at Iowa's state universities in response to the right-wing perception that universities are dangerous, “woke” outposts in a conservative land. An appropriations bill approved later imposed a hiring freeze for such programs at universities.
> In May, Reynolds signed a law prohibiting any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity from grades K-6, and banning school library or classroom materials that contain "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act."
It's also worth noting that the time period in Ireland that the article discussed was also the period when the Irish Republican Army was most active. If they're right and we can look at history to predict where Iowa is going...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is not in favor of Congress pursuing additional ethics rules for the Supreme Court, preferring the judiciary police itself.
Iowa's senior senator said he isn't in favor of Congress pursuing additional ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court and pushed back on a report that Justice Sam Alito had traveled with a wealthy donor whose business later came before the court.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a former chair of the Senate judiciary committee, told reporters he believed lawmakers shouldn't enforce further regulations on the court until its new internal guidelines can be evaluated.
"I am not in favor of legislation until we know that what the Supreme Court has done on their own is enough," Grassley said.
In March, the court quietly revised its ethics code to require a more complete disclosure of trips and gifts received by the justices, though some still remain exempt from reporting.
The changes came amid increased scrutiny on the court's relationship with wealthy donors and friends — with the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reporting about vacations and gifts received by Justice Clarence Thomas and now Alito.
Grassley questioned whether Congress should enforce such changes on the court.
"I don't even know whether it's appropriate for us to pass legislation in this area," he said. "It probably is. But the extent to which we accept the judicial branch as a separate branch of government, the extent to which it would be appropriate to do that, that's kind of immaterial at this point."
The court "knew there's a problem, they've rewritten the rules and that's it," Grassley added. And he brushed aside the latest reporting on Alito, arguing his "travel was before his friend had business before the courts."
"So the inference that he's influenced by who he might have a relationship with can't apply in this place because it was before there was any business before the Supreme Court."
Alito did not recuse himself from a series of cases involving his fellow vacationer Paul Singer, ProPublica reported. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Alito disputed the report, arguing he had "no obligation to recuse" in any of the cases.
Several ethics law experts who spoke to ProPublica said it appeared that Alito had violated a post-Watergate federal law requiring disclosure by public officials of private jet flights, as well as his stay at a commercial lodge.
Cedar Rapids residents are noticing several trees that were planted in the right-of-way to replace derecho damaged trees are struggling amid dry weather.
"Trees planted in the wake of climate disaster struggling to adapt to climate change"
Vibes
Numerous lawsuits against state and local officials are dismissed or revised after a May Supreme Court decision ending Iowa constitutional claims.
Just in case you though the Iowa Supreme Court was good.
The state Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3, meaning the governor's attempt to reinstate a stricter ban failed. Abortion remains legal up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.
It's so interesting watching Republicans overreach on abortion over and over, despite the fact that they don't even have electoral support for it. Ideological commitment might explain it, but I can't help be draw this back to materialistic explanations.
Abortion slows population growth, which weighs on the labor market and necessitates immigration for essential workers. Abortion liberates women, allowing them to control their own bodies and lives. Abortion especially liberates the poor, allowing them to control their own family planning and not have children they can't afford. All of these things weigh on the economy, which needs an endless supply of desperate workers for profitability.
Republicans have so many reasons to oppose abortion that ideology and electability is almost irrelevant.
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