This thread will almost certainly be overrun with bigoted trolls before long, but before that happens if you want to learn more about the issue here’s a few useful reports, specifically on the Jordan Valley and “Biblical” tourism used to support the settlements.

She’s got a few problems here. One, is she willingly made herself a propaganda tool. She admits it. She got a trip in exchange for favorable coverage. That’s unethical as hell, especially since she can no doubt afford the trip on her own.

My doctors have helped me game the health insurance system multiple times when they thought it could have benefits for my health. Giving a preliminary diagnosis they were fairly certain was wrong because by giving it I could access a medication that would still help my symptoms for example. Without doing that my…

I’m pretty skeptical, but I can’t see into her mind. She may be legitimately remorseful, though the evidence certainly gives strong reasons to doubt that. Even if she was, my point remains the same. 

The judge should not have hugged a defendant. Family members can make what choices they wish, but the image of the judge hugging someone just convicted of murder, even if she’s remorseful, is just wrong. It hammers home how quickly whiteness erases sins in our society. That doesn’t happen for a lot of people who make…

That deranged ad almost makes me sympathetic to Corbyn, and I think he’s an absolutely incompetent buffoon who is damaging Labour severely. Good Gods this is the worst timeline.

Russian and Iranian casualties in Syria make me think of this, as well as Saudi/UAE troubles in Yemen. The rebel groups in Syria still standing have a lot of old, smuggled, cobbled together equipment, all of which is inferior to the Russian and IRGC forces they sometimes face (the SAA is a mess so let’s ignore them…

Iraq had only one city over a million? Baghdad obviously, but there’s also Mosul which was larger than that even in the early 2000s. Basra is bigger than Mosul. Maybe it depends on how the city borders are counted in various data sets, but I’m not so sure about that statement. 

Blum is a far-right ideologue funded by dark money. This case was just what he could gin up. He found a small number of people who would side with his ideological crusade, this time that weren’t white, but it’s really about a white far-right view of ending “special privileges” for non-whites. Any case he gets is…

Gods you’re stupid and disingenuous. Facebook swallows up other companies to create an anti-competitive environment Warren has been abundantly clear in her issues with the big tech companies. It’s not about destroying Facebook, it’s about breaking up many of the other services and companies they’ve bought. Warren…

I’ve seen it on Twitter. I wish I could say I hadn’t. 

Warren has far more than “abstract reasons”, which you’d know if you weren’t a dishonest troll just here to fluff your massive unearned ego.

You think any of those were on the table? Really?

The Mueller Report and the broader IC conclusion that Russia was behind the DNC hack and interfered with the 2016 election. The investigation of the Russia investigation is about validating Trump’s conspiracies vis-a-vis Russia and a “deep state” in the IC.

I was reading some other stories on this to try and make sense of this, because obviously it makes none. I think, grain of salt here because I am not a lawyer, that the argument is that because her defense has claimed she thought she was in her apartment they can consider this as relevant because that mistake claim is…

Another update, it seems it was both Australia and Italy. Barr approached both in his attempt to discredit the IC’s conclusions about 2016. 

Was this also put on the code-word system? That, aside from whatever arguments the Republicans and administration make about the appropriateness of the request, would still be a clear abuse of the system. I saw in the reporting that it was “limited to a few WH aides” but that’s a bit ambiguous. If yet another…

This is a great example of the ossified thinking of an elite class member who cannot fathom the mindset of people different from himself and those within his exclusive network. Of course it was easier for the Senate to be more polite when it was mostly wealthy white men from the same class and same social circles.…

I guarantee there are at least half a dozen kids at every community college in the country, let alone state and private universities, that are more competent than Miller has ever been or ever will be. It’s remarkable that he’s advanced so far based on nothing more than bigotry and connections. 

You realize “temp gigs” are plenty common in union work right? Plenty of specialists get hired for limited times and the unions set basic standards for those gigs and help set pay across the industry.