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  • Work paused at Hyundai's US site after hundreds of workers detained in raid

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  • Jaywalking isn't an arrestable offense? What do you expect the government to do with those who flaunt traffic rules nonchalantly?

  • 0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now

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  • This was discussed in the latest episode of the Horse Race. It's a MA politics and news podcast so that was their focus. I've no idea how this relates to other states

  • 0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now

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  • I was just listening to an explanation of this effectively fake bit of information this morning. Basically, at least in MA and other states like it, both dems and republicans saw a drop in registration because registrations work differently now. Where registrations are automatic, they don't default to a party affiliation and you have to actively select such, which most people aren't going to do. As a result, an absolutely enormous proportion of registrations are now unaffiliated and BOTH parties are more or less taking a hit--however, because Dems get more registrations historically anyway and many of those are now no longer going in to register just party affiliation, they seem disproportionately hit. End of the day, not much is really changing that we can understand from the voting registrations, but we'll see what happens in the midterms.

  • RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September

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  • That could very well be noise. Autism rates have gone up because more people are checked and, far more importantly, what is diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder has expanded GREATLY in even just the last decade. The greatest increase in rates, by an enormous factor, has occurred in those with very mild to borderline symptoms, the rates of more severe disabilities having effectively been static.

  • Trump appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public websites

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  • 18F was also mandated to work with state and local governments through various grant programs to upgrade their digital infrastructure. It was a great, albeit still not sufficiently supported, program that of course these silly fucking morons got rid of just to replace with one that has enshitification built right in from the start. Republicans are truly the party of enshitification.

  • Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown

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  • Chicago is not DC and I honestly think they're going to get the violence they're probably looking for, but i don't think it will go as well for them as they expect. But anyone who supports and facilitates the current regime deserves a pension plan of a five foot rope and a spot along a bridge so oh well.

  • Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech

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  • No, this is just a really stupid headline. The ITC is specifically a body that bars products found to be infringing from importation into the US market. It cannot allow award damages but the bar can be circumvent by a deal with the patent owner. This is literally the function of this particular body.

  • Israel in talks to resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan

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  • This is actually yet another terrible outcome of Israel's genocide from my understanding--the habitability of the entire area is effectively in question due to the sheer volume and degree of devastation that has been wrought. Effectively, even if Israel magically became a non-rogue state today, a resettlement and reparations program is necessary across Israel/Palestine for the survivors.

  • Top Democrats Smear Palestinian-American Politician for Criticizing Zionism

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  • I think a lot of people do not understand that Zionism actually does have a specific meaning and ideological underpinning spanning the last 150 years. It is not simply the contention that this place over in the Levant should be called Israel and have a bunch of Jews there.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene hints that she might be finished with the Republican Party

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  • I've been trying to point this and an inevitable follow-on to this that is very hard to articulate well. But keep in mind that the largest and most influential group of Zionists are Christian Zionists right here in the US. They do not give a shit about Jewish culture, but they sure get hard for apocalyptic mythology. At the same time, Jews in the US overwhelmingly vote progressive and are active in progressive politics. By fueling a Jews are Israelis first and foremost narrative, at multiple different levels but including in terms of painting anti-Israel as anti-Jewish, the seeds for justifying deportation of large part of the US organized left and a fulfillment of Christian Zionists' apocalypse boners are planted. Couple that with it becoming more and more possible that anyone will be vulnerable to retroactive stripping of citizenship, and i think any Jews feeding into this narrative should be really fucking worried.

  • Starving child in Gaza was killed minutes after receiving aid, former US military contractor says

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  • Really? I think it's more that they don't get the social media and news traction that outrageous shit like their (minority extremist) opposition gets. Folks like Lander and Sanders regularly speak out about Israeli atrocities. Myriad organizations like JVP, INN, and more are among the most active organized voices trying to get this shit to stop. Bunds are popping up literally all over the world and fundamentally anti-Zionist and most stand in solidarity with Palestine. This narrative that Jews are silently condoning Israeli ethnosupremecist fascism is a made up one that serves only to benefit a minority of extremists and Zionists.

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    Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.

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  • Yes, you're right. It's a word that is perfectly appropriate here, though, imo.

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    Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.

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  • I dunno, I'm willing to admit I'm wrong and misinterpreted their post, but even rereading it and their other post in this thread really still feels like they're using Jews and Israelis/Zionists pretty interchangeabley.

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    Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.

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  • Why are you equivocating Jews and Zionists. This just continues to enable the Israeli-championed narrative that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Stop.

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    Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.

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  • Just FYI, it's really weird to refer to Jews as Hebrews. And apartheid is inherent to the Israeli ethnostate, and fascism is inherent to political Zionism and always has been. This was a criticism levied at zionists, within the Jewish community, before world war 2 even.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • That is not what judges have said. They've said that merely training on text is not a copyright infringement. However, companies that downloaded enormous amounts of pirated texts (i.e., stuff they did not have license to download in the first place) still infringed copyright just like anybody else. Effectively the courts have been holding that if you study material you have license to access, you aren't infringing, but if you pirate that material, even if it is merely to study it, it's still infringing. For better or worse this is basically basically how it's always been.

    I have no idea what Trump is proposing. Like most republicans, but especially him, he is incapable of even approaching understanding of nuanced and technical areas of law and/or technology.

  • Rep. Randy Fine Tells Palestinians To 'Starve Away' as Babies Die of Malnutrition Under Israeli Blockade in Gaza

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  • May he be a chandelier--so that he hangs by day and burns by night.

  • Rep. Randy Fine Tells Palestinians To 'Starve Away' as Babies Die of Malnutrition Under Israeli Blockade in Gaza

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  • Few have been as deserving as this man of the old yiddish curse, "Zolst zayn vi a henglomp - hengn baytog un brenen baynakht."

  • Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams

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  • This parallel long predates Israel itself, or even the holocaust. In the early 20th century, there are many letters in yiddish, and other public statements fun within the Jewish community, that were sent to yiddish newspapers criticizing zionism for using parallel language to "Hitlerism" and similar movements that were spreading across Europe.