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Daughters to dads who support Trump: ‘You chose him over me’

Daughters to dads who support Trump: ‘You chose him over me’

A good father knows how important it is to protect his daughter. This November, fathers need to protect their daughters from Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/q7oQUDKXEp — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 8, 2024 NJ.com reports: The anti-Donald Trump group, The Lincoln Project, is out with a new digital ad that’s focused on abortion and access to reproductive health care. The ad comes as the former president has been trying to thread a divide between his own base of anti-abortion supporters and…

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‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes Israeli troops filmed themselves

‘The first live-streamed genocide’: Al Jazeera exposes war crimes Israeli troops filmed themselves

A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at evidence of war crimes in Gaza in the form of social media posted by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film Investigating War Crimes in Gaza, now available online, and speak to two of the journalists involved in its production, director Richard Sanders and Gaza-based correspondent Youmna ElSayed. “Israelis themselves were telling us precisely what they were doing and why they…

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Evidence that Israeli snipers have repeatedly shot children in the head in Gaza

Evidence that Israeli snipers have repeatedly shot children in the head in Gaza

Dr Feroze Sidhwa writes: I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest,…

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Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’

Razia Iqbal writes: History has a striking capacity to intrude on the present day, as it does when I meet Rashid Khalidi. The Palestinian American professor’s retirement from his position as the Edward Said chair of modern Arab history at Columbia University was imminent, and that morning he has received alarming news: a gang of extremist Israeli settlers had stormed a house on Silsila Road in Jerusalem, a property that had been in his family’s possession since the time of…

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U.S. disaster programs are teetering. Milton could topple them

U.S. disaster programs are teetering. Milton could topple them

Politico reports: The federal government could be nearing a collapse of its ability to help with major disasters as the second catastrophic hurricane in less than two weeks bears down on Florida. Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 storm whose winds reached 180 mph late Monday but weakened to a Category 4 early Tuesday, is whirling toward a possible landfall in Tampa Bay just as the main federal disaster programs are facing financial instability amid a series of recent calamities, including…

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Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts

Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts

Politico reports: Elon Musk is using his social media network to spread election conspiracy theories about U.S. disasters — just as online falsehoods are complicating the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Musk has helped spread accusations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “actively blocked” donations to victims of Helene and is “seizing goods … and locking them away to state they are their own” — allegations that FEMA officials call false and which run afoul of state and…

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Necessity is the mother of invention

Necessity is the mother of invention

  Marshall, the county seat of Madison County NC, a sliver of a town that sits between steep slopes on the east and the French Broad River to the west, got swamped by the Helene flooding. Residents and neighbors in the surrounding area have shown resourcefulness and initiative in disaster recovery that will provide lessons for generations to come on the power of community and the capacity of ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary feats.  

Google’s former CEO: AI advances more important than climate goals

Google’s former CEO: AI advances more important than climate goals

Mashable reports: AI is demanding more and more energy for its immense processing needs, and while many of it’s leaders are addressing the climate concerns, others are letting artificial intelligence lead the way. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is among the latter, for one. Appearing at a recent Washington AI summit, Schmidt argued that current climate goals should be abandoned in favor of a no-bars-held approach to AI investment. “All of that will be swamped by the enormous needs of this…

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Will Biden sink Harris?

Will Biden sink Harris?

Stephen Zunes writes: President Joe Biden’s continued support for Israel’s far-right government, including his refusal to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the U.S. cease-fire proposal for Gaza put forward in May and his failure to demand an end to Israel’s ever-widening warfare, has not only led to the loss of countless civilian lives — it could also lead to the election of Donald Trump. In her interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, Kamala Harris skirted a number…

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Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to prosecute the media for airing pro-choice ads

Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to prosecute the media for airing pro-choice ads

Mark Joseph Stern writes: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening TV stations that air ads in support of an abortion rights ballot initiative with criminal penalties, including jail time. DeSantis and his allies are already spending large sums of taxpayer dollars to fight Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution if voted into law in November. His “election police” have interrogated and intimidated residents who signed petitions to put it on the ballot. His administration created a publicly funded, state-run website condemning…

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Sign of senility? Trump says he’s visited Gaza

Sign of senility? Trump says he’s visited Gaza

The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump suggested in a radio interview on Monday that he had visited war-torn Gaza in the past, a place there is no record of him visiting. When asked to clarify, a campaign aide said that Gaza is “in Israel” and that Mr. Trump has visited Israel. Mr. Trump made the initial comment in an interview with the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that was broadcast on Monday on the anniversary of the Oct….

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What makes democracy a kitchen-table issue

What makes democracy a kitchen-table issue

Timothy Snyder writes: When I am on media, television hosts ask how democracy is relevant to people who are voting on kitchen-table issues. That’s easy. When Trump destroys our democracy, he will also destroy our economy. Autocracy will bring poverty. Think about the politicians Trump idolizes, Vladimir Putin in Russia and Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The first undid a democracy through fake emergencies, the second through persistent constitutional abuse. It is not hard to see why Trump likes them. Now…

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Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris

Muslim faith leaders endorse Harris

NBC News reports: A group of imams endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in an open letter shared first with NBC News on Sunday, a critical boost as she steps up her efforts to win back disaffected Muslim voters amid the Israel-Hamas war. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has faced widespread anger from Muslim and Arab voters over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, and the community could be critical some battleground states, like Michigan. The 25 Islamic…

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Trump: Immigrants have brought ‘bad genes’ into the country

Trump: Immigrants have brought ‘bad genes’ into the country

HuffPost reports: During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, Donald Trump said immigrants were filling the country with “bad genes” and used lies about decades-old crime statistics to make his point. Trump has long been obsessed with the idea that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America — echoing Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric. For years, he has lied that other countries are purposefully sending criminals to the United States. As part of his recent weekslong…

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