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Keir Starmer has lost the British Arab voter. He doesn’t care

Keir Starmer has lost the British Arab voter. He doesn’t care

Yusef Rabiah writes: As Keir Starmer’s Labour Party readies itself to form a new government on July 5, there are many lingering uncertainties and blurred lines. Are the party’s plans ambitious enough to meet the nation’s needs? Will Starmer make a stand or continue to flip-flop between policies? Is the forthcoming election victory merely a castle made of sand? One element however is crystal clear: Labour has irrevocably lost the support of the 500,000-strong British Arab community, likely for generations…

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New York Times: To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race

New York Times: To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race

In an editorial, the New York Times says: At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago. The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain…

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Joe Biden’s most loyal supporter now is Donald Trump

Joe Biden’s most loyal supporter now is Donald Trump

Trump just released a brutal 95 second ad of Joe Biden's debate lowlights: pic.twitter.com/enusIKHhwN — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 28, 2024 The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Friday dismissed the prospect of President Biden being replaced atop the Democratic ticket after his lackluster debate performance a night earlier. “Yes, I think he will be the nominee,” Trump told Fox News Digital when asked if he thinks Biden will remain atop the Democratic ticket. Asked about chatter from Democrats about…

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Tom Friedman: Biden must bow out of the race

Tom Friedman: Biden must bow out of the race

Thomas L. Friedman writes: I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime, precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election. And Donald Trump, a malicious man and a petty president, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. He is the same fire hose of lies…

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In sweeping ruling, Supreme Court just made it harder for federal agencies to regulate

In sweeping ruling, Supreme Court just made it harder for federal agencies to regulate

NPR reports: In a momentous decision that will affect vast swaths of American life, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday undid decades of regulatory law, making it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress. The vote, along ideological lines, was 6-to-3. Writing for the court’s conservative supermajority, Chief Justice John Roberts explicitly overturned a 40-year-old precedent that had instructed lower court judges to defer to reasonable agency interpretations…

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U.S. has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7

U.S. has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7

Reuters reports: The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two U.S. officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments. Between the war’s start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 6,500 500-pound bombs, 3,000 Hellfire precision-guided air-to-ground missiles, 1,000 bunker-buster bombs, 2,600…

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62 Democrats join 207 Republicans in vote to conceal Gaza death toll

62 Democrats join 207 Republicans in vote to conceal Gaza death toll

The Intercept reports: The House of Representatives has voted to effectively conceal the death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza. On Thursday, lawmakers voted 269-144 on an amendment to prohibit the State Department from citing statistics from the Gaza Health Ministry. The measure is part of the annual State Department appropriations bill. It was led by Democratic Reps. Jared Moskowitz, Fla., and Josh Gottheimer, N.J., and Republican Reps. Joe Wilson, S.C.; Mike Lawler, N.Y.; and Carol Miller, W.V. In total,…

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Pyongyang says it will send troops to Ukraine within a month

Pyongyang says it will send troops to Ukraine within a month

Kyiv Post reports: Last week, President Vladimir Putin made an official state visit to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) – North Korea, his first for almost a quarter of a century. As part of that visit Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a so-called defense pact in the North Korean capital on June 19. The military treaty states: “In the event that any one of the two sides is put in a state of war by an armed…

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SOS to Clinton and Obama: You can end the Biden nightmare after that debate

SOS to Clinton and Obama: You can end the Biden nightmare after that debate

Melissa DeRosa writes: Democrats mocked Republicans, feeling bullish that our 81-year-old nominee would replicate his past performance [at the State of the Union] and overcome the very low bar set for him. It was, after all, our idea to debate this early. And then, the ‘debate’ began. And within 30 seconds it was over. Biden’s pasty complexion coupled with his doddering and incoherent speech in the first answer sealed it. Blank faces with raised eyebrows darted around the table as cell phones…

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A Supreme Court decision could render much of the federal government unable to function

A Supreme Court decision could render much of the federal government unable to function

Ian Millhiser writes: On Thursday, the Court handed down a 6-3 decision, on a party-line vote, that could render a simply astonishing array of federal laws unenforceable. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in dissent, “the constitutionality of hundreds of statutes may now be in peril, and dozens of agencies could be stripped of their power to enforce laws enacted by Congress.” The dispute in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy turns on whether a hedge fund manager accused of defrauding…

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U.S. intel indicates war between Israel and Hezbollah is increasingly likely unless there is a ceasefire in Gaza

U.S. intel indicates war between Israel and Hezbollah is increasingly likely unless there is a ceasefire in Gaza

Politico reports: A large-scale confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah is likely to break out in the next several weeks if Jerusalem and Hamas fail to reach a cease-fire deal in Gaza, U.S. intelligence indicates. U.S. officials are trying to convince both sides to deescalate — a task that would be significantly easier with a cease-fire in place in Gaza. But that agreement is in tense negotiations and U.S. officials are not confident Israel and Hamas will agree to the deal…

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The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat

Ian Millhiser writes: On a 6-3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that state officials may accept “gratuities” from people who wish to reward them for their official actions, despite a federal anti-corruption statute that appears to ban such rewards. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion in Snyder v. United States for the Court’s Republican-appointed majority. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent on behalf of the Court’s three Democratic appointees. Snyder turns on a distinction between “bribes” and “gratuities.” As…

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Out of 25,000 patients in need, 19 sick and injured children leave Gaza in first medical evacuation since May

Out of 25,000 patients in need, 19 sick and injured children leave Gaza in first medical evacuation since May

The Associated Press reports: Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick and injured children plus their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since May, when the territory’s sole travel crossing was shut down. The Israeli military body responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, known by its acronym COGAT, said Thursday that the evacuation was carried out in coordination with officials from the United States, Egypt and the international…

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Inside Leonard Leo’s campaign to end protections for endangered species

Inside Leonard Leo’s campaign to end protections for endangered species

Rolling Stone reports: Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is fueling an assault on efforts to preserve the environment and the planet. His dark money network has also been funding campaigns to dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA) — 50 years after it was established to protect plant and animal species at risk of extinction. Since its passing, the ESA has been credited for saving 99 percent of its listed wildlife including bald…

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California is showing how a big state can power itself without fossil fuels

California is showing how a big state can power itself without fossil fuels

Bill McKibben writes: Something approaching a miracle has been taking place in California this spring. Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower has been producing more than a hundred per cent of the state’s demand for electricity. Some afternoons, solar panels alone have produced more power than the state uses. And, at night, large utility-scale batteries that have been installed during the past few years are often the…

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AIPAC spent millions to achieve a pyrrhic victory

AIPAC spent millions to achieve a pyrrhic victory

Ben Davis writes: Sometimes, a major electoral victory is a sign of a movement in retreat and a crumbling consensus. Take California’s gay marriage ban in 2008, at the time seen as a major defeat for gay rights advocates. But the victory of Prop 8 hid the underlying shift: the very fact that gay rights, unthinkable even a few years prior, was a polarized electoral issue showed that anti-gay rights forces were losing in the long term. The same is…

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