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  • This reminds me of a friend of mine in New York City who had a bedbug infestation that got into a rare book collection. He ended up sealing up and bagging the books up for two years in order to suffocate them all to death.

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    Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

  • Carney is an international banker.

    I will be shocked if there's any significant change in housing while he's in charge.

  • Agreed.

    Our own government isn't doing anything to stop him. Let Europe do something to stand in his way.

  • I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.

    But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.

  • Reminds me of the time when Israel shelled a bunch of kids playing soccer on a resort beach, literally in front of national media people looking on.

    And the world shrugged its shoulders.

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    Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'

  • Not-so-fun fact: Surveillance drones, that we know of, go back as far as the Vietnam War.

    The first UAV attacks date back to the middle of the 1800's.

  • I don't know that I have a catchphrase, but I use "holy moly" a lot in my sports announcing, and "my dude" a lot in casual conversation.

  • This is it.

    All you need is to parrot what more popular accounts say and have a phone and you can make money as a political streamer.

  • Even if he were a white person, they still wouldn't do anything about it.

    Both Democrats and Republicans fully support the genocide.

  • Very true.

    What's happening now isn't happening in a vacuum. Dubya, Obama, Donald I, and Biden all took ever-terrible incremental steps to normalize the fascism we're experiencing today.

  • I got a little excited reading the headline, until it hit me that California and Democrats at the federal level likely won't do anything to back this judge up. They've been more than happy to get by richer letting the wolves feast so far.

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    Judge Orders Trump Administration to Halt Indiscriminate Immigration Stops, Arrests in California

  • Sort of.

    The weird thing about Donald is that we sometimes get good things out of him but for completely wrong reasons, and as someone who is anti-war, the withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan stick out for me.

  • Understandable.

    I wish more people would have had that vomitous feeling back when Dubya started speedrunning fascism, and then Obama, and then Donald I, and then Biden. This has been a quarter-century project of slowly desensitizing us to the horrors of what our government is doing in order to normalize it.

    But nope. The wheels were greased and now we're going off the cliff.

  • No, he just acted on the agreement made by his predecessor.

    Which, TBH, I also think Donald did for nefarious reasons, but it was still a net positive to end that atrocious war.

  • Just wait until we crack open an American history book for you, friend.

    It's going to be illuminating.

    The point here isn't that Donald is a good, virtuous leader. It's that US foreign policy and every former president have set the bar so low for peace that Donald can do all this shit and he's still better-qualified for an NPP by virtue of the fact that he actively ended several wars during his first term.

  • No.

    I'm referring to the multiple ceasefires and his decision to ice Netanyahu out of some of those discussions due to his intractability.

    And yes, it's still a poor record, but it's better than Joe Biden or Barack Obama, who jumped however high they were commanded to by Benjamin Netanyahu.

  • The wild thing is, the headline is objectively correct. (But really, no US president ever deserves a NPP.)

    Just look at the other NPP presidential recipients:

    Barack Obama had a kill list, a gulag at Gitmo, and was dropping bombs on seven different countries during his presidency. Jimmy Carter's hands were blood-soaked, especially in Southeast Asia. Woodrow Wilson got us roped into WWI, where millions died over a literal few meters of terrain. Teddy Roosevelt got us roped into the Spanish-American War and whined that the US didn't involve itself in WWI early enough.

    Whether you like him or not, Donald got us out of Syria and Afghanistan, and while definitely doing so for the wrong reasons, he's done more to try and resolve the genocide in Palestine than anyone since Clinton.

  • In almost every case it's because they were indoctrinated at an early age. Feels like child abuse to me, but since the vast majority of people are Christians in most countries, it's considered a-okay.

  • I don't care what the international child r*** ring has to say about the gays.

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    Missouri judge again blocks many of the state’s anti-abortion laws

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    Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban

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    Chief Justice Roberts warns against heated political words about judges

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    Warren Buffett announces $6 billion in donations to five foundations

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    Supreme Court tees up blockbuster final day of term - (Update: They Ruled In Favor of Trump on Nationwide Injunctions)

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    Police say a man opened fire outside a church before staff fatally shot him, averting mass shooting

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    Iran's Parliament Votes to Close Strait of Hormuz After US Attacks

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    Trump says Gabbard was ‘wrong’ about Iran and Israeli strikes could be ‘very hard to stop’

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    Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is released after spending over three months at a Louisiana detention center

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    Federal appeals court blocks Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

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    Israeli hospital hit by Iranian missile strike

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    A left-right coalition seeks to limit Trump's power to get involved in Israel-Iran conflict

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