From the Guardian:
Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020
At this point Giuliani is an embarrassment to the country, raving mad and horny as hell.
@@@ Maryam Gendron: Mayday (Thrill Jockey, 2024). I got to this record off this week’s WRIR playlist email. I also try to check out Thrill Jockey releases as they release some cool music. It’s a folk record but I’m guessing its appearance on the WRIR playlist email is about some sort of traditional UK/Ireland influences? We shall see and thus far the opener has been a chill solo acoustic guitar intro. This could be an instrumental record and the playing is quite nice, the vibe is pretty but the playing doesn’t have enough sophistication for me to sit back and listen to it as a solo folk guitar record, it’s a tad boring in that way. Oh the second track has vocalizing and it’s similar to the guitar, pretty and simple. Now we’re getting a full band and it’s less of a folk record and more of a hipster indie folk record. it has the plainness of a lot of indie record. The third track is in French which makes me wonder if she is French Canadian, I guess I could Google. I don’t know if it’s that I’m in the mood for something else, or if the record is just a wee bit on the too simple side, I don’t think I’m obsessed with overly sophisticated music but this record isn’t doing it for me. It’s not an awful record by any means and I am guessing that a lot of normal folks with jobs would be satisfied with it.
Ian Welsh:
America, if it’s serious about bringing in aid through the northern pier they’ve built, might, ironically, seal Israel’s defeat.
No matter what happens, however, Israel is screwed beyond belief. The only thing they have left that anyone in the region is seriously scared of is their nukes. Israeli regional military dominance is SHATTERED.
From the Guardian:
Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to chief of staff, accused the president of using Jewish people to justify US policy in the conflict
From the Guardian:
Israel-Gaza war live: Netanyahu says Israel has to ‘do what we have to do’ on Rafah offensive despite US ‘disagreement’
From CNBC:
Accuracy in Media, a far-right activist group that doxxes college students who engage in pro-Palestinian protests, revealed in its tax returns it’s funded by top Republican political donors.
The group’s disclosure lists family foundations tied to shipping supply magnate Richard Uihlein and brewing scion Peter Coors. It also names billionaire Republican megadonor Jeff Yass as its top contributor.
Fucking losers, rich fucking #fascist losers.
From NBC News:
The woman had flooring, a computer, a desk, a printer and a Keurig in the rooftop Family Fare sign, police say.
From the NY Times:
President Biden hopes the decision to withhold the delivery of 3,500 bombs will prompt Israel to change course in its war in Gaza.
From Ian Welsh:
Something like 98% of Israelis think that the amount of force used is either appropriate or too little. The society itself is sick from top to bottom…
From CNBC:
The youngest generation of American workers is prepared to move away from states that pass abortion bans and to turn down job offers in states where bans are already in place, a new survey from CNBC/Generation Lab finds.
The “Youth & Money in the USA” survey of 1,033 people between the ages of 18 and 34 found that almost two-thirds of respondents, 62%, would “probably not” or “definitely not” live in a state that banned abortion.
Not shocking at all, these’ #rightwing pricks are incompetent.
From the Guardian:
Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu says he cannot accept ending war in Gaza now as that would keep Hamas in power
War criminal, this man is a war criminal.
From CNN:
When non-violent protesters are met with intense physical suppression, “that tends to create a kind of outrage effect that then generates more protests,” Jackson said.
“I think everybody can understand in this moment that the reason all these encampments suddenly popped up all over the country is because of what happened at Columbia feeling so egregious, and so sudden, and so unreasonable.”
From the Guardian:
Joe Biden was stunned into silence when he was told families of US service members killed in Kabul in August 2021 said that when the bodies were returned and the president met grieving relatives, he spent too much time talking about the death of his own son, Beau.
From CNBC:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Wednesday.
From the Guardian
Counter-protesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA; police arrested dozens of demonstrators at Columbia and City College of New York
The Cross Pollinator 