Thursday, March 28, 2024
Joe Lieberman Is Dead
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Depends On The Pressure
BREAKING: Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu says international pressure on Israel will not work
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 27, 2024
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We're All Experts In Bridge Engineering Now
You can do that well or poorly, of course, and trusted journalists at trusted news outlets should do that well! Hopefully better than Anynamebunchanumbers on Twitter, at least.
But one problem with everything being subsumed into politics news coverage is that "call the local civil engineer" quickly gets supplanted with "on one hand this seems like an accident, on the other hand some critics suggest that DEI hiring practices led to this tragedy."
Who is to say what's right? Not so different than what Anynamebunchanumbers is peddling. If unresolvable competing opinions from nonexperts (or, even worse, an expert versus a right winger as if they are equivalent) dominate the coverage of almost everything, it isn't clear what journalists offer other than "rolodex" with the same 30 assholes.
I haven't yet seen this in "respectable" outlets, but it's early!!!
;)
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel to abandon military plans for a ground offensive in Rafah, the southern Gaza city where the majority of Palestinians have crowded to evade the conflict. “The number of civilian casualties is far too high and the amount of humanitarian aid is far too low,” Austin told Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Washington, stressing that the protection of civilian lives was a “moral necessity and a strategic imperative.”That would also require the US stop pretending that Israel's purpose is anything other than slaughter.
Run On It
Sure you can always point to a particularly conservative district here and there where running loud and proud on reproductive rights, for example, might not be helpful, but to a great degree the voters who are reachable are kind of dumbasses who don't actually know which party is which in the way that political junkies do. And elevating all those "I'm a Democrat, but I'm not like all those other Democrats who love killing babies" candidates election cycle after election cycle to national audiences has been a great exercise in brand tarnishing.
Obviously Dobbs has served to clarify the stakes, and hopefully results like help clarify the strategy.
Marilyn Lands, a Democrat who made reproductive rights a central part of her campaign, will win a special election Tuesday for an Alabama state House seat, CNN projects.
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Lands, a licensed professional counselor who lost her 2022 bid for the Huntsville-area seat by nearly 7 points, opposes the state’s near-total ban on abortion and openly discussed the abortion she had more than 20 years ago after her fetus tested positive for a rare genetic condition.
Winning 62-38.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
BUT
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed skeptical of efforts to limit access to mifepristone, a key medication used in more than 60 percent of U.S. abortions and first approved more than two decades ago.
2026
And here we (almost) are.
We Are Talking About You
This is the kind of observation/criticism that is unassailable based on journalists' own stated beliefs about their obligations, but the shitheads at the NYT will dismiss this as "activism" or whatever.
What Are We Doing Here
To pretend that Israel is not violating international law or interfering with U.S. humanitarian aid is absurd on its face. The State Department’s position makes a mockery of U.S. law and assurances provided to Congress. pic.twitter.com/iMm1mhISD7
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 26, 2024