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Anxiety-ridden nerd, moss-grower, nature enthusiast, tabletop gamer, anime watcher, aspiring human.
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No mention of the need for a full investigation of the intelligence/security failures of Netanyahu's government either.

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Great point! We may be able to get far further due to the crises we'll inevitably face than her campaign can promise us today. At a time when establishment credibility is dissolving, it's even more advantageous to use every ounce of our power to effect change.

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This is the main thing. I get the qualms — sincerely, I do — but it remains the case that people in the U.S. will have more capacity to fight the ethnic cleansing in Gaza in a timeline where they aren’t forced to fight the same at home.

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Reuters and ProPublica out with a double whammy today proving yet again and without a shred of doubt that the Biden administration's most senior officials have knowingly, intentionally, gleefully violated both US and intl law to supply the genocide on Gaza with weapons. Links to 2 threads below:

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ACandycraig.bsky.social

It has been a mistake, not just on the merits but tactically, for Dems to essentially give up on even making the argument that Trump is ineligible to be president, and a regime with him back in the White House would be constitutionally illegitimate and owed no loyalty or obedience by any American.

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Fascists, who would use the ensuing economic collapse and trade war to scapegoat immigrants, political enemies, and (of course) the Jewish population. Everyone else loses.

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Reading a horrifying story about farm workers being forced to pay farm owners for “meal plans” of atrocious food, enforced by threats of violence What kind of country would be content to eat produce picked by workers forced to eat swamp fish cooked on an improvised grill?

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He noted that nothing about these forced meal plans is "optional" or "voluntary". Workers have to pay for the meal plan even if they don't eat the food - and it's often a hard violation to prove because most employers know better than to leave a paper trail. Jacobson says that typically, when H-2A workers are taken to cash their checks, their employers then immediately demand a kickback: cash for the plan.
Ryland has represented workers in more extreme cases. In one, an employer told workers that they would have to pay a fee if they wanted to leave their labor camp, and the employer also locked them out of the labor camp kitchen and threatened to shoot workers who fled without first paying their debts. The workers who remained were forced to pay exorbitant amounts for meager, poor-quality food. Unable to go to the grocery store or use the kitchen, hungry farmworkers built a makeshift grill with cinder blocks and an oven rack to grill swamp fish they caught
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@ambrellite.bsky.social
Anxiety-ridden nerd, moss-grower, nature enthusiast, tabletop gamer, anime watcher, aspiring human.
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