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Dial Magazine ( @thedialmag.bsky.socialwww.thedial.world/articles/new...

“They Are Liars” — The Dial
“They Are Liars” — The Dial

Israel’s attacks in Beirut, and American complicity in them, has confirmed for many Lebanese how little they matter to the United States.

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When you hear Tucker Carlson or Stephen Miller taking a break from denying climate change in order to use it to justify their anti-immigrant agenda, know that they're working from a decades-old playbook established by white nationalist John Tanton:

Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs

Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.

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eSims are needed more than ever since Israeli forces cut off telecommunications & internet access in northern Gaza. Help us buy more eSims and keep them active chuffed.org/project/crip...disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/10/07/d...

Graphic with a light yellow background with a slice of watermelon on top. Text reads “Crips for eSims for Gaza Update 10/18/24, $1.4 million CAD raised ($1 million US) 14,302 eSims purchased and sent, 4286 eSims activated” On the lower left corner, “Thank you! Jane, Leah, and Alice.” On the lower right corner is a QR code
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There’s just a flat out massacre happening at Jabalia Refugee Camp in Northern Gaza right now- targeted murder of hundreds of civilians

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Reskeet if you are in the United States and are, in fact, like "oh my gosh, I will die if I don't have health care" politicalwire.com/2024/10/17/b...

Bonus Quote of the Day
Bonus Quote of the Day

“No one in the United States is like ‘Oh my gosh, I will die if I don’t have health care.'"-- Virginia U.S. Senate candidate Hung Cao (R), in an interview.

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Here's 404 coming with the details. Great shit as always. Also: 'Meanwhile, a related PAC also funded by Musk is microtargeting likely Black voters on Snapchat with ads that says Kamala Harris is trying to ban menthol cigarettes'

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Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump, asks Judge Aileen Cannon to recuse herself storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Although Mr. Trump is the alleged victim here, he previously served as President of the United States. While in office, he nominated Your Honor to her current position as a U.S. District Judge on the Southern District of Florida. Your Honor thus owes her lifetime appointment to the alleged victim in this criminal case. After Mr. Trump left office, he was charged in this District with 40 felony counts relating to his retention of classified documents. Your Honor recently presided over that criminal case, and ultimately dismissed the case against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump is the current Republican candidate for President in next month's election. On the campaign trail, he has repeatedly praised Your Honor for her rulings in his case. As the alleged victim here, he has a significant stake in the outcome of this case too. Were he to become President in the future, he would have authority to nominate Your Honor to a federal judgeship on a higher court were a vacancy to arise. Taken together, these unprecedented facts and circumstances might create an appearance of partiality in the mind of the public. Accordingly, the Constitution and the federal recusal statute require Your Honor to recuse herself from this case.
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Diapers are wildly expensive and absolutely necessary. The Metro-Boston diaper drive is going on for a few more days if you’re able to help. (I donated a bunch of diapers and ALSO accidentally donated some T-shirts I had saved in my cart for my teen to consider!)

CNpronounced-ing.bsky.social

Hey! The Metro-Boston Diaper Drive is happening NOW, until 10/19. If you'd like to help, please consider donating diapers, which will be delivered to Somerville WIC. (Go to the link below and click "Donate" to access the registries, donate funds, or even drop off loose diapers if you're local.)

Metro-Boston Diaper Drive
Metro-Boston Diaper Drive

Since its inception, the Drive has collected over 100,000 diapers and wipes and helped thousands of families in need.

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I love the details! Really enjoyed the article, especially the Koons anecdote.

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After one year of denying reality and helping facilitate the murder of more than 50,000 Palestinians with US bombs, the United States sends a letter to Israel demanding a list of compliances with international law which Israel has failed to adhere to, with 30 days to respond before "consequences".

Secretary Blinken's April 19 letter to Minister Gallant noted that - in accordance with U.S. law and polisy, including National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20) - the Departments of State and Defense must continually assess your government's adherence to your March 2024 assurances that Israet wauld "lacilitate and not arbitrarity deny, restrict, or otherwise impede, directly or indirectly, the transpurt or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance and U.S. government- supported international efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to and within Gaza, The Department of State will need to conduct a similar assessment under section 620l of the Foreign Assistance Act in order to provide additional Foreign Military Financing assistance to Israel We are now writing to underscore the U.S. government's deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, and seck urgent and sustainea actions by your govornment this month to reverse this trajectory. The humanitarian sit
government - including haiting commercial imports, denying or impeding nearly 90 percent of humanitarian movements between northern and southern Gaza in September, continuing burdensome and excessive dual-use restrictions, and instituting new vetting and onerous liability and customs requirements for humanitarian staff and shipments - together with increased lawlessness and looting - are contributing to an accelerated deterioration in the conditions in Gaza. Since Israel's assurances in March and the April letter - which produced Important improvements in the provision of humanitarian assistance ~ the amount of ald delivered has dropped by more than 50 percent. The amount of assistance entering Gaza in September was the lowest of any month during the past year. Conversely, Israel recently demonstrated with the successful campaign to administer polio vaccines to more than 560,000 children in Gaza what is possible and necessary to ensure civilians in Gaza receive the assistance that they
Rescinding evacuation orders when there is no operational need. Facilitating rapid implementation of the World Food Program winter and logistics plan to repair roads, install warehousing, and expand platforms and staging areas. • Ensuring Israeli Coordination and Liaison (CLA) officers can communicate with humenitarian convoys at checkpoints and assign division-level liaison officers from Southern Command to the Joint Coordination Board, • Removing restrictions on the use of container and closed trucks and - increasing the number of vetted drivers to 400. • Removing an agreed list of essential items fram the dual-use restricted list. • Provide expedited clearance processing at the Port of Ashdod for Gaza- bound humanitarian assistance. 2. Ensure that the commercial and Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) corridors are functioning at full and continuous capacity by: • Waiving customs requirements on the lAF corridor until such time as the UN Is able to implement its own process. • Allowing the JA
steps, whethe: with lawrators of using the authornes of the Prime Minister's Office, to ensure this does rat come to pass We also urge you to provide UNRWA with additional infor tion regarding these allegations, just as we continue to urge UNRWA to ensor. ; has a process in place to implement reforms to ensure confidence in the tentralty of UNRWAS personne). The April letter underscored it is cribrat for israel to continue to demonstrate its strang commitment to meeting its international law obligations related to the conduct of operations against Hamas. including by allowing international Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) acess to individuals detained in connection with this conflict and reinvigoraung dwingue with the ICAC immegiately. Reports. of abuses against detainees have only 'urther elevated the importance of Israel doing so, urgently. Lastly, it is vitally important that our kuvernments establish a new channel through which we can raise and discus civilian harm incidents Our
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