This article is terrifying for lots of reasons but my attention was caught by this: one of these ultra-conservative donors is a pastor who doesn’t celebrate Christmas because it is a “pagan holiday?” I have never heard of this. Is that a right-wing church thing? www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/m...
They control Republican politics in the state. Now they’re poised to take their theocratic agenda nationwide.
Often I wish everything were run by Democrats but then I look at New York.
It turns out Israel didn’t intercept the pagers and add explosives before they were shipped to Lebanon. They created a company and invested millions of dollars to manufacture the pagers themselves.
The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse.
Reading A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. It feels like CJ Cherryh to me. This is a compliment.
I’m not sure if this article (gift link) tells the whole story, but it is interesting because it talks about Hamas in a negative light from the Palestinian perspective. You seldom see that. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/u...
The group has abused hostages and Palestinians as it wields rough justice in its efforts to maintain control of Gaza and wage an insurgent war.
I turn 50 today. People might consider that too old to accomplish anything, but Frodo was 50 when he left the Shire. There’s hope for me yet.
Harris just said people get bored and leave Trump’s rallies and I thought he might burst into tears. And now he’s completely lost it. Rambling incoherently.
“There is no state in the country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born.” That that needed to be said!
He bought the kid an AR-15 *after* police talked to him about his son making posts about school shootings online? After?
Some corrections in the media are misspelled last names. Calling someone an assistant professor when they had recently been promoted to associate. A misheard year that makes someone a few years older than they are. Then there's this. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/u...
