Funny story…

https://www.wlrn.org/wlrn-investigations/2024-02-15/florida-labor-union-membership-teachers-public-sb-256

Kinda miffed they didn’t include a screenshot of the colors, but I’m guessing the readability will be vastly better!

insisting the House stop holding Ukraine aid hostage first

That’s probably how this is gonna end up getting through. The GOP wants aid to Israel, the Dems want aid to Ukraine. I’m putting my money on both things passing in some compromise deal.

I’m still not convinced that the trial’s even going to start tomorrow. Still waiting for some 11th hour hail-mary type play to push this back a few more weeks.

A 7-year old got seriously wounded by shrapnel, so yes they got an injury.

Then direct intervention

Oh boy, US troops on the ground in the middle east. That’ll go well and will definitely calm things down.

Cutting off aid would force Israel to go “well we better hurry up and finish this war before we run out of ammo”, sending them into overdrive to cripple Hamas’ capabilities since they won’t have the Iron Dome to rely on anymore.

And of course there’s still the issue of a ceasefire not being agreed to because Hamas can’t provide Israel what it’s asking for. So how’s cutting off aid supposed to help?

At this point I don’t think Israel’s gonna stop even if they do somehow manage to eradicate Hamas from the world. Any opportunity for peaceful ends to this conflict are long gone.

Hamas can’t offer up enough hostages for a ceasefire deal. The fuck you want Biden to do!?

Rather than try to take away ballot options that would better represent the interests of the American public, perhaps the Democratic Party should focus on passing legislation that would actually help struggling people such as a universal single payer healthcare program or guaranteed housing.

I love when people act like the Democrats have unilateral control over all 3 branches of Government and just gloss over how the party that controls the Courts dismantles Obamacare at every opportunity, and the same party that controls the House and will refuse to pass bills that even they like because of the chance it might make Biden look good.

Sadly, both major political parties in America are fully beholden to the corporate interests which fund the political system.

Of course, topping it off with a little “both sides”.

One of those relationships where everyone sucks. Watch her views on The Fourth Estate magically evolve seemingly overnight.

And yet it needs to be said because even 6 years after this didn’t happen people are still convinced that it did. It’s brought up way too often and I’m beyond tired of it at this point. Hate on Google for things they actually do, not because they moved 3 words to the bottom of a webpage.

Genuinely surprised to see this comment so high up, with so many more upvotes than downvotes. I personally have no problem with Threads, and some of the higher-profile celebrities, comics and artists I want to follow are already there. That I can add other fediverse accounts to my feed, or add Threads accounts into my Mastadon/Lemmy apps, it’s a win.

I’m not oblivious to why folks don’t like it and want no part of Zuckerberg’s companies. I still prefer open platforms to closed ones, and Zuck seems to understand that too. I personally don’t buy the EEE fears. This ain’t Microsoft.

The only reason this ever got any attention was to push an agenda.

The thing they’re doing differently is being owned by a Chinese company. If TikTok was simply a US based social media corp, no one would care.

The users give the site a pretty broad license for their content. Calling it the user’s data is a moot point.

Don’t even recall if the Lemmy instance I use has a TOS, but it’s likely the server owner has similar rights just by the nature of how this tech works.

It’s easy to send a protest vote in March. Let’s see how everyone feels in October.

Nothing says “outsider” like having your portrait hanging in the White House!

Kinda crazy how people just show their biases like that.

The question has never been whether individual acts of sexual assault may have occurred on October 7. Rape is not uncommon in war, and there were also several hundred civilians who poured into Israel from Gaza that day in a “second wave,” contributing to and participating in the mayhem and violence. The central issue is whether The New York Times presented solid evidence to support its claim that there were newly reported details “establishing that the attacks against women were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7”—a claim stated in the headline that Hamas deliberately deployed sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Well they’re innocent civilians, not bargaining chips. I’m never going to agree that people need to sit in jail so they can serve as leverage. That’s a horrible stance.