Incredible story. USC offers a minor in “resistance to genocide”, this girl minored in it, was named valedictorian, and then they cancelled her speech because she might talk about genocide

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

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ISRAELI SETTLERS RACE EACH OTHER TO SEE WHO CAN STEAL A PALESTINIAN HOME FIRST

Thank you, AIPAC, for giving me another chance to tell everyone that you are not a regular PAC like nurses, but instead a conservative dark money PAC that raises its money from Trump donors & spends disingenuously in Dem primaries. Bottom feeders not nurses. Your lies don’t work

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The Supreme Court ruled that three Palestinian families who live in the Battan Hawa quarter of Silwan are to be evicted and their homes turned over to the East Jerusalem settlers of Aterter Cohanim

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Still remarkable as it is comical that someone claims free speech rights inside someone else's house. dailycal.org/news/campus/ad… via The Daily Californian

She linked to a site stating, “Zionism is a racist settler-colonial ideology that advocates for a Jewish ethnostate built on Palestinian land.”

Meanwhile Israel’s basic law:“The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
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Based on all the sporting events Trump has attended with Barron, fishing trips, throwing the football around, vacations together, & father-son outings with just the two of them, it’s understandable how much Trump really wants to attend the graduation. They seem best of friends.

Thanks to President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS is delivering. This Filing Season, the IRS has answered 9/10 calls with 3-minute average wait times. Prior to the IRA, fewer than 2/10 calls were answered, with ~30-minute average wait times.

When people interviewed in the NYT say 'I like Donald Trump because he says what he thinks,' what they really mean is that they are racist bigots just like Trump is.

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Donald Trump repeatedly fell asleep during today’s trial proceedings, raising alarms about Biden’s vigor and stamina.

At some point, when they’ve said it enough times, and when they’ve had to say it with conviction to empty the pockets of donors, they start to believe it

Remember: Not letting Trump chop and hoover up lines in court to stay awake is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. [Photo via Getty Images]

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Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - dating at least to Iran-Contra, but really to 1865 - is bc there are never any actual legal or personal consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics

.Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 aptly describes weaknesses of Trump's 'peace plan' for Ukraine. But I would add one: Trump wants Putin to win because he believes, as does Putin, that Great Powers should carve up the world and 'lesser countries' should belong to one or another's sphere of domination.

If Trump is too old and weak to stay awake at his own criminal trial, what do you think will happen in the Situation Room?