'To most Israelis, though, sanctioning any part of the IDF during Israel’s worst war in decades is a wedge too far.'

✍️ Arieh Kovler spectator.co.uk/article/why-bi…

DM: The guard wants to look at your baby
Player: 'Shh!'
DM: Roll persuasion
Player: ...8?
DM: He looks in the carriage and sees a goat
Player: That's my little princess. Isn't she cute?
DM: Roll deception. With disadvantage.

When your players spent 90 minutes at the table coming up with a clever plan #DnD timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

According to several sources Turkish Army has started large security operation in northern Iraq. Turkish army is carrying out operations with air support at least at 10 points.

Alex Jones is getting attacked by blue checks for *checks notes* not liking Hitler. There are hundreds of accounts paying Elon money to get recommended by the algorithm defending Hitler in the comments.

Centaur-left

Democrats who investigated Trump say they expect to face arrest, retaliation if he wins presidency cbsnews.com/news/democrats… via CBS News Politics

Max Azzarello was not a QAnon believer, but QAnon is about to become a Max Azzarello believer

I think we should be clear about what Mike Johnson *actually* did here.

He gave Ukraine aid, which passed overwhelmingly 311-112, a vote.

Some Republicans want to remove Mike Johnson because he didn’t block something that had huge bipartisan support.

thedailybeast.com/mike-johnson-c…

You vote when you have the votes…

71… That’s how many people in the House of Representatives have held up Ukraine aid all these months, an action that has contributed to increased Ukrainian civilian and military death toll since January

Juror 445 doesn't want to say he reads Hacker News because it sounds silly.

Pretty persuasive John Burn-Murdoch evidence that growing vehicle size is not the cause of America’s uniquely bad pedestrian safety situation.

ft.com/content/9c936d…

Two violent attacks on Russian anti-Putin activists on two different continents... both proxy attacks by Russian intelligence services using thugs-for-hire from an unlikely EU country. How our investigation led to the thugs' arrests... story coming up later today.

This is up there with 'I'm not a witch'

You, a rube, naive, mainstream: so happy Taylor Swift has dropped her new album

Me, a hipster, defining taste: there’s only one musical release today I care about

The 'end sicknote culture' thing is just the latest in the long line of policy topics where the government has decided the goal is weekly headlines about how tough they are rather than any real world change.

Cruz was among the 45 Republicans who voted to dismiss charges against Trump for his coup attempt impeachment.

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…