Incredible historical document here: Blinken says Israel’s PR is failing because social media allows people a direct look at what’s happening, shorn of the ability to mediate it, and it lands with emotional resonance. Romney then says yes, that’s why we moved to ban TikTok

Santa Cruz has really jaded me to the selfishness of these rich coastal communities. They're all white towns full of retirees with a hidden underclass of Latino workers holding up every sector of their economy. Yet their NIMBY housing policies keeps them segregated far away.

Let’s see: - Blinken says the ceasefire deal is extraordinarily generous & says it’s up to Hamas to accept - Hamas accepts - Israel rejects. Orders Palestinians to leave eastern Rafah & then proceeds to bomb western Rafah - bombing Rafah was the US “redline” - US blames Hamas

4/ Over the past 8 months, Israel has repeatedly massacred Palestinians in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of >37,000 Palestinians, injuries of >85,000 and an additional >10,000 still missing. Most dead (~56%) are women and children.

6/ Israel has been causing the death of the civilian population of Gaza. Israel has created famine in Gaza and used it as a weapon of war, resulting in the deaths of dozens of civilians from starvation. Israel created and maintained shortages of water, medicine and electricity.

Trucks carrying medical supplies denied entry into the #Gaza by the Israeli authorities on July 3 due to ongoing fighting in the south. We have been unable to bring any medical supplies since the end of April. Hospitals continue to grapple with acute shortages of supplies.

BREAKING: A 14 year old witness to the disappearance of Francisco Nunez, who I interviewed in May, has been shot by LA County Sheriffs deputies. Nunez was last seen alive in LASD custody. His body was discovered 5 days later, feet from where he was seen last. lapublicpress.org/2024/07/nunez-…

Wisconsin Republicans spent like 15 years talking about how no one would ride a train in the Midwest and it would be an expensive boondoggle...and then a new route was added and it turned a profit in less than two weeks. bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news…

Respect other cultures and also recognize universal human worth and dignity. It's not a contradiction.

A St. Louis County woman was arrested after police claimed she repeatedly attacked two officers. Bystander video shows a much different scene -- instead showing the officers hitting HER. Yet prosecutors continue to press charges. New at St. Louis Magazine stlmag.com/news/video-bel…

Spoiler: This happens in EVERY state that adopts school vouchers. The wealthiest people in the state benefit from having their private school tuition supplemented while the working poor pay for it. They then raise the prices to keep the poors out of the choice places.

🇺🇸 American Doctor: "The bombing doesn't explain children being shot in the head. Every Day I was there, I saw children shot in the head. That's not an accident. That's deliberate targeting of children for death. That's murder."

Top Row Colt Gray, murdered 4, injured 4, ARMED—ALIVE (Arrested by police) Dylan Roof, murdered 9, injured 1, ARMED—ALIVE (Arrested by police) Payton Gendron, murdered 10, injured 3, ARMED—ALIVE (Arrested by police) Travis Reinking, murdered 4, injured 4, ARMED—ALIVE (Arrested

I want to be very clear that what JD Vance said about Haitian immigrants this morning is straight up Nazi shit. When you accuse people of being savages who are 'not like us', that is the kind of thing that leads to pogroms and Tulsa and Rosewood. Everyone should condemn it.

The ridiculous thing about the "one bad apple" defense of police is the full expression is "one bad apple spoils the barrel," a warning about the corrupting influence of a corrupt member of a group.

Why we need professional journalists: JD Vance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so Kris Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves. propublica.org/article/epa-sc…

Hard to overstate how much of an improvement speed cameras are compared to police issuing tickets. Speed cameras are *way* more fair -- and also more reliable. theconversation.com/police-stop-mo…

I'm telling you... this is the sleeper issue of the race... The Harris plan to let Medicare cover home health care in lieu of having seniors deplete all of their savings to qualify for Medicaid is huge for folks in this situation.

Newly revealed bodycam footage shows Atlanta Police higher-ups conspiring to fabricate felony charges against protesters because they were part of a group which opposed Cop City. youtu.be/d77W7ox-rU8