'Bureaucrats can easily fall into the ‘efficacy trap,’' Power once wrote. 'The perverse result is that officials may exhibit a greater tendency to stay in an institution the worse they deem its actions.”
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'In the Biden-Friedman scheme Palestinians...will be bludgeoned, bullied, and bribed into accepting a decades-old apartheid...[They will] be fed and housed in a refugee camp now called a “state” as Israeli drones circle overhead.'
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'While much has changed in the past six months, the horrors we witness can only be truly comprehended as a cataclysmic new phase in a war that has been going on for several generations.' Today's The Guardian Long Read by Rashid Khalidi:
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There’s spin after my talk with Politico that I don’t support the 2 state solution for Israel/ Palestine. I support the 2 state solution. Full stop. The intractable nature of the conflict, makes me ask questions about pathways to security in Israel that assures the rights of All.

Great interview with ⁦Patrick Gaspard⁩ on the need to support the safety and dignity of all people in Israel-Palestine. It means so much for the head of ⁦American Progress⁩ to speak with this courage and clarity. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Here's the debut piece from Hassan Ali Kanu at The American Prospect, a deep dive into the legislative history of the Comstock Act, which is 'practically unenforceable, and almost certainly unconstitutional'
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Posting the Blake Masters rap again

Josh said it, not me. Here's the profile I was sent this video for:
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This should’ve the most viral video ever but I posted it a trillion times last year and it never took off. Maybe now you jackals will finally appreciate it.

I took a buyout at the LA Times a few weeks ago.

It was a wild five-year ride, and I'm going to miss working with the LAT's incredible journalists (and the L.A. Times Guild 🦅 crew ✊)

I've got some projects in the works, but freelance assignments and job leads appreciated!

Hmm. I guess that they were blocking humanitarian aid after all.

And I guess that some deaths count a whole lot more than others.

Keep the pressure on.

Haaretz: Doctor at Israeli Field Hospital for Detained Gazans: '2 prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries,' -- describes deplorable conditions & violations of medical ethics & the law in a letter to ministers, attorney general

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I’ve been incredibly depressed, distraught, sad, and upset since reading yesterday’s detailed report on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the IDF’s targeting apparatus during the war in Gaza. The killing of over 31 family members of mine in Gaza City and Rafah (the two

Richard Haass and Senator Chris Coons now support conditioning aid to Israel. These are moderate, centrist, establishment figures, not lefty radicals, who are finally recognizing that the war in Gaza is a moral and strategic disaster.

Israel’s argument that they kill so many civilians b/c Hamas uses “human shields” is torn apart by the revelation that the IDF prefers to attack its “targets” when they are at home with their families. It is not Hamas using human shields, it is Israel deliberately hunting

SCOOP: The U.S. approved thousands of more bombs to Israel on the same day of the World Central Kitchen strikes. The approval demonstrates the administration’s determination to continue its flow of lethal weaponry to Israel despite Monday’s high-profile killings 🧵

The U.S. government is still supplying 2 thousand pound bombs and ammunition to support Israel's policy. Until there are substantive consequences, this outrage does nothing. Bibi obviously doesn't care what the U.S. says, its about what the U.S. does. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

“There are people working very hard inside State to try to hold Israel accountable, but none of that will actually go into effect unless Biden wants it to,” Annelle Sheline tells Noah Lanard

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I have not seen this quoted since 10/7 and I think it explains a lot.

This was Joe Biden at a Senate hearing in 1984: 'If the Arabs can sustain and understand and swallow our policy in Lebanon, they can take about anything.”

Annelle Sheline talking about why she quit the State Department over Gaza: 'Biden himself and the administration writ large have demonstrated that they consider Israeli lives to be worth more than Palestinian lives.'

Full Q&A here: motherjones.com/politics/2024/…