Gaza Endures Relentless Israeli Assault as Hunger Claims Lives of 66 Children
Gaza Endures Relentless Israeli Assault as Hunger Claims Lives of 66 Children
Under relentless Israeli bombardment, Gaza marked its 103rd day of war with another wave of death an...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America
“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …Literary Hub
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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …Literary Hub
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Example of how shitty the Soviet Union was: the Holodomor, caused by the industrialization policy of the first 5 Year Plan, caused up to 5 million deaths of Ukrainians and Kazakhstanis in one year, and the Soviet Union rejected all foreign aid despite their citizens dying. A true state for the workers! /s 2/2
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Some Brother printers have a remote code execution vulnerability, and they can’t fix it
Brother has indicated that this vulnerability cannot be fully remediated in firmware, and has required a change to the manufacturing process of all affected models.
China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.
On May 19, China’s top law enforcement agency released measures for the roll-out of “cyber IDs” (网络身份认证), a new form of user identification to monitor internet users. Although the measures were released as a draft over the summer last year, they have only just been finalized, and will come into effect in mid-July.According to the measures, introduced by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), each internet user in China will be issued with a unique “web number,” or wanghao (网号), that is linked to their personal information. While these IDs are, according to the MPS notice, to be issued on a strictly voluntary basis through public service platforms, the government appears to have been working on this system for quite some time — and state media are strongly promoting it as a means of guaranteeing personal “information security” (信息安全). With big plans afoot for how these IDs will be deployed, one obvious question is whether these measures will remain voluntary.
Lingua Sinica Newsletter, 8 August
News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.Lingua Sinica
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Bear Creek Falls Glacier National Park, BC
Easy, short but steep
1 mile out and back
312 ft elevation Gain
Hiked 5/27/25
This short trail begins with a very steep grade down to Connaught creek (formerly bear creek) with a stair section at the lowest. Photos of the falls come from this area downstream. Climbing another staircase puts you at the falls, surrounded by a massive mist cloud. Entertaining, but no pics. This was still during melt season and it was absolutely raging at the time.
Connaught creek rushes by as Bear creek falls rages in the distance.
The steep stairwell leading to the river below.
The steepest part of the trail is these steps, but it maintains a lot of slope in its short run.
China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.
On May 19, China’s top law enforcement agency released measures for the roll-out of “cyber IDs” (网络身份认证), a new form of user identification to monitor internet users. Although the measures were released as a draft over the summer last year, they have only just been finalized, and will come into effect in mid-July.According to the measures, introduced by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), each internet user in China will be issued with a unique “web number,” or wanghao (网号), that is linked to their personal information. While these IDs are, according to the MPS notice, to be issued on a strictly voluntary basis through public service platforms, the government appears to have been working on this system for quite some time — and state media are strongly promoting it as a means of guaranteeing personal “information security” (信息安全). With big plans afoot for how these IDs will be deployed, one obvious question is whether these measures will remain voluntary.
Lingua Sinica Newsletter, 8 August
News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.Lingua Sinica
JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.Deno
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/23993774
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices | Much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world
How to federate a new community?
I created a new community on PieFed ( !action_movies@piefed.social ) and tried using lemmy-federate.com/ to get federated across other instances, but get an "instance is not registered" error.
Apparently, there are... issues?
lemmy.ca/post/45479147
So wondering about other ways to get federated.
- Can I do it myself, at least for the one other instance where I have an account (lemmy.ca)?
To me, at the moment it seems a bit 'chicken and egg'. I can't see it on lemmy.ca, so I can't subscribe to it from lemmy.ca. And lemmy.ca won't federate it until I subscribe to it. I must have it wrong. - Promo communities: I know about those, but I don't want to use them just yet. This is a "soft launch" until I get more familiar with having a community and get some more content into it.
- Other ways?
Thanks.
Lemmy Federate
Lemmy Federate is a tool to federate new communities in the Lemmyverse.lemmy-federate.com
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Ever since Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows 10 in October, the company has been trying hard to convince users to make the switch to Windows 11. First, it warned that unsupported Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive security updates, making them easy targets for hackers. Later, it advised users to trade in their old computers and buy a new one that comes preloaded with all the Windows 11 goodies.Now, once again, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, has published a fresh blog highlighting all the benefits and advantages of Windows 11, including a statement claiming that Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3 times faster than Windows 10 PCs. However, what they failed to make clear is that this claim is entirely based on a comparison of new versus old hardware, rather than the software itself.
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Odd that no AMD PCs were included in the performance comparison.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
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Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition)
This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images.www.w3.org
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The U.S. Pivot to Asia and Europe's Strategic Sunset
The U.S. Pivot to Asia and Europe's Strategic Sunset
The United States’ strategic pivot toward Asia in 2011 signalled a fundamental realignment in global geopolitics, driven by China’s ascent as America’s principal peer competitor.Dialectical Dispatches
"Effective immediately", all F, M, and J visa applicants must set their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States
Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.
We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to U.S. national security. Since 2019, the United States has required visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms.
Visa applicants are required to list all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last 5 years on the DS-160 visa application form. Applicants certify that the information in their visa application is true and correct before they sign and submit. Omitting social media information could lead to visa denial and ineligibility for future visas.
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I’ve been seeing these signs pop up everywhere, sometimes in the most unexpected places.
They help.
Thanks for seeing my work!
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Department of Homeland Security announces $94 million in grants to protect Jewish organizations
Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.
I recently sat down with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad from Congregation Ner Tamid, who told me the temple spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on security.
"The fight against hate against the Jews would morph yet again, um, so when someone says that they are, they, they love Jews but they, but they hate Israel and you get a little deeper, what do they mean by that..... and usually when they go into the territory not of being critical of Israel which is fair game. But they say Israel has no right to exist at all now.... we get into the area of antisemitism," Akselrad said.
More grants are expected in the coming months.
It seems you’re conflating the words nation and state. A nation is a group of people with a shared, named identity, such as Hawaiian or Palestinian. A state is an officially recognized group with sovereignty over an area of land. Many nations exist which do not have their own states.
All nations have the right to exist by the human right to freedom of association. Sovereign states have no right to exist: their existence is asserted and defended by force and by mutual recognition with other sovereign states.
The empire will meet its end, whether in a year or in ten. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸
Valia Babycats ¦ Lady of the Blade 🇵🇸 on Instagram: "When you accidentally discovere your favourite band has a song that is hella relevant. @tvg_turisas I do not own any of the videos used in this reel Clip Credits: @eye.on.palestine #freepalestine #p
4 likes, 0 comments - livetimefe on June 28, 2025: "When you accidentally discovere your favourite band has a song that is hella relevant. @tvg_turisas I do not own any of the videos used in this reel Clip Credits: @eye.on.Instagram
How to crosspost a "non-link" post?
I'm trying out starting a new community.
- !action_movies@piefed.social
- piefed.social/c/action_movies
I wanted to crosspost some posts I already made elsewhere, e.g. piefed.social/post/984528 / lemmy.ca/post/46999890
But there's no crosspost button.
1. Is there a way to do it?
2. And I'm curious: why is there no crosspost button for so many posts?
codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issue…
Can't Crosspost Certain posts
Myself and some other users have been getting confused why we couldn't crosspost text posts. Eg. I can't crosspost this https://piefed.social/post/993050 to https://piefed.Codeberg.org
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF - Info (rtbf.info@rtbf.be (Marine Lambrecht))
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF Actus
Si aucun chiffre officiel n’est disponible, les organisateurs ont fait état sur Instagram d’une foule de 'plusieurs...Par @la-redaction-237 avec @afp-1 (RTBF.be)
WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family
WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family
WhatsApp is now offering AI summaries of text threads for those too lazy to read through their messages themselves.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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From Signal's terms and conditions
Other instances where Signal may need to share your dataTo meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
If i understand correctly, their servers are in the usa.
So the usa government has the same level of access as compared to whatsapp?
It's non profit now, but so was openai...
WhatsApp is definitely taking a step in the wrong direction. However, switching to another app is difficult, it's hard to get people ingrained in an ecosystem switch once let alone twice....
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
Introduction of ‘dynamic pricing’ also coincided with company raising trip prices, researchers findsSimon Goodley (The Guardian)
We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasn’t changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence – based on the data it’s been trained on.
This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance — nothing more, and nothing less.
So why is a real “thinking” AI likely impossible? Because it’s bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesn’t hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition — not a shred — there’s a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.
Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the “hard problem of consciousness”. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more).
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon.
We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how
AI may appear human, but it is an illusion we must tackle.The Conversation
Open source model that does photoshop-grade edits without affecting the rest of the pic: OmniGen 2
GitHub - VectorSpaceLab/OmniGen2: OmniGen2: Exploration to Advanced Multimodal Generation.
OmniGen2: Exploration to Advanced Multimodal Generation. - VectorSpaceLab/OmniGen2GitHub
Drugs Found in US-Israeli Aid Flour Bags in Gaza - Quds News Network (2025-06-27)
Drugs Found in US-Israeli Aid Flour Bags in Gaza - Quds News Network (2025-06-27)qudsnen.co/drugs-found-in-us-i…
------>> People in Gaza have found dangerous narcotics inside flour bags distributed by the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (#GHF), which Palestinians and national organizations now call “death traps.”
>> The Government Media Office in Gaza told QNN that the drugs found were Oxycodone [alias #OxyContin], a powerful and addictive #opioid. It noted that four citizens have so far confirmed discovering the pills inside flour bags distributed by the US-Israeli so-called aid centers...
Drugs Found in US-Israeli Aid Flour Bags in Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- People in Gaza have found dangerous narcotics inside flour bags distributed by the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which Palestinians and national organizationEditing Team (Quds News Network)
No, you aren’t hallucinating, the corporate plan for AI is dangerous
No, you aren’t hallucinating, the corporate plan for AI is dangerous
Big tech is working hard to sell us on artificial intelligence, in particular what is called “artificial general intelligence.” At conferences and in interviews corporate leaders describe a n…Reports from the Economic Front
Judge Backs Anthropic’s Book Use as Fair, Piracy Trial Still Looms
Judge Backs Anthropic’s Book Use as Fair, Piracy Trial Still Looms
A U.S. judge rules Anthropic’s AI training use of copyrighted books is fair use, despite piracy concerns. Authors push back as legal battle continues.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
At least 21 Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Saturday in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the death toll of children who have died from hunger and
At least 21 Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Saturday in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the death toll of children who have died from hunger and malnutrition has reached 66, as Israel’s blockade, closure of border crossings, and restrictions on aid continue.#Gaza #Genocide #Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Israel #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #PeaceNow #bds
Scores Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza - Child Hunger Death Toll Climbs to 66 - Palestine Chronicle
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians on Saturday as officials reported rising starvation deaths.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Explainable AI (XAI), Decoded: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Fails
Explainable AI (XAI), Decoded: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Fails
Imagine being denied a loan or misdiagnosed by a medical AI — and no one, not even the developers, can explain why it happened. For years, AI systems have operated behind closed doors: powerful but opaque, trusted but misunderstood.Eli Grid (GazeOn)
Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
Tribal and community leaders in Gaza are uniting to secure aid convoys after over 500 people have been killed in daily aid massacres.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
‘Ha’aretz’ article accusing Israeli soldiers of firing on aid seekers a ‘blood libel,’ Netanyahu says (Jewish News Syndicate, 2025-06-27)
‘Ha’aretz’ article accusing Israeli soldiers of firing on aid seekers a ‘blood libel,’ Netanyahu says (Jewish News Syndicate, 2025-06-27)jns.org/haaretz-article-accusi…
———>> The article “‘It’s a killing field’: IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid” in the left-wing Israeli paper Ha’aretz contains “contemptible blood libels,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday.
>> The Ha’aretz article cites anonymous Israeli soldiers and officers, who it says accused the IDF of firing on Gazans who posed no danger to them.
>> The Israeli military has said that it fires warning shots in certain instances and that it has identified suspicious people among the aid seekers.
>> While Israel’s Military Advocate General ordered an investigation into the allegations on Friday, the IDF has denied the claims made in the article …
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❝ Going to the US-backed aid distribution centre was the hardest day of my life. I’ve never felt humiliation like that ❞
❝ Going to the US-backed aid distribution centre was the hardest day of my life. I’ve never felt humiliation like that ❞middleeasteye.net/news/my-jour…
#Starvation #FoodAsWeapon #Gaza #Inhumanity #Israel #WarCrime #Genocide #StopIsrael #SaveGaza #SanctionIsrael
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‘My journey to get aid in Gaza was like Squid Game’
Editor’s note: The following personal account of Yousef al-Ajouri, 40, was told to Palestinian journalist and MEE contributor Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City. It has been edited for brevity and clarity.Ahmed Dremly (Middle East Eye)
Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/217883
Photo: Zachary SchulmanOn November 15, 2024, Zohran Mamdani released a video of himself interviewing people on the street in Queens and the Bronx who had voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election the previous week. It was one of the first of the viral posts that propelled him into the spotlight and ultimately helped him all but capture the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York. Then polling close to zero percent, Mamdani seemed more like a local news anchor than a candidate, gamely thrusting a microphone into the faces of voters and letting them take the stage. The answers to why they voted for Trump — “Food prices are going up,” “Rent is expensive” — informed Mamdani’s campaign as it homed in on the issue of affordability. But the other answer that came up again and again — one that Mamdani chose to highlight — was Gaza. “They like Trump because they don’t want their Palestinian brothers to be killed,” one man says.
This was a terrible miscalculation on the part of these voters, as is almost any attempt to make common cause with Trump. But voters’ disgust with the Democratic Party for its unstinting support of the Netanyahu regime, just like their anxiety about the high cost of living in New York, was real, and both sentiments carried over into the mayoral primary in June, a setting for the liberal left to confront itself. And once again voters punished the Democratic Party for its inability to address those issues, coming out in droves for the most un-Democratic candidate in the field — a socialist, in fact.
It was not supposed to happen this way, not in a city with nearly 1 million Jews, the historic center of the Jewish diaspora outside Israel. Mamdani’s opponents predicted that his positions on Israel — his reluctance to affirm its right to define itself as a Jewish state, his refusal to condemn the slogan “Globalize the Intifada,” his assertion that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested as an indicted war criminal if he visits New York, all nearly unheard of for a Democratic-primary candidate — would sink him. What’s curious is that while panicked Democrats are now conceding that Mamdani crushed his principal rival, the Establishment favorite Andrew Cuomo, by underscoring pocketbook issues, running a galvanic campaign both on social media and IRL, and not being an alleged serial sexual harasser and all-around goon, they have yet to reckon with the fact that voters, particularly young voters, were drawn to Mamdani and supported him fervently because of his steadfast opposition to the war in Gaza. Publicly at least, the Democrats have yet to acknowledge the enormous, perhaps irreparable toll their support for the war has taken on their party.
Mamdani outperformed expectations in nearly every demographic, upending the conventional wisdom that leftist appeal is limited to young, highly educated, largely white voters. But his campaign was nevertheless powered by an overwhelming show of force from those same voters who reside in what the strategist Michael Lange in the New York Times playfully called “the Commie Corridor,” a stretch of gentrified Brooklyn and Queens that includes Ridgewood (80 percent for Mamdani), Bushwick (79 percent), and East Williamsburg (75 percent). And these voters, as anyone in New York with an Instagram account can attest, are vocal about their opposition to the appalling atrocities Israel has committed in Gaza, as are the Muslim voters whom Mamdani also unlocked.
Foreign policy was not technically a top issue in the race, which makes sense because the mayor of New York does not set U.S. foreign policy (in general, the trend of turning every food–co-op–board election into a referendum on Gaza probably isn’t the ideal way to conduct local affairs). But no matter how hard Mamdani tried to focus on his proposals for free bus rides and free child care, Gaza was still everywhere in the primary, principally because his Democratic opponents, as well as the financial elites who stand behind them and sympathetic media outlets, thought they could use his positions on Israel to turn Jewish voters against him. When Mamdani stood by the use of the slogan “Globalize the Intifada,” Cuomo said those words “fuel hate” and “fuel murder” and “there are no two sides here.” But voters in the city with the most Jews outside Tel Aviv simply did not buy the notion that Mamdani is an antisemite who would discriminate against or fail to protect them. In fact, it’s clear that many Democrats, including many Jewish Democrats, voted for him because of his positions on Israel — or at the very least saw little objectionable about them. As the writer Bess Kalb put it in a recent essay explaining Jewish support for Mamdani, “I am not writing this on October 8th. It is June 25th, 2025. And if we do not change our perspective with time and events and evidence, we are living with our heads in the sand.”
Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine. An article in Politico about the lessons Democrats are drawing from Cuomo’s defeat did not contain a single mention of Gaza or Israel; titled “Mamdani’s Surprise Win Reawakens Democrats’ Internal Factions,” the article’s omission suggests there are no pro-Palestine factions to speak of. Instead, Democrats have been more than happy to jump on the much safer affordability train as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared, with his usual dead-eyed delivery, “I think what’s clear is that the relentless focus on affordability had great appeal all across the city of New York.”
Democrats have an odd habit of tuning out their own supporters even when those supporters are practically screaming at them to listen. In the past presidential election, New Yorkers were hollering at them about inflation, yes, but also immigration and crime. Democrats did eventually acknowledge they had been weak on those issues, which explains their timid response to Trump’s subsequent assault on undocumented and documented immigrants alike. The Democrats remain indifferent, however, to any pleas about Gaza, in ways that appear to be alienating to voters — especially young ones — on the left side of the spectrum who simply do not understand why the party that supposedly represents them is constantly bowing and scraping before a murderous regime.
Never was this more apparent than after Trump’s strike on Iran, which many Democrats, including Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, refused to condemn, despite the fact that Trump did not get the required congressional approval. In an instant, the pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian coalition revealed itself to be an illusion because liberal Iran hawks and their Never Trump allies viewed the demise of Israel’s sworn enemy as more important than placing a check on a demagogue they have long warned has too much power. The consistent, principled thing to do would have been to oppose the strike outright, but Democrats like Antony Blinken and Steny Hoyer instead offered toothless criticisms of Trump’s brazen warmongering while cheering on the strikes anyway — to please whom, you may ask? Nearly 80 percent of Democrats oppose them.
As Mamdani barrels toward the general election as the heavy favorite to become mayor, Israel’s supporters in New York and beyond are marshaling an effort to remind voters of his heresies. New York’s political power brokers — Schumer, Jeffries, Kathy Hochul, and others — have declined to endorse him. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand slammed him for using words she felt were “permissive for violence against Jews.” Islamophobia has been rampant in the media and the halls of Congress with Republican representative Nancy Mace suggesting Mamdani was somehow responsible for 9/11. But more loudly than ever, Democratic voters in the country’s most formidable Democratic stronghold have declared their opposition to the seemingly unbreakable bond between the Democratic political class and the current Israeli regime. When given an actual choice on the issue of Israel and Palestine, Democratic voters broke hard for the alternative to the status quo, raising the possibility of primary debates over this issue throughout the country, in places with far fewer emotional and political ties to Israel.
Whether Democrats will listen is another matter. Some people have compared Mamdani to Barack Obama, who rose to power channeling voters’ disgust with the Democratic Party’s support for a different awful war. In its embrace of Obama, the party showed it had the capacity to adapt, to listen to reason, to recognize mistakes. He gave people a reason to believe in liberalism again, redeeming its sins. But the once clear-eyed and daring Obama, like so many others in his party, has lost his voice. He has been silent about Mamdani and the mayor’s race. He’s been virtually silent on Gaza, too.
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Opinion | How Mamdani Won, Block by Block
The 33-year-old state assemblyman just achieved one of the greatest political upsets in New York City history.Michael Lange (The New York Times)
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in reply to jackeroni • • •Lol imagine being so brainwashed that you don't uncritically believe when USAID funded outlets tell you North Koreans are so ~~genetically~~ intellectually inferior that they honestly believe Kim Il Sung is god, was the best sportsman ever at everything, and he's immortal now? Dude they literally make them pull trains by hand because they're so poor, I heard somebody say it!
All the hours and weeks and months and years of footage is all faked tho