Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
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Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34201505
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34201505
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
Moderate Democrats change their tone on Israel
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.
from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT
[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
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Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released
A fresh upgrade to the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine fheroes2.fheroes2 (GamingOnLinux)
Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?
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I am looking for a good fitness tracker to start doing cardio in a more measured way.I was interested in Polar and Oura as EU alternatives (both Finnish companies), but both send data (health data, which is sensitive according to Article 9 of the GDPR) to AWS.
Are you aware of any EU solutions, or at least non-US, Chinese, Russian, or Israeli solutions, that do not send my data to companies in those countries?
I would like to be able to organize something self-hosted, but I don't think I'm capable of doing that yet.
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How we built our multi-agent research system
How we built our multi-agent research system
On the the engineering challenges and lessons learned from building Claude's Research systemwww.anthropic.com
difference of UKI and EFISTUB?
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Aid Air Drop Kills Palestinian Medic – UN Demands Entry of Aid Trucks
A Palestinian medic was killed on Monday after an airdropped aid box fell directly on his head in the Al-Zawayda area in the central Gaza Strip.
Odai Nafez Quraan, a nurse at the Al-Aqsa Hospital, was seen in a video recently condemning the aid drops.
“This is a humiliation,” he said, adding that “if you able to fly in by air and drop aid by air, you are able to break the siege … by way of the land crossing.”
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random
A shooter travels to Manhattan planning to target corporate executives he blames for his health issues. He leaves behind a note that law enforcement won’t release and the news media is happy to quote from selectively but won't publish.
Sound familiar?
The parallels between Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old Nevada man who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan office one week ago today, and alleged assassin Luigi Mangione are uncanny. Unlike Mangione, however, Tamura’s victims had nothing to do with his reported health issues. As a result, his rampage was framed as a random act of “senseless violence,” as President Trump declared.
But former friends of Tamura’s that I talked to say there’s more to the story: that his suicide note’s reported claim that “football gave me CTE” is plausible, given his many years as a high school football star.
The classmates, while clearly horrified by Tamura’s actions, are also able to appreciate the likelihood that there’s a public health dimension to the shooting. Wouldn’t it be nice if our elected leaders were capable of that kind of nuance? That’s certainly how I feel about it, and why I hope that the media publishes the notes he left behind: not to glorify anything but to understand what happened and how it might be prevented from happening again.
What little we know about the writing Tamura left behind reportedly includes three separate references to
- “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash
- “Study my brain please I’m sorry.”
- “Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused my to drink a gallon of antifreeze.”
Terry Long, who played as an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 80s and 90s, committed suicide in 2005 by drinking antifreeze. An autopsy revealed that Long had been suffering from CTE.
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random
Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparencyKen Klippenstein
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random
A shooter travels to Manhattan planning to target corporate executives he blames for his health issues. He leaves behind a note that law enforcement won’t release and the news media is happy to quote from selectively but won't publish.
Sound familiar?
The parallels between Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old Nevada man who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan office one week ago today, and alleged assassin Luigi Mangione are uncanny. Unlike Mangione, however, Tamura’s victims had nothing to do with his reported health issues. As a result, his rampage was framed as a random act of “senseless violence,” as President Trump declared.
But former friends of Tamura’s that I talked to say there’s more to the story: that his suicide note’s reported claim that “football gave me CTE” is plausible, given his many years as a high school football star.
The classmates, while clearly horrified by Tamura’s actions, are also able to appreciate the likelihood that there’s a public health dimension to the shooting. Wouldn’t it be nice if our elected leaders were capable of that kind of nuance? That’s certainly how I feel about it, and why I hope that the media publishes the notes he left behind: not to glorify anything but to understand what happened and how it might be prevented from happening again.
What little we know about the writing Tamura left behind reportedly includes three separate references to
- “You can’t go against the NFL, they’ll squash
- “Study my brain please I’m sorry.”
- “Terry Long football gave me CTE and it caused my to drink a gallon of antifreeze.”
Terry Long, who played as an offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 80s and 90s, committed suicide in 2005 by drinking antifreeze. An autopsy revealed that Long had been suffering from CTE.
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random
Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparencyKen Klippenstein
Democrat Cory Booker refuses to endorse Zohran Mamdani
Link to the video: xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/st…
For those who want an article instead of Twitter screenshots: it was either this or New York Post.
Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station
The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British police on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at a London railway station.
Video from the scene of the alleged assault, which showed a 64-year-old man on the ground, also recorded Robinson appearing to claim he had acted in self-defence.
The injured man was released from hospital on Thursday. Police are understood to be treating him as a victim, not a suspect, at this stage. Police have said he was admitted to hospital “with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening”.
Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station
Video posted online showed the far-right activist near a man lying on the ground at St Pancras stationVikram Dodd (The Guardian)
cava tint2 module?
Congratulations to Linux on recent victories!
They see you clearly on the world stage.
Be strong. Be Vigilant. Stay safe.
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Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisationJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Observer)
Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest – DW – 07/30/2025
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34128492
Andreas Knobloch
Los Palacios
07/30/2025
Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the #Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?Under efforts to spur the domestic #rice output, the Cuban government has asked #Vietnam for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.
For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.
Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.
Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest – DW – 07/30/2025
Andreas Knobloch
Los Palacios
07/30/2025Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the #Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?Under efforts to spur the domestic #rice output, the Cuban government has asked #Vietnam for help because the two countries have maintained friendly relations for decades, intensifying especially agricultuiral cooperation in recent years.
For Perez, the Los Palacios project marks a entirely new level of partnership though.
Privately owned Agri VMA is managing the lease largely independent from state interference, with operations being based on a business contract. The company has brought to Cuba its own resources, technical experts, and seeds from hybrid rice varieties developed in Vietnam.
Cuba land lease to Vietnamese company reaps rich harvest
Cuba has let farmland to a foreign company for the first time since its 1959 revolution, when all foreign landowners were expropriated. But can the Vietnamese investor help rescue the island's struggling agriculture?Andreas Knobloch (Deutsche Welle)
Over half of Germans would not fight for their country
Over half of Germans would not fight for their country
Survey finds 59 per cent of respondents ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ unwilling to take up armsJames Rothwell (The Telegraph)
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Russia’s advance in Ukraine accelerates for fourth straight month
Russia’s advance in Ukraine accelerates for fourth straight month
Vladimir Putin’s invasion force captured 275 square miles of Ukrainian territory compared to the 30 square miles reclaimed by Kyiv’s troopsJoe Barnes (The Telegraph)
"On Friday, he (trump) said Russia had lost 112,500 soldiers since the beginning of the year, while Ukraine had lost some 8,000, not including those who are still missing"
The ghost of kyiv has single-handedly killed 100,000 of the asiatic hordes!
That's the funniest set of bullshit casualty numbers I've seen yet.
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"When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits. These people start explaining how things are done and instantly everything changes. This happens with every administration."
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'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
“India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” the MEA said in a statement, while pointing out that the US and European Union have themselves continued trade with Russia, including in energy and critical commodities, despite publicly opposing the Ukraine conflict.
'Unjustified and unreasonable': India calls out US, EU over oil trade with Russia; pans double standards
India News: NEW DELHI: India on Monday pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s threat to “substantially” raise tariffs on Indian goods over its continued .TOI News Desk (The Times Of India)
Brazil supreme court judge orders house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
US condemns Brazil supreme court judge for ordering house arrest of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro
US claims judge attempting ‘to silence opposition’ as Bolsonaro accused of breaching ban imposed amid fears he may abscond ahead of trialTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
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he should be dancing the spandau ballet, but considering this is an internal conflict of the brazilian bourgeoisie, i'll take what it comes and try to use the situation to continue facilitating a sense of class consciousness in the brazilian working class.
edit: this is not his final verdict, however. he got house arrested "just" because he broke some court imposed bans, such as appearing live on social media. it is expected that the supreme court judges will handle his trial this month.
Texas House reconvenes without quorum as Democrats flee state
Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied its speaker a legislative quorum Monday by leaving the state, forestalling plans proposed by the White House to redistrict Texas’s congressional lines to more greatly favor Republicans.
Democrats hold 62 of the 150 seats in the legislature’s lower chamber, so as long as at least 51 members remain out of Austin, the Texas legislature cannot move forward with any votes, including a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give Republicans five more seats in Congress.
In an extraordinary escalation, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, said he he had ordered the Texas department of public safety to “locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”
Texas house pushes forward on redistricting as Democrats vow to fight
Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting planGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
Texas House reconvenes without quorum as Democrats flee state
Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied its speaker a legislative quorum Monday by leaving the state, forestalling plans proposed by the White House to redistrict Texas’s congressional lines to more greatly favor Republicans.
Democrats hold 62 of the 150 seats in the legislature’s lower chamber, so as long as at least 51 members remain out of Austin, the Texas legislature cannot move forward with any votes, including a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give Republicans five more seats in Congress.
In an extraordinary escalation, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, said he he had ordered the Texas department of public safety to “locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”
Texas house pushes forward on redistricting as Democrats vow to fight
Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting planGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
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Investor confidence in EU drops after Trump’s Brussels trade deal
he data provider said its weekly survey of thousands of investors in more than 20 countries showed that the pact was a “deal that dampens the mood”, with Trump and the US viewed as “winners” at the expense of the eurozone.
“The result is devastating for the eurozone,” said Manfred Hübner, the managing director of the Sentix economic index. “The current situation and expectations are both declining. The wrinkles of concern in the economy are deepening again.”
Investor confidence in EU drops after Trump’s Brussels trade deal
Agreement is said to ‘dampen the mood’, with the US viewed as the winner at the expense of the eurozoneRichard Partington (The Guardian)
Irish president urges UN to intervene in Gaza, citing ‘destruction of an entire people’
Irish President Michael D. Higgins has called on the UN to take urgent action in Gaza, asking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to invoke powers under Chapter Seven to bypass Security Council gridlock and deliver humanitarian aid, Anadolu reports.
“Are we to watch children starving, women dehydrated, or trying to feed their children? So something must happen,” he said.
President Higgins expressed support for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to invoke powers under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter—a mechanism that allows for enforcement action, including the use of force, without Security Council approval if deemed necessary.
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Trump administration says it will withhold disaster funding to states boycotting Israel
US states and territories that boycott Israeli companies or those operating in Israel will be denied federal funds for natural disaster preparation, Reuters reported on Monday.
This $1bn allocation, which will apply to 15 different grant programmes, is part of the "Notices of Funding Opportunity amounting to more than $2.2 billion available to state, local, tribal and territorial governments to help them protect American citizens", Fema states on its website.
However, Reuters said at least $1.9bn of this funding was conditional on states following Department of Homeland Security conditions laid out in April, saying states will not cut “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or companies doing business in or with Israel” to qualify, according to 11 agency grant notices it reviewed.
Trump administration says it will withhold disaster funding to states boycotting Israel
US states and territories that boycott Israeli companies or those operating in Israel will be denied federal funds for natural disaster preparation, Reuters reported on Monday.
This $1bn allocation, which will apply to 15 different grant programmes, is part of the "Notices of Funding Opportunity amounting to more than $2.2 billion available to state, local, tribal and territorial governments to help them protect American citizens", Fema states on its website.
However, Reuters said at least $1.9bn of this funding was conditional on states following Department of Homeland Security conditions laid out in April, saying states will not cut “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or companies doing business in or with Israel” to qualify, according to 11 agency grant notices it reviewed.
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