Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

Oh it gets better.

"The United Nations appointed Jaan Tallinn, billionaire Skype co-founder and FLI board member, to serve on its new AI Advisory Body in October."

Calling this a “war on Hamas” was always clearly wrong but now that most of the Gaza Strip has been flattened and with its 2 million people experiencing famine, calling it a “war on Hamas” is journalistic malpractice and genocidal propaganda. Hamas was in every single building???

Doctors visit #Gaza hospital, see the horrors #Israel is inflicting on children. Has the U.S. "pro life" crowd said anything about this? https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aqsa-martyrs-hospital-health-care-israel-7c7a6117efae29e22a61e82151144613

"Unusual turn." This is not the time for your white-glove euphemisms. This is the time for blunt honesty. "Turn to insurrection and lies" is more like it.
Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/rnc-2020-election-stolen-trump-hiring/

Everyone needs to know what's going on at the Supreme Court this week. The same groups that ended Roe are now going after access to the most common and safest form of abortion in America, abortion pills. And just like with Roe, they won't stop until they take every freedom we value.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/everyone-needs-101026505

Dangerous reporting from this journalist with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.

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#MaternalHealth
#WomensHealth

https://www.wsj.com/articles/abortion-and-americas-phony-pregnancy-crisis-065563d7?st=950htauk8ubhwkv&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

People think these games the #GOP play tying aid to Ukraine to the US border are very clever. Currently Ukraine forces have little ammunition and are struggling. All so that the likes of Mat Gaetz and MTG can flex political muscles.

My son in law died yesterday in Ukraine. He was killed fighting. He was a teacher. An inoffensive 40 year old recently called up. His two children are refugees in Germany and hadn't seen him in 18 months. Yes, assholes, there are consequences to your actions.

Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value food brands.

The result? Its net income spiked 93% to $10.5 billion towards the end of 2023.

Walmart rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends.

When I say price gouging is driving inflation, this is what I mean.

The tax gap (the gap between taxes owed and taxes collected) was $688B in 2021 — nearly half the size of last year’s deficit.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12.

If the GOP truly cared about the deficit, they would fund the IRS, not gut it.

“My gender has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the name of my union.”

The GOP loves blaming the deficit on Social Security and Medicare. But the real culprit is giveaways to corporations and the rich.

If not for the regressive tax cuts under Bush and Trump, we would have a stable debt-to-GDP ratio.

That's one thing the GOP will never tell you.

“With each week that passes, the resemblance to the emaciated prisoners of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen grows stronger. It is a terrifying realisation that Israel, created after the horrors of the Holocaust as a sanctuary state for Jewish people, is massacring another innocent people with self-righteous entitlement.”
~Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times

☕️

Found this from Feb. 20 at NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/prominent-election-deniers-running-again-rcna138847

At least 17 Republican candidates who put false claims about the 2020 election at the center of their 2022 and 2023 statewide campaigns are running for office again in 2024.

But this time around, most of them aren’t making the debunked claims that the race was stolen from Donald Trump a linchpin of their pitches to voters. Rather, these candidates have generally broadened their focus on the issue, campaigning on ideas such as “election security” and “election integrity.”

The GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — demanding cuts to these programs that millions of Americans rely on.

It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

I think the NY AG might want to re-evaluate those Trump properties. I suspect they're worth a lot less if they're packed with chrysotile...

"Trump has directly supported the use of asbestos, writing in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback that it is "100% safe, once applied." He blamed the mob for efforts to discontinue its use: "I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob..." "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/epa-finally-bans-the-last-type-of-asbestos-used-in-us/

"I'm A Doctor: Corporate Greed Is Killing Your ER"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KZkEv1CHgE
Private equity is swallowing up America's emergency rooms. 1 in 4 ERs are now staffed by private equity-based firms. The waits are longer, the bills are higher, and ER doctors are being replaced by lower-paid contractors.
#healthcare #privateequity #socialjustice

@Adam_Cadmon1 This is also your daily reminder that the US laws allowing for arms transfers to Israel have human rights clauses that explicitly prohibit a receiving government from interfering with or delaying the delivery of humanitarian aid from the United States. 8 US Senators wrote a public letter notifying the President that they believe further arms transfers would be a violation under the law.

Trump pledged revenge and retribution should he regain office. He says he will be a dictator on “day one.” He calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out.” He says the blood of our country is being poisoned.

We are far past left vs right.

Our choice is democracy our fascism.

Israeli forces have arrested and severely beaten Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.

Al-Ghoul was there early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families.

#Israel #Gaza #alShifa #WarCrimes

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/al-jazeera-journalist-beaten-arrested-by-israeli-forces-from-gaza-hospital?traffic_source=rss