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Biden celebrates ‘Infrastructure Week’
President Joe Biden’s surrogates will crisscross the country this week talking up the hundreds of billions he’s pumping into projects such as roads, clean energy, drinking water and broadband — an effort designed to draw a sharp contrast with his predecessor’s series of ineffectual “infrastructure weeks.”
The White House hopes the message will help convince Americans that Biden’s programs are improving their lives, just months before they head to the voting booth.
Infrastructure Week, which begins Monday, was already an annual industry gathering and D.C… Read more
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I guess we should just let our infrastructure keep falling apart and let Corporate America keep all her profits. No problem falling further and further behind on R&D. This country needs the shot in the arm that President Biden is proposing and it needs to be paid
@PlatypusZoeGreen1wk1W
When I first came to the US, I was expecting sheer greatness. Instead, I found a crumbling country. From its old transportation technology to its poor planned and managed parks and everything in between, you would think this is a "second-world country."
I will happily continue to pay taxes/use my hard earned money if it means that I can take a train that won't break or will be on time, if it means that big companies can continue to grow and build their workforce thanks to better infrastructure, if it means that white folks in Arkansas, blacks in Georgia, asians in NY, latinos in Texas, and American Indians in Iowa, will have the well-paid jobs they deserve.
Great personal fortunes were created as a result of irresponsible Republican tax cuts while our infrastructure was allowed to deteriorate. In addition to a corporate tax increase, those fortunes should be taxed to help defray the cost of rebuilding.
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Iran Says It Has Nuclear Weapons
An Iranian lawmaker, Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, has claimed that the country owns atomic weapons. The development came on Friday, May 11, after the director of UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, issued an alert on May 6 that Iran has sufficient uranium to produce "several" nuclear bombs.
The Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, who was re-elected to Iran’s quasi-parliament in March, said, “In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it," reported Iran-based news outlet Rouydad 24.
Arde… Read more
The fears of Israel and the West has been unveiled.
Now, what would they do?
@FreedomBobbyPatriot1wk1W
They have 1 weapon. We would nuke them from just off shore and wipe them from the earth forever
The emergence of Iran as a military power is good for balance in the Middle East and to stop American hegemony..
Not a threat. Tehran can't use it, including Russia making boast of nuke, can't use it. But I can assure you that, very soon, with the way Russia is facing threat from the west. Russia can use a bomb, not chemical, to cause havoc. It's not nuke, but it's powerful than nuke.
Iranian lawmaker announced that Iran ‘technically’ owns nuclear weapons but hasn't declared them as to not violate the all but dead JCPOA. Biden eased sanctions on the condition Iran not officially/publicly declare it has nuclear weapons. Will Biden resume sanctions?
Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden
Donald J. Trump leads President Biden in five crucial battleground states, a new set of polls shows, as a yearning for change and discontent over the economy and the war in Gaza among young, Black and Hispanic voters threaten to unravel the president’s Democratic coalition.
The race was closer among likely voters. Mr. Trump led in five states as well, but Mr. Biden edged ahead in Michigan while trailing only narrowly in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. While Mr. Biden won all six of those states in 2020, victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would be enough for him to win re-elect… Read more
I still have yet to see any analysis of why non-white voters are far more likely to back a ceasefire and a ban on arms exports to Israel than white voters. The age gap is well known and discussed but the racial one is not. Obviously racism is at play but in what capacity?
Polls conducted in the third and fourth week of the Trump trial, amid wall-to-wall media coverage of Trump's legal situation.
@MadOcelotPatriot1wk1W
The only demo Biden’s winning is the angry single white female.
Intersectionality, marginalized peoples empathize with other groups suffering under the same systems that they do and they've been seeing a nonstop live feed of what Israel has been doing in Gaza. They're prepared to walk away from Omelas to show their commitment to this.
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US senator urges Israel to bomb Gaza like Hiroshima
Israel must do whatever needs to be done to win its “existential” war with Hamas, just like the US was “justified” to drop nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has claimed.
The Israeli military is facing increasing international scrutiny as its military operation in Gaza enters its eighth month, claiming the lives of more than 34,000 Palestinians. However, Graham argued in an interview with NBC News on Sunday that Hamas is to blame for the bulk of civilian casualties, and urged Isra… Read more
@DejectedPaellaGreen1wk1W
Lindsey Graham ABSOLUTELY speaks for the Republican Party with respect to Israel policy
There is a total of ONE elected Republican, Thomas Massie, who in any way meaningfully countervails the conventional "pro-Israel" policy position. And even he does so rather tepidly and cautiously
The three-time Republican presidential nominee you all worship, Trump, is currently denouncing Biden for not supporting Israel aggressively enough -- and his surrogates are pledging he will immediately re-institute a policy of even more extreme fealty to Israel
Stop deluding yourselves. "The Republican Party" is not your algorithmically-curated comment field on X
Unfortunately, given the power of the Israeli lobby in Washington, no major political candidate of EITHER political party will stand up and do what's right. US aid to Israel should be 100% suspended and the US should support imposition by the United Nations of a two-state solution. That solution shouldn't be imposed by force but by sanctions & a boycott of Israel by all nations that oppose genocide & war crimes until Israel accepts the UN mandate.
But, saying that, such a resolution of the Gaza crisis - while it would save thousands of innocent lives and would be just - is not, practically speaking, within reach.
When a progressive, Palestinian-American woman of color called for freedom and peace, Biden slandered her and threw her under the bus.
But when far-right extremist Republican Lindsey Graham says we should drop a nuclear bomb on Palestine, Biden says nothing.
Man he brings shame to our state of South Carolina. I am not sure who here votes for him. I don't know a single sole in Columbia that likes the man.
Find someone who loves you the way Lindsey Graham loves war
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20 American Doctors Trapped In Gaza
American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
Relatives of the doctors were told by the State Department that rescue efforts were underway, including through coordination with the United Nations and the Israel Defense Forces. Yet on Monday, the Israeli military fired on a United Nations vehicle that was traveling to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, near Rafah, killing a U.N. employee and injuring another.
The doctors are… Read more
The administration no more cares about those doctors than they do about 15,000 dead children. Or about students & professors who've been arrested & beaten. They wouldn't care the doctors succumb to dehydration, or are buried in rubble, or found in mass graves with hands zip tied.
Israeli response:It was a mistake. There was a tunnel in them. They are Hamas. They were throwing scalpels, They were aiding terrorists, They are goyim…
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UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed
The United Nations seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8.
The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. The Government Media Office in Gaza and Israeli authorities provided a disclaimer below the data: "The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures."
On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children.
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@ContentWelfareGreen1wk1W
This post is false. The UN reported that the number specifically identified so far is less than the entire number reported, which makes sense. In a just world, this deliberate spreading of misinformation at such a critical moment would be career ending.
@Equ4lRightsMarty1wk1W
The UN reports remain unchanged. The casualty numbers have been clarified by the UN, differentiating between identified and unidentified bodies. For instance, an unidentified body might be a headless child's corpse with no surviving family. This distinction is reflected in the UN data:
Identified Bodies: 24,686
Unidentified Bodies: 10,158
Total: 34,844 deceased
There’s a lot of people who have knowingly repeated Hamas propaganda, especially when it’s shared and not fact checked through supposedly trustworthy media sources like BBC, CNN etc. The supposed bombing of Shifa hospital was another one. It would be helpful and in the spirit of fairness to see people retract when the original assertion was debunked.
the UN did not halve the estimate of women and children killed, actually experts note the reported figures are a vast undercount as many are missing under rubble and in mass graves.
Russia’s Putin Replaces Defense Minister After Ukraine War Failures
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday replaced his defense minister Sergei Shoigu, a longtime ally, nominating an economist to take his place in the most substantial shake-up to the military’s command structure since Moscow launched its war on Ukraine in February 2022.
In a decree published Sunday, Putin nominated Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics to replace Shoigu, who in turn was named as the new secretary of the Security Council, a post until now held by Nikolai Patrushev.
The elevation of an economist to lead Russia’s defense mini… Read more
Perhaps the fact that the US is sending the much needed weapons again is causing a stir? Did Putin think he had 100% grip on the Republican Congress members?
For Shoigu’s sake, I hope he has reserved enough rocket fuel for his escape plan
Shoigu was widely popular twenty years ago when he was head of the Emergency Ministry. He militarized rescuemen and firefighters, and basically commanded a small personal army. He is a pretty good tactician and could easily handle emergencies and, later on, small-scale military interventions. However, he lacks economic and strategic thinking, which became evident during the SMO.
Now, let's see what a steely-eyed economic technocrat can bring.
Russia would attack NATO countries if it was not stopped in Ukraine. Russia has never threatened NATO. We have no geopolitical or military reasons to attack the member states of this alliance. We are simply defending our people on our historical territories.
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