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"On behalf of 25 other member states, #Belgium called for a “no action motion” to block the proposal. Pakistan and Chile were the only two member states to vote with the U.S. against the motion, with 23 countries voting to block the anti-trans proposal and 17 abstaining.'
For those interested in some considerations about a possible (read: likely?) attempt of the war criminals in the US and Israel to seize Kharg.
"For the troops unlucky enough to receive orders to take Kharg, the operation would land somewhere between a suicide mission and a self-imposed hostage crisis."
The graceless/insulting post from the Tangerine Tyrant on the death of Robert Mueller, leads @davidallengreen to argue that his (Mueller's) report was one of the turning points in US political history, when a change (the prosecution of Trump) was lost to media noise & misleading summaries of the case presented.
How different things might have been if the Tangerine Tyrant had been subject to the sort of protection Mueller's evidence might have indicated.
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NOW PLAYING == I've Had It with Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan 3/24/26 - The Church Of Latter Day Swingers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYTnDzPgkcw #news #uspol #commentary #IHIP #progressive #left #JenniferWelch #AngieSullivan #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
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US voters: If you support any candidate who accepts money from #AIPAC, you support the genocide in #Palestine, Israel's ongoing murder of civilians in surrounding nations, as well as the current US/Israeli war on Iran--including the open murder of dozens of school children.
"...American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA)."
"In 1959, AZCPA was renamed the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee..."
Trump admin's:🚨suspension of certain #immigrants' work authorization renewals is sidelining ~1000s of foreign-born doctors.
Policy:🚨could worsen access to care in a #health sys already facing physician shtgs. ~25% of the US physician WF are IMMs. Rural communities esp depend on IMM drs to fill WF gaps.
The change has affected work authorization renewals, green card processing & naturalization.
#TrumpRegime: wants us DEAD. Shortsighted -we pay our taxes.
#Protest #USPol
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/trump-visa-policy-immigrant-doctors
A construction contract was awarded March 18, using money from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” to build wall through the National Butterfly Center and the Santa Ana refuge, among other once-protected sites.
New from Michael Gonzalez, copublished with The Border Chronicle: https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/
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Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.
If ICE is already being funded by Trump's Big Ugly Bill then exactly what is this all about? Theater?
I'm genuinely confused at how the "middle ground" option helps anything since it holds back funding only for ICE while funding the rest of DHS... But if ICE is already being funded directly from the bill then isn't that a moot point?
https://www.wtae.com/article/senators-fund-dhs-exclude-ice-enforcement/70830451
The next step for normalizing "#AI" being forced into f***ing everything:
»Enabling innovation and ensuring American AI dominance.
The United States must lead the world in AI by removing barriers to innovation, accelerating deployment of AI applications across sectors, and ensuring broad access to the testing environments needed to build world-class AI systems«
Abandon any claim to cross-cutting regulation of "AI".
Instead, suggest to lawmakers that it was all about regulating sectors (or mere aspects of them).
So that we end up arguing about the same things over and over again, until, out of frustration and exhaustion, we just let everything slide.
That's the message behind the conspicuous absence of any cross-cutting approach in "A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence", published as "legislative recommendations" by the White House:
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