Edit: they are thankfully still alive. They’re injured from the strike.

Both of my parents were in the Red Cross during the 75-90 civil war and have both said it wasn’t as bad, that they could still cross Israeli lines to help ppl at the time. Israel now just targets first responders as a matter of policy. This is a rogue, criminal regime.

#Lebanon

I remember the most dramatic vote of the new Trump administration, in July 2017, when John McCain defied Trump and his fellow Republicans and killed their attempt to repeal Obamacare.

Could you have imagined that seven years later Trump would deny that ever happened and pretend he was Obamacare’s protector? And expect to be believed? We are living in strange times.

A Pair of #Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in #Texas. That’s Just the Start.
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Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash #regulations and #taxes. Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward #Christian rule.

#News #Politics #Government #ChristianNationalist #GOP #Republican #Trump #Election #Education #Religion #Jan6 #Project2025

https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-texas-christian-nationalism-dominionism-elections-voting?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

During Apartheid, the South African regime carved out what it called “homelands” for the members of its Black majority population. Ostensibly independent countries, these were really just puppet statelets created to excuse the lack of political rights for the Black majority. They couldn’t vote in South African elections, you see, because they were actually citizens of another country!

The rest of the world saw through this absurdly transparent ruse and refused to recognize the “homelands”—pejoratively known around the world as Bantustans—as independent countries. Not even Israel, a close ally of the apartheid regime, recognized them, although Israel later adopted the strategy in Palestine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan

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