Judith Pakosinski

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Jersey expat living in Portland. Former newspaper IT project manager. Dedicated to Tikkun Olam.

You don't like Biden's policy on Israel's genocide of the Palestinians? That's fair, he's trying to straddle the fence and not doing a good job. But before you start burning bridges and try to punish him for it, consider the only other real alternative.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nikki-haley-finish-them-bomb-israel-gaza-1235028702/

Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli Bomb After Refugee Massacre

Nikki Haley was photographed writing “Finish them!” on an Israeli bomb during a visit to the country.

Rolling Stone

@locksmithprime I don't think most Americans want 45 back, but I guess we'll see in November. Be careful about giving up when it's not hopeless-- that's what the other side wants you to do. A lot can happen in 5 months.

@georgetakei

👀👀👀👀 #BREAKING:
A #Texas appeals court just threw out the five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, the Texas woman sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 election that was rejected. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted

Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction

The Guardian

This is the essay that the magazine Guernica pulled. It’s a deeply moving blog from someone trying to bridge the divide and be helpful to folks both Palestinian and Israeli. We refer to that as tikun olam - repairing the world.

Please read and share. It deserves a wide audience.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305095742/https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/

From the Edges of a Broken World

In Israel, a translator tries to tread the line of empathy.

Guernica
Trump just rug-pulled the China hawks on TikTok

The CCP and its allies have bought themselves a new champion.

Noahpinion
that saying "getting all your ducks in a row" makes no sense I mean how would that even h-
The problem with Poolesville

Blue America needs to want to grow

Slow Boring
The most troubling aspect of today's Supreme Court decision

It doesn't just allow Trump back on the ballot, but potentially disables enforcement of other provisions of the the Fourteenth Amendment

Robert Reich

OMFG. "Exxon CEO blames the public for failure to fix #climate change."

Could there be a more stunning example of hypocrisy?

New technologies, new totalitarians

Thanks to smartphones, social media, and globalization, liberalism faces a new and terrifying kind of opponent.

Noahpinion