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Yes and it’s my understanding that the timing on that is very tight, so I don’t buy the explanation that saying Johnson won’t seat the incoming Congress is essentially the same as saying he’ll pull something with the clerk. It would actually be a lot more difficult than a simple refusal to seat.

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Congress isn’t a continuing body, meaning Johnson won’t be seating anyone if the Democrats win because he’ll no longer be speaker.

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The political crisis isn’t about pro- vs. anti-genocide. It’s about how to achieve it through multiple wars/occupations with a total population of 7-8 million Jewish Israelis.

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The Trump-led break against GW/Jeb Bush-style conservativism has been retconned into a fight over forever wars (an explanation which seems … implausible in 2026) but was actually about the Bushes wanting to bring in Latino voters, which led to the “soft on immigration” charge and now here we are.

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Just got my hands on an original mix of Aoxomoxoa and that version of St. Stephen goes so hard!

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Wow a real problem vs. a completely bullshit one help me figure this out.

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Pre-Zionism (so late 1800s) there was actually a lot of shared history and culture between Arabs and Jews in Palestine, particularly the Sephardic population which had links to Al-Andalus.

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John Babbacombe Lee - Wikipedia

Not really precedent but the Supreme Court has gone down weirder historical rabbit holes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ba...

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She doesn’t get a free pass if that’s what you mean. I’d be surprised if they didn’t commute her sentence, but I don’t believe there’s any legal requirement for them to do so. Basically, are you going to nurse someone back to health to kill them? Probably a bridge too far.

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It’s between the ultra orthodox who don’t serve in the military and are growing as a share of the population vs. everyone else as Israel commits to perpetual war and occupation for the foreseeable future.

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Netanyahu’s entire politics is that a two state solution would be the end of Israel and everything possible should be done to prevent one from ever existing.

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Widespread international support” for a vague concept doesn’t amount to anything, actually. The idea that relocating over 700,000 settlers would be easier than equality under the law for everyone subject to Israeli control is absurd.

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One thing I've learned in life is that whenever someone says "What you have to understand about [some group] is that they're [some description]," the description always applies to all humans everywhere. This from the WSJ is a real classic of this genre: wsj.com/opinion/reve...

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All this proves is that the permission structures that would have allowed the party establishment to throw a senate race over Israel aren’t there anymore.

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Wally Balls @dragoonscene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He’s saying that if we didn’t attack Iran they’d be poised to nuke the West Coast so don’t be mad about gas prices. Which means we’ve reached the point where he can’t persuade anyone who isn’t already in the cult. Which means his midterm strategy is cult member outreach. Which means he’s cooked.

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I would’ve guessed Kate Bush.

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Wally Balls @dragoonscene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe not resigned but definitely would have drank himself to death over the next several years.

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Wally Balls @dragoonscene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well for one thing it now takes way more effort to get the same amount of oil through as it did prewar.

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Wally Balls @dragoonscene.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Dead Zone but Vivek can’t lift the baby.

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Ok but I was talking about pre-Zionist migration. You’re taking about post-Nakba so that’s when things were already bad.

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Worth noting that the PLO was still negotiating when Sharon came into power, contrary to the myth that they walked away from peace talks to wage war.

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That would be conditioned on Israel offering an actual state, which has never happened (no, not in 2000). Israel was always clear that they’d offer, at most, “less than a state” with Israel controlling the airspace, roads bisecting the proposed territory, and no Palestinian military allowed.

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There was a fairly high degree of coexistence between Muslims and indigenous Jews before the arrival of Zionists. Not perfect, but made dramatically worse by the intent to create an ethnostate. As far as the land sales go, I think they were only around 5% of the territory by the 1940s.

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I said the Romani, who are totally unrelated to the Romans.

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No dumbass. It rests on indigenous rights and anti colonialism. The British had zero right to give Palestine away, particularly as they’d made promises to support statehood for Arab nationalists who helped them against the Ottomans in WWI.

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Oh and LOL the “humanity” of a state founded on mass murder, rape and violent dispossession. Fuck all the way off.

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minty tear gas 🏳️‍⚧️ @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s really telling that you have to resort to weird-ass hypotheticals because there’s no real-life analogous case. Also, Jews were not flocking to Israel. Israel did false flag attacks on Jews in Arab counties, negotiated expulsions of Jews, and created blowback that prompted MENA Jews to emigrate.

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US GOVERNMENT: so we are combining our military with israel's military. israel's military doctrine is now ours, domestically and abroad. also netanyahu sits at the head of the table in the white house situation room. CLEVER AMATEUR NEWS ANALYST: they're trying to hand this country over to putin

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Ok but if we’re talking about public funds being used to prevent possible threats from private actors, it absolutely does matter. First off, that’s what the police are for and second, it’s a benefit nobody in NYC who’s currently under threat from a stalker or abusive ex gets so why here?

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There was mass migration to mandatory Palestine and Jews were more welcome there than in other parts of the world but of course there were problems because Zionism has always been fixated on a Jewish-dominated state and not a religiously pluralist one.

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Third, lots of different groups have inhabited that region over time and the idea that it was somehow the “property of the Jews” or that they even have a unique claim to it is a religious view and fundamentally ahistorical.

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