US State Department official resigns, says US report on #Gaza inaccurate
A U.S. State Department official who quit this week said on Thursday her resignation was precipitated by an administration report to #Congress that she said falsely stated #Israel was not blocking #humanitarian aid to Gaza, prompting her to resign in protest of President Joe #Biden's Israel policy.
Stacy Gilbert, who served in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, was a subject matter expert working on the report.
"There is so clearly a right and wrong, and what is in that report is wrong," Gilbert said in an interview.
The #UnitedStates is actively weighing whether to lift one of #POTUS#Biden’s longest-held precautionary measures of the #Ukraine war: a ban on the use of #US provided #weapons for offensive strikes inside #Russia.
The reassessment is a byproduct of Russia’s renewed cross-border assault on #Kharkiv, a chorus of pressure from #EU ofcls & a visit to Kyiv by Secy of State #Blinken that reinforced the peril facing Ukraine….
Donald #Trump is considering tapping billionaire #Elon#Musk as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November's election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The WSJ also said Musk informed Trump about his ongoing influence campaign aimed at convincing powerful #US business leaders not to support Democratic President Joe #Biden, who beat Trump in the 2020 election and is seeking a second term.
What a craven fucking coward. The effort is to shift responsibility so he won’t take hits from the right in an election year.
“The #Biden administration is planning to refer some migrants in Latin America for resettlement in #Greece and #Italy as part of another effort to discourage people in the region from traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, two people familiar with the government's plans told CBS #News.” #immigration#bidenharris2024
Headline:
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war.
Alexander Smith: “I cannot do my job in an environment in which specific people cannot be acknowledged as fully human, or where gender and human rights principles apply to some, but not to others, depending on their race.”
If you ignore the blathering, low-bandwidth CNN host, and focus only on Dr. Lightman in this video, you'll get:
a) a persuasive, nuanced argument in support of the proposition that #Biden is indeed in the driver's seat in this #election, regardless of the latest Poll Freakout of the Day;
b) a viable model for predicting presidential popular vote outcomes accurately (which Lightman has done 10x in a row).
Don't get me started on the Electoral College. Different topic.
Two more #US officials resign over #Biden administration’s #genocide in #Gaza, accusing the administration of lying about Israel’s obstruction of aid to Palestinians
Honestly
The #Republican#Party (the #GOP)
the 'Conservative-Law&Order etc.
is dead
It doesn't exist anymore
has been replaced by #QAnon#MAGAs...
who are> Anti-American Anti Law & Order and are NOT conservative
a bunch of psychopathic fascists .
#Biden: "#Trump is trying to make the country forget just how dark and unsettling things were while he was president ... telling Americans, 'just inject a little bleach.' The way he's acting, I think he might've injected a hell of a lot of bleach in himself."
Since MSM is asleep at the wheel 😡, it is incumbent upon we who are more plugged into to what’s happening to assist the #Biden campaign and make friends and family aware of what will ensue if TFG gets elected and implements #Project2025.
A good starting point is sharing this Media Matters Project 2025 guide, which offers a good overview:
The Biden administration reportedly rejected an offer from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in 2022, that would have given it extraordinary influence over the world’s most popular app.
The proposal would have allowed federal officials to pick TikTok’s U.S. operation’s board of directors, given the government veto power over each new hire and seen TikTok pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code.
It even offered to give federal officials a “kill switch” that would shut the app down in the United States, if it was determined to be a threat. So why was it declined? The Washington Post has more (may require subscription).
Dan Froomkin says that the finding of polls that low-information voters who prefer Trump do not read or listen to news does not let the corporate media off the hook, as many media folks are now claiming.
He notes that "the elite media has a vast influence on the national discourse." The elite media frame stories as important or unimportant, with national influence. They don't merely report news: they make news.
Since nature follows the laws of quantum mechanics and since "natura artis magistra," I.E. "nature teaches art" then art therefore follows the laws of quantum mechanics.
"#Ohio's Senate Republicans ultimately passed a bill that would both allow #Biden to appear on their general election ballot in November, but also bar foreign contributions to ballot issue campaigns."