“Trump’s entire persona is built around the facade that he is a powerful strongman, impervious to attacks and solely capable of defending his followers.
“Now he stands for election as a convict, a weak man too cowardly to take the stand who was bested by a local district attorney. The totalitarian edifice looks pockmarked.”
How America could vote for this weak, shouty, cry-baby is beyond me.
Sure this will be talked about for a while, but history was made today. And, I’m hopeful, justice prevailed. Here’s how it was reported by my local paper. https://wapo.st/3KoMJh8#GiftLink#TFG#WaPo
Regular readers of the WaPo can be forgiven for expecting that the "hdden force" might turn out to be Taylor Swift fans, or a new technique for loading your dishwasher.
Note: there is a minority movement in chiropractic that rejects the original, magic-energy-flows-through-the-spine version of that practice.
The article contains amazingly false balance, as you'd expect from non-science journalists covering science. They can't tell the experts from the quacks. #WashingtonPost#WaPo
"The document says the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine will “to a great degree determine the outlines of the future world order,” a clear indication that Moscow sees the result of its invasion as inextricably bound with its ability — and that of other authoritarian nations — to impose its will globally."
@jeffjarvis Headline is sufficient. Lazy asshole journalists stating the obvious get #NoCredit and #NoClicks. #Wapo idiocy deserves screenshot of its moronically-obvious headline only.
I haven't heard the album yet, probably won't ever hear it except whenever various songs trickle in through the membranes of my social media bubble. But I can tell you right now, I don't need a bearded white man in the Washington Post to tell me what I ought to think about Beyoncé’s country music album.
"The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians"
“A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in #Newsmax ..in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during #Trump admin. The investment bolstered a key conservative media outlet at a time when #Qatar was facing intense diplomatic pressure from its neighbors & seeking allies in US” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/
#Gaza / The U.S. and Israel have a ‘major credibility problem’
[…] intolerable — it’s a blight on the consciousness of humanity. This kind of thing can’t happen in the modern day and age,” one White House adviser told my colleagues. “It’s the humanitarian situation that has tipped us over the line into open confrontation with the Israelis.”
#US / Biden Administration Scrutinizes Israel's Compliance with Laws of War Amid Gaza Crisis
A group of 17 Democratic senators, including Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren, stated the current "excessively burdensome restrictions" on aid delivery make Israel's assurances inconsistent with #Biden's compliance criteria. Withholding future arms transfers is a potential punitive measure.
#Palestine / Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank are widely viewed as a violation of international law, which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations to territories seized through military force. Despite this legal standing, the Israeli government has continued to expand its control over Palestinian lands in the West Bank through various mechanisms, including land appropriation orders.
[…] “If the Israelis annex this area near Maale Adumim, it will be a catastrophe for Palestinians who live in the south, […] Palestinian traders, especially in the south, will be cut off, and it will become impossible to have any independent Palestinian ways of life.”