"Kyiv launches major attack on Crimea naval base using Western weapons
The early-morning attack in Crimea was carried out with weapons from Kyiv's allies - which were "extremely effective", a Ukrainian military source said. Meanwhile, the Russian foreign minister has said he hopes nuclear drills will "knock sense" into the West after jets were pledged."
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s biggest trial against democratic opposition come >3 yrs after police arrested 47 #democrats in raids at homes across the city. They were charged w/ #conspiracy to commit subversion under a #NationalSecurity law imposed by #China.
…The defendants are accused of a "vicious plot" to paralyse #government in the fmr British colony & to force the city's leader to resign through a pre-selection ballot in a July 2020 citywide election. The #democrats maintain it was an unofficial attempt to select the strongest candidates in a bid to win a historic majority in #HongKong's legislature.
Beijing in 2020 imposed the sweeping #NationalSecurity#law that led to a spate of #arrests of democratic campaigners as well as closures of #liberal#media outlets & #NGOs. Hong Kong's democratic opposition had sought for decades to pressure Beijing to allow full #democracy in the city.
Both Lauren Ashley Simmons, who trounced four-term incumbent Shawn Thierry, and Molly Cook, who narrowly beat House Representative Jarvis Johnson, drew upon the community they helped organize to turn out votes leading up to yesterday’s runoff election. It paid off.
#Democrats unveil plan to get Biden on Ohio ballot.
Ohio requires political parties to officially confirm their presidential and vice-presidential nominees to the elections chief 90 or more days before the early November general #election.
In a letter earlier this month to state Democrats, #Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said he was "duty-bound to instruct boards of elections to begin preparing ballots" that did not include the names of #Biden and #KamalaHarris. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggxm0rd23o
@br00t4c
Whenever I see young #protesters calling #Biden "#GenocideJoe" and threatening to not vote for him, and risking letting #TheOrangeMenace win a second term, and the #DNC Convention to be held in #Chicago, I can't help but see history repeating itself, where young anti-war protesters disrupted the '68 Convention in Chicago to cost #Democrats the election (arguably) and put "#TrickyDick" back in office (after being Ike's #VP for 8 years.) 😞
Israeli strikes kill at least 37 Palestinians, most in tents, near Gaza’s Rafah as offensive expands
Israeli shelling and airstrikes killed at least 37 people, most of them sheltering in tents, outside the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight and on Tuesday — pummeling the same area where strikes triggered a deadly fire Sunday in a camp for displaced Palestinians — according to witnesses, emergency workers and hospital officials.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the first fire was the result of a “tragic mishap.”
Shelling later hit Rafah’s western Tel al-Sultan district, killing at least 16 people. Seven of the dead were in tents next to a UN facility about about 200m from the site of Sunday night’s fire.
On Tuesday, an Israeli drone strike hit tents near a field hospital by the coast west of Rafah, killing at least 21 people, including 13 women, the #Gaza Health Ministry said.
"Meet the CRANKs: How China, Russia, Iran and North Korea Align Against America
Setting aside “Axis of Evil,” or its calibrated stepchild “Axis of Upheaval,” what might be a better name for the China-Russia-Iran-North Korea cluster? Consider an acronym—" #CRANK ,” representing #China -Russia - #Iran - #NorthKorea."
#Obama should have codified #Roe as promised. #Biden should have codified Roe as promised. Campaigning on the Court is a ploy to GOTV and to raise more campaign cash:
“We really need a book titled ‘Those Who Knew Roe Was Never Enough and the the SC would overturn Roe.’ There are thousands such people.”
I’m 61yo, vote in every election. Never voted #GOP. Have voted mostly for #Democrats, and even worked in Dem campaigns.
All I got in return is rising fascism, aided by triangulating Dems. It’s radicals who change the country, not incrementalists or centrists or reformers pounding an election every 4 years.
Does anyone know any civil rights lawyers? It looks like I need to sue the government. They'd have to cooperate--they can make me sound completely crazy if they want--but any doctor could tell what they're doing to me. That's why the clinics literally close in front of me and reopen after I leave. I caught them doing that once by going to a distant bathroom and returning.