words that shall never comeback [NF 16:25] – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

a white cloud
or was it red?
appeared yesterday
between two blooming azaleas
after wastefully
the petals fell
into the world

the strokes of colour
the empty days
white linen
like you
the day barely bloomed
like the night
already slowly falling

all the signs were useless
even the clouds tried to be weightless
poetry, and concluded in no less
words that shall never
come back

forever

Source: words that shall never comeback [NF 16:25] – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Dominic Choi picked as interim LAPD chief to replace departing Moore – Los Angeles Times

Aug. 2023 photo of (from left) LA County Sheriff Robert Luna, Assistant Chief LAPD Dominic Choi, and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.

Aug. 2023 photo of (from left) LA County Sheriff Robert Luna, Assistant Chief LAPD Dominic Choi, and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass during a press conference held at City Hall in Los Angeles.
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

Source: Dominic Choi picked as interim LAPD chief to replace departing Moore – Los Angeles Times

Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package – Los Angeles Times

Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package Wednesday, scuttling months of negotiations with Democrats on legislation intended to cut back record numbers of illegal border crossings.

Many Republicans said the election-year compromise wasn’t enough, even as supporters of the bill insisted it was the best possible in a divided government.

The 49-50 vote, far short of the 60 ayes needed to take up the bill, came after most Republicans said they would vote against the legislation, which also includes $60 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel and was backed by President Biden. GOP lawmakers had insisted that the money for conflicts abroad be paired with help for the U.S. border.

Source: Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package – Los Angeles Times

Republicans Block the Bipartisan Deal to Fund Border Security and War – Mother Jones

After months of negotiations, Senate Republicans have officially tanked a bipartisan border bill linked to a national security supplemental funding package. The now-dead agreement would have represented the most restrictive immigration overhaul in decades. And it would have given billions in aid to Israel and Ukraine. (Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to strip the border security provisions from the larger national security bill and hold a separate vote on the latter.)

President Biden has been urging Congress to pass the 370-page bill, calling it the “thoughest and fairest set of border reforms in decades.” But Donald Trump’s attacks coupled with House Speaker Mike Johnson’s statement that it was “dead on arrival” in that chamber led Senate Republicans to walk away from a deal largely catered to Republicans’ priorities. “The Senate bill has reforms Trump never came close to getting,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in support of the proposed legislation, which also garnered an endorsement from the Border Patrol Union representing some 18,000 agents.

Source: Republicans Block the Bipartisan Deal to Fund Border Security and War – Mother Jones

Palestinian American stabbed near UT campus – AsAmNews

The victim, 23-year-old Zachary Doar attended a state-wide rally in West Campus in support of Palestine with his three friends. Attached to the car they rode in flew a keffiyeh or Arab headscarf that read ‘Free Palestine,’ The Daily Texas reported.

Bert James Baker, allegedly ripped the keffiyeh off the car and opened the passenger side door while yelling racial obscenities. The passengers got of the car, to defend themselves. In response, Baker stabbed Doar in the lower chest.

Source: Palestinian American stabbed near UT campus – AsAmNews