I met the Israeli settlers Biden placed sanctions on. They’re bad – but part of a rotten system | Zak Witus | The Guardian

Around the village of Zanuta, I witnessed Levi, Federman and their accomplices repeatedly attack Palestinian shepherds and their flocks with dogs and aerial drones. They would try to scare them into leaving their land, and then graze their own sheep and goats on the Palestinians’ crops. In the village of Susiya, I filmed Levi and others illegally building a road to a settlement outpost on private Palestinian land. Another video shows Levi operating a bulldozer, shoveling huge piles of dirt on to a road in order to block the only entrance and exit to the village.

Fellow activists have also filmed Federman setting his German shepherd on a Palestinian resident of the area, biting his arm and abdomen, while other settlers pointed guns at Palestinian onlookers. (Federman’s dog has been documented repeatedly attacking other Palestinian residents.)

During my time in the West Bank, I repeatedly witnessed the failure of the Israeli army and police to stop settler crimes. In fact, on several occasions, as Palestinian shepherds and activists pleaded for help, the authorities either stood down or guarded the marauding settlers – to keep the settlers safe. And the culture of impunity for settlers goes way back. The Israeli watchdog group Yesh Din has been tracking settler violence since 2005, and they have consistently shown that fewer than 3% of cases of settler violence lead to conviction. More than 90% are closed without an indictment.

Source: I met the Israeli settlers Biden placed sanctions on. They’re bad – but part of a rotten system | Zak Witus | The Guardian

Photos of Trump with His ‘Black Supporters’ Are Everywhere … Can You Tell They’re All Fake?

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Seemingly overnight, the internet was flooded with photos of former President Donald Trump seemingly surrounded by adoring groups of Black voters. In one idyllically posed portrait, Trump has his arms around two smiling Black women as a larger group scrambles to get in frame.

There’s just one problem with the photos: they’re all allegedly fake.

A BBC investigation revealed that dozens of photos circulating of President Trump and Black people were AI-generated deep fakes…

 

Source: Photos of Trump with His ‘Black Supporters’ Are Everywhere … Can You Tell They’re All Fake?

Alabama IVF ruling: Hypocrite Republicans likely to bend rules on fetal personhood | openDemocracy

The Democratic National Committee is sponsoring 40 billboards across seven battleground states calling out the IVF ruling in Alabama, and alleging the ruling was made possible by Donald Trump paving the way to overturn Roe v Wade | John Parra/Getty Images for DNC

…Establishment Republicans, meanwhile, seem shocked and concerned at the consequences of the politics they have pursued for decades. Texas’s Catholic governor, Greg Abbott has scrambled to express support for IVF, while Donald Trump has called for the Alabama state legislature to find a workaround to protect it.

Make no mistake: things are only going to get weirder and more dangerous from here.

As someone who grew up evangelical in America’s Bible Belt in the 1980s and 1990s, it was drilled into my head that ‘life begins at conception’ and that abortion ‘kills babies’ from as far back as I can remember.

Over the decades, I’ve watched mostly white, right-wing Christians push state-level fetal personhood bills and constitutional amendments across the country – most of which always seemed doomed to fail…

Source: Alabama IVF ruling: Hypocrite Republicans likely to bend rules on fetal personhood | openDemocracy

Machado de Assis – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Será uma boa mãe de família segundo as doutrinas de alguns padres- mestres da civilização, isto é, fecunda e ignorante.”

 

Machado de Assis. Várias Histórias

Machado de Assis. Várias Histórias de Um Mestre/ Alcides Villaça. Série  Bom Livro. Ática. 1997

Marii Freire

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 4 de março de 2024

Source: Machado de Assis – Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Open Thread | The Constitution Stands Up | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Now, someone else on another blog said – yes, they did, which is why they wrote those sections in the 14th Amendment that Colorado used to throw the Orange Menace off the ballot. I understood what they meant, but THIS GOP has turned its back on its oath, by enabling and abetting the Orange Menace at every turn. No matter how wretched, or how against accepted norms, there was no policy position, even those longheld supposedly by the Republican Party, that they wouldn’t turn their backs on, in devotion to the Orange Menace. Not one of them stood up against him.

They are presently turning their backs on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, because of this spinelessness.

 

Source: Open Thread | The Constitution Stands Up | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury charges – UPI.com

Allen Weisselberg, who was the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty to perjury charges related to sworn testimony he gave in former President Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial. File Pool Photo by Curtis Means/UPI
Allen Weisselberg, who was the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty to perjury charges related to sworn testimony he gave in former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial. File Pool Photo by Curtis Means/UPI | License Photo

 

March 4 (UPI) — Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to perjury charges on Monday.

Weisselberg, 76, was sentenced to five months in jail after entering the plea for the charges stemming from his involvement in former President Donald Trump‘s New York civil fraud trial.

 

Source: Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury charges – UPI.com