Speaker Mike Johnson has never listed a bank account on his financial disclosure. In fact, on his newest disclosure, he doesn’t list a single asset at all.
#Politics #GOP
https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-new-speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-have-a-bank-account via @thedailybeast
Heads up, Ohio!
Don't let RepubliQans BS you. Vote "YES" on Issue 1 to protect women.
https://jezebel.com/all-the-desperate-tactics-ohio-republicans-are-using-ag-1850977009
The U.S. is suspending charter flights for Americans out of Israel due to a lack of demand.
However Jews are still flying into Israel to join the fight.
Nearly 600 U.S. citizens in Gaza, meanwhile, are unable to leave due to what the U.S. says are “a number of Hamas demands”.
Read that last again.
Hamas now has an additional 600 hostages. Most of whom are dual US-Palestinian nationals.
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Abraham Accords here to stay despite war, says Emirati official
"The Accords are our future," stressed Dr. Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi.
“This is a people to people engagement. This is what we need. We want everyone to acknowledge and accept that Israel is there to exist and that the roots of Jews, Christian are not in New York or Paris but here in our region. They are part of our history and they should be part of our future,” added Nuaimi.
#israel
Cornell Student Arrested for Making Online Threats to Jewish Students on Campus
Patrick Dai, age 21, a junior at Cornell University who is originally from Pittsford, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications.
U.S. infant mortality rate rises for first time in over 2 decades
What they're saying: "The U.S. is falling behind on a basic indicator of how well societies treat people," said Arjumand Siddiqi, a University of Toronto professor who studies population health."
#News #Health #InfantMortality #PublicHealth #MaternalHealth
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/01/us-infant-mortality-rate-rises-first-time-two-decades
Psst - quit railing on Speaker MAGA Mike. It won't do any good, he's a fanatic.
Start hanging him around the neck of the Republicans in Biden districts.
Real #GunControlNow
Relatives, Army Reserve friends, told authorities Card was deteriorating mentally and had access to firearms. #Maine Massacre
Gift link:
https://wapo.st/3MoRed7
In case you missed it, the USA and NATO winning the Cold War was all for nothing.
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1718734283815211350
Youngkin ‘purge’ removed nearly 3,400 legal Virginia voters from rolls
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More on Gov. Youngkin's purge of legal voters, which is belatedly being corrected 5 weeks after early voting for General Assembly elections began.
This follows delaying processing of about 256,000 "motor voter" registrations, in 2022, and pulling Virginia out of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
#Politics #Virginia #GlennYoungkin #ElectionShenanigans
"Gift" Washington Post
https://wapo.st/477NaG2
Earlier today, videos went viral of a mob of people in Makhachkala, Dagestan, hunting for Jews at the airport. The mob stormed the airport because of a rumor about a plane from Tel Aviv, Israel, touching down.
The anti-Jewish narratives we have seen since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel are absolute poison.
In the Middle Ages, rumors spread about Jews like "blood libel," the idea that Jews engaged in ritualistic murder. This blood libel myth lived on and was a popular talking point in Der Stürmer, a major Nazi-affiliated tabloid. Some of this blood libel narrative continues to spread in conspiracy theory groups online.
Delisting species due to extinction is a ‘‘wake-up call on the importance of conserving imperiled species before it’s too late’’
21 Species Removed From The Endangered Species Act Due To Extinction | USFWS CenterForBiologicalDiversity
#SciComm #ESA #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/17/twenty-one-species-removed-from-the-endangered-species-act-due-to-extinction/
CNN reports Justice Alito’s Rome trip, following his decision overturning Roe v. Wade, was funded by Notre Dame’s Religious Liberty Initiative – a group that supported the Roe overturn.
#SCOTUS
https://www.rawstory.com/justice-samuel-alito/
Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/politics/pence-suspends-campaign-for-president
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