A IDF soldier was recently arrested for raping female palestinian prisoners There was an Israeli protest … in support of the accused.

Any word on the Belarus “army exercises”? Looks like Wagner got recalled from Africa to march around Ukraine’s northern border.

Google maps calls it Lebedevka if you are trying to find it.

Rigging the vote is hard. These people are looking for people actively rigging the vote, thinking it is easy and that they just have to “catch them”.

The ones you have to worry about are the ones the do final certification. Like we saw in Venezuela, all the counts could be right and if the certifier just declares the loser the winner, people will believe what they want to believe.

I’ve a very political continuous person - volunteer with democratic groups, do poll observing, research local Arizona ballot measures on the local news sites and ballotipedia, etc…

I have not once seen any of these “informational pamphlets” out in the wild. Others said that they get them mailed to them, but I’ve never gotten one. I’ve seen sample ballots - but those don’t have for/against arguments, just the text of the measures. They can call them “sanctified holy pre-people to be saved from the baby meat-grider” and it wouldn’t really mater if no one ever reads it.

Hamas: We agree to the proposal

Israel: What proposal?

Crypto Giants Russians

Recalling these guns is gun regulation that all sides can get behind.

Polls probably showed it would hurt them, and they waited until they have 5 years of uninterrupted power to take action that could hurt them elecorally.

Do you remember what the British PM did in 2019?

Americans famously signed the first bombs dropped on Japan after peral harbor - and attached the trinkets that were brought by the Japanese peace negotiatiors.

Of course, the mear existence of the negotiators show that America was taking hostile action aganst japan prior to Pearl Harbor.

Knowing you have HIV decreases transmission by 90%. Giving antivirals decreases transmission by 99%. Back in the early 2000 I saw a paper saying we could make HIV tests for 10 cents a person if we wanted to produce enough for every person on the planet (0.1810^9= $800 million). That was something that could have been done back then. $40 a vaccine would be a price tag of $320 billion

As long as Ukraine is supplied weapons, the rule of thumb is that Russia looses as many troops as the pre-war population of the city/place they are trying to take over. So they would need 38 million troops to take over Ukraine.

Is… is this reverse Fetterman? Did Trump have a stroke and become a democrat?

These are people who believe in the death penalty because “courts don’t make mistakes”.

Didn’t one of the war cabinet give a deadline soon that if there was no plan besides kill them all he was going to pull put and trigger an election?

Their are a lot of correlation between diagnoses. I was thinking about those basic diagnostic tests that have “Strong disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, and strongly agree.” If a certain set of responses gets you “probable ADHD”, what would the opposite responses get you?

I’ve had this vague idea for some time now that you could map metal states to a (N-dimensional) Cartesian plane, and set “normal” as the origin. Since no one is directly on the origin, everyone could be defined by a magnitude and an angle. Everyone in a certain “direction” could be mapped as ADHD, but their magnitude could vary. More testing would reveal more people closer to the origin - and infinite testing could diagnose every person with something.

I wonder what the polar opposite of ADHD is?

So, anti-gaza genocide, but pro-Ukraine genocide. Dang-it!

Oh, they won’t win, but it is very curious that a position held by a great number of Americans isn’t even represented as a candidate. Of course, the same goes for marijuana legalization and a lot of other things that Biden breaks with the democrats on, but it still is odd that no small party is filling the void.

Sort of like if the British lib-dems were against rejoining the E.U.

Wait, then who will be their nominee? Will we finally have one, even minor, candidate that is anti-genocide?