war in gaza
« It became evident to U.S. officials that Israeli leaders believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable price in the military campaign. In private conversations with American counterparts, Israeli officials referred to how the United States and other allied powers resorted to devastating bombings in Germany and Japan during World War II — including the dropping of the two atomic warheads in Hiroshima and Nagasaki — to try to defeat those countries. »
war in gaza
« Mr. Blinken has visited Israel three times. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III met with his counterparts there, along with Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, the commander of Central Command, and then Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister. A European official said their visits were not coordinated with the United States but that everyone had the same idea that it would be hard to start a ground invasion while senior officials were in the waiting room. » lmao well that's a strategy i guess
Hello fediverse.
Today I bring you a blog post on the Ten Forward blog about a topic that is very important to me personally.
Palestine, Antisemitism, and the Fediverse
https://tenforward.blog/palestine-antisemitism-and-the-fediverse/
I am also announcing the Ten Forward Fundraiser for PCRF (Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund).
https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/tenforward
As such, I am requesting boosts on this post so both the post and the fundraiser get as much visibility as possible.
re: hygiene; webcomics
even if we had magically cured covid i would still mask during cold & flu season it's fucking october
at some point your comic stops just being a no-COVID AU and becomes a “world which still doesn't know how respiratory illnesses work” AU
re: hygiene; webcomics
at some point artists are going to get over their personal reservations and just accept that some people are like this now, including probably members of their principal cast, but we aren't there yet
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« The campus protests of the late 1960s sought in part to dismantle the in loco parentis role that colleges and universities had held in American life. But the past two decades have been shaped by a reversal of that, as institutions have sought to reconstruct this role in response to what students and parents paying enormous sums for their education have seemed to want. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, during the 2020-21 fiscal year, private four-year colleges spent 40 percent of their budgets on student support services. Over the span of the past 20 years, the dollar amount has more than tripled. »
congressional politics
sure it’s politically disastrous but i want to know if it is more or less politically disastrous than doing nothing while two wars are being waged and a government shutdown is approaching, and by how much; where is this data
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