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Where is his concern for the innocent victims of war?
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Yes, they issued a similar advisory for Portugal last year when they had wildfires. Wildfire smoke from Canadian fires is not limited to Canada, though - it's a problem in the US too. A friend of mine wound up in a Boston ER last week because of an asthma attack triggered by the smoke.
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Trump thinks deploying the military makes him look tough, and his supporters tend to agree. If a soldier actually shoots a US citizen, though, that could change in a hurry.
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It's worse than that. If vaccines are not recommended by the ACIP, health insurance may not cover them.
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Agreed. The polls suggest Trump's actions are not popular. But it's really hard to tell what people think when they're seeing two different news feeds.
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This article, dated June 11, has not aged well. Whether or not Trump approved Bibi's attack on Iran, the rest of the world will think he did anyway.
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I agree with her on this too. The debt limit, which seeks to prevent Congress from spending funds it has already appropriated, has always been dubious, even before it was being wielded in an openly political way.
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Doesn't he usually refer to himself in the third person? "Trump did that."
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I wonder how long it will take for them to admit their mistake and try to hire people back? Good luck with that.
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Exactly. The Civil Rights movement was about helping minority groups. Trump is about hurting them.
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Don't you think there are non-Muslim antisemites in Australia? There sure are in the US.
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What's especially awful is that pregnant women are at high risk for Covid complications. They're a group that absolutely should get vaccinated.
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I agree that the term "African" should be OK. But the way it is used in the US confuses the issue. When we call someone African-American, we don't mean Elon Musk.
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In general I agree. However, I wish he hadn't said that studies show "race has some biological reality." The cited article discussed genetic markers, e.g, in West Africans, or northern Europeans. That's geographic origin, not race. Race is a social construct that has no biological reality.
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But they think we did.
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We really need to have this conversation about Donald Trump right now. His mental decline is much more pronounced than Biden's, and he wasn't that smart to begin with.
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Agreed. But they are twisting the definition of anti-Semitism out of all recognition. And some of the people they are going after for pro-Palestinian beliefs, now defined as anti-semitism, are Jewish. There's a parallel to the twisted definition of racism as discrimination against white people.
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Maybe. But right now they seem to be focused on pro Palestinian activists.
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Most of the people behind Project Esther aren't even Jewish. They are only interested in politically supporting Israel, not in protecting actual Jews from real hate crimes.
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Netanyahu openly favored Trump, thinking Trump would be Israel's best friend. But Trump is now Israel's worst nightmare, making deals with MBS, Qatar, Iran and Syria without considering Israel's interests.
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Same here. Nor did I know the part he played in setting up the TV show rerun/syndication business.
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Didn't the Brits also, for years, ignore inconvenient evidence that Philby was a double agent?
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It's always been Trump first, second and third.
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It's also important to note that in countries like Italy, legal residents are entitled to government services - health care, school, the right to work - pretty much everything except the right to vote. They are not stateless.
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Yep. But in those countries, all your documentation is set up to keep track of whether you're a citizen or not. The US has no such system - the birth certificate has always been enough. Changing that system to track citizenship would take quite a bit of time and effort.
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Italy has no birthright citizenship - you must have one Italian parent to be a citizen. The local Records office issues you an identity card indicating whether or not you are an Italian citizen. Without such a system in place, ending birthright citizenship would be a nightmare.
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He's right about chemicals in processed food. But he also thinks there are chemicals in vaccines. That's not sloppiness - that's ignorance.
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Putin must be pissed today. Wasn't today supposed to be his victory parade?
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How long before the MAGAts call him a Communist?
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He grew up in Chicago, so in my view I think it's unlikely he's anti-Semitic. We'll have to see.
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Promising.
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It seems odd that they would say that they would "also" be accepting passports, when passports already qualify as a form of REAL ID.
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California almond and pistachio growers have spent millions of dollars pushing their products in Italy, at the expense of Italian growers (whose output is much smaller). If these kinds of apps improve the sales of Italian producers, that's a good thing.
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One grievance that the Christian evangelicals have against liberals is that they believe liberals mock their religion. It's no less ugly in the other direction.
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It has always amazed me that a man born to wealth and privilege managed to convince a substantial portion of the electorate that he was a "populist." FDR was a member of the patrician class, but he actually made life better for working people. All Trump does is motivate resentment.
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So he's mad at Penn because they didn't give him good grade And he's mad at Harvard because they didn't let him in?
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Trump claimed he was a top student at an Ivy League school, while denouncing Obama for being a top student at an Ivy League school. It certainly wasn't the first time that Trump talked out of both sides of his mouth at the same time.
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That still doesn't explain why he hates the Ivy League. Didn't he threaten to sue Penn if they released his records? All he had to do was take credit for top grades, knowing that no one could refute him.
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Yes, the war against Japan mysteriously disappeared in the vacuum between Trump's ears.
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Agreed. But neither was Obama embarrassed by the fact that he graduated from Columbia as a transfer student. The only reason Trump's academic record was an issue was because the Republicans had made such a big issue out of Obama's.
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I hope they do better. I fear they won't.
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So what - he's still an Ivy League graduate. Obama was a transfer student too - he started at Occidental and then transferred to Columbia.
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And yet, Trump himself is an Ivy League graduate.
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Where is JD Vance?
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Thanks for the correction. Did they change the name after WWII so that the commemoration would not be limited to veterans of the first World War?
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The school is named after Isidore of Seville, a 6th C bishop who attempted to write a compendium of all knowledge - the world's first encyclopedia. Pope John Paul II named him the patron saint of the Internet.