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[ad_1] Image by Ash Hayes. Donald Trump took to social media Thursday, July 30, to announce what he called a breakthrough: a phased agreement under the Board of Peace requiring the Palestinian Resistance to disarm and Israel to withdraw. The optics were of a president closing out a genocide he, and his predecessor, enabled for two years. The Palestinian Resistance agreed to the plan. Israel rejected it. Imagine if the Resistance had rejected the fifteen points by reasonably conditioning disarmament on an end to Israeli occupation. We don’t have to imagine Trump’s reaction. He’d have condemned them by nightfall and…

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[ad_1] ​From yesterday’s published order in W.M.M. v. Trump (en banc), by Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod:In response to questions at oral argument and a later directive from the court, counsel for petitioners and the government revealed that the government has removed the three original named petitioners in this case. As there are currently no named petitioners in this appeal who are still in the United States, petitioners have moved to add five new class representatives on appeal—a motion that we deny today. Petitioners have also moved for these five proposed class representatives to proceed pseudonymously on appeal, as well…

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[ad_1] The short American attention span Recently, Anthony Fauci, who served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, testified before Congress. If this seems like a severely belated move on the part of our “representatives,” you aren’t familiar with the way they conduct business. They are, to quote Dickens, experts on not getting it done. Who can forget those halcyon days which began in early 2020? So many memories to cherish. The required masks everywhere. The disposing of those masks, which we were told protected us from the World’s Deadliest Virus Ever, wherever…

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[ad_1] Art by Gianluca Costantini One year ago this week, the Israeli military killed Anas Al-Sharif. He was a young Palestinian journalist working in Gaza, one of the many who continued to report under bombardment, displacement, and the constant knowledge that the camera itself had become a target. His death was not an accident of war. It was one act in the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza — a genocide that has included, as a deliberate and central component, the systematic elimination of those who document it. Al-Sharif’s killing joins a list that has grown so long…

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