The Political Thread

[Barry Poppins]

Which is gonna make the Supreme Court's decision all the more important tbh.

 

[Barry Poppins]

Israeli teen jailed for refusing IDF service, cites war with Hamas in Gaza

Mitnick also wrote that the lack of negotiation ability with Hamas was "simply untrue."

m.jpost.com

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html

Maine’s top election official has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, in a surprising decision based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.”

 

[Chris]

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

The U.S. is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record, according to preliminary figures from AH Datalytics, a data analysis firm.

California secretary of state leaves Donald Trump on presidential primary ballot

Dr. Shirley Weber made her decision despite a call from California's lieutenant governor and some other top Democrats to remove Trump.

www.cbsnews.com

California's secretary of state declined to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot despite a call for her to do so from the state's lieutenant governor.

 

[Deezy]

California's secretary of state declined to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot despite a call for her to do so from the state's lieutenant governor.

Because she knows that SoCal people would oust her ass.

 

[Chris]

Harvard President Resigns: Plagiarism Allegations Followed Criticism of Response to Antisemitism

Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, faced mounting controversies. She had led the university since July.

www.nytimes.com

Facing a new round of accusations over plagiarism in her scholarly work, Harvard’s president Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday.

She became the second Ivy League leader to lose her job in recent weeks amid a firestorm intensified by their widely derided congressional testimony regarding antisemitism on campus.

 

[Comrade Khan]

what's this congressional antisemitism hearing thing?

 

[Deezy]

Harvard President Resigns: Plagiarism Allegations Followed Criticism of Response to Antisemitism

Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, faced mounting controversies. She had led the university since July.

www.nytimes.com

Facing a new round of accusations over plagiarism in her scholarly work, Harvard’s president Claudine Gay announced her resignation on Tuesday.

She became the second Ivy League leader to lose her job in recent weeks amid a firestorm intensified by their widely derided congressional testimony regarding antisemitism on campus.

Not a good look for the Gays.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/middleeast/iran-explosions-soleimani-ceremony-intl/index.html

At least 73 people were killed Wednesday and 170 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack, according to state media.

 

[Chris]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/03/trump-colorado-ballot-appeal/

Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to ensure he can appear on primary ballots across the country this spring by invalidating a ruling from Colorado’s top court that said Trump is ineligible to serve as president again.

 

[Deezy]

Doesn't even need those primarys or even primarys in general to run......dog whistling bs on both sides.

 

[Chris]

Trump business got at least $7.8 mln in foreign payments during presidency -report

Businesses tied to Republican former U.S. President Donald Trump received at least $7.8 million in foreign payments from 20 countries during his four years in the White House, Democratic congressional investigators said Thursday. House Oversight Committee Democrats said those payments detailed...

finance.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Businesses tied to Republican former U.S. President Donald Trump received at least $7.8 million in foreign payments from 20 countries during his four years in the White House, Democratic congressional investigators said Thursday.

 

[Chris]

New York mayor sues bus operators that brought migrants from Texas for $708m

Lawsuit announced by Eric Adams says 17 bus companies violated state law by transporting 33,000 people to the city

www.theguardian.com

Eric Adams announced on Thursday that the city had filed a lawsuit against a group of bus companies, seeking $708m for transporting migrants to New York City from Texas.

The mayor’s lawsuit accuses 17 bus companies of violating state law by transporting more than 33,000 people to the city as part of a campaign by Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, to expel people who cross the US-Mexico border without authorization.

 

[Chris]

Iowa school shooting leaves 2 dead, including 6th grader and 17-year-old gunman, 5 others injured: Full coverage

Authorities said the suspect, a 17-year-old student, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

news.yahoo.com

A 17-year-old suspect opened fire at Perry High School in Iowa on Thursday morning, killing a sixth-grade student and injuring five others, police said.

The shooter — identified as student Dylan Butler — was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities revealed at an afternoon press conference.

 

[Deezy]

New York mayor sues bus operators that brought migrants from Texas for $708m

Lawsuit announced by Eric Adams says 17 bus companies violated state law by transporting 33,000 people to the city

www.theguardian.com

Eric Adams announced on Thursday that the city had filed a lawsuit against a group of bus companies, seeking $708m for transporting migrants to New York City from Texas.

The mayor’s lawsuit accuses 17 bus companies of violating state law by transporting more than 33,000 people to the city as part of a campaign by Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, to expel people who cross the US-Mexico border without authorization.

So much for being a sanctuary city.....big talk until it actually happens.