Why is Israel acting like this? You'd think that people who were genocided by Nazis only a few decades ago would be a little more anti-imperialist and more sympathetic to plights of other cultures. Is this a case of trauma & violence continuing the cycle & creating more violence?
It's well-known for example that abusers were often abused themselves in childhood. Is this some sort of cultural trauma response directed at Palestine?

The violent repressive state in Israel must end. The cycle of violence must be ended. Peace and democracy must be built.
It's important to know that folks want peace in both Israel and Palestine. Much of this is the result of an authoritarian, violent, repressive police state government in Israel that doesn't reflect the people, funded by the US military-industrial complex.
Create peace and democracy by ending US imperialism and the capitalist military-industrial complex profiting from violence and war.

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As others have pointed out, before the 100th day in office the excuse was "geez he just got into office, give him time", now after 100 days the excuse is "but what about the midterms, now's not the time".

It's never the right time for Democrats because they they lied to you.
They may pass some token legislation, I don't know. But whatever they do won't be enough, it won't be what Biden and others ran on, and the excuse about midterms will only grow louder toward the end of the year.
In fact they'll tell you they "didn't have enough time" and they totally pinky-swear promise they'll get right to it in 2023 once you re-elect them.
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The mind-boggling amount of candidates for Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas makes me wonder -- why are they running as Democrat/Republican in a primary? Do they just think they "have to" do that to run? I'd think judges especially would love to run an Independent message.
Running as an Independent can help "prove" your commitment to truth and fairness outside of partisanship. And by running as an Independent, you'd have until November to campaign -- months more time to get your name out there! -- instead of next week.
I think most running are Democrats right? You'd have much greater chance winning as an Independent in November running against the 10-15ish primary winners than you do running in a crowded 40ish person primary.
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Saw in a documentary that in early 1900s there was a grassroots movement for the Townsend Plan which would have guaranteed everyone the equivalent of $4000 per month today in retirement (after age 60). FDR seems to have co-opted that idea as social security which gave much less.
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The more cops try to explain their violence away as "well that was just my training", the more it opens people's eyes to the cruelty of the system. I don't know how these individual cases will go but I think they're losing the long-term public support the more they push.
Some of my family is fairly conservative and even a few police in my family. As such some of my family was pretty adamant about how tough it is being an officer & the need to support them. Even they are having second thoughts learning what really goes on in jail & court.
When the cops start losing the support of my Republican family members, we know there's a shift going on.

Cops of course could reverse this trend by toning it down even slightly, but much like capitalism, they are compelled to take it to extremes, always.
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There are 350+ million people in the US. This is insufficient given the climate crisis deadline of 2030 that is quickly approaching. A #GreenNewDeal would power *every* home by renewables within 10 years.
Furthermore: the bulk of energy and carbon use is not by homes, but by *industry*. Notice that's left out of the description; Biden doesn't have much of a plan there (other than to keep up fracking).

The #GreenNewDeal would put industry on renewables energy within 10 years too.
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"set aside $128 million to help speed up deployment of solar technologies"

$100 million for nationwide deployment of solar would be laughable if crisis wasn't so urgent. It needs to be billions per year.
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I'm starting to think PA's rush to open restaurants/schools is to hide how bad PA f*cked this up.
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Makes sense to me: if other states have better distributed vaccines and are beginning to open, PA doesn't want to be exposed for being slow and stay closed while everyone else is open. So PA state leaders decided: whatever, let's just open too! pandemic over!
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