Thanks Bakerer.
>until Q comes back
Welcome to the human race.
Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk
The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the long-stalled $95.3 billion aid package capped a tortured journey for the legislation on Capitol Hill. President Biden is expected to quickly sign it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/politics/senate-aid-package-ukraine-israel-taiwan.html
Students at NYU, Yale, other colleges face arrests amid pro-Palestinian protests
Protests calling for the divestment of college and university funds from Israeli military operations have continued to spread on campuses across the country, including Yale University, New York University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and more.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/150-arrested-new-york-university-amid-pro-palestinian/story?id=109525064
GOP senators urge Biden to mobilize National Guard to protect Jewish college students
Sens. Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton called on President Biden to mobilize the National Guard to protect Jewish American college students in response to anti-Israel, pro-terrorist demonstrations on campuses.
Mr. Hawley, Missouri Republican, wrote in a letter sent to Mr. Biden Monday:
“On college campuses across the United States, Jewish Americans are at risk. … In your statement on Passover, you stated that ‘in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous — and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.’ Now you must take action to match those words.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/23/josh-hawley-tom-cotton-urge-biden-to-mobilize-nati/
Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video app for income.
https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-congress-bill-1c48466df82f3684bd6eb21e61ebcb8d
Biden Calls for 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate, Highest Capital Gains Tax Since Its Creation in 1922
President Biden has formally proposed the highest capital gains tax in over 100 years.
Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6 percent.”
Yes, you read that correctly: A Biden capital gains and dividends tax rate of 44.6%
AI can predict political orientations from blank faces – and researchers fear 'serious' privacy challenges
Researchers are warning that facial recognition technologies are "more threatening than previously thought" and pose "serious challenges to privacy" after a study found that artificial intelligence can be successful in predicting a person’s political orientation based on images of expressionless faces.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ai-can-predict-political-orientations-blank-faces-researchers-fear-serious-privacy-challenges
Sahara dust cloud transforms Athens into eerie Martian landscape: photos
Southern Greece experienced orange skies as dust clouds from the Sahara Desert, carried by strong southerly winds, covered Athens, including landmarks like the Acropolis. This phenomenon gave the Greek capital a Martian-like appearance during the last hours of daylight on Tuesday, April 23rd 2024.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/photos/sahara-dust-cloud-transforms-athens-into-eerie-martian-landscape-photos/
Texas Nuns Defy Vatican, Seek Restraining Order on Bishop
uns in Texas are seeking a restraining order against Bishop Michael Olson and other Catholic Church officials in a bid to stop a takeover of their monastery.
The lawsuit filed on Monday asks for a temporary restraining order to be issued against Olson, the Diocese of Fort Worth, and the Association of Christ the King in the United States of America, WFAA reported.
It came after a Vatican decree last week said Christ the King was being given full governance of the nuns and the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-nuns-defy-vatican-restraining-order-bishop-1893168
Get ready for moar fires and carbon tax initiatives, peasants.
Why this summer may be especially hot in the United States
A new outlook for summer from the National Weather Service is a toasty one: Hotter-than-normal conditions are favored almost everywhere, except for a small portion of the northern Plains. The highest odds for a hot summer stretch from Texas into the Pacific Northwest, as well as much of the Northeast.
This forecast sets the stage for bouts of record-challenging high temperatures throughout the nation and the possibility of the hottest summer ever observed. In the central states and Rocky Mountains, the combination of heat and an expectation for drier-than-normal weather will increase drought potential. It will also raise the fire threat in some areas.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ar-AA1nsrit
How Republicans castrated themselves
Never before has the party in control of the House of Representatives knowingly and willingly castrated its own power so thoroughly as today's Republicans.
Why it matters: Republicans blew years of potential authority by weak leaders surrendering to keep power. So with a razor-thin GOP majority, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to depend on Democrats to muscle through the $60 billion Ukraine bill over the weekend.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/republicans-speaker-motion-vacate-rules-committee
Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South
The recent wave of violent protests and arrests at elite universities like Yale and Columbia have only confirmed for Scott Katz that he made the right decision to attend Elon University. The North Carolina college, where he is currently wrapping up his sophomore year, is a long way from his hometown of Lafayette Hill, the predominantly liberal Philadelphia suburb where the average home costs $610,000.
Katz, who is Jewish, says the antisemitism that’s increasingly visible at colleges nationwide—especially in the Ivy League, and other elite institutions like Stanford and Berkeley—hasn’t even touched his campus.
“I haven’t been affected by it at all,” Katz told me. “I definitely feel very safe on campus regarding my religion.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools
Pelosi calls for Netanyahu’s resignation
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign, calling him an obstacle to a two-state solution.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/nancy-pelosi-netanyahu-resign-israel-gaza
Pessimistic young Germans turning to far-right, says study
Young people in Germany are increasingly dissatisfied with life and are more likely to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) than previously, a study on Tuesday showed.
About 22% of the 2,000 young people aged 14 to 29 said they intended to vote for the AfD if they were able to vote in parliamentary elections right now.
That figure is more than double what it was two years ago, the study said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1nvspe
Democrats Sponsor Bill for Abortions Up to Birth That Eliminates Every Pro-Life Law Nationwide
When the Dobbs ruling overturned Roe v. Wade, we knew the abortion industry would not go away quietly without a fight. As you know, after our amicus brief was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in overturning Roe, Liberty Counsel has been fighting the abortion industry’s attempts to make killing an unborn child a “right” in state constitutions across the country.
Beyond barbaric …
Now, the abortion industry is going for a bigger prize — federal legislation to force every state to wipe away all abortion restrictions. The bill even goes so far as to overturn the federal ban on gruesome partial birth abortion, which murders a viable, full-term baby before its head leaves the mother’s womb.
https://www.lifenews.com/2024/04/22/democrats-sponsor-bill-for-abortions-up-to-birth-that-eliminates-every-pro-life-law-nationwide/
51% of Americans Unhappy With Congress Voting $61bn to Ukraine - Reports
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A total of 51% of Americans disapprove of the decision by the US House of Representatives to support President Joe Biden's $61 billion aid package for Ukraine, while only 39% think otherwise, Daily Express US reported on Tuesday, citing a poll conducted by the Washington-based Democracy Institute.
As for the US president's policy regarding the Ukraine conflict, 60% of Americans disapprove it versus just 27% who support it, the survey also revealed.
The poll has been conducted among 1,500 US voters. The margin of error has not been specified.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240423/us-houses-support-for-61bln-ukraine-aid-package-criticized-by-51-of-americans—reports-1118079187.html
Jews Using Baby Cries Broadcast From Drones To Lure Civilans Out To Be Murdered - Rense Video
https://rumble.com/embed/v4n4pfi/?pub=jj93z
New $17Bln Aid to Israel 'Last Nail in Coffin of US Credibility' - ex-US Envoy to Riyadh
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House of Representatives approval of $17 billion in additional military aid to Israel amid the ongoing war on Gaza demonstrates US disregard for international law and human decency, delivering the final blow to its reputation, former US Ambassador to Riyadh Chas Freeman told Sputnik.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240423/new-17bln-aid-to-israel-last-nail-in-coffin-of-us-credibility—ex-us-envoy-to-riyadh-1118076742.html
Biden's America: 40% Of Renters Think They'll Never Own A Home, Up From 27% Last Year
Bidenomics 101: the American dream of owning a home has become the American nightmare for almost half the US population.
As housing specialist Redfin reports, rising home prices and mortgage rates "are making it harder to believe in the American dream of homeownership. Lack of affordability is the most commonly cited reason renters don’t believe they’ll ever own a home."
The details are dire: Nearly two in five (38%) U.S. renters don’t believe they’ll ever own a home, up from roughly one-quarter (27%) less than a year ago.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bidens-america-40-renters-think-theyll-never-own-home-27-last-year
Bernie Sanders To Lead Progressive Fight Against Israel Aid In Senate With New Amendment
US Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he would put forth an amendment to remove offensive military funding for Israel from a House-passed aid package that the Senate is set to consider this week.
The amendment would "cut billions in offensive military funding to Israel from the proposed national security supplemental package," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement. The package, approved by the Republican-controlled House over the weekend, includes $17 billion in unconditional military assistance to the Israeli government, which stands accused on the world stage of "perpetrating genocide" in Gaza.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bernie-sanders-lead-progressive-fight-against-israel-aid-senate-new-amendment
Baker requested articles, I'm just throwing 'em against the wall like noodles. See what sticks.
"F**king Clown Show": Unsealed Court Docs Reveal Biden DOJ Colluded With National Archives To Target Trump, Jack Smith Tried To Conceal
Newly unsealed documents in Donald Trump's classified documents case reveal that the Biden White House colluded with the National Archives (NARA) and the FBI to concoct a case against the former president.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fking-clown-show-unsealed-court-docs-reveal-biden-doj-colluded-national-archives-target
New York Democrat Wishes Death On Trump Supporters
Nate McMurray, who is running to represent New York’s 26th congressional district, posted the demented comments on X shortly after the weekend vote on funding for Ukraine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-democrat-wishes-death-trump-supporters
New York Democrat Wishes Death On Trump Supporters
Nate McMurray, who is running to represent New York’s 26th congressional district, posted the demented comments on X shortly after the weekend vote on funding for Ukraine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-democrat-wishes-death-trump-supporters
"Let Me Go Home, Okay?": Mistrial Declared For Arizona Rancher Accused Of Killing Illegal Immigrant On His Property
A mistrial was declared in the case of an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting an illegal immigrant on his property near the US-Mexico border, after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision following two full days of deliberation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/let-me-go-home-okay-mistrial-declared-arizona-rancher-accused-killing-illegal-immigrant
Federal rule bars transgender school bathroom bans in Alabama, other states; not final word
A new rule from President Joe Biden’s administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states.
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/federal-rule-bars-transgender-school-bathroom-bans-in-alabama-other-states-not-final-word.html
Experiment Prepares to Test a Possible Second Purpose For Stonehenge
When it comes to its connection to the sky, Stonehenge is best known for its solar alignments.
Every midsummer's night tens of thousands of people gather at Stonehenge to celebrate and witness the rising Sun in alignment with the Heel stone standing outside of the circle. Six months later a smaller crowd congregates around the Heel stone to witness the midwinter Sun setting within the stone circle.
But a hypothesis has been around for 60 years that part of Stonehenge also aligns with moonrise and moonset at what is called a major lunar standstill. Although a correlation between the layout of certain stones and the major lunar standstill has been known about for several decades, no one has systematically observed and recorded the phenomenon at Stonehenge.
https://www.sciencealert.com/experiment-prepares-to-test-a-possible-second-purpose-for-stonehenge