Highly recommended from @fridaghitis.bsky.social
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Trump’s death squad murdered a Haitian woman.
The Allegheny County medical examiner has ruled the death of Daphy Michel a homicide and determined hypothermia to be the cause after she spent more than 30 hours at a bus stop in Pittsburgh’s South Side in early March.
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Instead of dealing a knockout blow to Iran’s rulers as he predicted it would, the war threatens to derail Netanyahu’s legacy-burnishing plans—and his political future, @fridaghitis.bsky.social writes.
A travesty. “Twelve percent of French people believe it would be good for the country if its Jews packed up and left, a new survey shows, with one of the pollsters calling the numbers ‘a historic reversal’ reflecting a worsening of antisemitism on the left.”
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The 60-day ceasefire means different things to the US, Iran, and Israel
In the end, they’ll agree to lift both blockades and the conflict will remain frozen for the foreseeable future.
Peru election update. Every time you think it can’t get any closer…
Keiko Fujimori 50.002% Roberto Sanchez 49.998%
— a difference of about 600 votes out of 18 million.
This is pretty awful.
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Now the bombs are back — but the credibility isn't.
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The death of Haitian asylum-seeker Daphy Michel, who was found unresponsive at a Pittsburgh bus stop days after being released from ICE custody, has been ruled a homicide.
Hamas was terrified of warming relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. It was one of the motivators for launching the Oct 7 massacres. They succeeded in derailing normalization.
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Don’t be surprised if at the end of the 60-day period the agreement remains out of reach and the cold conflict continues, frozen for the foreseeable future...but easing Trump’s anxiety about a war that eroded his popularity and worsened the GOP's chances in November
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