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"The UNSC is failing people living in conflict, with Russia and the United States particularly responsible for abusing their veto power," said Oxfam.

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"These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time."

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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Wednesday announced it will not formally endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, ending months of speculation about whether the labor union would back Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris.

The union’s general executive board said in a statement that its member polling showed no majority support for Harris, and no universal support for Trump.

“The Teamsters thank all candidates for meeting with members face-to-face during our unprecedented roundtables. Unfortunately, neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said in the statement.

“We sought commitments from both Trump and Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries — and to honor our members’ right to strike — but were unable to secure those pledges,” said O’Brien.

With 1.3 million members, the Teamsters union is one of the largest labor groups in the country. The non-endorsement is a break from the union’s decadeslong tradition of backing Democratic candidates. But it’s not a complete surprise.

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CNN.com

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In a Brooklyn subway station on Sunday afternoon, police shot and injured three people and a fellow New York Police Department officer over a $2.90 fare. This is what safety and security looks like in Mayor Eric Adams’s New York, where problems of poverty and hardship are met with policing and state-sanctioned violence.

At around 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Sutter Avenue stop in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a 37-year-old man allegedly evaded paying the subway fare. According to reports, two police officers pursued this man up three flights of stairs and confronted him on the station platform. Police say the man pulled out a knife. Both officers opened fire on the man, piercing him with several bullets, while also striking two bystanders; one of the officers was hit with friendly fire. One of the bystanders, a 49-year-old man, is in critical condition in the hospital from a bullet wound to the head.

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The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.

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It’s common for people to claim they dislike both the Democratic and Republican parties. Are there any other political parties? Do they ever win any elections?

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APnews.com

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Everything seems to be coming up Democrats. The party is still riding its wave of excitement over its “brat” new nominee, Donald Trump and his campaign are floundering, and their candidate has just widened her lead over him after a debate most everyone agreed Trump lost badly. What could possibly stop this kind of momentum?

Another dumb, disastrous quagmire in the Middle East could.

In their euphoric haze, Democrats and the Kamala Harris campaign have been doing their best the past two months to more or less ignore the ongoing, bloody tumult in the Middle East, which was already on the brink of tipping over into a region-wide war back when Joe Biden was still on the ticket.

The most dramatic sign was yesterday’s rash of Hezbollah pager explosions, which wounded 2,800 people across Lebanon and killed twelve, including two young children, and which an aide to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to take credit for in a tweet

If Democrats are hoping Harris might get a rally-round-the-flag bump in the event of US troops getting killed by Hezbollah or Iranian proxies, and so possibly shift public opinion in favor of war, they should be careful.

If the wanton slaughter in Gaza isn’t enough to make them cut Israel off, then Harris and the Democrats might want to at least think about their own political futures and take some similar advice: You might prefer to ignore the chance of regional war, but a regional war won’t ignore you.

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One expert even asked if Israel's United Nations membership should be reconsidered given the country "seems to have zero respect" for the world body.

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The new research, said one union leader, provides Democrats with a "clear roadmap to winning back" working-class voters.

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The Pentagon is the world’s biggest consumer of fossil fuels—and agent of climate change.

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In praising fossil fuels alongside clean energy, Kamala Harris echoed past Republican talking points.

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The Alaska Federation of Natives is hoping to defeat a November ballot measure that would repeal the state’s new election rules, adopted just four years ago.

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Now obviously we all espouse ranked voting, but the most popular rule—the single transferable vote—is known to sometimes eliminate candidates for getting too many votes, which is what happened in the 2022 Alaska special election (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Runoff_voting for an explanation of how this happens).

So, which voting rule do you like the most? I'm new to this world, but so far the Dowdall system seems like a good compromise.

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The Kiffness

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Devin Nunes, the former congressman who runs the company behind Truth Social, traveled to North Macedonia as former President Trump vies to once again shape U.S. foreign policy.

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At least nine people killed, including 10-year-old girl, as blasts were reported across Lebanon and Syria

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Kravits

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeated an unverified Israeli claim about its killing of at least 18 people, including six UN employees, in its strike of a school in Gaza this week — even as he supposedly called on Israel to do more to protect humanitarian sites in its genocide of Palestinians in the region.

On Thursday, Blinken said, “we need to see humanitarian sites protected, and that’s something that we continue to raise with Israel.” He added, without evidence, that Hamas soldiers had been using the al-Jaouni school-turned-shelter that Israel attacked on Wednesday as a command center, and therefore bore responsibility for Israel’s bombs.

This remark, made in a press conference, comes despite Israeli officials providing zero substantial evidence of this claim and Israel’s pattern of using this exact excuse as a guise to continue committing genocide in Gaza.

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Candidates are debating how easy to make mail voting and direct democracy. And in some states, election deniers are still bidding to take over the system.

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