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thedodo He went home and couldn't stop shaking — until he found out someone had actually recorded the whole thing 💙💫

@jasonthejaw told us about the scariest, most unbelievable 14 seconds of his life, and how his mates apologized for not believing him!

(The whale was fine.)

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midy_paul 📢 Share the #StandUpForScience!

In response to your many requests, here is the English version of this video in support of science and of our American friends / En réponse à vos nombreuses demandes, voici la version en anglais de cette vidéo en soutien à la science et à nos amis américains

📢 Partagez le #StandUpForScience ! (IG)

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You can gerrymander Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana into purple states. There’s actually enough votes to give the majority of Indiana’s congressional seats to Democrats

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Open AI use

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The section of the U.S. Constitution removed from the Congressional were Article I, Section 9, and Article 1, Section 10.

Section 9 states that Habeas Corpus cannot be suspended:

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Brexit will be a flesh wound compared to what’s happening in the USA.

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But CityDeskNYC isn’t an extension of any of those campaigns — at least not yet. The automated account is run by Saihajpreet Singh, a 24-year-old software engineer based in Ottawa who is trying to kickstart a political tech service.

Singh has a history of bot creation. He and his small team are also behind the similar X account DOGEai, a controversial automated MAGA reply bot that has amassed more than 120,000 followers and has been shared by the likes of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

Speaking to Courthouse News on Thursday, Singh said DOGEai started as a way to share information about lengthy congressional legislation on X. As it grew in popularity, Singh started evolving the account into the snarky, right-wing bot it is today to drive engagement.

The bot remains an expensive side hobby for Singh, who said he pours roughly $9,000 to $10,000 per month into the project, only to recuperate between $700 and $1,000 monthly from X’s revenue sharing program.

Singh, refusing to sell his passion project, instead started Rhetor, an autonomous media company aimed at enhancing — or potentially replacing — communications teams on political campaigns.

Using the same tech as DOGEai, he said he built CityDeskNYC as a proof of concept for his new company, deciding to focus on the New York City mayoral election because of the attention it was getting in news media and in cryptocurrency betting markets.

However, unlike his first bot account, he said he’s hoping to sell CityDeskNYC to one of Mamdani’s political opponents in the mayoral race.

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Soufer also said that the use of AI tends to be more taboo for Democrats, who he says value “truth-telling” and “being able to claim the moral high ground,” potentially making it a harder sell for longtime liberals like Cuomo.

“The second you deploy a bot who outputs misinformation, you lose that right,” Soufer added.

Everyone on X trying to make a dollar.

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What can the US do to deescalate the siege on Gaza unilaterally? It comes down to Netanyahu and his Gov at the end of the day, no? Would conditioning aid do anything? It honestly looks like they’re to ideologically committed to ethnic cleansing no matter what. The funding at least gets them a seat at the table in what Israel does

The Israeli government is deeply reliant on the US government in a way that gives the US a massive amount of leverage. Most people fail to understand just how far US foreign policy goes to support the Israeli government. Because the Israeli government's current activities would not be possible without US support, the US is the only world power with the ability to stop the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Here are various forms of US government support for the Israeli government which could be used to pressure them into a ceasefire:

Military aid. The US provides Israel with roughly $3.3 billion a year in military aid, equivalent to about 16% of the entire Israeli defense budget. While US military aid is normally required to be spent on US-made weapons, Israel has historically been allowed to use part of its aid on its own weapons industry (a subsidy for the Israeli military-industrial complex which the US is currently phasing out). This aid comes despite the fact that it violates the inconsistently-enforced Leahy Laws against providing US aid to known human rights abusers.

Arms exports. From 2018-2022, 79% of Israeli weapons imports came from the US, much of it funded by our military aid. This includes thousands of bombs and missiles, dozens of aircraft, and nearly 400 armored personnel carriers. The Israeli government also buys large amounts of US weapons directly from weapons companies through the Direct Commercial Sales process— $5.7 billion worth from 2018-2022.

Military ties. The US government has 12 active defense agreements with Israel and a memorandum of understanding on military aid lasting until 2028, has designated Israel as a Major Non-NATO Ally, meets with the Israeli government once every two years for planning and strategy discussions, and conducts regular training exercises with the Israeli military (Juniper Oak and Juniper Falcon).

Direct military support. The US uses its military power to support Israeli objectives, as the last couple of months have shown. The US Navy stationed an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea for several months to deter Hezbollah from getting involved in last year's violence, and is now involved in active hostilities against the Houthis in Yemen in response to their trade blockade.

Diplomatic support. The US votes in agreement with Israel at the United Nations more than any other country in the modern era. Israel's next three largest supporters at the UN are small island nations which are satellite states of the US. Many supporters of Israel do so only to curry favor with the US; without this, Israel would be even more isolated than it is now. The United States has used its veto power in the UN Security Council to defend Israel 34 times, most recently in October 2023. The US also has a policy of automatically defunding any UN agency which recognizes Palestine.

Trade Relations. The US has a free trade agreement with Israel and is one of its largest trading partners. In 2021, 27% of Israeli exports went to the US, and 9% of Israeli imports came from the US. Israel has a trade surplus with the US that helps to offset its overall trade deficit. If all trade with the US were to cease, the changes would carry major repercussions for Israel's entire economy.

US domestic politics. The US has adopted a handful of policies which tilt its internal political field in favor of the Israeli government: laws repressing the BDS movement, the refusal to hold the Israeli government accountable for surveillance campaigns in the US, etc., etc.

If the US government wanted to, it could deprive Israel of a large portion of its defense budget, cut off the flow of weapons and munitions which enable their attacks on Gaza, isolate it from its closest military ally, leave it defenseless against overwhelming diplomatic opposition around the world, severely upset its export-import economy, and expose the nation to increased scrutiny within the world's most powerful nation. If even a fraction of these moves were attempted, it would be enough to force the Israeli government to change course, and it would also likely be enough to topple Netanyahu's already-tenuous grasp on power.

Biden can't do most of this unilaterally— most of it would require congressional approval. But that doesn't mean he's powerless: foreign policy is the one area where the President has the most power to act without congress.

It was Biden's choice to veto the UN resolution calling for a ceasefire, to send new Navy forces into the region, and to bypass congress for Israeli arms sales. Biden could chose to act differently in all of these areas, and he could also suspend joint military exercises, launch an investigation into whether US military aid violates Leahy Laws, etc. Even threatening to take these actions could be enough to convince the Israeli government to negotiate for a serious, lasting ceasefire.

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More journalists have been killed in Gaza in two years (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+ Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined. (Source: freedomforum, article: Brown University)

“In Iraq, 285 journalists were killed in 22 years. That's 13 per year, compared to about 13 per month in Gaza.” (Source)

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Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for the mayor of New York

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Aurora borealis from the ISS, 4/5/25, 📸 astronaut Don Pettit

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Possible habitable planet with surface water discovered.

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One of Pope Francis’s many calls to Gaza, this one on his birthday.