Found via Jamie Zawinski (“JWZ”): Thread federation

This is a great (long) look at the issues around federating between Mastodon and Threads from several angles, and manages to do so without letting the white-hot rage at Zuckerberg's fetid empire shine through and overpower the discussion of practical considerations.

@mattblaze@federate.social » The Supreme Court code of ethics uses the word "should" 53 times and the word "shall" 0 times.

Original Financial Times link (paywalled).

The head of the FBI warned a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the Hamas attack on Israel has given terrorists inspiration “the likes of which we haven’t seen” since the rise of Isis a decade ago.

Christopher Wray told the US Senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs that while the terrorism threat had been high throughout 2023, “the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level”.

“We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven’t seen since Isis launched its so-called caliphate years ago,” Wray said.

Nine progressive Democrats voted nay:

• Jamaal Bowman
• Andre Carson
• Cori Bush
• Al Green
• Summer Lee
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• Ilhan Omar
• Delia Ramirez
• Rashida Talib

They were joined by one Republican, Thomas Massie.

Six Democrats voted present on the resolution: Greg Casar, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez, Ayanna Pressley, Chuy Garcia and Pramila Jayapal.

TL;DR: Flatten the buildings and then use upgraded American bunker buster bombs, which may or may not be able to penetrate deep enough. And then ultimately, “The Israeli hope is that Qatar and Egypt will take the refugee crisis off its hands.” [Edit: in other words, their final solution is ethnic cleansing].

The systematic destruction of the remaining buildings in Gaza City will start within days, the Israeli insider said. The bunker-buster JDAMs could come next. Then, in the planners’ scenario, I was told, the Israeli infantry will be assigned to mop-up operations: searching out and killing those Hamas fighters and workers who managed to survive the JDAM attacks.

He seems to corroborate something I suspected:

The major issue for the Israeli war planners is a reluctance, despite the mobilization of more than 300,000 reservists, to engage in a door-to-door street battle with Hamas in Gaza City. One veteran of the IDF, who served in a high post, told me that half of the Israeli Army has been engaged for the past decade or more in the protection of the increasing number of small settlements scattered in the West Bank where they are bitterly resented by the Palestinian population. “The Israeli planners don’t trust their infantry,” the insider said, nor their willingness to go to war but what could be a disastrous lack of combat experience.

I’d paste the article in full if I could without potentially exposing Lemmygrad to legal troubles 😬

Edit: I had to update the URL because I didn’t understand that the image I had attached would overwrite it:

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1901171

Workers Strike Back was started by Socialist Alternative Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant.

On Strike is the video broadcast of Workers Strike Back, hosted by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. We’ve seen more protests and strikes than any time in a generation, but rarely do we hear about them from the perspective of working people and our movements. On Strike provides an independent socialist analysis and strategy to rebuild a fighting labor movement and campaign for a new mass party for workers and young people.

Workers Strike Back was started by Socialist Alternative Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant.

On Strike is the video broadcast of Workers Strike Back, hosted by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and Bia Lacombe. We’ve seen more protests and strikes than any time in a generation, but rarely do we hear about them from the perspective of working people and our movements. On Strike provides an independent socialist analysis and strategy to rebuild a fighting labor movement and campaign for a new mass party for workers and young people.

Blakeley claims that, while most liberals and conservatives now believe the game is rigged, usually only the haute bourgeoisie—who do the rigging—and the Marxists understand how it’s rigged.