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Because Israeli soldiers murdering children (archived) totally didn't happen under prior administrations /s

It’s a scenario that was so concerning to Washington state Rep. Sharlett Mena that she introduced legislation that would make uninvited deployments of out-of-state troops illegal. Her bill cleared a committee last week and has the backing of Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson, who pushed for the proposal in his inaugural address last month.

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But, as she noted to her colleagues last week, if Trump were to federalize National Guard units, there’s nothing the state could do to prevent it; a presidential order preempts state authority.

If I was that persons attorney I would advise them not to answer this question

It is unclear whether Trump will go ahead with his proposal or, in keeping with his ~~self-image as a shrewd dealmaker~~ pattern of being a manipulative bullshitter who doesn't care whether anything he says is true or not, has simply laid out an extreme position as a . [sic, sentence ends here in original]

Yeah, random Reuters reporter, I probably would have needed to stop writing that sentence right there to go throw up in self disgust too.

His first term in 2017-21 was replete with what ~~critics said were over-the-top foreign policy pronouncements~~ any objective observer would call "lies", many of which were never implemented.

I feel like he's going to make a big show out of being shitty to Palestinians because that's what his voters want, but I feel like his administration is going to have a hard time finding anything to do to them the previous administration didn't already allow to happen. We've been at the point of dropping bombs on bombed out rubble for months already.

My last comment here got determined to be "misinformation" and removed, so let me try to just state my opinion and avoid any factual claims -

I feel like Trump did say a stupid thing. I feel like the stupid thing Trump said here won't actually be implemented, but only because actually occupying Palestine with American troops would be extremely costly and Trump's allies in the area wouldn't actually gain anything from it they don't already have. I feel like the Trump administration does want to find some way to make the lives of Palestinians worse that they can show to their voters, but I feel like they will struggle to find any policies that make things much worse than Israel and the Biden administration has already made their lives.

I don't feel like that makes what Trump is saying or doing acceptable. However, I feel like many people don't recognize how bad it has already been for Palestinians because of the actions of the prior administration. Moreover, I feel like elected Dems need to condemn the prior administatrion's actions if we are going to build the sort of political coalition that can win elections and give us an administration that will be willing and able to hold Israel accountable for what I feel is an ongoing genocide.

Wonderful, thank you for collecting and posting all these!

You should post these to more communities since it might get removed from this one

Plus this is basically just continuing policies started under Biden, so it's not like there's any reason to believe US opposition to anything that might help Palestinians will be a temporary thing

Sure, an indefinite occupation in the middle east against the wishes and advice of other countries in the region worked so well for the last Republican president, and we'll already be all warmed up with occupying Greenland, the Panama canal, and Canada. This is truly a well thought out idea and we can definitely take Trump at his word that he'll implement it.

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Try https://web.archive.org/web/20250201011241/https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/plane-crash-cottman-roosevelet/

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."

Implications? This sound like an ongoing hack right now