'Israeli soldier reveals 'strange order' to cancel Gaza border patrols on 7 Oct'

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 24 minutes ago

He didn’t even have an assault rifle-type of weapon and he owned them so hard? Crazy.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 27 minutes ago

It is funny that there might be a government shutdown in ~10 days and it is barely being covered by the media. In short, health insurers have already revealed that the price for health insurance is going up by around ~15% next year. But that is only if Congress extends enhanced ACA subsidies, if not, health insurance for a lot of people on the ACA exchanges could go up by like 100%. The GOP House passed a government funding bill without those subsidies. The Senate Dems killed the bill (44-48) in the Senate. My guess is that House Republicans are just waiting for the Senate Dems to surrender?

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 22 hours ago

STOP THE COUNT!!

Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report

spoiler

The BLS said on Friday that the annual release of consumer expenditures data — initially set for Tuesday — would be “rescheduled to a later date.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not respond to a request for a comment. Neither did The Department of Labor, which oversees the statistics agency.

It is the only “federal household survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers’ expenditures and incomes,” the BLS website says.

Crucially, the data is also used to determine the weighting of specific goods and services in the Consumer Price Index for the year ahead.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · edit-2 1 day ago

This is in Kamala’s new book, I could swear that she did say exactly this multiple times…???

[edit] IIRC, she was asked on the View what the biggest difference between a Biden and Harris admin would be and Kamala said that she’d have at least one Republican in her cabinet!

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 1 day ago

Nooo, our precious norms!

I also love how the response from the libs to this is that the GOP is violating the Constitution lmao. They so internalized the stupid Dem talking points they don’t even know what the Senate rules are. The Senate majority imposes these rules on itself!!

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 2 days ago

Republicans confirm 48 of President Trump’s nominees at once, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Callista Gingrich, after changing the Senate’s rules.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 3 days ago

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported to Syria or Algeria after the Trump administration targeted him for political speech critical of Israel.

Basically, the judge said that he doesn’t have any evidence against Rubio’s statement that Khalil is a threat to national security, so he will just go along with Rubio’s claim.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 4 days ago

Germany announced 125,000 industrial job cuts in 6 weeks. Congratulations to them! They worked hard for this.

Auto & Auto Supplier: 110k

Steel & Heavy Industry: 11k (~40% of the total workforce)

Rail & Transport: 35k

Other (logistic, tech, finance): ~15k

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 6 days ago

Reddit is so very libified. I got banned from r/politics for criticizing the US & Saudi war in Yemen while Joe Biden was visiting his dear friend MBS in 2021. I was being “a troll”.

I wasn’t even trolling! If Reddit was full of conservatives, it would be at least fun to troll. But it is just depressing.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 6 days ago

It looks like Germany is rearming and increasing police & state repression just in time for the Afd to take control of it.

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 8 days ago

Supreme Court Overturns Decision Blocking Deportation of 500,000 Migrants

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can begin to deport around half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Today’s decision lifts a ruling from a district judge who blocked the administration from canceling the “humanitarian parole” programs, which began under the Biden administration.

The immigrants who entered the U.S. under the program will now lose their permits to work and are at immediate risk of deportation.

Democrat-appointed Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-donald-trump-immigrants-deportation-migrants-venezuela-2129231

Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net · 8 days ago

It reminds me of when Trump was a the Diamond & Silk funeral (one of them died, RIP), and the first thing he said in his eulogy was how long & boring the funeral is and that he has some great people waiting for him in Florida.