ICYMI Israel had a general election this week. And the results couldn't be...
I’ve been waaay too busy and worn out to write much about Israel’s 5th election circus in the space of 2.5 years.I only wrote once about it, in July, explaining how and why this election came about....
View ArticleWA-03 Update: Seems like Marie might pull through after all... Hopefully
I’ve been following WA-03 very closely ever since the primaries, when White nationalist and regional embarrassment Joe Kent narrowly upset incumbent Jaime Herrera-Beutler (one of the 10 R’s who voted...
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Who Knew? All it Took was a World Cup in Qatar.
For 33 years, on and off, I have tried to interest my fellow Israelis in human rights - to no avail.During my undergrad in Jerusalem in the early 1990s I volunteered in the human-rights organization,...
View ArticlePSA: Daily Kos Should Stop Embedding Tweets.
Daily Kos staff and volunteer community bloggers have done a generally excellent job of covering and analyzing Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter, and the wanton destruction he has brought upon...
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Peak Oil (Consumption) had already happened - in 2019!
“Peak Oil”, a concept originating in Big Oil research, was associated in 1960s-2000s popular culture with societal collapse. One day, said this theory, oil reserves will start depleting, oil prices...
View ArticleConsidering a New EV in 2023? Best Get it NOW, might cost more later
Consider this diary a PSA/Disclaimer combo :)The old Federal EV tax credit regulations, enacted ~2008 under the W. Bush misadministration and extended with Obama’s Stimulus Act, were simple.They were...
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What the Bonkers is Going on in Israel? A Primer
With a major war not too far to the north of Israel-Palestine (Kyiv — Tel Aviv is a 3-hour flight), and a devastating earthquake even closer to home (note: Israel-Palestine too, sits on a major fault...
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Israel's Deadly Nablus Raid: Stark Reminder that Palestinians have ZERO...
Even as centrist and left-of-center Israelis take to the streets en masse attempting to stop the new far-right government’s rapid initiative to neuter the Judiciary, the government still counts on most...
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I hope I won't be sorry for writing this. But I must Speak Out.
It was not a good weekend for Daily Kos. I would like to help improve the coming week. But this diary might not be a pleasant read for everyone. These are painful topics to discuss.Brief introduction...
View Article"Dissidents" vs. "Moderates"???? Corporate Media in Pretzels trying to...
Eric Wasson’s Twitter handle says he’s the current Congress reporter for Bloomberg. Fits the bill of “mainstream Beltway corporate media”.And par for the course: look at how he describes in the Tweet...
View Article"Self-Driving" Hype: sabotaging the EV Revolution for a Decade and Counting
This is a quick(?) diary as follow-up / expansion / response to yesterday’s concise, well-written high profile diary, “Elon may have killed another customer”. I generally agree with the diarist’s main...
View ArticleOur Seattle Stranger Op-Ed: Americans, Please Help End the Gaza War
I need to start with some explanations for my silence.Despite not having written any diary on any topic for 11 months, I am cumulatively the most prolific IsraelandPalestine diarist who still has some...
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