Assaf's Profile
Assaf Oron (אסף אורון b. 1966) is an Israeli human-rights/anti-Occupation activist (also holding US citizenship) and an applied statistician currently living in Seattle.
Groups: DK GreenRoots, Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Adalah — A Just Middle East, Backyard Science, Progressive Friends of the Library Newsletter, Elders of Zion, Abolish the Death Penalty, Feminism, Pro-Feminism, Womanism: Feminist Issues, Ideas, & Activism, Kosowatt, Occupy Wall Street, Climate Change SOS, Koscadia, Shut Down the NRA, Repeal or Amend the Second Amendment (RASA), Hunger in America, Seattle & Puget Sound Kos, Climate Action Hub, DK Fans of 90 for 90, EV Revolution, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet, GreenRevolution A Direct Action Environmental Protest Group, Foreign Policy And International Events Group
Diaries published: 317 (276 days since last diary on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 07:07 AM PST)
Comments posted: 13601 (16 days since last comment on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 01:05 PM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 33854
Total Comment Ratings: 12258
Most Recommended Diary: Palestinian Doctor's Daughters killed while he is interviewed on Israeli TV, 1139 comments, 700 recommends
People Following Assaf: 169
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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 to my Daily Kos history I joined 2006, motivated...
by Assaf
 782 comments
on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 07:07 AM PST
with 461 Recommends
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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 of that very same opposition, to continue...
by Assaf
24 comments
on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 08:11 AM PST
with 28 Recommends
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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 messages. In particular, this part of the closing...
by Assaf
55 comments
on Mon Feb 20, 2023 at 07:14 AM PST
with 31 Recommends
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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 that connects with the East Anatolian fault; I-P’s...
by Assaf
169 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 08:13 AM PST
with 216 Recommends
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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 also reasonably generous and effective for times...
by Assaf
80 comments
on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 07:15 AM PST
with 59 Recommends
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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 above, the two GQP factions fighting over the...
by Assaf
5 comments
on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 11:21 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
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- Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. The BBC recently took a look at something interesting:� www.bbc.com/… Some historic paintings of women have, it’s been recently discovered,237 comments 80 Recs
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- As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky’s List! You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon, the content is the same. And don’t forget to visit the...51 comments 467 Recs
- As you can see from its cover, the UNEP team that put together Emissions Gap Report 2023 went a bit snarky (by government standards) with the image and title—Broken Record: Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again). Snarky...158 comments 229 Recs
- My reply to: CREDO: My View on the Three Interconnected Vengeful Male Sky God Cults. Starting point I too was raised Lutheran, then again, my “faith’s tenets” always seemed irrelevant to me in any way. Buddhism fits what I believe as a philosophy and...450 comments 339 Recs
- A cartoon by Pedro Molina.7 comments 156 Recs
- On November 18, 2023, the global mean temperature briefly exceeded 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.06) for the first time in recorded history, exceeding the IPCC 1850-1990 baseline (considered pre-industrial). The terrifying rise is temporary, according to...256 comments 470 Recs
- When Al-Ahly Hospital was struck weeks ago, Israel claimed that Islamic Jihad was responsible and that Israel categorically does not strike hospitals . It’s simply something they don’t do. ...715 comments 319 Recs
- As always: if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...127 comments 385 Recs
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