ybruti's Profile
Groups: Community Spotlight, Readers and Book Lovers, Adalah — A Just Middle East, Central Valley Kossacks, Climate Change SOS, Regenerative Culture for an Altered Planet, DKG Solidarity, ClimateBrief
Diaries published: 215 (1 day since last diary on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 09:58 PM PST)
Comments posted: 12411 (0 days since last comment on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:17 PM PST)
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Total Comment Ratings: 22255
Most Recommended Diary: Lewis Lapham on impeachment, 787 comments, 355 recommends
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If you are unfamiliar with the story, here’s a link to what we posted on Dec. 4th: Palestinian college students shot in Vermont last week Two of the three 20-year-old students are expected to recover completely. The third, Hisham Awartani, has a bullet...
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 09:58 PM PST
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Three Palestinian college students walking last week in Burlington, Vermont were shot at close range by a man who had been sitting on his front porch and walked off to shoot them. The New York Times, which has the story in detail, says that while two...
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 09:43 AM PST
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A New York Times article (Nov. 28) says Biden’s words and actions after the Oct. 7 attacks made many in the Arab and Muslim community feel like they and the civilians in Gaza were “an afterthought.” Accordingly, leaders in the community met with Biden...
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on Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 01:11 PM PST
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Earlier this week, we highlighted an article by Ali Awad that was published on Nov. 20 in the New York Times. The son of a sheepherder, Ali Awad was born in 1988 on the West Bank. He grew up in Tuba, a village of 80 in the South Hebron Hills, where his...
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 08:10 AM PST
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If you have a little time today, you might like to read O. Henry's Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (1907). A short summary: “Stuffy Pete, a homeless New Yorker, always meets a kind older gentleman in Union Square on Thanksgiving who treats him to...
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 11:24 AM PST
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by Ali Awad, New York Times, Nov. 20 The Palestinian writer Ali Awad was born in 1998 in Tuba, a village of 80 in the South Hebron Hills on the West Bank, where his family has lived for generations. He describes life there: Since I can remember, life...
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on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 07:34 AM PST
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- When the news came Monday that the small quiet gym I’d been attending for the past year was closing, I decided it was time for me to move across the street to The Studio in Mill Valley and sign up ...63 comments 29 Recs
- The Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, successfully intensified the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the past, Israeli terrorists attempted to do the same. In 1984, Israeli security forces prevented a Jewish terrorist plot to destroy the Dome...2 comments 8 Recs
- Cassidy Hutchinson was once Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadow’s right-hand woman. She has a rare gift. She radiates honesty. And in modest, calm tones, Hutchinson conveys Trump’s unstable nature better than a raft of professional pundits. She spoke...32 comments 146 Recs
- When I say “the NRA” I mean every member, and also every politician who has accepted money from the National Rifle Association to fund their campaigns. An issue that is closely related to gun violence in the USA is the problem of politicians legally...2 comments 12 Recs
- Every vote counts — and it’s okay to vote for yourself. What Roth didn’t know was that he was casting the decisive ballot in a race that would be determined by one vote. His opponent, Damion Green, had chosen not to vote for himself in the election,...3 comments 10 Recs
- Well, last week I had a minor financial crisis that is eminently survivable but also very unsettling and a super-duper pain in the neck. It centered on losing a nice part-time job when the home health agency I was working for closed down. The owner was...18 comments 34 Recs
- If you’re unaware of Drilled, an award-winning website dedicated to focusing on climate accountability, you would do well to add it to your collection of substacks to read and support. It was founded six years ago by veteran climate reporter Amy...22 comments 135 Recs
- Waiting on you, Arizona. The Nevada AG indicted 6 people involved in the fake elector scheme, joining GA in prosecuting on state charges for submitting false paperwork. the people who were charged are: Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald,...27 comments 95 Recs
- Ten Republicans who posed as fake electors for former President Donald Trump in Wisconsin and filed paperwork falsely saying he had won the battleground state have settled a civil lawsuit and admitted their actions were part of an effort to overturn...55 comments 93 Recs
- Protecting insurrectionists:228 comments 449 Recs
