Qatar is the sixth country Israel bombed this year, interrupting ceasefire negotiations in a war progressives say U.S. support makes possible.

Israel’s bombing of the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday marked the sixth country the powerful U.S. ally attacked so far this year.

U.S. and Israeli officials told CNN and other outlets on Tuesday that Israel — which the U.S. arms to the tune of billions of dollars each year — gave President Donald Trump’s administration advance warning before carrying out the strike. The attack drew ire from progressive members of Congress, who told The Intercept that the U.S. must stop arming Israel as it accelerates attacks around the globe.

“In the past two years, Israel has bombed nation after nation with no repurcussions—all while conducting a genocide and manufacturing a famine in Gaza using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn. “There must be accountability for Israel’s unchecked power and destabilization of the region. The United States must implement an arms embargo immediately.”

Israel has carried out tens of thousands of attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and now Qatar since the October 7 Hamas attacks, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. In the last three days, Israel bombed three residential buildings in Gaza City and dropped leaflets ordering residents to evacuate.

  • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    Huge in popular vote but as we live in a country where land means more than people in presidental elections it was super close

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/did-biden-win-little-or-lot-answer-yes-n1251845

    Throughout Trump’s time in the White House, much has been made of how he won the presidency by under 78,000 votes in three states. And that point was true. Trump won because of narrow margins in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

    But the margins this year were even tighter in the three states that put Biden over the top in the Electoral College. He won Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin by a total of less than 45,000 votes.

    No please list his accomplishments. It’s fun seeing what others consider them.

    They totally helped people which is why he won in a landslide

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You may google them yourself and then explain how they didn’t help.

      Healthcare, unions, student loan forgiveness, and a huge move to renewables and cutting down big oil among them. Are you actually a progressive or do the things that matter to you not apply anywhere in all of it?

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 days ago

        We didn’t get Healthcare improvements, and he let what little was gotten from covid expire.

        Unions is debatable on what he improved after using his powers to stop rail workers. And not doing anything when fed decided to use interest rates to remove any workers wage growth.

        Ah yes student loans, totally did that not drop it once courts said no.

        He drilled more but may be green deal would have done something if not cut to the bone before trump just kills the rest.

        Are you actually a progressive or do the things that matter to you not apply anywhere in all of it?

        Oh and now we’re to the if you don’t like the dnc you must be on the right

        • Optional@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          No, you just seem to be incapable of seeing anything good in the DNC. Which, considering *gestures to everything* is some kind if accomplishment.

          the American Rescue Plan,

          The American Rescue Plan Act provided for direct economic stimulus payments to individual taxpayers with incomes of $75,000 or less. The Act also allocated $350 billion in assistance to state and local governments, $14 billion for COVID-19 vaccine distribution, and $130 billion to schools to help them safely re-open for in-person instruction. The Act included $300 billion in unemployment benefits that were scheduled to extend through Labor Day 2021, as well as an expanded child tax credit. In addition, the Act called for the distribution of $50 billion to small businesses and another $25 billion for relief for small and mid-sized restaurants. The Act expanded eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and gave states incentives to expand Medicaid.

          “Bah”

          Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act

          • $110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects;
          • $11 billion for transportation safety programs;
          • $39 billion to modernize transit and improve accessibility;
          • $66 billion for passenger and freight rail;
          • $7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers;
          • $73 billion to overhaul the nation’s power infrastructure, clean energy transmission, and overall energy policy;
          • $65 billion for broadband development.

          The law makes the Minority Business Development Agency a permanent agency. It authorizes the DOT to create an organization called the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Infrastructure (ARPA–I), with a broad remit over transportation research akin to [DARPA] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA “DARPA”

          “Feh”

          the CHIPS and Science Act

          The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductorsin the United States, for which it appropriates $52.7 billion.[1][2][3] The act includes $39 billion in subsidies for chip manufacturing on U.S. soil along with 25% investment tax credits for costs of manufacturing equipment, and $13 billion for semiconductor research and workforce training, with the dual aim of strengthening American supply chain resilience and countering China.[4][5]: 1  It also invests $174 billion in the overall ecosystem of public sector research in science and technology, advancing human spaceflight, quantum computing, materials science, biotechnology, experimental physics, research security, social and ethical considerations, workforce development and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at NASA, NSF, DOE, EDA, and NIST.

          “Meh”

          the Inflation Reduction Act

          According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the law will raise $738 billion from tax reform and prescription drug reform to lower prices, as well as authorize $891 billion in total spending – including $783 billion on energy and climate change, and three years of Affordable Care Act subsidies.[1][7] It represents the largest investment towards addressing climate change in United States history.[8]According to several independent analyses, the law is projected to reduce 2030 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 40% below 2005 levels.[9][10] It also includes a large expansion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including the hiring of up to 87,000 new employees to replace tens of thousands of recent departures, which led to over $1 billion being collected in past-due taxes from millionaires and other high-wealth individuals by July 2024.[11][12][a] The Act is not generally believed to have reduced inflation in 2022 and 2023,[13][14] although some economists predict it will bring down inflation in the medium-to-long term.[15][16]

          “Whatever”

          All of which have been fed into the shredder to feed billionaires more money they won’t even notice because “Harris loves genocide” ffs.

          • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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            3 days ago

            Yes things either watered down to nothing or did good then not extended like the child tax credits that massively decreased child poverty until allowed to expire.

            The jobs act was cut up after 1 spoiler forced then to take it to pieces anything meaningful due to the deficit.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Plan#American_Jobs_Plan

            Student loans he allowed to restart interest on in capitulation to the republicans after doing nothing to help out those with the loans after his militoast forgiveness plan was thrown out by the courts.

            This is all perfect examples of doing nothing but hand outs to cooperations, not people and then dems wondering why no one liked what they did.