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Net kreeg een stel @NS_online medewerkers een vraag:
“Jullie weten bijna alles he?!”
De ene antwoordde met: “Bijna alles”
Maar die daarnaast zei zachtjes “42”
Dankjewel 🤣
Anouk 🌻 retweeted
“This Is How the World Sees Israel Now.”
In this episode of Palestine Deep Dive, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, and Irish journalist and commentator Barry Malone join Ahmed Alnaouq for a wide-ranging discussion on Zionism, anti-Zionism, media complicity and the language shaping public debate around Israel and Palestine.
Drawing on the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the conversation explores Britain’s role in the Zionist movement, the politics of antisemitism and the silencing of dissent. They also examine the Green Party’s recent adoption of its “Zionism is Racism” motion and the debate it has sparked.
With Israeli elections bringing renewed attention to Benjamin Netanyahu, the discussion also addresses whether a change of prime minister would address the deeper questions of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights.
@benjaminfmoser | @malonebarry | @AlnaouqA
Now THIS is something that I think is a very, very good idea!
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please ❤️ and share if you support this idea!
Anouk 🌻 retweeted
It’s way easier than that, Dan. Men can end abortion without making it illegal simply by choosing to ejaculate responsibly so they don’t cause any unwanted pregnancies. It’s as easy as condoms and vasectomies. Bonus: condoms also protect from STIs.
Anouk 🌻 retweeted
People like Sam Altman are part of what’s wrong with this world. They need to be stopped before they cause irreversible damage. What does he mean the world needs to accept that people will get hurt for AI to advance? Who gave these people the authority to gamble with everyone else’s future?
Anouk 🌻 retweeted
“This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war”
“Hoe kan ik nog meer aan mensen verdienen?”
Directeur ChatGPT: het is erg dat mensen geheugen in hun pc hebben zitten ift.tt/6nSuhTm
