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Two related stories this morning. One on poverty worsening and the other on House Republicans' slashing public assistance for Americans with low-income: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/n...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
House Passes G.O.P. Budget Teeing Up Enormous Tax and Spending Cuts
The vote cleared the way to enact major elements of President Trump’s domestic agenda and escalated a bitter fight among Republicans over what federal programs to shrink to finance major tax cuts.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Netanyahu's habit of taking credit for events he was previously wrong about, or had no impact on, is a transparent exercise in manipulative distortion of the truth. Now, after tacitly supporting Assad through the Syrian civil war, he wants credit for the fall of his regime / Alon Pinkas
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December 15, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Like Putin, Erdoğan, and Orbán, Netanyahu is trying to silence a critical, independent newspaper. Haaretz will not balk and will not morph into a pamphlet that publishes messages approved by the government and its leader.
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November 24, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Una Mullally on the Brian Thompson assassination: One wonders when new forms of mass-cruelty kick in as the new Trump regime takes hold, what kind of wars will end up coming “home”? Perhaps they have already begun.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
Una Mullally: Do you cry for a dead health-insurance boss, or for the victims of his industry?
Social media commentary around the killing of Brian Thompson was almost universal in its lack of empathy
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM