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Lauren Boebert 14 points behind Democrat opponent in Colorado poll
  • No, neither candidate has won their primary yet, as the article.makes clear.

    To secure the Republican nomination for Colorado's 4th District in November Boebert will have to defeat state representatives Mike Lynch and Richard Holtorf, ex-state senator Jerry Sonnenberg, business owner Peter Yu and former talk radio presenter Deborah Flore. For the Democratic nomination McCorkle is running against engineer John Padora and ex-speechwriter Trisha Calvarese, who will also contest the special election in June.

  • Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)
  • It may well be "leftist", but it's also maximum authoritarian. Hexbears love fascism like a raccoon loves trash. If you're anything but a full-on Nazi, absolutely including being a genocide denier, you'll be relentlessly attacked on there.

  • Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)
  • I have the entire instance blocked in my client, so I can't even go searching for a thread for you. But if you don't, it should be incredibly easy to poke the hexbear, so to speak. Lemme grab you a link...

    Here, this one should work. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

    Find an appropriate sublemmy on Hexbear and post this, ideally in a context that explicitly declares you oppose genocide. You'll get nothing but the following in your thread:

    1. Accusations that you are a "shitlib". Any attempt by you to find out what this word means will result in additional mockery.
    2. Denials of the Uyghur genocide.
    3. Adoration of the CCP, especially Xi Jinping (but Hexbear likes any authoritarian tyrant in China, so any CCP politician may end up adulated).
  • Top 200 Defederated instances from the Fediverse (May 2024)
  • How bad are these that Hexbear didn't even make the list? Drilling through on the clickable version here makes it clear that the #1, poa.st, has the same basic content as Hexbear, but I'm assuming it's somehow way worse. Just imagine.

  • Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds
  • Of course not. It was only three times where the problem was asking for consent to kiss, not only three times for consent period. My consent rejection list is considerably longer than 3.

    Didn't I see you in those threads about the women choosing bears over men supporting the idea of men listening when women tell men they need to change their behaviour? Why are you now attacking me for doing it?

  • Men with 'toxic masculinity' are more likely to make sexual advances without consent, study finds
  • What's amusing is that these same people will, in other threads, bash men who take the only other feasible approach, which is the giving up you're referring to. They want to have their cake and eat it, too: in this thread, it's never ok to make a pass at a woman, but if you make a thread about being lonely, you'll be told you're a coward for not making passes at women.

  • www.pbs.org Judge says DeSantis spread false information while pushing trans health care restrictions

    Judge Robert Hinkle said during the last day of the trial that DeSantis repeated his comments even though there’s been no such documented cases of doctors castrating or mutilating children's genitals.

    Judge says DeSantis spread false information while pushing trans health care restrictions

    > TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge hearing a challenge to a transgender health care ban for minors and restrictions for adults noted Thursday that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly spread false information about doctors mutilating children’s genitals even though there’s [sic] been no such documented cases.

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    www.reuters.com Hamas frees U.S. hostages Judith and Natalie Raanan held in Gaza

    The Islamist group Hamas released two U.S. hostages, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, who were kidnapped in its attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday.

    Hamas frees U.S. hostages Judith and Natalie Raanan held in Gaza

    GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Islamist group Hamas released two U.S. hostages, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, who were kidnapped in its attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday.

    The women, who were taken from Nahal Oz kibbutz, near the Gaza border, were on their way to a military base in central Israel, a statement from Netanyahu's office said.

    Media reports in the United States said they were from Evanston, an Illinois suburb of Chicago.

    They were the first hostages to be freed since Hamas gunmen burst into Israel nearly two weeks ago, killing 1,400 people, mainly civilians, and taking around 200 hostages.

    Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, said the hostages were released in response to Qatari mediation efforts, "for humanitarian reasons, and to prove to the American people and the world that the claims made by Biden and his fascist administration are false and baseless".

    President Joe Biden in a statement thanked Qatar and Israel for their partnership in securing the pair's release.

    A Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson said the release of the hostages took place "after many days of continuous communication" and dialogue on the release of hostages would continue.

    An Israeli army statement earlier in the day said a majority of the hostages were alive.

    Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, relentlessly pounding the strip with air strikes, putting the enclave's 2.3 million people under a total siege and banning shipments of food, fuel and medical supplies.

    The secretary-general of the United Nations visited the crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt on Friday, and said humanitarian aid must be allowed across as soon as possible.

    At least 4,137 Palestinians have been killed, including hundreds of children, and 13,000 wounded in Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry said. The U.N. says more than a million have been made homeless.

    U.S. troops have come under increasing attacks in Syria and Iraq since Oct. 7, raising concerns about a possible escalation.

    A U.S. official told Reuters that a U.S. Navy warship intercepted four missiles and more than a dozen drones on Thursday near Yemen fired from Iran-aligned Houthis in the direction of Israel, more than the number announced previously. CHURCH HIT

    Israel has amassed tanks and troops near the perimeter of Gaza for an expected ground invasion.

    Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that achieving Israel's objectives would not be quick or easy.

    "We will topple the Hamas organisation. We will destroy its military and governing infrastructure. It's a phase that will not be easy. It will have a price," he told a parliamentary committee.

    He added that the subsequent phase would be more drawn out, but was aimed at achieving "a completely different security situation" with no threat to Israel from Gaza. "It's not a day, it's not a week, and unfortunately it's not a month," he said.

    The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the main Palestinian Christian denomination, said that overnight Israeli forces had struck the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, where hundreds of Christians and Muslims had sought sanctuary.

    It said targeting churches that were used as shelters for people fleeing bombing was "a war crime that cannot be ignored".

    Video from the scene showed a wounded boy being carried from rubble at night.

    "They felt they would be safe here. They came from under the bombardment and the destruction, and they said they would be safe here but destruction chased them," a man cried out.

    [1/7]Palestinians gather around residential buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in Zahra City, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Gaza City, October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Shadi Tabatibi Acquire Licensing Rights

    Gaza's Hamas-run government media office said 18 Christian Palestinians had been killed, while the health ministry later gave a toll of 16.

    The Israeli military said part of the church was damaged in a strike by fighter jets on a nearby Hamas command centre involved in launching rockets and mortars towards Israel, and that it was reviewing the incident.

    "The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) can unequivocally state that the church was not the target of the strike," it said. 'EVERYTHING I DREAMT OF' DESTROYED

    Israel has already told all civilians to evacuate the northern half of the Gaza Strip, which includes Gaza City. Many people have yet to leave saying they fear losing everything and have nowhere safe to go with southern areas also under attack.

    In Zahra, a northern Gaza town, residents said their entire district of some 25 apartment buildings was razed.

    They received Israeli warning messages on their mobile phones at breakfast, followed 10 minutes later by a small drone strike. After another 20 minutes, F-16 warplanes brought the buildings down in huge explosions and clouds of dust.

    "Everything I ever dreamt of and thought that I have achieved was gone. In that apartment was my dream, my memories with my children, and my wife, was the smell of safety and love," Ali, a resident of the district, told Reuters by phone.

    The United Nations humanitarian affairs office said more than 140,000 homes - nearly a third of all homes in Gaza - have been damaged, with nearly 13,000 completely destroyed.

    The south of the enclave has also been regularly hit. Rescue workers were combing through the wreckage of a house in the main southern city, Khan Younis, for survivors. One carried the limp body of a child.

    "We don’t want to receive aid, we want the destruction and the killing of children in their sleep to stop. We are tired," said neighbour Joumana Khreis. AID STILL HELD UP

    International attention has focused on getting aid to Gaza through the one access point not controlled by Israel, the Rafah crossing to Egypt.

    Biden, who visited Israel on Wednesday, said he believed trucks carrying aid would get through in the next 24-48 hours.

    U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toured the checkpoint on Egypt's side and called for a meaningful number of trucks to enter Gaza every day and checks - which Israel insists on to stop aid reaching Hamas - to be quick and pragmatic.

    "We are actively engaging with all parties to make sure conditions for delivering aid are lifted," he said.

    Western leaders have so far mostly offered support to Israel's campaign against Hamas, although there is mounting unease about the plight of civilians in Gaza.

    Many Muslim states, however, have called for an immediate ceasefire, and protests demanding an end to the bombardment were held in cities across the Islamic world on Friday.

    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Israel to end "its operations amounting to genocide".

    The conflict is spreading to two other fronts.

    Clashes at the border between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have been the deadliest since a full-blown war in 2006, with Israel ordering the evacuation of more than 20,000 residents from the border town of Kiryat Shmona on Friday.

    The West Bank, where Palestinians have limited self-rule under Israeli military occupation, has experienced the deadliest clashes since the second intifada uprising ended in 2005.

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    www.theguardian.com Biden impeachment inquiry ‘eight months of abject failure’, watchdog report says

    The Congressional Integrity Project reports on several inconsistencies and untruths in James Comer’s investigation

    Biden impeachment inquiry ‘eight months of abject failure’, watchdog report says

    The Congressional Integrity Project reports on several inconsistencies and untruths in James Comer’s House investigation

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    (Opinion) Jim Jordan is abusing his power. Fani Willis should call his bluff.

    www.msnbc.com Opinion | Jim Jordan is abusing his power. Fani Willis should call his bluff.

    Congress can’t use its investigative power to engage in law enforcement. Yet that's exactly what Jordan is trying to do — again.

    Opinion | Jim Jordan is abusing his power. Fani Willis should call his bluff.
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    Court Finds that Texas Law Requiring the Rejection of Mail Ballots and Applications Violates the Civil Rights Act

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