Day: April 25, 2024

Some people are always ready for a fight

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Police tangled with student demonstrators in Texas and California while new encampments sprouted Wednesday at Harvard and other colleges as school leaders sought ways to defuse a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions has won approval from the state House. It’s unclear exactly where the Supreme Court will land after hearing arguments about Idaho’s abortion ban. TikTok pushes back on pending U.S. ban if it doesn’t sell the company. We talk to Seth Schachner, Managing Director of Strat Americas, a Los Angeles-based consultancy that provides strategic guidance and helps clients with media and technology partnerships. And NASA is talking to Voyager 1 again! It’s 24 billion kilometers from Earth. That’s the farthest any object has made it into deep space. We talk with Linda J. Spilker at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Donald Trump is not only prone to exaggeration, but he is the king. He has been updating his Truth Social with activities surrounding his trial, and as usual, those posts exaggerate literally everything. It seems to work on his followers, so he continues to do it. It is a classic tale of how greed and stupidity can converge to line someone’s pockets, namely Donald Trump.

According to Reuters, Trump’s campaign team has been firing off daily emails to small donors, saying things like “I could be locked up for life,” and “I should be campaigning across America and fighting for our country. But instead, I’m stuck in Biden’s corrupt court AGAIN.” His donors have either finally figured out that they’re being duped, they’ve run out of money, or he just doesn’t have that many. Either way, his fundraising is noticeably short compared to what he raised in 2020. He has also been calling his supporters to rally outside the courtroom in New York, and he is busily trying to refute what’s appearing in the mainstream media. For example, he wrote on Truth Social: “PRAYING not sleeping!!” Hilarious. Trump knows more about “preying” than he does “praying.”

Trump complained that the police are turning away his supporters. He wrote: “Lower Manhattan surrounding the Courthouse, where I am heading now, is completely CLOSED DOWN. SO UNFAIR!!!” He sounds like a whining child. He went on to write: “People who LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to ‘Peacefully Protest,’ and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far ‘holding areas.’” None of this is true. The media is obviously all around the courthouse. CNN reported that people are indeed allowed outside the courthouse, and traffic is moving as normal despite heightened security. Reporters saw one-count him one-supporter outside the courthouse with a Trump flag. Guess they’re just not that into him anymore. When all else fails, Trump writes a “poor me” type of post, hoping to rile up his supporters. He should, however, be paying more attention to how he is riling up Judge Merchan.

The prosecutors in his case have not asked for Trump to be jailed; they asked for $1,000 per violation, which adds to up $10,000 or 10 violations. Judge Merchan decided to take the contempt matter under advisement. It doesn’t matter to Trump; he has merely continued his lies, claiming to have “stormed out” of the courtroom one day (which didn’t happen), and his claims of several “emergency” news conferences (which also didn’t happen the way he describes). These lies work well with his supporters, as he has raised $5.6 million this week. Regardless, he seems to maintain an even keel whenever in the courtroom.

Trump talks a big game, but he’s scared of Judge Juan Merchan. In a sense, he is afraid because Judge Merchan has the power to throw his ass in jail. Yet, he still gets behind his computer screen and writes nasty posts about him. That, my friends, is the behavior of a classic coward.

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(NewsNation) —  A leader of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University says anyone can be among them if they follow “community guidelines.”

But Khymani James’ words, and the actions of fellow protesters, said something very different Sunday night, according to NewsNation’s “On Balance.”

“People can have entrance to our encampment as long as they’re respecting community guidelines,” James told reporters Wednesday, “the most important one being that we do not allow for any discrimination or bigotry of any kind.”

That was not the case Sunday night, when three Jewish students quietly walked through the crowd on the Columbia campus.

“We have Zionists who have entered the camp,” James announced, before instructing followers to form a human chain. “Walk and take a step forward so that we can start to push them out of the camp,” he continued.

“Within three minutes, someone starts screaming, ‘Mic check, mic check. Zionists has entered our camp,’” student Jessica Schwalb told NewsNation.

“We’re surrounded by probably 200 people in the dark. They’re all linked together … and we’re just looking at each other,” she added.

The incident appeared to end when the Jewish students left. While James is among those attempting to negotiate a resolution on the demonstration with Columbia, rhetoric from both sides is heating up.

“This is clear antisemitism,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told “On Balance.” She joined House Speaker Mike Johnson at Columbia on Wednesday and met with Jewish students.

“Not only have they been bullied and threatened, some of them have been assaulted, spat on,” Mallioitakis said. “They’ve walked around campus and seen swastikas painted.”

The New York Republican also had harsh words for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik.

“The president of the university clearly has no plan to end it. Instead, she’s just hoping that they leave. She has shown that she has completely lost control of the campus,” Malliaotakis said. Columbia announced that classes will be a hybrid of in-person and remote for the rest of this semester.

Meanwhile, a businessman and publisher of The Arab American News Osama Siblani blames Israel for the unrest.

“Israel has committed mass murder,” Siblani said. “How many people we should let Israel kill before we start calling it a genocide?”

Siblani also defended the chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as a slogan that long pre-dates the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

“These are not organized chants,” he said. “These are chants we have heard for … decades. The situation did not start (on) October 7. It started in 1948,” when Israel was declared a sovereign nation.

The “river to the sea” chant has very different meanings to both sides. Palestinians say it’s a call for peace and equality after 75 years of Israeli occupation and rule. Jews consider it a call to destroy Israel.

U.S. university campuses are seeing pro-Palestinian protests daily. Students are demonstrating against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and demanding that humanitarian aid be allowed to flow into the territory. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.

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