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And yet many military personnel in our nation, continue to support everything the Republicans do.
Go figure.

Last decade I noticed that the estimates gave the Hasidic towns much slower growth than what would make sense for such places, and the 2020 census corrected these estimates with much higher numbers.

Looks like the census estimates are mostly back to making the same mistakes: Lakewood and and New Square show minimal growth, and Bloomingburg shows a small decrease. The one exception is
kiryas Joel which shows very high growth, even higher than would be expected purely from high birth rates.

I don´t like "always mask leftists", but this is too much. People with health canditions do exist.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

The south has long time been antiunion, even when they kind of supported fiscal progresivism in the 1930s.

Why?

Jury will probably be deliberating this day so he needs to be in NY in case they come back.

It's possible the verdict could drop DURING this rally.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

I think there's a cultural aspect to it too (We're not Yankee Socialists etc..) and how unions have been associated as such in that region since at least the 1950's, but the sooner labor can convince them that they support them the better.

Always a bad sign when people vote against unionization of their workforce. With the benefits of having a union(better pay, pension plan) you will be better off than what you will be getting at the rate you are working. Hope unions will continue campaigning in the deep red South, because to revitalize labor in the US we need to target the right to work states run by enemies of the worker. You can't have worker solidarity in one region without having the backing of the rest of the nation.

Bill Clinton was the establishment pick long before the 1992 campaign began.  TIME Magazine ran a cover on Bill Clinton in 1991; they didn't do that for anyone else.

Clinton was a moderately liberal Southerner who was able to carry some Southern states and be competitive in others.  Brown (who I voted for) still had the Governor Moonbeam image, and he also had a Loser Image.  His stronger-than-expected showing in 1992 allowed him to completely reinvent himself and regain the Governorship of California.  Most people thought Jerry Brown was through in 1982, but his reinvention of himself was truly masterful. 

Garland should receive the same treatment as Peter Navarro if he fails to comply with the subpoena.

The tape of Biden's interview with Robert Hur is not a matter of Executive Privilege.  The people have a right to see their President respond to the questions asked, and they should be able to make up their own mind as to his level of cognitive functioning, given Hur's comments as to not charging Biden due to his forgetfulness.

Biden possessed classified documents he had no right to, and, unlike Trump, he had no power to declassify them.  He did this for decades.  The elements of the crime were met, and the idea that Biden "cooperated with the National Archives and investigators is beside the point; the cooperation was, in Biden's case, decades too late.

The American people are entitled to see this, regardless of the effect it may have on the Presidential election.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17/more-than-70-percent-of-brits-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-report

London, United Kingdom – More than 70 percent of British people support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, a new survey indicates as pressure rises on the government to adopt a firmer stance against Israel.

Among those who voted for the governing Conservative Party in 2019, 67 percent backed an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, according to the poll released on Friday and commissioned by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU).

ers backed the call, while only 8 percent of respondents said there should not be a ceasefire.

The United Kingdom has refused to call for an immediate ceasefire.

In December, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock wrote in The Times, “We do not believe that calling right now for a general and immediate ceasefire, hoping it somehow becomes permanent, is the way forward.”

Such a call “ignores why Israel is forced to defend itself”, they wrote. “Hamas barbarically attacked Israel and still fires rockets to kill Israeli citizens every day. Hamas must lay down its arms.”

But as the war rages on and bodies pile up across Gaza, a large section of society finds the government’s stance untenable.

The survey has come more than seven months into Israel’s latest and deadliest war on Gaza, which has killed, to date, more than 35,000 people, mostly women and children.

Israeli forces launched a ground invasion of the Strip after Hamas, which governs the enclave, attacked southern Israel on October 7. During that assault, which sharply escalated the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict, 1,139 people were killed and hundreds were taken captive.

“These polls clearly show that both the government and Labour leadership are out of touch with British public opinion. What’s particularly disappointing is the Labour Party’s failure to challenge the government,” Heather, a pro-Palestine activist, told Al Jazeera.

“We’ve started to see Labour frontbenchers back-pedalling on their position on Gaza, and while the term ‘lasting ceasefire’ is now being used by the party, they still refuse to call for an ‘immediate’ ceasefire.”
tween May 1 and 2.

“The government and the Labour leadership continue to lag sluggishly behind British public opinion by failing to take the decisive actions needed to help bring the horrors we see in Gaza to a swift end – a trend also highlighted in polls across Europe,” said Caabu director Chris Doyle.

“There is little confidence in the leadership of both the main parties in the handling of this major international crisis.”

With Israel expanding its military incursion into Rafah, a densely populated area in southern Gaza, calls for the UK to halt its military ties to Israel have grown louder.