Oklahoma City Bombing Documentary

Just started watching this - https://www.hbo.com/movies/an-american-bombing-the-road-to-april-19th.

Seems interesting and ties right into January 6. I was shocked that President Clinton is younger than President Biden.

This is terrible

Hamas' brutality is unpardonable

And Hamas bears sole and complete responsibility for the ongoing war and deaths in Gaza. Every Democrat should condemn Hamas and calls for its immediate surrender.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787994. An excerpt:

Hamas' brutality is unpardonable

A recent post was locked because it didn’t cite a reputable news source. Here’s a largely identical story from the NY Times about the October 7 attacks and Hamas’ brutality. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html

An excerpt:

“The Times viewed photographs of one woman’s corpse that emergency responders discovered in the rubble of a besieged kibbutz with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin.

The Times also viewed a video, provided by the Israeli military, showing two dead Israeli soldiers at a base near Gaza who appeared to have been shot directly in their vaginas.”

There is no negotiating with rabid animals. They are hostis humanis generi, enemies of all mankind.

Hobbs Sends National Guard To Arizona Border

Hamas kills hundreds at music festival

Hamas is no better than ISIS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67047034.

“The number of people killed and wounded at the festival is not yet clear. It is also not known whether Hamas took anyone hostage from the party, as they have done in other towns and villages.

But Yaniv, an emergency medic who was called out to the party, told public broadcaster Kan News: "There are at least 200 bodies of Israelis in the area I was in."

"It was a massacre," he said. "I've never seen anything like it in my life. It was a planned ambush. As people came out of the emergency exits, squads of terrorists were waiting for them there and just started picking them off.”

Edited to add the link since the one above doesn’t seem to be working. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67047034.amp

Saw a post a few days ago about a member from Texas

Who is leaving DU because of the constant Texas-bashing by a group of people here who clearly don’t think that we are a big-tent party that needs to grow in every state and want to stamp out any opinion that slightly disagrees. I can’t find the post now but wanted to tell him/her to ignore those idiots. They are counterproductive and just feed into the story Republicans peddle that Democrats are elitist and unwelcoming.

Judge again finds California violates the 2d Amendment

This seems like the correct outcome. And something the current Supreme Court would affirm. https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/california-law-banning-high-capacity-gun-magazines-struck-by-judge/45272018

Where can Democrats reverse the partisan trend?

Saw a post about one of the Tennessee 3 running for Marsha Blackburn’s seat. That seems like a stretch, but got me thinking about where Democrats can make inroads in red/purple states. Georgia is a great example of recent success, and I thought for years that North Carolina might be trending towards Democrats but that doesn’t seem to be the case today. Ohio and Florida seem solidly Republican. So where can we succeed next? As a current resident of Texas, I think we’re at least a decade away there.

Toddler dies after being left alone for 10 days