NYT:

The target of the strike was Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, according to two Israeli and two American officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Nasrallah was in the buildings when they were hit.

Al Mayadeen:

20:17: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was speaking with his Israeli Security Minister as the operation was ongoing: Pentagon

20:16 The United States did not have advanced warning of an Israeli strike in Beirut: Pentagon

20:08 Senior US officials denied Israeli claims that “Israel” notified the US minutes before the strike in Beirut, telling Axios they had no prior warning

Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar

Article

The envisioned changes would make it much harder for officials to end the partial asylum ban by tweaking the threshold at which it would be deactivated.

. . .

Under the changes, however, the asylum restrictions would only deactivate if the seven-day average stays below 1,500 for 28 days. It would also include more migrants in the deactivation trigger’s calculations. Currently, crossings by non-Mexican unaccompanied children are excluded. The updated calculations would include all unaccompanied children.

Naturally the article goes on to accept all sorts of false premises about immigrants, refuses to examine the ways in which Biden and Trump have violated international law (beyond some token, detail-free quotations from the ACLU), and never once uses the word “refugee” or asks why people might want to flee their homes.

Yeah - the article says “for the dozen states, including Texas and California, where sports gambling is still illegal, the solution is simple: change nothing,” but because of these apps, it’s trivially easy for Californians to gamble on sports.

Second only to landlording

Tablet is as deranged as it gets. They also print explicitly pro-genocide Kahanist articles.

They’re so mad at him for outgrowing their shitty magazine:

Within the failure Coates sees in the magazine article that launched him toward fame lie strata not only of guilt but also, it seems, of searing anger. Thinking back to when he wrote it, he remembers himself as a journalist all too willing to tread tactically and tactfully at the “hallowed and lauded” and white-led publication that gave him a platform, and all too ready to conform to what he believes is the governing Israel-friendly outlook of the mostly white media world.

Later they Baruch Goldstein.

no punishment for effectively performing a state execution of a mere shoplifter

CNN (2023/05/17) San Francisco security guard will not be charged in fatal shooting of suspected Walgreens shoplifter

SF Chronicle: Police are deliberately ramming suspects’ cars. Dozens have died — including bystanders

Since 2017, at least 87 people across the country have been killed after police officers rammed vehicles they were pursuing, often at extremely high speeds, a Chronicle investigation found.

Nearly half of those who died — 37 people, including seven children — were not the fleeing drivers. Instead, they were passengers or bystanders. In Tifton, Ga., a grandmother was killed when a fleeing car deliberately struck by police careened into her front yard.

Isn’t there also a statue of Ronald Reagan in Tbilisi?

In The Ox-Bow Incident at least one hangs himself, but these people only feel shame when they’re fictional.

They’re into that kind of thing

Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by 6 votes to 3 that a claim of actual innocence does not entitle a petitioner to federal habeas corpus relief by way of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Or, as the Onion has put it, “Supreme Court Overturns Right v. Wrong.”

Many such cases

trying to convince everyone to think of themselves as inconvenienced consumers

Human traffickers SLAMMED for misleading advertisements

I heard he jumped a turnstile

Read receipts are fascist

Anyone know what to expect with the possible International Longshoremen’s Association strike?

Some articles:

Reuters: US Labor department reaches out to employer group amid possible port strike

NYT: A Looming East Coast Port Strike Could Shake the Economy

In a rerun of their fearmongering over the railroad strike two years ago, the NYT is emphasizing that this could ruin Christmas:

Chris Butler, the chief executive of the National Tree Company, which sells artificial Christmas trees and other decorations, said his company had brought in goods early and made greater use of West Coast ports. But he estimated that 15 percent of his goods would still be stranded by a port strike.

Jacobin: East Coast Longshore Workers May Soon Strike

Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas are still alive, but we should also develop the technology to resurrect Rehnquist, Scalia, O’Connor, and White to really test where they draw the line on cruel and unusual punishment.