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soandso's JournalWhat is this weapon?
Photos from Israel's attacks on Hezbollah. It looks like rays of hot sparks or molten something and it covers a lot of ground.
"Uncomitted" demanding an arms embargo on Israel
"We welcome President Harris to Michigan and we hope that she hears Michigan's very clear request that we stop sending bombs to kill people we love," Alawieh said. "And I also want to be very clear that ... what the uncommitted national movement is saying is that if Vice President Harris embraces an arms embargo, we will drop everything we're doing and endorse Vice President Harris, and make sure that we proactively encourage the voters who have believed in this movement to vote for Vice President Harris, even through our pain."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/08/07/uncommitted-leaders-demand-kamala-harris-back-israel-weapons-embargo-to-get-presidential-endorsement/74699770007/
While I would like to see an arms embargo for every country, I don't see this as likely to happen, especially with Israel. Thoughts?
WH and campaign aides didn't know Biden was dropping out
I've seen posts claiming Biden made the decision days ago but it doesn't look like that's true. Some saying they found out by tweet, others notified one minute before tweet posted.
https://x.com/politico/status/1815098672113402138
Steve Ricchetti, who’s been with Biden since his days in the Senate, drove to see the president at his house on the Delaware shore on Friday. Mike Donilon arrived on Saturday. The two men, both of whom had been by Biden’s side during key decisions about whether to seek the presidency in 2016 and 2020, sat at a distance from the president, still testing positive for Covid, and presented damning new information in a meeting that would hasten the end of Biden’s political career.
In addition to presenting new concerns from lawmakers and updates on a fundraising operation that had slowed considerably, they carried the campaign’s own polls, which came back this week and showed his path to victory in November was gone, according to five people familiar with the matter, who, like others interviewed for this article, were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. Biden asked several questions during the exchange.
The only other people with Biden in the residence when he arose Sunday were first lady Jill Biden and two other trusted aides: deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and assistant to the first lady Anthony Bernal. At 1:45 p.m., he notified a somewhat larger group of close aides that he had decided the night before to end his quest for another term, reading his letter and thanking them for their service. A minute later, before any other campaign and White House staffers could be notified, he posted the historic letter from his campaign account on the social media site X.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/21/why-biden-dropped-out-00170106
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