Yashar Ali 🐘
@yashar
Israeli media is reporting that the Israeli government is unlikely to accept the deal as it is one-sided.
1:11 PM · May 6, 2024

Michael Kaplan 🇮🇱
@OfficialKappy
Yashar, Hamas didn’t agree to the deal on the table. They agreed to a separate deal, that is in fact one-sided, with the sole purpose to influence western media. Your tweet is the outcome of that intended outcome of Hamas. I hope you add context to this.
1:28 PM · May 6, 2024

Only applies to people making 1 million or more in taxable income and according to Forbes there are loopholes in the plan-it will only affect a very small amount of people. . Vast majority of Americans, even Republicans,  believe billionaires should pay a higher tax rate.

Yes they have the top tax rate but they have so many ways to take income as loans at the top tax rate is  never met or avoided entirely

NYT   article  top 400 billionaires only paid 23% of their wealth in taxes each year due to loopholes and such in 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html

Says the tax the "rich" "conservative"...

All good as long as it is someone else that pays. While you cheat on your taxes...

Really love the "wealth" part in taxes... Not income, but wealth...

I just did a quick search. There have been threads posted here about Starliner for the past 5 years or more. I hope the doors don't fall off.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Although Boeing got $4.2 billion to develop an astronaut capsule and SpaceX only got $2.6 billion, SpaceX finished 4 years sooner.
Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1.
Too many non-technical managers at Boeing.
1:13 PM · May 6, 2024

Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace
Here's my deep dive into why Starliner is seven years late.
From arstechnica.com: The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all; "The structural inefficiency was a huge deal."
8:15 AM · May 6, 2024

 Biden Admin Officials Coordinated With Anti-Israel Group To Isolate Israeli Jews in West Bank, Emails Show
DAWN is leveraging clout with the Biden administration to push sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes


Adam Kredo   
May 6, 2024

Senior Biden administration officials have been coordinating since at least early 2022 with an outside anti-Israel group to isolate Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, internal government emails show.

The previously unreported emails show top officials at both the State and Defense Departments fielding concerns from Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a human rights group that is highly critical of the Israeli government and has lobbied the Biden administration to cut off military aid to the Jewish state.

At the time, DAWN sparked an internal push at both departments to stop American officials from engaging with Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank and other contested areas of Jerusalem. DAWN is leveraging its clout with the Biden administration to push fresh sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes, having provided the State Department with a list of Israelis to punish. DAWN's anti-Israel lobbying campaign traces back to at least 2022, with the internal government emails shining new light on the level of access and influence it peddles inside the Biden administration.

In February of that year, DAWN's then-advocacy director, Adam Shapiro, emailed two top Pentagon officials—Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Jennifer Zakriski, then the deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

In the email, Shapiro raised concerns about U.S. officials engaging with Israeli "settlers," citing "media reports documenting a trip to Hebron by 2 US military officers, organized by an [Israel Defense Forces] commander and hosted by a settler affiliated with the Hebron Fund," a nonprofit group that provides education about the city of Hebron's Jewish history.

"From where I sit," Shapiro wrote, "I think this raises serious questions about the purpose of this trip to occupied territory and the ideological nature of the presentation and messaging—and seeming endorsement by US military personnel."

more
https://freebeacon.com/israel/biden-admin-officials-coordinated-with-anti-israel-group-to-isolate-israeli-jews-in-west-bank-emails-show/

Why Everyone Thinks Biden Had an Accident in Front of the Press Corps

"Why?"  Because nearly everyone has seen a small child strike that pose when they have to "go".  Some people have seen adults suffering from dementia do the same thing.  Biden is obviously suffering from dementia, so the conclusion is obvious.