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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- Right-wing chud [Charlie Kirk]([link removed]) lecturing women on attractiveness, which is particularly brave considering his head is a melted square.

International outcry over the Israeli attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers continued on Wednesday—including a sharp rebuke from the group’s founder, chef José Andrés.  

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In an emotional interview with Reuters, [Andrés said that the Israeli attack that killed his workers in Gaza targeted them]([link removed]) “systematically, car by car.” He continued: “This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place…This was over a 1.5, 1.8 kilometers, with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof, a very colorful logo.” Andrés called for investigations of the incident by the U.S. government and the governments of every home country of the seven aid workers. He also published an [op-ed in the New York Times]([link removed]) on Wednesday detailing his group’s work and memorializing the seven WCK staff who perished on Monday night. He called on Israel to “open more land routes for food and medicine today,” and “stop killing civilians and aid workers today.” 

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IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi released a rare statement on Tuesday saying “the strike was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers. It was a mistake that followed a misidentification—at night during a war in very complex conditions.” But Andrés and many others noted that [WCK had been coordinating its movements with Israeli military officials]([link removed]) for months, and had clearance to drive that route. United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a briefing on Tuesday that more than 180 humanitarian aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the war began on October 7.

 

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Videos of the attack and its aftermath [obtained by the Washington Post]([link removed]) showed the bodies of the deceased, some that were damaged beyond recognition, and others that were identified by the passport photos open on their vests. Seif Issam Abu Taha, the Palestinian man who drove the vehicle, was still wearing his WCK t-shirt. Chris Cobb-Smith, a security consultant and former weapons officer in the British army, said that the “small, confined detonation” suggests that the vehicles were struck with a drone-fired missile that is “very accurate with significant penetrating power.”

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Andrés spoke to President Biden on Tuesday. The following day, he told Reuters: “The U.S must do more to tell Prime Minister Netanyahu this war needs to end now.” 

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Andrés expressed his confusion that “America is going to be sending its Navy and its military to do humanitarian work,” while simultaneously sending weapons that “are killing civilians.” Multiple reports described Biden as “privately enraged” by the strike, and he issued a statement declaring himself “outraged” and calling for “accountability.” Still, [the White House has no plans to change its policy towards Israel]([link removed]).  Elise Jordan, a former advisor to Condoleeza Rice and the Bush Administration’s National Security Council spokesperson, [told MSNBC]([link removed]) that she was “so sick of hearing about how upset President Biden is. The buck stops with him. If he wants to stop arms sales, if he wants to stop the bombs that are indiscriminately killing civilians, he can. He has the power.”

 

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But after almost six months of fighting, Biden has rebuffed any calls to use real American leverage. The administration argues that such restrictions or conditioning would break America’s relationship with Israel, and that it would end the influence the U.S. has over Israel in protecting civilians. Critics of the administration’s handling of the conflict push back on that assertion, arguing that with conservative estimates of well over 30,000 civilians killed in Gaza, and the rest of the enclave on the brink of mass starvation, American influence over Israeli policy has been insufficient already. 

Former White House Deputy National Security Adviser and co-host of [Pod Save The World]([link removed]) Ben Rhodes [said on MSNBC on Tuesday]([link removed]): “We keep hearing these statements [from the White House] that they object to the way Israel is carrying out its military strategy…[but] if there are no substantive consequences for those actions, if the U.S. weapons and support just continues…I just don’t know that that’s working in impacting Israeli calculus.” 

 

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[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is taking a politically malignant new step to keep his country in the fight]([link removed]) against Russia’s invasion after two years of brutal warfare: Lowering the draft age. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy signed that plan and two other measures into law as part of an effort to replenish the ranks of his country’s beleaguered armed forces. The nation’s parliament passed legislation lowering the draft eligibility age from 27 to 25 last May, but Zelenskyy had delayed signing the plan into law in hopes that such a drastic and politically unpopular step wouldn’t need to be taken. But Ukraine’s army—which currently stands at about one million soldiers—is fighting the largest war in Europe since World War II. Casualty rates are high, and most Ukranians who wanted to volunteer for the war effort have already done so. Small protests opposing the draft broke out shortly before the new laws were passed. Kyiv heavily relies on its allies for funding and weapons, and even with further American aid, at best its army is expected only to hold existing lines in ground fighting this year. The country’s parliament introduced (then withdrew, then reintroduced) laws to increase mobilization that would include harsher penalties for draft dodgers, but the policy’s national unpopularity makes the bill’s fate unclear. 

[The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years occurred on Wednesday]([link removed]), killing 9 people and injuring 900 more. Another 50 people are missing.

A new Wall Street Journal poll shows disgraced former president [Donald Trump leading President Biden in six out of seven swing states]([link removed]). 

On a related note, [almost 50,000 Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin voted for an “uninstructed” delegation on Tuesday]([link removed]), the latest protest vote effort over Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. President Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by [just over 20,000 votes]([link removed]). 

Speaking of Wisconsin, [voters approved a Republican-led effort on Tuesday to add language to the State Constitution that will forbid officials from accepting donations of money or staff to help run elections]([link removed]). This stems from unfounded accusations that local election offices in left-leaning districts receive more aid than those in right-leaning areas. 

Nebraska and Maine are the only two states to allocate their presidential electors by proportional representation. [Republicans in conservative Nebraska want the state to move to a winner-take-all model]([link removed]) ahead of November. 

[Prosecutors in Michigan recommended at least ten years in prison for James and Jennifer Crumbley]([link removed]), the first parents in American history to be held criminally responsible for a school shooting committed by their son. Prosecutors said they failed to lock up a gun at home and ignored his mental health, and the two were separately convicted of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year. Sentencing is scheduled for April 9th. 

Brothers Gerald and Michael Shvartsman, early investors in the company that took Trump’s social media group public, [pleaded guilty to insider trading on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan.]([link removed]) It turns out that Trump’s personal Law of Attraction is securities fraud. 

[Disney shareholders on Wednesday rallied behind longtime CEO Bob Iger]([link removed]), voting to dismiss an effort from investor Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, who sought seats on the company’s board of directors.

With aid to Ukraine stalled in a divided U.S. Congress, [NATO officials are looking to take more control of directing military support to Kyiv]([link removed]). 

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[Polls in the United Kingdom suggest that the Conservative Party’s reign is likely to come to an end in the upcoming election]([link removed]), with Labour slated to win more than 400 seats. Damn, a political party can’t even run a country into ruin anymore without facing consequences. Cancel culture strikes again!

First Lady [Jill Biden will honor some of America’s top teachers with a state dinner later this year]([link removed]), a special event usually reserved for diplomats. 

The Bayou Barbie herself, [Louisiana State University’s Angel Reese, declared for the WNBA draft on Wednesday in an interview and photo shoot with Vogue]([link removed]). LSU was knocked out of the NCAA tournament by Iowa on Monday night, in a game where Reese put up a staggering 20 rebounds. 

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