Deborah Hammond

The rationale, explained to me by a Dem who wants to stop funding Iron Dome: The defense system makes Israel more aggressive, confident that it can launch operations without much damage to its own cities. (Most Dems are still at "no offensive weapons, missile shield okay.")

أرحّب بإعلان وقف إطلاق النار الذي أعلنه الرئيس ترامب، وهو مطلب لبناني محوري سعينا إليه منذ اليوم الأول للحرب، وكان هدفنا الأول في لقاء واشنطن يوم الثلاثاء. وإذ أهنّئ جميع اللبنانيين بهذا الإنجاز، أترحّم على الشهداء الذين سقطوا، وأؤكّد تضامني مع عائلاتهم، ومع الجرحى، ومع المواطنين الذين اضطروا إلى النزوح من مدنهم وقراهم، وكلّي أمل أن يتمكّنوا من العودة إليها في أسرع وقت. ولا يسعني أيضًا إلا أن أشكر كل الجهود الإقليمية والدولية التي بُذلت للوصول إلى هذه النتيجة، ولا سيما من قبل الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وفرنسا، ودول الاتحاد الأوروبي، وكل الأشقاء العرب، وفي طليعتهم المملكة العربية السعودية وجمهورية مصر العربية، إضافة إلى دولة قطر والمملكة الأردنية الهاشمية.

NPR's Short Wave podcast casually promoted sex pseudoscience this week. Their guest, Dr. Emily Kwong, says sex is “hard to define” and can be defined by “a lot of things, like anatomy or hormones or chromosomes.” NPR then plays a clip mocking biological accounts of sex: “I’ve never been to appointment where someone checked how many X chromosomes I had or what kinds of gametes I make,” as if that somehow disproves sex categories rather than just showing that doctors usually rely on obvious and reliable proxies instead of running invasive diagnostic tests at every checkup. They even apologize for using the terms MEN and WOMEN “in super binary ways because many studies and experts still use these terms, even though we know that gender and even sex are not binary.” Thanks to Trump, this nonsense no longer being funded by taxpayers.

Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax is not targeting New Yorkers. A Russian or Chinese millionaire who owns an empty $5 million apartment doesn't live in the city. If they decided to actually become New Yorkers and live in their property, they wouldn't have to pay the tax!

"We're rearming, we're retooling. And we're adjusting our tactics, techniques, and procedures. There is no military in the world that adjusts like we do," - USCENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper There are about 6 days remaining in the ceasefire. Iran can give up its nuclear program, illegal economic coercion of the strait of hormuz, long range missile program, proxy support for terrorist armies or the combat operation may resume and continue until they do.

Today, I voted to block the provision of U.S. military assistance to Israel: 1,000-pound so-called ‘dumb’ bombs and military bulldozers. In the future, I will continue to assess U.S.-funded offensive weapons to Israel on a case-by-case basis, and I will continue to support sending Israel much-needed defensive weapons, like Iron Dome. I have struggled with these Joint Resolutions of Disapproval as much as any vote since I joined Congress. I represent a state with a large Arab and Muslim population and a large Jewish population. And over these last two-plus years, few issues have been as raw, painful, and personal as this one. Throughout that time, I have worked hard to call balls and strikes based on my experience and the facts on the ground, even when some are reluctant to consider new information. My entire life, I have been -- and continue to be -- a strong supporter of a Jewish and democratic State of Israel. The people of Israel, like all people throughout the region, deserve long-term security and peace. But being pro-Israel today is not about simply supporting the political or military agenda of Prime Minister Netanyahu, just like being pro-American should not be equated with loyalty to President Trump. This is a complex truth that many of us who support Israel hold, and it applies to my own patriotism and government as well. I can support the security of a country without supporting the specific policies of any one political party or leader. And if Israelis can take part in rigorous debate and protests of their own government’s policies, Americans supportive of Israel can do the same thing. I have no love lost for the Iranian regime or their proxy groups like Hezbollah. I know firsthand from three tours in Iraq alongside our military how Iran is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands more civilians in the Middle East. But President Trump committed the U.S. to a war of choice against Iran, alongside Israel, with no evidence of an imminent threat, no clear objectives, and without Congressional approval. Seven weeks in, he has yet to provide a strategy for this war or a clear path to get out of it. So just as I am against more U.S.-funded weapons to Israel today, I am also deeply skeptical of more U.S. funding for the Iran war, which reportedly could be anywhere between $50 to $200 billion, on top of $1 trillion provided to the Pentagon last year. Every American should be invested in the U.S. ending this war with the least possible loss of blood and treasure. It is my hope that we can get a comprehensive and durable ceasefire as soon as possible.

Bro I’m talking about what you are in the world substantively. That is a lobbyist for a foreign country. In terms of legal semantics, maybe you aren’t; maybe in the same sense bill clinton didn’t have sex with Monica Lewinsky. I am talking about substance not legal technicalities.

Today, I voted to block the provision of U.S. military assistance to Israel: 1,000-pound so-called ‘dumb’ bombs and military bulldozers. In the future, I will continue to assess U.S.-funded offensive weapons to Israel on a case-by-case basis, and I will continue to support sending Israel much-needed defensive weapons, like Iron Dome. I have struggled with these Joint Resolutions of Disapproval as much as any vote since I joined Congress. I represent a state with a large Arab and Muslim population and a large Jewish population. And over these last two-plus years, few issues have been as raw, painful, and personal as this one. Throughout that time, I have worked hard to call balls and strikes based on my experience and the facts on the ground, even when some are reluctant to consider new information. My entire life, I have been -- and continue to be -- a strong supporter of a Jewish and democratic State of Israel. The people of Israel, like all people throughout the region, deserve long-term security and peace. But being pro-Israel today is not about simply supporting the political or military agenda of Prime Minister Netanyahu, just like being pro-American should not be equated with loyalty to President Trump. This is a complex truth that many of us who support Israel hold, and it applies to my own patriotism and government as well. I can support the security of a country without supporting the specific policies of any one political party or leader. And if Israelis can take part in rigorous debate and protests of their own government’s policies, Americans supportive of Israel can do the same thing. I have no love lost for the Iranian regime or their proxy groups like Hezbollah. I know firsthand from three tours in Iraq alongside our military how Iran is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands more civilians in the Middle East. But President Trump committed the U.S. to a war of choice against Iran, alongside Israel, with no evidence of an imminent threat, no clear objectives, and without Congressional approval. Seven weeks in, he has yet to provide a strategy for this war or a clear path to get out of it. So just as I am against more U.S.-funded weapons to Israel today, I am also deeply skeptical of more U.S. funding for the Iran war, which reportedly could be anywhere between $50 to $200 billion, on top of $1 trillion provided to the Pentagon last year. Every American should be invested in the U.S. ending this war with the least possible loss of blood and treasure. It is my hope that we can get a comprehensive and durable ceasefire as soon as possible.