He/Him
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He/Him
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@fedia.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social
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‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel ( www.nytimes.com )
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, traveled to Columbia University two weeks ago to decry the “virus of antisemitism” that he said pro-Palestinian protesters were spreading across the country. “They have chased down Jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them,” he said to jeers from...
Maple Leafs fire Keefe after first-round playoff exit ( theathletic.com )
Keefe on Thursday, five days after they were eliminated from the playoffs....
Turning Point or Breaking Point? Biden’s Pause on Weapons Tests Ties to Israel ( www.nytimes.com )
The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs....
Steve Albini, Influential Producer of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 ( www.nytimes.com )
Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered audio engineer who played a singular role in the development of the sound of alternative rock music in the 1980s, the ’90s and beyond — recording acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Pixies and hundreds of others — while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry, died...
Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack ( www.nytimes.com )
President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on the city Rafah, administration officials said on Tuesday night, a sign of the growing rift between Washington and Jerusalem over the conduct of the war....
Russia launches large-scale attack against Ukraine, hitting energy infrastructure ( kyivindependent.com )
Russian forces launched a large-scale attack against Ukrainian cities overnight on May 8. Russia launched cruise and ballistic missiles, rockets, and Shahed-type drones throughout the night, Ukraine's Air Force reported....
Israel launches Rafah offensive it says is start of mission to ‘eliminate’ Hamas ( www.theguardian.com )
Israel has launched a major military offensive against Hamas forces in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, seizing control of a key border crossing and cutting off most aid into the territory a day before indirect talks on a ceasefire deal are due to restart....
Israeli forces say they have control of Gaza side of Rafah crossing ( www.theguardian.com )
Israeli military forces have taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Israeli officials have said, in the first stage of what appears to be a wider offensive targeting Hamas in the southernmost parts of Gaza....
What led to another lost Maple Leafs season? Inside the managerial missteps and miscalculations ( theathletic.com )
Management took a different approach this year, one that swerved away from past precedent: They would speak on Thursday, three days after players and Keefe. (Who exactly will speak was left unclear. GM Brad Treliving is a given. Team president Brendan Shanahan not so much. He’s spoken only sporadically throughout his decade in...
GDT - Toronto at Boston - May 4th, 8pm EDT - Game 7 ( lemmy.ca )
Let's goooooooooooo!...
Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews appears poised to return to lineup in Game 7: Sources ( theathletic.com )
Auston Matthews appears poised to return to the Maple Leafs lineup in Game 7 after all, according to league sources....
How the Maple Leafs won again to force Game 7: 3 takeaways ( theathletic.com )
In Game 5, the Toronto Maple Leafs planted a seed of doubt in the Boston Bruins, whose 3-1 series lead fell to a 3-2 lead....
GDT - Boston at Toronto - May 2, 8pm EDT - Game 6 ( lemmy.ca )
Let's gooooooooooooo!...
Leafs' Matthews ruled out for Game 6 vs. Bruins ( theathletic.com )
Auston Matthews will be unavailable to the Toronto Maple Leafs as they look to avoid elimination for the second straight game Thursday. The 69-goal scorer has been ruled out for Game 6 against the Boston Bruins with an undisclosed injury, according to Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe....
Campus protests: UCLA students in standoff with police as demonstrations spread across US ( www.theguardian.com )
Tensions are growing at the University of California where hundreds of police in riot gear have gathered after warning pro-Palestinian protesters to disperse or face arrest, a day after their encampment was violently attacked by masked counter-protesters....
John Tavares is trying to give the Leafs everything he has left ( theathletic.com )
This wasn’t training camp. This wasn’t a Tuesday in January. This was Monday afternoon, hours before the Toronto Maple Leafs would fly out to Boston for Game 5. And there was John Tavares, the captain of the team, still on the ice fine-tuning his game....
‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’ ( www.nytimes.com )
On Oct. 7, as the Israeli military deployed across the country to combat Hamas, a group of soldiers waited on an ancient hill called Tel Rumeida in Hebron, a city in the West Bank. Their target was a burly Palestinian man, then 43, named Issa Amro. As Amro approached the soldiers through an olive grove, they moved in and struck...
Maple Leafs report cards: Desperation pays off as Toronto stays alive ( theathletic.com )
Joseph Woll didn’t hear no bell....
Live Updates: Police Arrest Protesters Occupying Columbia Campus Building ( www.nytimes.com )
Officers in riot gear began removing demonstrators who had seized Hamilton Hall, a building with a history of student takeovers. Scores of other arrests were made on campuses across the country....
GDT - Toronto at Boston - April 30, 7pm EDT - Game 5 ( lemmy.ca )
Let's goooooooo!...