📵 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Senate passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US

⬛️ Once Biden signs it into law, ByteDance will have 270 days to sell TikTok.

🔶️ The bill's passage in the Senate comes after months of lobbying against it by TikTok — the app prompted its users to reach out to their representatives and voice their displeasure, and its CEO personally traveled to Washington, DC, to try to stop it — as well as reportedly China itself. Politico reported earlier in April that officials from the Chinese Embassy met with congressional staffers to voice their displeasure with the legislation.

🔶️ Enacting the TikTok "ban" could hurt Biden's chances at reelection in November, given the app's popularity among younger demographics and the likelihood of a close final vote. Trump may have picked up on that, too — earlier in the year, he spoke against banning TikTok despite his actions while president.

https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-passes-tiktok-ban-2024-4

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 Biden: "I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/23/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-senate-passage-of-the-national-security-package/

The Great Replacement and the Great Lakes States (2/2)

On the Heartland and its declining influence:

In the 1940s Ohio was a 95% White state. Wisconsin's White population share stood at 99.2%, and Missouri's populace was 93.4% White.

By the 1970s the Great Migration and the state of mass migration from beyond the West had radically transformed these states and their major cities.

From Cleveland, to St. Lousi, to Milwaukee, Whites in the present day are a minority in the grand cities which they built on the North American continent.

Today Ohio is just 78% White, while Wisconsin stands at 78.6% White and Missouri boasts a 75.8% White populace.

The population will continue to change as state governments change policies to attract non-Whites.

Ohio has an entire department of government dedicated to attracting immigrants, and Wisconsin provides them with free housing and expansive healthcare.

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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 The IDF is readying to deploy two reserve brigades to the Gaza Strip, under the 99th Division.

🔶️ The 679th "Yiftah" Armored Brigade and the 2nd "Carmeli" Infantry Brigade, which had been operating on the northern border, "prepared in recent weeks for their mission in the Gaza Strip," the military says.

🔶️ The IDF says the two reserve brigades "practiced battle techniques and learned the main insights and lessons from fighting and maneuvering in the Gaza Strip so far."

🔶️ During the first few months of the IDF's ground offensive, the 99th Division had been tasked with the central Gaza Strip corridor.

🔶️ Its renewed deployment comes as the IDF prepares to carry out new offensives in Gaza, including in the southern city of Rafah, where Israel says four of Hamas's six remaining battalions are.

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🇹🇷🇮🇱 Türkiye no longer maintains active trade relations with Israel, President of the Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed.

“We no longer maintain intensive trade relations with Israel, this is over,” he said at a press conference following negotiations in Ankara with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

Erdogan added that it is impossible to maintain trade ties with Israel, which, according to the latest data, is responsible for the deaths of over 40 thousand people and the injury of more than 75 thousand in Gaza.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-signs-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel

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