Medicaid work requirements are set to kick in after the midterms, which will force millions of people off the program and, as I covered today, line the pockets of a few big government contractors. That’s it from me. Corey is back tomorrow. -Whitney

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Israeli Voters Rebuke Netanyahu

Voters in Israel registered their anger towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday in an election that drew the highest turnout in 25 years and a record number of Arab Israeli voters, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Haaretz and the New York Times reported.

Partial results showed that Netanyahu is likely to lose his grip on the majority of seats in the Knesset, though he may still have the largest party, a situation that may result in a standoff between him and opposition party leader Gadi Eisenkot, former chief of the Israel Defense Forces, the Wall Street Journal reported. Nearly 80 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, two-thirds of which were counted by early Wednesday morning. Political parties need 61 Knesset seats to hold a majority. Without that, there is no clear pathway to power unless Netanyahu or Eisenkot form a coalition with minority parties.

Members of Arab-led parties were forecast to win up to 18 parliamentary seats, a record high that Joint List party leader Yousef Jabareen said marked an “historic day” in which voters gave a “clear and sharp” message that “the ‘government of bloodshed’ must go!” Osama Saadi, a former Arab member of the Knesset, dedicated the Joint List’s gains to Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. “We have brought down this fascist government, this government of genocide, this government of ethnic cleansing,” he said, and added that Palestinians everywhere have been waiting for justice.

Palestinians themselves, however, were excluded from voting even though Israel’s leaders dictate their lives. Per the NYT: 

In interviews, some Palestinians voiced objections to not being allowed to vote, especially as they felt Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was becoming more permanent.

“The Israeli government has enormous influence over our lives,” said Montaser Amro, 32, a supermarket owner in Majd, a village near the southern city of Hebron. “It chooses when roadblocks open and close, it controls the borders, and it decides on how much of our economy functions.”

He added, “Why can’t we vote when settlers living hundreds of meters away can?”

Official results of the vote will be released in the coming days.  

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Serbian Student Movement Ousts Far-Right President in Historic Landslide

Supporters of Serbia’s diverse, grass-roots Student List movement celebrated in the streets Monday, after successfully driving out the nation’s far-right president, Aleksandar Vučić, who held power for 14 years, the AP, the Guardian and the New York Times reported. Vučić is a radical ultranationalist, who once said that “for each Serb killed in the Bosnian war, 100 Bosnian Muslims must die.” He tried to manipulate voters into casting their ballots for him, bribing them with cash and promising them “higher pensions, new roads and cheaper medicines.” But the Student List’s message that he enabled corruption and organized crime was more convincing. The party won 53 percent of the vote, giving it 141 MPs in the 250-seat parliament. Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party won 39 percent of votes and 103 seats. The rest of the seats went to minority parties. The election capped two years of anti-government protests that began after a canopy at the Novi Sad railway station collapsed and killed 16 people, a disaster that protesters said was caused by the government’s graft, negligence and poor construction. Vučić drew a connection between himself and Trump after the damning election results. “I want people to know,” he said, “this was the verification of a revolution that they carried out directly with support of different European countries and the deep American state, the one that is also against President Trump.”

According to the Guardian, the Student List is now determining how it will govern and who it will appoint as the prime minister and the cabinet. The group is “deliberately leaderless with no hierarchy,” and candidates included not only students, but people from all walks of life, including academics, actors and farmers. 

“Everyone in the student movement, and every candidate on the list, has a complete and very clear understanding of the weight of the responsibility before us,” said Ana Mirković, a university educationist, psychologist and Student List candidate. “We do not see the election result as gaining power and privileges, but as taking on a historic debt to our own people and to our own children.”

ICE Has Detained Mentally Ill US Citizen for Months

For nearly a year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held in detention Phillip James, a 39-year-old US citizen suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who insists he is from Jamaica though he was born in Florida, an Associated Press investigation found. James, who calls himself  Felibi Siagha-Coke, says he is “the illegitimate son of a former Jamaican prime minister and the descendant of a royal family in Lebanon, where he also claims citizenship despite a lack of evidence.” ICE is holding him in Indiana’s Miami Correctional Facility, a 1,000-bed concentration camp nicknamed “Speedway Slammer.” The agency has no authority to hold US citizens but does it anyway; the case illustrates what one expert said was the typical way ICE handles people with mental illness and disabilities. “What’s going on in these cases is that evidence that’s consistent with deportation is treated as accurate and evidence that is inconsistent is treated as fraudulent,” said Northwestern University professor Jacqueline Stevens, who studies ICE and its wrongful detention of US citizens. “This case is not a one-off. This is a feature, not a bug, of how ICE handles claims of U.S. citizenship.” Earlier this week, ICE agents provided another example of how it treats people with disabilities when masked thugs tackled and restrained a nonverbal special needs Santa Maria High School student as he was heading to class, leaving him with multiple injuries, including a broken wrist. Then they figured out he wasn’t who they were looking for and ran away.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Flávio Bolsonaro Flees to Trump’s Safe Embrace A Supreme Court Justice ordered the far-right loser of Brazil’s recent presidential election to surrender his passports and barred him from leaving the country; he disobeyed and fled to the United States instead, though it was unclear Tuesday evening exactly where he was. Bolsonaro faces two Supreme Court investigations, one for financial crimes related to online betting and the other involving a film about his dad, criminal former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27 year sentence for attempting a coup. via Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. 
• Regime Targets Washington State, Tells Officials to Review 400 Voters it Suspects Are Noncitizens Trump also tried and failed to get California to set aside 20,000 ballots for the same reason. via NBC News and the Washington Post.
• Extreme Weather Predicted for Winter, Funding Cuts Hurt US Ability to Cope El Niño will spike temperatures, increase storms, and raise sea levels off California by up to a foot, all of which stand to cause land slides, flash floods and other disasters. But Republicans slashed funding for multiple weather and disaster agencies, so “Whether we as a country can handle the kind of coast-to-coast extremes that could potentially happen this winter is a big question,” said one climate scientist. via the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian. 
• Texas Governor Greg Abbott Talks Tough on Data Centers, But He’s The One Who Invited Them The MAGA Republican governor and the state’s head electricity regulator and grid manager met with Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI late last year, just two days before Texas officials announced new regulatory changes to speed up data centers’ access to the electrical grid. Also in the meeting were officials from four main electric transmission companies. According to a person who attended, the message was: “We want data centers to come to Texas, and we want to work with the industry to remove roadblocks to make that happen.” Abbott is seeking a fourth term in office in a race against Democratic nominee state Rep. Gina Hinojosa. via Politico. 
• Cyberattack Paralyzes New Mexico Hospital System No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused administrators to restrict patient admissions, suspend outpatient procedures, cancel appointments at more than 30 clinics and cancel classes on Monday and Tuesday. via the AP and ABC News.  

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