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Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Biden announced another $28 billion worth of weapons to Israel in the six months after McGurk claims this conversation supposedly happened. To put in context, Biden’s plan for universal pre-K for 4 year olds, which he scrapped, was $19.6 billion per year
“The Situation Room connected the call. Biden jumped in. “Bibi, man, what the fuck are you doing?” He gripped the phone tight. “You think I’m Santa Claus? No Santa in Israel, pal.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Part of the book's argument is that Sullivan et al
(a) focussed on the "humanitarian crisis" while fueling the mass killing, destruction, and displacement, and
(b) tinkered around the edges instead of compelling Israel to allow sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access.
Jake Sullivan had his spokesperson call into NPR *during @AkbarSAhmed's interview* to complain he was treated unfairly in Ahmed's book about how the Biden administration fathered the Gaza genocide.
Sullivan wants us to know he was in fact "working tirelessly" to help Gaza.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Correct, the overarching liberal FP orthodoxy is the US slipped on a banana peel and destroyed Vietnam, Iraq and killed 20K+ Palestinian children in a bumbling good faith attempt to “defend democracy.” Does it make sense? No. Is it a necessary fiction to maintain empire? Clearly.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
This ia mainstream position in international relations, most famously articulated by the late Kenneth Waltz.
New clip: Hasan Piker says he believes the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had a nuclear weapon.
First aired on @TheLeadCNN w/ @jaketapper
Piker’s full answer:
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
There seems to be a lot of liberals that haven't come to terms with the fact we double tapped a girls school in Iran, kidnapped the president of Venezuela and stole their oil and gold, blockaded gas into Cuba, and are randomly blowing up fishing boats for no reason.
👀 NEW: @hasanthehun joins @alexthomp on the Season 3 premiere of The Axios Show in what Piker called "the most contentious interview" he's done.
Piker claims that "pound for pound," America conducts more terror around the world than al-Qaeda.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
for the millionth time the issue wasn't that the Biden admin "didn't do more". The issue is THEY DID TOO MUCH, in this instance arming, covering up and lying in support of genocide. They want to reframe is as a R2P Rwanda-type situation. It was not. THEY ACTIVELY aided genocide.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
This is genuinely weird even by normal Dem establishment standards. It’s just a Silicon Valley lobbyist hiring and they’re making it sound like he’s the Special Envoy to Saving The World
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Correct. This continues to be one of the biggest problems w/DC's foreign policy community. Any argument that questions US primacy, or offers an alternative approach to US power, results in ad hominem meltdowns that suggest the person is pro China, pro Russia, or hates America.
I've been horrified by the malicious attacks on @jekavanagh. One can disagree with her profoundly on the substance--and I do. But she is seeking policies that, in her mind, benefit US security. We need a public debate based on clear argument, not groundless accusations
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
As someone who works on natl security, I remain shocked that 25 yrs after 9/11 ppl still don’t understand how destructive the terrorism label is, how racist & politicized. It can’t be rehabbed by directing it at white nationalists or Saudis or Israelis. It must be abandoned
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Trump says, as he works to help the one state with some actual involvement in 9/11 to make near-weapons-grade uranium.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
25 years post-9/11, the War in Terror is still being fought. And it’s still being fought because you can’t win a war on terror, period.
The U.S. has hit Somalia 80x this year. Strikes have happened in Nigeria. 9/11 statutes like the Patriot Act are alive and well. The 2001 AUMF is still operable and its meaning stretched to the point of being universal. Executive power is through the roof, relegating Congress to an often willing bystander.
Gitmo also remains open, and we’re still trying to convict the perpetrators of 9/11 to this day because of the torture regime that extracted forced confessions.
If anything, the War on Terror has expanded (this time, against drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere), not contracted. At the very least, it’s normalized. The “with us or against us” vocabulary continues to be used by U.S. officials to this day.
An epic-defining event if there ever was one.
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
can we get a followup question about whether Jon Finer thinks that taking a plush gig with Anduril, a weapons company founded by Palmer Luckey, is in any way "self-serving"
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Remarkable that the US military is explicitly highlighting that it's sinking Iranian civilian vessels in response to Iran's attempt to hit a "Navy warship" involved in enforcing a blockade (an act of war).
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
This is quite simply gutter bigotry that’s being laundered into the public discourse and every media entity treating it as a reasonable concern should be absolutely ashamed of themselves
ABC News: Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims and several prominent Republicans who have called on him to stay away.
abcnews.com/US/george-pataki…
Elizabeth Beavers retweeted
Astonishing read in @Newyorker The twisted logic of turning a blind eye to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a strategy to contain Iran? 👉 "Iran had been central to Biden’s thinking about the Middle East, several top advisers said. He’d feared that any public pressure the U.S. put on Israel—any “daylight” between the allies—could invite attacks by Iran or its Lebanese client, Hezbollah. The U.S. would then be compelled to defend Israel in a regional conflagration. Brett McGurk, Biden’s White House coördinator for the Middle East and probably his most influential adviser, championed this position" newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
