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Y’all get what this is, right? Just by touching you with these gloves, cops can literally force your body to involuntarily spasm in a way that looks enough like “resisting arrest” on a bodycam video to justify beating your brains out & shooting you dead consequence-free
kind of weird, kind of feels like voter suppression that the people working at the polls told me that if I cast a provisional ballot ballot that my vote wouldn’t be counted. @Bmore_Elections
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thankfully I knew this was voter suppression. person I went with to vote decided not to since the electioneer told them their vote wouldn’t count and they didn’t want to get into the argument I did. Wonder how many people have been told their vote won’t count today
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The USA has 3.5x as many people in jail as Iran per capita.
It works them like slaves and at least 4% of them are PROVEN innocent.
One guy spent 35 years in jail for shoplifting.
Don't pretend Iran is some super-duper evil and the USA isn't.
rachel retweeted
Very shocked and outraged by Iran's upcoming completely unprovoked antisemitic attack on Israel.
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Attention @Boeing I have just discovered that Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling people that your planes suck
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This was intentional. You don't accidentally kill massive amounts of children and their families over and over again and get to say, "It was a mistake."
Genocidal maniac Netanyahu told us he wants to ethically cleanse Palestinians. When are you going to believe him @POTUS?
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You mean the attorney tells the kids the same thing every attorney tells every client???? Wild if true
Honest headline: Cops really hate not being able to bully kids into saying whatever the cops want
Police and prosecutors are telling on themselves again by complaining about kids getting access to lawyers before police interrogate them! There are so many gems here where do I begin. thebaltimorebanner.com/polit…
haven’t been on twitter in two months but I’m here to say
I was sitting in the front row of a gallery in my not court attire and the bailiff asked if I was an attorney
I said “yes, but I’m not representing anyone today”
and was allowed to remain 😈
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rachel retweeted
I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.
But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.
I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a lamp post, smoking a pipe as wise men do.
“Your shirt says Free Palestine,” he said from behind a plume of smoke.
“Yep!” I replied.
“So I guess that means you love Hamas then?” spake he.
I stopped in my tracks. I’d never thought of it that way before.
Could it be? Could my opposition to murdering civilians really be indicative of a deep affection for a Gazan militant group? Maybe I really did love Hamas and think everything it did on October 7 was great and wonderful?
“Is this really how I want to live my life?” I thought to myself.
“I — I — I…” I said out loud.
“Or perhaps,” he said with a raised eyebrow, “you just HATE JEWS??”
I fell to my knees.
Oh my God. He really had a point. What possible reason could anyone have for opposing military explosives being dropped on buildings full of children besides a seething lifelong hatred of adherents to the religion of Judaism? How could anyone possibly oppose siege warfare tactics which cut off civilians from food and water and electricity and fuel and medical supplies unless they harbored a dangerous hostility toward members of a small Abrahamic faith?
“Who… who are you?” I asked.
“That’s of no consequence,” he said, casually blowing a smoke ring through another larger smoke ring.
“But… but the children,” I stammered as my entire worldview crumbled before my eyes. “The civilians! They’re dying! Isn’t it bad that they’re dying?”
And then he went for the coup de grâce.
“Have you considered,” he said before a pregnant pause, “… that all of those deaths are the fault of Hamas?”
I fell flat on my back. The world was spinning. A trickle of blood ran down into my hair from my ear.
I felt all the anti-colonialism leaving my body. I suddenly could no longer remember why I thought it was bad to rain down military explosives on a densely populated concentration camp.
Everything went black.
When I finally came to, the mysterious stranger was gone. But his wisdom and profound insights into Israel and Gaza will always live on in my heart.
rachel retweeted
For 🇺🇸 Jewish ppl like me who grew up going to synagogue, we were exposed to constant Zionist propaganda from a young age, even in “progressive” synagogues
Ex: I was taught that Israel is “A land without a people for a people without a land” — truly genocidal colonial erasure
