Putting the sumptuous back in "presumptuous." Podcast: @wwwyshow Blues||ky: mfpseth
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I genuinely need further texts from candidates whose campaigns I've already texted to STOP to become a capital crime, and I am confident I don't even need to explain this any further
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This doesn’t excuse the Iranian government’s repressive behavior at the start of the year, or violent crackdown on protests, but it does reveal that Israel was involved, Mossad involved, and they wanted and worked for an Iranian crackdown. They’re now admitting it!
Israel admits it publicized its infiltration of Iran so the govt would arrest astronomical numbers of ppl. This is not only an admission of unlawful interference & armed attack but also of a deliberate effort to foster human rights violations in Iran ynetnews.com/article/sjkraj5…
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This is the strategy everywhere from now on. Try your hardest to suppress the vote, propagandize, or otherwise disenfranchise the opposition. If you lose, call the results into question, wage lawfare, and coup monger your way back into power by any means necessary if you can.
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During his coverage in the occupied West Bank, Swedish journalist Love Lyssarides was stopped at an Israeli checkpoint, where an Israeli soldier with a distinctly British accent openly justified the occupation of the land by saying “God gave it to us” and said that Palestinians should go back to Arab countries.
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🚨Israel's security minister is bragging about throwing emaciated Palestinian hostages in solitary confinement for using the little food he gave them to make an "improvised cake" from 3 slices of toast bread, 2 spoonfuls of jam & few beans
Imagine if those were Israeli hostages!
המחבלים בכלא לביא ישבו ואגרו מהמעט מזון שיש להם. כף ריבה ועוד כף ריבה, פרוסת לחם ועוד פרוסת לחם, כך במשך כמה ימים, הכל כדי להכין עוגה מאולתרת ולחגוג ביום שלישי, במידה ולא אבחר.
אלא שנציב שב״ס המצוין ואנשיו איתרו את העוגה, והאסירים הועמדו לדין משמעתי, והועברו לצינוק.
הם כבר תכננו את החגיגות, אבל אצלנו נגמרה החגיגה. ביום שלישי אסור לתת להם לחגוג, מצביעים ב׳ בקלפי!
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The State of Palestine should invoke collective self-defence. Nobody will accept the call, of course, but that’s a different question. It should make it perfectly clear that it is legal to forcefully protect Palestinians from ethnic cleansing and genocide
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1) Targeting occupation soldiers on occupied land is not terrorism by any definition
2) In response, Israel is destroying homes of completely unrelated people, a war crime according to international law
Los Angeles: many of our loudest advocates for "transit" are bloody assholes who hate drivers far more than they hate cars.
Most drivers in L.A. can't stop driving until this city is fundamentally transformed, and these ppl blame individuals. (Pretty neoliberal behavior tbh)
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I think Dems will probably win the midterms (a second-term president’s party rarely ever wins the midterms) But if they lose or even if it’s close, we should ask whether it was a great strategy for Dem leaders to close the campaign promising no Dem leadership changes, promising no M4A, and promising not to pass legislation that Trump might veto.
Party leaders closing the campaign with a “nothing will fundamentally change” message seems suboptimal — and discordant with challenger candidates in tough races promising that things will change.
As always, I hope and pray to be proven wrong.
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A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it."
The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours."
"Or we will kill them," she adds
Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority?
They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time.
Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
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must be some real organic reason why this kid is doing bolsonaro propaganda in brazil
BRAZIL IS ERUPTING 🔥
Thousands of people chanting, “Lula is a thief his place is prison”
@lucaspavanato @nikolas_dm @FlavioBolsonaro
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I can't get over this photo. It's the kind of thing that would launch a thousand schizo tracts in the 1990s and vindicate countless more in the years following. You'd see it on posters declaring Trump the Antichrist. Maybe the defining image of Trump II?
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I would argue that Israeli soldiers are a legitimate target for the occupied Palestinian people, anywhere and at any time.
Some would disagree.
But Israeli soldiers on duty in the West Bank are a legitimate target beyond any legal doubt.
Don't believe old media.
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"Zionism is racism, like slavery there is no good version of the project"
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I think Obama’s incrementalism & establishment deference turned promises of hope and change into more of the same and created conditions for Trump’s ascent. But I’m genuinely glad he’s now helping candidates who embody a more populist politics & ideology than his own. It’s good.
Obama endorses progressive insurgent Angie Nixon for Senate in Florida politi.co/4ifgkdw
Sad old man dines with sad old man, this news and more at 8
“Yeah I did it again, bitches. Fuck you, I like these dinners.”
@billmaher lashes out, defends himself for having dinner with Trump again. He says Trump had good etiquette, never lost his temper or yelled… How nice!
Imagine being this far up your own ass.
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One of the world’s largest private equity firms just issued a report concluding: “Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”
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jake tapper trying to figure out in real time how to make israelis the good guys in a story where palestinian men protected a jewish woman from being assaulted by israeli settler terrorists
“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
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Brad, ur in Palestine. Pls exercise some humility. Listen more, lecture less. Framing the targeting of soldiers as a “cycle of violence” - rather than resistance 2 apartheid & genocide- while also not demanding US sanctions/arms embargo is asking Palestinians to die politely.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
