Look Gretchen has made conflicting statements. No question. But almost everyone in the LA area is or has been a paid actor at some point. And everyone also has another job or gig. So that really means nothing, unless there is more to back it up.
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Look Gretchen has made conflicting statements. No question. But almost everyone in the LA area is or has been a paid actor at some point. And everyone also has another job or gig. So that really means nothing, unless there is more to back it up.
Rest in Power Graham Greene. 💔
Ibrahim al Khalili reports on the first day of the new school year for a very small number of children in Gaza. Most children no longer get an education because Israel has destroyed all the schools, murdered the teachers, and is starving the kids to death.
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🚨Children🚨Killed by🚨ICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
Thank you Senator Van Hollen for speaking the truth and not staying silent about a genocide. And many thanks to @merkley.senate.gov, my senator… for bearing witness and being willing to educate himself. For God’s sake… stop the genocide€!
THIS!!!!!!
Israel is now denying US senators (aka their patrons) from even seeing what they have done to Gaza. But the genocide is made up.
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“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
welcome to the era of Aryan public health. I imagine it will go about as well as Aryan physics, only with a vastly higher death toll
Solidarity.
We've been investigating the Nasser Hospital attack on Monday, which killed 22 people – including 5 journalists. Here’s what we found ⬇️
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This. It’s too late Jake. You supported a genocide then…. And it’s still a genocide now. You are no different. May your decisions haunt you for the rest of your life.
INSANE.
This part is very concerning. “Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds… they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from Chorus in advance and in writing, per the contract.”
Exactly!
When will this end? 💔
This is concerning. “Creators in the program are not allowed to use any funds… they receive as part of the program to make content that supports or opposes any political candidate or campaign without express authorization from Chorus in advance and in writing…” www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
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Is this interview with Blinken?
I think the message is pretty clear across the board about their regard for writing and reading which obviously means you should write and read and write and read and write and read and write and read. Also, this sucks.
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
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I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
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There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
I think it's clear at this point that because Mamdani has not acted like the racist caricature of a Muslim American that Gilibrand, Greenblatt, Jeffries, and Schumer so desperately wish that he was, the move now is to just straight up lie about him.
Shameful. These are children and people who are injured and who need care.
100 percent.
Depeche a la Mode
The Novemberists
EIGHT INCH NAILS
Crowded Outhouse
Pearl Jelly.
Israel marked this journalist a “terrorist” because he cried on camera at Israel’s starvation of his people. And then they killed him. And if you pay taxes in the US, your politicians made you fund this abject evil.
They killed Anas. 💔 Isra€l just keeps killing… and the world does nothing. It’s all so depraved.
When will we finally admit: the Gaza death toll is higher than we’ve been told | Arwa Mahdawi
Essentially… we will require you to support and fund genocide. This is deeply, deeply messed up.
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
Government Media Office says only 86 trucks are entering Gaza each day, as Israel continues to kill aid seekers.
Because there was a no Dr Nicole? She is missed!
"Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday. 56 of them were killed while trying to get food"
Air dropping food while shooting and killing people waiting in line for food is really sinister stuff.
Good lord. 🤮
Not under any circumstances.
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reupping this piece, since the seat that Emil Bove just filled could have been filled by Adeel Mangi last year
We demand justice for Awda Al-Hathaleen and for his community. Israel’s unlawful occupation and its apartheid system that destroy Palestinians’ lives and hopes must end now.
This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
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He picked up a small handful of rice and lentils from the ground. That’s all he got. And still, he came up to me, kissed my hand, said ‘Thank you,’ and walked away.” Moments later, as people were leaving, Israeli forces opened fire and launched tear gas. Amir was killed. This happened on May 28th.
What a novel idea.
It’s pathetic.
Disgusting to see major Israel arms supplier Keir Starmer treat Palestine’s basic right to exist as a bargaining chip in some macabre geopolitical game. There’s a reckoning coming for all who abetted this Holocaust. Starmer is cynically dusting off his excuses. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...
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100 percent!
. 📢 AUGUST 9TH = GENERAL STRIKE No work. No shopping. No gas. No internet. Sit. All the way. Down. If we don’t shut it down now, they’ll keep raising prices, gutting rights, and stealing futures. This is your line in the sand. It’s time. #GeneralStrike #BigBrother27 #Superman #JDVance .
Apparently this wasn’t done at the main function. It was done quite a bit later at the “after party.” That’s why Russell and the boys had already left.
say hello to the new college of florida in manhattan
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
This is inhumane and wrong. What is the US doing? Just intentionally hurting people, harming families, putting innocent people following the rules into horrible, notorious prisons. It’s disgusting.
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How does anyone think this is the right thing to do?!? It’s so deeply, deeply wrong.
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Yeah, I would vote to pay higher taxes to benefit the societal greater good as well.
They didn’t make a conscious choice to w/hold their vote, they just stayed home. Young people appear to approach voting differently. Doesn’t matter why… lack of civics, apathy?!? But it makes sense to do a better job of responding to their issues and needs.
I get what your saying. I just think there is a whole spectrum between “we’ll give you this” and “I’m w/holding my vote.” There is a lot of room there. I get the “lesser of two evils” but hearing that doesn’t inspire people to vote. I think the larger issue is people just staying home.
“I guess I’ve always thought of “something to vote for” as something that can benefit all of us. That’s what I want to vote for… the good of my society. Why is it limited to the individual? I mean, if people aren’t already given to that.
I was shocked to see her. It’s so deeply disappointing.
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil, has filed a $20m lawsuit against the Trump regime, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, & falsely smeared as an antisemite as Trump tried to deport him for Constitutionally protected peaceful protests. NOTE: Khalil was never charged for any crime
Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment | Mahmoud Khalil | The Guardian share.google/KXYLQMgIcfW3.... America needs to see many thousands of people sue The Trump regime as it 'may' help bring an end to the ICE Gestapo tactics and Concentration Camps
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So horrible.
But Bob Vylan and Kneecap are the bad guys for calling this out apparently www.thestar.com/news/world/m...
Judge Moss: Say there was an order to send observant Orthodox Jews back to Israel. They're on the plane, and (ICE) says, one of them said something that made me really mad. I want to send them somewhere in the world where they can't find a minyan and practice. Can't challenge?
Looks very similar to attacks on Black scholars. *Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct *Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy *Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!
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“And I hope that you die And your death will come soon I'll follow your casket By the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand over your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead” — Bob Dylan
[Remember the Govs of TX and FL filling buses and planes with migrants and sending them to IL and NY? If they were “illegal invaders,” why not just hand them over to ICE for deportation? It’s because they were legitimate asylum seekers under the law, and could not be deported. Then.]
The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE. We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.
Dude. Seriously. You’re not more informed on genocide, than the world’s utmost genocide experts. And no one is buying what you’re selling. We all have eyes… and have seen exactly what Isr@el is doing.
“Top genocide scholars unanimous that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” Also… "Can I name someone whose work I respect who does not think it is genocide? No, there is no counterargument that takes into account all the evidence," Israeli researcher Raz Segal.”
This is so shameful. Hospitals will close, children will go hungry and 17 million Americans, many disabled, will lose healthcare… but hey, on the flip side billionaires are getting a tax break and #Murkowski got some sh*t for Alaska. It’s so deeply, deeply disgusting.
Sir, they are the genocide scholars. They don’t require a dictionary.
This is my little girl Maiar. She’s just a child, but in this war, she took on the role of a mother. She washes clothes, cleans the tent, and tries to care for her siblings… because her mother is no longer with us. 💔 No child should carry this weight. gofund.me/a9ab3a79
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada says Israel's genocide is only intensifying. "There's basically an airstrike every other minute" while Israeli forces continue "shooting people at random" across the Gaza Strip. www.democracynow.org/2025/7/1/gaz...
I mean… these… side-by-side… speaks volumes…
Amnesty Int’l, Human Rights Watch, OxFam, Doctors w/out Borders, B’Tselem, 800 Human Rights Legal experts and the world’s top Genocide scholars (including Isra€li) ones) have all declared it a genocide. So, yeah… I’m going to go with them, as opposed to guy on social media.
Sometimes you’re just thankful for the simple things. Like Helen from Wales… streaming Kneecap’s full set at Glastonbury. Her TikTok live hit as many as 1.5 million viewers at one point… and she was all about a Fr€€ Pal€stin€. Thanks Helen! ❤️
“I have no doubt that, if judges must allow the Executive to act unlawfully in some circumstances, as the Court concludes today, executive lawlessness will flourish..." @pemalevy.bsky.social unpacks KBJ's dire warning to the nation following today's Supreme Court rulings:
