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does anyone else want to find love as the world falls apart or just me
This is important. Look how Western media frames the story as if Israel is helping—rather than STARVING—Gaza. When Palestinians die of starvation, Israel is erased from headlines. When even a little aid supposedly trickles in, Israel is named as the provider. This is by design.
The US government's former humanitarian envoy for Gaza said Israel's blame of the UN for not delivering aid is "knowingly false"
She is my hero. Absolutely fearless.
Lmfao people are creating cb radio networks where they're all chasing ice vans around their cities
Congrats to all the Democrats who needed exactly the same amount of time as a literal fascist to finally realize that gen*cide is bad.
Is anyone in politics ever going to acknowledge or respond to the fact that the absolute most repugnant version of biological racism has been fully embraced by the most influential right-wingers in America? That literal neo-Nazi ideas are just standard claims on the right?
American peace activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi would've turned 27 today. But Israeli forces killed her 11 months ago. Both the Biden & Trump admins did nothing to seek accountability. Instead the US sent Israel $12 billion in weapons & another $4 billion in aid
It’s so bleak they couldn’t even get a majority of Senate Dems to sign what should be the bare minimum at this point
I’m a nobody. I’m not an activist, I don’t work for an org. I *am* a woman whose youth was eaten up by forced “rehabilitation” and fly-by-night Tough Love types, so I speak on it. So it’s kind of wild for some dude from Cicero to get my name and throw it around like he knows me.
Then, in 2022, Shellenberger’s nonprofit paid Erica, Tom, and friends to promote the policies of Buri’s Discovery Institute, Joe Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Mary Theroux’s Independent Institute. Link ➡️web.archive.org/web/2023022720…
Worth clarifying that the 1000s of Palestinians rotting in Israeli prisons who ostensibly did get a trial got sham Israeli military trials not of their peers that no human rights group takes remotely seriously.
reading the pope and Obama’s Gaza posts it’s interesting how there is simply “the hostages” and not “the Israeli hostages”. The fact that Israel holds 3,376 Palestinians in indefinite detention without trial (a/k/a hostages) simply doesnt factor into any of this. A total nonissue
I’ve seen untold levels of sociopathy, cynicism, and racist dehumanization over the past 22 months but this new line that “actually there is starvation in Gaza but there wasn’t until just this week and everyone warning about it for months was in fact wrong” may be what breaks me
I can’t imagine why young people don’t care what David Frum has to say
nice that ppl are waking up to israel's starvation of gaza, but they need to follow that thought further. even if we can force the starvation to end tomorrow - what kind of country needs to be *forced* to stop starving children? what are its values? are they yours too?
how are you outdoing your 2020 crash out about Bari Weiss’ honor at your chateau?
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” — Tom Lehrer weeklyblitz.net/oped/norway-pl…
To be clear Frum apologized for the horrific libel which is to say he really apologized to the NYT then proceeded to, again, accuse Palestinians of staging their own deaths
[Guy who’s been cheerleading a live-streamed genocide for 22 months and accused two Palestinians grieving their murdered father of being a crisis actors during Israel’s 2014 bombing of Gaza] why do young people find my worldview odious and unappealing?
In @theAtlantic I try to make sense of how a doctrine as seemingly dead and dusty as socialism could make a comeback theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
in a similar vein i was often told i'd "make such a good lawyer" which i now realize is the socially acceptable way to call a child a little asshole
I often got called “an old soul” and such like by adults when I was a child. I think this was a kind way of saying I was a sad little freak