Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social
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War, politics, climate change & food, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Editing investigations @ThePublicSource. Writing (tor)mentor. RTs=interested in everything
Get ready for the next stage of genocide: when all the pundits & academics & journalists who stood by & did nothing, said nothing, risked nothing, will suddenly have *so much* to say. Their empty words will fill oceans
Oh, the panels they'll hold! Think tankers & fancy academics & analysts & pundits will throw around nonsense words like "the optics" & they will all shake their heads & cluck about How it Happened. Meanwhile the people who actually tried to stop it will have been fired.
As much as I had hoped Pizzaballa would be elected pope, it is obvious that he is precisely where God wants him and the Church needs him.
GAZA Cardinal Pizzaballa prays the Rosary with Catholic children in Holy Family Church today
🚨URGENT APPEAL: Twelve-year-old Mosab Al-Dabbas lies in critical condition at Al-Shifa Hospital after a piece of shrapnel tore through his skull during an Israeli bombing on May 7. Part of his brain had to be removed. Once a healthy child weighing 40 kilograms, Mosab now weighs…
Mamdani is getting Corbyn’d. I hope his team have studied those miserable years. Never apologise. Never. And where possible, just sue the shit out of people for defamation.
If you are in even the tiniest position of power to do anything about this and you try, you’ll never regret it even if it costs you personally and professionally. If you don’t you will live with the shame the rest of your life. This is one of those moments.
No one can stop Israel from paying for their own Iron Dome. AOC’s position is that US workers have to pay for it to free up Israeli tax dollars for the “offensive” weapons she allegedly opposes.
So Israeli civilians dying is ok with you?
liberal zionism embodied as a tweet
"Iron Dome bad" is one of the dumber takes from the left, tbh, not only BC it endorses targeting civilians (historically, mostly working class Israelis of colour relegated to the periphery towns in range of the kind of rockets Dome is meant to intercept), but because it ignores..
When the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it. The United States and Israel.
Personally I think when a country is committing genocide you defund it all together. I wouldn't want U.S. public money going to Nazi anti-aircraft artillery either. @AOC
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Student Council president
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman, who survived being shot by the assassin who murdered Melissa Hortman, video called into the Minneapolis convention to endorse democratic socialist Omar Fateh for Mayor Schumer and Jeffries could learn a thing or two from Minnesotans
remarkable moment from candidate intros: State Sen. John Hoffman, who was attacked at who was shot in a politically motivated attack in June, sends a video in support of “his vice chair” of the Senate Human Services Committee, @OmarFatehMN “He leaves his ego in the hallway”
AOC’s votes have little impact, but her platform as a propagandist is huge. That she uses that platform to imply her colleagues Rashida Tlaib and Summer Lee want civilians to die, rather than for Israel to stop bombing and starving civilians, sucks. They are team civilian life.
When 131 people are killed in less than 24 hours, it should never be treated like a weather report. The loss of 131 human lives is not something you mention the way you’d say, “Today it’s partly cloudy.” Why is the media silent?
Absolutely shameful, NEA leadership overrode its members. The head of the ADL went on MSNBC and compared a keffiyeh to a swastika and these are the clowns tasked with teaching our children about “hate.” Note how the “safety” of Palestinian kids never matters in any of this.
We welcome the @NEAToday Executive Committee's decision to reject a dangerous resolution to boycott ADL education materials. ADL is committed to working with the NEA and all teachers’ unions to join the Jewish community in making clear these hateful campaigns harm students,…
what if the left bucket of the party said this in 2028. Would that be acceptable?
“Votes are earned, not given.” So are endorsements. Good for Jeffries.
My friends @shaabiranks, @elgindy_ & others have already explained at length why the iron dome is essential to Israel’s shield of impunity. What I find insane is that one could call what Israel is doing in Gaza a genocide and still vote to fund their military in the same breath.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Hey @AOC, did you know that money is fungible? Allow me to explain how money works: When you send $1.6 billion of our tax dollars to Israel, to pay for its "defensive" Iron Dome, that is $1.6 billion *more dollars* they can spend on weapons for slaughtering children. Wild, right?
Some basic truths: 1. People are starving in Gaza. 2. Thousands of aid trucks are waiting to go in, supported by professionals who can distribute it. 3. All Israel has to do is open the gates and let it in. 4. Not opening the gates is a war crime. Open the effing gates.
So much food, just behind the Egyptian border. Al-Sisi is a willing participant in the starvation of Gaza. He has power to end this right now if he wanted. And not just him. So many so-called "leaders" around the world have the power to do something about it. They choose not to.
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and…
The best and basically only way to reach people is to donate to folks in Gaza directly right now
Guys, a brotherly piece of advice for those who donate to charities: Do NOT donate. By God, we don’t see anything.