Mike Ludwig / @mludwig.bsky.social
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US Anti-Terror Law Has Stigmatized Palestinians as “Terrorists” Since 1969 "Terrorist" first entered US federal law in 1969 after Israel displaced Palestinians to refugee camps, and the racist myth of refugee children as brainwashed killers was born. truthout.org/articles/us-an…
Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims & homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade & racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!
Girl in Gaza escaping through a fire from a strike on a school turned shelter. She lost her Mom and two siblings in the same fire. It’s not too late to say something guys please do it today for sweet Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil. She has a name. She is 5 years old #FreePalestine #gaza
ICE arrest Pasadena mother without warrant—turns out they abducted wrong person. Only 2 of 3 agents had a badge—none were in uniform. "I didn’t know if I was witnessing a hate crime or a kidnapping," said witness. Video cuts off just as daughter begs, "Call the police." "And…
🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇪🇺: "There is no evidence that Israel deliberately targets civilians" 🇮🇱 soldiers: "We deliberately target civilians"
George Retes, a US citizen and disabled veteran, was disappeared by ICE during the violent raid on legal cannabis greenhouses in southern California yesterday. He's still missing, his family is desperate, and his daughter's bday in tomorrow: abc7.com/post/disabled-…
A new Supreme Court case could let political parties spend unlimited amounts with candidates, weakening campaign finance rules and giving wealthy donors even more influence, potentially the biggest change since “Citizens United.” @ludwig_mike truthout.org/articles/a-new…
Tone-policing of Palestinians has to be one of the saddest things in our movement. The dehumanisation is so severe that even our allies expect us to be polite, perfect victims. But we are not. We are angry. We are resisting. That doesn't make us cruel or evil. It makes us human.
This is an obscene way of thinking no different than hers. There are many Jews who oppose the settlement enterprise, IDFs carpet bombing and use of human shields, torture, and starvation. Judaism has always been rooted in ingroup criticism x.com/meth_slonker/s…
Yeah because she’s a Jew lmao, she thinks non-Jews are inferior.
The Political Blowback to GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Has Already Begun The Senate GOP passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday. Constituents are angry — and the consequences for Republicans are stacking up. truthout.org/articles/the-p…
This will be missed by a lot of mainstream media -- the budget package is a complete betrayal of those who worked with the US military overseas — and are now targeted by ICE.
The Senate just passed a bill that strips Afghan allies of health care and slaps them with up to $4,000/year in new fees. This isn’t budgeting—it’s a betrayal. #AfghanEvac is sounding the alarm. The House must act. 📣 Read our statement. Share it. Demand change. #OBBB
They are putting the survivors of the genocide into smaller and smaller spaces, with no food, clean water or medical care. But don’t compare it to concentration camps or you might hurt someone’s feelings.
Two million people live in that green area—and now they’re being bombed nonstop, relentlessly, with nowhere safe to run.
A hearty Fuck You to @TheBabylonBee for posting on your website a picture of my kids that was stolen from a private Facebook page. You will have so much more to answer for before God than I will.
THREAD | My Thoughts On Bob Vylan 🔴 The media has lost the plot after a few hurty words at Glastonbury. Let's talk about what's really going on here... 👇🏾
This video seems to have shocked Zionist supporters and racists across Europe, especially in the UK. It’s truly a powerful video.
I’ve spent 15 yrs studying the Middle East. I speak Arabic. I have a PhD on the region. Gaza isn't “complex.” It’s ethnic cleansing—just easier to swallow when you rebrand it “nuanced geopolitics” and sneer at “naive middle-class idiots” for being rightly appalled.
🧵Today is one of the darkest days yet in modern journalism. I want to write a thread about the martyrdom of journalists Abu Hatab & Omar Zaino, who are among the 30+ people massacred at a café journalists used for its WiFi, and about Bayan Anu Sultan, who was badly wounded.
A word on this intifada thing: as an Arab I find it extraordinarily and deeply racist that the actual definition of a term that’s in my language has less weight in the popular discourse than what people feel the word is. Words have literal meanings.
‘I realise it can make some media outlets nervous, but what we’re seeing here is genocide.’ James Smith, an emergency doctor who has worked in Gaza, says newborn babies dying of starvation is a ‘deliberate policy’ by Israel.
Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients “If Medicaid is cut, my patients will die. I realize I am being dramatic. It is a dramatic situation. [T]hey are humans who are doing their best.” - Dr. Helen Pope, Louisiana truthout.org/articles/my-pa…
BREAKING: Medical sources say Israeli forces have killed at least 37 Palestinians in Gaza since the early hours of this morning. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/in9xdt