UPDATE: came to speak with the manager. Andres ran down the driveway, got on his knees and put his hands behind his head. Then 1 Cop shot him in the back 7 times. They broke all the cameras and took the DVR, which they pulled a warrant for after the fact. Video of this coming
A huge international crowd came out of nowhere, bringing thousands more to the March on Washington.
“From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine!”
“From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have got to go!”
“From Palestine to Puerto Rico, occupation is illegal!”
Today. Displacement of Palestinians from northern to southern Gaza after Israeli threats.
Israel ordered the evacuation of its residents from the northern Gaza Strip, causing a “mass exodus” towards the besieged south of the Strip.
Here’s what’s wild: the Israelis have never offered the Palestinians a state, ever. That’s a fact. But if you say that here in the U.S. you sound like a madman, because the line here is that they kept turning down great offers. Now finally this extreme right wing govt in Israel
Incredible historical document here: Blinken says Israel’s PR is failing because social media allows people a direct look at what’s happening, shorn of the ability to mediate it, and it lands with emotional resonance. Romney then says yes, that’s why we moved to ban TikTok
“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?… some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok.”
5 yo woke up with a fever. CVS Minute Clinic says she has flu, prescribes tamaflu.
It’s the New Year so the new deductible kicks in. Pharmacy wants $198 for the tamaflu. If we didn’t have it, like millions don’t, she’d go without it, putting her life at risk. Barbaric.
“He should apologize to the children that have been separated from their parents,” said Rep.
@AOC
of GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who demanded she apologize for calling ICE detention centers “concentration camps.” by
@nicholasballasy
Biden very quickly out with a statement congratulating Lula, a signal to Brazilian elite not to try anything funny.
A truly strange moment: the US working against a potential right wing coup in South America.
If an 81 your old doctor who struggled to complete sentences looked down at me on the operating table and said he didn’t care if I lived or not as long as he tried his hardest and did his best, I’m not sure that would be comforting
As the Israeli parliament debates whether it’s okay to rape prisoners, a mob (including lawmakers) attacks a base in protest of the Israeli military police detaining 9 soldiers suspected of sexually assaulting a prisoner
My kids were pointing out this morning that when school lunch was free for everybody during the pandemic the line moved fast and everybody had enough time to eat. Now that they’re back to charging, kids have about 3 minutes or less to shovel the food in their face or miss recess
Let's be clear: Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us into war with Iran without Congressional approval. A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people.
Lotta drama over an infrastructure bill that spends an extra $55 billion a year over ten years.
They raised the military budget by more than half that a few weeks ago without batting an eye.
Fun fact about Bill Gates and capitalism. Decades ago he retired and began giving all his money away. He’s famous for that. Today he’s worth more money than the day he stopped working. Neat trick.
🚨🚨
@ElonMusk
complied when India’s right-wing prime minister asked him to block a BBC documentary critical of him, and even deleted MP tweets by me &
@mazmhussain
Armed settlers (protected by israeli occupation police) attempted to seize a portion of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem. Locals have staged a sit-in on the property and refuse to be intimidated by fascists.
This is just a guy holding up his green ID (which Israel requires all Gazans to carry; it’s the most restrictive ID color in their apartheid scheme and essentially bars travel. They also used to claim not to be Gaza’s occupying power.)
Absolutely wild that a guy who literally owns a coal producing business that generates millions for him — currently — can make this kind of decision for the whole country and it’s not illegal
Bernie Sanders on Biden on Capitol Hill: “You heard him last night, he was not incoherent. Apparently this morning he was not incoherent. But you might want to rephrase [the question] and say a president who has maybe done more for the working class in the last four years than
Seeing a lot of people dunking on the crying young woman who just started a 9-5 job with a long commute and her reaction to it is the healthy one! All the people who've been beaten down into just accepting it as okay are the unhealthy ones.
Israel went to Jenin today, in the West Bank, and kidnapped this 7 year old girl from her family. They do these things often but we rarely catch them on film.
The IDF thinks this makes them look good to release this?
Congratulations on starving people to death and driving them to complete desperation, I guess
🔴 IDF released aerial footage showing how a Palestinian crowd in northern
#Gaza
attacked the trucks bringing humanitarian aid and as a result, dozens died from overcrowding, and trampling
Shai tried to swipe in after his demo and his card was deactivated, which he found out in real time in front of a bunch of cameras.
Columbia COO Cas Holloway was standing at the entrance when he approached.
A Buffalo police statement initially said that a man was injured when he “tripped and fell” during “a skirmish involving protesters."
That language only amplified criticism, as the video soon showed it was false.
The election in Colombia of a former narco-terrorist Marxist is troubling and disappointing. The spread of left-wing totalitarian ideology in the Western Hemisphere is a growing threat. Florida stands with Colombian Americans on the side of freedom.
Imagine you’re in an ambulance hoping it can get you where you need to be fast enough to save your life, and it’s pulled over and the driver and EMTs dragged out, stripped and detained.
It takes a lot for Doctors Without Borders to speak out like this:
This morning, Israeli forces stopped ambulances taking discharged patients home outside Khalil Suleiman hospital. Paramedics and ambulance drivers were ordered out of the ambulances, stripped and made to kneel in the street. The patients were left in the ambulances...
After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a "Second Nakba!"
Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.
Manchin’s own children:
1) runs the coal company Manchin launched as a state senator and
2) got a job at Mylan, run by Manchin’s friend, cornered the market on epipen and got a golden parachute of $30 million
Now he’s insisting on work requirements for a child tax credit
Confederates weren’t just vicious racists and traitors, they were also losers. They lost a single election and quit the country, then lost the war and pretended to surrender so they could try terrorism instead. Losers and cowards.
Do people remember that after 9/11, Barbara Lee stood up and was the lone courageous dissenter amid our lust for revenge?
Time eventually proved her wise, and that lonely stand built her legacy. Until just a few days ago, it was near universally agreed that she had been right
The horrifying details emerging about the World Central Kitchen massacre: The convoy was struck 3 times in succession, with the drone chasing the wounded aid workers from vehicle to vehicle to make sure they were all killed. No legit pretext and precise coordination with the IDF.
The IDF's early explanation re the killing of the World Central Kitchen team is in - per "security sources" speaking to Haaretz. Before we get to the putative pretext for the attack, they also disclose a harrowing detail - the drone bombed the convoy THREE TIMES in succession..
"You're by yourself!" shouts one man from the pro-Israel mob before he and others grab an isolated protester, throw him to the ground, and start beating him.
Congressman Scott DesJarlais (
@tndesjarlais
) has been a tremendous advocate for Tennessee! One of my earliest supporters, he fights for our Military, Vets, Law Enforcement and the Second Amendment! Scott has my Complete and Total Endorsement!
#TN04
Longtime Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack describes the “intentional killing” of American Aysenur Eygi in the West Bank:
“It was quiet. There was nothing to justify the shot. The shot was taken to kill.”
This
@WSJ
photo appears to show
@JohnFetterman
walking around the U.S. Senate with an automatic transcription program running on his phone ("Hey, how are you?") Only revealed b/c he accidentally placed his phone into his shirt pocket backward.
Looks like Erdogan demanded
@elonmusk
censor his political opposition a day ahead of the election and he immediately complied.
Musk is either the world’s most sanctimonious hypocrite, coward and fraud or actually wants to censor the opposition to help Erdogan. Or both.
In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today.
The father of Hind Rajab, the 6-year old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli forces in a car in Gaza in January, was recently killed, according to journalist Ashraf Mashharawi who spoke recently to Hind’s mom.
Hind’s story was told in the recent Al Jazeera English
I am begging someone to make a rational case for how one can be simultaneously worried that too few people will cause civilizational collapse and also that immigration is our biggest problem because we have too many people.
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan is currently in prison on charges of an "un-Islamic marriage," because the court ruled his wife hadn't had enough menstrual cycles between her official divorce and her marriage to Khan.
I asked the State Department why it can sanction Georgia over
At $70 billion/year, Warren’s universal child care program would cost roughly what Congress added casually to the Pentagon budget with no debate or even rationale
.
@ryangrim
asked about the rape & torture center in Sde Taiman
Ryan Grim: "On this rape and torture center... how is it still open? Does the US believe it needs to be closed at this point?"
Matt Miller: "We believe that all the allegations need to be fully investigated."
The media refuses to acknowledge that Jewish students are heavily represented in the pro-Palestine protests because it just wouldn’t fit with the safety narrative
When I speak on campus, I ask what % of the pro-Palestine protesters are Jewish. Usually, Jews are overrepresented. Sometimes they're the largest identity group. Maybe folks calling for cracking down on protesters in the name of Jewish safety should consider their safety too
President of the painters and allied trades union Jimmy Williams Jr says the union is directing its massive international pension fund to make sure none of its investments are going to support the “genocide in Gaza”.
European Parliament member from Ireland disowns Biden: “Take note butcher Biden: The ancestors of the Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth.”
I always thought movies where a guy slaps on a mustache and suddenly is able to hide himself were totally unrealistic. Apparently it very much works on some people.
The IDF says it killed Hamas's economy minister in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday.
According to the IDF, Abd al-Fattah al-Zari'i also served as an operative in Hamas's manufacturing division.
The IDF says the manufacturing division works to "increase Hamas's weapons
⚡️BREAKING: Israeli forces targeted JOURNALISTS in Jenin, WEST BANK.
Visibly identifiable journalists yelled “WE ARE PRESS” “ WE WANT TO PASS”
Israeli soldiers responded by shooting them.
1. This absolutely appalling highway shootout yesterday encapsulates the under-trained, military-cosplaying, Punisher-wannabe cops who permeate America's police departments.
They killed both the hostage and a bystander, then bragged "no LEOs were harmed."
🚨Today at
@DropSiteNews
we're publishing some truly unbelievable audio we've put to animation.
A man in Pakistan was abducted by half a dozen men in black and taken to a jail cell. The man's brother, who lives overseas, then got a phone call from his brother's phone. It was
With evidence of UNRWA workers taking part in the killing, raping and hostage taking on Oct. 7 - Canada restores funding it never really cut off by giving this agency more. I’m sure the investigation was thorough (it was not).
Rewarding rapists on International Women's Day.
The de facto Yemeni government has announced they are fulfilling their obligations under Article 1 of the convention on the prevention of genocide. They say that the blockade of Israeli-bound ships in the Red Sea will end when the attempted genocide ends
Kavanaugh even lied about his connections to Yale: “I have no connections there. I got there by busting my tail.”
See this yearbook. He was legacy; his grandfather went there. What pathetic perjury.
Telling people to give money to McGrath when there are so many closer races — ME, NC, SC, GA, GA, AZ, MT, MI, CO, TX, and even Alaska — is utterly bizarre.
The “it’s not fair” at the end really got me. My 10-year-old says that all the time but she’s talking about not getting enough time on Roblox. This is too much for a child to be forced to bear.
💥Breaking: An IDF document distributed only 2 weeks before October 7 accurately described Hamas' plan to invade southern Israel, down to the number of civilians and soldiers to be captured & taken to Gaza. Huge scoop from
@SuleimanMas1
Chairman Imran Khan's victory speech (AI version) after an unprecedented fightback from the nation that resulted in PTI’s landslide victory in General Elections 2024.
Buttigieg thinks that if your combined household income is more than $100k/yr you can be lumped in rhetorically with billionaires and should be cut out of the free public college pool
Pete Buttigieg’s proposed cutoff for free college is the upper middle class, not millionaires. His plan would make public college tuition-free for households earning up to $100K a year.
The viral story of an Israeli man ending his life because he witnessed a 10/7 rape is now confirmed as a hoax. Credit to the Israeli reporters who confirmed it. The story didn’t square on its face for lots of reasons, yet it was shared by many prominent journalists anyway.
סיפור שרץ בימים האחרונים על שורד נובה שראה זוועות והתאבד, לא השאיר עין אחת יבשה. אחרי נסיון להגיע למשפחה, לספר את סיפורם – החיפוש הפך לתחקיר. נחשוף הערב בצינור שזה פייק מוחלט. לא ברור מה מביא אנשים להמציא ככה – אבל להוזיל מצוקה אמיתית של שורדים, ולשחק בנפש של אחרים – פשוט נבזיות
Netanyahu can call the Rafah massacre “tragic” but if a Palestinian citizen of Israel expresses sympathy for those tragically killed, it is literally a crime.
This is Rasha. A Palestinian citizen of Israel. She’s a beauty shop owner in very north of Israel who couldn’t be further from Gaza in Majd al-Krum.
Her crime? A social media post expressing sadness and solidarity with Palestinians in Rafah after the tent massacre.
Via
Rep. Andy Barr invited AOC to come meet coal miners in his district mad that the Green New Deal will take away their jobs. She accepted. Turns out there are no active coal mines in Barr's district because it's 2019, not 1919. So now Barr is uninviting AOC.
Just want to underscore the level of heroism underway here: Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been working to evacuate Dr. Adam Hamawy (who saved her life after her helicopter crash) from the hospital the IDF is besieging and bombing. But he and his colleagues have insisted they not leave
🚨Update: Israel offered to evacuate Dr. Hamawy and others from the hospital but refused to allow new medical aid workers to replace them. Five volunteers accepted the offer but Dr. Hamawy refused, insisting on staying with his patients.
He sends this comment through a
Today, I have declared UN Secretary-General
@antonioguterres
persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country.
Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran's heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step
A system that allows a 54-35 vote margin to be called a "stinging defeat" for the side that got the 54 is just not sustainable. This is over one way or another-it either slides into authoritarian minority rule or the filibuster goes away and allows an actual democracy to function
This post is false. The UN reported that the number specifically identified so far is less than the entire number reported, which makes sense. In a just world, this deliberate spreading of misinformation at such a critical moment would be career ending.
NEW: The State Department has put a temporary hold on funding for UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza, following allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks in Israel
This is utterly insane. We would insist any other country doing this be sanctioned. To top it off, the woman charged here is saying that by “them” — in may God protect them — she meant Israel, and judging from her reaction that seems plausible.
Also it’s just her whatsapp
"This is the real solution to climate change: babies...the solution to so many of our problems at all times and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some kids." -
@SenMikeLee
on
@AOC
and
@SenMarkey
's Green New Deal
Navarro's family didn't "flee communism" they fled because her father was fighting alongside the narco-trafficking, US-backed death squads rebelling against the legitimate government in Nicaragua. We financed the Contras illegally by selling weapons to Iran.
Not her fault, she
Navarro: Let's be serious. Donald Trump and his minions call Kamala a communist. I know communism. I fled communism from Nicaragua when I was 8 years old. I don't take it lightly. And let me tell you what communist dictators do. And it's never just for one day. They attack the
Scoop: The U.S. has sent the coordinates of aid organizations on the ground in Gaza to Israel to help prevent strikes. Despite that effort, many humanitarian sites have been bombarded
A few years ago Israel raided a slew of Palestinian human rights organizations and when the EU challenged them, they sent reams of what they called intelligence to prove their case that actually the were terrorists. The EU took months to go through it all and concluded it was
This is pretty standard procedure for the Israelis. Drop a big pile of intel, allies spend time trying to verify, and when they can’t just give them more to make them waste more time. The bet is that allies will be too nervous to call bullshit. Usually works.