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Today my X acct was restored after 4 wks suspension after being *reported* for Content Spam, including "duplicative" posts. The post QT'd here is one of my last posts prior to suspension. I reposted in a few different places, including replies to @briebriejoy
Who reported me? 🤷♀️
Anytime Taibbi gets somethng massively wrong, as in his smear of Scahill’s RoKhanna interview, @briebriejoy opportunistically exploits it to defend her own bad faith smears against his TwitterFiles reporting. Rather than ever admit error Brie doubles down
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Israel reached a ceasefire with Hamas, brokered by President Trump, and continues to target Hamas and then post publicly about it.
🔴ELIMINATED: Ahmad Batash, commander of the Jabaliya Battalion in the Northern Gaza Brigade of Hamas’ military wing.
As part of his role, the terrorist was responsible for managing & organizing the Northern Gaza Brigade’s weapons and coordinated and facilitated the supply of weapons and military equipment to Hamas operatives.
The terrorist advanced terrorist attacks targeting Israeli civilians & IDF troops and operated to restore Hamas' capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire. The terrorist was eliminated in order to remove the threat he posed.
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Nancy Pelosi comments on the Iran War: "Our country is at war. We always root for our country under any circumstance. So let's get this done, Mr. President."
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Imagine a universe in which Sheeran tells Kraft to get bent, tells his fans that Kraft is personally canceling his show because of Macklemore, Kraft and the owners suffer a backlash like they've never seen, and then relent: Sheeran is a hero! Alas, in this universe, he's a fool.
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“Why aren’t more artists speaking out about Gaza?”
This is why. The rich and powerful will torch your whole career if you utter any criticism of the state of Israel.
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Guardian article, 2014: ADL accepts Macklemore's explanation about the costume:
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It was a fake witch's nose. It was a fucking Halloween costume. He wore it to disguise for a secret appearance twelve years ago. He's explained this extensively. It's not his fault that there are too many "antisemitic tropes" to keep track of.
But now the widespread narrative we're seeing throughout the hasbara network is "Aha, he wore a Halloween nose in 2014, and now here he is, twelve years later, proving that it was actually antisemitic after all by criticizing a live-streamed genocide."
Ridiculous. Cartoonishly absurd.
Disgusting fucking manipulators. Israel supporters are the worst people in the world.
IDF looking for ways to prosecute the journalists who recorded testimonies of genocide and war crimes
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir instructed the army's top legal adviser on Monday to examine possible legal action against the filmmakers behind the documentary "NAZA," despite not having seen the film in full.
According to Zamir, the film "is an attack on the State of Israel," and the military "will not allow IDF soldiers to be made targets through lies and blood libels" and will use "every tool at our disposal" against it | @lizarozovsky @yanivkub
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Fucked up out now on all streaming services. Proceeds to @unrwausa
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Those two reasons complement each other rather than exclude. Putin’s regime and Putinism as an ideology are the main beneficiaries of NATO’s catastrophic FAFO mission in the east.
Its main result is that the last thing Russians want today is being manipulated by the West into national suicide, the way it happened to Ukrainians. And no, you’ll have a hard time selling the idea that Ukraine is democracy to Russians who follow the news and watch mobilisation videos.
This is what the West has achieved instead of integrating both Ukraine and Russia into the Euro-Atlantic community slowly, but simultaneously, at the same speed. Instead of tearing these Siamese twins apart with no anaesthetics. An option that was on the table in the 1990s and throughout Putin’s first term.
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
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Psychology aside, the most accurate political term describing Sikorski and his ilk is extremism.
Various elements are there - fanatical belief in Western supremacy, pursuit of an unattainable cause, departure into apocalyptic surreality, absence of any red lines even when it comes to the survival of humanity.
You could argue the CIA had this one right. MBS has been pretty disastrous for US interests in the region, major source of regional instability. Of course, he’s been great for Jared Kushner though.
Blockbuster story here from Dexter Filkins at @NewYorker who says Jared Kushner signed off on MBS's intra-Saudi coup
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Translation: You have to take this on faith like Santa Claus and the tooth fairy, because it exists only in Bari Weiss-Ellison’s MAGA/MIGA echo chamber.
“I don’t have this story without faith,” says Bravo, the U.S. Air Force officer who was rescued from Iran.
“I am not saying faith is [a] replacement for training,” he says. “Training helps us understand what we do. But faith is the backstop of all of my actions.” cbsn.ws/4xjxqfB
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Two months ago, @ScottJenningsKY went on CNN and claimed he spoke by phone to Mitch McConnell, and they had a long, complex discussion about various wars, Senate seats, and other in-depth topics.
McConnell hasn't uttered a public word since that miraculous moment of lucidity:
It’s unclear if Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) will be back in the chamber Monday as the Senate reconvenes after a five-week recess.
McConnell, 84, has not appeared in the Senate since June following a fall at home. wapo.st/4xTvjjI
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Every now and then I remember that not only is John Bolton a convicted felon, but that his felony is misusing classified information for his own personal financial gain, and each time I experience schadenfreude overload which requires several moments of meditation to dilute.
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We hate cancel culture and also -- to justify the attempted destruction of his career -- here's a picture of this singer from 14 years ago where he dressed up in a costume to avoid being recognized at a club and immediately apologized to those who interpreted it as anti-Semitic.
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Jason Rantz—who spent years on Fox News bashing cancel culture—hails Robert Kraft and the other "Jewish operators" who worked to cancel Macklemore for criticizing Israel.
"I believe like 5 of the 7 venues are owned by Jewish operators… They're the heroes in all this."
"I think that's a good thing!" Fox Business' Stuart Varney responds, cheering ethnic networking bringing about Macklemore's cancelation.
Conservatives are working overtime to bring back cancel culture—but only in defense of certain "protected" groups.
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Macklemore has just been kicked off Ed Sheeran's tour for saying these words:
“Free Palestine. I want those words to be loud and clear so the people from Gaza all the way to the occupied West Bank know we have not forgotten them...
To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide is in no way a criticism of you....
My message is for peace. Love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality. None of us will be free until we are all free.”
This is what they are afraid of and need to censor from you:
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A crucial new report by @btselem outlines the eliminationist logic of Israeli policy in the West Bank. We now face a multi-sector Israeli genocide, not just the continuing genocide in Gaza. Action must target the Israeli state, not just settlers.
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