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The betrayal has begun and they haven’t even been seated yet.
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
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A new Reuters poll "showed 71% of Americans -- including 93% of Democrats and 51% of Republicans -- want US Congress to pass legislation ending the conflict with Iran that Trump launched alongside US ally Israel in February." reuters.com/world/us/most-am…
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.@BenMoser123 has this magical way with words. He can put things so simply, so self-evidently, that it makes you wonder why on earth there even was a debate.
“The lesson of the Holocaust wasn’t that you should act like Nazis. It was that you shouldn’t. For some reason, this is a hard concept for some people.”
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Israel dropped 2,000-pound bombs, each with a lethal radius of 3.3 football fields, on refugee camps packed with displaced Palestinians, including on the "safe zone" it forced them to flee to.
Blinken and the Biden administration sent at least 14,000 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs to Israel between Oct. 7, 2023 and late June 2024.
The former Secretary of State today said “Israelis didn’t intend to harm Palestinian civilians.”
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Israel did not create the rainstorms hitting Gaza. But it made sure that the people there have no shelter.
Gaza’s first winter storm hit this weekend. Within 12 hours at least 70,000 tents had flooded.
The UN, EU and World Bank put housing destroyed or damaged at 76.6%. The UN’s housing rapporteur says 92%. He called his report “Domicide.”
OCHA, November 5: Gaza needs about 121,000 tents. The UN has about 2,800 inside. Timber is “being rejected by Israeli authorities.” The Shelter Cluster says tents and tarpaulins are “limited to one day per week.” 5,000 mobile homes from Egypt and Qatar are sitting at the Egyptian border, per the Times of Israel.
Gaza Municipality says what’s left of the drainage can carry about 20% of the rain “under the best circumstances.”
COGAT says more than 20,000 tents went in during one month and cites “genuine security concerns that Hamas could exploit certain components.” Even on its numbers, that’s a fraction of what the UN says is needed.
The Israeli policy is that Gazans should have no shelter. It makes them more liklely to die or leave.
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"ممنوع نخاف... الحق معنا"
الزميل عبد أبو شحادة يشدد على ضرورة عدم الخوف ومواصلة النضال من أجل العدالة، في أول تصريحاته عقب الإفراج عنه، خلال استقباله في يافا.
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There is fear in that voice. There is realization the masses are done and rising up against the 1% who have raped the Earth. Whatever it takes for them to wake up, as long as the system is changed to help the many.
Chamath Palihapitiya admits his blind spot on America's broken two-tier economy
PALIHAPITIYA: "I got it totally totally totally wrong. I got it totally wong."
"I'll go through all the ways in which I got it wrong, but I just want to first acknowledge what my blind spot is. Like most people's blind spots, but I can just speak for myself, it is through the lens of my own lived experience and very narrowly what is in my best interests. And I think what we had was a move away from the culture wars that was very much in my best interest, but I think it was in everybody else's best interests as well. I don't think that was on the ballot. But what I don't think I understood clearly enough, and I think that this election has made extremely clear, is that since COVID, we have moved past political ideology. And I want to say this again: I do not think Democrats or Republicans matter. That is my real takeaway after this election. There is a central block of people that vote the prescient issues of our time."
"It was a gargantuan win for Biden, then it was a gargantuan win for Trump, and then it was a gargantuan win for the Democrats in these midterms. What are these people voting for? I think what they are shouting now—they were trying to signal and now they are shouting—is a broad-based belief that the economy has completely decoupled from reality and is broken. The economic reality in America is broken."
"There is a small percentage of people, the four of us on this pod and all of our friends, who are the asset owners of America. And we have benefited in every weather condition. When rates were zero, we benefited because we were able to build our businesses with very cheap capital. When rates were high, we benefited because we had pricing power. And in every condition in between, whether there were tariffs, whether there were not tariffs, whether there were subsidies, whether there were not subsidies, we've all managed to continue to accumulate and grow assets, but we are few and far between."
"And then there's everybody else who are wage earners, and the structural capacity of the American economy to support and grow wage earners is broken. It's clear. Why do I say that? I do not think, and I disagree with Freeberg, I don't think this has anything to do with socialism. I don't think the far left won particularly more than they were expected. I don't think the far right won particularly more than was expected. This is a complete and total repudiation about the state of the economy. The economy is broken. I have a few charts to support my point of view. Number one, if this was ideological and if ideology mattered, money in politics would have had a more direct impact on the election."
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Apartheid Israel represents pure, unadulterated evil
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This is so strong and clear.
You can't help but notice that if this was in the UK context - you wouldn't be able to get a single one of these sentences out without a journalist barracking the person saying it constantly.
The UK media is in quite a state.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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If only there was a party that already had this as policy...
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Labour members are urging the Government to take decisive action against Israel by:
✅ recognising the genocide in Gaza
✅ imposing wider sanctions on Israel
✅ ending all arms sales
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Zionist Politician Susan Hall gets dogwalked by Zack Polanski leader of the Green Party on Antisemitism & Zionism
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Last night was one of the worst nights Gaza has seen. The bombs have never stopped raining down on them, and when the actual rain fell upon them, their tents flooded. So many missing limbs, all missing loved ones, most without homes. And the world just pretended it stopped. I didn’t even post an image with people this time because they’re sick of showing us images of themselves in desperation without action on our part. A reminder to you and me to not forget them because they’re no longer in your feed.
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Three in five American Jews believe that Jewish organizations are exploiting fears of antisemitism in order to defend unpopular Israeli policies.
You can’t say it loud enough: these people do not speak for us.
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Confronting Congresswoman Nancy Mace on her Islamophobic attacks against Abdul El-Sayed:
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Dear @ABlinken I too am a former politician having served under Nelson Mandela. U r a disingenuous, lying hypocrite: your ‘consultancy’ WestExec was a perfect example of self dealing & war profiteering. Your complicity in the Gaza genocide & the diversion of their money to Israel & other warmongers, is what ordinary people are sick of. U r exactly what people hate about politicians. I hope you face justice for your crimes. In the meantime, at least develop an iota of self awareness, you corrupt, murderous fraud
The midterm results send a clear message: How we show up in the world affects our lives at home, and Americans understand that. When we alienate allies, appease autocrats, impose arbitrary tariffs, and drive needless conflict, American families pay the price. The Administration’s actions over the last two years have had real consequences for our security, our economy, and our everyday lives. Americans have spoken loud and clear. We should act on the message they're sending. A good place to start: a diplomatic resolution to President Trump's war of choice with Iran.
All the vile and despicable Islamophobia coming out of the so-called “Christians” and rabid Zionists is fine.
"Do you believe that leaders have a responsibility to challenge the extremist views within their own religion?"
Sara Haines's question to the first Muslim senator on The View today.
When was the last time you saw Chuck Schumer asked to challenge extremist Jews, or Ted Cruz asked to challenge extremist Christians?
This is what an Islamophobic double standard looks like.
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We have this utterly childish taboo in our political discourse on discussing of how violence aimed at the US or Israel is the result of the massive bloodshed and killing of innocents the US and Israel bring to the world.
@AbdulElSayed said nothing wrong:
