Aarjn Plotner

Stories beat stuff.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Don’t let them re-write history: Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset who was tasked with subverting the feminist movement away from class-based analysis.

She founded the Independent Research Service that was funded by the CIA to spread anti-communist propaganda at youth festivals abroad.

When she was exposed as a CIA operative in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, claiming the CIA is “liberal, nonviolent, and honorable” and that she would do it again.

The CIA is one of the most violent organizations in history.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

You honestly want me to believe that “Hamas” was in every single one of those houses? Every building on every street? As far as the eye can see?

[The Onion @TheOnion]

This Week's Onion Magazine:

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

Normally, when a civil rights leader dies, their supporters spend days reciting their greatest quotes and preachings. So, it's notable that the right has devoted the past two days trying to get Olive Garden waitresses fired for critical TikToks, while avoiding his body of work.

[ayan. @artan_ayan]

according to kirk, empathy is a made-up new age term, so keep the jokes coming. it's what he would've wanted 🥹

[PRCS @PalestineRCS]

🚨 Today, Israeli occupation forces prevented a Palestine Red Crescent ambulance team from entering the village of al-Mughayyer, northeast of Ramallah, to transport a woman in labor. They also confiscated the ambulance’s keys.

⬅️ The medical team was forced to carry the woman on foot to receive care, in a serious violation of international humanitarian law and the right of patients to safe access to healthcare.
#IHL #WestBank

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

I’m a British Jew in England

I didn’t interpret #DeathToTheIDF as a call for people to kill me because

1. I’m not in the IDF

2. It doesn’t call for the death of individuals - the clue is in “The IDF”

3. I’m not brain dead

[Joe Catron @jncatron]

@BernieSanders

[❄️ Snow 🔻 Himbo ☭ @SnowHimbo]

Real.

[Anna🍉🗝️ @anna_lippman]

In case you’re still unclear

[Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202]

Conflating Zionism with Judaism is antisemitic AF

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Democrats are as happy as a pig in shit right now. Suddenly they get to pretend all the unfathomable evils their president inflicted upon our world never happened, just because there's a different president doing bad things who people are feeling big feels about.

They wanted to lose. They're overjoyed that they don't have to be the face on the US empire's depravity anymore, and that it's no longer their job to make excuses for it. They're getting everything they want out of the present arrangement, because liberals don't actually care about fixing problems and making the world a better place, they only care about feeling good about themselves. Their politics is never actually about anything other than their feelings, and Biden was making their feelings feel bad. Trump lets them feel smug and vindicated and correct. He also lets them feel outraged and indignant, and they enjoy that too.

But it's all bullshit. No matter what Trump says or does or how he and his goons make people's feelings feel, it will still be a historical fact that Biden and his handlers spent 15 months facilitating a campaign of extermination and demolition in Gaza which could not have happened without US backing. It will still be a historical fact that Biden and his handlers pushed Ukraine into an unwinnable war that the US and its allies knowingly provoked in order to advance geostrategic grand chessboard agendas, sabotaging potential peace negotiations and threatening the world with nuclear annihilation along the way. It will still be a historical fact that Biden kept in place many of the ugly policies put in place during the first Trump administration and actively expanded and added to them.

It's important to point this out because Democrats are posturing as opponents of tyranny and abuse right now, and they aren't. They are ALLIES of tyranny and abuse, who LARP as righteous defenders of truth and justice whenever the other tyrannical and abusive party happens to be in power. Their behavior during the Trump administration shows you how they wish to be perceived, but their behavior during the Biden administration showed you who they really are.

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

Defund. ACAB.