The most telling thing about American political culture is what is never on the menu.
You can vote for the party that wants to bomb six countries or the party that wants to bomb six countries while feeling bad about it.
You can vote for the party that gives tax cuts to billionaires while cutting social programs, or the party that gives tax cuts to billionaires while expanding one social program, slowly, after a decade of negotiation, in a form the insurance industry approves of.
You can have the culture war from the right or the culture war from the left.
You cannot vote for a candidate who says: the military budget will be cut in half and the money will be spent on housing and healthcare and the forty million Americans living in poverty.
That candidate does not appear on your television.
That candidate does not receive institutional funding.
That candidate, if they emerge anyway, is described by the media, left and right, as unserious. Naive. Extreme.
The Overton window is not a natural phenomenon.
It is maintained by the people who benefit from the options it contains.
And the one option it has never contained, in living American political memory, is the option that would actually change who pays for the empire.
🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese President: "The US must stop threatening and attacking any country it wants whenever it wants. I hope their situation with Iran serves as a good lesson to them."
All of America's charisma and prestige have ended with this war..
This is what Elon Musk doesn't want you to see on this platform. This’s what your media won’t report.
The screams of Palestinians in Gaza being burnt alive by Israel.
Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza‼️
Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza‼️
Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza‼️
Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza‼️
Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza‼️
Israel’s Knesset Education Committee head Zvi Sukkot stormed a Palestinian school for orphans in occupied East Jerusalem, smashing the school’s ceramic sign and vowing to shut it down over Palestinian symbols.
You share photos of women in hijab and say:
"Look how oppressed they are."
You never share photos of women holding their dead child in a bombed hospital and say:
"Look what my taxes did."
You are not worried about women’s rights.
You are worried about maintaining the illusion that your violence is somehow enlightened.
BREAKING: A nine-year-old Palestinian child has been killed outside his tent after an Israeli tank opened machine-gun fire near a displacement camp in southern Gaza, reports Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.
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INDIA: A 14-year-old Muslim girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by two Hindu men in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district.
The teenager was abducted while buying vegetables on Saturday, taken to a house, and assaulted on the second floor, police said.
She suffered multiple injuries to her face and body and is currently hospitalized.
The accused were caught by villagers and handed over to police.
Hasil dari sowan kapolri ke kejaksaan agung, keluarlah surat edaran dari jaksa agung untuk kejaksaan tinggi diseluruh Indonesia,agar menghentikan kegiatan penyelidikan terkait MBG.
Mereka melakukan kerjasama yg baik untuk menutupi borok masing-masing.
Gak ada yang lebih ironis dari kisah Prof. Bambang Hero Saharjo. Ilmuwan yang berjuang nyelametin hutan Indonesia dari kebakaran, malah digugat Rp510 Miliar di negeri sendiri oleh korporat sawit.
Tahun 2018, dosen IPB ini dituntut dengan angka fantastis itu cuma karena beliau jadi saksi ahli KLHK buat ngebongkar kasus pembakaran hutan di Riau. Analisis ilmiahnya yang akurat malah dibalas teror hukum yang nyaris ngehancurin kariernya.
Tapi plot twist-nya bikin nampar muka hukum kita: Di saat dalam negeri beliau ditekan habis-habisan, tahun 2019 lembaga internasional di London, Inggris, justru menganugerahi beliau John Maddox Prize—salah satu penghargaan tertinggi buat ilmuwan paling berani di dunia.
Bukti nyata kalau di negeri ini, jujur dan pakai ilmu buat bela alam itu taruhannya bisa miskin tujuh turunan digugat mafia.