BenjaminCraft-Rendon

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. They/Zi #UU #WaterIsLife #KeepitintheGround
Also bfscr at the ancient elephant & bluesky

[Rebekah Allen @rebekahallen]

.@McGeeReports that AG Ken Paxton's office pressed the ethics commission to settle a lawsuit that opened the floodgates for outside spending in the speaker race.
Then he became a leading voice in campaigning against Burrows and Phelan in the speaker race.
https://t.co/cSiycK2ugL

[BenjaminCraft-Rendon @BFSCR]

@jallen1315 @JohnnyNatoseeds A quick review of your timeline doesn't reveal you to be a committed pacifist or Jainist, so seems likely you already believe that similar behaviours in different circumstances can be ethically or morally distinct. Apply that here

[BenjaminCraft-Rendon @BFSCR]

@jallen1315 @cap_george89 @dancow They could have done half the things Bush did in 2000?

'My opponent is under investigation for live-streamed election interference and there have been concerns about foreign interference, time to preemptively proclaim everything went fine' vs. "some hanging chads" 🧐

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Remember when everyone swore they were just looking for tunnels and hostages? Remember when they said we were hysterical I mean bigots for claiming they would absolutely ethnically cleanse and annex Gaza? Remember when every red line was crossed with total impunity?

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

Her name is Jennifer Guilbeault.

https://t.co/yeTO3MKhSc

[BenjaminCraft-Rendon @BFSCR]

@More_Civilized In case you hadn't seen this evil thing yet https://t.co/yNkuMcEiQ3

[KlipNews @klipnewsorg]

Official U.S. Navy photo of a Lieutenant wearing a "Houthi Hunting Club" patch on his uniform.

"The patch signifies the squadron's operational achievements and heritage," DOD caption says.

h/t @jaredbkeller

[BenjaminCraft-Rendon @BFSCR]

New depths in "are we the baddies" moments #Imperialism #WhiteSupremacy #StarWarsfanart

[KlipNews @klipnewsorg]

Official U.S. Navy photo of a Lieutenant wearing a "Houthi Hunting Club" patch on his uniform.

"The patch signifies the squadron's operational achievements and heritage," DOD caption says.

h/t @jaredbkeller

[Mail Whale @mail_whale]

@adamjohnsonCHI Love destabilizing South America, absolutely hate when the people I helped starve show up at my door in search of stability.

[City of Houston @HoustonTX]

Happy Diwali!

Today marks the commencement of the five-day celebration known as the Festival of Lights. Celebrated globally by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, Diwali represents the victory of good over evil and the illumination of light over darkness.

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

Adam Rasgon smeared journalists, paving the way for their targeting. Michelle Goldberg lied about hospitals, paving the way for their targeting. Masha Gessen laundered the mass rape lie, paving the way for the genocide. It’s not complicity any more, it’s responsibility.

[a menace to my enemies 🎀 @cocoazafreen]

it’s still fuck pen america from me until there are more big changes & i am also glad she’s resigning cc: @djolder

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Piece is full of Bumbling, Reluctant CIA tropes and is fairly blasé about destroying an economy and starving people but it does confirm the Trump admin was actively fomenting regime change in Venezuela 2019, something many denied during the so called “aid convoy” media spectacle

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

When Trump and Kushner got cozy with Bibi it was viewed by so many as part of a global anti-democratic movement of the far right with fascist potential. Israel’s war in Gaza is the fullest realization of this trajectory we have seen to date, armed and sanctioned by US centrists.

[UNICORN RIOT @UR_Ninja]

ICE is Training Civilians to Conduct Violent Raids on Immigrants

@ExtremeArturo takes a hard look at the ICE 'Citizens Academy' programs exposed in a FOIA lawsuit by @ImmDefense, @OCAD_CHI, @BeyondLegalAid, @latinojustice and @theCCR:

https://t.co/uiV8PVS5Vv

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

I thought maybe this was an exaggeration, but nope, the guy that Elon Musk is agreeing with and boosting regularly posts antisemitic, racist and neo-Nazi content.

And Elon has been engaging with him for months now, raising his profile.

https://t.co/TrCpYkEkwz

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

For me Jack Posobiec’s continued prominence in MAGA/GOP is one of the biggest indicators of where conservatism has gone, how fascist it is. Dude wrote a book calling leftists “unhuman” & while at Trump’s MSG rally he retweeted two neo-Nazis https://t.co/BpnzvMveAq

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

They invade your country, colonize you, assassinate your progressive leaders, interfere in your affairs, loot your mineral resources and then turn around and blame you for being poor.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

After 12 months of attacking UN premises, even as they were sheltering IDPs, sick persons and peacekeepers; killing over 200 UN staff in less than 1 year; vilifying and defaming senior UN officials and organisations; a parliamentary act that outlaws the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UN subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly, is a fatal and intolerable blow for the UN Charter and the multilateral system. The aim is to accelerate the erasure of Palestinian presence, including through unconscionable humanitarian consequences.
May this affront be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and may it mark the beginning of the end of Israel's impunity.
#UNseatIsrael

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This is far worse than apartheid SA ever did in relation to the UN. They were suspended - Israel should be suspended/expelled now!

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Saoirse Ronan on ‘Wild’ Reaction to Viral Comment About Women’s Safety

The actress said she was glad her comment, which left Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, and Eddie Redmayne speechless, seemed to be "opening a conversation again."

🔗 https://t.co/c80baF0ZpG