Charles Lenchner | Team 'Don't Kill People'

A lifelong change agent.

[Ben Yee for NY Assembly, AD 66 @yben]

Today, at 7pm Monday (6/15), we're doing it LIVE! You can be on it! My friend Vinson Cunningham, staff writer and critic at The New Yorker, will host as we take questions from voters across the district. RSVP on https://t.co/gtwOQo11B9.

[•• Mahmoud @moebari97]

🧵🧵 I did not want to write this thread.

I was approached by Najat @theafroaussie and it touched me that someone offered to help in her status until things took unexpected turns.

She started a fundraiser for my Mom and money started coming into her account.

[Ron Kampeas @kampeas]

I get a lot of “the Jews betrayed America” in my timeline but God help me I never expected it from this source.

[Charles Lenchner | Team 'Don't Kill People' @clenchner]

@dilanesper You are so very wrong. The 'necessity defense' is present around the world, and has been for a long time.
https://t.co/ZwcK8rdv9C
Just google 'pikuach nefesh' for one of the earliest versions.

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE took a 31 y/o Haitian asylum-seeker into custody, drove her 30 miles away to a Pittsburgh office, put an ankle monitor on her, then sent her out the front door with no way to get anywhere or contact her family.

She froze to death at a bus stop. It's now ruled a homicide.

[Ben Yee for NY Assembly, AD 66 @yben]

New York needs to stop treating healthcare like a set of disconnected balance sheets and start treating it like infrastructure.

A city this wealthy shouldn't make it harder for people to reach a hospital.

Read my full policy on healthcare at https://t.co/q3l8D2CDTc.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

The only Senator working hard to help Sudan is the same one who worked hard to help Palestinians.

Where’s the Israel Lobby? I thought they cared so much about Sudan?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

lol, AIPAC criticizing progressives for trying to use primaries to “exert an outsize and pernicious influence in politics” is one for the Every Accusation is a Confession hall of fame.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

🚨 IMPORTANT🧵OF RECEIPTS!

Najat Abdi / Abdullahi (@theafroaussie, @oneafroaussie), a known scammer who was exposed, years ago, for stealing the work of Indigenous and POC photographers, recently opened a fundraising campaign for @moebari97 from Gaza, who tried to raise donations for his sick mother's surgery, treatment, and accommodation abroad.

After Najat made a few small transfers, she stopped sending the donations, gaslighted Mahmoud, lied and insulted him, and ran off with the money.

This thread contains screenshots from Najat's WhatsApp conversation with Mahmoud. Read it all. It's astonishingly evil.

I thank Mahmoud for daring to speak out and for keeping the receipts. Please support him, stop normalizing infiltrators and scammers, and stop treating the exploitation and abuse of Palestinians in Gaza as "personal drama". Najat and her likes are just another Zionist tool of genocide. Silence is complicity.

[Ash J @AshAgony]

NYPD cop Jonathan Baez's (badge #: 12619) car got stolen. He then did more than 200 searches on NYPD databases to find a car belonging to who he thought stole his car. He found the car, held 1 passenger at gunpoint & shot another in the head. https://t.co/KABUGC6RCn

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

A six-year-old Palestinian boy with leukemia died while waiting for the Netanyahu government to approve his medical evacuation request. His name was Ghazal.

In Gaza, no hospital is fully functional and Israeli approval is required to leave. A cancer diagnosis is a death sentence.

That’s why I led 61 of my colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration reestablish a medical evacuation corridor so patients have a chance to survive—a chance that was never afforded to Ghazal.

Read more about how @ChrisVanHollen, @SenMarkey, @RepDean, @RepDexterOR, & I are demanding immediate action to alleviate this horrific humanitarian crisis:

https://t.co/u66mdlOzQQ

[Daniel Seidemann @DanielSeidemann]

For many years, I took barbs for refusing to call Israel's policy in East Jerusalem "ethnic cleansing". After all, there were 60,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem in 1967, and 400,000 today. Occupation sucked, and included war crimes, but it wasn't ethnic cleansing.

That has changed now.

There are 3 Palestinian neighborhoods, all of whose residents are being or are about to be displaced: Batan al-Hawa and al-Bustan in Silwan, and Um Haroun in Sheik Jarrah. The latter two are being razed, or will be razed in the near future.

And immediately to the east, the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Akmar, adjacent to E-1, is about to be expelled, part of an attempt to "cleanse" Area C between East Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley of its Palestinian residents.

Regrettably, I can think of no other term to use other than "ethnic cleansing".

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Maybe she owes Maine an answer for dating a married man whose wife had cancer, if Senate seats are now about someone’s dating history

[Charles Lenchner | Team 'Don't Kill People' @clenchner]

@escargotpro_ @rationist4 Don’t forget Summer Lee.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

Ring ring: it's @ZohranKMamdani and me reminding you that early voting begins this Saturday!

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

While attention is again focused on Iran, a major shift is unfolding in the West Bank. For the first time since the Oslo Accords, Palestinians are being expelled from Area A, under PA administration. The IDF is seizing land near Jenin to build a military base. Why it matters 🧵

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[Ofer Cassif עופר כסיף عوفر كسيف @ofercass]

About six weeks ago, a settler named Eliya came to the home of my friend Issa Amro in Tel Rumeida in Hebron, attacked the house with rocks, and threatened to take it over.

Issa filed a complaint and the settler, as usual, was released.
He returned last night again with his criminal accomplices, this time to lay bare the depth of the settlers' lust for plunder, expulsion and ethnic cleansing under the auspices of the government of blood and the occupation regime.

We all must stand against one of the greatest terrorist crimes of modern history: the illegal and brutal occupation of the Palestinian territories.