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TV's DC. I do all my own (and everyone else's) stunts.

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@tutueme @Mick_O_Keeffe No it’s not you uneducated moron.

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@SadieUnebe50747 @WhiteHouse @TheNotoriousMMA Disgusting what the government is doing to us??
Educate yourself you idiot. And don’t listen to these famous clowns. McGregor is a scumbag, a bully and a rapist. He, as much as you, have no clue what you’re talking about.

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@Heath_H1 @iluminatibot Eh excuse me. My router cable broke so I had to run a several bulldozers through my house. Only way to fix it. Know your facts.

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@Ultiworld @UNC_Pleiades @SyzygyUltimate ☝️

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Ben

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A few observations on President Biden’s building of a “temporary pier” – or what his officials are grandly calling a “port” – to get aid into Gaza:

1. Though no one is mentioning it, Biden is actually violating Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza with his plan. Gaza doesn’t have a sea port, or an airport, because Israel, its occupier, has long banned it from having either.

Israel barred anything getting into Gaza that didn’t come through the land crossings it controls. Israel stopped international aid flotillas, often violently, from reaching Gaza to bring in medicine. The blockade also created a captive market for Israel’s own poor-quality goods, like damaged fruit and veg, and allowed Israel to skim off money at the land crossings that should have gone to the Palestinians in fees and duties.

2. It will take many weeks for the US to build this pier off-shore and get it up and running. Why the delay? Because every western capital, including the United States, has supported the blockade for the past 17 years.

The siege of Gaza caused gradual malnutrition among the enclave’s children, rather the the current rapid starvation. By helping Israel inflict collective punishment on Gaza for all those years, the US and Europe were complicit in a gross and enduring violation of international law, even before the current genocide.

With his pier, Biden isn’t reversing that long-standing collusion in a crime against humanity. He has stressed it will be temporary. In other words, it will be back to business in Gaza as usual afterwards: any children who survive will once again be allowed to starve in slow-motion, at a rate that doesn’t register with the establishment media and put pressure on Washington to be seen to be doing something.

3. Biden could get aid into Gaza much faster than by building a pier, if he wanted to. He could simply insist that Israel let aid trucks through the land crossings, and threaten it with serious repercussions should it fail to comply. He could threaten to withhold the US bombs he is sending to kill more children in Gaza. Or he could threaten to cut off the billions in military aid Washington sends to Israel every year. Or he could threaten to refuse to cast a US veto to protect Israel from diplomatic fallout at the United Nations. He could do any of that and more, but he chooses not to.

4. Even after Biden buys Israel a few more weeks to further aggressively starve Palestinians in Gaza, while we wait for his temporary pier to be completed, nothing may actually change in practice. Israel will still get to carry out the same checks it currently does at the land crossings but instead in Lanarca, Cyprus, where the aid will be loaded on to ships. In other words, Israel will still be able to create the same interminable hold-ups using “security concerns” as the pretext.

5. Biden isn’t changing course – temporarily – because he suddenly cares about the people, or even the children, of Gaza. They have been suffering in their open-air prison, to varying degrees, for decades. If he had cared, he would have done something to end that suffering after he became president. If he had done something then, October 7 might never have happened, and all those lives lost on both sides – lives continuing to be lost on the Palestinian side every few minutes – might have been saved.

And if he really cared, he wouldn’t have helped Israel in its efforts to destroy UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians and a vital lifeline for Gaza, by freezing its funding, based on unevidenced claims against the agency by Israel.

No, Biden doesn’t care about Palestinian suffering, or about the fact that, while he’s been busy eating ice cream, many, many tens of thousands of children have been murdered, maimed or orphaned – and the rest starved. He cares about the polls. His timetable for helping Palestinians is being strictly dictated by the schedule of the presidential election. He needs to look like Gaza’s saviour when Democrats are deciding who they are voting for.

He and the Democratic party are betting voters are dumb enough to fall for this charade. Please don’t prove them right.

This post is available in article form here: https://t.co/TMUBFZyiCu

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Well, there’s a G word

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Greater awareness of mental health problems risks encouraging self-diagnosis and the pathologizing of commonplace emotions.... Instead of 'I am nervous about X,' a teenager might say 'I can't do X because I have anxiety' - a reframing that research shows undermines resilience."

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

In 2023 I learned hundreds of useful concepts.

Here are 20 of the best, to equip you for 2024:

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If you are an American, you are paying for this. You are paying for the suffering of these people. You are paying for the damage this does to your country's reputation around the world. You are paying your State Department to block diplomatic solutions to this.

[reilly @GoodPostReilly]

hitting a tube on the ground. it’s called Tube Time and just about anybody can do it

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@SilverNumber1 Some sort of super computer AI

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@UlsterRugby @racing92 @ChampionsCup @tntsports Gamf day

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@RemiBrando @DovySimuMMA Dane Sayers! That season was the best. Think I’ve seen the whole thing 3-4 times. Perfect story. 😄

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@SimonMiller316 How to wrestling?

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@Silvia19865 Yea

[Fergal O'Brien @FergalOBrien_]

Huge numbers are marching through Dublin City centre in solidarity with people trapped in Gaza @RTENews

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@EPfestival What the fuck is wrong with you EP? Just because they’re paying you doesn’t mean it’s ok. This is the same as when those companies handed out free cigarettes at colleges, gave them free to soldiers, advertised to teens, etc. Have a fucking spine & say no to tobacco companies.

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@RTERadio1 what is going on with this interview about facial recognition tech? Reasonable points have been made by Oisin Smith, some td I think… but interviewer is EXCEPTIONALLY biased and aggressively pushing his views, NOT debating it. Really weird by RTE.

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@sad_ryu Hahaha