David Mettler

Director/Writer/Producer. Showrunner and Executive Producer of #BROKEN and #CONNECTED on @Netflix. Swimming hole enthusiast.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Gaza has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world (at the peak of Israeli bombing, 10 kids were losing limbs daily), UNRWA says. And now Israel is now blocking prosthetic limbs from entering Gaza. All this has happened with US support or complicity.

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.

Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Nothing justifies burning children alive while they sleep in tents in refugee camps. Nothing. Not self defense. Not human shields. Nothing.

600,000+ children are sheltering in tents as they are getting intensely bombed.

This is not war, this is genocide.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

Chuck Schumer, Dan Goldman, Jerry Nadler, Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, Vanessa Gibson, and Mark Levine all marched in a parade with this wanted war criminal just two weeks ago.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

There are people behind their screens who see these rescue workers tending to a girl and her father, and they press a button and end their lives, then go get lunch as if they are not monsters who should be in prison for life

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

When critics pointed out black-and-white factual errors from the beginning to the end of the NYT’s “Screams Without Words,” one of the most consequential fabrications in the paper’s history, used to justify a genocide, the paper steadfastly refused to address them. Only when video evidence emerged directly contradicting part of it did they offer a soft “update” to the piece.

Note how differently critics of the Kristof piece are treated. Where the original article did not interview a single victim, Kristof spoke to 14, all corroborated in other ways too. The critics do not challenge a single fact, instead they argue that the behavior described is simply impossible, or dogs would never do that, and all the witnesses and victims are biased against Israel and should not be listened to. Not a single honest criticism of what he has reported has been presented that contradicts the facts he laid out.

Yet those critics — who hysterically impugn his character and even in many cases suggest he should be executed — get a polite and respectful reply from the Times. (And in their reply they double down on their old Screams piece, stridently and without evidence.)

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

This sadism is a stain on all of humanity and we can't move forward as a species while it exists

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 

100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

They won't and can't leave Rama Duwaji alone because going after family members is central to the Zionist playbook. It is standard operating procedure.
Like the thuggish gangsters they are, the members of this cult have always considered family fair game.
They continue to believe such methods intimidate and silence people, and have yet to figure out that their tactics only amplify revulsion at their methods and increase opposition to the genocidal apartheid rape state.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Settlers reportedly tied up his arms and legs, cut off his underwear, zip-tied his penis, then paraded him around his family while beating him. Corroborated by multiple witnesses.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Israel and the United States know that if they succeed in getting the Iranian population to revolt, it will lead to a massive bloodbath. They don't care, because the point isn't to bring Iranians freedom, it's to plunge the country into catastrophe so that it stays weak.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The US - and I cannot stress this enough - is the bad guy in virtually every situation.

No empire in world history has ever held this much power.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

they’re never going to stop btw. you can only reason with someone who’s sincerely confused. these attacks are not from those that demand clarity, they are cynical smears to consistently claim that the mayor is antisemitic. any concessions offer legitimacy to the sinister attack.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

One thing not getting enough attention now that the U.S. has admitted to exterminating hundreds of elementary school girls is that many very powerful people lied about it.

They knew it was on the target list, they knew they had launched the missiles, they knew the school had been hit multiple times. And they tried to hide it and deflect blame to boost support for the early days of the illegal war.

In any reasonable society—as opposed to a deeply sick one where there is no pretense to caring about truth or accountability or law or justice—a lie of this magnitude would mark the end of a person’s public life and extensive public proceedings to uncover everyone involved and to eradicate the institutional arrangements capable of such crimes and corruption.

It’s similar to the complete rejection of truth and accountability that I have seen in police and prison corruption/violence. In the most fascist corners of our society, the only principle is who has—and is willing to ruthlessly deploy—power over others. Once a society tolerates this kind of thing, it’s like a cancer that spreads and cannot be stopped.

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

These "Jewish" orgs represent elderly donors, fascist-friendly Jews, and Israelis, NOT the vast population of Jewish New Yorkers who support Mahmoud Khalil and despise his kidnapping and imprisonment by the Nazi pigs in our government.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

Mahmoud Khalil is a hero. He has spoken at length about befriending Jewish students at Columbia, attending Shabbat dinners, and seeing Jewish students as "integral" during the protest movement at Columbia. These vague comments about "rhetoric" are baseless fearmongering

[Jake Romm @jake_romm]

this entire tablet article is an endorsement of blood and soil nationalism and, no joke, an explicit endorsement of The Volk as the basic building block of statehood.

as I've been saying: zionsim is an antisemitism https://t.co/80EOUpXltI

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Populations the size of entire American cities are being displaced by Israel in a single day, and yet much of our media and political class continues to back Israel and pretend what it's doing in the Middle East is somehow normal or defensible or not an epic war crime.

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

The Lancet recently published a study which found that sanctions from the US have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Sometimes I think the most honest thing you can say about America is this:

It is a nation of people raised to mistake global supremacy for normal life.

That is why every challenge feels existential to them.

That is why every rival becomes a monster.

That is why every act of resistance anywhere in the world must be narrated as irrational, evil, or fanatical.

Because once you are trained to see domination as baseline, equality itself feels like persecution.

And that is the psychic core of exceptionalism.

Not confidence.

Fragility.