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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya ran one of Gaza's last hospitals. He refused to leave his patients even after Israel killed his own son in a drone strike.

Israel kidnapped him for it. 18 months in detention, tortured and beaten, for the crime of running a hospital.

He must be released.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Amid a massive ad campaign against him, @AbdulElSayed slams AIPAC for attempting to conflate opposition to a foreign government with antisemitism.

"I learned just how many incredible contributions the Jewish community has made to this country, how beautiful a faith the Jewish faith is. And those things are independent from the interest of a foreign government and a super PAC that exists to back that foreign government."

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/GFVOhORkzk

[Eloy N Chavez @EloyNChavez]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

RO KHANNA: “Let me be clear, Netanyahu is the one that actually told members of congress to add section 224 (merging the U.S. and Israeli militaries) into the bill.”

Khanna says the quiet part out loud. Our elected officials are subservient to a foreign nation. We are Occupied.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🎯 Deep Dive: The Quiet Coup Inside the NDAA

The Responsible Statecraft piece has put its finger on something genuinely significant — and the fact that this is happening inside a must-pass $1.15 trillion defense bill, buried at Section 224, tells you everything about how the permanent national security apparatus operates when it wants to avoid a public fight.

🏗️ What Section 224 Actually Does

This isn’t a tweak. Section 224 — titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” — is a structural rewiring of the U.S.-Israel military relationship.

The provision authorizes $150 million annually from FY2027 through FY2029, but the money is almost beside the point. What matters is the architecture it builds:

- Bilateral R&D across AI, quantum computing, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, counter-drone systems, and missile defense

- Co-production and joint ventures with Israeli defense firms on U.S. soil

- Licensing agreements that embed Israeli-origin intellectual property into Pentagon programs of record

- “Network integration” and “data fusion” — which means U.S. military data flowing into Israeli systems and vice versa

- Pathways from R&D straight into procurement, bypassing the normal foreign aid oversight channels

The key phrase in the legislative text: technologies are to be identified for “integration into United States systems and programs of record.” That’s not foreign aid. That’s making Israeli defense tech a backbone of the U.S. military.

🔄 The Strategic Shift: From Aid to Embedded Infrastructure

The Quincy Institute’s Steven Simon has been tracking this for months. His brief, The Disappearing Aid Check, lays out exactly what’s happening — and it’s more sophisticated than most people realize.

The current model: Israel receives Foreign Military Financing (FMF) through the State Department, voted on annually by Congress. It's visible. It's politically accountable. People can argue about it.

The new model: Phase out FMF grants and replace them with Pentagon procurement accounts, industrial partnerships, and sustainment pipelines. Same money, different door — one with vastly less transparency.

The logic, as Simon documents, is being sold under an “America First” framing: this isn’t a handout to Israel, it’s an investment in American military readiness, industrial capacity, and jobs. Israeli co-production facilities in Mississippi and Arkansas become political leverage — members of Congress protect the jobs in their districts, and the relationship becomes structurally impossible to unwind.

This is the same playbook the military-industrial complex always uses: distribute the subcontracts across as many congressional districts as possible so no one dares vote against the program. Now they’re doing it with a foreign country’s defense sector.

🕳️ The Transparency Problem

The shift from State Department-administered FMF to Pentagon procurement is the move that should alarm anyone who cares about accountability.

Under the FMF model:

- Congress votes on the aid package publicly
- The State Department provides human rights certifications
- There’s diplomatic oversight and policy conditionality
- Public debate is possible

Under the Pentagon procurement model:

- Funding moves through budget justification documents and program element descriptions
- Oversight is limited to “cost, readiness, and capability” — bureaucratic criteria
- The relationship gets evaluated like any other weapons program, not as a strategic political commitment
- No diplomatic strings attached

As the Responsible Statecraft piece notes, this would give Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world” — including NATO allies. Not even the Five Eyes partners have this kind of embedded access to U.S. defense procurement.

🧬 The Legislative Genealogy

This didn’t come out of nowhere. H.R. 7540 (Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX) and S. 3855 (Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC) were introduced as standalone bills in February 2026 with nearly identical language. When a standalone passage looked difficult, the provisions got folded into the NDAA — the classic maneuver for legislation that can’t survive public scrutiny on its own.

The JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security of America) influence is unmistakable. Their “Partners in Production” report explicitly recommended deeper industrial integration and the addition of Israel to the U.S. National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). The FY2026 NDAA had already directed DoD to establish a working group to assess exactly that. Section 224 is the next logical step — and JINSA’s fingerprints are all over it.

⚠️ Why This Matters More Than the Dollar Figure

$150 million a year is a rounding error in a $1.15 trillion defense bill. But the institutional architecture this creates is permanent.

Once Israeli firms are embedded in U.S. supply chains, once Israeli-origin IP is inside Pentagon programs of record, once U.S. and Israeli military data networks are fused — disentanglement becomes economically and institutionally impossible. You can’t just stop the aid check. You’d have to rip apart procurement programs, break contracts, and rebuild supply chains.

That’s the point. This is designed to make the relationship irreversible — at precisely the moment when a growing number of Americans are questioning unconditional support for Israel’s actions in the region.

The traditional Israel lobby works through campaign contributions and media influence. This is more sophisticated: it works through the defense procurement bureaucracy itself, creating material interests that guarantee political support regardless of public opinion.

🗳️ What Happens Next

The House Armed Services Committee markup is scheduled for June 4, 2026. After that, the bill moves to the full House, then reconciliation with the Senate version.

Section 224 is currently in the base text — meaning it was put there by committee leadership before amendments or broader debate. That’s how the most consequential provisions get through: bury them in the chairman’s mark, count on the must-pass nature of the NDAA, and dare anyone to hold up the entire defense budget over one section.

Members who want to stop this have a narrow window: force a floor amendment to strike Section 224, or demand recorded votes that put colleagues on the record supporting the fusion of U.S. and Israeli militaries. The question is whether anyone has the stomach for that fight when the pro-Israel apparatus in both parties remains largely unchallenged.

The Responsible Statecraft piece is right to flag this. The quiet ones are always the ones that matter most.

[Eloy N Chavez @EloyNChavez]

@MassieforKY Please run for president, this country needs you. I personally dont agree with you in a lot of things but you got more courage and determination than both sides of congress combined.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

If you don’t have a problem with this, you are the problem

[Eloy N Chavez @EloyNChavez]

@vulturetrades $SPY

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It's astonishing that you, a world leader who many respected for standing up to an illegal attack on your country, now support an illegal attack on another country. It completely kills your credibility.

Right now. Iran is Ukraine. You may not like to hear that but that is a fact

[Monero Rapé ✍🏼 @monerorape]

Noboa👇🏼

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

If this level of authoritarianism came from a U.S. adversary, it would be international news. Because it comes from Trump’s puppet, it barely gets a mention.
https://t.co/fddUeTzQ99
Ecuador Suspends the Country’s Largest Opposition Party
"Acting on the request of the government-aligned Prosecutor General, an electoral judge in Ecuador on Friday ordered the nine-month suspension of the country’s largest opposition party... [The ban] coincides exactly with the registration timeline for candidates in the 2027 local elections — effectively preventing the party from participating in the electoral process."

[Agustín Burbano de Lara V. @tinagus2000]

Colleagues in the social sciences worldwide: Ecuador is descending into dictatorship under Daniel Noboa.

Two days ago, authorities provisionally suspended the main opposition party Revolución Ciudadana (RC5). Hours ago, Guayaquil Mayor Aquiles Álvarez — Noboa’s fiercest critic — was transferred to a maximum-security prison reserved for terrorists, based on secret and highly dubious reports.

Democracy is being dismantled in real time. #Ecuador #AuthoritarianTurn

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[truthache @truthache68]

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[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

THIS IS BASED!!

"None of the issues in this country will get resolved until we fix these 3 f*cking things.

1. We have to put an end to corporate lobbying.

2. We have to f*cking have term limits for every elected official. Public service shouldn't be a lifelong hustle. Also no private investing.

3. None of the first two things happen until we grow some f*cking balls and hold politicians accountable."

It is time to remind DC that they work for us, we DON'T work for them!

What do you guys think?
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[Rafael Correa @MashiRafael]

Urgente!!!
La vida de Jorge Glas corre peligro
Jorge es un Preso de Conciencia
Firma y difunde esta petición.

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[RT en Español @ActualidadRT]

⚡️🇻🇪 SI EE.UU. QUISIERA COMBATIR AL NARCO TENDRÍA QUE IR A LA PRESIDENCIA DE ECUADOR - DELCY RODRÍGUEZ

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[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

No Epstein list
No America first
No spending cuts
No end of the deep state
No end of Middle East wars

Oh, and Massie is the enemy...

But hey, at least we got REAL ID, Palantir data base, bombing Iran, and a $1 trillion military budget.

[Informal Economy @EconomyInformal]

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