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[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

I went to the other place. Find me: belleharbor @

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@JayWeber3 The harm you caused is done. What are you going to do to repair the harm? Or are you just apologizing in hope of keeping your job?

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@realDonaldTrump Much better off now without an orange sociopathic narcissist at the helm.

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

If he won’t debate, she should stage a debate using clips of stuff he’s said.

[Yonah Lieberman 🔥 @YonahLieberman]

Obama: “What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable…

“You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree.”

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@Parker612MN Conspiracy theories have been invoked

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@BillPascrell A new twist on the trolley problem

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.

In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

I stand by what I've long said. Attacks on civilians are never justified. Hamas terrorist attacks, which have killed 200 Israeli civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, and horrific. My deepest condolences to the loved ones of those lost.

Furthermore, Hamas is not Palestine. Israel's attacks, which have killed 230 Palestinian civilians, are condemnable, inexcusable, and horrific. Israel now cutting off electricity to 2M+ Gazan civilians is collective punishment and violates international law.

Let’s be clear. Occupation is violence. And innocent children and civilians continue to suffer the gravest consequences of this violence. The United States and the world must stand together and stop this violence by upholding justice based diplomacy—the one tactic that can truly create peace between Palestine and Israel.

As a human rights lawyer, I will always stand for justice for Israel and justice for Palestine, where every Israeli civilian and child is safe, and every Palestinian civilian and child is safe. That is the only path forward.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

You should be horrified by the attack on Israeli civilians and condemn it as war crimes. You should be horrified by a brutal occupation that commits daily crimes against humanity in Gaza. This is all connected. Your empathy and compassion should be able to acknowledge all of it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Omg wow this

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@molivier1A Do your own research, the library catalog is online. If the don’t have it, there is a form to request purchasing it.

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@WentRogue My LTE alerted some organizers who were county residents. They could have done this in the dark. Stay vigilant metro counties!

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@SharonKARE11 @kare11 How is it going?

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@arielleistired_ Why did he have to specify he was Jewish? How is that relevant?

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@arielleistired_ You can just be proactive and put on your calendar to hide for twenty minutes in your safe room.

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@GovTimWalz Yes some are banning books. Libraries are mostly local not state. Carver County library board is going to ban the adult book Gender Queer in their September board meeting unless saner voices show up.

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@NathanCoulter They will be at the September Carver County Library board meeting to try to ban Gender Queer. Please show the board not everyone wants that to happen.

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@RyanMarino Thank you for staying on top of stories like this. You've educated me, and I share what you teach whenever I can.

[Erica Klein belleharbor.bsky.social @EricaKleinPhD]

@LtGovFlanagan Carver county library has been asked to ban the adult graphic novel Gender Queer and will be deciding at the September board meeting.