Andrew Filson

#humanitarian #tsundokian #twitterwallflower - #SaveTheBees!

down by the river

[Andrew Filson @FilsonAndrew]

@FLOTUS :)

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

“A person who espoused these views would normally be banned from polite society… unless that person happened to be a trillionaire.”

@crampell and JVL on Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, his increasingly radical views, and the power that lets the world look away.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

More people need to realize that 80-year-old Senators just PRETEND to run America. In actuality, they're full-time fundraisers. America is actually run by 30-year-old staffers who mainline X, TikTok, and Bluesky all day.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

This is an anti-free speech merger.

The DOJ is compromised.

If the Department of Justice was actually doing its job, it would have rushed to court to block the merger the moment it was announced.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on President Trump backing off from THREATS to go up the escalation ladder with Iran:

“The point is that we’re checkmated and Trump fully understands that.”

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Trump is so angry that Iran will not give him a deal that he is telling the US military to commit war crimes. Destroying a drinking water facility is not an attack on a target of war, but a mafia-style operation designed to harm the Iranian people.
https://t.co/RikqZSOaSY

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats

[Andrew Filson @FilsonAndrew]

slippery slope

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Over 200 people have been killed by the U.S. so far without any trial or evidence of crimes presented to the public. At least a few may, the U.S. government admits, have been migrants being smuggled, or even trafficking victims.

[Andrew Filson @FilsonAndrew]

@NazaninNour Americans really don't understand or comprehend how stubborn and homicidal America is. The country whose military is spread around the globe oppressing and exploiting weaker nations and sees itself as a "shining city upon a hill"

[Russell Foster A New Texas @RussellFosterTX]

This is what @realBrandonGill, @SelfForCongress, and so many Texas GOP leaders have been pushing with their white nationalist views and hatred of nonwhites. They are encouraging these mentally ill white men to assault and attempt to murder whole families based on their skin color

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The first time I said that Trump should be impeached was when, in the lead-up to 2020, he said, "The only way I can lose is if they cheat." It was a plain betrayal of his oath of office and his duty of stewardship. Precisely the sort of non-criminal "political" offense impeachment should address.

[Andrew Filson @FilsonAndrew]

@jeremyscahill if it is true the US is now attacking drinking water facilities things could get real ugly in a region that depends on desalination plants to exsist

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

On the first day of the war, U.S. precision strikes killed 120 children at a school and 21 civilians at/near a sports hall. Just last night, precision strikes destroyed a drinking water facility serving 20,000 people in 100°F heat. “Very precise, very controlled.”

[Andrew Filson @FilsonAndrew]

@SpinninBackfist it is fitting, Trump has brought the truth to light, America is a passionately and proudly barbaric and violent country

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Plaintiffs slam Trump Admin's argument that the event has precedent from White House youth T-ball game and Easter Egg Rolls

"It is different: UFC Freedom 250 is a for-profit endeavor from which the President and his allies stand to profit. It is because of this fundamental corruption that Plaintiffs are entitled to preliminary relief against the Sunday night fights on the South Lawn"

[Khalil Sayegh @KhalilJeries]

Propagandist Bariana Wu traveled to Israel to use a survivor of a Hamas war crime to demonize Americans who sympathize with the Palestinians victims of Israel’s genocide.
Two things must be noted:

1) Like the majority of secular Israelis, this survivor holds a racist, dehumanizing view of Palestinians, shaped by the Israeli education system and media.

2)Wu, an American, is there to further convince Israelis that Americans who view Palestinians as human beings are supporters of terror and murder.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Bombshell from Haberman and Swan:

Trump wanted the Epstein issue buried and snapped at anyone who mentioned it.

In the days before WSJ published that Epstein birthday book scoop, Trump tried to quash the story by calling Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.'s chief executive, and The Journal's editor in chief.

He failed. https://t.co/FRS0DNATAh

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Twenty-two dead dolphins were found along the Odesa region coastline in a single day - 20 harbour porpoises, one bottlenose dolphin, and one common dolphin.

Experts say this is the highest number of dead cetaceans recorded in a single day since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. They warn that the true scale of the tragedy may be far greater, as many animals die in the open sea and never wash ashore.

According to the Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park, the deaths are linked to the consequences of the war: explosions, sonar activity from military vessels, missile launches, and oil pollution, all of which are damaging the Black Sea ecosystem.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

MAGA's King and Daddy is weak and pathetic. The most fragile man on Earth.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada landed 14,000 men on one beach in one day, 359 of whom never came home, and their prime minister found thirty seconds to honour them.

Trump spent D-Day drawing swimming pools, producing AI videos and calling a female reporter "piggy."

The men who died on those beaches deserved a commander in chief. They got a man who dodged the draft with a bad foot and can't get through a memorial without making it about himself.

The narcissist-in-chief couldn't manage a single sentence for the dead. Mark Carney managed it before breakfast.

That's the difference between a leader and a performance.