Constantine Valdor

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Love thy neighbour as thyself.

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“In the army they told us we only kill terrorists, but that's a lie. Artillery fire isn't accurate — a hit within a 50-meter radius is considered a good hit."

Israeli artillery soldier interviewed in the Israeli press.

cc: @SenFettermanPA

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

A fascinating interview in Haaretz today with an IDF artillery soldier, part of the crew that fired thousands of shells into Gaza. She has been discharged and now suffers from PTSD, partly due to trauma from combat in Lebanon and partly due to the realization she has been part of and responsible for severe war crimes:

1) She was responsible for targeting. Not picking the targets but making sure they were hit: ""My job was to calculate firing data, prepare targets, and send them to the soldiers on the guns."

2) She explains how innacurate artillery is and how its use is inherently killing civilians even in cases where the target is military: "In the army they told us we only kill terrorists, but that's a lie. Artillery fire isn't accurate — a hit within a 50-meter radius is considered a good hit."

3) She did not process all the people she had killed until after discharge. The IDF atmosphere is designed to protect you from that realization: ""I left the army and saw the number of children who had been killed, and I was shocked. I started searching obsessively. I looked up the neighborhoods we'd attacked, the villages. I saw that a lot of innocent people were killed in those places. I saw photos of dead children."

4) The guilt ate her up: ""In my head I see the children dying, the mothers crying. I imagine them pulling out the bodies. The guilt doesn't leave. How is it possible? I killed an innocent girl. I'm the one who fed in the targets. It's on me."

5) It changed her political opinions: "Before the army I was far-right, the kind who says 'death to Arabs.' But after the war I understood there's a difference between Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians who want peace, who want life."

6) She wants to atone but does not know how: ""I understood that I want to help as many people as possible — to atone for everything I did, for all the dead babies."

This person is a war criminal. But she is also a victim of a society and army which raises you to be a war criminal. Her story is a reminder that these soldiers are human beings. Maybe they can be reached and their minds changed. But it is also a reminder of how the genocidal system that produced her creates criminals and manufactures consent for crimes.

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

Nightcrawler can throw hands.
Based on X-Men '97's episodes 7 & 8, it has to be emphasised.

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

Thank you to the FIFA administration for suddenly this morning delivering what was owed to our players and coaching staff, for the Jordan National team’s accession to the final of the FIFA Arab Cup in Qatar last December.
This was funding that should have been received 8 months ago.
While this is a good development for our players, it does not change the serious concerns we in the football world have regarding the FIFA leadership, nor does it change what our FAs have been subjected to in the past.
It is symptomatic of those exact difficulties that we all face, and that are usually linked to the FIFA presidential elections. And it does not change my clear position concerning the leadership of FIFA: my FA and I will not endorse president Infantino, nor will we vote for him.

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

This is the fourth time an AI company has disclosed that a rogue model breached a third party's systems. https://t.co/vvL54c9RlR

[Chuey Chu! @ChueyChu]

Please help

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

People fail to realise that capitalism birthed racism.
It is the desire to permanently exploit a people that made the classification of races permissible.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Defining Zionism as a colonial ideology isn't prejudice: it's thought, hence constitutionally protected -says a Court (Bristol v. Miller, 2026 - EAT 84).

Law, when true to itself, doesn't protect comfortable opinions but the right to dissent from power.

https://t.co/OvwWtk7AJy

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Full statement on my decisive Employment Appeal Tribunal victory against the Zionist movement, solidifying anti-Zionism as a protected philosophical belief under UK equality law.

People can no longer be discriminated against for their anti-Zionist beliefs.

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

What's going on here? 🤣

[weezer @Weezer]

C.E.O. is out now.

Many thanks to our distinguished associates for their appearances in the accompanying visual presentation: https://t.co/nNuiIIt1HY 

Each has been awarded the Gold Star of Excellence for exemplary performance.

Recipients:
@tonyhawk, Curry Barker, Dax Flame, Jay Renshaw, @RobRiggle, Rob Huebel, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi and @MintzPlasse.

Regards,

The C.E.O.
Weezer Enterprises

[utdreport @utdreport]

Kobbie Mainoo via Ig 🥶

[Chris @CWeatherspoon_]

It should really go without saying that, just as football wasn't Gianni Infantino's to sell, nor is a World Cup final his to trade in exchange for personal support

The fact he even thinks of this as appropriate, alongside everything else, disqualifies him from remaining in post

[Manchester United Women @ManUtdWomen]

A new Eva for Manchester United.

[Manchester United Women @ManUtdWomen]

Ready to lead us forward.

Introducing our new head coach: Eva Olid 🤝

🔗 https://t.co/mzj6cAj12c

[James ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @WiseOne719]

Not too many artists solidified themselves right out the gate like Mariah Carey.

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

Man United Women's team have appointed a new manager.

[Manchester United Women @ManUtdWomen]

Something is brewing... ☕️

[Constantine Valdor @Griffinstreaks]

Mid-table O.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

What do you make of Manchester United's squad depth this season? 💭

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Nigerians have been completely lobotomized and systematically brainwashed to believe that our once-thriving state manufacturing industries in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 2000s were auctioned off and sold to Western corporate cartels and private oligarchs simply because they were inherently bloated, ineffective, and riddled with corruption. This narrative is completely inaccurate and deeply misleading. 1/8