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Electronic musician, existential vagabond

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

You know who really won't forgive Jews for surviving the Nazis?

You guessed it.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Shame on western journalism for forcing us do the work they are too afraid to do.

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW INVESTIGATION w/@earshot_ngo: In the early hours of 23 March 2025, in Tel al-Sultan, Gaza, two convoys of ambulances were ambushed by Israeli military personnel. Fifteen aid workers died in a hail of over 800 bullets; by the time dawn broke, Israeli bulldozers were burying the ambulances, seeking to conceal evidence of the attack.

The Last Responders tells the story of this attack in painstaking detail, drawing on interviews with witnesses from @PalestineRCS, digital reconstruction, and audio analysis of phonecalls made by the victims as they came under attack.

https://t.co/ajfxcUcj6a

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The definition of a slimy politician. Evasive, arrogant and clearly has contempt for those he supposedly wishes to govern. He doesn’t care about Gaza and he doesn’t care about you either.

[Librarian 17 ☭ 🍎 @antifa_17]

I think comparing Mamdani of 2021 to Mamdani of now might be the most clear cut, straightforward evidence that electoralism is wholly insufficient at fighting for socialism and against the encroachment of fascism. It’s genuinely depressing

[Tovi @wardinpal]

Is there anything more revealing than Mamdani being buddy buddy with this guy and inviting him to Gracie Mansion the day before he pulls this

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

Instead of Mamdani arresting Netanyahu, his police force is arresting New Yorkers for protesting Netanyahu.

[night jar @nocturnalbottle]

there are opportunists-in-wait like him in all of our organizations: draped in keffiyehs, giving rousing speeches, leading radical campaigns.

[Steve Barrow @smbarrowcan]

The DSA in power: An evaluation of 8 months of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York

Whatever the left rhetoric Mamdani deploys, his administration represents a fundamental continuity with his predecessors, not a break
https://t.co/HJBrJ7wwSs

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

American oligarchs kicking Macklemore off the Ed Sheeran tour for saying "Free Palestine" is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake.

This is what happens if someone stands on a large and influential platform and dissents against the imperial status quo. Their platform gets taken away.

Mainstream artists in our capitalist dystopia rely on infrastructure that is owned by billionaires, and if the billionaires don't like what the artist is saying, the artist loses access to the infrastructure. In this specific case it was stadiums, but throughout modern history it has also been TV stations, movie studios, radio play, record labels, publications, etc. When the wealthy control all the major platforms, you don't get to stand on a major platform and say things the wealthy don't want you to say.

Macklemore explained this very eloquently in his statement on the matter:

"What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I’m sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, ‘Free Palestine’ becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that’s why this time it became so important to silence me."

If you've been wondering why more artists haven't been speaking out about Gaza, this is why. They all know they'll lose their lucrative platforms if they say anything that offends the sensibilities of the plutocrats they depend on for mainstream success. If they want to remain millionaires, they need to get along with the billionaires.

So they don't say anything that offends the powerful. They don't say anything critical of capitalism. They don't say anything critical of Zionism. They don't say anything critical of the western empire. They stick to churning out toothless tunes about romance and relationships, writing shallow lyrics about dancing and partying with your friends, making dopey Hollywood action flicks, and creating empty-headed sitcoms about friends getting up to hilarious antics in an imaginary universe where capitalism is working fine for everybody.

If you want to be a mainstream artist in this dystopia, your vehicles for creative expression are (A) propaganda or (B) empty distraction. That's it. Nothing that edifies or helps improve the world is ever allowed past the keeper. The media-owning class wants us all to be a bunch of mindless, distracted, compliant consumers who march along to the imperial drum, so that's the only type of "art" you get to make if you want to be rich and famous.

In that sense the mainstream artists of our day are actually just mercenaries for the western empire. Ed Sheeran kicked Macklemore off the tour as soon as the Zionist billionaire Robert Kraft told him to, and will replace him with an opening act who promises never to say "Free Palestine" on stage. Sheeran is essentially just a rich, soft-handed thug responsible for keeping any dissident ideas from reaching the ears of his audience, which is why he's been allowed to become as famous as he has. If it were Sheeran saying "Free Palestine", he'd be the one getting banned from stadiums.

Mainstream culture is designed to keep us docile, ignorant and submissive while thinking we are free. This is the dystopia we were warned about generations ago by fiction writers describing the dark future they saw approaching. This is it. We are living in it.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

As of today

US federal minimum wage would need to be

$196 per hour

to match the spending power of $1.60 per hour in July 1971

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Went out to the least visited stretch of the Big Bend border sector in Hudspeth County where, despite the national park pause, wall construction is plowing full steam ahead. Far down a forgotten dusty washboard road, we found a massive staging area of freshly bladed desert--hundreds of acres--by far the largest I've ever seen for a wall construction project. Apocalyptic scenes happening out here, where seemingly no one is playing much attention.

$7 billion for this... All the while, we've seen more migrant apprehensions along smaller sections of the U.S.-Canada border than we have in the entire Big Bend Sector.

[Quietinthechaos @Quietnthechaos]

I’m so sorry so the Talarico guy is AGAINST abolishing ICE, is AGAINST defunding the police, is AGAINST an actual Arms Embargo, and SUPPORTS Israel right to exist, he’s PRO AI, PRO NATO, talks about WORKING WITH REGIONAL ALLIES (Israel) against Iranian aggression. 😒

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

The life of a millennial:

- Graduated straight into the 2008 recession with a degree nobody was hiring for.

- Every entry level job somehow required 3 to 5 years of experience.

- Pensions vanished, replaced with a 401k and a “figure it out” attitude.

- A promotion meant a 3% raise and double the workload overnight.

- Finally felt stable in your early 30s, then a global pandemic hit everything at once.

- Inflation spiked to levels not seen in 40 years, quietly erasing every raise you’d gotten.

- Home prices doubled in half a decade, so renting stopped being a phase and became the plan.

- Childcare costs now rival a second rent payment every single month.

- Somewhere in there you’re also caring for aging parents, raising your own kids, and running on fumes.

- Now AI layoffs are hitting during what should be your highest earning years.

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

This generation of Black celebrities, leaders, and politicians are the worst we've ever had. Don't do politics at home but does politics for Israel.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

COVlD levels are so ridiculously high in Texas that even though the CDC has downshifted all categories, the state has managed to meet the much, much higher bar for "Very High."

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Farmers had it good, USAID, SNAP, cheap labor and fertilizer, great trade deals and they voted it all away for RACISM.

[Potato @GotownedU90175]

Hasan Piker condemned genocide victims for resisting genocide. This makes him a Zionist.

Just like if you say “I condemn the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” that would make you a Nazi.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001, per NYT

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Food prices in the US have shot up by 33% over the last seven years, the biggest jump in grocery prices in half a century, per NYP