Jose Skinner

Author of short story collections The Tombstone Race and Flight, and of the forthcoming novel The Search Committee.

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

My books will never "drop"; that's what turds do. They will be released, like Minerva's owl...

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

@VigilantFox The irony's the point, nitwit.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If a nurse gives a Senator $50 to vote for Medicare for All, it's illegal.

But Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, spent $45 million to get Trump elected. So Trump is helping his family control:

CBS
CNN
TikTok
HBO
TNT
MTV
BET
And more

That’s a corrupt campaign finance system.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Recalling how she was fired from her law firm after refusing to remove a letter defending pro-Palestinian student protesters, Melat Kiros said, “I didn’t flinch because I stood by every word and I always will.”

She added: “I know that will not be the only moment where those in power will tell me to change my tune, to not rock the boat. That seems to happen a lot in Congress, but here in Denver we stand by our values and we stand with our community.”

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros declared victory after defeating 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s Democratic primary tonight.

“Denver voters of all ages, of all races, of all religions sent a clear message: We will not wait.”

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

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[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: Brazilian Presidential Candidate Flávio Bolsonaro Pledges Allegiance To Israel

He openly says he hopes to celebrate his election in occupied Jerusalem & place the Brazilian embassy there.

Countries across Latin America are falling one-by-one to US-backed right wing leaders who pledge their support to Tel Aviv.

[Yousef Ibrahim يوسف إبراهيم @Yousefiaa]

@RepCasar Stop blaming the “israeli” government exclusively you spineless empty suits. Grow a spine and speak the truth.

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

@Miriam_Junne Una lacra.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I never wanna hear a word about free speech from the GOP ever again.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

sentencing is happening now and 5 of the defendants have received 50 year sentences. chilling and should be a huge story

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

The Prairieland model is in motion: inflate anti-ICE protest into a terrorism narrative, then use the courts to punish people for being part of a movement.

https://t.co/63vdq56e8N

[Pame Viteri☭ @PameViteri]

La derecha tiene de presidentes a un pedófilo, un matagatos, una hija de dictador, un hijo de un nazi y un desquiciado sionista.

La izquierda tiene de presidentes a un profesor, un obrero y una científica.

La brecha moral es abismal.

[Benjamin Fogel @BenjaminFogel]

Mexico and Brazil are the last two progressive holdouts in Latin America right against the new Trumpian right and the War on Drugs as a war to dismantle Latin American sovereignity and hand over the reigns of power to Imperial Miami

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

Damn, this guy's good.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.

Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.

Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.

Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.

And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

[Jose Skinner @JoseSkinner]

The wealth of the average person in the lower 25% ($3,470), as measured in dollar bills, would reach 6", whereas Musk's new stack of a trillion would reach 67,866 MILES.

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room.

The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.

[Ta-Nehisi Quotes @steady_drumbeat]

Platner wrote a ton about his political beliefs on Reddit. He didn’t think it’d be read. He was a woke BLM guy who talked about the struggles of LGBT marines & got into arguments with Holocaust revisionists. There is no Nazi on earth who would talk like this. It’s dispositive.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The inflation rate in Biden's last month in office was 2.9%. Trump (supported by a Republican Congress) has driven it up to 4.2%.

Thank you, voters, for your attention to this matter.

https://t.co/2BWtpX5aEf

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “There’s two major lies Republicans tell all the time. Number one: Immigrants do crimes in overwhelming numbers. That’s a lie. The evidence is the exact opposite. The evidence shows migrants are responsible for a much lower share of crime per capita than documented citizens are. The second biggest lie is there are far too many people voting in this country and we have to restrict them. The problem is far too little people are voting. Voter fraud, not a problem. The real problem is voter suppression”

[El Virulento @carjavi72]

Por esto los gringos odian tanto a Petro