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[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Hell no.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Just debated Third Way’s Jonathan Cowan on @BrianLehrer over fake @hasanthehun controversy. He was broken record, repeating antisemitism/anti-American smears. He couldn’t respond to anything and refused to say whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/JTb1hIvLbP

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Bears repeating that the target of these deranged intimidation campaigns, wether Claudine Gay’s “plagiarism” or Rama Duwaji’s art freelancing, are not the subjects themselves as much as a generalized menace for others to just shut up and go about their business

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

people like to mock the triviality of Piker Discourse but it is useful to see it as an elite moral panic/disciplining exercise. Tanden hired not one but two architects of the Gaza genocide. CAP is bank rolled by Corporate America. These guys desperately need it to be 2015 forever

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

@schmap244 Yes they can read a poll like you and I can. Who nominally “pays for it” is morally irrelevant. It’s why the demand is and has been an *arms embargo** not cutting off “aid”. Read this explainer from last Jan when Netanyahu/FDD/Graham first pushed the idea https://t.co/5hP6MO7NY3

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers https://t.co/NGPUnSXwq5

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Israel is explicitly committing ethnic cleansing against Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon (per the NYT) and western media, as they did with Gaza, keeps framing it as Israel “creating a buffer zone”

[David Dayen @ddayen]

The Hormuz crisis has been a wake-up call that relying on fossil fuels from volatile reasons is high-risk compared to renewable energy. The problem is that a lot of components to make solar and wind are stuck in the Persian Gulf, too. From Ryan Cooper:
https://t.co/PXlwcg4TaC

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

American men are more likely to have gambling debt than to have read a book in the last year.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Kirkpatrick supplied, by rehashing Cold War typologies of totalitarianism and authoritarianism, the intellectual and moral justification for the support of death squads in Latin America. She was a monster.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again this was not “Netanyahu”— key Israeli policies that have alienated US democrats are majority opinions within Israel. Support for ethnic cleansing of Gaza (82%), support for starvation in Gaza (68%) and war on Iran (93%) are all MAJORITY opinions among Jewish Israelis.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

Incredible reporting.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Neera hired not one but two architects of the Gaza genocide—Blinken and Finer. She also stopped disclosing CAP’s donors (under the absurd pretense she wanted to protect them from Trump, as if the president couldn’t find out?). Left-punching is the only reason she has her role.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

This is blatant illegality, but it shows again how blowback works on us: war overseas makes our rights at home far more contingent and precarious. By their logic who is next to have their permanent residency or even citizenship revoked: dissenters, of course.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Respectfully, 80% of Democrats think Israel is committing genocide but Politico, the New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Semafor, etc, are all very pro Israel. That, not Hasan Piker, may be the problem.

[Nikhil Pal Singh @nikhil_palsingh]

There might not be a better single illustration of the moral and intellectual collapse of the Western liberal intelligentsia than this interview.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Key architect and promoter of the Gaza genocide yucking it up with Stephen Colbert if you’re wondering if they’ll ever be accountability in liberal circles for Biden WH’s support for the crime of crimes.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

It's kind of stunning to see a major New York Times article clearly vindicating the Meirsheimer/@stephenWalt view of US Middle East policy.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Underrated sociopathic element of US-Israel violence is after they kill The Bad Guy, typically along with 1000s of civilians, they feed the “inside story” to baby bird NatSec reporters at NYT or Atlantic who do a glowing Zero Dark Thirty write-up about how sexy and slick it was