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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

@SeanCarleton One last point: Carleton's report lists in the Appendix all the articles they consulted and marks the 35% with inaccuracies. I just performed a really quick check and of the CBC articles with inaccuracies, none have been corrected. Not ideal.
https://t.co/HdRdmOXTYW

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Josh Rushing, a correspondent for Al Jazeera English, made a moving speech while accepting a News Emmy award for the team's film "Kids Under Fire".

During the speech, Rushing stated "the irony of accepting an award for covering a genocide from the very country than enables that genocide," and dedicated the "Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage" to the journalists slain in Gaza by Israel.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Israel bombed a Lebanese hospital for the THIRD time. The ICU is completely destroyed.

A mother desperately rushed to find her premature baby alive amidst the rubble. Washington is fully complicit in these war crimes!

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Today I introduced legislation to ban floor crossing without voter consent. When MPs switch parties after an election, they override the will of the people and erode trust. My bill restores accountability: if you want to change parties, face your constituents and let them decide.

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

Frustrating.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The United States continues to fully fund the slaughter of Palestinian children every single day.

It's completely and utterly evil and disgusting.

The overwhelming majority of Americans want this to end.

[Green Party of Canada @CanadianGreens]

This Environment Week, the government wants to celebrate Canada’s climate record. But the truth is harder to ignore: Canada has the worst climate record in the G7. It’s time for a little less talk and a lot more action.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will tell you the world is complicated.

They will say this with such confidence, such weariness, such practiced exhaustion with your naivety, that for a moment you will feel embarrassed for not already knowing what they know.

The world is complicated.

Which means: the sanctions that are starving children are complicated.

Which means: the coup that replaced a democracy with a dictatorship had strategic logic you simply aren't equipped to evaluate.

Which means: the drone strike that killed the family was a difficult decision made by serious people with information you don't have access to.

The complication is always one-directional.

It always runs toward excusing the powerful.

It never runs toward complicating the story of the people underneath.

Their lives are never complicated enough to warrant the same forensic sympathy.

They are simple.

They are context.

They are the complication that required the difficult decision.

"The world is complicated" is not a statement about epistemology.

It is a class position.

It is what power says to people who are about to start asking the right questions.

[Independent Jewish Voices @IndJewishVoices]

While there is much to contest in yesterday’s address on antisemitism, credit to @MarkJCarney for leaving Israel mainly out of it and for not entertaining the absurd claim, promoted by some community leaders and clergy, that Canada’s mild criticism of Israel is somehow responsible for domestic antisemitism…

Let’s be real: Antisemitism is not being driven by Canada’s mild condemnations or inadequate attempts at holding Israel accountable to international law.

Antisemitism is driven by far-right actors, and by Israel’s actions themselves: its devastating genocide in Gaza, apartheid policies, land theft in the West Bank, flattening of entire villages in southern Lebanon.

Legacy Jewish institutions that continue to proudly identify with Israel and defend it from criticism have lost the plot on fighting antisemitism. Defending a genocidal apartheid state from criticism does nothing to keep Jewish Canadians safe. #cdnpoli

https://t.co/4lwhQ1ZQCJ

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The Israeli army has been bombing all over the south today; so much so that I can’t keep up. Here is the latest bombing in Burj eshmali, Tyre district.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 CORY BOOKER JUST HIT RUBIO WITH THE QUESTION A LOT OF AMERICANS ARE ASKING.

If we're winning the war...

Why are the costs still rising?

Booker argued that while Trump keeps declaring Iran "annihilated" and the mission a success, Americans are still paying more at the pump and taxpayers are still funding a conflict that hasn't fully ended.

His point was simple:

You can't keep declaring victory while the bills are still arriving.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They spent trillions on it.

Remember that when someone tells you it's just human nature to be passive.

Human nature didn't require a trillion-dollar budget.

The passivity was manufactured.

Manufactured things can be unmade.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This morning in Palestine, Israel took four Palestinian female students hostage during a raid on the town of Birzeit in Ramallah.
The four female are students at the renowned Birzeit University. Three of them were kidnapped from their homes

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if nazis are marching in your parade, it’s a nazi parade. democrats participated in a nazi parade.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The more Netanyahu prevents the war with Iran from ending, the more obvious it becomes that he convinced Trump to start it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Vietnam comparison is instructive but not in the way the Guardian intends.

The Guardian uses Vietnam as a benchmark for American strategic overreach.

As the moment the limits of firepower were revealed.

As the cautionary tale that serious policymakers should have remembered.

Vietnam is not a cautionary tale about strategy.

Vietnam is a moral verdict.

It says: you cannot destroy a people's right to self-determination with sufficient application of explosives.

You cannot make colonialism work by making it more technologically sophisticated.

You cannot build a compliant government on a population that does not consent to be governed by you.

That verdict was delivered in 1975.

It applies to Iran in 2026 with the same force it applied to Vietnam in 1975.

Not because the military situations are identical.

Because the underlying question is identical.

Does a people have the right to determine its own political future without a foreign power, operating 8,000 miles away, with aircraft carriers and guided munitions and a GDP larger than most continents, deciding that their chosen future is unacceptable?

Vietnam answered that question.

With 30 years of resistance and three million dead and a final answer delivered on April 30, 1975 that has not been superseded.

The answer is yes.

The answer has always been yes.

The bombs do not change the answer.

They just make it more expensive to arrive at.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Would the US not be more powerful if it returned to alliances built on values?"

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor, The Guardian, May 2026.

Let's examine the values the alliances were built on.

1953: Iran. The CIA removes Mossadegh because he nationalized Iranian oil.

The values: British Petroleum's profit margins.

1954: Guatemala. The CIA removes Árbenz because he redistributed unused land from United Fruit Company.

The values: a Boston-based corporation's unused banana plantations.

1965: Indonesia. The U.S. facilitates the massacre of between 500,000 and one million people to remove Sukarno.

The values: the archipelago's strategic position and resources.

1973: Chile. Kissinger oversees the removal of Allende, a democratically elected socialist.

The values: copper.

These are not departures from the values-based order.

These are the values-based order.

The values were always: access, extraction, control.

The law was always: for countries that complied.

Patrick Wintour is not a diplomatic editor.

He is a restoration theologian.

His god never existed.

[Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction]

New voting restrictions.

Voter intimidation.

Election denial.

It's time to sound the alarm about Trump's plot to sabotage the midterms.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

This is what artwork by Palestinian children looks like in Gaza.

Part of the HeART of Gaza exhibition, previously hosted at Súil Gallery in the De Valera Library, Ireland, in 2024. This work was made by a child named Qamar.