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Michigander(born Hoosier), Engineer, Country Girl in the City. Democrats & Republicans are evil AF! Nothing remotely what I learned about Jesus. Free Palestine

[Michigan Deb 🌽🌽🌽 @MichiganDeb1]

@CDCDirector Our government doesn't care about us.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

In the same breath, Israel says it’s unfair for Iran to defend Hezbollah because those are different conflicts — and then takes out its anger on humanitarian orgs delivering aid to Gaza

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

@washingtonpost @fbhutto Who denied the rescuers access to the injured journalist? Is there a reason you didn't include that in your headline?

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel has not respected the ceasefire in Gaza or Lebanon for 24 straight hours ever

[Misbah, Qasemi @MisbahQasemi]

Israel’s entire regional hegemony relies on the assumption that it can bomb sovereign Arab capitals with impunity, treating the Middle East as its personal shooting gallery, while expecting its targets to absorb the blows individually. By striking Israel over the bombing of Beirut, Iran established a new deterrent baseline: an attack on one node is an attack on the entire network.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Pentagon elevates Israel's counterintelligence risk rating to "critical"—its highest level—amid growing concerns that Israel is conducting aggressive espionage operations against senior U.S. officials.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

In February 2023, 8 months before Oct 7, hundreds of Jewish settlers just like the ones below went on a rampage in this same town, burning cars, homes and businesses.

The IDF did nothing to stop it.

Then after 10/7 every Zionist on the planet shouted in unison “There was a ceasefire on October 6! We were living peacefully and they attacked us for no reason!”

The lies never stop.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Iraq national team player Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned by U.S. authorities for seven hours at Chicago Airport.

This disgrace is on you, @FIFAcom.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:

“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

[usaama @yoUsaama]

Sam Harris published "if Palestinians laid down their arms, there would be peace" on the same day a 7 month old Palestinian baby was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.

the baby's name happened to be Sam, too.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

This hit piece by Jacobin uses organizing rhetoric as a cover for an obvious smear of Chris Smalls.

This has nothing to do with labor organizing for them. It’s clear in what really bothers Jacobin about Smalls is that he doesn’t suck up to imperialist pig Democrats they call “progressive” and that he stands with Cuba and Palestine as an anti-imperialist.

This marks a new low for an already discredited publication.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“As Israeli military fires on car”

No, they fired on a FAMILY @nytimes, and killed a 7-month old baby.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of between 70 and 80%, thanks to her progressive policies which have lifted over 8 million people out of poverty.

So of course the @NYTimes finds some reason to attack her.

They hate her because she shows what can be done.

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Over the past two weeks alone, I personally have been denied housing in three different buildings across two different areas in Lebanon simply because I am a Muslim Shia woman who wears the hijab.

This was not a matter of price. In all the cases, landlords were already demanding four times the normal market rate. Some properties were publicly advertised at standard prices, only for prospective tenants to be told that those prices applied exclusively to Christians. For Muslim Shia applicants, the rent would suddenly triple.

Real estate agents openly questioned me about my sect. Because my name does not immediately reveal my background, I was repeatedly asked whether I was Sunni or Shia. More than once, I was specifically asked whether I was a Shia from South Lebanon, with claims that certain municipalities had circulated directives preventing locals from renting to "people like us".

To those engaging in this discrimination, understand that you are not weakening us. You are merely exposing a prejudice that serves the interests of those who seek to divide Lebanon. Terroist Israel is very proud of you since it undoubtedly benefits from every act of sectarian hatred directed against fellow Lebanese.

But listen well: this war will end. We will return to our homes, our villages, and our land in the South, where we belong. The houses that were temporarily filled will once again stand empty, the markets that briefly prospered will once again fall silent, and the bitterness that fuels such discrimination will consume only those who carry it from the inside out.

As for us, the people of South Lebanon, we will remain proud, dignified, resilient, and full of life. Through our grace under pressure, our generosity in hardship, and our refusal to surrender our humanity, we have demonstrated values far closer to the teachings of Jesus Christ than those who invoke His name while practicing exclusion and discrimination.

We will return home with our heads held high.

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

I’m a Lebanese Maronite Catholic. My vision of Lebanon is inclusive of all its people-w/no sect divisions. It breaks my heart to see Christians banning “Shia or hijabis” from their towns or buildings. That’s not what Jesus would do. & it’s not the way to build a unified Lebanon

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

AN EDITING ERROR exposed a secret: the UK Daily Telegraph is being edited by a robot.

This was surmised after the news outlet published an article about China with an odd, puzzling paragraph in the middle.

In the middle of the piece about Xi and Trump, it said:

“To further divide the piece and maintain that authoritative, broadsheet pace, here are two additional subheads. These focus on the geopolitical consequences and the final ‘optics’ of the trip:
The regional fallout of a rhetorical shift.”

What did this mean?

Journalists at UK Press Gazette eventually concluded that this was a comment on the original text added to it by an AI-powered robot sub-editor, overseeing the work of human writers.

Instead of noting the robot’s comment and deleting it, someone (a human? another robot?) added it to the main text of the report, and it was published as part of the story.

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HORRIFIED
This indication of the use of AI at that level horrified many journalists, including the writer of this post.

Professional reporters of our generation generally hate AI and refuse to engage with it, preferring to use human researchers and editors.

To promote AI to a senior editorial role is the death of credibility.

Oh, wait, this was the Daily Telegraph. Credibility long dead!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.

Mona is not a fighter.

She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.

Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.

[Annia Ciezadlo @annia.bsky.social @annia]

Mona is a legend. She spent her life protecting endangered sea turtles & their shoreline habitats. For years, she ran Orange House, a bed & breakfast that funded her turtle conservation project.

Israel knows who she is, where she is, & what she does. This bombing was a message.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

@PolitlcsGlobal If America can’t separate politics from an international tournament like this, then why the hell did it volunteer to host the World Cup in the first place? And why isn’t FIFA doing anything about these ridiculous actions by the host country??

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

So… if our military is announcing this, why is Congress voting to merge our military with Israel?