Mike Labonte

Opinions Expressed Are My Own.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Bernie Sander's statement: "Let us not forget that half of the two million people in Gaza are children. Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished for the actions of Hamas."

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Declaring a holy war on national tv and calling to "level" a civilian population is over 2 million is dangerous and insane. Someone please ask Republicans if they will condemn these repugnant remarks.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

My heart aches not just for Palestinians and Israelis killed, but for the soul of my Jewish people.

So many of my people who had principles and our revolutionary history in their heart, are giving way to the right. To war. And naked, unashamed vengeance.

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@Politics_Polls @GodandtheBear @MRGMichigan Are people really this dumb?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

BREAKING: George Santos is the only member of Congress not to file their financial disclosures https://t.co/8P5379uh3D

[TRT World @trtworld]

A leaked video from 2001 shows Israeli PM Netanyahu talking about how Israel intentionally strikes Palestinians “painfully”, how he deceived the US to break the Oslo Accords, and how Americans will always support Israel if it faces backlash

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. How will this deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@dancohen3000 @Solidarity_Star Breaks my heart.

[Leia @TheSWPrincess]

As if House Republicans weren't enough of a dumpster fire, George Santos has been charged with stealing the identities of donors to his campaign and then using their credit cards to ring up tens of thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges.

The new charges include allegations that he charged more than $44,000 to his campaign using cards belonging to contributors without their knowledge.

In one case, he charged $12,000 to a contributor’s credit card and transferred the “vast majority” of that money into his personal bank account, prosecutors said.

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@timmyvoe240886 @Mel_BrooksSA I’m going to wait for the evidence on this one. I remember in 1990 when we were told babies were being torn from incubators and thrown from the hospital roof. It was lie to hasten us to war. Maybe what we’ve heard is true. But it may also be war propaganda.

[Andy Behrman @electroboyusa]

I will leave this here for the entire world.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A statement (rightly) strong, eloquent, & united against the massacre of 100s innocent Israelis by Hamas - yet no mention whatsoever of the 100s of innocent Palestinians killed in Gaza over past 48 hours. As ever, total erasure of Palestinian deaths, including Palestinian kids.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that he had ordered “a complete siege of the Gaza Strip,” which is home to 2.2 million Palestinians.

The collective punishment of a civilian population amounts to a war crime under international law. https://t.co/CFrQMmvXkU

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

in 1990 a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah testified in Congress that she saw Iraqi troops throwing babies out of incubators. Amnesty corroborated her story, and this was used to get the public to support war. Afterwards it turned out the entire thing was a lie concocted by a PR firm

[POLITICO @politico]

Prosecutors: 25 witnesses claimed attorney-client privilege in federal probe of Trump’s election subversion https://t.co/ujH5kYuzI2

[LeftwardSwing ♿🕊️ 💉 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @LeftwardSwing]

This quote from John Steinbeck.....❤️

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@scottieboy32 @JosieEthereal @LauraLoomer I am withholding my judgment for verification on that claim. If that happened, it would be a gross atrocity. But I know war propaganda often makes false claims to demonize the enemy. I remember a similar claim made during the Iraqi war that turned out to be false.

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@scottieboy32 @JosieEthereal @LauraLoomer You’ll get no disagreement from me if that happened. Those children’s lives matter. I make no distinction between Palestinian and Israeli lives. We are all human. And Israeli and Palestinian children are all innocent.

[Mike Labonte @MikeLabonte2]

@scottieboy32 @JosieEthereal @LauraLoomer I guess even the innocent children voted.