PJ Hope

enthusiast and loyal sceptic

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

@Poplak A vote for Goldwater is a vote for Fun!

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

Right now, at this very moment, we are living under terrifying and brutal bombardment. Fire belts engulf every corner, injuries are everywhere, as if they have decided to erase us all at once. Pray for us now—this might be our final hour😢.

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

Funny, the countries that didn't get tariffs:

Russia
North Korea
Cuba
Venezuela
Berlarus
Somalia
Burkina Faso

are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

🤔

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

I feel for Mercedes-Benz SA and BMW SA. They export cars to the US and now face a 25% - 30% tariff. It means 5500 people are likely to lose their jobs and $1.3 billion of exports stop.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

China has a big beautiful opportunity. Xi Jinping’s paranoid nationalism used to seem like dystopian hyperbole. Now that Donald Trump is committing such wanton self-harm and general destruction, it looks ahead of its time https://t.co/a7Z629Uf0Y

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Eish.

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

Things fall apart
the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

Yeats

[Yachad UK @YachadUK]

British Rabbis who have recently visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories with Yachad have released a statement regarding the increasing violence against Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Read:

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Not to be a hack for Rise, but this really seems to be an adult voice in the current pathetic kindergarten.

[Arabile Gumede @ArabileG]

Here is a great explainer on what was actually voted on today and an understanding we all need to keep, please.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Noted.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I have seen not one but *several* beheaded babies over the past months. These images are seared forever in my mind. And yet I have not seen a single story about this from the major outlets that ran nonstop coverage of the hoax in 2023.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Noted

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

False claims of beheaded babies on October 7 received wall-to-wall coverage for DAYS. Where is the outrage? It’s pure racism. We have a media class that has lined up to normalise genocide and it is obscene.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

We all see what is going on.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Netanyahu is openly gearing up to commit a crime of unthinkable proportions - the forced ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, with the continued backing of the US. Every sane and civilized country must oppose this.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

tbh I agree

[Ryan Coetzee @RyanCoetzee]

Instead of this drama, SA could be governed by a GNU that goes further on growth reforms and reprioritizes spending to secure our fiscal position. All it takes is a willingness to compromise - for every party to accept some policies they don’t like. Why is that too much to ask?

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Noted.

[Samer Sinijlawiسامر السنجلاوي @SSinijlawi]

No one dares say publicly that in the interests of the Palestinian people, Hamas must be held accountable. It must pay for what it did by exiting Palestinian political life altogether. October 7 wasn’t just a moral outrage—it politically destroyed Palestinians and dragged us back to the Stone Age. Hamas led 2.3 million people into a collective suicide attack on Israel without consulting them. It stole their lives without asking. And illegally so—who still thinks the 2006 mandate is valid? Hamas has no Palestinian mandate.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

To God’s ears.

[Carol Paton @politicsblahbla]

8/Political parties must think carefully today. This is not about winning the PR battle or venting frustration. It is about choosing the right road to the future.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

This is no “Western democracy”, please. https://t.co/r4pFVmejiL

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Noted.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Can't get over the IDF killing 15 paramedics in Rafah, attempting to
bury them and their ambulance, claiming they were "terrorists" and then shooting to kill the rescue team sent in to find their missing friends. Not surprised, just stuck. Can't seem to move on from here.

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

What are they SO scared of?

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

NYU canceled a speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she was going to discuss the genocide in Gaza. A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic":

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Do they realise what a pathetically insecure image this conveys? Funny if not chilling.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Just the Vice President of the United States sending some freedom seeds downrange.

Doesn’t get more American than that. 🇺🇸

[PJ Hope @PJHope2u]

Mandela not Quisling.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I always find it funny when people say "Where is the Palestinian Mandela?", because Mandela literally founded the armed wing of the African National Congress, which engaged in militant struggle against the apartheid regime. The US classified Mandela as a "terrorist" until 2008.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I always find it funny when people say "Where is the Palestinian Mandela?", because Mandela literally founded the armed wing of the African National Congress, which engaged in militant struggle against the apartheid regime. The US classified Mandela as a "terrorist" until 2008.