On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.
This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.
When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.
Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.
🔴 Less than a week after Israel burned several preteen children to death in their tents, four more residential apartments were set ablaze overnight, with Israel’s military burning entire families to death as they slept.
The strikes hit homes in Al-Shati refugee camp, the Karama neighborhood, Tel al-Hawa, and Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City.
Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi.
The Israeli govt didn’t tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.
America must secure her release NOW.
@hrw Oh ffs does anyone pay attention to this western intelligence cutout anymore? You sheepishly mention Gaza every once in a while bc you know you’d destroy the shreds of credibility you have left, but it’s clear what your geopolitical agenda is.
The discourse around Graham Planter, "sexting" and adultery is surreal.
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton was revealed to be a serial adulterer, womanizer and harasser, yet Dems won the 1998 midterms in the middle of the Lewinsky scandal and his approval ratings stayed high because nobody cared (feminist groups vehemently defended him). Every four years, Dems gave him a standing ovation at the DNC and still do.
Then the GOP rallied behind Trump, whose major identity was as a tabloid figure who serially and openly cheated on all of his multiple wives while they were all at home raising his young children. He paid hush money to a porn star! MAGA is now enamored with Ken Paxton, a confessed serial adulterer, who Trump endorsed and whom MAGA is trying to empower in the Senate.
Who has the clean hands to pretend with a straight face that Graham Platner's sexting -- which his wife has forgiven -- is "disqualifying" in the modern political era?
@smilerz91@Noahpinion Lmao, it’s just a fact that without AI data center capex and building we would have almost zero economic growth, why are you talking about different hypothetical scenario where that’s somehow not the case? In the real world, all of our GDP growth is concentrated in this bubble
@smilerz91@Noahpinion We’re not talking about counterfactuals we’re talking about reality. Where’s your evidence for that? You’re appealing to some intangible authority here “simply isn’t how economies work” in what way? Says who? Sources?
@smilerz91@Noahpinion You’re welcome to argue why Chinese state planners were wrong to correlate electricity generation with GDP growth;
Or why the fact that the Chinese real economy is far larger than the US and is growing at more than double the rate is actually somehow China collapsing lmao
@smilerz91@Noahpinion You’re not making any valid points or even rebutting mine; I forgot this is Noah Smith post lmao, waste of time arguing with his orbiters