RD Brook

a writer who doesn’t write, educator, Spurs, Colts/Ravens, believer in the literary power of comics and manga, RVA, ain’t nobody free til we all are

[RD Brook @RDBrookwrites]

My last two posts were shitty. I’m excited to see the progress being made in Florida. If it looks like they need it I’ll happily phone bank and donate to these winners and every other democrat on the ticket in 26.
Our economy is crumbling, the people who run everything are

[RD Brook @RDBrookwrites]

@MeidasTouch It’s still up on the department of education

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

They’re trying to fully break encryption as well and criminalize encrypted messaging. Anyone who believes any of this is about “kids safety” is a rube

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders says he is drafting legislation to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance

[RD Brook @RDBrookwrites]

This man is a Democratic Party operative actively attacking democratic candidates before the most vital midterms of our lives. If @neeratanden was serious about protecting the party, she’d focus more on this kind of shit

[Michael LaRosa @MichaelLaRosaDC]

This is the grossest thing I've read on here today

[RD Brook @RDBrookwrites]

Makes sense that the anti education department of education doesn’t even know what they’re referencing.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Americans:

We need affordable groceries and gas, a living wage, and health care, please. Also, release the Epstein files and end this disastrous war.

Corporate America and Establishment Politicians/Media:

HASSAN PIKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HASSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAN PIIIIIIKERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Today in "the wealthy will leave if you tax them is a myth made up by the wealthy so you won't tax them."

[Oliver Larkin @OliverALarkin]

Go find this @BernieSanders email in your inbox, open it, click on the link, and donate your money to @AngieNixon. Thanks! -a Floridian

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Remember, the ‘safety’ or ‘feelings’ of non-Zionist students never ever matters on US campuses. Can you imagine being an Arab-American student at Columbia who lost family members in Palestine or Lebanon and seeing this?

[pierbi 🏳️‍⚧️ @pierbiwierbi]

its so sad this happened to our little indie company :( just forget we fired all our staff who tried to unionise

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! More sanctions rain down from POTUS' playroom against those daring to hold a state accused of int'l crimes accountable.

Clear goal: targeting a few to silence the many.

Read how this architecture of impunity works and how to dismantle it: https://t.co/V53GfdTVnm

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: Trump has just designated Palestine Action a terrorist group.

As a Palestinian and Iraqi, the fact the country which destroyed both my homelands is calling me a terrorist, is beyond hypocritical.

Trump is the antithesis to everything Palestine Action stands for.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what it can do for Israel.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

Not climate change
Not the fall of the Republic
Not the end of public health
Not the murders by ICE
Not the Epstein files
Not the illegal war in Iran
Not the $5 a gallon gas
Not the poisoned food supply

The Democratic Establishment is making the midterms about Hasan Piker.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Too many demotivated Democrats stayed home in 2016 and 2024. We can’t repeat past mistakes. In this upcoming election, we need to:

Quit calling @BernieSanders an “antisemite.”

Stop wasting time attacking Hasan Piker instead of Trump’s robber baron corruption.

Don't put Israel hawks out of touch with our voters in charge of our Middle East policy.

It is time for a reckoning: are we a party that represents corporate interests and super PACs, or will we represent the American people?

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

Did Hasan Piker meet with Jared Kushner? No that was Hakeem Jeffries.

Did Hasan Piker platform Steve Bannon on his show? No that was Gavin Newsom.

Democratic leadership is unserious about stopping fascism. They know it and now with week 40 of Hasan Piker distraction, we know it

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Quiet everyone! The guy who voted to confirm Kushner’s convicted felon dad as our ambassador to France has some thoughts about morality

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This point about Hasan Piker is exactly right. This joint Dem/GOP/media campaign to vilify and destroy Hasan Piker (including with outright lies) isn't about him as a person.

He's just their most convenient vehicle at the moment to re-establish the long-standing bipartisan rule that going too far with criticisms of the US/Israel relationship (or being too successful with criticisms/activism against Israel) guarantees mainstream personal destruction by being widely branded a bigot, racist and anti-Semite over and over.

(Establishment Dems are most enthusiastic in these Hasan attacks because they have a separate motive: fear that they are losing control of their party to this insurgent anti-Israel and left-populist faction whom Hasan symbolizes, so destroying Hasan (and guaranteeing El-Sayed's loss for good measure) is an added bonus for them: similar to how the UK Labour Party preferred to lose to Boris Johnson in 2019 than win with Jeremy Corbyn, and Blairite Labour factions actually worked to help defeat their own leader).

I've had and voiced countless criticisms of Hasan over the years and he's done the same to me. They don't matter at all because, as @lliveandalive astutely notes here, none of this is really about Hasan himself but about re-equating Israel opposition with anti-Semitism. They've done it to countless other people before him (just look at Thomas Massie). Defending Hasan from the lies being told about him isn't about defending Hasan the person (although where lies are involved, such as the false claims about his most recent comments, he should be defended), but far more important are the broader policy issues at stake.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

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