UPDATE: Two hostages were able to be released as crisis negotiations with a man continue in downtown Bakersfield amid a bomb threat at Chase Bank. Police said he barricaded himself inside the building with "several community members." https://t.co/m4k9w4sHDA
Community Update🚨
We remain on scene at the Chase Bank building and have negotiated the release of a second hostage. There are currently no injuries reported.
Avoid the area as this remains an active scene. We will continue to provide updates as information becomes available.
@RealPalooka5 although you know, I can’t stand your Dodgers. I’m always have to salute you and congratulate you because you are my family. That was one of the best World Series. I have watched in my lifetime and I thoroughly enjoyed it! much love
The fact that they have raised over $9 million for @StJude when their original goal was to reach $1 million is absolutely mind blowing 🤯 You got this Ryan & Haley! 🥰👏🏽👏🏽
@StJude@RyanTrahan@Kia The fact that @RyanTrahan and Haley have raised almost $5 million dollars for @StJude and they still have over 2 weeks left in their challenge is absolutely incredible!! Their original goal was $1 million and hit that mark in no time. We’re rooting for you Ryan and Haley!!
Watching this series has become part of our daily routine. As soon as we get home from work, we watch Ryan and Haley! ❤️ Check out the series and donate or share if you can!
ICYMI: Ryan Trahan is traveling across all 50 US States in 50 days while fundraising for @StJude.
Today is Day 31, and they just passed $4 Million raised for lifesaving research and care.
Catch up on the campaign in the comments 👇
@SmartLess I’m behind on the episodes and trying to catch up. Today I listened to the Tim Walz episode and it made me so much more depressed about where our country is at today. 😭💔
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@DisneyDLV I was pretty bummed about the rockstar star path instead of Halloween, but the items are actually really cool. If the star path includes a Powerline outfit or anything pertaining to him then it will be perfection! 🤌🏽
I pray all hostages come home safely, but even the former Director of Israel’s Shin Bet (internal security services / their FBI), Ami Ayalon, AND Former Israeli Prime Minister, General & Israel's most decorated soldier, Ehud Barak, BOTH say if they were Palestinian, they would fight Israel by any means necessary to achieve their liberty: https://t.co/WJynq8RXwh
Even the former head of Israel’s Mossad, Tamir Pardo, appointed by Netanyahu, told the AP “There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state.” https://t.co/BBpJyPjymQ
And here is Miko Peled, a former Israeli special forces soldier and son of an Israeli general who fought in the 1948 war, explaining how this conflict was really started by Israel’s premeditated ethnic cleansing of Muslim & Christian Palestinians in 1948, in order to create a sustainable Jewish majority. Peled is also the grandson of one of Israel’s founders, Avraham Katsnelson: https://t.co/KQjyRH5Joi
And this is an Ex-IDF Commander explaining the kind of brutality he was required to use in the IDF to control the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank (Feb 2023 interview) (8 mins): https://t.co/ou9T9nyNjE
These are not some lefty hippies. They are Israel’s top warriors. If you still don't believe that Israel is a brutal apartheid state after listening to them & the hundreds more Jewish Israeli soldiers, professors, & journalists that I've aggregated on this YouTube channel https://t.co/91msOvUzPa, then you simply aren't being honest.
They have no reason to lie and are like the white American abolitionists and civil rights activists of our time. They are the ones telling the truth. And in addition to helping save lives and promote equal rights, sharing these videos will also help fight antisemitism by showing that many Jewish people are trying to help stop Israel’s genocide, ethnic cleansing, and brutal apartheid.
I will continue to advocate for peaceful resistance & Palestinians have been trying to protest peacefully for decades, but when they do, Israeli soldiers shoot them in the knees, kill them, or at least imprison & beat them. If you don't believe it, please google this 2020 Haaretz article titled: '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters.
I also cry for the 38 Israeli children killed on October 7th, but this horrible conflict did NOT start on that day. The proof is the nearly 2300 Palestinian children Israeli soldiers & settlers killed between the year 2000 & Oct 2023, including 43 children during the 9 months just before Oct 7th (all names & details on https://t.co/1innXrJICX).
Israel has also imposed a brutal 57 year occupation/apartheid on Palestinians, as well as a brutal blockade of Gaza since 2005. Both are illegal under international law, immoral, & ongoing acts of war.
And this horrible conflict doesn’t really go back thousands of years either & is not as complicated as Zionists try to make it. It started in 1948 by the racist European Zionist founders of Israel, who ethnically cleansed over 750K Palestinians. They did it to create a sustainable Jewish supermajority within the borders defined by the U.N. partition plan, while also stealing much more land than was defined by those borders (from 55% to 78% of Palestine). Then Israel stole the last 22% in 1967 & subjugated the population. And for the past 57 years, Israel has refused to give Palestinians equal rights (or human rights), while also refusing to let them have an independent state (even on the small 22% slice Israel stole in 1967). See Pappé & Peled sources below.
Regarding the 2000 year old ownership claim by European & American Zionists on every Palestinian home & inch of land, please listen to Professor Noam Chomsky explain how ridiculous it is, especially because Palestinians have actually been there for thousands of years, never left, & their genetics proves it. At some point, their ancestors simply converted to Christianity &/or Islam: https://t.co/e9pAWlStxJ
And what would you do if someone stole your house & livelihood, killed some of your family, & left the rest of you with nothing, to live in the squalor of a refugee camp? That is what Israel did to over 750,000 Palestinians in 1948, over 300,000 in 1967, over 250,000 since 1967, & MORE EVERY YEAR – simply because they are not Jewish.
Most of the families in Gaza owned homes & farms where Israeli cities & towns now stand. Properties that had often been in their families for generations, which Israel literally stole from them. Most even still have their front door keys.
Sources: Professor Ilan Pappé, Jewish Israeli Historian & former IDF soldier: https://t.co/bi4QTRq5Y5
And if you still believe the lie that Israel has offered Palestinians many generous peace deals that they keep rejecting, please read this article:
https://t.co/zroVUFzzQy
And now Israel is committing genocide with the weapons WE keep giving them & has now KILLED OVER 25,000 WOMEN & CHILDREN, & MORE EVERY DAY. That is according to our own U.S. Pentagon: https://t.co/rbNXh7ixlk
Around 70% of the people Israel has been killing are women & children, & most of the rest are civilian men (mostly fathers & grandfathers), so this is obviously genocide. If you still doubt it, please listen to these Jewish professors explain why it is:
1) Israeli Holocaust & genocide scholar, Professor Raz Sega, explaining the legal definition of genocide & why he calls what Israel is doing, “textbook genocide” (16 mins): https://t.co/o4YWAceru6
And here he is, explaining the recent ICJ interim ruling: https://t.co/adIY1a2DoR
2) Prof. Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia U. explaining how Israel is continuing its genocide in Gaza, blatantly ignoring the U.N. International Court of Justice. He also explains how we, the U.S., are complicit in this genocide because we’ve been providing the necessary funding, weapons, & U.N. veto protection. Finally, he explains how Israel is trying to get us into a much larger war with Iran, against our national interests: https://t.co/DSiwPQuzpE
3) Holocaust Scholar, Brown University Prof. Omer Bartov, explaining how Israel is clearly committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza, which is also probably genocide. He explains how ethnic cleansing often turns into genocide: https://t.co/ZhSBrp2Aef
Israel has also orphaned over 30,000 children & has demolished the homes of nearly 1 million children, making them homeless during winter (including tens of thousands of wounded & disabled kids). And Israel is still blocking aid to these children, KILLING THEM WITH STARVATION, DEHYDRATION, & DISEASE, in addition to U.S. supplied bombs: Source: https://t.co/oXSdAaMlmx
And more than 10 children have been losing limbs in Gaza every day, MANY AMPUTATED WITHOUT ANESTHESIA. CNN article: https://t.co/gEV6DP9alS
PLEASE WRITE & CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & THE WHITE HOUSE to demand they stop helping Israel kill & starve children, commit war crimes, & maintain its brutal & racist apartheid, with our tax dollars.
Israel wouldn’t be able to continue this genocide without the weapons, ammo, & U.N. veto protection WE keep providing.
And this article explains how Israel has always been able to beat Hamas and ensure its security, without killing children:
https://t.co/k2NN6OKle8
Please also watch award-winning Jewish American journalist, Glenn Greenwald, explaining the evidence of Israel’s many war crimes, including bombing “safe zones'' after they ordered civilians to go there. Civilians that include women, children, pregnant women, elderly, & disabled. He lays out the indisputable evidence that these war crimes have been intentional (from December 23, 2023): https://t.co/bJtkgstp9Y
And in this clip Glenn Greenwald debunks many of the Oct 7th claims, like baby beheading & systematic rape: https://t.co/OABgfPPLmI
And here are some good videos & articles explaining what the recent U.N. report on October 7th sexual violence really said, which was that there was no evidence that Hamas ordered rape.
1) Video: Katie Halper & Zachary Foster: https://t.co/2W3Yifdd3f
2) Article: "Unfounded, Unverified – What The U.N. Really Said About Israel’s ‘Hamas Rape’ Claims”: https://t.co/h9pkC5id6n
3) Article: https://t.co/EDrOIohKsS
https://t.co/WJynq8RXwh
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