TheDualityofJon

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[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

This my eternal mood. #radiatepositivity #bonnaroo

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

Yosemite is not Donald Trump’s to give away. We will use every tool at our disposal to stop this corruption.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Quick update on our lawsuit against the Big Bend border wall: DHS is breaking the law with this horrific assault on the wildest place in Texas. But our attorneys are a force to be reckoned with. We’ll continue to fight until the bulldozers are called off for good.

[👹 @connnnobi]

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping. - Hubert Reeves

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Bulldozers have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park just a stone's throw from Santa Elena Canyon. DHS waived every environmental & cultural resource protection. No surveys have been done. We don't even know what kind of cultural history they are destroying. 📷Natalie Newman.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Bulldozers sent by Trump have begun tearing up Big Bend National Park to build a border wall through the protected public land.

The Trump administration waived dozens of environmental laws to permit the construction.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a National Defense Authorization that would integrate our military tech & supply chains with Israel’s.

Today, the Rules Committee will decide whether my amendment to strip section 219 will get a vote.

RT to support the Massie amdt.!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Elon Musk’s DOGE officially ended over the weekend.

Never forget the damage and chaos DOGE left behind.

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@isaiahthomas Fire Brad. Tell ownership to sell if they aren’t serious about this team. That simple. This event probably lost a lot of diehard Celtic fans I am trying to figure out if I’m one of the ones out still and this is the only team I’ve ever fully loved in all of sports.

[The REAL Boston Media @RealBostonMedia]

Nobody has ever put on for the city like you did. Thank you for everything, JB. This is gonna hurt for awhile..

[CelticsBlog @celticsblog]

If this was ownership mandate: Sell the team
If this was Brad losing faith in Jaylen: Fire him
If this was Jaylen demanding a trade: Fire Brad anyway because this is not the answer
If there's some other reason, help me understand

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

Best of luck @FCHWPO you are a legend we thank you for everything you accomplished for the city of Boston. Brad Steven’s should be fired immediately and @jaytatum0 should demand a trade out tomorrow morning.

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@NoaDalzell Fire Brad immediately

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@ShamsCharania @KeithSmithNBA Fire Brad Steven’s

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

If genocide and pedophilia aren't your red lines, then none of your other opinions really matter.

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@LegionHoops @RealBobManning Horrible sports journalism, post the full quote you cowards. Blocking your accounts on all platforms. Good fans are done with this BS that masquerades as journalism.

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@statmuse Damn I wish there was something more to seperate them idk like one of them being one of the best defenders in the league? 🤔

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

You can see that ICE and the IDF train together…

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@LindseyGrahamSC Cheated to get nukes and modern day nazis hey traitor you are talking about Isreal not Iran.

[TheDualityofJon @TheRealJonScott]

@netanyahu @realDonaldTrump You’re both war criminals