Holmes

senior vibe strategist

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Casually considering which war crimes to commit next

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump should also remember that he and Biden wasted $7 billion bombing the Houtis between 2023 and 2025, accomplishing nothing.

[Zito @_Zeets]

Cooked country.

The FDA announced a public health crisis linked to Taylor Farms and instead of recalling it, the company called the White House to try to discredit the FDA and then lied in their social media posts as well putting out a purposefully confusing recall statement.

[Holmes @Tyxyzy]

Any new photos of very much alive Mitch McConnell

[Dli_odoir @Dli_ODoir]

As predicted

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Oh fuck you. FUCK you. You don't get to do this now. You don't get to turn around and go "Oopsie poopsie, we made a mistake!" This was YOUR genocide, motherfuckers. YOURS. You chose it. You own it. Forever. The stench of the rotting corpses in Gaza will follow you for all time.

[ُ sushi ibushi 𖣂 @svhibe]

you see this red splotch covering Gaza? it is made of red dots, each single dot represents an airstrike under the Biden’s administration. it took two years of tremendous relentless unforgiving bombing and 4 US vetos to complete. you can’t regret your way out of this.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Two little brothers in the ruins of a shelter in Gaza, hold on to each other to endure the full force of the israeli bombing, says @HatsOffff

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.

This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.

Every member of Congress must vote NO.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

This is blatantly in return for the Morgan Rogers deal, as Chelsea & Villa work together to bypass financial regulations. Chelsea 'overpay' for Rogers & Villa then 'buy' Garnacho for that same amount.

I don’t want to hear their fans ever moan about financial rules ever again after more of this money laundering to get around the rules.

A loan with obligation avoids the 45 day UEFA window.

[Holmes @Tyxyzy]

@7ontheshirt https://t.co/qnLGRLzosD

[Stefan Bienkowski @SBienkowski]

Following the signing of Morgan Rogers, Chelsea have now spent €1.93b on new signings under the Clearlake/Boehly ownership.

That's roughly 53% of what the entire Bundesliga has spent on transfer fees in that period of time.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

“Area where Palestinians are confined”

The media use a lot of words to avoid saying CONCENTRATION CAMP.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Israel has now squeezed over 2 million Palestinians into 30% of Gaza. Gaza was already one of the most densely populated places on earth. Now, it’s basically a concentration camp. American media is going to go in a museum one day as the propagandists who covered up these crimes.

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: The Trump administration has collected more than $13bn in revenues from Venezuelan oil sales this year, according to FT calculations, but has said almost nothing about what has happened to the money. https://t.co/j1PIzzMlZf

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

In 2009, @VanJones68 was forced to "resign" from the Obama Admin after 6 months because Fox News and establishment Democrats denounced him as "the radical left": due to his prior support in the 1990s for Mumia Abu-Jamal, calling a GOP member an "asshole," allegedly signing a petition suggesting Bush did 9/11, etc. His glaring, oozing career ambitions lay in ruins as he was kicked out of decent DC power centers for transgressing too many ideological lines and comportmental rules.

That's when he realized that wealth and celebrity awaited him only if he were willing instead to transform himself into a vehement defender and guard of establishment dogma, a useful tool for those who had just struck him down.

So that's exactly what he did. He renounced his prior "radical" views, repeatedly apologized for his transgressions, became a stalwart, weepy advocate of deary DC media conventional wisdom, and began playing the new TV character his script required: the moderate, sensible liberal who just wants to bring everyone together in the safe, status-quo-perpetuating middle.

His real function: to begin every sentence with "I'm a progressive Democratic" -- the subtext: a black progressive Democrat! -- and then denounce the populist left (and populist right) for crossing the political and ideological lines that he was told to vigorously police and uphold: the lines which nobody is permitted to cross without being denounced and excluded the way he once was. "Look: they're too extreme even for Van Jones!" He was there to protect his establishment bosses by punishing the excesses of the "extremes on both sides": just as he had once been punished by them almost to the point of career destruction.

His service as the "black progressive policeman" for the DC establishment and its dual religious planks of corporatism and militarism were predictably very valuable to them, and very lucrative for him. He got larger and larger CNN contracts. Jeff Bezos gave him $100 million to hand out however he wanted. Jay-Z hired him to lead a new group, etc. etc. Book deals from large NYC publishing houses flowed in, etc. etc.

Since October, 2023, he saw the real opening, one that would catapult him upward even further into the top echelons of establishment servitude: turn himself into the most devoted "liberal media" loyalist to Israel, the most militant defender of Tel Aviv's reputation, as global support for that country collapsed. He dutifully wore his little yellow ribbon pin every day for years on TV as if it were tattooed onto him. He cackled with Bill Maher about how annoying it is to keep hearing all this whining about "dead babies in Gaza." With his patented fake TV tears in his eyes, he heralded Israel as our great ally, and talked about how worried he was for his beloved Jewish friends as anti-Semitism grew on the left and right.

Now he's here to boast that "leaders in both parties" called him this week to profusely thank him for his service to the bipartisan DC agenda. The once-wannabe radical has fully transformed into a prime media instrument for the establishment that once threatened to destroy him. Both parties are now grateful to him for defending their prerogatives and positions.

One thing is for sure: other than Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, nobody's future is brighter at CNN once Larry Ellison's son buys up Warner Brothers and CNN and puts Bari Weiss in charge with the sole mandate to turn the network into an even more vigorous Israeli propaganda network than CBS News has become.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The Biden admin didn’t “fail,” it made a moral and ideological choice and carried out that decision. This is Kirkpatrick engaging in reputation laundering and ass covering, a cynical act of feigned journalistic credulity that never meaningfully challenges any of its sources.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Yesterday it was reported that Hakeem Jeffries got mad at Bernie for endorsing against a Black House incumbent.

Today Jeffries is endorsing a cartoonish South Asian con man over Donovan McKinney, a Black state rep born and raised in Detroit.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is a horrific crime.

So far, the bodies of at least five people, including three children, have been recovered from the midst of the raging fire. They were asleep when the israeli attack struck.

Their bodies were literally charred.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

They threw rocks at a pregnant woman and poured gasoline onto a sleeping baby through the window...