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I was born.

[Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored]

"That should never happen to anybody - I don't care what your political beliefs are."

Rob Reiner's response to the murder of Charlie Kirk on Uncensored three months ago.

Rest in Peace, Rob.

@piersmorgan

[currently reading @crrentlyreading]

@PepMangione There's weird synchronicity here.

The guy who vigilante-style manslaughtered a homeless guy is acquitted on the same day as the guy who vigilante-style murdered a healthcare ceo is caught.

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

Over 200,000 Palestinians—not 35,000—have already died since October. This is based on nearly 100,000 bombs and missiles directly on civilians, without food, water, medicine, electricity, healthcare and World Health casualty projections starting last October. The 35,000 official fatality count is absurd. No human beings could endure those massacres and related untreated diseases since October 7th. -R

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

What?

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

🚨#BREAKINGNEWS Dagny Benedict a 16 year old non-binary student was beaten to death by classmates in Oklahoma. The school didn't call authorities or an ambulance. Dagney died the next day. 🚨

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[B @YoIMeMine]

@FluentMundo I tried messaging you, but I am not "verified". I sent you a DM through facebook re transcribing.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

REMINDER YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE NEXT: Missouri state Senator Mike Moon, a Republican lawmaker, proposes that 12-year-olds should have the ability to enter into marriage.

When questioned by Representative Peter Merideth, a (D), about his previous vote against a bill that would prevent children from marrying adults at the age of 12, with parental agreement,

Moon; do you know any girls married at age 12?

Peter Merideth (D) “NO”

Moon; “well I do and they are still married”.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Clarence Thomas is going to hear Supreme Court cases in which HIS OWN WIFE was texting with one of the star witnesses -- and emailing with an unindicted co-conspirator -- ABOUT THE CRIMES IN QUESTION.

[Heriberto Martínez Otero @thomas_1257]

Las cooperativas son la espina dorsal del nuevo modelo de desarrollo económico. Gracias a Sin Comillas por la publicación. 💪🏿🇵🇷🌲🌲

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it.

The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box.

For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.

What we are seeing in Gaza is a much better representation of what western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned about in school. A much better representation of western civilization than all the art and literature we’ve been proudly congratulating ourselves on over the centuries. A much better representation of western civilization than the love and compassion we like to pretend our Judeo-Christian values revolve around.

It’s been so surreal watching western rightists babbling about how savage and barbaric Muslim culture is amid the 2023 zombie resurrection of Bush-era Islamophobia, even while western civilization amasses a mountain of ten thousand child corpses.

That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced.

This is western civilization. This is what it looks like.

Western civilization, where Julian Assange awaits his final appeal in February against US extradition for journalism which exposed US war crimes.

Where we are fed a nonstop deluge of mass media propaganda to manufacture our consent for wars and aggression which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions in the 21st century alone.

Where we are kept distracted by vapid entertainment and artificial culture wars so we don’t think too hard about what this civilization is and who it is killing and maiming and starving and exploiting.

Where news cycles are dominated more by celebrity gossip and Donald Trump’s latest mouth farts than by the mass atrocities that are being actively facilitated by western governments.

Where liberals congratulate themselves for having progressive views on race and gender while the officials they elect help rip apart children’s bodies with military explosives.

Where Zionist Jews center themselves and their emotions because opposition to an active genocide makes them feel like they are being persecuted, and where Israel supporters who are not Jewish still kind of feel like they are being persecuted also.

Where a giant globe-spanning empire powered by militarism, imperialism, capitalism and authoritarianism devours human flesh with an insatiable appetite while we congratulate ourselves on how much better we are than nations like Iran or China.

These are western values. This is western civilization.

Ask somebody to tell you what their values are and they’ll give you a bunch of pleasant-sounding words about family and love and caring or whatever. Watch their actions to see what their actual values are and you’ll often get a very different story.

That’s us. That’s western civilization. We say we value freedom, justice, truth, peace and free expression, but our actions paint a very different picture. The real western values, the actual product inside the box underneath the attractive label, are the ones you see acted out in Gaza today.

[The Nation @thenation]

In 1984, Edward Said wrote a landmark essay, “Permission to Narrate,” in which he critiqued the Western media’s biased coverage of Israel-Palestine. Now @m7mdkurd picks up where Said left off in his own essay, “The Right to Speak for Ourselves. https://t.co/cOMiRdoIjo

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany with only 43.9% of the vote.

But because the anti-Hitler forces were divided, Hitler won.

Hitler then made himself dictator and abolished free elections.

[B @YoIMeMine]

@hemartinezotero 🤣

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s right-wing prime minister, said yesterday that Israel would oversee Gaza’s security for “an indefinite period” after the war. Really? Should US funds support a long-term military occupation over an already battered & impoverished people? I think not.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The ten dumbest things we're being asked to believe about Gaza:

1. That Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7, but ever since October 7 has known about every hospital, mosque, school, refugee camp and water tower that Hamas is hiding in.

2. That the blame for all of the deaths caused by Israeli weapons launched by Israel rests solely on Hamas.

3. That Hamas is using “human shields” — meaning Hamas bases are hidden amidst civilian populations — yet Israel is managing to kill thousands of civilians without doing any meaningful damage to Hamas.

4. That it would be perfectly fine to murder children by the thousands even if they were being used as “human shields” — as though resolving a hostage situation by mowing down thousands of child hostages would be regarded as reasonable and acceptable by the public if it happened in our own country.

5. That is is only by pure coincidence that Israel bombing “Hamas targets” in civilian infrastructure and residential buildings just so happens to look exactly the same as what you’d expect to see if Israel was simply bombing civilian infrastructure and residential buildings and lying about its reasons for doing so.

6. That satellite images of entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble in Gaza have been caused by “precision strikes” directed solely at Hamas and have been carried out with the greatest of care for human life, despite Israeli officials openly saying that “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” in this assault and that “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents; there will be no buildings.”

7. That this bombing campaign has anything to do with freeing Israeli hostages — as though the bombing campaign itself has not killed dozens of hostages, and as though anyone believes Israel would stop bombing Gaza after the hostages are returned.

8. That the only reason anyone could possibly oppose the detonation of thousands of bombs on an open air prison full of children would be if they had very strong and hateful opinions toward the members of the religion of Judaism.

9. That Hamas attacked Israel entirely out of the blue and completely unprovoked, solely because they are evil and hate Jews.

10. That Washington is powerless to stop this genocide that it is directly funding and supplying.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"Wounded Child No Surviving Family should not exist as an acronym."

Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan of Doctors Without Borders paints a grim picture of the situation in the Gaza Strip and describes the new acronym coined in the besieged enclave.

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

Vídeo | Raúl Incertis, médico español evacuado de Gaza: “Dejen a los palestinos salir de esa ratonera en la que los han metido y en la que están muriendo” https://t.co/oV2b1SKDDR

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor.