Joe Williams

Vietnam '67: ‘A' Co, 1st Bn, 9th Rg (aka “The Walking Dead”), 3rd Mar Div, FMF Pacific - ACHS 1966 #75

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Health insurance is not healthcare.

Health insurance is a profit-driven barrier to accessing healthcare.

Medicare for All eliminates the need for private insurance by guaranteeing everyone access to their doctors and hospitals without cost, insurance bureaucracy, or restrictive networks being a barrier to care.

[Melinda Hellyer @melindahellyer]

What a disgusting thing for Trump to say.

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

Thanks to President Trump, the average family is spending $3,500 more on housing, gas, groceries, and health care.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent POINTED A GUN at a U.S. citizen, through her car window, while threatening her, in Falls Church, Virginia.

And the excuse?

They claimed she “almost ran them over.”

Except… she had a dash cam recording the entire thing.

She immediately called their bullshit:

“You are so full of shit. I didn’t almost run anyone over.”

The agent tells her, “You aren’t funny.”

She responds, “You aren’t funny.”

Then he threatens her… “Keep it up, I will arrest you.” While he has his gun aimed inches away from her.

She says, “I’m a legal citizen, for what?”

And they keep threatening her with arrest.

Then, the agent repeats the accusation that she tried to run them over.

So, she tells him, “Run you over when? I have dash cam recording. That’s a lie.”

And suddenly… they WALK AWAY.

Because if she had actually tried to run federal agents over, why did they just leave after she called their bullshit, and said she had video proving them wrong?

And just to emphasize the seriousness of what happened…

An ARMED federal agent had his GUN POINTED AT A WOMAN, through her car window, while threatening her with arrest.

Pointing a firearm at someone is an enormous use of force that should NEVER be treated casually… especially when the supposed justification is an accusation they apparently couldn’t… or wouldn’t… back up.

She wasn’t arrested.

They didn’t show her evidence that she committed a crime.

They just threatened her, pointed a gun at her, and repeatedly told her they would lock her up if she continued following them.

And the SECOND she says, “I have it on dash cam,” they WALK AWAY.

Because apparently the threat disappears when there’s a camera that can prove what actually happened.

This is exactly why people need to DOCUMENT these encounters.

Because when armed federal agents can point guns at citizens, and make accusations with seemingly no consequences, the public needs cameras.

And when they threaten you for asking, “For what?”

keep recording.

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

The evidence is clear: COVID-19 vaccines do NOT increase the risk of miscarriage.

A systematic review of 21 studies involving nearly 150,000 women found no increased miscarriage risk after vaccination (RR 1.07, 95% CI 0.89–1.28).

https://t.co/nfgh1dgeNf

Studies involving more than 1 million pregnancies worldwide have likewise found no increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, or birth defects.

https://t.co/6MAEQRgB45

What does pose a risk is COVID-19 during pregnancy. As an ID physician, I cared for very sick pregnant women with COVID, including women who developed serious complications.

We should be guided by evidence—not fear, anecdotes, or misinformation.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

🚨 BREAKING:

Famous British comedian Mr. Bean:

"I feel ashamed on behalf of the United Kingdom for allowing Israel to besiege two million people in Gaza, cutting off electricity, water, and medicine from them, and then claiming to defend human rights."

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Jared Kushner's $5 billion Jeffrey Epstein-style Albanian resort project plan has effectively collapsed amid Iranian accusations of a $9 billion insider trading operation against him — and after prosecutors found the land was bought with forged Ottoman documents linked to a suspected cocaine trafficker, per WSJ.

Kushner's group paid $125 million in April to Artur Shehu for land on the Zvernec peninsula. Two months later, Albanian prosecutors charged Shehu with money laundering and cocaine trafficking — alleging he used forged documents to acquire the land sold to Kushner.

The project faced mass protests for over 60 days under the "Flamingo Revolution," with thousands opposing environmental destruction and land theft. This is the second time Kushner has faced project collapse in the Balkans after local opposition — following a similar withdrawal in Belgrade, Serbia.

Previously, Iranian officials told Drop Site News that Iran has calculated $9 billion in profits from market manipulation by "individuals close to Trump," mainly Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Tehran warned Vance that Kushner and Witkoff were "more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit than reaching a deal."

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Israel has disappeared historian Artyom Kirpichenok, a Jewish citizen of Israel, for his outspoken anti-Zionist critique.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

🚨Russian-Israeli historian Artyom Kirpichenok, known for his criticism of Zionism and the imperialist war on Iran, flew in to Tel Aviv and was immediately abducted by the Shin Bet, who have been holding him incommunicado in one of their torture dungeons for more than a week now.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

Artyom Kirpichenok is a Russian-Israeli historian who spent around twenty years in Israel, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, served in the Israeli army, but in recent years has been living and working in St. Petersburg. He is the author of several books, including A People's History of Israel, and is considered one of the leading experts on the contemporary history of Hungary and Middle Eastern studies.

On August 2nd, Kirpichenko landed in Tel Aviv. A lawyer hired by his friends has since confirmed that he is being held by the Shin Bet — Israel's internal security service.

In Artyom's case it's so obvious he posed no danger to the authorities whatsoever: he wasn't a member of any party, he never took any practical action on anything — partly because he was an extremely impractical person.

His only crime was his opinion on various political questions. A thoughtcrime, in other words: 'the essential crime that contained all others in itself,' as Orwell wrote.

I keep thinking: how does a government that goes after thoughtcrimes actually work? What are they trying to achieve?

Intimidate the population? Re-educate dissidents? Act on denunciations? Artyom had no shortage of those — Ukrainian and Russian expats, former Soviet citizens living in Israel, who apparently couldn't leave his blog alone.

What could possibly be the rational justification for attacks on public intellectuals like Artem?

And what's the practical payoff for the authorities?

Because it's obvious that Artyom's popularity has multiplied because of exactly this kind of action. Instead of one Artyom — who was a pretty ironic and nuanced person in his views, and on top of that a genuine expert on Jewish culture — the Israeli authorities are now going to get a whole army of haters, most likely with much more combative and simplified takes.

What's the point?

Or is it just that the people sitting there now are basically school dropouts who can't hold a five-year plan in their heads and operate purely on two-minute hate?

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

20-year old American citizen Sama Safi has been held for over 2 months in Israeli torture prison - with no formal charges.

IDF violently kidnapped her from her family's home at gunpoint in a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank on June 2nd.

The prisons she has been held at have been know to regularly beat, starve, torture and deny medical care to Palestinian hostages.

This is how adversaries, not allies, act.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Lady Gaga said: “This is our opportunity to vote against Donald Trump,” and her video was removed from Facebook and Instagram. This is what Republican fascism calls “freedom.”

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Primo Levi was Jewish and is among the foremost witnesses to the Holocaust

Levi's book "If This is a Man", is an account of his time in Auschwitz, and is one of the most important books of the Twentieth Century

In 1982, he denounced the behaviour of the Israeli state and said: "today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis"

The voices of Jews like Einstein and Levi need to be heard in 2026

[National Parks Conservation Association @NPCA]

Bulldozers are ripping through Big Bend National Park, laying the groundwork for harmful new border barriers on our public lands.

🚨 It’s not too late to stop it. Park advocates across the country are raising their voices to say: #NoBigBendWall.

[Robert Bruce @24_70xu]

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth has been saying since day one of the war that the U.S. has the world’s strongest military and would crush Iran within just a few days. 🤡

And drunk on this arrogance, he removed more than 20 top U.S. military generals from their positions because they opposed the war.

Today, when the U.S. is badly stuck in this war, Hegseth is saying, “We underestimated Iran’s capabilities.” 🤣

There’s an old saying: when arrogance goes to your head, common sense is the first thing to die. And that’s exactly what is happening now. 🤡🔥

[Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @RepGoodlander]

#VETFEST 2026 in Deerfield was a truly inspiring event.

Grateful from the bottom of my heart to Rae O’Donnell and the entire team at Veterans Resource Alliance of NH for bringing together veterans, military families, and more than 100 partner organizations in community. So proud to be working alongside you to deliver for New Hampshire’s veterans. 🇺🇸

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

"We have the largest number of plants ever being built in the United States right now," Trump says. When I asked the White House for any source for this claim, they could not provide any. US factory construction spending has steadily declined this term. https://t.co/mKMwhHJLCi

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Splitting vaccines means more visits, more vaccine sessions, which means more stress for both the parents and the kids, and higher risk of missing vaccines

All for zero benefit

[FactPost @factpostnews]

7 people have died after being infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria that contaminates water and seafood.

The Trump administration cut mandatory public health reporting of Vibrio vulnificus last year.