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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Kirsten Gillibrand, who accused Zohran Mamdani of promoting "global jihad" and has never publicly apologized for doing that, is having fun hanging out with Ted Cruz, who constantly makes anti-Muslim, bigoted remarks.

The worst side of the Democratic Party establishment, folks!

[Ag @algifictallus]

@mattyglesias What’s it like being so wrong all the time?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Benjamin Song: 100 years
Marisela Rueda: 70 years
Cameron Arnold: 50 years
Savanna Batten: 50 years
Zachary Evetts: 50 years
Bradford Morris: 50 years
Elizabeth Soto: 50 years

Meanwhile, the ICE agents who MURDERED Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter: 0 years in prison.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton let a pedophile back on our streets.

He gave Adam Hoffman — an admitted child predator — an Epstein-style sweetheart deal.

Texans deserve answers. Release the Hoffman Files.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

what a fucking night. please stop calling me a terrorist radical. thanks.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.

This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇨🇺 US Supreme Court Clears Exxon to Sue Cuba Over Property It Nationalized 65 Years Ago

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Exxon Mobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts for more than $1 billion over an oil refinery, terminals, and hundreds of service stations that Cuba nationalized after its 1959 revolution, handing Washington a fresh weapon against the island it has blockaded for decades.

The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, held that the 1996 Helms-Burton Act strips Cuban state enterprises of the sovereign immunity that normally shields foreign governments from US lawsuits. The court’s three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan writing that the law contains no such provision.

Helms-Burton is the 1996 law that codified the decades-old US embargo of Cuba into statute, stripping any president of the power to lift it alone. Its Title III provision lets US nationals sue over property the Cuban government reclaimed from foreign corporations after the revolution, and sue all companies that later do business using those assets. The provision was considered so aggressive, and so likely to anger allies whose firms invest in Cuba and to poison any future US-Cuba settlement, that every president continued to suspend it in six-month incremental waivers for over two decades, until Trump let the suspension lapse in 2019. Exxon sued the same day.

The ruling lands as Trump tightens the screws on Havana, which is already reeling under a renewed US oil blockade that has caused brutal shortages and hardship across the island. Together with a similar decision last month (Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises), it opens the door to thousands of pending claims, nearly 6,000 certified ones worth almost $2 billion before interest, seeking to extract wealth from a nation the US has worked to isolate since Cubans first took control of their own resources in 1960.

(Based on information from the Supreme Court ruling and reporting by the AP, CNN, and Bloomberg Law.)

📸 Photo: March 12, 1996, President Clinton signs the bill into law.

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Retired U.S. generals, admirals, intelligence officials, diplomats, and former government officials who advise policymakers on the Middle East met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.

[Rep. Derek Tran @RepDerekTranCA]

I am deeply alarmed by the detention of Sama Safi in an Israeli prison. Sama, a 20-year-old Palestinian American student, was taken from her home in the middle of the night and continues to be held without charges. This is part of a disturbing pattern of the Israeli government denying Palestinians their basic due process rights, often at risk to their health and safety. The United States has a responsibility to protect its citizens abroad, and we must hold our allies to basic standards of equal justice under the law. I am urging Secretary Rubio and the Trump Administration to use every diplomatic tool available to bring Sama home safely.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

I am being blackmailed into silence.

This threat contained my family’s address & my personal number:

“You may find it prudent to reconsider several recent statements and associations”

“Continued escalation of your current messaging may encourage further examination”

“A more measured public posture could prevent unnecessary controversy”

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Colombian President Petro:

Well, today we have evidence of a change in IP addresses of several servers of the national registry.

This means that the software was compromised and others wrote data for polling stations and voting posts.

The only entity in the world capable of doing that is the state of Israel.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was.

They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon's southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.”

Marwa Osman writes about Israel’s deliberate targeting of a prominent environmental activist in Lebanon. ⬇️

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

Corruption like this would get you executed in China.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Congats to the 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for raising $30 million on his new company with a $300m valuation.

His prior work -- as a Senate intern and then in the Congress Influence department at Andreessen, Horowitz -- is a testament to our meritocracy!🇺🇸

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.

Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.

Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.

In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.

These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

It should be a much bigger deal that @WIRED fails to mention that its own former Editor-in-Chief Nick Thompson (Jonah Lehrer’s former editor at the @NewYorker) is listed in this group of members/attendees of Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

It should be a much bigger deal that legacy media journalists like Ezra Klein, Bret Stephens & @newyorker writer Atul Gawande are members of or attended Peter Thiel’s secret society, Dialog.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Ezra Klein's article on being a member of Dialogue is going to be so goddamn nuanced.

He collaborated with tech fascism the right way.