Alia Abu-Bakr

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain, but also being moved to help relieve it.

Daniel Goleman

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

House progressives are organizing to block $3.3 billion in weapons to Israel in a key vote today.

Call 202-816-6141 to tell your member of Congress to vote YES on the Massie amendment to cut off military funding to Israel.

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

These Democrats who still voted to send Israel aid to commit more war crimes need to be tossed out on their fucking genocidal heads.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE CLEAR: NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie to cut the $3.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel. I strongly support this amendment.

Israel, like any other country, had the right to defend itself against the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people. But it did not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian population. It did not have the right to kill more than 73,000 Palestinians and wound over 173,000 more — the vast majority of them women, children and the elderly. It did not have the right to destroy virtually the entire infrastructure of Gaza — the schools, the health facilities, the water systems, wastewater plants, the electric grid that a civilian population depends on to survive. It did not have the right to destroy or damage 92% of all housing units in Gaza. In other words, Israel did not have the right to commit genocide. And it did not have the right to escalate its violence and annexation of the West Bank while the world's attention was focused elsewhere.

Tragically, almost five months ago, Israel, with strong support from the Trump administration, launched a reckless and illegal war against Iran — a war that has killed thousands of people and left an already unstable region of the world even more unstable. That war expanded into Lebanon, where Israeli strikes have now killed more than 4,000 people and displaced some 20% of the entire Lebanese population. That is not "defending Israel". These are regional wars of expansion and terror, waged without a clear strategy, and without an end in sight.

The American people are catching on. Polls show that nearly three-quarters of Democratic voters now oppose sending military aid to Israel, as do more than one-third of Republican voters. Just 16% of all Americans support giving Israel unconditional aid.

And I am proud that this past April, 40 out of 47 Senate Democrats — a record number — supported my bill to block arms sales to the far-right, extremist Netanyahu government.

We have enormous unmet needs in our own country. Today, while 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, tens of millions of Americans cannot afford housing, healthcare, childcare and other basic needs. Congress must focus on the needs of their constituents, not an Israeli government that is undermining American values. I urge my colleagues in the House to vote yes on the Massie amendment.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

AIPAC is now spending 8x as much as Abdul El-Sayed's entire campaign on the MI Senate primary.

This race is not between Abdul and Haley Stevens. It is Abdul vs. AIPAC.

A billionaire-funded Super PAC shouldn't determine American elections or foreign policy. Let's support Abdul.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The insanity of the groveling Democratic Party - groveling to owner donar class - and AIPAC

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

After the passing of an individual why do people immediately try to rewrite their history?
Lindsey Graham did not fall on his sword for this country. He fell at the feet of a wanna be dictator instead!

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

In the past few weeks, I have been attacked by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Netanyahu government for standing up for my values. Judge me by my enemies.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Hello @ElonMusk you were once going save the world and abolish poverty, instead you have insured the deaths of 100s of thousands. And for what? Your own greed and hubris. You had such potential. Squandered. You are not Iron Man, that’s for sure.  You are not a hero. You are kind of a monster.

“The seven-hundred-plus thousand that have been estimated to have died at the end of a year since the U.S.A.I.D. closure comes from a couple of different sources. One is a Boston University estimate. A separate one comes from an international study published in The Lancet, looking at the impact U.S.A.I.D. had over the past twenty years—saving ninety-two million lives—and projecting, based on the cuts that have occurred, how many deaths have occurred, and they came up with a very similar number.”

https://t.co/IXdLjHusb8

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Americans are once again watching in horror as Trump’s lawless federal agents took another life - this time in Maine.

We must seek accountability and justice and an end to this madness.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

You're being brainwashed to fear a Muslim takeover so you won't realize Israel already has.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If a U.S. Congressman can be forcibly detained by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, what do you think is happening to the Palestinians who live there?

Sadly, we know the answer.

Despite massive campaign spending by AIPAC, members of Congress must be very clear. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO THE EXTREMIST NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It’s not complicated. Trump doesn’t believe in democracy.

He hates democratic Europe and loves the oligarchic dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.

He wants to stifle dissent in the media and arrest his opponents.

ALL Americans must unify against authoritarianism.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Please, everybody, show the same level of respect that Trump showed when Robert Mueller passed away.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ro Khanna walks the walk.

While visiting Palestinian communities in the West Bank, Israeli settlers brandishing American made M4 assault rifles detained, terrorized, and laughed in his face. This is the outrageous bullshit our tax dollars are funding.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days.

In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured.

While 0 Israelis have been killed.

There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

They killed 168 schoolgirls & Lindsey Graham celebrated it.

The terrorist is now dead…

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If you’re offended by the jokes people are making about Lindsey Graham, remember this …..

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

If El-Sayed wins, after you have committed yourself to doing all you can to damage him, will you promise to do us all a favor and shut the absolute fuck up and go away forever?

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.

https://t.co/DoUCOvHC5t