Ellington Smith

2 Corinthians 5:20 • DPSCD • Asst. Coach Detroit King Basketball

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

what happened over the past few days is pretty amazing. The Israeli regime knew Nick Kristof was going to publish his NYT piece on their actual systematic rape of Palestinians including children and the use of dogs to rape, so they fabricated a new "report", the most insane one yet copy-pasted together by a proven fraud that repeats all the already debunked falsehoods and relies entirely on known proven hoaxers, and they actually got the NYT, BBC, CNN, AP, Reuters to launder it for them a day after the Kristof piece came out to bury it. They own the entire media class completely.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This eye-witness testimony, on camera, is more evidence than we have related to 10/7 sexual violence. And there is far more evidence than this: medical reports, testimony from doctors and nurses, forensic evidence, and victim testimony also exists.

That is the kind of evidence people have been asking for when it comes to 10/7. Instead, we get empty assertions and accusations of "rape denial" from the same people who will not say one word about the systemic sexual violence doled out to Palestinians in Israeli detention. Including by dogs.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

The BBC just released a documentary on Israeli snipers shooting children in the head.
168 cases. 95 shot in the head or chest. Over two-thirds under age 12.
This has been happening since October 2023.
It is now April 2026.

[Sam Husseini @samhusseini]

The point of the system is to keep producing conmen who people trust. It’s like stages of a rocket. So Tucker Carlson says some reasonable things with his mega platform WHICH HAVE NO EFFECT on actually stopping the Empire.

Then he uses his cred to lure suckers to Vance like he did w Trump.

Obviously other boosted accounts on “the other side” do the same thing for the establishment Dems.

[Ella Septima-Hamer @jbrous41]

A lot of that “no kings” thing is ppl not having an issue with the U.S. empire and the violence it inflicts. They only have an issue with who’s currently in charge of it.

[SourcedPress @SourcedPress]

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

— Hossam Shabat, killed by Israeli forces, March 24, 2025

https://t.co/pWpoTD6qgW

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

United States is the most propagandized country in the world

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Tom Barrack may be the first administration official to talk openly about Epstein’s power in the 1980s. He says everyone assumed that power came from his ties to the Israelis. Fits with our Iran-Contra reporting.

[Cedar Salvo 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @cedarsalvo]

Lebanon is the moment the people who told you Palestine was "complicated" finally go quiet. Not because they have nothing to say, but because acknowledging what Zionism is doing to Lebanon right now would force them to admit they've been lying all along.

[C A L V I N 🕷️ @calvingonba]

Editing a Kobe vid rn… gang wtf is this.

[Carson Breber @Carsobi]

Bam just had the grossest historic game ever.

He became the first ever player to score 70 while shooting under 50% on FGs (20/43).

He attempted 43 free throws and made 36, both the most ever.

He played 42 minutes & his team intentionally fouled to prolong a 30-point blowout.

[Brian Sutterer MD @BrianSuttererMD]

This is a disgrace to Kobe's 81.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

@MeghanMcCain Graham honestly articulates the sadistic, borderline genocidal violence which defines the war on Iran

We already knew that you were devoid of humanity

But it’s still revealing to see that your only to the war is its crude salesmanship

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Journalists once again failing at understanding the very basic idea “Your job is to report accurately, not to try to look as ‘neutral’ as possible, because ‘neutrality’ in response to oppression is actually just complicity.”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[Chris Osieck @ChrisOsieck]

I plotted the location of the Minab school (green dot) onto the map shared by the U.S. military, for those interested.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a chance to retell a Bahrain story @JKhashoggi told me a few weeks before he was killed. He said that before he relocated to the U.S. he launched a broadcast channel in Bahrain that was supposed to be modeled after Al Jazeera. On the first day, there was a small protest somewhere and they sent a reporter to cover it, and asked the govt for comment.

The govt said wait a minute, you can’t cover this protest. He said well of course we have to cover it, that’s what a news network does. They said well then we don’t want a news network, and shut it down immediately. It lasted like a day.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

ICYMI, Cuba’s🇨🇺 President Miguel Díaz-Canel:

‘What right does any nation have to prevent fuel from reaching another country? This is not only an action against Cuba and the Cuban people.

How many countries are being prevented from maintaining a normal trade relationship with Cuba because of this? How many companies and institutions are being harmed?

Does this not violate international law and the Charter of the United Nations? Does this not contradict the principles of free trade that capitalism and imperialism claim to defend?

And beyond that, who do they think they are to impose this on us? Is there any hint of humanism, decency, sensitivity, or decorum in someone who acts like this?’

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

During the so-called ‘Cold War’, the CIA planned to induce the failure of crops in Cuba🇨🇺 in order to sabotage the economy for a regime change effort against Fidel Castro.

The US has done everything possible to sabotage and destroy the Cuban economy, and then it blames Cuba’s government for its economic problems.

Since Cuba dared to resist and survive, now the US barbarically starves Cuba of fuel, leaving Cubans to suffer in economic misery as basic public services such as schools and hospitals struggle to operate.

The CIA sabotage of Cuba is the same approach taken to other Latin American countries such as Chile🇨🇱 and Venezuela🇻🇪; infiltrate the country, make the economy scream, create the ripe conditions for a CIA-backed coup, and execute the plan.

This is the CIA’s playbook for every nation that does not accept being a vassal state, and tries to resist the exploitation of their economy through US corporations.