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[BrianV 🇵🇸🍉🐝 @brainscience03]

@benigma2017 @tato_kay The @TheDemocrats’ job isn’t to win or govern, it’s to foil/suppress/deprive resources to any real opposition to their & the @GOP’s shared masters’ goals succeeding. They’re 1 corporate-owned party. #SSDD every time they’ve a majority. No real change. Just keeping up appearances.

[BrianV 🇵🇸🍉🐝 @brainscience03]

@mousdrvr But this pre supposes that they’re actually 2 different parties. Both have the same donors. @GOP actually drives their masters policies. @DNC feigns opposition while foiling, distracting & exhausting the potential for real opposition. Goalposts have moved steadily right 50+ yrs💯

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

Democrats don’t exist to defeat Republicans, they exist to block progressive movements from access to political power. Ignore the “workers rights” window dressing. Their primary commitment is to protect capital accumulation.

Dividing the country into liberals and conservatives is the ultimate distraction from the real divide: top to bottom. The parasite ruling class stoked the culture wars while pillaging our wages, jacking up prices, and doing irreparable harm to the world we live in.

So yeah, this isn’t democrats vs. republicans, it’s billionaires vs. everyone else.

If you’re tired of getting screwed by the system, please support our campaign. Let’s get Greg Stoker elected to TX-31.

Election Day: Nov 3rd with early voting Oct 19-30

#stokedforstoker #universalhealthcare #centraltexas

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Billionaires and the Israeli lobby just bought another US election and defeated Thomas Massie, the one Republican in Congress who took on the Epstein Class and Israel.

Billionaires buying elections is not democracy. It is oligarchy.

Rise up, America. A better world is possible.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

How to manufacture consent:

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

"It was confirmed to me: the CIA piloted a helicopter as part of the operation to detain me."

Evo Morales tells The Grayzone about the plot to abduct him as the national indigenous and peasant uprising threatens the rule of neoliberal President Rodrigo Paz

[Jackie @JackieKindall_]

The audacity of this man telling the 8,000 people he's about to fire that he was spying on them so AI could take their jobs

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Francesca Albanese just exposed the ugly truth: The New York Times ignored Palestinian rape testimonies for over a year.

She gave them a lengthy interview in February 2024. Nothing followed.

UNRWA detailed torture and sexual abuse. Nothing.

B'Tselem. Physicians for Human Rights. The UN Committee Against Torture-which concluded torture is Israeli state policy. The UN Commission -which called it systematic, widespread, and an act of genocide.

All ignored.

But now the NYT finally publishes? Suddenly it's a scandal

The rape didn't start when the NYT noticed. The silence just became harder to maintain

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Meanwhile, Zionists have been using “what about Sudan” as a means to deflect criticism of Israel.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

So the list of humanitarian institutions who accuse Israel of genocide now includes:

1. The UN
2. International Association of Genocide Scholars
3. B'Tselem (Israeli)
4. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (Israeli)
5. Amnesty International
6. Doctors Without Borders
7. European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
8. Human Rights Watch
9. International Federation for Human Rights
10. Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention

The list of humanitarian institutions who say Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza includes:

1. Nobody
2. No one
3. Zero
4. Nothing
5. Nada
6. Zilch
7. Fuck all
8. A complete absence
9. Diddly squat
10. Bupkis

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US is not a democracy; it's an oligarchy.

Trump's billionaire oligarch Epstein-linked friends spent tens of millions of dollars, in the most expensive House primary race in history. And they won.

Why? Congressman Thomas Massie pushed to release the Epstein files, opposes the war on Iran, and called to end weapons shipments to Israel. He is one of the very few anti-war voices in Congress, and he criticized Trump from within the Republican Party. So they wanted his head.

Massie's billionaire-funded, Trump-backed opponent, Ed Gallrein, is a shady pro-war former Navy SEAL who strongly supports the imperialist war on Iran.

Massie said billionaire oligarchs were trying to "buy" his seat. He was right. And they just succeeded.

Massie is a libertarian Republican, and he and I have many, many political differences. We disagree on lots of issues. But this is not about that.

What this shows is that US capitalist oligarchs completely control the political system. If there is a politician they don't like -- not just leftists, but even the few conservatives who oppose US imperialist wars -- capitalist oligarchs will flood the race with money, spread propaganda and disinformation, and win the "election".

There is no democracy in the US. There is only capitalism.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The rising hatred of Muslims has been deliberately fomented by Israel and its supporters.

Last year Drop Site News published a leaked polling report commissioned by the Israeli government which found that Israel's crumbling reputation can be salvaged by spreading fear of Islam.

Drop Site reports the following:

“Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to ‘destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,’ Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. ‘Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,’ the report concludes.”

That's why whenever you post something critical of Israel on a public forum you'll get hasbarists in your replies going "But what about MUSLIMS? Muslims are bad!" There's no natural reason for this to be happening — Islam and Israel are not opposites, and the mention of one has no inherent bearing on the other. It's an artificially manufactured false dichotomy that's been forcefully promoted by Israel apologists.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The Supreme Court just quietly used its shadow docket to let politicians know that corruption is now legal - pass it on.

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

@OurRevolution He’s not just a billionaire. Tom Steyer invested in private prisons.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Biden Official: Biden Was Preparing To Bomb Iran If Re-Elected

These moves were planned years in advance, and would have been rolled out regardless of what impotent meat puppet happened to be wheeled into office in January 2025.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[K. @IbaraEleven]

DNC won’t release their 2024 autopsy report because it reveals they lost for things they intend to keep doing.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Another day, another Israeli-US war crime.
No words.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

A Florida student was arrested and charged with a felony for making a joke about Netanyahu on Whatsapp. Not a single one of us is free when mocking a foreign leader and/or government that is committing genocide can land us in jail.

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

The video keeps getting deleted everywhere it's posted online.

Keep sharing it.

[Zaf @Buenozaf]

I knew it. Coachella took down the video.

Variety, NME, CNN Brasil, & Pitchfork wrote articles using this tweet.

Reposting it here in clips: the moment The Strokes criticized the CIA, the US government, and the killings in Iran and Gaza.

#Strokeschella

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Worth noting also that Atlanta’s surveillance network is at least partially influenced by the Israeli surveillance operations in occupied Palestine. Their Video Integration Center in particular is directly modeled after the command and control center in the Old City of Jerusalem.