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[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Instead of going to war with Israel, Spain could just tell FIFA it's "them or us" in the next World Cup. Even the apathetic fence-sitters would get riled up about that. The house of cards would crumble further.

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

Excellent series on @SBS “The People versus Robodebt”
Rams home the scandal of no one being charged despite a Royal Commission and millions paid out in compensation
Disgraceful and disgusting

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Overthinking is the sign that you need to cultivate more courage to act.

You need to put yourself in physical situations where you won't have a choice but stay focused and get things done.

There is no growth without skin in the game, and you can waste so much time being misled by a timid mind.

That's why moving abroad and being fully accountable for your fate is transformative.

That's why having kids who solely depend on you is transformative.

That's why overcoming life-threatening situations is transformative.

That's why taking big financial risks with your own money is transformative.

That's why struggling alone in a society that only rewards people who are already winning is transformative.

Old people who didn't grow much were not necessarily stupid, they were just the people who were afraid: of wasting time, of losing freedom, of getting hurt, of losing money, of falling behind.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, a war criminal under indictment from the ICC will be welcomed to the White House.

Trump, like Biden before him, has aided and abetted the extremist Netanyahu government as it has systematically killed and starved civilians in Gaza.

It is a shameful day in America.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The smartest people I know all have this in common: They change their minds often. It’s not a weakness, being wishy-washy, or a sign of flaky beliefs. It’s proof that their ego doesn’t outrank new information. The goal isn't to be right, it's to get it right.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If you're just tuning in, it turns out Al Qaeda in Syria are not terrorists but the peace activists in the UK are, the guy committing genocide in Gaza says the guy backing his genocide deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Jeff Epstein was an misunderstood angel who killed himself.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every time you hear, "But Hamas," just know: you are not listening to an argument. You are hearing the sound of someone justifying the murder of a child who never picked up a weapon.

[stranger @strangerous10]

ABC does not report on innocent Palestinians being massacred every day by Israel in their illegal invasion of Gaza but has the nerve to report on invading IDF soldiers who died instead. This is more proof the ABC appeases the Israel lobby, not Australians. Big shame.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is no propaganda on earth more cynical than a nuclear-backed apartheid state pretending to be the victim of the children it’s starving.

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

I told Tucker Carlson:
1️⃣ While we were negotiating in good faith at the request of the U.S., Netanyahu dropped bombs - literally - on diplomacy. Israel torpedoed the talks and killed peace. The world should remember who derailed the process.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Productive people are just people who are really good at ignoring everything that has nothing to do with their lives.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

No-one seems to have attacked Channel 4 for showing Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which raises the question: if there was nothing wrong with broadcasting it, why couldn't the BBC do so?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Since October 7, torture against Palestinian prisoners has become widespread and systematic. Both male and female detainees have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape. The documented gang rape at #SdeTeiman is not an isolated case—it’s part of a pattern. This is not just cruelty: inflicting severe physical or mental harm on members of a group 'as such' is a constitutive element of genocide.
How much more evidence do people need to understand what is happening?

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you’ll never truly grow in life.”

— Richard Feynman

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israel officially announces plans to construct a concentration camp in the ruins of Gaza

“Palestinians will not be allowed to leave the zone,” which will be marketed as a “humanitarian city”

Bear witness to how the logic of Zionism endlessly perpetuates the Holocaust

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Zionist logic is simple.

If we kill you, you must have deserved it.

If we bomb your home, you must have been hiding something.

If your children die, you must have made us do it.

It is the logic of abusers. Of empire. Of cowards.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Let's make no mistake about it, the Hill and the White House are captives of the Israel lobby.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Think about this for a moment.

[Red Eagle Updates 🦅🇺🇸 @RedEagleUpdates]

YES or NO ?