Dems owe a debt to Zohran for leading the way on affordability and showing how insanely popular it is but establishment hacks like Pete can't even acknowledge he exists.
I will never back down in speaking truth to power.
The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.
Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.
More than anyone else on this planet, Julian Assange exposed state crimes and the deception wielded to conceal them from the public. His persecution and torture exposed the threat that state power sees in an informed citizenry.
His freedom is a rare victory for humanity, the very cause he has served with unparalleled courage. Grateful to everyone who made this possible, especially his wife @Stella_Assange. We'll never be able to repay the Assange family's sacrifice.
A candidate has to earn your vote. A candidate has to EARN your vote!!! The way they earn your vote is through actions that reflect the will of the people!! If Joe Biden loses in November guess whose fucking fault it is!! It's breaking my brain how many people forget how it works
Democracy is when you can only vote for one person 🙄
If we’re in a position where there’s only one choice that will “uphold democracy,” then democracy is already gone.
Israel has destroyed an entire city. Made it uninhabitable. 90% reduced to rubble. Universities, residential tower blocks, hospitals. Everything. One million people homeless. It's a truly historic crime. How anyone in their right mind can think this is justifiable for any reason
If you are endorsing Israel's Gaza assault by declaring that Israel "has the right to defend itself", then you're also endorsing the Oct. 7th attack.
If Israel can slaughter civilians in the name of "defending itself", then Palestinians can too. They were ethnically cleansed in 1948 and have been occupied since 1967. Israel has refused to end the occupation and rejected the only diplomatic solution with international -- including PLO, Hamas and Arab states - support: an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza, and creation of a Palestinian state there. (A huge compromise for Palestinians in 22% of their ancestral land).
On Oct. 6th, Israeli forces and settlers had already killed 200 Palestinians this year alone (adding to a toll of tens of thousands since 1948). Occupied people have the right to resist military occupation.
Israel had the right to defend itself on Oct. 7th as Palestinian militants attacked it. But it's not Oct. 7th anymore. It's more than one month later, and Israel has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, including 4,650+ children.
Israel has no right to commit mass murder in the territory it's illegally occupying. Occupiers don't have the right to defend their occupation; they only have the obligation to end it. Which also happens to be the best way that Israel could defend its long-term security, along with everybody else's -- who have just as much of a right to security and self-defense.
On Oct. 6th, there was a barbaric military occupation that Israel began in June 1967, after ethnically cleansing Palestinians in 1947-48.
Hillary omits that from her "historical analysis." She also lies: Palestinians were not offered a real state; only a set of disconnected West Bank bantustans surrounded by Israeli settlements, with no sovereignty over east Jerusalem and cut off from Gaza.
Palestinian leaders, including Hamas, accepted a huge compromise of a state in 22% of historic Palestine. Israel and US apologists like Hillary are such fanatical extremists that they couldn't even accept that.
Israel had killed nearly 250 Palestinians in 2023 *before* the events of October 7th. But it’s not breaking a ceasefire if you don’t think Palestinian lives matter.
i think extracting concession from our democratically elected leaders by telling them “we will never vote for you again unless you stop this ethnic cleansing campaign we are paying for” is perfectly normal and good. annoying blue-no-matter-who voters should stop the browbeating !
Alleged “human shields” don’t prevent Israel from bombing hospitals & ambulances. They’re willing to kill hundreds in single strikes with no concern for civilians—why would Hamas rely on a military strategy that has zero impact on whether Israel bombs them?