Sharon 🍉

FREE PALESTINE!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

This Palestinian boy in Gaza broke down in tears after his glasses were damaged. Amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and blockade on the entry of supplies, it may be impossible for him to replace the glasses.

[Pat Just Pat 🍉 @PatTheSocialist]

Impoverishing us all has been a bipartisan project for decades. We'll all die waiting for Democrats to save us

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Video shows the moment Israeli fighter jets struck a residential building in Ain Qana village in southern Lebanon.

The attack comes as Israel continues ceasefire violations ahead of military-level talks between the two countries in Washington, DC.

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

🚨 “They just pounced on him. He’s 19 years old.” 🚨

Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison, a mother says ICE agents beat up her teenage son, left him cut and scarred from handcuffs, and threatened to break his fingers after targeting him over where he was standing.

“I’m so terrified now.”

WATCH ⬇️

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

Today, Maurice Bishop would be 82. Leftist Prime Minister of Grenada 1979-1983. Expanded free healthcare, education, literacy, housing, built infrastructure. Strong ties to Cuba+Non-Aligned Movement. Overthrown by CIA-led coup under Reagan. Executed by firing squad at age 38.

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

Our @JordanChariton leaves ICE speechless.

ICE: Really?
JC: Really what?
JC: When the microphone's in your face you lose your voice? Tell us why you're here.
ICE: Why don't you tell us why you're here?
JC: I'm a journalist, I'm covering your stupidity. I'm covering you guys attacking unarmed protesters. Tell us why you're here. Is the $50,000 bonus good?
ICE: [No answer]

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Pro-Palestine climbers raised a kite carrying messages from children in the Gaza Strip to the summit of Mount Everest, to highlight the suffering of children under relentless Israeli bombardment and blockade.

[IncarcerNation.com @IncarcerNation]

Today's numbers. All cases are documented individually in the enclosed link.
https://t.co/tVlrJHrsL2

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

🚨ICE arrests and drags protester outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ this morning on Day 5 of massive hunger & labor strike.

"These people are human beings! They're starving! This is America God damn it!" Via @JonFarinaPhoto. WATCH our livestream from last night 🔽

[PunchUpPod @PunchUpPod]

TONIGHT!

AIPAC ousts Massie in most expensive Congressional race ever

FLOTILLA hostages given Ben-Gvir ‘terrorist’ treatment

Islamic Center shooting in San Diego centers Jewish response

Kars4Kids ads BANNED in CA

Yet ANOTHER Antisemitism Bill??
https://t.co/nGJRIeY5kW

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

What stage of capitalism is this?

[PunchUpPod @PunchUpPod]

TONIGHT!

Trump blusters on Iran War quagmire as US economy tanks

Iran’s LEGO videos are forging working class solidarity, reminding US citizens that we’re all victims of the ruling class

Israel kidnaps 200 peace activists from Global Sumud Flotilla
https://t.co/7cazpAVFGP

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The World Can Have Peace Or Israel, But Not Both

Israel is already aggressively sabotaging the Trump administration’s two-week ceasefire with Iran by slaughtering huge numbers of civilians in Lebanon, a nation which is explicitly off-limits for any attack under the ceasefire conditions agreed to by Tehran.

The US and Israel are trying to claim that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire agreement, but Pakistan, whom the US appointed to mediate the agreement, says this is false. The New York Times reports that the White House took part in Pakistan’s public messaging which explicitly included Lebanon in the ceasefire conditions, before changing its tune after Israel attacked.

Iran has reportedly responded to these violations by again halting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

This serves as yet another reminder that the world can have peace or it can have Israel — but it cannot have both. Israel is a genocidal apartheid state whose entire existence is premised upon a strategy of unceasing violence and abuse in the middle east. As long as that state continues to exist in its present iteration, peace will never be attainable.

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If your job hired a guy who kept getting into fights with your coworkers and saying it’s because they are racist against him, for a week you might believe him.

After a month, you’d have doubts.

After two months, you’d realize he’s probably just an asshole.

Israel has been doing this for eighty years.

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Democrats in the House and Senate are finally moving on a War Powers Act to stop the US president from going to war with Iran, and I’d say better late than never but at this point that would barely even be true.

Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Chris Murphy are currently slamming the president not for his horrifying mass atrocities in Iran but for losing the Strait of Hormuz and failing to achieve objectives like completely disarming their conventional missile program.

As I have said here previously, it’s clear that the reason the Democratic Party failed to oppose Trump’s warmongering with Iran was because they supported it too.

The actual, official 2024 Democratic Party platform accused Trump of “fecklessness and weakness” for failing to go to war with Iran during his first term. Kamala Harris labeled Iran the #1 enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America’s enemies and announced that she “will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel.”

I’ve seen a lot of people trying to argue that Trump’s depravity in Iran proves everyone should support Democrats, but it’s clear the Democratic Party is just the more polite-looking face on the same evil power structure.

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The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed has an article out about a freakish BBC article which cited an anonymous Iranian who allegedly told them he supports the US and Israel “hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or leveling Iran.” Following public outcry, the quote was removed and replaced with completely different words — initially without any editor’s note of any kind.

Reed documents how the BBC reporter behind the story, Ghoncheh Habibiazad, is a London-based Iranian monarchist with an extensive history of agitating for regime change war against her home country, including with the US government propaganda operation Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Last month The Times ran an article titled “Some Iranians say one thing’s worse than bombs: no bombs”. Western powers are always aggressively pushing this self-evidently false claim that people in empire-targeted countries want bombs dropped on them, in much the same way slavery proponents argued that Africans were happiest as slaves because God made it their nature to serve.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s impossible to have enough disdain for the western press.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

"A few moments ago they were able to rescue a woman who remained alive, under all of that rubble for 11 hours..."

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Patt reports from Beirut hours after Israel launched 100 attacks that killed hundreds and wounded and forcibly displaced thousands in one day.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The world can have peace or Israel. It can’t have both.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute disaster for the Trump Administration. A reporter drops a massive bombshell on live TV revealing Iran is actively being bombed right now despite the ceasefire. The Press Secretary is completely caught off guard and has absolutely no idea what is going on.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Israel is going to crash the global economy. Time to cut off all aid, all weapons transfers and slap sanctions on that nation and its genocidal leaders. The American people are sick of this.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Expel Israel from the UN.
And more important, expel Israel from Congress & the White House.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute horror on Al Jazeera. Live footage confirms the US and Israel are actively following through on threats to bomb civilian railway lines in Iran. Rescue workers are desperately pulling innocent commuters from the wreckage. These war crimes are sickening.

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

All war crimes.