Christopher Ross

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Section 224, which is pretty much guaranteed to pass at this point unless massive opposition is mobilized against it, is the most dangerous and deranged policy in modern US history. It fully integrates the US and Israeli militaries and transforms the "US sends Israel arms" legal-policy framework to "US and Israel are one and the same". It will make any embargo let alone limitation on weapons practically impossible to impose. It is unprecedented in all of history for a country to do this with its own military, and further proves that Zionists and Israel wholly own the US.

Any politician and media outlet and just any person with a large platform who is not vocally and repeatedly opposing this is actively or tacitly helping ensure a permanent enslavement of the US to the genocidal Israeli death-cult and a guarantee that it will continue its genocide and wars indefinitely.

[Christopher Ross @cross365]

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[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Trump openly admitted he asked a federal prosecutor to investigate California’s primaries after his preferred candidates fell behind — a blatant abuse of executive power.

Our democracy is being dismantled in plain sight, but that's not how national media is treating it, Marc Elias writes.
https://t.co/TG84xsGlFo

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

Shifting U.S. military support for Israel from foreign aid (Foreign Military Financing (FMF)) to procurement, as Congress is proposing, makes U.S. assistance automatic and divorces it from political conditions:

“Critically, there is no procurement equivalent of an FMF condition. A procurement contract does not contain clauses requiring a foreign partner to modify its foreign policy, restrain its military operations, or make concessions on a peace process. …There is no residual space for demands about Gaza, the West Bank, or relations with Arab neighbors.”

The U.S. blank check to Israel would no longer be a check at all — and as such, it would be less traceable, less visible, and impossible to withhold if Israel transgresses against U.S. national interests.

The U.S. seldom uses the leverage over an Israel that its current military aid programs provide, but at the very least, we can *see* them and debate them.

If Congress shifts aid to a procurement pipeline, we can’t.

Even if the U.S. is paying Israel firms for services, it’s still aid. Why?

It’s complicated, but the gist as I understand it boils down to the huge scale of the U.S. procurement base compared to Israel’s. Because the U.S. is a ginormous country, with runaway military spending that buys vast quantities of materiel, embedding Israeli firms deeply in the process guarantees those firms a huge market for their products, far beyond what would meet Israel’s defense needs.

Among other things, producing military goods at higher quantity makes the per unit cost cheaper for Israel to supply itself (alongside the U.S.).

That is, in effect, a subsidy to Israel’s defense base disguised as U.S. procurement.

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[David Dayen @ddayen]

BREAKING: Mayor @ZohranKMamdani has announced a balanced budget with no cuts to essential services, no property tax increases, $4 billion more from the state government, and a new tax hike on the ultra-wealthy.

https://t.co/xTmZedz97Y

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

They have called us back at midnight to cast a secret vote to reauthorize FISA while America sleeps. A yes vote gives Trump more power to surveil Americans.
Every Democrat must vote no. Everyone who loves the constitution must vote no.

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

If you know an undergrad at a Black college please make sure they see this.

I've partnered with The Emmys & Coca-Cola to help them give away $40K to the next generation of storytellers with their HBCU Sports Production Grant.

And it's not just for journalism & film majors ANYONE in ANY major can enter the contest.

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[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

White House spokesperson says that Homan never took $50,000 ; we reviewed internal document saying Homan accepted the cash payment from undercover @FBI agents in September 2024

https://t.co/wJAAg6hgxx

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS

[angry buni 🤬 @theangriestbuni]

They give us a reason every fucking day to not trust them.

The police are fucking untrained.

When he pops him thru the window….

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Columbia canceled my course on race and media.
But I’m teaching it to the people anyway.

Next Monday, July 14th, is the first hybrid lecture of Race, Media, and International Affairs 101.

Sold out course! 500+ students enrolled.

We move! ✊🏾

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A Florida meteorologist just went on air and said he can’t accurately report the weather anymore, because Trump’s DOGE cuts gutted the satellite data he relies on.

We’re not just defunding science, we’re sabotaging public safety.

And for what? So a billionaire surveillance firm can get another contract while Americans can’t even get a hurricane warning on time?

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

The sitting Lt. Gov of Indiana, who calls himself a Christian nationalist, says, on camera, that the Three-Fifths Compromise was a “great move.” Watch it here:

[New Bedford Light @NewBedfordLight]

A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive. https://t.co/StX9qTWkgP

[Christopher Helali @ChrisHelali]

EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE: Columbia student and Palestinian Mohsen Madawi was just arrested during a visit to the immigration office here in Colchester, VT. More to follow. Footage by: Christopher Helali

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN https://t.co/OB6JPxIEG4

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Commissioner Slaughter and I released a statement about DOGE’s arrival at the FTC.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Never leaving this place