Dane Dexheimer

[Dane Dexheimer @danedex]

@raber34

[Louis Riddick @LRiddickESPN]

Binge-watching #Lioness

Usually don’t take this long to catch onto masterpieces like this.

Better late than never.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

This statement is, per usual, mopey bullshit. When David Ellison bought Paramount last year he issued a press release in The Jerusalem Post making clear the deal would be good for Israel, highlighting his FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE IDF. This is not a “trope” it’s what he said.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

George W. Bush legacy:
- subprime mortgage crisis
- great recession
- illegal torture
- illegal war against Iraq, a country that didn't attack us.

Here's Iraq by the numbers (as of June 2014, it's worse now):

- 189,000 direct war deaths
- 4,488 U.S. service personnel killed directly
- 32,223 Troops injured (not including PTSD)
- 134,000 Civilians killed directly
- 655,000 Indirect war deaths
- 150: Reporters killed
- 2.8 million displaced
- $1.7 trillion: cost of the war through fiscal year 2013
- $5,000 spent per second
- $350,000: Cost to deploy one American military member
- $490 billion: Amount in war benefits owed to war veterans
- $7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money)
- $20 billion: Amount paid to private contractor KBR
- $3 billion: Amount of KBR payments Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."
- $60 billion: Amount paid for reconstruction, (which was largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work.)
- $5 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2003
- $85 billion: Revenue from Iraqi oil in 2011
- 0: Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction found

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I can't believe that the IDF lied about murdering kids. It's so out of character for them.

Israel only admits crimes when they're caught red-handed in front of the world committing them (droning the World Food Aid cars, destroying Christian iconography in Lebanon, slaughtering aid workers and buying their ambulances in Gaza but forgetting to destroy the cell phone footage, etc).

Otherwise they just lie and deny everything and call everyone who documents it an anti-Semite.

[Jacob Wendler @jacob_wendler]

Scoop: Israel has launched a new effort to sway public opinion in the US by influencing how LLMs paint it in response to chatbot queries. The foreign influence campaign includes a fake think tank set up to feed content to tools like ChatGPT. More below @politico 🧵

[Scott Barrett @ScottBarrettDFB]

Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall have been in HELL

Geno Smith is not a good QB, but he is a MASSIVE upgrade over Justin Fields and Zach Wilson

For fantasy, it's like going from Jameis Winston to Tom Brady

[Dane Dexheimer @danedex]

@lambertmeltonnc @newsobserver I live in Raleigh, feel free to Google property records. Great representation, won't be forgotten!

[Dane Dexheimer @danedex]

@lambertmeltonnc @newsobserver Nobody is debating if Raleigh is doing enough on Capital Improvements like a convention center. Again, red herring. If you don't have an answer, that's fine, don't reply and patronize people.

[Dane Dexheimer @danedex]

@lambertmeltonnc @newsobserver You listed a one off parade. You listed some big projects that have nothing to do with the comments the business owner made. And you know that. You aren't addressing the ongoing issues that face downtown businesses. It's a weak reply.

[Dane Dexheimer @danedex]

@lambertmeltonnc @newsobserver What is the work that's happening? RHA already existed, it's being moved. What does that have to do with the business owners issues (he and many many others)? A day time parade is a one off event, that has nothing to do with day to day. Just a dismissive and red herring response.

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

David Bailey has been one of the best player in Jets training camp and "there's an argument" he looked like the best player in joint practice vs. Bucs on Tuesday, per @ZackBlatt:

"I’ve been covering the Jets for five seasons, and the NFL for nine. In that time I’m not sure I’ve seen a rookie that was appointment viewing quite like Bailey."

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

It’s funny that Mamdani has never said anything as antisemitic as Dershowitz did right here

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SpeakerJohnson @Judy1732243 You could ban stock trading by U.S. Representatives tomorrow with a simple change to House rules. It wouldn’t even have to go through the Senate or be signed by the President.

Instead you put this political gimmick up for a vote which had a poison pill for Dems in it - Voter ID.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

So the NY Post just totally made up this claim that thousands of 9/11 families are mad at Mamdani.

Just a complete fabrication from a guy who basically hoaxed them:

In an interview with Popular Information, Galante acknowledged that there was no actual list of family members who had signed the petition. “We don’t have a list,” Galante said. Rather, the 300 figure that organizers shared with the New York Post was an estimate based on how they believe the petition spread before it received much publicity. “We all know each other, so…think about it. If you know 10 people and they give it to 10 more people they know that lost. That’s how we got the 300 number,” Galante explained. “I don’t go through the list and look at the names.”

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

They want the DOJ to criminally investigate Zohran Mamdani because he criticized the leader of a foreign country (you'll never guess which one).

Again, the greatest threat to Americans' First Amendment free speech rights are Israel's loyalists in the US and Europe.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

The ADL is preparing its statement condemning Mamdani for this

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I love when people tell Israel critics that they’re “obsessed with Israel” while this is what US elected officials do when they’re not traveling to Israel:

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I don’t think people quite understand how much Jeffries is propped up by AIPAC. He’s their top recipient out of 435 House members despite not having a remotely competitive race in 2024; they give him 12X more than his second biggest donor. Without them his career doesn’t exist

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

I handle comms for Lina Khan. I'm the one who declined this invitation in May because she's on maternity leave. Here's the receipt.

And it wasn't a debate. The show's pitch was 'opposite sides finding common ground'

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There it is, in its most honest form: if you don't want to force Americans to finance Israel and its wars with billions and billions of their dollars every year -- if you prefer instead to use that money on Americans' own lives and communities -- then you're an anti-Semite.