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[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Notre Dame roof on fire = global emergency. Western art historians wrote essays abt "civilizational loss." Billionaires rushed to donate.

When US/IS bombs fall on a cradle of millennia of art, suddenly the art world has no wi-fi. Whose heritage matters?

[Daniel Pearson @DPearsonPHL]

People in Philadelphia love coming up with vague word salads to defend policies that don’t make sense. There’s always a theoretical harm that justifies an actual imposition. Extra points if you invoke “the community” in a very grave but ultimately meaningless sense.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

⚠️ Reuters has now confirmed what many suspected.

In early 2024, U.S. diplomats blocked internal cables describing northern Gaza as an “Apocalyptic Wasteland.” The reports included harrowing details: human bones scattered in the streets, bodies left abandoned in cars, & a total collapse of access to food, clean water, and medical aid.

These cables were not speculation. They were based on first-hand field observations from U.N. agencies & humanitarian workers on the ground.

So why were they blocked?

Because they were considered “too graphic.”
Because they “lacked balance.”
Because they might make Israel look bad.

Senior officials at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, including Ambassador Jack Lew & Deputy Chief Stephanie Hallett, stopped the reports from reaching higher levels of the U.S. government. They feared the cables would contradict the administration’s public narrative & disrupt ongoing political cover for Israel’s actions in Gaza.

According to former officials, humanitarian experts were sidelined, ignored, & outright dismissed. Inside meetings, the question from officials was not how to respond to starvation, but reportedly, “Where are all the skinny kids?”

This was not merely policy misjudgment, but complicity on a grand scale.

The Biden administration had access to concrete evidence of mass death, starvation, & social collapse. Instead of sounding the alarm, it chose to suppress the truth to preserve its political position.

They did not just ignore the warnings. They buried them.

Let that sink in.

An exclusive by @mokhbersahafi
https://t.co/YXvrDs1EG7

[blitz @blitznotinspace]

Could bring me to tears man

[Jon Geeting @jongeeting]

This is bad. The state does not have the administrative capacity to check up on whether the “good actor” municipalities it wants to reward have actually done anything real. The metric we need is PERMITS not promises

[Jake Blumgart @jblumgart]

"Analysis of the City of Philadelphia’s PlowPHL data, which tracks the movement of plows via GPS data, showed that about a quarter of streets citywide had received no snow treatment at all — including salting or plowing — after the conclusion of the storm" https://t.co/HRPxoRDFlb

[Jack O’Brien @JackPhillyRE]

It's wild how much this area has changed since 2007 🤯

[Geoff Wilt @geoffwilt]

I don’t know a single person who believes the future is going to be better than the past, and the reason is the spread of this kind of psychocapitalist technofascist ideology. the project of humanity in the 21st century should be ridding the world of it by any means necessary.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

The “two suspects” Israel murdered:

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

It should be illegal for a few billionaires to team up with foreign trillionaires to buy up all of US media and pump out propaganda

[Barstool Philly @BarstoolPhilly]

Sixers trolling a Wizards fan in a Poole jersey who heckled them all game after winning in overtime

(via ig/nolimitdermo)

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

The story of silicon valley is having an economy that desperately wants to build the second picture but a voting base that desperately wants to keep the first picture, so you end up with nothing but rotting ranch houses and strip malls. Biggest bag fumble in history.

[Jon Geeting @jongeeting]

Pretty clear by now this is actually how it’s playing out

[caesar @deegan_aaron]

Who knew this would be our last duck of the day😔

[Duck of the day @duckoftheday]

30 Jun 2021

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Respect where it is due. There is a digital/comms consultant somewhere in Brooklyn making serious bank to shitpost from the account of a doomed campaign.

[Sean Barnard @Sean_Barnard1]

“He has been the stability for an organization in which the opposite should be true. The Philadelphia 76ers have failed Joel Embiid far more often than Joel Embiid ever failed the Philadelphia 76ers.”

A few words on Joel Embiid on @CrossingBroad

[Hoops Reference @HoopsReference]

Eagles fans that dont watch basketball

[Jon Geeting @jongeeting]

@JohnnyWalsh__ Whether the state’s economy is growing or shrinking substantially depends on what’s happening in the southeast! https://t.co/UWXI0iKSz8

[Tyler @stevenkwanshat]

I wonder if the pope watched Jose KO Tim Anderson live

[CogginToboggan @CogginToboggan]

Castellanos rules.