My only regret is that I stayed civilized for so long and tried to work out our differences by talking. There is no talking with these people. They are murderers and liars or they are complicit. FUCK THEM. I am incandescent with rage. RIP Alex Pretti.
The top advocate for Israel in Washington is now publicly arguing that Israel needs to integrate its military with ours so that it will be costly for the U.S. to extract itself from the relationship later, that doing so “would also carry a significant cost for Washington.”
The Senate is debating this proposal now. We can’t really say later that we weren’t warned.
In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.
Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
1/12 John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) is known for misrepresenting the ratio of civilians to combatants killed in Gaza, among his other crude apologetics on behalf of the IDF.
His lying doesn't stop here. He has LLMs write entire articles under his name. It's 🧵 time!
I had seen the coverage of this controversy but hadn't actually watched the speech until today...this is completely unobjectionable! Punishing him for these words is crazy and just pure censorship and everyone defending it was probably whining about cancel culture two years ago.
Bob Kraft and Pink believe that their feelings—and their defense of the indefensible—matter more than the reality on the ground in Gaza. They are wrong.
https://t.co/kcDNEUMJH3
Dear @MarkJCarney we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.
I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU.
And create a common prosperity and economic security space.
OH. MY. GOD.
If you have EVER fantasized about what you'd tell trump to his face if you had the chance, Rep. Joyce Beatty just DID that.
He thought he was going to call her names. And he found out.
So good. 🔥 🔥 🔥
When your only response to dissent is to use power and wealth to make it go away, you are going to have the opposite effect. People can see what's happening in the Middle East with their eyes and don't want to be told what they're allowed to think by people who own stadiums.
“ I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors, my father having been picked up on Kristallnacht and interned in Dachau…I do not take antisemitism lightly. @AbdulElSayed is not an antisemite and the twisted lies and misrepresentations circulating through the Jewish community about him are a disservice to our fight against the actual threats of antisemitism that are perpetrated by the right-wing and Christian Nationalists.”
https://t.co/PZ0QSZonnS
The Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin has just appeared in a campaign video for Putin’s United Russia party.
The Russian hockey player stands right behind Putin’s main propagandist Margarita Simonyan when Foreign Minister Lavrov gives a speech justifying the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
He also participated in a photo shoot for the same campaign together with Russian soldiers and individuals sanctioned for their complicity in the war against Ukraine.
Mr @hasek_dominik, could you please share your excellent opinion once again on Russians participating in Western sports events?
My colleague is right
I’ll add more context underscoring why this is remarkable for Rubio: for decades, his politics on Israel were closely aligned with the evangelical/pro-Likud GOP
Indeed, Rubio endorsed Huckabee’s presidential run in 08 & knocked doors for him in IA/NH
A horrific expose on the murder of Palestinian prisoner Tha'er Abu Assab, a Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot prison by guards in November 2023 appeared in Haaretz today.
Among the most damning evidence in the case are the texts of one warden, Oshrit Aliga, who as you can see in the video inlcuded here was literally the poster child for the Israeli Prison Services. Here are the texts verbatim:
On the night Tha'er Abu Assab, was murdered, she texted a friend: "Sweetie, here is an update for you, he's dead now." She added that she was "very happy and satisfied, but it's a mess right now. There was a lot of blood and they broke them."
Follow-up clarification to her friend:
"It'll be fine, I'm glad it happened. I'm ready to put my career on the line for this, I'm at peace with it, all of us are. The commander knew something like this would happen. he told us in the briefing and also asked, whoever feels they can't handle it should say so, because he really wanted to break them. I'm really fine, but you know how it is, investigations and all that mess."
WhatsApp exchange with her friend, December 2023 (re: new detainees arriving):
"They brought some Amalek-son whores down in the middle of the street, sitting there on the ground with just underwear and blindfolds on. I'm already getting myself and the shift ready to receive them for Shabbat, we will give them a proper Shabbat reception."
Responding to her friend's joke about her baton: "My club is fine, after a fair number of disinfections."
"Imagine me and you in a cell with two prisoners cuffed hand to hand, and the shift commander tells us 'go ahead, cut loose', sweetie, I swear you'd have enjoyed it here with me."
When her friend asked if she physically hits them: "I wish I had a way to prove it to you, to show you something, I swear to you, sis, I break them apart. You've never known me like this. [This is] routine. [When the] next round comes, if I haven't cracked one of his kidneys, as far as I'm concerned I'm not going into the wing."
WhatsApp exchange with her domestic partner, corrections officer Tamer Trudi, same month:
"We got another 70 whores from October 7th. Each one of course got a personal welcome, and some got a joint one because of the [limited] supply of handcuffs."
After Trudi replied "Haha, how nice that there's always a welcome": "And since we were already tired from hitting them, the commander took off his belt and undid it on them. And the screaming , like females — at minimum they're a punching bag."
Watch the video to see her enthusiastic physical training that allows her to murder and torture inmates. She has not been charged for her crimes despite the overwhelming evidence, though others have for that murder.
Make no mistake: the sickness of antisemitism is raging in this country, and it is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem - it is an American one.
Jews are two percent of this country, yet last year they were the target of 70 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes. A country that goes looking for scapegoats is a country that has stopped believing in itself. My faith is not your problem. The fact that Americans are losing faith in America - that is our problem.
The sick fucks who shouted antisemitic slurs at Lander can fuck all the way off. They don’t represent us.
Can’t wait to see Brad Lander in our congress next year. We need more Americans like him in public office. Willing to stand up for peace for all, and speak out against all hatred.
I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden.
A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.