Dave C 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱

🇺🇸New York born, Massachusetts raised.

Be excellent to each other. Party on, dude.

[Dave C 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 @dwc7719]

Fuck Vladimir Putin.

And if you support him, and offer him comfort and aid, fuck you too.

#StandWithUkraine

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The best explanation you will hear about why antizionism is just a reinvented antisemitism:

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

There is only one world leader I can think of who has both nobly defied Trump's extortive quid pro quo blackmail and fought bravely to thwart Putin's murderous aggression - so much so, that most would say he's "outfought" Putin. One world leader. Trump AND Putin. He's in a tough place now with Trump's desperate need to distract, and general sociopathic treachery - and given the lack of mettle from the GOP, nobody can say for sure how things will transpire. But we KNOW he leads courageously, we CAN say Slava Ukraina, and we can DEFINITELY say that Vlodomyr Zelenskyy is ... a rare hero.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

A smile worth a thousand words:

Sky News: Trump is facing pretty difficult midterm elections. Do you think you are being treated as a scapegoat for his own problems?

Zelenskyy [smiling]: “This is my answer.”

Couldn't imagine a better answer. 👏

[Emma 🇺🇸 @Emmaiid11]

🚨BREAKING: The five rapists and murderers driving the pickup truck where Shani Louk was disheveled and unconscious after being gang-raped, with her hair matted with blood and dirt have been successively hunted down globally by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Mossad and executed.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

Game show idea:

We take a group of Palestine activists and give them a choice. Either:

A) we dress them as a Muslim and drop them into Tel Aviv

Or

B) We dress them as a Jew and drop them in Jenin.

We can see whos racist and genocidal pretty fast.

[freeonis @freeonis_]

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[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Here's the darkest truth.

Many of my fellow Democrats can't look closely at the Israel situation because it requires you to consider politically inconvenient truths you can't voice to the NPR pledge mug crowd.

✅ A lot of Muslims believe insane conspiracy theories about Jews and are bigots
✅ The Palestinians will continue to try to annihilate Israel regardless of what Israelis do
✅ Israel had a responsibility to its own citizens to prevent another October 7th. It may be distasteful to see the horrific images of war, but that's the reality of war
✅ America is letting scores of people into the country with beliefs exactly like Hamas. This is bad public policy for all Americans, not just Jews.

I did not enjoy having my eyes opened up on any of these things. I understand they make me socially radioactive to a lot of people that have never run from an incoming missile into a bomb shelter.

But it doesn't make them less true.

And you have to actually go to Israel to understand it.

When I was last in Area B of the West Bank, I was being escorted by a former IDF officer. We rounded a corner, and he puts his hand out ordering me to turn around. I look up and across the security fence, Arabs with guns are staring at us.

It's so easy for Americans to whine about this situation when they've never stopped for lunch next to soldiers patrolling for suicide bombers.

Republicans are very bad at governing, but they do understand that bad people exist in the world and sometimes you have to defend yourself. Until Democrats can grasp this simple truth, our analysis of Israel will continue to be dead wrong.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“Kash Patel was just trolling!”

Here’s a wild thought. Maybe the head of the FBI shouldn’t be a fucking internet troll.

[Paging Hezbollah @paginghezbollah]

Beep. Beep. 📟🧨

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president.

His conclusion about Trump?

“This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.”

King then goes through the list. WATCH.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Barack Obama, speaking in Belfast, claimed that Jews “took land off people” and “were excessive.”

First, it’s disgusting how casually he presents Jewish history, as if Jews randomly showed up in Israel in 1948, out of nowhere, and started taking land from others. As if Jews hadn’t lived there continuously for thousands of years. As if the Jewish presence in Israel began with the establishment of the modern state.

Second, I’m fascinated by this obsession with who came first.

I’m not aware of another country where the question of who arrived first is so central to determining who supposedly has the right to live there.

At its core, that argument is xenophobic. What exactly are you implying when you say, “I was here first”? That you have a greater right to live somewhere than someone who arrived later? That immigrants and their descendants must remain perpetual outsiders?

Everywhere else in the world, people migrate, settle, build communities, and eventually become part of the country they moved to. Yet somehow, when Jews immigrate to Israel, they’re permanently labeled settlers, invaders, and occupiers, even generations later.

And Obama goes right along with this framing.

Third, since when is the history of land changing hands unique to Israel?

Didn’t Jewish families lose enormous amounts of property in Poland during and after World War II? Didn’t European borders shift, with entire populations displaced? Hasn’t Russia seized Ukrainian territory?

The history of virtually every country involves conquest, migration, displacement, and territorial disputes. Yet somehow, when discussing Israel, these historical events become an argument against the legitimacy of an entire people’s presence.

And finally, perhaps the most absurd part of all this is the setting.

You’re standing in Belfast, a place with its own complicated history of territorial conflict, division, and competing national identities, and of all the issues you could discuss, you choose to lecture Jews about land, history, and belonging?

Shameful.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A horrific Russian jet-powered “shahed” attack on an ordinary store in the Odesa region. Russia continues its bloody terror. The store was partially destroyed, and cars were damaged. Three people were injured. All necessary emergency services are working at the scene and providing assistance to those affected.

It is important that our partners help us defend against this. Residential buildings, stores, energy and other critical infrastructure are under attack virtually nonstop. Not a single hour of peace.

What is happening is Russia’s pointed response to the signals it is receiving from America. Unfortunately, there are dangerous signals about the possibility of further sanctions relief. These sanctions were imposed by the world, by America, Europe, and our partners in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its war against us. Nothing has changed. The war has not stopped. The sanctions must not be lifted. Russia must end the slaughter it itself started and has continued for 1,695 days now. More money to fund the killing will not help bring this about. Strength is what is needed, and America is stronger than Russian terror.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

By Trump buying Russian diesel we’re no longer fighting fascim, we’re funding it.

It bares repeating

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

Fuck you, Obama. My mother's family was expelled from NORTH AFRICA. Not Europe. Christians didn't burn down their house, MUSLIMS did. Also, Jews didn't "flee" Europe. They were victims of genocide, and Europeans did not want the survivors back. When do we get our land back in North Africa, in Europe, in Asia, or anywhere else we've been pushed out of? Fuck your ahistorical nonsense that makes Muslims the victims of Jewish "excess" in one country the size of New Jersey rather than the rulers of over 50 nations.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

There’s lot of Americans that need reminding.

This is the American Flag 🇺🇸

Not this 🇷🇺

Turning on your nations own values and its allies for Trump and Putin. You’re spitting on the graves of every fallen American soldiers grave that has died to protect America.

Despicable.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This should not be a real thing I see on my TV.
“Religious transformation of military” is the most anti-American idea imaginable.

I don’t care what you believe, but if you think this is right, you are brainwashed about America. The founders tried to prevent precisely this.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Russian attacks overnight into yesterday killed five people and injured 36 in Kyiv alone.

A midday russian strike on Lutsk killed six people and injured 12, including a child.

FBI director:

[Bruce E. Bailey, CRM/FED (Retired) @bbailey39]

Same minds!

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

First Trump stopped selling interceptor missiles to Ukraine.
Then Trump stopped providing early warning intel for incoming strikes.
Then Musk cut off Starlink.
The blood of those dead Ukrainians is on your hands, Trump voters.