Elizabeth de Bony

Reader, mother, EU observer, non-practicing vegetarian

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Ai Weiwei: "I used to advocat that Western leaders should publicly condemn China on human rights. But today I have completely changed my view. The West is not even qualified to criticize China."

[Ignis Rex @Ignis_Rex]

Anti-China Artist and Activist Ai Wei Wei slapping Channel 4 in the face:
1) There is Censorship in the West as well. (Ai Wei Wei has been censored an his exhibition cancelled in UK and Europe because of his anti-genocide in Gaza stand and holding Israel accountable)
2) In UK you can protest and make alot of noise but your voice is irrelevant (So what good is Freedom of Speech if the government don't listen especially about supporting for Israel's Genocide and Ethnic Cleaning in Gaza)
3) I can't tell who is good or bad anymore (when asked if he believes in Autocracy vs Democracy i.e. China vs US/UK)
4) The US/UK has no business getting involve in Taiwan issue. Let China and Taiwan sort it out themselves. (When asked about Taiwan)

UK Channel 4 TV anchor getting slaps on his face from Ai Wei Wei when he asked leading questions to try to get Ai Wei Wei to say that China is undemocratic, no freedom of speech, coercive, etc.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

🇺🇸 A country that touts “democracy and freedom” bombed eight nations in under a year, kidnapped foreign presidents, seized oil fields, threatened to occupy Greenland and Canada, and tried to rewrite the map of the entire Western Hemisphere.

And inside that same “free world” nation, ICE killed U.S. citizens, including unarmed mothers and ICU nurses, and blinded peaceful student protesters, all under the banner of “rule of law.”

🇨🇺 But Cuba, the country they call a “dictatorship,” survived sixty years of U.S. blockade, faced medicine shortages even during a pandemic, and still sent doctors around the world to save lives.

One system performs human rights as a slogan.
The other practices it as a duty.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

A year ago, Zohran Mamdani was polling at 1%. He took on the entire Democratic establishment and built a grassroots movement of 90,000 New Yorkers.

And, with your hard work, over the next eight days, this young man is going to make American history.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

While the world talks of a Palestinian state, Israel is playing a different game to surround, slice up and claim the occupied West Bank.

Piece by piece, Israel is playing out strategies first perfected in ancient China. For Pinch Point, Al Jazeera's Mohamed Hassan explains ⤵️

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: After the release of an ad that caused Trump's tantrum ending trade talks with Canada, the original video of Ronald Reagan slamming tariffs has resurfaced. He called the new ad "fake."

The original destroys Trump on tariffs.
Share this widely.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is one of the most important speeches given by a US politician in my lifetime. Thank you @ZohranKMamdani for standing up to the bigots, calling out the Islamophobes, and your pride in your faith at a time when Republicans & (some) Democrats have embraced anti-Muslim bigotry.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Look at Jared panic when Witkoff exposes the fact that they've been working on a Master Plan for TWO YEARS!

So, before Gaza was destroyed, while Israel swore it had no interest in occupying Gaza, these Jewish supremacist thieves were plotting the destruction and theft of the land and its resources all along.

these people are pure evil. they are spawns of Satan.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolutely brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

Our friend from Gaza thanks Trump for the ceasefire “in the right way”

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

The beloved Mariam Abu Dagga left behind this will to her son. She was murdered today at Nasser Hospital while doing her journalistic work covering a prior airstrike on the hospital. Heartbroken. (1/4)

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The IDF have now targeted and hunted down 242 Palestinian journalists in Gaza. This compares to 69 journalists killed in World War II and 63 killed in the Vietnam War. Why are Western leaders silent in the face of this appalling slaughter of the last witnesses of Israel's genocide?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

When the Macedonian soldiers of Alexander the Great first broke into Gaza after the siege of 332BCE, they recorded what they saw and left the first eyewitness account of Gaza that survives....

[Dr.Motaz🍉🇵🇸 @MotazSaleh2001]

Pass it, reply with 🇵🇸 spread this picture.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

After being called a "doomsayer" for years, I am grateful to finally see this acknowledged:

"THE PEOPLE WHO WARNED US ABOUT HOW BAD THIS WAS GOING TO BE...THE PEOPLE WHO WERE REALLY HYSTERICAL...LIKE THE DOOMSAYERS. THEY WERE RIGHT."

https://t.co/SwEPQdEYrc

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it."

And then... I lost it.

[𝐌���𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

American Star Richard Gere Reads Palestinian Poem by Mahmoud Darwish in Solidarity.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”

~ Carl Sagan

[Marc Garneau @MarcGarneau]

A friend sent this. It resonated with me.