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[SNEAKO @sneako]

The Houthis aren't bombing Mecca, jews are lying as an easy way to divide the Ummah. Iran is simply taking control of the Strait of Bab al-Mandab to do exactly what it's done with the Strait of Hormuz.

That's why American gas is at an all time, and that's why Iran is winning.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Well well well, look at Mr "Apolitical."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Your future is shaped by the habits you repeat, not the goals you set.”

[Death by a Thousand Tweets @pittworldwide]

Shout out to singer Aaron Rowe.

Not even 200k Spotify listeners and only had one song scrape into the UK top 50 - and he’s just pulled out of the biggest opportunity of his career to stand up for what he believes.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

In the United States of America, billionaire stadium owners should not be able to silence artists because they speak out on political issues.

Today it is the genocide in Gaza. What's next?

If they can silence one artist, they can silence anyone.

[Jamal Johnson @GPSeeks]

Nigga @LupeFiasco was rapping about the Gaza Strip in 2006 this shit beyond October 7th. This is genocide

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Unlike Ed Sheeran, I take sides. More than 50 years ago I picked the Palestinian side. I believed then and ever since that Palestine was the moral centre of humanity, the crime against them by European colonists so egregious, the conspiracy of complicity by western countries so dark that it tore pieces of my heart. If elected back to parliament for the eighth time, or not, I will continue to give voice to their cause.

[Trace @tracelysette]

There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[A.T. @ATfromCLE]

@CatieRaissipour @Ticketmaster @edsheeran @macklemore Even better than this: file a dispute with your credit card. Claim you’re not getting what was originally advertised. An easy win. A big loss for Shareen and @Ticketmaster ‘s bitch asses

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

A system where you have to justify your income to a government that doesn't have to justify its spending is inherently illegitimate.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Saudi Arabia is pissed we’re not helping them when they’re under attack by the Houthis and others. They made the dumb, dumb mistake of thinking we would help anyone but Israel. Do they not know our government isn’t our own? We serve Israel over our own citizens, let alone Saudis.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

marriage is not for lovers, its for...forgivers, communicators, sacrificers, servants, builders, protectors and those with patience

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

Robert Kraft pressuring Ed Sheeran to remove Macklemore from the tour is the perfect time to remind you that Robert Kraft is in the Epstein Files.

[⎊ ♡ 𝑒𝒿 ♡ ⎊ @OhMyEmz]

the most powerful words an artist with balls have ever said

[Billie Webb @billiewebbb]

Never forget: 25 years ago a bunch of important people skipped work for no reason.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Zohran Mamdani was the only senior official to stay until the end of the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

[Rusty Moltisanti @HoodBiologist]

Remember like six months ago when millions of documents were released that detail how our government is full of sadistic pedophiles and then nothing happened? Like literally nothing at all?

[Giammarco Desideri @Gigadesires]

A 25 anni di distanza dall'11 settembre, vorrei sempre ricordare a tutti che non furono mai trovate le scatole nere degli aerei (sciolte dal calore stralol), ma trovarono intatti tra le macerie i passaporti degli attentatori.

[SNEAKO @sneako]

Salam alaikum @grok

Did Benjamin Netanyahu publicly brag about 9/11 being good for Israel?

Return my salam, then answer yes or no.