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[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

AIPAC and other billionaire-funded super PACs have already spent nearly $50 million to defeat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate primary.

We cannot allow oligarchs to buy our elections. One person, one vote.

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A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

“Germany is doing the Viktor Orban” in Brussels by blocking sanctions on Israeli ministers says expert Daniel Gerlach, citing someone on the ground

[This guy is the limit @FDinkelaker]

@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion What are the possible explanations for a gun shot wound to the head, other than someone pointed the gun at that head and pulled the trigger?

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Here is your mass grave

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion https://t.co/3VJ3CBpGEu

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Israel has attacked hospitals, totally destroyed hospitals, kidnapped and tortured doctors from hospitals, sniped doctors in hospitals, etc, all of which is illegal under any law and common sense, even as doctors, including international doctors, have said there was no Hamas.

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion The idea that Hamas uses hospitals for attacks is bullshit. It's not technically true that no evidence of this has been presented, but that's only because even extremely bad or fraudulent evidence is technically still evidence.

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion A single gunshot wound to the head is itself evidence of intent, since that can't happen without someone aiming a gun at that head and pulling the trigger. https://t.co/KSN71Jr89G

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Even if Egypt was holding the border closed for sinister reasons, the least charitable interpretation of this would be that they are complicit in Israel's genocide, not anything else.

[This guy is the limit @FDinkelaker]

@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Countries like Egypt know that accepting Palestinians can lead to internal conflict, as well as getting bombed by Israel, as happened to Lebanon. I also assume that they don't want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing, as they would be.

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Right. They just kill the people, Gazans bury them. How is that an argument?

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Do you think that shooting children in the face with sniper rifles is carefully threading that line?

[This guy is the limit @FDinkelaker]

@MBMediaHQ @KyleKulinski There are people who dedicate their lives to saving cancer patients or foreign aid and stuff. For the life of me, I can't understand why one would idolize a guy whose only ambition has been to do well for himself. And he didn't even succeed if happiness is the standard.

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion Sure, but if it does, then it is, right? You don't kill 20,000 children by accident, that would be one hell of an accident.

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@AndrewARosen @bartov_omer @nytopinion There are two ways to establish intent: you can look at what people say (every Israeli official has said something genocidal), or you can look at what they do. If someone is acting as if their goal is mass death, it's fair to infer that intent.

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@WiRoPaPe1208BC @bartov_omer @nytopinion By that standard, Israel has comitted genocide in Lebanon, in addition to Gaza, correct?

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@Zosimos1 @derspiegel @BfV_Bund ? Wie soll da ein Argument draus werden?