GrannyPluck

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#Atheist #BlackLivesMatter #CeasefireInGazaNOW #BanAIPAC

[GrannyPluck @GrannyPluck]

@LucasSa56947288 To all who say they'll vote for ANY Dem (or a rock!):

☆ H. Clinton's gross sense of entitlement gave us Trump 1.0

☆ Biden's senility & selfish arrogance gave us Trump 2.0

Stop being an effin "Vote Blue no matter Who" IDIOT & educate yourself! Otherwise you're simply MAGA

[Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress @saikatc]

Very few Dems talk about AI because they're worried talking about real regulations will invite a huge super PAC opposing them.

And they're right. I've talked about controlling AI for a year, and now there's an AI-backed super PAC willing to spend whatever it takes against me.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Aadshit al-Qusayr, South Lebanon right now — during a ceasefire.

Civilian homes.

No justification.

Just deliberate terror and destruction to ensure civilians have nothing left to return to.

A war crime in broad daylight.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The Justice Department is bringing back the use of firing squads and lethal injections of pentobarbital as it seeks to expedite and expand the federal death penalty. “It epitomizes trying to solve social problems — all social problems — by designating an enemy and killing the enemy,” says activist @helenprejean.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Ashley St. Clair: “All of MAGA is paid and their coordinate their messaging in lockstep via group chat… and whaddya know— their first thought is Trump needs his ballroom.”

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Israeli troops are currently kidnapping dozens of Palestinian people including teenagers, blindfolded, in Al-Ram town, in north Jerusalem

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Gavin Newsom has said now his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk and Clavicular.

Should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEWS: The Supreme Court case is this week considering a Trump-backed case designed to block cancer victims' lawsuits against pesticide corporations.

Nature just published a study suggesting pesticide exposure may be linked to accelerating rates of cancer in young people.

[JoAnne @ByTheSeaJersey]

@Forbes

[GrannyPluck @GrannyPluck]

@Forbes It's not intended as a ballroom. Clearly Trump is looking for a way to stay in W.H. & not end up in prison where he (as felon, rapist, lifelong criminal) actually belongs

[GrannyPluck @GrannyPluck]

@hasanthehun Is Trump trying to build a ballroom or a bunker, so he can try to stay in WH forever?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has violated the so-called Gaza “ceasefire” more than 2,400 times in the more than six months since the agreement was reached.

Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami gives an overview of the deteriorating situation.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Imagine what we could accomplish in this country, imagine the new businesses we would build, if we didn't have to worry about health insurance. Imagine how much less anxiety and suffering.

Medicare for All is an economic obligation, and a moral one.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. Expert journalist Courtney Bonneau completely dismantles Donald Trump's fake narrative. While Trump claims to free Lebanon, she confirms Israeli army is systematically murdering civilians & journalists using American tax dollars. Tax money is financing crimes.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, was arrested after confronting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Gaza during a hearing on Capitol Hill: “Congress sent the bombs that kill children in Gaza and paid for them with cuts to Medicaid,” he shouted before his arrest.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“When my Jewish grandmother told me about the Holocaust, she told me never again.”

A Jewish student interrupted an Israeli soldier’s speech at Rutgers University in the US and condemned Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.

The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.

Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.

On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."

That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.

The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.

The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.

Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.

Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"

Now there's no board to answer to.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"

That's the actual question.

Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.

RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Why is our President obsessed with Iran and the Middle East?

I am Team America.

I want to focus on investing in good jobs here, healthcare here, childcare here.

[Betty T. Yee @BettyYeeforCA]

This AANHPI gubernatorial forum was more than about meeting voters where they are. It is about the next Governor understanding the complexity of the diverse AANHPI community and the sustained challenges to access and opportunity. #cagov

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

https://t.co/KvwjbIsMDX

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Chuck Schumer : "Of course we say it's our land, the Torah says it. But [the Palestinians] don't believe in the Torah. So, that's the reason there is not peace."

The fact that this monstrous genocidal maniac is the minority leader in the senate is a disgrace and an embarrassment