OffTheKuff #Vaccinated

United States Army 1967-1968

[ProPublica @propublica]

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
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[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I was hungry, but then I ate. Therefore I was never actually hungry. Israeli PM logic at work.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

We've seen both parties and corporate media unite to spread obvious lies many times before, but the endlessly repeated claim that Hasan Piker threatened violence against Jews or said Jews deserve violence is such a brazen lie that it still is amazing to watch them all ratify it:

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Office of Special Counsel has yet to resolve six of CREW's complaints against top Trump officials who appear to have violated the Hatch Act.

If the most politically powerful officials can skirt the law, what does that say about our government?

https://t.co/sDOLxwIr2U

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

If you see a candidate backing Israel, that means they aren't going to do anything about affordability. Supporting the Israeli lobby is perfect proxy for whether a politician will sell out their voters for their donors. Those politicians are obsessed with pleasing their donors.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Terrorism is deeply embedded in Israeli culture.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

So….can I say that he said this or is that antisemitism?

[ProPublica @propublica]

Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said.

They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.
https://t.co/MxuZSF7qsS

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Amid the Trump admin's efforts to restructure federal government, the Interior Department just reassigned about 30 of its senior staff to teams largely outside their area of expertise.

One of the staff members described the reassignment as "punitive."

https://t.co/4TNcH9GOKV

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hasan Piker has now been condemned by dozens of Democratic senators and members of Congress, which must mean that his comments were so horrifying they would shock anyone with a conscience.

According to these fairly scripted denunciations, Piker said that American Jews “deserve” or “bear responsibility” for rising antisemitism. Here’s how Sen. Cory Booker put it: “Suggesting that Jewish Americans bear responsibility for hatred or violence directed against them is wrong, dangerous, and antisemitic.”

Rep. Jimmy Panetta edited it slightly, saying: “The suggestion that Jewish Americans who publicly support Israel bear responsibility for violence against the broader Jewish community is wrong, reckless, and antisemitic.”

So if Hasan Piker’s remarks were severe enough to warrant this extensive round of condemnation, it should be easy to pick them out. See if you can find his below. (The answer is in the reply.)

“You can’t have the kind of policies the government of Israel is engaged in and not expect that there’s gonna be pushback and backlash. The people that say that people that disagree with the policies of the government of Israel are antisemites are frankly full of shit and they need to be told that.” 1

“Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don’t do the antisemites’ work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.” 2

“Look, the anti-Zionist Jews in my community, you have a very tough job ahead of you, where you have to go back to your communities and try to get your elderly relatives to understand that this connection between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these Jewish institutions . . . is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic. And this is a dangerous…mode of propaganda…If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action. Not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews…I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. I don’t know how people don’t recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews.” 3

“A lot of the actions by [Netanyahu and his] government are making Jews in the United States unsafe.” 4

“Benjamin Netanyahu has made us less safe. He has frankly put Jews in an uncomfortable position across the country.” 5

It is an “obvious fact that Netanyahu is making Jews in America and the world less safe.” 6

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

CNN has many "journalists" who, in fact, are loyalists of Israel, and brazenly exploit their platform -- which they pretend is "neutral" -- in service to this foreign country.

Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Van Jones and Scott Jennings are examples, but she's one of the most glaring:

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

three successive headlines tell you a lot about the current leaders of the Democratic Party

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

Whoa.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

Every contract given out by the Trump regime has money coming back to Trump in some form. It’s so fucking disgusting and there are MAGATs who are like “impeach Trump for what?” Spin the wheel of crimes.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

ICE isn’t going after the “worst of the worst” –– they are kidnapping people with pending immigration cases and no criminal history from the airport.

Cruelty for the sake of cruelty. https://t.co/oUf4aB9evd

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Refunds for Trump's tariffs:

Walmart: $2.9 BILLION
Apple: $2.2 BILLION
Ford: $1.3 BILLION
Target: $994 MILLION
Home Depot: $730 MILLION
Amazon: $600 MILLION

And you? $0

Mega-corporations got refunds. Working people got higher prices.

End the scam.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

This is part of why the United States wants to destroy the International Criminal Court.

The United States itself is committing war crime after war crime. And their own leaders told them about it beforehand.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow, Republicans in Florida were allegedly stealing money for Child healthcare and using it for their own political activities.

This should ruin Ron DeSantis, Byron Donalds and others.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Rebookings of immigrants into local jails, which typically happen in secret, are an effort to circumvent federal rules, according to eight legal experts. https://t.co/0Pl8zhoqnI

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Mike Johnson really has them working hard for you, America.