@peterdaou It’s devastating to watch him. It makes me want to call CPS. It’s elder abuse for the DNC to force him to go through this. He shouldn’t be running.
Saturday morning I awoke to a text from a friend: “War in Israel.”
More texts…TV…checking websites…talking to experts…checking in with friends, as layers of horror unfolded before our eyes. By the end of the day the full extent of the catastrophe was clearer. There will indeed now be a long and difficult and evil war.
Innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the actions of the Israeli government are, even as I write this, either being tortured or killed or are dead already. Children have been taken hostage. A nation is terrorized. Israeli Military Intelligence, who everyone thought had such vast operational superiority that no one would ever dare do what Hamas has now done, has spectacularly and tragically failed at its job.
And yes, I know. These events did not occur in a vacuum. I could write about - and indeed I have, and at length - the myriad injustices Palestinians have endured at the hands of Israel. Pretty much anything anyone could say about that…I get it, I know.
But not today.
Today I simply want to grieve. I don’t want to argue. I don’t want to take a position or argue policy. I just want to grieve. I grieve for the Israeli children and Palestinian children and Israeli parents and Palestinian parents. I grieve for the world that we could not do better than this. I grieve the fact that any sliver of hope for peace in that region is probably set back for decades, possibly even longer now.
I will have much to say in the coming days about what is happening in Israel and how I feel the United States should respond. For now, I stand with Israel. And I stand with the Palestinian people.
I do not stand with Hamas, nor will I ever. For their cause is not justice. Their cause is terror.
May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - the God to whom Jews and Muslims and Christians all pray - please help us in this agonizing hour.
There’s an official unwillingness to look at the severity of the Long Covid phenomenon, but it’s here and it’s real.
While this is something that would be taken care of by Medicare4All, at the very least there should be all medical services necessary made available to anyone dealing with Long Covid - as well as biomedical research into treating it.
Long Covid sufferers should not be invisible to us - or to our government.
Often, people who oppose Marianne Williamson are hostile & arrogant. Their chatter provides no opening, their opinions immovable. And I watch as she rises above it w/poise & an open heart. She is inherently Presidential.
I miss that little blue bird. It was a symbol we all shared, childlike and kind of charming.
An homage to something natural replaced by a soulless X. What a perfect symbol for the larger problem of our times.
JOE BIDEN'S SEXUAL MISCONDUCT - THE FACTS
This is for trolls, bots, and misinformed liberals who attack anyone stating the truth:
🔴Joe Biden faces more than a half dozen accusations of sexual misconduct and/or inappropriate touching. Not one. Not two. Not three. At least eight. https://t.co/Jfs3cfDilJ
🔴In 2020, Kamala Harris was asked about the women making allegations against Biden. Her response: “I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.” https://t.co/NVkSA9RFCL
🔴Biden was called a "groper" by The Daily Show because of his obsessive habit of sniffing hair, grabbing, touching, and invading the personal space of (clearly uncomfortable) women and girls. https://t.co/vhWyNxHYgE
🔴Donald Trump's self-admitted record of groping women, the many accusations against him, and the finding that he raped E. Jean Carroll, do NOT mitigate Biden's behavior. The US presidency is not a competition for the lesser of two abusers.
I wrote this piece in 2022. It contains the full details.
https://t.co/egcEO68QqO
@TheSWPrincess@RobertKennedyJr To be fair, the DNC has flat out said they are not holding democratic primary debates. They’ve basically said it’s Biden. Period.
America’s medical debt is $88B, while the top five pharmaceutical companies brought in $80B in profit last year alone.
The institutionalized greed of insurance and pharmaceutical companies is an economic plague on this country.
We need single-payer universal healthcare, and nothing less.
#MedicareForAll
This is not the time to ramp up fossil fuel extraction - as both Trump and Biden do. It’s time to ramp it down.
We need to end the era of fossil fuels. We need to begin again. And we need a president who says so.
Repair the earth. Invest massively in clean energy. Save the world for our children’s children.
I don’t understand why the left won’t support Marianne Williamson. She is basically just Bernie without the CV, which I realize is a concern but surely, surely she’s better than Biden.
Democratic presidential candidate @marwilliamson wants a new economic Bill of Rights:
-Universal healthcare
-Tuition free college
-Childcare
-Paid family leave
-Guaranteed housing, sick pay & living wage
Full @TheIssueIsShow interview: https://t.co/32fPCBZ5ON