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[labornutz @labornuts]

@marctorrence If there is a request line:

White Man’s World
Last of My Kind

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

When dads lose their beards. 😂

[labornutz @labornuts]

Oligarchy + extreme nationalism = nothing good

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Trump, billionaire
Elon Musk, billionaire
Kelly Loeffler, billionaire
Steve Witkoff, billionaire
Doug Burgum, billionaire
Scott Bessent, billionaire
Jared Isaacman, billionaire
Howard Lutnick, billionaire
Linda McMahon, billionaire
Charles Kushner, billionaire
Warren Stephens, billionaire
Vivek Ramaswamy, billionaire

[Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa]

1/ Developments in Syria going so fast that reports become obsolete moments later.

I've reported from inside Syria since 2011 and I live in the MidEast. So, let me explain in this thread what the implications could be for Syria and wider region in case the Syrian regime falls:

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[labornutz @labornuts]

Must read

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolute must-read by @adam_tooze and probably the most important geopolitics article I've read in The Guardian in years: https://t.co/16cSmGc3Oa

Tooze makes the point, which I think is correct, that Washington likes to portray itself as a victim and merely reacting - often powerlessly - to events such as the war in Ukraine or Israel's destruction of Gaza and now Lebanon.

But what if, Tooze asks, "that interpretation is too benign"? What if this was all essentially gaslighting and the US were in fact in the driver seat? What if we were witnessing "the pivoting of the US to a deliberate and comprehensive revisionism by way of a strategy of tension", as Tooze puts it?

Tooze argues that Biden's foreign policy is a direct continuation of Trump's, which he calls "literally revisionist", as "he had no interest in the existing rules of the game". Biden, he writes, "has been every bit as aggressive as, perhaps more so than, his predecessor." For example, Tooze says that with regards to China Biden acted even far more aggressively that Trump did with his attempts "to stop China's development in tech" and its "strong-arming [of] allies such as the Dutch and the South Koreans" for that purpose. Similarly, Tooze argues, "in what is now called the Indo-Pacific, the US is not merely defending the status quo" but very much revising it.

Same thing with the Middle-East: despite all its propaganda about wanting peace, the basic fact remains that "the US is paying for more than 25% of Israel's rampage as it physically annihilates Gaza, victimises the West Bank and sets about uprooting Hezbollah. It has pulled allies such as Germany and the UK into line. It is shielding Netanyahu against the reach of international justice."

All in all, Tooze writes that "in all three arenas – China, Ukraine and the Middle East – the US will say that it is responding to aggression. But rather than working consistently for a return to the status quo it is, in fact, raising the stakes. While insisting that it supports the rules-based order, what we are witnessing is something closer to a revival of the ruinous neoconservative ambition of the 1990s and 2000s."

This is a point I've long made myself and the key paradox of today's geopolitics: the US largely built the post-WW2 and post-Cold War order but it's obviously come to the conclusion that it doesn't serve it anymore, and therefore has become the world's foremost revisionist power. And they do so whilst attempting to gaslight all of us with the Orwellian assertion that they do so to protect "the rules-based order"...

[Sam Alcoff @samalcoff]

Just watching this and thinking of @USAmbUN reminding us that "[T]he United States is fully, fully, fully supportive of Israel." This child's plight is heartbreaking and we are led by the heartless.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@jonstewart and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss Coates's trip to Palestine and his revelation that "your oppression will not save you" from his book, "The Message"

[Killer Mike @KillerMike]

Proud to have been a listener of these guys since I was a Kid and Kris attended the MLK Day Marches In Atlanta. He was a Real one. RIP 🙏🏾

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Rip - a true great . Brilliant songwriter singer actor activist . Warrior for justice .
If you don’t know about his legacy - find out .
You never had to wonder what side of the line he was on. He was always in the intelligent human soulful space - come hell or high water . A man and artist I deeply respected.
His performance in Pat Garret and Billy the Kid was amazing - and he was such baddass he even had bob dylan act in it with him and do the music

Here one of his songs
during Iraq war

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

"I found a considerable lack of work after doing concerts for Palestinian children.. if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be. If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere."

- Kris Kristofferson

[labornutz @labornuts]

@BernieSanders Dear @BernieSanders - Suspend or withdraw your support for #KamalaHarris until she takes a public position to end sending weapons and supplies to Israel. Supporting genocide, ethnic cleansing, state-sponsored terrorism & assassination should be a deal-breaker for you.

[labornutz @labornuts]

@franifio You left out Harris

[labornutz @labornuts]

The US is a funder, enabler and supporter of state-sponsored terrorism, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The US cannot divorce itself from its own imperial and colonizing past (& present).

Unfortunately to justify the US role, they are weaponizing anti-semitism against critics.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Our country is funding this bloodbath. Sending more of our troops and bombs to the region is not advancing peace. The U.S. government are conspirators to the war criminal Netanyahu's genocidal plan.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The Israeli government has deliberately blocked food, medicine, medical supplies, and fuel from entering Gaza for almost a year now. Using starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime.

Congress must pass the UNRWA Restoration Act to restore humanitarian relief to Gaza.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

George Carlin: "Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists."

[labornutz @labornuts]

@RitchieTorres You need to stop tweeting nonsense. Read Adam Shatz’ analysis in London Review of Books or Ilan Pappe. They cannot be accused of antisemitism but they are anti-Zionist.

[labornutz @labornuts]

Powerful truths

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

Please listen.

The truth this woman speaks can’t be denied.

[Francesca Fiorentini @franifio]

Join the hive. Kick the nest. 💪🏽

[labornutz @labornuts]

@historyrock_ Women and people who are Black and Brown.