graeme lawler

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

🚨 After trying to close 140 polling places last month, Republicans in Tarrant county are now pushing a plan to close 92 polling places 🚨

This is not a compromise. Closing one-third of polling places compared to 2022– despite the county growing– is voter suppression.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

"Last night, they attacked Kharg Island and Abu Musa Island using HIMARS, a short-range rocket system.

They are clearly using our neighbors' territory to attack us, which is completely unacceptable.

Our forces detected the attacks, and it is now clear they were launched from the UAE — from two locations: Ras Al Khaimah and an area very close to Dubai.

It is extremely dangerous to use densely populated areas to launch missiles at us."

[World Affairs @World_Affairs11]

BREAKING:

India, Russia, Pakistan, China , North Korea increase trade with Iran, calling the US sanctions meaningless.

Iran has formed its cordial relations with powerful countries.

It has also made a strait of Hormuz as its nuclear weapon against the US.

[Deb L is Blue!! @ALANFAN44]

HE DID

[Jeanette-End the Zionist Genocide @WSWS_Udates @JaniceB72627796]

Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Aust https://t.co/yfkjAvlAfO @KateEmersonBri
The answer, Flanagan said, was to “silence every voice that seeks to bear witness to the truth… the orgy of evil that Israel has visited on the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere over the past 3 years.”
Flanagan is completely opposed to Israel & its Genocide in Gaza.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HEGSETH FREAKS OUT! Pentagon Pete calls yesterday’s WaPo bombshell a “CRIME” after it exposed top commanders warning him that Trump’s Iran war is stretching America’s military dangerously thin!

Trump’s Secretary of War Crimes has found his latest enemy: the Washington Post reporters who told Americans the truth about what his own commanders are warning him about.

The paper revealed yesterday that four senior commanders formally objected to keeping critical forces tied down in the Middle East, warning that the prolonged deployment is hurting readiness for threats elsewhere.

Today, the Pentagon went ballistic to such an extent it’s practically comedy.

Chief DoD spokesman Sean Parnell accused the Post of publishing “stolen, classified information,” called the scoop “a crime” and even declared that publishing it was “a betrayal of the force."

There’s just one problem: Parnell’s furious response didn’t do anything to refute the accuracy of the reporting on the commanders’ objections to Pete’s war plan.

Instead, he acknowledged that disagreements occur inside the military all the time, while claiming “much” of the Post’s reporting was inaccurate. [Like what? -Ed.]
The Post’s Dan Lamothe (photo, right) needed just eight words to swat that away: “Fact check: Independent journalism is not a crime.”

Hegseth can rage at the press for doing their jobs all he wants. The far more troubling story is why some of America’s top military commanders felt compelled to formally warn him in the first place.

He should freak out about THAT

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Australian actor Guy Pearce:

"Never in my life have I felt disgust toward any people the way I have toward Israelis.

I witness their indifference and contempt for Palestinian lives firsthand every day."

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Turkish FM Hakan Fidan says the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has become an enemy of humanity after the genocide in Gaza, while calling for urgent international action to halt his policies.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/RZ81x6ltIf

[Ray Wilton now on Bluesky as Raymond Wilton💧 @raywilton4]

No doubt the social cohesion mossad minns, segal & Albo were hoping to achieve. A great way to shut down protesters who can’t & wont ever be able to live with the complicity of mass murder & zionists lording around the government to silence dissent. https://t.co/cfru2w26Uv

[Anna_From_Ukraine_Official @AnnaFromUA_YT]

🚨📉 More and more of Russia’s top economists are openly warning that Putin’s full war economy is pushing the country toward deeper financial trouble.
Now they’ve been joined by former Finance Minister Mikhail Zadornov, who was in government during Russia’s 1998 default. Alongside figures from the Central Bank, Sberbank, VTB and other major institutions, the warning is becoming harder to ignore: the Kremlin cannot afford this war forever.
The more Russians fear for their savings, the greater the pressure on the banking system — and the greater the temptation for the state to tighten control over private money.
Putin wanted to finance the destruction of Ukraine. Instead, he is accelerating the destruction of Russia’s own economy. 🇺🇦🔥

#StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsCollapsing #MakeRussiaSmallAgain #RussiaEconomy

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

I go to bed tonight knowing, there was at least one man, one American hero, who showed us the courage, that this bullshit needs to stop. My hero is about to be charged for crimes that’ll put him behind bars for 10 year and he knew it. That is American courage! 💙🇺🇸

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

⛔️Breaking news ‼️ 163 children were rescued from human traffickers in Florida and the media has not said one word‼️Why‼️

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

At some point those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Republicans attacking us over false claims of voter fraud. Instead we need to take steps to protect and expand voting rights and let Trump call us names.

[𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙻𝙰 @LailaPalestini1]

Arrest him