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[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

4,348 people have been killed by the IDF in Lebanon since March of this year, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health.

[Lex always recently broken up with 💯🍉 @StillNotLex]

People weirdly treat Rowling like she’s just made vaguely transphobic comments in the past when in reality she’s used her wealth for the purposes of harming the rights of trans people and has been successful to the point of actively gloating about it.

[Jackie Seidel, PhD @JackieSeidel1]

This feels terrible and dangerous. I have called 911 for myself and for serious incidents on behalf of others. When you call 911, you are almost always in a panic with massive adrenaline and you NEED a human voice on the other end to give you instructions and care.

[Boxy @ClassicBoxy]

I was a 911 dispatcher for 11 years and this is the worst idea you could possibly think of. You have scenarios where the person can’t speak well either language barriers, injuries or if they’re in a domestic situation and they pretend to call for pizza or something you need a person. You have to be able to determine how someone feels or pick up on what they aren’t saying or how they’re saying things. Same goes for open lines and hang ups. A real person needs to answer the phone not only to ensure the correct response is sent to the right place but to offer piece of mind to the caller and makes them feel safer. Situations where I had to give CPR instructions to a mother and father who’s baby wasn’t breathing was a constant occurrence and you have to be able to calm people down, an AI is not doing that ever. Same goes for dispatching calls, AI cannot do that, in theory it sounds ok for that portion but you have to acknowledge what resources are on hand, where people are, GPS isn’t always accurate so when we started using systems to automatically reroute units who were flagged as “closer” they usually weren’t. But a real person who lives in that county and knows the area, where the stations are, who’s in a move up or coverage or areas that are blocked off due to events that aren’t always in our mapping systems. The list goes on.

Terrible idea

[susan abulhawa | س��زان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

the largest mass funeral in recorded history, and not a peep from mainstream western media.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

The children of Gaza, in coffins.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The biggest mass funeral in Gaza was held this week for 112 people (including 44 children) that were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in 2023.

Their bodies were only recently recovered from the rubble in an operation that spanned across two weeks.

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

@sama What if you just talked to your children

[LosingOrbit🪐 @JRaina74205]

All the lesbians in the quotes confused as to why this applies to them as if all of pride month wasn't nothing but discourse after discourse about bisexual women and how "i could never date a woman who likes dick, she's too man centered." And it wasn't a few of you either.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

AI companies are reportedly buying up antique books in bulk, scanning them for AI training data, then destroying the physical copies.

[Nisa ♀ @nisafeminista]

She was killed by him right after she made this video exposing him for being a pedophile.

And THIS is why women it takes years for women to come forward. She refused to stay silent, and it cost her her life.

[lars has igcse season!!! @larsune]

BRO😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

This is actually called child trafficking

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🇵🇸🇪🇸🇦🇷Palestinians in Gaza held a Spain vs. Argentina match with players whose legs were amputated by Israel during the war.

[kaitlyn🛸 @fearlesskait]

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it”❤️‍🩹

[Tara | تارا 🇮🇷🇨🇦 @witchyklutz]

Hey guys

My province, Ontario, is currently on fire. The wildfires are mostly around the Northwestern areas, where many indigenous communities, such as the Namaygoosisagagun First Nations, having their homes burnt to a crisp. The entire province is covered in smoke -

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

ICE has shot and killed yet another man, this time a 26-year-old Colombian in Maine who was not the target of their investigation.

This comes after they killed a Mexican man, who was also not the target of their operation, in Houston last week.

(https://t.co/XYE6xZFRUj)