MarginalEfforts

leveraging kindness to herd recalcitrant factoids towards the drain of coherence

[hicham toufik @hichamtowfik]

She neeeds all our voices
I stand with franchesca albanis

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

BREAKING NEWS 🆘The daughter of U.S. Republican Senator Jay Block: 🆘

"Israel pays money to my father, and he spreads propaganda.

I am deeply ashamed of this situation. I believe my father has sold his soul to the devil.

I hope his career ends!"

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is an abomination that Apartheid Israel, while continuing its genocide undisturbed, is allowed to patrol European waters, seize boats, kidnap people.

Hostage taking is a crime. Palestinian and @gsflotilla hostages must be released now.

European countries:
BREAK
THE
SIEGE

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!

The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out. They are doubling down on building bridges between Americans & Iranians while depicting the US gov and "system" as the real enemy.

The music, lyrics, and imagery are all designed to appeal to disillusioned Americans.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Humbled to share the cover of my forthcoming book.

A project born of heartbreak, urgency, and the unbearable reality of watching Israel’s genocide against Palestinians unfold in real time.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

In my 25 years of investigating the arms trade & conflict, there is no doubt that the Israeli army is the most depraved, amoral military on the planet.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.

I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.

Out in October with @randomhouse.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

The world is criminally slow in "realizing" the extent of Israel's crimes. There is no justification for this lethargy. That said, Israel is criminal enough in intent and action to leave even an inactive world little choice. Just as Israel cheats and lies unilaterally to the Palestinians but also to Trump, so does the expiration date on those lies come quicker and more powerfully.

In Israel, the self-styled left responds by adopting one of two defensive poses. The first rejects the events of the last three years in favor of Israel's potentially upcoming national election - "let's get the right people in the right seats and all will be well". Advocates of this position are anchored in a fictitious past that was "noble". It was never noble.

The second defensive pose continues to lean on the existential adage of Israeli nationalism: "They (be they whoever they may be) want to destroy us." This, in Israel, is called "realism".

The common denominator is the rejection of the world outside Israel. While the right wants to expand, the left simply wants to be, well, left alone. The "buffer zone" in Lebanon, for example, assures exactly that. "Our enemies are crazy! We can't come to an agreement with crazy people! We need to keep them at arm's length. And anyway, there is no comparison. We are a part of the world and they are terrorists."

Notice the contradiction? We scorn the world for hating us and simplifying our "complex" existence. We constantly assume the world is being brainwashed. Still, we desperately want to belong, to be acknowledged, to be embraced. The dissonance, the schism, is our defining foundation. We burn the bridges connecting us with our fondest admirers to ensure the existence of the schism.

This pathology is, indeed, pathological. We started out as "Children afraid of the night/ Who have never been happy or good". We are now feral adults who revel in our "realism" on the one hand and in our "truth" on the other, hooked on the paradox at the cost of endless lives. We destroy to live. Israel has invested plenty of time and resources in the hopes of assuring our impunity when our pathology is at its most virulent. This is a fiction now.

[Joey Carbstrong @JoeyCarbstrong]

Mentally exhausted, but can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel…

[Jessica Tighe @jessicatighe]

Happening Now: Animal rights activists are inside the state capitol demanding the dogs at Ridglan Farms in Dane County, Wisconsin be freed.

Some are also showing the injuries they received over the weekend at the attempted break-in.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This image was posted by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon. Israeli soldiers have been posting imagines of their war crimes and cultural desecration for two and a half years straight without interruption.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

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[MarginalEfforts @marginalefforts]

Trump's Iran war is destroying more oil and gas infrastructure and fossil-fuel demand than even the most extreme environmentalists could ever imagine, @markgongloff says https://t.co/4dS1emMDuf

[MarginalEfforts @marginalefforts]

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians! @DropTheADL_Schools Write one here: https://t.co/IT5FhytYQc @LAPublicLibrary

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The last 2yrs of Palestine have torn the veil of Maya, exposing the post–Cold War reality: a terrain reengineered by securitisation and by the “Israelisation/Palestinianisation” of how states relate to their people. That's why Palestine resonates as a call for freedom everywhere.

[©anines tho™ @ShortnBluntTho]

We’re told pork is produced to “high welfare standards” RSPCA Assured, Red Tractor, all the labels.

But the reality for most pigs looks like this, indoor, industrial farms where animals spend their short lives on hard floors in barren pens.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The Max Planck Institute in Germany estimates that Israel has killed more than 100,000 Palestinians since October 7.

Almost double what the Gaza Health Ministry has reported as confirmed deaths.

What will the West do when the ICJ finds Israel guilty of genocide?

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

That’s my city. Where every single one of my ancestors is buried. Where I lived until these degenerate foreigners kicked me out.
Look how insecure and hateful they are. They can’t even bear to see Palestinians hold a children’s performance.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

As @Airbnb & @bookingcom get sued everywhere for listing properties on stolen Palestinian land (see 👇), it’s time that WE THE PEOPLE stop using their services until they continue profiting from Apartheid.

Choose not to support to "Apartheid with one click" and let them know.