markames1969 🇵🇸

[Fair-Is-Fair @MHarrisonW]

Merging the US Armed Force with Israel's will (1) allow every Israeli soldier entry into the US at any time, (2) set them up for dual citizenship, and (3) make them eligible for GI benefits, pensions, low cost loans, etc., all provided by the US taxpayers. This is the most un-American bill possible!

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@jacobin Aging myself here, but I actually remember when you guys occasionally published articles that didn't suck ass.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

Whatever Platner did or did not do to this woman, she deserves much worse.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@lyndseyfifield As always, I wish for you and your children what you wish for the children of Gaza.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@emilymiller GET A JOB

[Ellen R. Wald Ph.D.🛢 @EnergzdEconomy]

It's time to start considering what markets look like if the Strait of Hormuz doesn't reopen for shipping in 2026-
crude oil, products, fertilizers, petrochemicals, LNG, LPG, etc
I've never put much stock in models for price prediction, but its time to game out this situation

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Very young cashier at my local market looked up at my t-shirt while scanning my groceries and quietly said “river to the sea, man…”

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

To be clear, we all hate Israel now and say so.

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

When an American says "I don't hate Israel, I just don't want my tax dollars being sent there," they hate Israel.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

The client regime in Lebanon is not at war with Israel. How can they agree to cease fire? Absurd kayfabe.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@esaagar One superpower starts a pointless, murderous war, causing an energy shock. Another superpower acts strategically to mitigate the global impact of that shock. With which superpower would you align?

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@sunmaster14 @gbrew24 Which Arab states are at war with Israel?

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@prieurdp Why do people reverse out of parking spaces?

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@RogueKite When he files papers, sure. Until then he's just another asshole who's paid to have opinions.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@garfeilt Fatties, fatsos, and big fuckin chonkers are all human beings — even the Palestinian ones.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

@YahooFinance How is $780 billion a bearish valuation? It's an unprofitable company that loses money every year.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

If you haven’t gotten a keffiyeh yet, please consider doing so if you feel comfortable with it. Humanizing Palestinians is a crime to Zionists. Start there. A very powerful start.

[markames1969 🇵🇸 @markames1969]

Love how alll this account does now is harrass and doxx workers doing the most menial jobs for the slightest expression of Palestinian identity or solidarity.
DO BETTER, GOYSLAVES

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Boston, MA Staples (Store 757 Gallivan Blvd): after a customer raised concerns about his necklace, this employee doubled down, saying he would wear it every day.

The necklace erases Israel entirely, replacing it with "Palestine."

Why is a Staples employee turning customer interactions into a platform for anti-Israel political activism?

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Let's decode what actually happened here.

Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."

The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.

This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.

Now watch the response.

Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.

But here is the part that matters.

Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?

Because it serves both.

Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.

Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.

And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.

Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."

The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.

And the war continues exactly as planned.

This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.

Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.

Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.

The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.

Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.

Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.