Israel is holding 3,484 Palestinians hostage, known as "administrative detainees." They have not been told why they were taken. They have not been charged w/anything. Their imprisonment is renewable, indefinitely.
Israel is holding 32X as many hostages as Hamas.
My brother and our cousins, who are Palestinian-American, were pulled off the airplane and held by airport security & police at the Minneapolis, MN (MSP) airport last night on their way home from a wedding and were not allowed to leave after questioning because a White woman (pictured below) on board "felt scared" and told the airline my brother and his friends were suspicious for taking turns using the bathroom and claimed they made a bomb threat directly to her.
My brother and cousins were speaking in Arabic and English and wearing Palestine necklaces. They are all in their early 20s.
In addition, security took several other Arabic speaking & Muslim passengers off the plane for questioning and held them preventing them from leaving as well. They were all racially profiled and treated as suspect.
After about an hour, security and police realized there was no basis to the woman's claims and they she was lying and so they sent everyone home. They refused to give my brother the name of the woman and refused to allow him to file a false police report against the woman.
The police told my brother to just go home and there is nothing to report on, "it's a she said, he said situation".
But this woman put my brother, our cousins and Arabic speaking passengers in danger. Anyone on the plane could've reacted to her allegation and became violent, even pulled out a gun on them or caused panick.
He, our cousins and the other Arabic speaking passengers were treated as suspect because they are Palestinian-American and this is without a doubt the result of mainstream corporate media dehumanization of Palestinian victims in Gaza that are being targeted by incessant Israeli bombs. Since October 7th the media has helped manufacture consent for Israel's genocide in Gaza that has killed over 20,000 Palestinians using US supplied bombs by parroting Israeli talking points that portray all Palestinians as subhuman.
We still don't know this woman's name and would like help identifying her.
@AJNoiter @BitterDan_AJSA @jonstewart Inaccurate. Mandatory means the funds go to a specific purpose. A discretionary spending means that the funds can be used for other purposes. The bill is mandatory spending, meaning it can only be used towards veterans healthcare.
Fuck Mitch McConnell.
Fuck Susan Collins.
Fuck Amy Coney Barrett.
Fuck Brett Kavanaugh.
Fuck Neil Gorsuch.
Fuck Clarence Thomas.
Fuck trump.
And fuck everyone who thinks what a woman does with her own body is THEIR BUSINESS.
“Why are you here?!"
A furious Sen. Chris Murphy demands answers from senators following Texas school shooting.
“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate...if your answer, is as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives—we do nothing?”
@elcooksta @Zanation@DanPriceSeattle A bonus is a bandaid. Not a long term solution. That’s why they can’t get additional help. A $2000 sign-on bonus if you’re being paid $13/hr is basically being paid ~$14.50 (25 hours per week) with no guarantee that you’ll make more the following year.