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[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

It is curious what are red lines and what's allowed to be overlooked. In addition to repeatedly lying to sell the Gaza genocide and disciplining members who called for a ceasefire, Jeffries attended an IDF pep rally on Nov 14, 2023 AFTER the IDF had killed over 4,500 children.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Scary times. Everyone should be concerned about the precedent this sets.

Florida under DeSantis designated the Muslim civil rights group CAIR a terrorist group, forcing it close its local office.

https://t.co/Kd5oJbAdNm

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Worth noting MSNOW has never asked a single politician what their plan was to protect Muslims or to promote “Muslim safety”. I studied the past three years from ten major media outlets and found Jewish safety was mentioned 4,200% more than Muslim/Arab safety, at 254-to-6

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

I love that in the American psyche the worst thing that could happen is to learn another language

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

If now isn't the time to push left on Palestine, there will never be a time for it. Statements like this should be the tepid baseline going forward. Demand more from your politicians, in words AND action AND policy. Politicians aren't our friends. Demand more. Expect more.

[Danny Valdes @dvaldesnyc]

Democrats need to end immediately Trump's oil blockade of Cuba. It's an act of war, and Cubans are dying every day because of it.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

The Iran War is producing regime change after all.

[M @m_manicastri]

Blue wave means arms embargo pressure campaigns have to rev up immediately. No complacency on Palestine.

[derek davison @dwdavison]

COUNTERPOINT: no there isn’t

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Trump cutting $4 billion to Israel? That's because he plans (via section 219 of the NDAA) to further deepen US-Israeli military/intelligence ties, giving Israeli companies WAY MORE than the $4 billion he says he's cutting. We must defeat section 219!

[Cheyenne Hunt @CheyenneHuntCA]

I’d really like to see mainstream media interview Arab-American Michiganders and give them the opportunity to describe what it’s been like to hear constant Islamophobic rhetoric in this race from both friends and foes. The lack of coverage on this feels intentional.

[Rob Levine @roblevine82]

A million dollars a year of listener contributions to @MPRnews go to the Republican billionaire political family that owns the @StarTribune. First, MPR pays the daughter of the owner of the Strib $800k a year to run MPR. Then she turns around and gives $200k a year to her dad

[Rob Levine @roblevine82]

In Minnesota a TV station broke a blockbuster scandal story three days ago - it involved more than $420 MILLION - as much as the one social service scandal that Minnesota & national media have fixated and lied about for months. The 2 biggest newsrooms in the state are ignoring it

[Alex Colston @re_colston]

NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.

More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.

In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.

The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.

In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.

The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”

I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.

[Uptown’s Imperial Core🇵🇸 @sam_americaland]

Minnesota DFLers love decency politics when directed at POCs but the moment a Nazi is in Minneapolis they think the “decent” thing to do is keep their mouth shut and not rock the boat.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You see how this framing erases Israel’s occupation and justifies its actions?

Calling collective punishment a “crackdown” sanitizes it. They’re not maintaining law and order, they’re enforcing a military occupation.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Nakbas on repeat

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

prediction markets as the latest form of political propaganda intended to shape public opinion & create a false sense of inevitability
https://t.co/lvnzpg3amg

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

West Bank just got locked down, four days before Israeli elections. Hundreds of checkpoints and gates are now shut. Almost 3.5 million Palestinians are stranded right now. This is collective punishment of an entire population under military occupation.

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

As expected, Israel kills Palestinians every day for months on end and nobody bats an eye; Palestinians finally respond, attacking Israeli soldiers at an Israeli military checkpoint on occupied Palestinian land, and its front page news and Israel makes the entire West Bank pay.