Artist, Anthropologist/Archaeologist, Adorner of skulls, Inherently flawed mammal trying to figure out the world and have a few adventures along the way
After Israel occupied Gaza & the West Bank in 1967, it deported Palestinian intellectuals, educators & politicians who (peacefully) resisted Israeli domination.
In 1969, Jordan stopped allowing Israel to do this at border crossings.
So Israel started dumping Palestinians in the desert. They sent 800 Palestinians onto a virtual death march from 1969-1973.
Yusuf 'Abdullah 'Udwan was deported this way. Here's his survival testimony:
ICE illegally patrol polling place on election day—with 2 vehicles full of masked agents.
"One of them was outside of their vehicle for at least 30 minutes," said witness.
"You cannot intimidate voters!"
It’s not legal for federal government to have armed officials at voting locations.
Someone inside the vote center called the local park rangers who said they would "deal with it."
The Simi Valley Police Department stated that they were not notified that ICE would be present in the city on Election Day.
Incident occurred at the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District Activity Center in Ventura County, California.
Mast: Israel is killing terrorists who I just listed off all of the attacks that have gone on just since early April…
Tlaib: She wasn't a terrorist. She was returning from home after completing her exams at the Lebanese university in Beirut. The Israeli bomb targeted her family's car, killing her alongside her brother, her father.
Mast: Prove it.
Just like I was talking about yesterday: Screwworm has now been detected in the United States and it’s going to be very difficult and very expensive to contain this. It’s going to hurt farmers & ranchers and also drive up the cost of meat
No one can handle the fact that some mothers do not love their children. I have had therapists lose their cool and get extremely activated when I tell them that my mother does not love me.
Remember when the toddlers from DOGE tried to axe a bunch of staff from NNSA (you know, the org that does stuff like stick nukes on Tomahawks), because they didn’t know what NNSA is and didn’t even bother to google it?
And then DoD/USG had to scramble to rehire the staffers who were cut, and they couldn’t even find some of the old-hands (you know, some of the last folk who were alive when we were still manufacturing nuclear weapons) because they’d never updated their contact information (presumably because “nobody would ever be stupid enough to do work force cuts at the nuclear bomb factory, why would we need to keep our details current???”)?
Josh doesn't even mention the worst part of Fetterman's irresponsibility. Because he won't wear a suit, he's *literally not allowed on the Senate floor*. That's where negotiations happen. He just doesn't go. He sits in the hall and signals thumbs up/down through the doorway.
The Senate is very much built on bargains and personal back-and-forth. Fetterman just sits all of it out. He plops himself on a chair in the hallway, alone, scrolling his phone, until an aide taps his shoulder to tell him it's time to peek his head in and vote.
being gay means going to a male colon specialist & being told “you have a hemorrhoid that is too small to surgically remove” & then going to a woman gastroenterologist who specializes in LGBTQ care for a 2nd opinion & being told “actually no this isn’t a hemorrhoid it’s HPV…”
Scientists have mapped the microbiome of Ötzi, the Chalcolithic "Iceman" whose mummified remains were discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991.
https://t.co/q2EneTjlyT
There is a new organization called “American friends of Judea and Samaria”
They brands themselves as the “AIPAC of Judea and Samaria”. This is the biblical term they use for the occupied West Bank.
They are targetting State governments to replace all state documents with “West Bank” to “Judea and Samaria”.
They are a registered 501C3 nonprofit, but have hosted fundraisers for drone campaigns, and now bulldozers to be used in the West Bank.
The occupied West Bank settlements are illegal by international law and not recognized by the United States, yet this organization is getting their funding efforts tax free.
Imagine if the Palestinian community in the United States began fundraising drones or bulldozers for their families in the West Bank, and how quickly that would be shut down. How they are getting away with this is beyond me.
🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.
He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”
Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.
Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.
That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.
So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…
It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.
The archaeologist who carried out the botched excavation of D'Artagnan's grave has been arrested because it was conducted without a permit. https://t.co/93eOjWle68
Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness
Per NPR, Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff (who orchestrated suspension/attempted deportation of @MomodouTaal) reportedly hit a pro-Palestinian student with a car, then Cornell banned the student from campus for "restrict[ing]" the car's "ability to maneuver."
me in the first half hour: this dude is going a lot of legally dubious stuff to harass retail employees that's kind of fucked.
me on part 2: oh, this dude just uncovered a fucking mormon police conspiracy because they got cocky in their ability to literally steal from people huh
I am a single issue voter anymore. If you support Israel in literally any way shape or form I will not vote for you. I do not care about literally anything else anymore. How can anyone see this and ignore it.