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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

It’s a beautiful thing to see ALL of @edsheeran’s opening acts — @finneas, @LukasGraham, and Aaron Rowe — as well as Sheeran's own backing band, Beoga, dropping out of his tour because of his capitulation to the Zionist billionaires.

This international public shaming for Sheeran’s lack of courage and siding with wealthy promoters against Palestinian solidarity could not be more deserved, especially for someone who owns $400 million.

It’s a victory for the antiwar movement that Sheeran’s tour is actually at risk of closing down because working and young people expect at least a modicum of courage from him in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

This is the type of public shaming that is urgently needed against the DSA electeds in the Democratic Party who purport to be pro-Palestinian but instead are giving cover to the the pro-genocide agenda of their party and Zionist leaders like Hakeem Jeffries.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

As @macklemore’s example shows, ACTUALLY opposing the Israeli occupation means NOT putting personal careers ahead of the fight. Why? The apartheid Israeli state and its genocidal policies exist at the behest of the billionaires and multimillionaires who want to maintain control over the Middle East and their political representatives. Which means that Palestinian solidarity REQUIRES pissing off extremely powerful and wealthy individuals.

Macklemore has shown that he's willing to do that. As have @KNEECAPCEOL and @BobbyVylan. As have the Filton 4 and countless working and young people across the world, including tech workers.

Ed Sheeran, who has about $400 million in wealth, has decided to put his own money and career ahead of the need for Palestinian solidarity. Sheeran said: “I am not complicit… Just because I choose not to speak publicly, … it doesn’t mean I don’t care.”

Yes, @edsheeran, you ARE complicit, as are any public figures with real influence and ability to build the movement against Israeli apartheid but who refuse to do so. This applies even more so to the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America and their elected officials like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who claim to be pro-Palestinian but whose many actions have shown otherwise.

Mamdani has endorsed arch Zionists Kathy Hochul and Hakeem Jeffries. AOC has also endorsed Jeffries, and voted against cutting funds for the Israeli military with the idea that Israel should get “defensive” weapons so it can carry out genocide with impunity. Such actions constitute a whitewashing of Zionism and are geared towards keeping cordial relations with powerful Zionists and building careers in the Democratic Party. Instead of more whitewashing, our movement needs leaders who will wear the opposition and hatred of the Israeli and US ruling classes as a badge of honor, as I do.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Kehlani during her recent Tiny Desk concert:

“Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Yemen. Free Hawai’i. Free Guam. Beyond a ceasefire, we need an end to the occupation. It’s deeper than this.”

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

The occupation will fall. Our children will reach old age. Our holy places will stand again. Our olives will drink from Wadi al-Far’a River. “Hebron” revived to Al-Khalil, “Lod” to Lydda, “Kfar Shaul” to Deir Yassin. We will return. The comeback will be greater than the setback.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

You have to watch this immensely revealing and horrifying testimony by Jewish-American humanitarian surgeon Mark Perlmutter who spent 2 weeks in Gaza: https://t.co/9Ku1axTPyw

"All of the disaster zones I've seen combined - combined - 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero, earthquakes, all of that combined doesn't equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza.
(Host: and when you say civilians, is it mostly children?)
Almost exclusively children, I've never seen that before."

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

The Democrats were loyal to Biden thru 9 months of his genocide of my people, but only turned on him once journalists aggressively exposed his cognitive problems, because genociding Palestinians is profitable for the Democrats and their wealthy overlords, but dementia is not.

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

If you are silent on Palestine, but if you think no one’s keeping track, I promise you that they are. I promise you that people are talking about your silence behind your back. I promise that you are quietly losing friends, invitations, and job opportunities for your silence.

[razibatra @razibatra]

@msunitedam @choeshow As a citizen of USA, you owe them everything. Your imperialistic country has destabilized Latin America for centuries by overthrowing their democratically appointed governments and left them in socioeconomic and political turmoil. All done in your name.

[Sam Husseini 4 Congress MD-04 - The Real Deal @samhusseini]

🧵 1/3 Today, I attempted to compel the State Dept to end some Big Lies....

Me: Does funding Israel violate US law?

State Dept: No.

Me: But Israel is a nuclear proliferator in violation of US law against that.

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

HISTORIC outcome in the ICJ, in plain speech:

So far, ICJ’s job was to determine *if* SA’s evidence (on Israel committing genocide) COULD fall under “genocide” if ICJ’s investigation continued.

‼️ICJ determined—YES—the evidence is SOLID enough to continue this investigation.

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

I will not regret a single friendship that I have ended over this genocide of my people.

#FreePalestine

[Cornel West @CornelWest]

Let us not be deceived: NATO is an expanding instrument of U.S. global power that provoked Russia into a criminal invasion and occupation of Ukraine. This proxy war between the American Empire and the Russian Federation could lead to World War III. We must stop the war and war crimes (including cluster bombs used by all parties) and embark on diplomatic talks that should lead to a just peace. As the great W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1945 "I seem to see outlined a third World War based on the suppression of Asia and the strangling of Russia." The Democratic Party is a party of war and Wall Street targeting Russia and China. Let us save our democracy and world by dismantling U.S. militarism at home (as in Cop Cities) and abroad - as Martin Luther King Jr. painfully reminded us!
#NATO #ClusterBombs

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

The Israeli prime minister just went on CNN and repeatedly told lie after lie after lie to Jake Tapper, who not even once challenged him, but in fact actually praised him. And millions of viewers of will credulously believe every lie.

Disinformation is a weapon of the strong.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month.

Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

This is entirely consistent with Joe Biden's entire political history with respect to race.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

It's deeply unfortunate it was the right wing who've shown how to fight for something in Congress.

The Squad, also the Progressive Caucus headed by Jayapal, have utterly failed - refused - to use their leverage to stand up to Dem establishment & win ANY gains for working people.

[✊🏽🩺 @wokestethoscope]

Car was broken into last night in Seattle. Below freezing weather. They took my ibuprofen, alcohol wipes, water, coat, and safety blanket, but left my expensive items. This was not malice. This was desperation. This is the mighty USA — got money for war, but none for the poor.

[razibatra @razibatra]

Unwavering solidarity is the only way ✊🏽🔥

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

‼️Fraud Squad? (w/ @cmkshama & @ryangrim‼️

"I'm sorry -- what the actual f*ck?" - Kshama Sawant

"They have to justify why they voted to break a strike knowing they had zero to gain from it." - B

A must watch debate about the future of the left.

https://t.co/VFH6EDPAn5