Mario Ferrini

trying to figure out life just like any other poor sob out there. Unapologetic nerd and lover of all things video game, i also enjoy reading, nature, sports.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Let’s go!!! Now, the rebellion is on fire. And there are activists in front of Schumer’s Senate office, and they’ve locked the door to keep them out! The walls are literally closing in on them. I’ve never seen the establishment under siege like this. @ChrisVanHollen for leader!

[Mario Ferrini @RedHannibal]

@getnickwright @mattyglesias @AbdulElSayed @getnickwright I kinda love to hate your sports takes (niners fan, yes I’m bitter).

But I genuinely respect your politics and actually having the balls to talk about it. Seems like kind of a crisis point for the country, if you have a platform now’s the time to use it 🫡.

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.

Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.

Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?

Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself.

This doesn’t make us safer, see why ⬇️

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The Democratic Party needs a new and bold direction. I will not support Chuck Schumer’s reelection as Democratic leader.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I am outraged by Section 219 that integrates our military with Israel's.

This needs to be top priority in the lame duck.

I am pushing every Democrat and our leadership to get Section 219 out of our defense bill.

[RoseAnn DeMoro @RoseAnnDeMoro]

It's Bernie's Moment: Legacy and the Long Game

Years ago when @SenSanders came to the @CalNurses and asked if he made a decision to run for President, would we support him. It was the beginning. We did. Heart and Soul.

We swept across the country and we lost, twice actually. But along the way we educated, agitated, organized, gained the most principled allies, incredible people, like @AbdulElSayed.

And last night - we won!

Thank you Bernie and Jane and thank you everyone who worked for so many years to inspire the #PeopleforBernie to rise up and take control of our country.

And thank you to the pioneers of this time, the nurses & staff of @CalNurses & @NationalNurses who gave it all and 'believed'....

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Speaker of the house should be Ro

[Mario Ferrini @RedHannibal]

@Jennyjinx @RoKhanna I’m calling on @RoKhanna to be our next president.

[Jenny Jinx 🍉 ™®©° @Jennyjinx]

We are calling on @rokhanna to be our new Speaker of the House.

[NFL @NFL]

the rare illegal forward handoff 😭

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Sign this petition if you want a new speaker of the house.

https://t.co/G88VLySjsQ

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

I am so happy that Bernie Sanders is with us today to be able to see the fruits of his labor. He cultivated a whole generation of young leaders through the movement he spawned who are now winning seats everywhere. And he gets to live to witness it. Thank you, Bernie.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

I’ve been with Bernie
For 40 years - since he was the lone voice in the senate - speaking out against the Iraq war - worked on both presidential campaign - we had gone so far to the right the new deal was considered radical he made the politically unthinkable the politically inevitable - and the progressive movement he’s led is now thriving - becoming an unstoppable political reality as the only antidote to fascism
New deal 2.0

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

When we win, we need America's next New Deal.

Medicare for All.
$25 living wage.
End the Iran War.
Zero aid Israel.
Tax the billionaires.

Make Trump Hoover if he vetoes it.

[RoseAnn DeMoro @RoseAnnDeMoro]

Thank you @BernieSanders

For working your heart out to change this country.

Your "long game" should be very gratifying today.

Sending thanks and love.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Wow!

Canadian journalist asks Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Member of Knesset, if he is concerned about Israel's plummeting global standing.

Feiglin's response is chilling, as it reveals the fundamental supremacist view he and many in Israel hold.

He says that the real moral supreme court is in Israel, ie with the people of Israel.

The Bible says, he explains, that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. As a result, it's we - Israelis - who get to judge you, rather than you judging us.

And then he adds?

"Are you with the children of God or not?"

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

“Those in the West who want to see change in Palestine need to confront the question of how international pressure might alter the political calculations of Israeli voters and leaders. Sanctions, diplomatic isolation, divestment, sports boycotts and travel restrictions are among the measures that could make the continuation of occupation and denial of Palestinian rights carry a tangible cost.”
https://t.co/MiFy9MgQq2

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@netanyahu