Rob Burton

Community organizer, co-founder SWEET Alabama, & beginner urban homesteader. Southern, neurodivergent, and #CFStrong.

#AllThePowerToAllThePeople

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: United Auto Workers today passed a resolution at its convention, 321-287, to divest from Israeli bonds.

With nearly 400,000 members, UAW becomes the largest US union to officially divest from Israel.

The vote received support from a range of sectors, including a large number of Michigan auto delegates, in addition to legal services and higher education.

The original call for divestment came from a wildcat strike of 2,000 mainly Arab American workers at Chrysler’s Dodge Main in 1973. Amid the genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian labor groups and UAW locals renewed and intensified their campaign.

Speakers motivated for the resolution by citing the union’s legacy of divesting from South African apartheid in 1978.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

The Israelis are destroying ancient Roman ruins in the beautiful Lebanese coastal city of Tyre.

I know if they did this to the Colosseum, the world would express outrage and elites would do fundraisers and Israel might even be sanctioned bc that’s in what they consider Europe.

But in Lebanon, the Europeans shrug and keep supporting Israel because they’ve created a division of humanity where even the ancient Roman ruins aren’t equal.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Only 16% of Americans support arming Israel without restrictions.

So what is Congress doing? Burying a provision in the defense bill that would give Israel more military integration than any NATO ally.

We must strip Section 224 from the Pentagon budget.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The uncovering has begun.
If only more EU governments showed the resolve of Slovenia.
Forward and upward.
#DecolonizeMultilateralism

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Since the declaration of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians.

We track Israeli ceasefire violations to date https://t.co/jjnDndNnaK

[CNN International @cnni]

Israeli settlers have increasingly used violence against Palestinians in a bid to drive them from their homes in the occupied West Bank. But sexual assault appears to be a new weapon in these settlers’ arsenal of intimidation, pointing to a troubling new level of violence. https://t.co/mazveSRx69

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The US government allowed the Syrian president into New York this week for the UN General Assembly - while blocking the Palestinian president from coming - but forgot to delete their tweet calling him a terrorist and offering a $10m reward for his capture. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Armchair Analyst @ArmchairAn4lyst]

Nothing better than some corporate banker funded media propaganda

Love watching them make fools of themselves

Makes it easier for the rest of us to ignore them and put them in a box that we never open again

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

@hippyygoat While yes, we should put the blame on the US, the General Assembly (UNGA) has the authority to approve UN peacekeeping mission. This, if approved by the UNGA and the Palestinian Authority, the UN could send troops to block the IDF's Gazan genocide & West Bank ethnic cleansing.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

If anyone's still confused by what's happening right now:

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

@ecomarxi What ever happened to UN peace keeping missions? This is the time if there ever was one.

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

@EvanAKilgore All I will say is that the photos I have seen in the media are not screen shots of the convo, they are created graphics.

People can come to whatever conclusion they want, though that fact needs to be considered, because that is not being stated transparently by media companies.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"The Commission finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in #Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children."

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

@RnaudBertrand Honestly, I have a Windows laptop that uses Nvidia, and honestly, it's over priced and kinda trash. Not saying that is all bc of Nvidia, because, I mean, Microsoft, but still, this prolly is for the best for the people of China.

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

@vonderleyen I cannot find the name of the Israeli ministers that would be sanctioned in the links of this post. Can you please share information about what Israeli ministers would be sanctioned.

[Rob Burton @RobBurton469]

The @UNGeneva has commissioned a report that says @Israel is committing a genocide of Palestinians.

So when will the @UN and UN members initiate a UN "peacekeeping mission" in Gaza and the West Bank to intervene and stop the @IDF from committing #genocide and #ethniccleansing?

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”

UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza.

https://t.co/UGjepPwmwo