sallyinthevalley

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Jan 2024, Sen Van Hollen & Sen Merkley were the 1st lawmakers to attempt to visit Gaza. Israel denied entry. Aug 2025, they tried again. Israel denied again

Van Hollen has voted to ban weapons to Israel & opposes the Israel merger bills

I think he will be a good Senate leader

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

People should really understand how transformative it would be for Democratic foreign policy to have Van Hollen as Senate majority leader.

[Nevaeh James @NevaehJame69585]

Baby Meets a Living Golden Statue! 😍✨
The Cutest and Most Unexpected Street Performance Moment ❤️🥹

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The images of kids submerged in freezing floodwater, in flimsy tents that won't survive another winter, make me SICK.

I think of Primo Levi’s words that every European learns by heart at school - only to forget when entering politics or diplomacy.

The shame of our time.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Democrats should not vote to fund a single dollar for this illegal, immoral and strategically catastrophic war

[Trendtowardshealing @Trendtowar18751]

According to Bernie Sanders, this is what democratic electorate voters want:

66% want Medicare for All

61% want a billionaire wealth tax

57% want a $20/hour minimum wage

63% want a data center moratorium

58% want to end military aid to Israel

73% want to ban super PACs

79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap

And no more forever wars!

I say anyone who wants to hold party leadership in the Democrats should be forced to commit to these policies before they get others’ votes for a leadership position.

Call your democratic senators and house members! Remind them of these democratic electorate concerns, and demand that they do not vote for party leaders who do not champion these issues!

No free votes! You get the vote when you agree to champion the issue!

Spread the word- make the calls!

Schumer and Jeffries don’t get to just be anointed.

They have to earn the electorate’s vote!

[Awad Joumaa @awadaje]

@tparsi In 1984 AIPAC's then director credited the lobby's supporters with defeating Senator Charles Percy. For forty years candidates in both parties read that race as a warning. If AIPAC money now costs votes instead of winning them, the warning has flipped.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

“We have entered a new era,” said Trita Parsi. “It is not just that AIPAC is spending millions of dollars and losing. You also have a new reality now in which candidates find AIPAC’s donations toxic and are rejecting it.”

https://t.co/5hBO0BmK8N

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

For those who haven't been following, "disarm" is a new euphemism used by "pro-Israel progressives"

In practice, it means: order your opponent to give up their arms, and if they don't agree, then fight them and kill them

JStreet has advocated this for both Gaza and Lebanon

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

Leader of @SenateApprops @PattyMurray has the power to block funds for Iran War

Will she join @ChrisVanHollen @SenTimKaine @AbdulElSayed and defund the war in 2026 before the new Congress?

As @TimKaine notes, "Republicans need Democratic votes" for war

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed: "Mike, enjoy your retirement ... you chose hate, and Michigan chose hope ... JD, habibi -- there is this delicious irony in the fact that you are constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. Wolverines 1, Buckeyes 0."

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When you listen to James Talarico, you realize that last night's results were not just a rejection of Trump and Israel's Iran war, but also a rejection of a Democratic Party led by people like Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan:

"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign. Seeing what's happening in Gaza makes me sick to my stomach as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being"

This is his message, and he won in Texas!

[sallyinthevalley @secondsarah]

Senator!

[Acyn @Acyn]

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name. 

I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

Saudi officials visited Yemen in 2023 to negotiate peace with the de facto authorities that survived a brutal US-Saudi war & blockade

But the deal was never finalized

Now, with Sanaa's military far stronger than before, a deal remains the best path for all parties & civilians

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay has called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand trial for genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/0b3ECHFEgo

[Shireen Al-Adeimi @shireen818]

Saudi Arabia massacred at least 10 Yemenis today, including children.

If you defend Saudi Arabia's actions in Yemen, no matter what you tell yourself, this is what you're defending.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

“I don’t know how parents can raise such monsters,” Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine says of the Jewish settlers who attacked her in the West Bank today.

How can our governments support this monstrous Israeli state?

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post. https://t.co/WdLUA0NECA

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Despite Israel’s efforts to deny its direct evidence, the film NAZA is receiving rave reviews because it powerfully reveals the Israeli military’s clinical devaluing of Palestinian civilian life in Gaza, all told by Israeli military officers themselves. https://t.co/63ZlxJggOp

[Dr. Annelle Rodriguez Sheline @AnnelleSheline]

A useful reminder from Dr. @shireen818 al-Adeimi: Yemenis have never tolerated invaders

📌 Under Ottoman & British control, Yemenis rebelled constantly
📌 In the 1960s, Saudi Arabia & Egypt under Nasser backed opposing side in a Yemeni civil war. Both countries learned not to interfere in Yemen's affairs.
🫣 But MBS forgot that lesson.
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