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[Progressive Soup residue @SoupProgressive]

The government of Israel IS a terrorist organization and is holding the Jewish people hostage! Anyone can plainly see that Netanyahu & the IDF are purposely targeting innocent women & children. What ratio of dead Palestinians to Israelis will be enough, 10:1, 20:1 or 100%?

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

We’ve all seen several videos of the smiling, healthy hostages Hamas released. Well, here’s the damage Israel inflicts on its hostages after torturing them.

No comparison. Israel is a terrorist organisation.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.

It happened to me yesterday when I was watching a Sky News report about a teenage boy who was shot by Israeli forces in Jerusalem for celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners in the hostage negotiations with Hamas. I was watching it thinking to myself, I must be misunderstanding what I’m looking at. I know that Israel does gross things, but surely the story here isn’t that they shot a kid for being happy about something.

Then, as has happened so many times over the last two months, I kept watching and learned that yes, that is indeed what happened. The deputy mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is seen defending the shooting by saying “part of the deal is that there would be no celebrations for the release of attempted murderers” (this was actually not a part of the deal, it was just a decree issued by Israel’s national security minister) and claiming dishonestly that “we’re talking about the release of attempted murderers” (the vast majority have not been convicted of any crime and have been denied any due process for the accusations against them).

The band Eve6 nicely summed up what it felt like watching the clip of the deputy mayor’s comments, tweeting, “The remarkable thing about this clip is her self assurance. Like she’s supremely confident that ‘we shot the teenager because he was celebrating’ is a thing that people will find reasonable.”

I had the same experience reading about the five premature babies who were left to die after the IDF raided al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital in Gaza earlier this month, their decomposing bodies only discovered when the temporary ceasefire allowed access to the hospital. It’s just too insane to believe — they attacked a pediatric hospital? And then they left the babies there to die? What??

The only reason we’re learning about this now is because the pause in fighting allowed journalists to get cameras into the building and show the dead infants to the world. This calls to mind the Politico report immediately prior to the ceasefire which said that the White House was worried “an unintended consequence of the pause” would be “that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.”

Indeed, since the pause in fighting began the world has been receiving drone footage from mainstream platforms like Reuters and The Washington Post revealing vast expanses of urban terrain completely destroyed by a blanket of Israeli military explosives spanning from city block to city block. Looking at the blatantly indiscriminate devastation that’s been caused by Israel’s assault on Gaza since October 7 makes it clear that the IDF are not targeting Hamas but Gaza itself.

I’ve been amazed at how much I’ve been sleeping since the ceasefire started; that’s why I haven’t been writing as much. I guess spending weeks staring at unbelievable horrors unfolding on your screen can be pretty hard on your system if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing, so my body’s been resting up as much as it can while there’s an opportunity.

And I’m just here watching this all unfold safely from my home in Melbourne. I cannot imagine what it’s like to be living in the midst of this horror for the last two months, trying to figure out the best way to survive while also grieving the family, friends and neighbors you’re losing along the way. These people have all been deeply traumatized in ways that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, if they survive the violence, disease and deprivation that’s to come.

This thing is so astonishingly ugly, and it could get a whole lot uglier after the ceasefire ends. If there’s anything positive to be found in this living nightmare, it’s that it’s so earth-shakingly ugly that it just might shake the world awake.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Everyone should share this.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Inflation rose 14% between July 2020 and July 2022.

But corporate profits rose by 75% over those two years — five times as fast as inflation.

Don’t tell me corporations have no choice but to raise prices.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

President Biden is calling for billionaires to pay a minimum 25% tax! He says they should pay their taxes like everyone else!

This would raise $440 billion over the next 10 years!

Drop a ❤️ and Repost if you support this! 🖐️

[Progressive Soup residue @SoupProgressive]

After @elonmusk told advertisers on X "Fuck You", anyone who thinks this guy is a genius at business is a freaking MORON! I am laughing my ass off watching this man with more money than any one person should have totally destroy the thing he paid 42 billion dollars for!

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

I can’t believe this still has to be said but most of us who have left the Democrat party did so not because we became Republicans but because we realized Democrats serve the same corporate and imperial interests as Republicans.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

This is an example of how white supremacy is systemic.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

The gap between what banks pay depositors & what the Fed pays banks just hit a record high.

Banks are paying depositors an average of 0.4% interest.

Banks are being paid 5% interest when they deposit your money at the Fed.

Lawmakers could fix this. https://t.co/L4R8CwdH5u

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Wow. OceanGate, the company that owns the missing submersible, fired an employee a few years ago after he filed safety complaints against them. The employee specifically said the sub was not capable of descending to such extreme depths before he was fired.
https://t.co/c3s2H3eVEr

[Matt Haney @MattHaneySF]

Largest study of homelessness in California in 3 decades finds a "fundamental problem" that drives it: "the rent is too damn high."

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

Local hostage-taker doesn’t want to be blamed for killing the hostage

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

Isn’t it sad how Lauren Boebert votes to block student debt relief. I can see where she would be jealous because those students all accomplished something she couldn’t which was graduate from high school. Shame on you Colorado! To elect this idiot to represent YOU!

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Combine these two items and you see that these guys are reinventing the sequester, a savage across-the-board cut that removes everyone of responsibility for voting for them.
https://t.co/mZgV5eULX6
https://t.co/A8Qz8kh706

[Max Cohen @maxpcohen]

.@AOC to me on debt-limit negotiations: “My hope is that the White House remembers and understands that Kevin McCarthy doesn't have the votes” to pass deal with Republicans alone

[Mike Figueredo @HumanistReport]

How am I only learning about this now?

Ethan Schmidt—the notorious anti-LGBTQ troll who harassed retail workers in Arizona—was already caught on gay dating apps.

They’re so goddamn predictable holy shit.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Almost nobody in Congress is really mad right now.

This is all theater — Dems are pretending to their voters that they really wanted a different outcome and that they are angry, and corporate media is there to sell that maudlin story.

But it’s a fiction — it’s all scripted.

[Nomiki - @nomiki.bsky.social @NomikiKonst]

Eh hem ⬇️