Tarek El

Dodgers, Jets, Rockets, & Spurs (Tottenham not San Antonio) fanatic. 🤘Longhorns and Owls too 🍚🦉

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

This is the kind of speech Columbia's trustees tolerate on campus. War criminals at the gates today, students in the classroom next semester, filing "harassment" complaints the moment they see a Palestinian flag.

[Sasha @DollNewsNetwork]

The president is doing insider trading, but you all would rather pay attention to transgender people instead.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

It’s genuinely alarming that this isn’t dominating the news cycle. A senior White House advisor is calling for the mass deportation of millions of Americans based on their religion a direct assault on the founding principles of this country. This deserves outrage, not silence.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Racism is so integral to the MAGA GOP that its members boo at the mere mention of a foreign-sounding name. Lombardo had to remind these idiots that they were booing an American hero who was killed in the line of duty. This is who Vance winked at with his “President El-Sayed” comment. He wants to win over gutter racists for 2028, and it’s profoundly, unfathomably pathetic given that these same people think less of his wife and kids because they aren’t white.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The fact that drone operators can make out the hairstyles of their victims before firing is an extremely haunting thought, given how many children have been hit with drone strikes in Gaza and Lebanon.

Some person saw the child and pressed fire anyway.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

I hate when I break into someone’s home with a machine gun and then they steal my gun and commit a terrorist attack against me

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

People often say, why don’t villagers in the West Bank ever hit back when Israeli settlers are brutalizing them or burning their homes? The answer was always obvious, but this is it. Netanyahu will use it as justification to accelerate slaughter and destruction in the West Bank:

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

If you are of a mindset that leads you to attempt to defend this barbarism you are soulless and dead to the core. You are lost.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If Haley Stevens wins the primary only thanks to $50+ million in super PAC support, think about what that means for the general.

Ask yourself: Why would AIPAC support Stevens over a Republican in the general?

Quite obviously they will stop spending for her. A Republican is just as good — or even better for them. So then where does she get her money?

It will be pulled from Ohio, and Iowa, and Alaska, and so on.

El-Sayed, meanwhile, has a built in fundraising base, because he has regular people supporting him, not a super PAC that doesn’t care about Michigan or the Democratic Party.

Neera is smart, she knows this. So why does Neera want to sacrifice money for Iowa and Ohio and Alaska just to beat Abdul? Because winning is not the point for the party establishment. Beating the left is the point.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government:

WSJ

NYT

AP

Reuters

CNN

NBC

ABC

CBS

The Guardian

The Hill

Semafor

Washington Post

Fox News

New York Post

BBC

Newsweek

MS NOW

The Telegraph

[dank @cptdankkk]

J.R. Smith says he regrets wasting $60,000 in strip clubs when he could've helped his community

“I got Paul George sitting right here. I got DeMar DeRozan right here. I got Russell Westbrook sitting right here. I'm literally sitting next to all of these dudes who are LA guys”

“I'm like, ‘Bro, I'm not counting your chips, but everybody else is. You make $200 million, you make $200 million, you make $175 million, you make $150 million, you make $180 million. Why don't y'all have your own gym? Why we got to go to UCLA to work out in LA every time?”

“Y'all come from the exact same community. You want to inspire kids that look like you. All it takes is five of us. What bank gonna turn us down. We 'bout to build this whole thing out for our community. We're gonna build gyms, rec centers, start leagues and all that. Who's gonna stop us. We got the money. We don't have the mindset”

“Our mindset, we'd rather go throw $60,000 in the club, in the strip club, than go feed 2,500 people in the hood. Think about it. I've done it. I can't sit here and be like, ‘Oh man, I'm a hypocrite.’ I've done this myself. I've thrown money in the club, literally blindly, aimlessly, drunk. And now I sit back, ‘I'm a stupid ass.’ I could have fed my whole community 10 times over with the money I was just late on the bus”

“Because I'm so wrapped into me. I got that Eurocentric mindset. I need this designer jacket. I need these jeans. I need this book bag. I need to be looking like this because the vets got this thing, I'm pushing this car, I'm doing... Why? Who am I impressing. I'm not even fulfilled with me”

[brandon* @brndxix]

the bartstool-ification of sports is a plague on this earth

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Decades ago, Hisham Sharabati was shot by Israeli forces as a journalist.

In Hebron, he showed me how extremist settlers throw rotten vegetables, metal parts, urine, and acid at shopkeepers living on a street below them.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israel is allowed to kill Americans without any consequences.

[David Pakman Show @davidpakmanshow]

👀

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax wins, Sergey Brin, worth $276 billion, would owe $13.8 billion.

He’d still be worth $262 billion & healthcare would be saved for millions.

Instead, he says he fled to NV & is spending $82 million against it.

Brin is the face of greed.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Today over 100 Democrats voted for the Massie Amendment to zero aid to Israel. My brother @RepBowman & @CoriBush lost their seats for this stand 2 years ago. As a colleague told me, Black martyrdom is normalized in America. Today I want to recognize their courage.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Spain-Argentina is the first World Cup “Colonizer vs Colonized” match that makes me say “well, let’s consider the nuances”