Tammy J

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Israel is bombing Christian Southern Lebanon relentlessly and has no respect for America or President Trump.

Even though we give them BILLIONS of our own hard earned tax dollars, weapons, and military assistance.

America is a Christian nation and it’s absolutely pathetic that our government leaders do not stand up and take a stand against the murderous Israeli regime.

They are not defending themselves.

They are invading, attacking, and murdering thousands and thousands of innocent people and children while claiming they are fighting terrorism.

The Iran war was the biggest mistake Trump ever made and Americans and our troops are paying the price, financially, economically, and with 13 military lives and injuries.

The MOU is worthless if Israel cannot be reigned in.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Netanyahu accused of funneling money to Hamas

"At the time he was under investigation, he arranged for Hamas to receive $35 million every month from Qatar."

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It’s not just Iran.

It’s Lebanon.

In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are being bombed with no warning.

The U.S. cannot continue to be complicit in Netanyahu’s wars.

[Tim Allen @ofctimallen]

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” Marcus Aurelius is trying to convey that a person’s happiness is determined primarily by how they think, not by external circumstances.

The nature, discipline, and moral quality of one’s thoughts shape how events are perceived and experienced. If thoughts are rational, virtuous, and well-ordered, life feels content and stable; if thoughts are negative, irrational, or uncontrolled, life feels unhappy regardless of outward conditions. According to him, happiness is an internal state governed by the mind, and improving one’s thoughts improves one’s life

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

In the abstract fantasy world, Zionism is the support of a Jewish homeland.
In the real world, it is the absolute destruction of Palestinian society, theft of their entire country and murder of untold thousands of innocent people. It is racist and genocidal.
We don't judge things by their ideal, theoretical version. We judge based on how they manifest into reality.
I am an anti-Zionist Jew. It took me decades of watching Israel in action before I could get over the luftmench fantasy of Zionism and see what Zionism actually is and does in this world.
The moral choice for every person is to be anti-Zionist. Anti-Zionism has nothing whatsoever to do with antisemitism, which every moral person, of course, opposes.
@jvplive @IndJewishVoices @NaamodUK

[Tammy J @tjacobsobrien]

@Reuters @cwalljasper I believe that’s Pope Leo

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

A year ago Donald Trump had seemingly accomplished the impossible. He had pulled off the greatest political comeback in US history and, what was even more impressive and seemingly impossible, he won the culture and the youth. The Democrats were completely discredited after years of lies and destruction.

Donald Trump came into office with record high approval ratings both for him personally and for his agenda. Wokeism and progressivism had been defeated and a new America First coalition seemed unbeatable.

Last night the Democrats had a great night. This comes after weeks of MAGA being in a full political civil war. Trump currently has his lowest approval ratings. He’s about as popular as George W Bush after two disastrous wars and an economic crash. The youth has abandoned him and many of the lefts wokest activists are reasserting their control over the culture, now under the promise of socialism.

How did this all happen? How did this administration blow such an incredible opportunity to roll back the destructive forces that threaten this Nation’s very survival?

Ask yourself honestly, no matter where you come down on the issue: what is this all about. What is the MAGA coalition arguing about? Why have the youth abandoned Trump? Why do cultural giants like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Andrew Schultz and a bunch of gen z streamers with 10 million followers all speak poorly about Trump today when they were doing that Trump dance last year?

The answer to all of this is Israel. Like it or not, that’s the truth. Instead of America First, we got Israel first instead.

If MAGA is serious about avoiding President AOC, if they actually see that as the threat that I do, then we must embrace Tucker Carlson’s vision that he laid out on my show: be the America First movement.

Or we can follow Mark Levin’s plan of canceling all of the most popular voices and running on the most discredited unpopular neocon wars.

Your choice MAGA

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's actually never legitimate to withhold aid from starving civilians. It was never legitimate at any time.

That's one of the annoying things about having to discuss Israel's ridiculous claim that Hamas is hoarding hostage corpses in order to achieve some kind of goal and therefore justifies reducing aid into Gaza as punishment: the conversation skates right over the fact that it has never been legitimate for Israel to withhold humanitarian aid into Gaza. Debating whether Israel is right or wrong to withhold aid under these specific circumstances tacitly assumes that it could ever be right to withhold aid under any circumstances.

Listening to Israel's justifications for why it needs to inflict monstrous abuses upon the people of Gaza has the effect of assuming that there are circumstances under which those monstrous abuses would be acceptable. And there just aren't.

It has never been legitimate to intentionally deprive civilians of humanitarian aid that they need to survive. You have to give them aid.

It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants because you decided they crossed some sort of line into a forbidden zone. It has never been legitimate to shoot noncombatants at all.

It has never been legitimate to commit genocide. Israel just needs to stop the genocide.

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. This should not even need to be said. It's so obnoxious how everyone's getting sucked into these debates about whether or not Israel might need to resume the genocide because Hamas refused to disarm or they didn't get their hostage corpses back or this or that ceasefire demand wasn't met or blah blah whatever. Israel has never needed to commit genocide. It needs to stop committing genocide.

The world shouldn't be bending over backwards to ensure that the state which is committing genocide is happy with the terms by which the genocide is ended. The world should be aggressively punishing the state that is committing genocide until it stops. That would be true peace. What we are seeing now is just a bad joke.

And of course this true peace is not emerging because the powerful western states who've been backing the genocide this whole time are perfectly fine with it. Their weapons industries get to profit from the genocide. Their empire managers get to enjoy the domination of a critical geostrategic region. They sleep like babies at night, because they do not view the victims of the genocide as human beings.

So we find ourselves doing this ridiculous dance where we go "Okay well maybe the genocide could stop if the victims of the genocide agree to terms X, Y and Z and don't make too much of a fuss about being killed in smaller numbers every day."

This is madness. It's the craziest thing you could possibly imagine. We live in a dystopian madhouse.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers this emotional message on stage:

“I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.��

“I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody — anybody to Hitler.”

“Like Charlie Kirk, all I could say is let people grieve — give people the space. I’m not going to use that terrible thing and that assassination to make my argument and try to put out my views.”

“It’s like, my God, he’s a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet. And now people have forgotten: President Trump was in my state — was shot in the head. Could you imagine where our nation would be if he were hit in the same way as Kirk? We really got to turn the temperature down.”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again.

Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities.

Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool.

Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children.

Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state.

Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

In order to successfully propagandize people you need to first get them to trust you, and then you need to feed them narratives which appeal to the cognitive biases they already hold. Nobody trusts Israel apologia anymore, and people’s biases are now stacked squarely against the Zionist entity. They’ve got nothing to work with and nowhere to start from.

If a coworker you hate came up to you and started stealing stuff off your desk while telling you he’s your friend and that he would never steal from you, you’re not going to believe him no matter how many words he says to you. No matter how skillful a manipulator he is, no matter how eloquent his words are, nothing he says will trump your first hand observations of your material reality.

That’s what it’s like at this point. They’re trying to throw a bunch of language at us in order to convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen, haven’t experienced what we’ve experienced, and don’t know what we know. And they assume it will work because the language they’re throwing at us is being circulated in high volumes and costs a lot of money.

It won’t work, though. Even if propaganda could convince us that we haven’t seen what we’ve seen and don’t know what we know, propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you. These past two years have made even relatively apolitical members of the public acutely aware that there is an aggressive campaign to manipulate their perception of the state of Israel, and that anyone pushing them to support that state is untrustworthy. Nobody’s going to buy into the propaganda if they don’t trust the source.

Now that everyone’s aware that Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post to churn out propaganda on its behalf, whenever you see a video online of some young social media-savvy personality promoting pro-Israel narratives you see their replies flooded with memes and jokes about their $7k jackpot. From now on whenever some sunglasses-wearing zillennial shows up going “Israel is surrounded on all sides by Islamofascists and you think JEWS are the problem? Uhh, no babe. Walk with me,” everyone’s going to go “Found one of those $7k posts.”

It just doesn’t work. Psychological manipulation only goes so far. There’s only so much that clever language can do to decouple someone’s mind from their direct experience of material reality.

This is where Israel went wrong in alienating the liberal Zionists. They needed people at the table who understood how normal human beings think, who could help the Israel project walk the delicate line between apartheid abuses papered over with propaganda and full-scale atrocities which would alienate the world. Instead they decided to go all in with the Smotriches and Ben-Gvirs, trusting that the propaganda machine which had served them so well all those decades would continue to carry them through any international upset they might cause.

It hasn’t turned out that way. The world’s eyes are open to what Israel is, and they are never going to close again. You can’t take off the Mickey Mouse mask, show the kids the snarling Freddy Krueger face underneath it, and then put the mask on and hope they start calling you Mickey again. Nobody’s going to forget what you showed them.

[Tammy J @tjacobsobrien]

@PennStateFball We ARE…

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“Israel was constructed on the ruins of another society and by the mass dispossession of another people who remain unacknowledged as just sort of obscure natives in the background..”

—Palestinian academic and literary legend Edward in 1998.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If I looked out my window and saw people massacring children, I'd probably think thoughts like "That's horrible!" and "How can I stop this?"

The furthest thing from my mind would be thoughts like "What religion are they?" or "Their religion is very relevant to any discussions we might have about this massacre" or "We should definitely be very careful about discussing this massacre because we don't want to offend people who have the same religion as the people doing the massacre." It would never occur to me to consider such things, much less that such considerations should be central to all discourse about the massacre for years on end.

[Tammy J @tjacobsobrien]

Gaza's children make artificial limbs from drain pipes https://t.co/5T2dPc7LJl via @YouTube

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Candace Owens: "Federal action if you carry the Jimmy Kimmel show? Does that seem right to you? If you're on the right and you cheered this on, do you understand we never ever ever should be applauding federal action when it comes to speech?"

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸FREE SPEECH... EVEN WHEN IT HURTS... MUST BE PROTECTED

The past few days have been heavy.

Watching the vile reactions from some on the left to Charlie Kirk’s death, I understand the outrage.

It’s human to feel anger when tragedy is mocked.

But defending free speech means defending it even for the speech we despise.

Yes, call people out. Criticize them.

Let the marketplace of ideas sort out who deserves a platform.

That’s free speech too.

But when lawmakers start talking about arrests, deportations, and visa revocations for online comments that - while distasteful - are not direct incitements to violence, we walk a dangerous line.

Recent examples make this clear:

In Florida, several statewide officials supported the idea of revoking visas for foreigners who praised Kirk’s assassination: “Send them home,” one declared.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said foreigners who glorify violence are “not welcome visitors” and directed consular officials to track such posts.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R–La.) went further, suggesting that those celebrating Kirk’s death online should be permanently banned from platforms, blacklisted from business, and even stripped of driver’s licenses.

This isn’t the restoration of public decency.

It’s a slide toward state-enforced conformity of thought.

If words alone - even ugly, despicable ones - become grounds for the government to revoke rights, we’ve abandoned the principle that has long distinguished free societies from authoritarian ones.

Let’s be clear: many moderates on the left condemned the celebrations.

They didn’t excuse them.

They didn’t cheer them on.

And that matters - because it shows that our shared values of human dignity still cross partisan lines.

I’m a free speech absolutist.

Private companies can fire someone for exposing their cruelty online; that’s the free market at work.

But it should stop there.

The state must not cross the line into punishing speech that is offensive but lawful.

Free speech is ugly, messy, and often painful.

But it’s the guardrail of liberty.

We dishonor Charlie’s memory - and weaken our own values - if we abandon it when it hurts most.

"Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. That’s why it’s the FIRST Amendment. Without free speech, all is lost."
-- @elonmusk

“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”

— Winston Churchill, 1943

Sources: The Guardian, Reason, Florida Phoenix

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️Hannah Einbinder on saying "Free Palestine" in her Emmys acceptance speech:

"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇮🇱 EVERY ISRAELI connection to Charlie Kirk’s ASSASSINATION (so far):

> He was groomed by Israel as teenager
> He was Israel’s top non-Jewish loyalist
> He starts *mildly* criticizing Israel
> He said Epstein was Mossad
> He said no Iran war on behalf of Israel
> He lobbied Trump against Iran War
> Trump ‘barked’ back at him over Iran
> He said Israel had full control of Trump
> He referred to Netanyahu as a bully
> He feared ‘Israel would kill him’
> Harrison Smith posts about Kirk’s fear
> Netanyahu requests Charlie visit Israel
> Netanyahu offers TPUSA huge funding
> He refused Netanyahu’s funding offer
> He became “disgusted” with Netanyahu
> He let anti-Zionists speak at his events
> Zionist media starts attacking him
> Zionist donors threaten to defund TPUSA
> Zionist donors demand Kirk ban Tucker
> Donors cut him off & launch attacks
> Loomer says Kirk backstabbed Trump
> Zio FBI Director fires chief of Utah FBI
> He has ‘anti-Israel’ interview w/ Shapiro
> Shapiro attacks Kirk on Mark Levin
> He has ‘combative’ meeting w/ Israeli Rabbi
> Before 9/10, unusual people visited 'shooter'
> The visitors had out of state license plates
> The visitors 'did not give off a good vibe'
> Charlie shot in jugular from 200yd away
> Unidentified man runs in crowd with pistol
> Police arrest patsy claiming to be shooter
> Patsy yells “shoot me!” during arrest
> 9/11 propaganda video surfaces of patsy
> Actual shooter flees without a trace
> Netanyahu tweets within minutes
> Israeli media 1st to confirm Charlie’s death
> Private jet takes off 12 minutes away
> Private jet disables location monitoring
> Jet is owned by Chabad Lubavitch donor
> Netanyahu posts about Charlie’s Israel trip
> FBI says foreign intel assisting investigation
> FBI claims they have photos of shooter
> FBI claims shooter wore tactical gear
> Assembled gun found in ‘wooded area’
> No photos exist of shooter with the gun
> No photos exist of shooter in tactical gear
> Zionists go on social media blitz about Kirk
> Netanyahu goes on media blitz about Kirk
> Netanyahu says Islamist behind shooting
> Netanyahu says Israel didn’t kill Kirk
> Netanyahu reads Kirk’s ‘pro-Israel letter’
> Candace says the letter was faked
> Candace calls on Netanyahu to publish letter
> Tucker says Charlie was at war with Israel
> Cernovich says Kirk was at war with donors
> Grayzone drops article with Trump insider
> Insider confirms Kirk’s war with Israel
> Insider confirms Trump fearful of Israel
> Insider confirms Mossad spying on Trump
> Trump insiders don’t buy official FBI story
> Trump insiders say ‘outside forces’ killed Kirk

But I’m sure it was just some random liberal kid…

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Israel is systematically starving children and destroying Gaza City with bombs and bulldozers. Much of this horror is paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

Trump and Congress must finally stand up to Netanyahu and AIPAC.

No more ethnic cleansing. No more military aid to Israel.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

All the western officials publicly weeping and rending their garments about six dead Israelis are openly and explicitly telling you that they do not regard Palestinians as human beings.