Michael N. Escobar

risk management, construction, shipping, higher education, infrastructure, renewable energy, transportation, trade, world politics, art, music, cycling. He/him

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

@Mjsloveismagic1 @sfchronicle in the movie Casablanca, Major Strasser asks Rick how he would feel if the Germans were to invade New York. Rick responds: "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

@Strava I filled out your survey, but it won't let me submit the final page where I put in my info for the gift card drawing. Both the fields for my name and email address will only accept numbers, not text.

[David Freedlander @freedlander]

Mamdani tells the press that Cuomo is still running because “Andrew Cuomo is someone who doesn’t understand that no means no”

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

Remember when Stephen Miller spray-painted his bald head to go on national TV?
That doesn't get talked about enough.

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

Let’s make a large illustrated public announcement we’re ignoring this guy.

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

UC alumni, it's time to #StandUpForUC. Resist Trump's demand for a billion-dollar "settlement". https://t.co/pdcJoPM3qX

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

The Gaza graph ends years before the current conflict and starts more than a decade after the Israeli unilateral declaration of independence and original displacement of Palestinians.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Hey so why does that Gaza graph end 3 years before the current conflict

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🧵The 1st to predict this inevitability in 1934 was Jewish-German psychologist Erich Neumann, who wrote upon meeting Zionists in Palestine:
"Everything [here] leads to fascism... I fear that all our repressed passions, all our ambitions for power and revenge, all the brutality hidden in us, will come to fruition here... This could result in the 'shadow' finally being released & here in Palestine for the 1st time it could be seen & erupt, because there is no external pressure here. It will certainly not be pleasant"

[El Reconqristador ابو شربل 🇲🇽 @crawlings13]

This is the actual ordo amoris, by the way.

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

I gave this talk about the @wattstowers last year for San Francisco’s @OddSalon. Now available on YouTube. https://t.co/dP2KYNrVLR

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

I donated to the Iraqi Student Cultural Night Fundraiser on the @UCBerkeley student project crowdfunding platform. Easy and fun. https://t.co/XYWEPl8dwH

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

We voted for Biden in 2020 and he immediately changed … what? Did we move our embassy out of Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv? Did we change the Trump policy of normalizing endemic covid? Did we change the republican rhetoric about the immigration “crisis”?

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The only stand the Democrats can take, given their President’s oversight of the genocide, is the “stand” they’re taking right now by pretending to be horrified that Trump wants to “empty out Gaza” (which they supported under Biden via “humanitarian corridors”).

Overseeing a genocide has consequences and unraveling as a party would be the kindest of consequences.

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

I suspect that as goes Palestine, so goes Ukraine.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Last week, we learned Kash Patel has undisclosed financial ties to Qatar.

This week, a whistleblower revealed Patel has been directing FBI purges.

Today, every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance him.

Next week, the Senate must reject Patel.

[Juan Manuel Santos @JuanManSantos]

Respuesta al expresidente Uribe:

[Michael N. Escobar @underwritermne]

Happy early Elontines to all who celebrate

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Trump's pledge to "take over" Gaza offered a rare opportunity to hear an American president articulate the logic of Zionism in its rawest, most essential form. The history of Israel is defined by a continuous process of controlling and removing the Palestinian population by force, with the consent and participation of the majority of its Jewish citizens, in order to demographically engineer a Herrenvolk pseudo-democracy. Now, Trump has vowed to carry out the Final Solution on Israel's behalf, and possibly with US troops. Israelis love his genocidal energy, with 80% telling the Jerusalem Post they favor Trump's plan, and only 13% declaring it "immoral." Average Americans might be less enthusiastic about embarking on a foreign ethnic cleansing adventure, but as this episode makes undeniably clear, they are not the ones who determine their government's policy when it comes to the "Jewish and democratic" state.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

I hope *you're* happy that you supported a genocidal, geriatric candidate instead of pushing for an open primary and/or a third party vote.

You are a genocide enabler of such low moral integrity that you'll only mention Palestinian suffering to manufacture consent for a candidate without whom there would have been no genocide.