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[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am more than familiar with Palestine history during the British occupation -its crimes and legacy - and yet. Watching #Palestine36 was a gut-wrenching experience.

Gentle as it can be, Palestinian storytelling cannot hide the horror of the crimes Palestinians have endured.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"A Swiss court has acquitted five Palestine solidarity activists, annulled their fines, recognised the reality of genocide in Palestine, and affirmed that peaceful civil disobedience is protected by freedom of expression."

Please RT this until the UK courts do the same.

Thanks.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

they thought people wouldn’t boo if they showed him during the national anthem lmao

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Compare these two headlines. You think @nytimes left out those details on accident?

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

he’s the reason why this happened

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Brilliant news and not a moment too soon! 👇🏼

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

WAKE TF UP

[Verity @verityns]

Where are all the freespeech absolutists? @elonmusk ? That’s what I thought, it was all bs.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.

[Arash Gilan 👨🏻‍💻 @ArashGilan]

Förstår vi vilket avgrundsdjupt mörker som finns i det här landet?

Det är svartare än Bottenviken.

Det räcker att läsa kommentarerna och tillmälena som jag och min familj får för att nästan ge upp hoppet om mänskligheten. Arga, anonyma, bittra män. Oftast män.

Och nej, det är inte synd om mig. Jag är härdad. Jag har byggt ett liv, ett namn, ett skydd.

Men om det här sägs om mig, som ändå har lyckats, hur i hela friden ska en femtonårig Ali eller en sjuttonårig Fatima känna att de har en chans i det här landet?

Det är där sorgen ligger.

Inte i hatet mot mig.

Utan i signalen till dem som ännu inte hunnit bli starka.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

ZIOS: it's antisemitic to say Jews control the media

ALSO ZIOS: controlling all the media is a lot of work. "Instead of trying to control the whole world," [yes, that's a direct quote], all we have to do is control AI, because people trust AI and that's where everyone is getting their information.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Think about all the column inches and headlines devoted to Graham Platner over the past week versus Ken Paxton and then tell me again we have a ‘liberal’ media.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

These are serious accusations. They are also false.

Throughout this campaign, I’ve been open about a very dark period of my life, when I struggled with undiagnosed PTSD. I'm not proud of the man I once was, but I'm proud of the man I am today, and of the movement we've built.

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed white people from Ukraine were celebrated for making home-made Molotov cocktails to defend their land, but the brown Arab Muslim, the Iranian, the Afghan, is far too “uncivilised” to have the right to resist. Their resistance is “barbaric” because it comes from an inherently “violent” culture.

The selective application of international law and one’s right to defend themselves from illegal occupation and colonial violence has been revealed to be a complete contradiction in the west, and is no doubt infuriating.

But we need to also understand how these “resistance” narratives are processed in communities.

These narratives do not stay on our screens. They shape how entire communities see themselves.
When Indigenous, Black, and other racialised peoples repeatedly see their histories, struggles, cultures, and resistance framed as dangerous, irrational, or inherently violent, many begin to internalise those messages.

Some distance themselves from their own identities in search of safety, acceptance, or legitimacy.

Others carry a deep, unspoken rage born from exclusion, dispossession, and the constant demand to prove their humanity.

When people are disconnected from their roots, denied dignity, and taught to be ashamed of where they come from, they will still search for belonging. It’s a basic human need to feel a sense of community.

The question is whether we create spaces that nurture healing, identity, and justice, or leave them vulnerable to finding belonging in places that exploit their pain.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you President 🇸🇮.
Palestine is the moral compass of our time.
From Spain to Slovenia there is hope for Europe. A Europe that puts people above banks and markets, rights above profits, and respects int'l law regardless of political calculus.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Ah yes, being an “unsettling” boyfriend vs war crimes, pedophilia, rape, open corruption, looting the country, shoving immigrants in concentration camps. This man is an op for billionaires and Zionists.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

CNN: Platner’s campaign just announced raising over $200,000 in a single day following the New York Times article — their best fundraising day since Janet Mills dropped out of the Maine Senate race

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To claim that dismantling a state, a governing structure, means murdering the people who live there is beyond absurd. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled. The white people there were not mass-murdered. The state simply became a state for all its citizens, with equal rights.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Maine voter asked about Platner: "Probing into the minutiae of his personal relationships when you don't do that for any other candidate is ridiculous."