vthegrain

Artist, thinker, observer, listener. Seeking root causes. Ends do not justify the means. Question authority. Trying to advance the non-aggression principle.

[vthegrain @vthegrain]

If Gallrein truly has won, this will ideologically go down as one of the worst days in the history of the United States. Cowards and traitors everywhere. Thank you, Thomas Massie, for consistently doing what so many had no courage to do.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Imagine if Biden or Obama had bragged about shaking down a private company for 10% public ownership.

Where are the supposed stalwarts of free markets like @club4growth or @Heritage or @freedomcaucus ? 🦗🦗🦗

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Apparently, the US sends billions every year in aid to QATAR (not Israel); US politicians make constant pilgrimages to QATAR (not Israel); Trump starts wars after QATARI leaders (not Israeli) travel 8 times to the WH to demand it; students at US colleges are deported and expelled for criticizing QATAR (not Israel); Trump imposed new campus hate speech codes to punish criticisms of QATAR (not Israel); QATARI loyalists (not Israeli loyalists) are buying up all American news, entertainment and social media (CBS/ Paramount/ Warner Bros/ CNN/ TikTok); dual QATARI citizens (not dual Israeli citizens) are Trump's largest funders; a pro-QATAR group (not pro-Israel) pours millions into our political system to keep politicians in line and remove them from office if they don't stay in line, etc.

Who knew, until hearing these grievances from Mark Levin, that it's QATAR (not Israel) driving every prong of US foreign policy and domestic politics?

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

"Hello, Mr. Washington and Jefferson. My name is Mike Huckabee. I'm from the future and am here to tell you that America can only exist if a Jewish state is founded in the Middle East 172 years from now. The entire purpose of America will be to serve this new government."

"See, it's right here in my special Bible that won't be published until 131 years from now. Zionism = Christianity. Zionism = America. Got it? "

Founders: "Excuse me? Do you work for the Redcoats?"

"Paula White, Ted Cruz, Bibi, can you come over here and explain to these men what America is really about."

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

here's JD Vance on Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire network yesterday just casually admitting that the whole purpose of the fake "ceasefire" with Iran is to restock oil and mineral supplies so they can restart the war for Israel again

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

“Congress has blocked the amendment @RepThomasMassie and I introduced to stop the integration of our military with Israel’s. It is unconscionable to not even have a vote. We will be continuing on and will not be intimidated by the pro-Israel lobby.”

-@RoKhanna

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Trump tells the media it's ok he's made billions as President because everyone is.

Have your billions come in? How about even a DOGE check? No?

[vthegrain @vthegrain]

This is so fucking disgusting.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇮🇱: “People call us baby killers but you know what? They're not wrong and we should not be ashamed of it.”

This is Zionism

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Congress is about to permanently wire American intelligence into Israel's genocidal AI kill-list machine.

If they vote yes, Congress won't be able to stop it in the future.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli soldiers arresting a child on his way home from school highlights the harsh conditions Palestinian children endure under occupation: assault, arrest, persecution, torture, and expulsion from their homes.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The level of wilful blindness and emotional immaturity when discussing the 9/11 attack -- a full 25 years later -- is stunning.

The US wasn't chosen randomly. OF COURSE decades of US violence and dominance of the region played a significant role in the attack. Forcing people to pretend this isn't true out of some solemn reverence for this attack is repressive and deceitful. It'd be like saying that Israeli violence and repression played no role in the Oct. 7 attacks.

Even the CIA has a doctrine to observe this causal relationship (blowback). Identifying the cause of X is totally unrelated to the question of whether X is justified.

It's good to see that these dumb attacks are losing their potency as the candidate who said it -- Melat Kiros -- basically won a Congressional seat last night in Colorado, defeating a worthless Democratic incumbent pointlessly filling that seat for 30 years.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American who is a teachers assistant to a college professor is whistleblowing on the tools being used to grade papers

He shows they are now using technology that’s so advanced it can actually playback a person typing an entire paper, it can show all their typing, backspacing, deleting, pace, everything when uploaded to Google Docs to be submitted

He shows the papers aren’t being graded by the professor if these systems flag them as AI generated or using AI tools. A student would just typically automatically be assigned a fail

Now of course a good teacher can also manually review the paper to give a grade but this tool shows how extremely easy it is for a teacher to just have an AI handle things

It can also detect if an AI was used to write the paper

To get around these new detection methods, AI companies are developing better “humanizers” and auto-typers for students

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

It's almost like Conservatives should never listen to these people again.

Took their advice on Coney Barrett.

Took their advice on covid vaccine.

Took their advice on Middle East.

It all failed.

How can you be so consistently wrong?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Hay verdadera histeria entre el servicio de prisiones si la Cruz Roja visita las cárceles de Israel, Si eso ocurre, sería una catástrofe mediática. No permitan que la Cruz Roja entre en nuestras prisiones y visite a los prisioneros bajo ninguna circunstancia".

Galit Distel-Atbaryan, política sionista del partido Likud de Netanyahu, apareció atemorizada en en el parlamento de "Israel" a pedir públicamente que no dejen entrar a la Cruz Roja en las prisiones sionistas, en un claro llamado a ocultar los crímenes que están perpetrando allí dentro contra los palestinos.

No sabemos ni el 10% de lo que estos genocidas están haciendo dentro de sus campos de concentración en "Israel" con los palestinos... deben estar haciendo atrocidades aún mayores de las que ya hemos presenciado para lanzar este grito desesperado ante la Cruz Roja.

[vthegrain @vthegrain]

Theo fucking Von is doing better journalism than 99.999% of the mainstream corporate media.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Theo Von presses Sen. John Kennedy on Gaza and says it feels like Israel is the “terrorist organization.”

Kennedy acknowledges “a lot of people believe that” but points out that “Hamas attacked Israel.”

Theo then reads the death toll of Palestinian children since October 7.

Kennedy fires back and says there’s a problem with his source:

THEO: “It feels like [Israel] are the bullies of the area. It feels like they’re the terrorist organization.”

KENNEDY: “A lot of people believe that. Hamas attacked Israel and the Israelis fight back, and they took over the Gaza Strip. And yes, a lot of Palestinians got hurt.”

THEO: “Not got hurt, got killed.”

KENNEDY: “Got killed and hurt. But Hamas would hold the Gazans hostage. They would put them out front.”

THEO: “But how do we even know that? They killed 220-something journalists that went there to document what was going on.”

KENNEDY: “There’s no question there’s been civilian deaths.”

THEO: “They wouldn’t let journalists in to even document what was happening there.”

KENNEDY: “There have been civilian deaths, but it is primarily the fault—I’m not saying Israel is blameless. Look, war is ugly.”

THEO: “But is this war?”

KENNEDY: “It is war.”

THEO: “You think it’s war? They just had an article yesterday that came out from the UN… Here are some findings of the commission. Israel has killed 20,000 children and injured 44,000 more since October 7, 2023. Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons. This is all part of… United Nations.”

KENNEDY: “Well, first, I wouldn’t believe it if it came from the UN.”

THEO: “Oh, really? Do you feel like they’re not reliable?”

KENNEDY: “They’re not reliable. They’re not objective. And I know children got killed, and it breaks your heart. Hamas kills children, too. So does Hezbollah. So does Iran.”

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🚨Tel Aviv is witnessing rare civil disobedience. A group of Israeli refuseniks are burning their draft papers on the main street. The reason for refusal: 'We will not kill children in Palestine and Lebanon.' The penalty: military prison. But they insist on going to prison rather than enlisting

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled “Shelters” to Begin “Within A Matter of Weeks”

🔸Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced “humanitarian shelters” in areas outside Hamas’s control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza, according to the pro-Netanyahu paper Israel Hayom, which reported the plan approvingly.

🔸Under the plan, unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area Drop Site has documented Israel systematically razing.

🔸A “multinational force” - the ISF - operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace” would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military “continues to maintain and deepen its hold” beyond the Yellow Line.

🔸 The camp/base for the force “has already been built,” and the Board of Peace has “begun identifying sites” for logistics warehouses, with the groundwork underway now, and deployment in the coming weeks.

🔸The paper described the effort as a “pincer movement”: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left “without a population, territory or resources.”

🔸Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza.

◽️The plan matches what Drop Site has previously exposed through leaked documents: a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled “planned community” in Rafah designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon, tracked and screened as a condition of receiving aid.

🔸An Israeli political source told the paper the military would keep up “the pace of targeted killings while remaining below the threshold of international criticism… as long as Hamas is unwilling to disarm.”

📸 The buildup is already visible: the “Board of Peace” itself posted images of tactical vehicles arriving at a logistics base on June 30, matching the article’s account of preparations underway.

[vthegrain @vthegrain]

WORLD, DO SOMETHING! WHERE IS LEADERSHIP?!?! DO WE HAVE LEADERS ANYWHERE AT ALL?

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Jewish-American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, says he witnessed the aftermath of Israeli soldiers tying two Palestinian children’s hands behind their backs and burying them alive at Nasser Hospital, their cries silenced beneath the dirt.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

We just needed 12 more to vote No to stop this trojan-horse bill, because it takes 2/3 to pass under a suspension of the rules.

Too many were afraid to vote against the “KIDS Act” title, or didn’t know what the bill will really do, or just want government to have total control.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!

Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down...

...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them

On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions.

So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up...

...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out."

In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring.

It gets worse.

When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer.

So just to recap:

The contract is expired.
The elected body said no.
Nobody re-authorized it.
Flock won't say what it's doing with the data.

...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history.

It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale.

Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.