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making the move

[Thing1 319ppm @withthing2]

'The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater.'

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I don't have "deep insights" about Americans as a species.

I have memory.

And I have pattern recognition sharpened by what it means to live under the consequences of decisions Americans call "foreign policy."

You grow up Vietnamese, you learn early that there are two parallel realities:

The one you live through.

And the one narrated about you on American television, in speeches, in films, in history books.

My family lived through the moment when American abstractions like "credibility" and "containing communism" stopped sounding strategic and became physical:

Bomb craters. Refugee boats. Bodies.

You watch villages renamed "collateral."

You watch coups renamed "restoring democracy."

You watch blockades renamed "pressure for reform."

You watch your dead filed away as "tragedy" so that no one has to call them what they were: crimes.

After a while, you stop getting angry at every sentence.

You start studying the grammar.

Who gets to remain human in the story.

Who gets turned into an adjective.

Whose violence is "regrettable," and whose resistance is "terrorism."

Which lives are allowed complexity, and which lives are flattened into body counts, talking points, and background noise.

Then you hear Americans speak about entirely different places, entirely different wars, entirely different enemies, and the same grammar is still there:

"Intervention" instead of invasion.

"Stability" instead of control.

"Responsibility" instead of domination.

"Sanctions" instead of siege.

If you grow up with that long enough, you learn that what empire calls "responsibility" usually means someone far away is about to bleed.

That's where my "insight" comes from.

From watching the same software run on different hardware.

From listening closely to the metaphors they don't even notice they're using anymore.

From realizing that, for a lot of good, ordinary people, this isn't malice. It's the water they were raised in.

The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater.

So when I write about American exceptionalism, I'm not claiming mystical access to "your people."

I am describing the hallucination I've been forced to survive under since I was born.

And once you see the pattern from outside the blast radius, it becomes almost impossible not to see it everywhere.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Fantastic news!

The billionaires have their media.

We need these independent alternatives!

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Horrible, disgusting, awful footage.

It should be shown on every network news outlet tonight.

And if the baby were Israeli, instead of Palestinian, it would be.

Instead, baby Sam Abu Haikal’s murder will be ignored by the media—like every other Israeli war crime for 2.5 years.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away.

Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA has just withdrawn ALL the World Cup tickets supplied to Iran, meaning that none of their supporters will be able to attend their games.

Donald Trump is banning Referees and banning supporters, he is trying to fix the World Cup.

The USA have to be disqualified.

[The Lucky Heron @LuckyHeronSay]

@sahouraxo @roisinmor

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli soldiers shot a 7 month old baby dead.

They then lied about it.

This is what the Israeli state does.

They commit war crimes, lie about it, commit more war crimes, lie about it, in an endless cycle of murderous horror.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

When we've lost control of the basics of life - water, housing, energy - it's clear the system is not working.

Governments are being forced to spend more and more money tackling the day-to-day failings of this failed economic model.

The solution? More investment and public control over those basics of life.

I spoke about this on Peston last night.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temperatures warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention. #climate #globalwarming #science #climatechange

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A thread of relentless horror stories of Israeli atrocities witnessed by foreign doctors who volunteered in Gaza.

Somehow none of it had the impact of Israel's entirely made-up stories about Hamas beheading babies.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"He venido a tomar tu casa, para eso estoy aquí. Quizás no te robe tu casa mañana, ni pasado, pero te juro que me la quedaré, creéme. Puedes ir haciendo las maletas y llevarte a tus hijos. Y si sales, acabarás en el hospital".

Colonos sionistas amenazan con robarle la casa a palestinos en Hebrón (Cisjordania), acuden a la puerta de las familias palestinas y le dicen que se quedarán con su casa como si tal cosa.

Así funciona el apartheid y la limpieza étnica sionista, con el acoso, la persecución y el saqueo.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

It is okay to be Jewish.

It is okay to attend your local synagogue.

It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.

It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Thank you to the 140 honourable members of the U.K. Parliament for signing a letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper calling for accountability and sanctions against Israel, including a total ban on trading with the illegal settlements.

Over to the U.K. government.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Yes showing a picture of solar panels over a car park is very graphic indeed and likely to cause great distress
What a pathetic world we live in

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

You cannot wear a Watermelon or Palestinian flag, but you can commit war crimes.

Make it make sense.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Did you know Israel is the only state to have legalised torture through a Supreme Court ruling?

There was no accountability after a Palestinian detainee was filmed being raped by a dog at Sde Teiman in 2024.

Watch the Al Jazeera original now: https://t.co/oujWTf4lRP

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

What a team!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Sections of the media are just absolute bullshit.

They've always been a problem - but now they're literally lying and making up things that have never been said.

The only way to defeat the billionaire media is to organise around them.

Join us:

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp