zedfour

40+ software dev living on the Best Coast. I sometimes get high and tweet about politics.

[zedfour @zedfour1]

Too bad Duffy isn’t politically savvy, or he would catch the implication that New York might *stop* sending that money.

[Acyn @Acyn]

GIllibrand: It is not appropriate for a secretary to demean an entire state with that joke.

Duffy: We’re going to give $8 billion to rebuild Penn Station. Is that a joke?

Gillibrand: With our tax dollars. You got that money because we gave it to you—from New Yorkers.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

After 80 years of mass murder, and today aggression in Iran, ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, genocide in Palestine, corruption of governments across the West, and the fielding of racist proxies to harass human rights defenders everywhere, no, Israel does not have “a right to exist” and does not have “a right to defend itself” anymore than Nazi Germany did. It must be isolated, weakened, defeated, and dismantled. The peace of the world and the rights of millions depend upon it.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

this is what every world leader should be saying and doing right now.

[Mr Pomble @realmrpomble]

The ruler is beefing with the pope, his legions have fought to a stalemate with Persia, now typhus is breaking out in a major city, oh yeah it’s late antiquity out there

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655.

290 people.

66 of them were children.

A civilian airliner, flying a scheduled commercial route, broadcasting its identification codes, operating within Iranian airspace, was destroyed by a missile fired by an American warship.

The captain of the USS Vincennes, William C. Rogers III, was later awarded the Legion of Merit, one of the highest military decorations in the United States, for his service during the period that included the shootdown.

The United States never apologized.

The U.S. government eventually paid $61.8 million in compensation to the families, without admitting legal liability and without any formal apology.

290 people.

66 children.

A medal for the captain.

No apology.

Now consider how Iranian actions against American interests are covered.

Consider the language used.

Consider the moral weight assigned.

Consider how many times you have heard the USS Vincennes discussed in mainstream Western coverage of Iranian-American tensions.

You haven't.

Because the architecture of consciousness requires that Iranian grievances not fully exist.

Requires that they be acknowledged, if at all, as context, a paragraph of background before the real story, which is always the Iranian threat, the Iranian aggression, the Iranian program that must be stopped.

290 people fell out of the sky because an American warship shot them down.

The captain got a medal.

And Iran is the irrational, dangerous, threatening party in this relationship.

Hold that. Feel the full weight of it.

That is what they need you to forget.

[zedfour @zedfour1]

My god, they hit the school to ensure there would be pictures of the effects.

[Catholic West 🇻🇦 @_CatholicWest]

We used an experimental missile on a girl's volleyball class in Iran. Thousands of little tungsten balls shredded their bodies, some as young as 10 years old

Our iniquities testify against us. We are corporately guilty. We have sinned as a nation in this war and others.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

People love to avoid criticism of Zionism by focusing on Netanyahu and Likud, but the data make clear they are waging war and genocide with the full consent of the Jewish Israeli public. Zionism is the problem.

[Nooshin Samimi نوشین صمیمی @nsamimi9]

I don’t normally push my culture on ppl but this year I’m texting all my American friends to remind them that the Earth has just begun a new cycle around the sun and that Persians formalized this moment as Nowruz (beginning a new year at the spring equinox) over 2,500 years ago.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The response to this is rather strange.

Did anyone sensible seriously think that Israel and the US could assassinate a literal head of state, and that this wouldn’t normalise…political assassinations?

[Mauricio Lapchik @MauricioLapchik]

War criminal Netanyahu should have been stopped as soon as the genocide in Gaza began.

Instead, world leaders continued to shake his blood-stained hands, and now we are all paying the price.

[zedfour @zedfour1]

Funny joke, but Thiel is actually dangerous.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Government of the tech bros, by the tech bros, for the tech bros

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

Pam Bondi is holding a “briefing” with the Oversight Committee. I believe she’s doing this to evade her subpoena. It’s structured exactly like a hearing except she’s NOT under oath & there’s no transcription or video.

We just walked out. We’ll see her at her sworn deposition.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Iran has issued a "6-point statement" aimed at Muslims and Muslim governments. It's consistent with their message from the beginning, but likely aims to win or consolidate popular support across Muslim/Arab worlds while embarrassing the governments. Here's a quick translation offered for reporting and analysis:

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

To Muslims around the world and to the governments of Islamic countries:

1. Iran has been subjected to a deceptive American–Zionist aggression that occurred during negotiations, with the aim of dismantling Iran. This aggression led to the martyrdom of the great and self-sacrificing leader of the Islamic Revolution, as well as a number of civilians and military commanders. However, the aggressors were met with firm national and Islamic resistance from the Iranian people.

2. You know that, except for rare cases and only within the limits of political positions, no Islamic state has stood by the Iranian people. Nevertheless, the Iranian people, with their strong will, were able to suppress the attacking enemy until it has now become unable to find a way out of this strategic impasse.

3. Iran is continuing on the path of resistance in confronting the Greater Satan and the Lesser Satan, meaning the United States and Israel. But is the position of some Islamic governments not contradictory to the saying of the Prophet: "Whoever hears a man calling 'O Muslims!' and does not respond to him is not a Muslim." So what kind of Islam is this?

4. Some countries have gone even further than that, saying that Iran has become an enemy to them because it targeted American bases and American and Israeli interests on their lands. Is Iran expected to stand idly by while American bases in your countries are used to attack it? This is a flimsy pretext. The confrontation today is between America and Israel on one side, and Iran, the Muslim nation, and the forces of resistance on the other. So which side will you stand with?

5. Think about the future of the Islamic world. You know that America has no loyalty to you and that Israel is your enemy. Pause for a moment and reflect on yourselves and on the future of the region. Iran is sincere in advising you and does not seek to dominate you.

6. The unity of the Islamic Ummah, if achieved with full strength, is capable of guaranteeing security, progress, and independence for all its countries.

Assalu Alaykum

A servant among the servants of God,

Ali Larijani

[Anti-Andrew Wakefield @BillieNyelish]

This is fuckin funny. I just saw a twt about how Isntreali data centers getting bombed took a huge swath of bots off Twitter, so I wanna try something:

*COVID isn't over. Masks fuckin work. The gov'ment is lying to you about airborne pathogens.*

I need this on a t-shirt.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

https://t.co/5Vnv06bzmY

[zedfour @zedfour1]

@FBIBoston @ericgarland Hey @FBISeattle, maybe seek some advice from these folks?

[san jose hockey western european pr department @hockeyjtm]

my heart breaks for that 18 year old girl who gave an interview post-practice about being so excited to be an olympian only for a truly disturbing amount of grown men talking about her in a rancid vile hypersexualised way... we all need to get more feminist now it's not funny

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Protestor: That’s the one who [sexually assaulted me while I was detained]

ICE Agent: And you liked it.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

TODAY: Journalist Don Lemon is set to be arraigned on federal criminal charges in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church.

The case is far from the slam dunk some Justice Department officials have portrayed it to be.

We explain ⬇️⬇️

https://t.co/5Vnv06bzmY