evidentiary
@evidentiary.bsky.social
Started studying war history (mostly WW2) as a hobby/lens to understand society. Now following wars in Ukraine, Syria, Israel in real time
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In favor of a ceasefire:
Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%
Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%
All voters 66%
All House members 4%
Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%
Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%
All voters 66%
All House members 4%
Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
November 11, 2023 at 3:10 AM
In favor of a ceasefire:
Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%
Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%
All voters 66%
All House members 4%
Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
Democratic voters 80%
House Democrats 8%
Republican voters 56%
House Republicans 0%
All voters 66%
All House members 4%
Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
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There are corrupt politicians and power grabbers who don't care who is harmed, and there are innocent civilians who just want to be safe and free, whatever that might look like.
That's what we have here.
That's what we have here.
Opinion | A brief history of the Netanyahu-Hamas alliance
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www.haaretz.com
October 25, 2023 at 3:45 PM
There are corrupt politicians and power grabbers who don't care who is harmed, and there are innocent civilians who just want to be safe and free, whatever that might look like.
That's what we have here.
That's what we have here.
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Here’s a second shot of the eclipse where you can see “Baily’s beads”… the sun shining through the mountains and valleys on the moon.
October 14, 2023 at 8:58 PM
Here’s a second shot of the eclipse where you can see “Baily’s beads”… the sun shining through the mountains and valleys on the moon.
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Look I know you have a lot on your plate right now and it’s stressing you out but I’m gonna need you to abandon it all to lie still and become unconscious for about eight hours and if you can’t relax enough to do that your brain will destroy itself and everything will be so much worse. Sweet dreams!
October 19, 2023 at 2:16 AM
Look I know you have a lot on your plate right now and it’s stressing you out but I’m gonna need you to abandon it all to lie still and become unconscious for about eight hours and if you can’t relax enough to do that your brain will destroy itself and everything will be so much worse. Sweet dreams!
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The Biden people have absolutely no idea how pissed off young people are. Like literally no idea.
October 19, 2023 at 3:20 PM
The Biden people have absolutely no idea how pissed off young people are. Like literally no idea.
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i was nervous to publish this for so many reasons, but i did it anyway. as i write, it’s time to be brave.
i hope you’ll read it.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...
i hope you’ll read it.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...
October 19, 2023 at 4:29 PM
i was nervous to publish this for so many reasons, but i did it anyway. as i write, it’s time to be brave.
i hope you’ll read it.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...
i hope you’ll read it.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...
Hamas is willing to release all civilian hostages if Israel stops airstrikes - MSNBC
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
Hamas says civilians could be quickly released if Israeli airstrikes stop
A senior Hamas leader said that the group is willing to release all civilian hostages if Israel stops carrying out airstrikes. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on his conversation Hamas leadership an...
www.msnbc.com
October 18, 2023 at 6:23 AM
Hamas is willing to release all civilian hostages if Israel stops airstrikes - MSNBC
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
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It was almost epiphanal that I simply don't have to live like this. I can live my life without the constant psychic intervention of Catturd2. I can go to the circus and the opera and Wrestlemania and try to accept beauty.
I and you don't owe the horrors—or the people rooting them on—jack shit.
I and you don't owe the horrors—or the people rooting them on—jack shit.
October 17, 2023 at 4:24 PM
It was almost epiphanal that I simply don't have to live like this. I can live my life without the constant psychic intervention of Catturd2. I can go to the circus and the opera and Wrestlemania and try to accept beauty.
I and you don't owe the horrors—or the people rooting them on—jack shit.
I and you don't owe the horrors—or the people rooting them on—jack shit.
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MSNBC reporting that Hamas has offered to release foreign hostages with no preconditions. 4:53pm
October 16, 2023 at 8:53 PM
MSNBC reporting that Hamas has offered to release foreign hostages with no preconditions. 4:53pm
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The war has nothing to do with the hostages. It is an overt abandonment of every single one of them.
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
October 17, 2023 at 5:59 PM
The war has nothing to do with the hostages. It is an overt abandonment of every single one of them.
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
inews.co.uk/news/world/b...
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Something people need to understand about the American response to the war in Israel: Jews AND Muslims are going to be increasingly targeted for hate speech and hate crimes.
This will come mostly from extremist white Christians.
This is exactly why solidarity matters right now.
This will come mostly from extremist white Christians.
This is exactly why solidarity matters right now.
October 16, 2023 at 7:39 PM
Something people need to understand about the American response to the war in Israel: Jews AND Muslims are going to be increasingly targeted for hate speech and hate crimes.
This will come mostly from extremist white Christians.
This is exactly why solidarity matters right now.
This will come mostly from extremist white Christians.
This is exactly why solidarity matters right now.
@AmiDar on Twitter
Some people have asked, "What would you do if you were in Netanyahu's place?" After thinking about this, here's what I would have done last week: Nothing. Nothing at all. Not one bullet—at least not for a while. I would have said, ...
Some people have asked, "What would you do if you were in Netanyahu's place?" After thinking about this, here's what I would have done last week: Nothing. Nothing at all. Not one bullet—at least not for a while. I would have said, ...
October 17, 2023 at 6:18 AM
@AmiDar on Twitter
Some people have asked, "What would you do if you were in Netanyahu's place?" After thinking about this, here's what I would have done last week: Nothing. Nothing at all. Not one bullet—at least not for a while. I would have said, ...
Some people have asked, "What would you do if you were in Netanyahu's place?" After thinking about this, here's what I would have done last week: Nothing. Nothing at all. Not one bullet—at least not for a while. I would have said, ...
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Thomas Friedman comes out against a Gaza invasion.
If Friedman is against it, you better believe Jews in America are not united on this topic.
Jewish institutions and mainstream media need to stop making it seem like Jews are a monolithic group on this.
If Friedman is against it, you better believe Jews in America are not united on this topic.
Jewish institutions and mainstream media need to stop making it seem like Jews are a monolithic group on this.
Opinion | Why a Gaza Invasion and ‘Once and for All’ Thinking Are Wrong for Israel
The Netanyahu government and President Biden have smarter options.
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Thomas Friedman comes out against a Gaza invasion.
If Friedman is against it, you better believe Jews in America are not united on this topic.
Jewish institutions and mainstream media need to stop making it seem like Jews are a monolithic group on this.
If Friedman is against it, you better believe Jews in America are not united on this topic.
Jewish institutions and mainstream media need to stop making it seem like Jews are a monolithic group on this.
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The origin of so many dark moments in human history is the belief that, “If only this group didn’t exist, all our problems would be solved.”
October 15, 2023 at 7:25 PM
The origin of so many dark moments in human history is the belief that, “If only this group didn’t exist, all our problems would be solved.”
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(To spell it out more clearly: This is the inevitable next thing that happens when a state focuses 80% of its military power on occupying another people; eventually it must devote state power to suppressing discussion of what the military really does in order to keep that people under Occupation.
October 15, 2023 at 6:46 PM
(To spell it out more clearly: This is the inevitable next thing that happens when a state focuses 80% of its military power on occupying another people; eventually it must devote state power to suppressing discussion of what the military really does in order to keep that people under Occupation.
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There is so much to grieve right now.
Question 8: Hatred or Grief?
Responding to the crisis in Israel and Gaza
open.substack.com
October 15, 2023 at 12:54 AM
There is so much to grieve right now.
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"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."
Statement by Congressman Jamie Raskin: “The Terrorist Attacks on Israel, Israel’s Right of Self...
raskin.house.gov
October 15, 2023 at 1:35 PM
"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."
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I wrote this last week, but it honestly feels even more relevant now.
People are acting like war has to happen, as if it’s just a natural reaction to the horror we witnessed. Not only that, like the war has to happen *this way*.
Neither is true.
Read: eladnehorai.substack.com/p/this-war-i...
People are acting like war has to happen, as if it’s just a natural reaction to the horror we witnessed. Not only that, like the war has to happen *this way*.
Neither is true.
Read: eladnehorai.substack.com/p/this-war-i...
This War Isn't Inevitable
On 9/11, we saw horrors we couldn't imagine. It made us feel like there was only one solution: war. As we witness the horrors of Israel, it is easy to feel the same. We would be wrong.
eladnehorai.substack.com
October 15, 2023 at 4:47 AM
I wrote this last week, but it honestly feels even more relevant now.
People are acting like war has to happen, as if it’s just a natural reaction to the horror we witnessed. Not only that, like the war has to happen *this way*.
Neither is true.
Read: eladnehorai.substack.com/p/this-war-i...
People are acting like war has to happen, as if it’s just a natural reaction to the horror we witnessed. Not only that, like the war has to happen *this way*.
Neither is true.
Read: eladnehorai.substack.com/p/this-war-i...
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The biggest lie being spread about the war is that it has anything to do with saving the hostages.
The Israeli government is sacrificing the safety of the hostages specifically in order to wage the war.
Any other framing is a dishonest or ignorant way of justifying the war.
The Israeli government is sacrificing the safety of the hostages specifically in order to wage the war.
Any other framing is a dishonest or ignorant way of justifying the war.
October 15, 2023 at 5:24 AM
The biggest lie being spread about the war is that it has anything to do with saving the hostages.
The Israeli government is sacrificing the safety of the hostages specifically in order to wage the war.
Any other framing is a dishonest or ignorant way of justifying the war.
The Israeli government is sacrificing the safety of the hostages specifically in order to wage the war.
Any other framing is a dishonest or ignorant way of justifying the war.
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Palestinians living in Gaza are running out of clean water and will die from severe dehydration soon.
- Gazans are barely urinating due to a lack of hydration.
- Gazans are drinking water that is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater.
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- Gazans are barely urinating due to a lack of hydration.
- Gazans are drinking water that is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater.
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Lack of water worsens misery in besieged Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue
In the besieged Gaza Strip, 2.3 million people don’t have access to clean, running water because of Israel’s decision to cut off water and electricity to the enclave while pounding it with airstri...
apnews.com
October 15, 2023 at 2:57 AM
Palestinians living in Gaza are running out of clean water and will die from severe dehydration soon.
- Gazans are barely urinating due to a lack of hydration.
- Gazans are drinking water that is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater.
Read More:
- Gazans are barely urinating due to a lack of hydration.
- Gazans are drinking water that is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater.
Read More: