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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13h

It's still Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

And may the name of Benjamin Netanyahu be erased.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 7h

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

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mpsbutnot.bsky.social @mpsbutnot.bsky.social · 7h

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Pete Hegseth Fitness Challenge with RFK Jr. #fitness

YouTube video by Cody_talks

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mpsbutnot.bsky.social @mpsbutnot.bsky.social · 16h

‘When I tell Israelis I’m not Jewish but here to help, grown men cry’ - The Telegraph. Absolutely deluded, who do they think this hasbara is going to sway? A white South African pining for apartheid and a male nurse with an unhealthy obsession with young men. The Telegraph is a cesspool.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Yes, Jabotinsky and revisionist Zionists SAID they were colonizers and that Israel was a colonial enterprise, but obviously they didn't MEAN it, says the Jerusalem Post

In Jabotinsky’s lexicon, the term “colonization” meant the return of Jews to their homeland as a people, not at all foreign to the land. They would be engaged in agriculture, industry, and other enterprises that would create the foundations of a state.

As for “native,” Jabotinsky simply meant the Arabs who have resided in the area of the former Judea since their conquest of the Jewish homeland in 638 CE.

To think he saw those individuals, who weren’t even mentioned in the League of Nations Mandate decision, as being somehow more “native” than the Jews is a devilishly ridiculous proposition.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 1d

Watch Claire Magone, MSF General Director, share the harrowing reality of hospitals in #Gaza, from inside #NasserHospital.

We call for an immediate halt to the violence and concrete measures to protect civilians. Israeli authorities must ensure safe access to humanitarian aid.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 20h

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Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 1d

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Dear White Democrats:

The word you're looking for is GENOCIDE. That's what Israel is doing. You won't spontaneously combust if you call evil by its name. It feels good to have a spine.

Sincerely,
Sheryl

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy, And Other Notes

I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/only-israe...

Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy - And Other Notes

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

caitlinjohnstone.substack.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

I encourage you to listen to Greta Thunberg's full statement. Thunberg seeks a just and sustainable world for all, rather than short-term financial gain for the few. The West's political leaders are exposed as complicit, unprincipled or cowardly. End the occupation #SaveGaza #FreePalestine. #auspol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session

MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now

TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Sickening.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 23h

“Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains why Tony Blair should be on trial for war crimes in Iraq, instead of planning to destroy Gaza further with Trump on ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored.’

Read Mehdi’s article on Tony Blair: zeteo.com/p/tony-blair...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 22h

What is one thing our colleagues lost, miss and cannot escape in #Gaza? Hear our staff reflect on living and working through the genocide.

Doctors Without Borders calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the bloodshed.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 1d

👉NEW -- Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

by Irfan Chowdhury

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/why-tony-bla...

Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 21h

“The highlight of this intervention today was when I made these specific arguments — looking directly at the deputy ambassador to the United States...”

Noura Erakat sits down with @premthakker.bsky.social and explains one of the highlights from her remarks at the UN.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 19h

Tories will abolish stamp duty to “revive the housing market”

First time buyers don’t pay it anyway (up to £300k) & the fact the average UK house price is 10x the average salary is the problem, not £5k stamp duty on a £300k house! And then there’s the £24bn lost tax revenue…

Totally deluded 🤦‍♀️

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Just thinking for no reason about the time years ago I was asked by a Rabbi not to return to a synagogue because they were having an Israeli speaker and having a trans person there made the Israelis "uncomfortable."

Since Israel is so welcoming to queer people and all

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 1d

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth.

Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.”

This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

I grew up in Lozells, just a stone’s throw from Handsworth — where much of my family still live and where I went for sixth form. It’s a proud, diverse, working-class community.

Robert Jenrick called it “as close as I’ve come to a slum” and complained he “didn’t see another white face.”

This is white-supremacist thinking dressed up as “legitimate concerns”.

The political and media establishment normalises this racism, but we won’t stay silent. We stand with all our communities and against the far-right.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22h

‼️NEW -- Two years of genocide

By Shaimaa Eid in Gaza

Gaza did not die despite a world that willed its erasure.

www.declassifieduk.org/two-years-of...

Two years of genocide

Gaza did not die despite a world that willed its erasure.

www.declassifieduk.org

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 23h

Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.

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