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Politicians are debating the lawfulness of secondary strikes, but all strikes are illegal.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
Tell Congress: Stop illegal military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific
Since Sept. 2, the U.S. has bombed multiple boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, killing at least 83 people. The Trump administration claims this is part of a new “armed conflict” with “narco-traff...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Politicians are debating the lawfulness of secondary strikes, but all strikes are illegal.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
This is not war. The U.S. is murdering people at sea.
Tell Congress to stop the Trump admin from leading us into another forever war.
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Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
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It’s not just the appalling strike on survivors.
*All* of the Trump admin’s lawless boat strikes are acts of murder. ⬇️
*All* of the Trump admin’s lawless boat strikes are acts of murder. ⬇️
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It’s not just the appalling strike on survivors.
*All* of the Trump admin’s lawless boat strikes are acts of murder. ⬇️
*All* of the Trump admin’s lawless boat strikes are acts of murder. ⬇️
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📣 War is not the answer -- overseas or at home.
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
October 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
📣 War is not the answer -- overseas or at home.
“Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza meets “the legal definition of genocide”….Israel’s response violates all 5 conditions set out in the 1948 convention.
….Any 1 of the conditions would be sufficient for a finding of genocide.”
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….Any 1 of the conditions would be sufficient for a finding of genocide.”
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says — The Washington Post
Israel’s foreign ministry called the resolution “disgraceful,” but it added to a growing chorus from rights groups concluding that Israel is committing genocide.
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September 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza meets “the legal definition of genocide”….Israel’s response violates all 5 conditions set out in the 1948 convention.
….Any 1 of the conditions would be sufficient for a finding of genocide.”
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….Any 1 of the conditions would be sufficient for a finding of genocide.”
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Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel: Poll
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Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel: Poll | Common Dreams
A new Quinnipiac poll shows that a majority of Americans and 3 in 4 Democrats want the US to suspend weapons to Israel, meaning that Democratic politicians who vote for them "are acting in direct defi...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Clear Majority of US Voters, Including 3 in 4 Democrats, Want to End Weapons Support to Israel: Poll
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August 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Today 100+ orgs issued a statement in opposition to Israel’s obstruction of aid & efforts to ban aid organizations. The consequences are deadly; in Gaza people are starving while most INGOs have been blocked from delivering lifesaving supplies for months. afsc.org/newsroom/100...
#CeasefireNow
#CeasefireNow
100+ groups speak out against Israel’s efforts to obstruct and ban aid organizations
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August 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Today 100+ orgs issued a statement in opposition to Israel’s obstruction of aid & efforts to ban aid organizations. The consequences are deadly; in Gaza people are starving while most INGOs have been blocked from delivering lifesaving supplies for months. afsc.org/newsroom/100...
#CeasefireNow
#CeasefireNow
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We must demand that Congress and the White House protect Social Security for current and future generations!
August 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We must demand that Congress and the White House protect Social Security for current and future generations!
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Social Security is hands down America's most popular government program.
The people in charge say we "can't afford" Social Security anymore.
But these are the same people who stop paying into the program after they make $176,100.
Read that again.
Exactly. Scrap the cap.
The people in charge say we "can't afford" Social Security anymore.
But these are the same people who stop paying into the program after they make $176,100.
Read that again.
Exactly. Scrap the cap.
August 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Social Security is hands down America's most popular government program.
The people in charge say we "can't afford" Social Security anymore.
But these are the same people who stop paying into the program after they make $176,100.
Read that again.
Exactly. Scrap the cap.
The people in charge say we "can't afford" Social Security anymore.
But these are the same people who stop paying into the program after they make $176,100.
Read that again.
Exactly. Scrap the cap.
August 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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For our colleague, Yousef, we will remember the stories and hopes of Somaiya, Anas, Hoor, and Sham. And we will continue demanding an end to this genocide and Israeli violence.
On Aug. 6, Yousef's sister, her husband, and two children were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit their apartment.
On Aug. 6, Yousef's sister, her husband, and two children were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit their apartment.
On grief and being the only survivor in your family in Gaza
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August 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For our colleague, Yousef, we will remember the stories and hopes of Somaiya, Anas, Hoor, and Sham. And we will continue demanding an end to this genocide and Israeli violence.
On Aug. 6, Yousef's sister, her husband, and two children were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit their apartment.
On Aug. 6, Yousef's sister, her husband, and two children were killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit their apartment.
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"Murder. Plain and simple.”
A sobering statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the Israeli military's killing of prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his crew in Gaza:
cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
A sobering statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the Israeli military's killing of prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his crew in Gaza:
cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by Israel’s killing in Gaza on Sunday of five Al Jazeera staff — correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh and camer...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"Murder. Plain and simple.”
A sobering statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the Israeli military's killing of prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his crew in Gaza:
cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
A sobering statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists on the Israeli military's killing of prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his crew in Gaza:
cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
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As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.
It’s Not Just 'Netanyahu': The Rise of Liberals’ One Bad Man Theory to Explain Away Gaza Genocide
Attempts to pin the horrors on “Netanyahu" obscure the reality of just how popular genocide is with US elites and within Israel itself.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.
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America's most prestigious universities fundamentally believe in nothing except themselves. Their capacity to lose ideological battles is therefore infinite.
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Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully
How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
America's most prestigious universities fundamentally believe in nothing except themselves. Their capacity to lose ideological battles is therefore infinite.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/negotiatin...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/negotiatin...
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Cory Booker (D-NJ) voted against Bernie’s resolution to block sales of assault rifles to Israel.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
July 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Cory Booker (D-NJ) voted against Bernie’s resolution to block sales of assault rifles to Israel.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
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EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”
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What will they do now that they tell us their eyes are open?
The Belated Voices Against The U.S.-Israeli Genocide of The Palestinians
Why did the onset of famine, and not any of the previous 21 months of collective slaughter, not compel them to speak out?
www.forever-wars.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What will they do now that they tell us their eyes are open?
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Actually, we don't need to waste time on the precious feelings of powerful people who are only saying "gee, something's not right in Gaza" two years into a genocide. It is literally too late for this bullshit. (Me in @discourseblog.com) www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...
It Is Literally Too Late For This Bullshit
You get zero points for suddenly noticing something bad is happening in Gaza.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Actually, we don't need to waste time on the precious feelings of powerful people who are only saying "gee, something's not right in Gaza" two years into a genocide. It is literally too late for this bullshit. (Me in @discourseblog.com) www.discourseblog.com/p/it-is-lite...
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The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
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agree. disappointed in my senators, unfortunately not surprised tho.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
agree. disappointed in my senators, unfortunately not surprised tho.
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With our “free market economy” it should be easy to determine the market clearing wage that will bring Americans to these jobs. It doesn’t appear that $20/hr is the proper wage.
"Why not hire Americans?" Well . . .
'Glenn Valley paid well, with an average hourly wage of almost $20 and regular bonuses, but employees stood on a manufacturing line for as much as 10 hours a day, six days a week, and processed hundreds of pounds of meat through dangerous machinery.'
'Glenn Valley paid well, with an average hourly wage of almost $20 and regular bonuses, but employees stood on a manufacturing line for as much as 10 hours a day, six days a week, and processed hundreds of pounds of meat through dangerous machinery.'
July 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
With our “free market economy” it should be easy to determine the market clearing wage that will bring Americans to these jobs. It doesn’t appear that $20/hr is the proper wage.