Israel has mandatory universal, socialist healthcare. USA politicians claim America can’t afford it, while they ship trillions to Israel

Summary of the Trump admin's comms:

Iran may have nuclear weapons but our intelligence shows they do not but they probably do but we have the best intelligence in the world but our intelligence is probably wrong and we're not going to ask why our intelligence is wrong but it probably is.

“Syrian Christians and Syrians”?? Most Syrians maintain that they are one people and hate this sectarian division.

I’m sure others have said it before: the most powerful man on earth is not Donald Trump. It’s Benjamin Netanyahu, leading the US by the nose.

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

She inhaled trace amounts of empathy and her body went into anaphylactic shock.

To recap—the only nation that’s ever used nuclear weapons on civilians, is backing a nation that has 200 nuclear weapons yet denies their existence, to threaten a nation that doesn’t have any nuclear weapons with annihilation if it doesn’t unconditionally surrender its sovereignty

Are we great yet?

NEW: A far-right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag was flown above the Small Business Administration's headquarters in DC.

The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home.

from me and @telliotter.bsky.social:

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

At Friends cafe in Damascus. People all over carrying on, business as usual.

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"Trump imagines Gaza as an empty lot up for sale. But Gaza is not just land; it's home to more than two million people."

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Ahmed al-Sharaa thanked the US president, saying the decision to lift sanctions would 'open a new chapter enabling the reconstruction of Syria', according to the Saudi Press Agency. www.ft.com/content/23af...

More than a year has passed since settlers and soldiers assaulted Palestinians and left activists in the West Bank. No one has been charged

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Honestly, #Syria should be trending now.

First picture of a freed Edan Alexander. red Cross reported to IDF he was able to walk under his own power "with help"

Itay Blumenthal reports Alexander having been kept in a cage, shackled and handcuffed, alongside other hostages

Welcome to Jobar, the Damascus suburb that suffered Assad’s infamous barrel bombs. Total destruction.