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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

This is the clip in which MSNBC Eugene Daniels asked Harris whether Israel is committing genocide. The full quote can be seen in the post above, but an excerpt:

" we should all step back and ask this question and be honest about it, yeah.”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

area vegan thinks mass murder of brown people is a loaded ethical question

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

Whereas Harris told MSNBC that she believes whether or not Israel has committed genocide is a fair and honest question to ask, Cory Booker explicitly said to the "I've Had it" podcast that he thinks addressing the question of whether Netanyahu has committed crimes would undermine resolving conflict.

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Disgraziato @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5d

you'd never know from New Jersey's representation in Congress that we are, depending on whose count you use, either the most or second-most Muslim state in the union and an established hub of the Palestinian-American community in specific

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

Whereas Harris told MSNBC that she believes whether or not Israel has committed genocide is a fair and honest question to ask, Cory Booker explicitly said to the "I've Had it" podcast that he thinks addressing the question of whether Netanyahu has committed crimes would undermine resolving conflict.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5d

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP

If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.

internationalpolicy.org

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Jacopo Belbo @hikmah786.bsky.social · 13d

Every accusation is a confession

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 13d

Bill C2 in Canada will create this kind of force. It must not be allowed.

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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 13d

"Surely the President that refused to give up power in 2020, turbocharged ICE with sacks of cash, and recently conducted an Air Assault operation on a Chicago apartment complex will allow Dems to take control of Congress come January"

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Jacopo Belbo @hikmah786.bsky.social · 15d

The video for Nobody Speak makes me laugh.

youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY

DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels (Official Video)

YouTube video by Mass Appeal

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23d

So the House Oversight Committee Democrats put out a tiny portion of the third batch of files they got via subpoena as they evaluate how the US handled the Epstein case... Not Earth-shattering but Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Gates all mentioned in this partially redacted document dump.

Musk, Thiel, Bannon named in partially redacted Epstein documents released by Democrats

In partially redacted files released by House Democrats appeared the names of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon.

www.cnbc.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23d

A third batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. They mention Elon Musk, Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 17d

"[C]urrently no independent oversight body to deal with Indigenous people's issues."

"[S]ix years since the idea arose among the Calls to Action in the 2019 Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls."

"[W]e haven't heard much response."
#Ontario #Saskatchewan #Canada #Genocide

How is there still no office for Indigenous rights complaints?

Six years after MMIWG Calls to Action, Canada still has no ombudsman on Indigenous and human rights

ricochet.media

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19d

There are actually a bunch of Dems who are thoughtful & smart on tech policy

@aoc.bsky.social and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social opposed the TikTok ban, oppose KOSA, support privacy and antitrust

@wyden.senate.gov defends encryption, section 230

But party leaders keep listening to the worst members

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pdsc @gucc.us · 19d

ya know, just like the Famous Poem:

first they came for the Communists.
and I said, "fuck yeah! those absolute rubes had it coming!"
Because I was absolutely NOT one of those guys, thank god... i mean, amirite fellas?
wait why are you pointing that at me?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19d

Judge Young launches into a tirade against ICE; Acting Director Lyons' testimony was "disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable," that "ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence," and that "ICE brings indelible [disgrace] to this admin[] and everyone who works in it."

And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19d

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 29

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

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Jacopo Belbo @hikmah786.bsky.social · 21d

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"

YouTube video by tubmanss

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21d

UNReliefChief: Kids dying of starvation, effectively their bodies consuming their own organs, what we give them to try and avoid that is this high protein peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring it in because it’s a luxury

amanpour: Seriously?

Tom: Seriously

Peanut Butter

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Jacopo Belbo @hikmah786.bsky.social · 23d

And I should not leave out a great book by Stephen Jay Gould

The Mismeasure of Man, here downloadable as a free pdf
tankona.free.fr/gould1981.pdf

tankona.free.fr

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Jacopo Belbo @hikmah786.bsky.social · 23d

Documentary based on book by the same title by Edwin Black
www.imdb.com/title/tt1377...

Book by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents share.google/I3iDCD0j5btV...

Book by Angela Saini
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/607248...

War Against the Weak (2009) ⭐ 8.5 | Documentary

1h 30m

www.imdb.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23d

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

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