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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty much the premise of this book, which I just finished reading.

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

Bizarre. In one sentence, AP cites “Administration officials” as denying that the $20B for Argentina has “any ties to the upcoming midterms”. In the 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, Trump admits it’s about “taking over a great country”! 🤦‍♂️

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

Words not appearing in this AP article about the most recent US murder of people in international waters in the Caribbean? “Illegal”, “international law”, and “provided no evidence”.

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

Sharing the WaPo obituary of legendary trans activist Miss Major: wapo.st/48wsP12

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe they’re just embarrassed to admit to supporting genocide, and hope if they hide their identity they won’t be confronted on it. And the concrete examples given in this WaPo article of “antisemitism” are quite revealing, and no surprise.

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

Entire books have been written (e.g., “Rogue State” by William Blum) about the US lack of respect for “the rule of law & democracy overseas”!

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 15h

OMG. Did the WaPo really imply that the US has a history of promoting “the rule of law & democracy overseas,” & that Trump asking for a Netanyahu pardon was a break from that? 🤦‍♂️ They don’t even have to go back to a day or two earlier when Trump illegally killed Venezuelans!

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t “mobsters and President Donald Trump” redundant?

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says if Hamas doesn’t disarm the US will disarm them. Yeah, I’m sure that will go over really well with the American people, as the Americans start returning in body bags like the Israelis did, and have no more success than they did.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 1d

And this one is a 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑒 war crime, using food (starvation) as a weapon against the civilian population.

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

Posts about people returning to their homes are designed to elicit a sense of conclusion, of normality, that simply does not exist when Israel dropped the equivalent of multiple nuclear weapons on an area the size of Seattle.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

9. California may still pass progressive legislation, but leadership is measured not by symbolic gestures—it’s measured by the courage to act when it matters. And when it came to the bill that could have made the most tangible difference for trans people this year, Gavin Newsom failed that test.

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 1d

The fish rots from the head.

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 1d

Back again today.

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 1d

Surprisingly lengthy coverage of Palestinians released by Israel yesterday, highlighting the mistreatment they faced in Israeli captivity. Though as usual they’re all referred to as “prisoners”, even those who have never been charged or convicted of any crime. A.k.a. “hostages”.

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

Cooper’s Hawk waiting for a meal to fly in. Not happening!
#iPhonePhotosFromMyCouch
@skwinnicki.bsky.social
@gregneise.bsky.social
@jordantyranny.bsky.social

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is as qualified to run Gaza as Baron Trump is to sit on the board of TikTok.

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

The guy who can’t keep his own government running is going to be in charge of running Gaza. 🤣🤣🤣

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

And a RSHA from this morning’s run!
#iPhonePhotosOnTheRun

Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

Cooper’s Hawk waiting for a meal to fly in. Not happening!
#iPhonePhotosFromMyCouch
@skwinnicki.bsky.social
@gregneise.bsky.social
@jordantyranny.bsky.social

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

“Who Are the Hostages Released From Captivity in Gaza?” A question the NYT doesn’t dare ask about the Palestinian hostages being released. Because if they used the usual word they use to describe them — “prisoners” — it would quickly become apparent how inaccurate that word was for most of them.

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

One of thousands of cases in point:

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Left 👁️ on the News 🇨🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiblog.bsky.social · 2d

“Who Are the Hostages Released From Captivity in Gaza?” A question the NYT doesn’t dare ask about the Palestinian hostages being released. Because if they used the usual word they use to describe them — “prisoners” — it would quickly become apparent how inaccurate that word was for most of them.

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