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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

Why is it I know "Veterans of the U.S. National Security Community" are a bunch of spooks who are absolutely full of shit trying to manufacture a story that attempts to make NYT look like a reputable outfit fighting for our Constitutional rights? Lol. OMG, this is transparent BS. Try harder spooks.

SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

NYT is a propaganda rag desperately clutching for credibility. This exchange is nothing more than an performative exercise to make you believe NYT isn't in the bag for corporatist fascists. Utter nonsense.

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 14h

The Pentagon is restricting press access, and the NYT raises a serious First Amendment concern. The SecDef’s response? A wave emoji. It’s a childish mockery of accountability. But dodging scrutiny with memes is how authoritarians treat a free press.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

Excuse me if I'm not crying over NYT. I don't bother reading that rag anyway.
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Gerry Dunn @ballydunn.bsky.social · Aug 1

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/new-...

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions.

A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled ac...

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

They should also cite its factually incorrect nature as a reason. The GOP has a majority in the House & Senate, & their guy is in the WH. So give me a fucking break with the "it's the Democrat's fault" BS. We all know who is responsible for it. It's the GOP trying to take everyone's healthcare away.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

No he hasn't. His handlers have. Trump is obviously a puppet at this point. He has age-related cognitive decline that they can't hide anymore. Who is running the government? It sure isn't him.

SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

Corollary to the principle
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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · Jun 18

A country that refuses to feed its children is a failed state.

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Medicare para Todos @medicareparatodos.bsky.social · 12h

"7 in 10 Marketplace Enrollees Say They Could Not Afford Coverage if Their Premiums Doubled; 4 in 10 Say They Would Expect to Be Uninsured"

#MedicareForAll #MedicareParaTodos

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Despite Budget Concerns, Three-Quarters of Public Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year, Including Most Republicans and MAGA Supporters | KFF

A new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds more than three-quarters (78%) of the public say they want Congress to extend the enhanced tax credits available to people with low and moderate incomes to make th...

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 11h

No, cruelty isn't the point. Profit is the point. Everything they do is to make money. They're making homelessness illegal. That allows them to incarcerate homeless people. People found guilty of a crime can be used as slaves under the US Constitution. That's what this is about.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 12h

They're creating homelessness so they can incarcerate homeless people. Once someone is incarcerated, they can use that person for slave labor. And guess who pays to incarcerate these slaves? US taxpayers.
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US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year for pittance

New report by American Civil Liberties Union says incarcerated laborers are either poorly compensated or not at all

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 12h

Criminalize homelessness -> incarcerate homeless -> make taxpayers pay private prisons to house homeless -> sell homeless labor to private corporations -> win win for corporations. This is a billion dollar industry. Why euthanize people when you can work them to death?
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Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes to Coca-Cola.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

One rule would strip aid from families where a member is in the U.S. illegally.

Families could keep their assistance if the ineligible member moves out. But HUD expects many families to give up assistance out of “fear of the family being separated.”

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

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Gideon Samuel @gideonsamuel.bsky.social · 6d

Well this is a terrible sign and the fact that Kat turned off comments is an especially terrible sign 😬

I am willing to bet that you have not a single supporter who wants this kind of empty, virtue-signaling platitude on behalf of a genocidal mafia state from you, Kat

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 6d

Are you taking money from AIPAC?

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Rain @rainhoward.bsky.social · 6d

You seriously got to have your head firmly up your backside to still believe Israel had or has any interest in "peace". Ethnic cleansing has been their goal for 70 years and they won't stop 'till they get it. They'll ceasefire when they're done and Palestine no longer exists, no sooner.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Practical Anarchism @practicalanarchy.bsky.social · 6d

Peace only comes with the destruction of the Israeli state. They are attempting a hostile takeover of the US government. Dozens of congressmen and senators have sworn allegiance to a foreign government.

The sooner someone steps in, the safer the world will be.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Free Aisha @freeaisha.bsky.social · 6d

ALL POLITICIANS ARE FUCKING DISGUSTING

G-D PROTECT THE RESISTANCE

FUCK ISRAEL

FUCK ALL
SETTLER COLONIES.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Jinky @ynwa1888.bsky.social · 6d

Just another democrat who chooses to ignore the genocide carried out by Israel while pretending this genocide started 7/10. Still not get how easily bought democrats are?

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Matt (Communes with the night) @howtobridgethesea.bsky.social · 5d

10/7 was justified.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 12h

Zionist horseshit right here. We don't need another Zionist puppet in political office. And this person? Well, she's a Zionist puppet.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 12h

She's spouting Zionist propaganda.

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Child of the cosmos 👊🏾🇺🇸🔥 @sdhat.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s never forget there are 8,000 Palestinians still illegally in Israeli jails.

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SJones @sjoneswastaken.bsky.social · 12h

Zionist Israel protested in defense of their people who literally gang raped a helpless Palestinian prisoner. So don't even bother with the hasbara. 🙄
www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Israeli protesters rally for ‘the right to rape’ prisoners

Protesters, politicians and TV commentators in Israel are defending the right of soldiers to mistreat prisoners.

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 19h

Tel Aviv University's International Program in Conflict Resolution and the Israel Democracy Institute in 2023 found for intensifying the bombing by ~60% of the pop. National Security Studies (INSS) study found 65% did not want consequences for the gang rape of a prisoner...

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Blake @corpuscolossus.bsky.social · 19h

Polls of the Israeli population confirmed that most wanted heavier bombing, were fine with starvation as a weapon and were opposed to judges limiting the right to rape prisoners, so the rot goes well beyond Bibi.

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