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BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
.@McGeeReports that AG Ken Paxton's office pressed the ethics commission to settle a lawsuit that opened the floodgates for outside spending in the speaker race.
Then he became a leading voice in campaigning against Burrows and Phelan in the speaker race.
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BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Remember when everyone swore they were just looking for tunnels and hostages? Remember when they said we were hysterical I mean bigots for claiming they would absolutely ethnically cleanse and annex Gaza? Remember when every red line was crossed with total impunity?
Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF dlvr.it/TG2dw1
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Her name is Jennifer Guilbeault.
msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-…
Official U.S. Navy photo of a Lieutenant wearing a "Houthi Hunting Club" patch on his uniform.
"The patch signifies the squadron's operational achievements and heritage," DOD caption says.
h/t @jaredbkeller
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Love destabilizing South America, absolutely hate when the people I helped starve show up at my door in search of stability.
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Happy Diwali!
Today marks the commencement of the five-day celebration known as the Festival of Lights. Celebrated globally by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, Diwali represents the victory of good over evil and the illumination of light over darkness.
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Adam Rasgon smeared journalists, paving the way for their targeting. Michelle Goldberg lied about hospitals, paving the way for their targeting. Masha Gessen laundered the mass rape lie, paving the way for the genocide. It’s not complicity any more, it’s responsibility.
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
it’s still fuck pen america from me until there are more big changes & i am also glad she’s resigning cc: @djolder
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Piece is full of Bumbling, Reluctant CIA tropes and is fairly blasé about destroying an economy and starving people but it does confirm the Trump admin was actively fomenting regime change in Venezuela 2019, something many denied during the so called “aid convoy” media spectacle
A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro. wired.trib.al/1x8m10G
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
When Trump and Kushner got cozy with Bibi it was viewed by so many as part of a global anti-democratic movement of the far right with fascist potential. Israel’s war in Gaza is the fullest realization of this trajectory we have seen to date, armed and sanctioned by US centrists.
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
ICE is Training Civilians to Conduct Violent Raids on Immigrants
@ExtremeArturo takes a hard look at the ICE 'Citizens Academy' programs exposed in a FOIA lawsuit by @ImmDefense, @OCAD_CHI, @BeyondLegalAid, @latinojustice and @theCCR:
unicornriot.ninja/2024/ice-i…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
I thought maybe this was an exaggeration, but nope, the guy that Elon Musk is agreeing with and boosting regularly posts antisemitic, racist and neo-Nazi content.
And Elon has been engaging with him for months now, raising his profile.
dailydot.com/debug/elon-musk…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
For me Jack Posobiec’s continued prominence in MAGA/GOP is one of the biggest indicators of where conservatism has gone, how fascist it is. Dude wrote a book calling leftists “unhuman” & while at Trump’s MSG rally he retweeted two neo-Nazis huffpost.com/entry/trump-mad…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
After 12 months of attacking UN premises, even as they were sheltering IDPs, sick persons and peacekeepers; killing over 200 UN staff in less than 1 year; vilifying and defaming senior UN officials and organisations; a parliamentary act that outlaws the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UN subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly, is a fatal and intolerable blow for the UN Charter and the multilateral system. The aim is to accelerate the erasure of Palestinian presence, including through unconscionable humanitarian consequences.
May this affront be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and may it mark the beginning of the end of Israel's impunity.
#UNseatIsrael
“I must inform you that [@UNRWA] is under such physical, political, and operational attack – unprecedented in UN 🇺🇳 history – that implementation of its mandate may become impossible without decisive intervention by the UNGA” says @UNLazzarini unrwa.org/newsroom/official-…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
This is far worse than apartheid SA ever did in relation to the UN. They were suspended - Israel should be suspended/expelled now!
After 12 months of attacking UN premises, even as they were sheltering IDPs, sick persons and peacekeepers; killing over 200 UN staff in less than 1 year; vilifying and defaming senior UN officials and organisations; a parliamentary act that outlaws the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, a UN subsidiary organ of the UN General Assembly, is a fatal and intolerable blow for the UN Charter and the multilateral system. The aim is to accelerate the erasure of Palestinian presence, including through unconscionable humanitarian consequences.
May this affront be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and may it mark the beginning of the end of Israel's impunity.
#UNseatIsrael
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Saoirse Ronan on ‘Wild’ Reaction to Viral Comment About Women’s Safety
The actress said she was glad her comment, which left Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, and Eddie Redmayne speechless, seemed to be "opening a conversation again."
🔗 rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
In our survey of voters aged 18-29, we find that young voters support imposing an arms embargo on Israel by a +26-point margin.
dataforprogress.org/memos/10…
ALT Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Young Voters Support the U.S. Imposing an Arms Embargo on Israel. Description: Some people have argued that the U.S. government should impose an arms embargo on Israel, meaning that the U.S. would stop transferring American-made weapons to Israel. Do you support or oppose the U.S. imposing an arms embargo on Israel? All 18- to 29-year-olds — Support: 55%, Oppose: 29% Democrat — Support: 62%, Oppose: 21% Independent / Third party — Support: 47%, Oppose: 34% Republican — Support: 52%, Oppose: 36% September 27–October 3, 2024 survey of 773 likely voters ages 18-29.
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Anarchists vandalized the offices at Friedrichstraße 60 in Berlin, which hosts major players in the arms merchant sector such as Bundesverband der Deutschen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsindustrie (BDSV) - a lobby group for German weapons manufacturers.
unicornriot.ninja/2024/pales…
BenjaminCraft-Rendon retweeted
Just dropped off our ballots in Oregon City. The ballot box was "guarded" by four MAGA people, adorned in their red hats, who, undeterred by the drenching rain, recorded my arrival on their cellphones and asked for my ID, a request I returned with a customary Italian gesture.