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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
You live at the center of a global military empire with ~1,000 overseas bases, strangling countries w/ sanctions, coups & war for refusing to submit to US dictates. Thinking Americans shouldn’t care about elections abroad is brain dead imperial chauvinism
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
@infinite_jaz was arrested after getting attacked
Jasper is shouting: "I just got beat up!"
HAPPENING NOW🚨🚨: @the_andrey_x @infinite_jaz and I were attacked by settler-terrorists in Umm al-Khair!!
They beat us, threatened to shoot us, stole Andrey's phone and my glasses and pepper-sprayed Jasper.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
The Haley Stevens de facto un-endorsement of AES on CNN on Sunday now makes so much more sense. Her fiancée is voting MAGA (and has previously donated to Susan Collins).
It doesn't matter what happens next Tuesday. The correct candidate lost in the Michigan primary.
#MichiganSenate
Detroit News: Haley Stevens' fiancé says he's voting for Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed
detroitnews.com/story/news/p…
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
I wonder if any of these letters ever gave the recipients pause and made them realize they were there to die because they still had a grade-schoolers level understanding of what they were being asked to do. That's gotta be a tough pill to swallow.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Wow!
Canadian journalist asks Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Member of Knesset, if he is concerned about Israel's plummeting global standing.
Feiglin's response is chilling, as it reveals the fundamental supremacist view he and many in Israel hold.
He says that the real moral supreme court is in Israel, ie with the people of Israel.
The Bible says, he explains, that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. As a result, it's we - Israelis - who get to judge you, rather than you judging us.
And then he adds?
"Are you with the children of God or not?"
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
For those who refuse to read the articles about this case. She had a babysitter coming in the mornings to check in, make lunches, get them off to school, and prep dinner for them. All the 14 year old had to do was help them get inside after school. Microwave dinner. Get kids in bed and text mom updates. This was a work trip and they threatened to fire her if she did not go. The father has abuse charges and the police handed him their kids on top of arresting her.
A 50-year-old woman was arrested after getting off a plane after authorities said she left her four children home alone for four days while she traveled to Las Vegas for work: bit.ly/3UlVZeA
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
I'm just glad I don't live in a dictatorship but a free democracy where every few years I can vote for a different banker or lawyer or landlord that represents the vast network of powerful corporate interests that controls every aspect of my life from cradle to grave
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
This is the woman, who, with funding from the CEO of Stripe, founded the first “YIMBY” lobbying org.
Everything we are seeing in the proposed demolition of the public housing sitting on the most expensive land in the country is downstream from this ideology.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Worst cocksuckers of all time going “No actually I win. Good luck.” When they lose and eat shit. Happening all over the world. Probably good.
BREAKING: Netanyahu's Likud officially claims Israel's election was completely stolen by Arab parties through widespread electoral fraud, alleging bribery, intimidation, violence, double voting and ballot manipulation.
Netanyahu says he is submitting hundreds of testimonies to the police, Shin Bet and the Central Elections Committee and demanding an immediate investigation.
With more than 93% counted, Netanyahu's bloc stands at 53 seats and Eisenkot's at 48. Neither reaches the 61 needed to govern.
It comes as Trump allies continue to discuss keeping Netanyahu on as caretaker prime minister, restart the Iran war and seek to force another vote.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
“We’ve built software to track Wikipedia editors,” says the head of the ADL.
We have an investigation publishing soon about pro-Israel manipulation of Wikipedia, and he just blurts it out
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Happening now.
🚨 URGENT: @the_andrey_x is in very bad shape. He has a concussion and lost consciousness several times while being detained.
Settlers blocked the ambulance from evacuating him. He is now being held ALONE in the ambulance inside the settlement and is being denied transfer to a hospital.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.
More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.
In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.
The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.
In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.
The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”
I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Democrats who have deluded themselves into believing that this is a Bibi problem will soon discover that this has nothing to do with Bibi.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
The idea that Rashida Tlaib’s antipathy toward Israel would begin or end with Netanyahu. The human mind is capable of anything.
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Despite Maddow making her name breathlessly covering Trump's connections to Russia, the MSNOW host has been silent on the Trump clan's sprawling––and far more numerous and overt––ties to Israeli influence operations. I wrote about Maddow's conspicuous refusal to cover IsraelGate.
Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn’t MSNOW’s “foreign influence” sleuth covering it?
By @adamjohnsonCHI
therealnews.com/rachel-maddo…
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
4 million+ Palestinians live under Israeli sovereignty and cannot vote. That some demographically manageable percent are permitted to vote in Israel proper does not change the reality of apartheid. hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/th…
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women.
helenwebberley.com/news/tran…
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
This story is not getting enough attention, even though it is a dark portent of the political repression on the horizon all around the NATO bloc.
Five activists who damaged an Elbit Systems site in Ulm, Germany, are facing harsher treatment than the Reichsbürger, a far-right group accused of attempting to overthrow the German state by force. The two trials are being held in the same building.
The Ulm5 are held in a maximum-security prison, marched into the courtroom in handcuffs, and seated behind bulletproof glass two meters tall. On day one, the judge switched off the microphones of the defence’s legal team, and has since repeatedly refused to hear their evidence and expert witnesses, while rejecting a motion for an independent stenographer to keep a record of the proceedings. The only written record of the trial is the judge's.
Meanwhile, the Ulm5 all remain in prolonged detention — with stints in solitary confinement. The prosecution is seeking to argue that the attack was antisemitic in nature, as Elbit Systems is a “Jewish-owned company” and therefore the “baby killers” graffiti drawn by the activists amounts to blood libel.
The case sets a chilling precedent for any actions taken against German militarism, and no doubt forms part of a wider arc of repression that now extends from Britain to Italy. That is why the activists’ call for international solidarity and support is so urgent.
In a show-trial riddled with procedural irregularities, Germany is seeking to make an example of five activists who organized against the genocide in Gaza. buff.ly/i46zuHe
