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Paul Handley retweeted
In addition to being unbelievably racist, this is also (obviously) totally false.
Multiple Arab winners of the Nobel Prize (Bawendi, Karman, etc). And the Wolf Prize (Zeweil, Yaghi). And literature (Mahfouz, El Saadawi, etc).
RFK Jr is a disgrace.
Paul Handley retweeted
The President's plan is paused, not stopped. Now we need to make sure Congress does not provide funding to jump-start the destruction. If you want to keep East Potomac Park for the people, join us on Capitol Hill on November 12th! eventbrite.com/e/protect-eas…
When they use words like "irreversible" and "irreparable" to describe mainly vegetation and landscaping, I'm gussing that Trump will think he can get away with anything because it can be replanted.
Paul Handley retweeted
Meta's "accidental" suspension of the No Kings Instagram account — at a time when the org was posting updates from ongoing marches — was not an anomaly. I found dozens of similar instances of Meta "mistakenly" targeting left-leaning activist accounts, often during crucial election windows.
My latest.
Paul Handley retweeted
Making golf courses look like environmental preserves turns out to be quite the tax strategy.
It helped Donald Trump shelter more than $1 billion of income and save $450 million, according to Forbes estimates.
These people – MAGA, Republicans, Trumpists – don’t believe in democratic elections. They are fascists: and will throw away the law to keep power and wealth.
STEVE BANNON: The Secretary of State and the President need to come out now, cut off diplomatic relations, and shut down everything with Brazil.
No trade, nothing. This is an illegitimate Marxist globalist government.
If you don’t think this election stealing is coming here, you're dead wrong.
If we don't take action, it’s happening here next Tuesday.
Paul Handley retweeted
.@StephenM is DESPERATELY trying to preemptively scapegoat someone else in case the GOP loses TX.
Now @TheAtlantic reports that "Big Ass Truck" voters in the Rio Grande are naming Miller by name, and profanely, to explain abandoning Trump.
theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Paul Handley retweeted
The president of the U.S. just talked about a female rapper’s posterior and you all are upset I was at a historically Black University’s homecoming on stage dancing and reciting lyrics.
Y’all are clearly scared. I guess this is why. Let’s pink out the polls!
Paul Handley retweeted
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israel has committed the crime against humanity of "extermination" in the West Bank, while continuing to commit "genocide" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, United Nations-mandated investigators said on Monday ➡️ u.afp.com/SywJ
ALT File photo shows Israeli security forces patrolling the area where the houses of the two Palestinian gunmen who killed two Israeli soldiers and injured three others are located, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron on October 23, 2026.
Like Hitler, Netanyahu just can’t stop killing people even at the end.
Binyamin Netanyahu is gearing up for another series of strikes on Iran in the coming weeks, even if he loses the election. In fact, the prospect of such a loss may be driving his calculations economist.com/middle-east-an…
Lula must be a complete failure if he’s been president already three terms and hasn’t been able to turn the country communist. Or maybe Patrick here is just making shit up.
Paul Handley retweeted
Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating.
Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.
Senior Trump advisor previewing what he and the White House could do when they lose the US midterms. For them it is not a problem when a right wing loser pushes to annul the elections.
🚨@FlavioBolsonaro says he will request annulment of the elections🚨
Full transcript to follow ASAP.