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Ian Hetzner retweeted
Heads up! Bay Area book tour dates are set: - Book Passage - Corte Madera: Aug 10, 6 pm - Oakland Library: Aug 11, 6 pm (zionist crybully campaign underway, will update if canceled) - Medicine for Nightmares: Aug 12, 7 pm - Middle East Children's Alliance: Aug 13, time 6:30pm
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talking local journalism with Darwin BondGraham from Oaklandside tomorrow night (1/21) at 6pm at the Oakland main library 125 14th st
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A report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem: “Hell on Earth: Sexual violence, starvation, and systematic abuse — at least 84 Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli-run torture camps.”
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The Israeli occupation’s demolition of UNRWA buildings in Jerusalem this morning is more than destroying walls, it attacks UNRWA’s very mission since 1949, violates the rights of Palestinian refugees, and aims to erase the support system they rely on
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Minnesota doesn’t play.
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Israel deported an American Jewish activist after citing a photo of him at an anti-Nazi protest in Charlottesville—pulled from a white supremacist website—as evidence that he is “anti-Israel.”
בשבת ייצגתי אקטיביסט יהודי אמריקאי בהליכי גירוש מהארץ בגין שמאלנות. בשימוע הציגו לו תמונה מהפגנה בארה"ב כדי לקשר אותו לארגונים אנטי-ישראלים. התמונה צולמה בהפגנה נגד הנאצים בשרלוטסוויל, וכוחותינו האמיצים ככל הנראה לקחו אותה מדף שמקדם עליונות לבנה. אכן עילה לגירוש ממדינת היהודים
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this is so beast mode, big respect to people in minneapolis. they’re built different out there
“A pastor here is also director of the field office for ICE… so someone teaching people about God is out there overseeing ICE agents. How dare you.” Twin cities protestors disrupt a church service at an ICE field office director’s church. (H/T @ByGeorgiaFort )
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What if rent was meat! What if bank was dinner? What if car payment was moon? Think about it.
New Yorkers accepted "freeze the rent" without blinking an eye. But imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer. Would you want to eat it 20 years later? Or even 10? Would you want to own it? Freeze the rent = slowly decay housing
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why don't they ask chatgpt what to do
OpenAI is rapidly losing money and is projected to lose $14 billion in 2026 alone. If they can't get another round of funding, OpenAI could run out of money as soon as 2027.
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"We don't do attorney visitation" isn't how the Constitution works. The federal government is blatantly denying people their basic rights under the law after an arrest.
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This will tear the Democratic Party apart in 2028. The base has shifted massively against Israel but the politicians are still acting like it's 1996 and you can't cross AIPAC. Will dampen enthusiasm and keep the right in power, just like it killed Harris's momentum.
Gavin Newsom DENIES the genocide in Gaza on Ben Shapiro's show. He just gave up his bid for POTUS with this shit. Fuck anyone who supports ICE or Israel's genocide.
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The man who killed Renee worked for ICE for over 12 years, called her a bitch after he murdered her, and ICE agents prevented a doctor at gun point from providing medical aid. That’s not a training problem. We should be spending that money on healthcare not a lawless agency.
Today I’m taking action to bring accountability to federal law enforcement like ICE. New legislation I’m announcing will require ICE to adopt rigorous training hiring standards, and for their agents to wear body cameras. These are best practices used by aw enforcement agencies use across our country. We need to bring transparency and accountability to ICE in order to make Americans safer.
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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I do not know if anyone in this world still cares, but a short while ago the director of Al-Shifa Hospital spoke about a new virus spreading among children in the tents, and about its strong and rapid impact on their fragile bodies. Here, no one fully understands what is happening, and there are no capabilities to uncover the truth or contain the danger. Israel is preventing the entry of medicines and testing equipment, hospitals are nearly paralyzed, and fear is quietly creeping into people’s hearts. The bodies of children in the tents cannot withstand any new virus they have no immunity, no treatment, and no environment that protects them from disease. The situation is worsening with every passing hour, while the world remains incapable or silent when it comes to pressuring for the entry of essential medicines and medical supplies. Life cannot continue like this, in this ongoing hell. What is happening is neither normal nor humane, and it cannot be endured any longer. We need immediate and urgent action before more innocent lives, that have not yet truly begun, are lost.
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The NFL broadcast can do a moment of silence for a racist YouTuber getting quick scoped but players can’t say stop bombing kids???
Source: Texans’ LB Azeez Al-Shaair was fined $11,593 for a violation of the NFL uniform and equipment rules for wearing eye black that contained a personal message during last week’s Wild Card game.
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Democrats' response to ICE shooting a woman in the face is to offer them more money...
🚨NEWS: Senate Dems are reportedly offering ICE funding increases in exchange for body cams and de-escalation training for agents. Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored. Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.
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“In addition to appreciation, we want emulation. We need that out there in the streets in every city.” — Dan Troccoli, Minneapolis public school teacher and union member, on protecting our communities and resisting ICE thenation.com/article/activi…
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Ian Hetzner retweeted
Absolute bad faith here. There isn’t some movement of people right now screaming to adopt Abolish Ice as a political slogan the same way there was for Defund. He’s saying ‘don’t say these words’ bc theres zero political imagination or urgency outside of fake data and scolding
“Abolish ICE” is and always will be a political albatross. I don’t care if it gets a bump into positive territory given the horrific stuff we’ve seen—it’ll fall back and remain a drag. BUT sometimes it’s important to do unpopular things. So let’s think this through. 1/
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