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How not to be progressive on #Israel, #Palestinians, and #Gaza.
So-called “progressives” cheered the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. They cried “GlobalizeTheIntifada”. They accused Israel of #Genocide long before 10/7. To so-called “progressives” genocide is just a sound bite. So-called “progressives” took the word /1
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Trump said "let 'em take out Los Angeles". One can spin what one thinks he meant all day and night. Trumpies have been explaining away the horrible things he says with what he "meant" for 11 years. Trump is responsible for what he says, not what people say he means.
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The only question in assessing the seriousness of a "Gaza genocide" allegation is how deeply and seriously the accuser engages with the evidence that goes against the theory. (E.g., look in vain in the B'tselem report for a section on the counter-evidence. You won't find one.)
Who do you trust on what a genocide is? Professor Omer Bartov, pre-eminent Israeli historian of the Holocaust, and B'Tselem, top Israeli human rights group. Or... the guy in shorts with a broken brain who loves Netanyahu? Your call, folks, your call.
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Let @shaunking 's words sink in. This is the rabid, irrational hatred of the supposed "free Palestine" crowd. So-called progressives: Know who you're aligning yourselves with. Many of you have been sucked into a violent, hate movement in the name of progressive values.
He is 100% right. Zionists should be treated like Nazis. In the future when people think of evil human beings, Zionists will come to mind, even before Nazis.
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This is for the "free Palestine" crowd who thinks they joined a progressive movement in response to supposed genocide supposedly committed by Israel after the horror of October 7. You've been enlisted by people who have been accusing Israel of genocide for its very existence.
The Nakba was the start of the genocide. By October 7 it was well under way.
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By a 7-2 vote, #SCOTUS blocked Trump's attempt to destroy mail-in voting on the eve of the midterms. #Alito's comical dissent says equities go against the plaintiffs because they... sued. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25… #mailinvoting
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“they”. Senator @BasedMikeLee read that Tyler Robinson’s gender may be in question so Mike respectfully referred to Robinson as “they” to try to avoid misgendering him. Who knew Mike was so progressive on gender issues?
Charlie Kirk would’ve become president. He’d have been the most effective and successful conservative politician in more than a century. So they killed him.
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Trump owns cyclosporiasis. #DiarrheaDonald
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Genocide is the most heinous of crimes. One charged with it is entitled to the presumption of innocence, to be confronted with the evidence of the crime, and to the opportunity to defend itself and present its own evidence. The accuser has the high burden of proof beyond a /1
I talked with @DanaBashCNN today about what a Jewish and democratic Israel — consistent with its own Declaration of Independence, and something I long to see — would actually look like. A few key points: 1. Israel can't be a genuine democracy while it's occupying the West Bank & Gaza and denying civil & political rights to Palestinians there, fully half the people under its rule. 2. Like B’Tselem, Omer Bartov, and the Lemkin Institute, I think — with deep sadness — that Israel's conduct in Gaza meets the definition of genocide. But even if you don’t, it’s profoundly inconsistent with the Jewish value that every one of those Palestinian kids were created in the image of God, just like ours. 3. The freedom, safety & thriving of both Israelis and Palestinians is deeply intertwined. Israelis will not be safe until Palestinians are free. We need a U.S. foreign policy aimed firmly at making this real. Shabbat Shalom to everyone, and especially to everyone who refuses to compromise on anyone else’s humanity.
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reasonable doubt. When politicians like @bradlander throw the word around like a campaign slogan, they trivialize genocide. This is abhorrent behavior for anyone, but especially for an elected official. /2
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#SCOTUS affirms birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25…
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NYPop18 retweeted
Replying to @EricLDaugh
The SCOTUS majority didn't consider the arguments because it expanded the jurisdiction-stripping provision to neuter the courts and allow Trump to break the law. Every court to consider it ruled that the Trump TPS decision was not reached legally.
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Trump corruptly grants no-bid contracts that create a mess. Trump responds by lying about his political opponents. Trumpies like @ScottJenningsKY amplify Trump's lies. Wash and repeat.
Imagine hating Donald Trump so much that you decide to vandalize the Lincoln Memorial and trash the grass around the reflecting pool. Absolutely broken-brained behavior.
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LOL. Trump is "convinced" Congress can pass senator @BasedMikeLee's voter suppression bill "if" the Senate is "willing" to pass something the Senate isn't willing to pass. At least Mike is tweeting about it multiple times a day. The Senator from Twitter is alive and kicking.
Good chat with President Trump tonight He’s not giving up on the SAVE America Act Neither am I He’s as convinced as I am that we can get this done if the Senate’s willing to do the hard work Pass it on if you’d like to see that happen
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Let's say Mike is correct about Democrats. Let's say Trump wasn't lying when he accused Democrats of weaponizing DOJ and swore he would end this supposed practice. How could this - if true - conceivably justify Trump's weaponization of DOJ.
1. The Biden-Harris Justice Department opened this investigation. 2. Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff recently pled guilty to several federal felonies. (That’s why he’s panicking?) 3. Do you realize how silly you look after what Lawfare Democrats did to Trump?
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Last week Mike was whining on Twitter about how he’s a Christian - whatever he thinks that means. Today he’s mocking the droves of children dying from the Republican destruction of USAID. Senator @BasedMikeLee is one helluva cruel person.
Accountability is coming FJC = USAID of the federal courts
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The destruction of USAID has already led to the deaths of 100s of 1000s of children with estimates north of 10 million people by 2030. Senator @BasedMikeLee is one cruel person. This goes beyond his tweeting multiple times a day about his voter suppression bill like a buffoon.
Accountability is coming FJC = USAID of the federal courts
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Republicans line up to support Clayton - in violation of federal law which requires DNI to have "extensive national security expertise." Brief tenure as a prosecutor whose office prosecutes national security cases is not that. Republicans are putting Trumpiness over the law.
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NYPop18 retweeted
Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals
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Think about every time the Trump administration put its stamp of approval on one brand of Protestant Christianity and you didn’t speak up @BasedMikeLee and you’ll have the answer
Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?
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