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Al Qaeda were strict Sunni Muslims that would consider the Shia Mamdani an apostate subject to severe punishment (death). Mamdani was a 4th grader living in NY during these attacks, people that want to link him to 9/11 truly fail in seeing the incoherence of their argument.
Hey New York... YOU FORGOT!!
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JUST IN: Andrew Tate indicted in Romania for child trafficking, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering - REU
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IDF SOLDIERS targeted me in NYC! Watch 👇🏼
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they don’t step foot outside i fear
People acting like this is so evil, how do you survive in the real world day to day? #loveislanduk
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ain’t in LA is gonna be such a hit I feel it in my bones. seeing it live was such a moment for me im sooo happy for #adela :’)
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you’re on Very thick ice with me . i love you
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“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024
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If legislators always vote with the President, we have a king. If legislators always vote with the prevailing wind, we have mob rule. If legislators always vote with the Constitution, we have a Republic.
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They have a lot of pent up resentment and a jealous spirit. It’s so unattractive.
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Amazing how they intentionally conflate Israel with Jews. Incredibly Anti-Semitic.
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Meanwhile, the "Jewish rape dogs" hoax has been refuted not because it's a slur against Jews, but because the American Kennel Club attests it's an impossibility for dogs.
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Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Hell on Earth, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture. Now, in a major @nytimes investigation, journalist @NickKristof published terrible testimonies concerning sexual violence and the use of sodomy as a tool of interrogation and humiliation by Israeli forces. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held. These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults. At least 88 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment. Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organizations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people. Links to the full report “Welcome to Hell” >> btselem.org/publications/202… and “Living Hell” >> btselem.org/publications/202…
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The crazy levels to which this chud character is being pushed by the algo is sus. Muting everything to do with that.
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We really need to take a long hard look at the use of AI in criminal cases. The implications of failed technology are terrifying. Nothing is foolproof. A still image isn’t enough evidence to keep someone in custody for 6 months, AI facial recognition alone shouldn’t be either.
A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee.
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He’s 9 years old & has been living on the streets for about 6 months after jumping out of a caseworkers car. He’s sometimes in the company of a great aunt who lives rough & is on fentanyl, likely instructing him to run away from authorities. Egregious.
Nine-year-old Tristan King has been missing since Sept. 24, longer than any other child his age in Maryland, through one of Baltimore’s coldest winters on record. Missing posters show a blurry photo of a little boy with curly hair and deep-brown eyes. It says he was last seen wearing a white sweater and blue NBA pajama pants. What it doesn’t say is that the past year of Tristan’s life was a procession of misery and mishaps, or that red tape and mistakes hampered the agencies responsible for finding him. buff.ly/PbuxluN
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People often wonder why some of us are so critical of America. The truth is simple: everything we thought we knew about that country turned out to be false. Growing up, I viewed the United States as a nation that could do no wrong, a bastion of morality, the rule of law, democracy, and efficient leadership. To me, it was the global Prefect of freedom and human rights. My perception was shaped entirely by the "American brand," a polished image meticulously curated and sold to the world by Hollywood and the media. I was so naive that if America had told me at sixteen or seventeen that my own mother was a terrorist, I probably would have believed them. Imagine my shock when the scales finally fell from my eyes. I realized that, for America, democracy is merely a matter of convenience and self-interest. That "free market" is only championed as long as they hold all the cards. I saw that human rights can be meaningless to a power that will lie about a nation, invade it, and kill millions. I discovered that their own politicians are often too terrified to speak the truth for fear of assassination....In a country that's supposed to guarantee freedom of speech!!! Imagine my shock in realizing that America was a vicious, shameless, undemocratic, hypocritical, immoral, imperialistic killing machine!!! No Principles No Integrity No Decency Just a crude imperialistic power! One day, it's accusing the President of a sovereign state as a dictatorial narco President, the next day it's kissing and putting perfumes on a known Isis Jihadi terrorist inside the white house. It claims to be concerned about Christians in Nigeria, while rolling the red carpets for a genocidal maniac that is massacring thousands of babies, women and men in Gaza! America and hypocrisy= conjoined twins.
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I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.
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people will make allegations on this app with absolutely zero evidence or regard for people involved. it’s insane. they truly think their opinion or take is a fact. and that something is true because they said so? 😭
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Another important corrective. ICE leads the public to believe it has to flood the streets to remove the "worst of the worst" when in many, many cases they're just bragging about routine handovers that required absolutely no street deployments.
On Monday the Minnesota Department of Corrections accused @DHSGov of "publishing false arrest claims at scale," highlighting 68 cases where DHS suggested they were saving Minnesotans from dangerous criminals when in reality they just picked them up at prison in a routine handoff.
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No one can convince me that supporting a strong border and not wanting an endless stream of undocumented people in the country means supporting everything that’s going on lately. I will never support aggressive and lawless tactics. I will never support detaining people in disgusting conditions and withholding medical care + constantly moving them from one detention centre to another, making access to lawyers & family incredibly difficult. I will never support ambushing people at their immigration interviews or at court. Smashing their car windows & using excessive force when arresting them as the first option. I will never support making harmful, inaccurate statements & labelling those who have been killed by agents. Nor will I support giving agents free license to behave recklessly, never investigating or penalising them for bad behaviour. There is a better, more humane way of enforcing the law.
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My husband has been outside in the freezing cold, shovelling snow on our driveway :( he doesn’t want me to get cold and told me to stay inside every time I came out. My husband is truly such a beautiful, kind human being and I couldn’t love him more.
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