stillpullingmyselftogether @spmtog

By the way, claims that the Nordstream blast was the work of amateurs on a small yacht are rather undermined by this November 2022 report by the BBC's Katya Adler, in which it is clear that the explosion was huge - enough to hurl the steel and concrete pipeline as much as 20 feet upwards from the seabed. '"Look at that, Katya," he jabbed excitedly at the laptop we had balanced in our narrow ship's cabin, which was live-streaming images captured by the drones. "Part of the pipe has shot four, five, maybe six metres straight upwards, at the point where it was blown apart. "Now we can see how the concrete has blasted off, showing jagged edges of the steel underneath - 45 millimetres of steel flattened, ripped straight out. The speed, the force, the explosion must have been huge."' bbc.co.uk/news/world-636…

This is an insanely important development: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are preparing to restructure the company so that Zuckerberg can pay the 5% one-time wealth tax he would owe if the billionaire tax passes in November. He has said he would leave the state. He obviously was bluffing. That's $10 billion to California's education and health system. Just from him. Jensen Huang has also said he'd stay, that's another roughly $10 billion. To be sure, some small number of billionaires will leave California, but most won't. What this also shows if that it is done on a national level, billionaires will fight it, but will ultimately fall in line.

Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman

2 days ago

Second — and that’s where things get extremely interesting. Proposition 40 — the proposed one-time 5% wealth tax on California billionaires — is mentioned no fewer than 25 times in the SEC document. @Meta explicitly states that one purpose of its new stock issuance is to allow

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It is not about the Jews @briebriejoy Norman Finkelstein in his place over his opposition to the frase from the river to the sea and the resolution from the Greens that Zionism is racism. Bravo! Norman Finkelstein is correct about many things but sometimes he is just very far off in his views. It takes a certain kinda person (woman) to cut through the bullshit and nobody does that better than Grey....

It’s genuinely jarring to hear a pro athlete talk like a person and not a hostage reading a statement prepared by the comms department

MrBuckBuck @MrBuckBuckNBA

2 days ago

Yaxel Lenderborg on his NBA debut and guarding Luka: "I got to see what the NBA is like, man. Lot of flopping, lot of foul baiting, lot of praying to the ref. Interesting first game for me... Being in there firsthand, just watching all the whining and complaining, I lost all

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The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue. My latest for Double Down Newswatch. youtube.com/watch?v=6pEiZY…

How FOIA *should* work at the FBI

Buried on page 30 of 'Sir' David Bellend's report into antisemitism in schools in the UK it explicitly says there hasn't been a rise in antisemitism, only in anti-Israel sentiment. Astonishingly fraudulent crisis/debate, all to shield a genocidal state

Or could have avoided the war entirely by accepting, in Jan 2022, the eminently reasonable Russian proposal to withdraw US troops from Ukraine and commit to Ukrainian neutrality, but that would have run counter to the core American goal of provoking a war with Russia over Ukraine

Seth Harp @sethharpesq

a day ago

Could have got this exact same deal in September 2022 and saved more than a million Ukrainian lives, and a million Russian ones, too. But that would have run directly counter to the core American national security agenda, which is permanent global war.

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Sasha Baron Cohen falsely portrayed Palestinian Christian peace activist Ayman Abu Aita as a terrorist aligned with Bin Laden in his painfully unfunny film Bruno Baron Cohen was forced to settle a $112 million defamation suit for the smear This is the Zionist minstrel show actor the ADL chief censor says “has spent years confronting hate”

Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL

2 days ago

My friend @SachaBaronCohen has spent years confronting hate and disinformation, and @ADL is proud of all the work we've done together. In a world where lies spread faster than facts, that work matters more than ever.   No artist should be pressured, blacklisted or silenced over

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It's true that most people are, on some fundamental level, "unknowable." But I don't think that's true of Elizabeth Holmes. She's just a con artist. That's not mysterious.

Because this does not fit the narrative

HatsOff @HatsOffff

4 days ago

French demonstrators make way for an ambulance, a scene that will not make it into mainstream media

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If the Dems win either/both chambers, they're sure to spend much of their political capital on centering the Ukraine war cause and holding Trump to account for not supporting Ukraine enough/"helping Putin". The Dem base's top concern is cost of living; for Dem elites it's Ukraine

This is big. The UK’s National Security Advisor had nothing to do with banning Palestine Action as terrorists. Even though the question of terrorism is at the core of his job. So who did push the proscription of Palestine Action? The walls are closing in.

To spell it out: The activist/journalist who filmed this video of @washingtonpost’s Heidi Levine being brutally assaulted on Friday was just violently arrested by Israeli police while documenting a military raid on an olive harvest in Taybeh—where diplomats were attacked on Saturday.

jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz

a week ago

This video captures settlers beating Heidi. They clubbed her, kicked her. Pulled her up off the ground to beat her more. Robbed her of all her equipment. If she didn’t have a helmet—and if she was Palestinian—she could be dead.

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There’s much about this that’s false but on the issue of “terrorism” it’s worth highlighting again that in the past 30 years Israel had killed more American civilians than Hezbollah and Iran combined and it’s not particularly close.

Dilan Esper @dilanesper

3 days ago

To answer this directly, Israeli intelligence helps secure the world's oil supplies/transit, as well as providing needed surveillance regarding international terrorist groups who threaten Americans. There's a lot of wishful thinking that Israel doesn't help us much, but they do.

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By undermining multiple peace opportunities, including the deal that Ukraine negotiated for itself in April 2022, Jake and allied bipartisan hawks haven’t just neutered Ukraine, they’ve cost it hundreds of thousands lives and a much more viable future. Every goal imputed to Putin is a projection:

Clash Report @clashreport

3 days ago

Jake Sullivan on Ukraine: I think Putin doesn't just want the four oblasts and I think he doesn't just want a neutral Ukraine, he wants a neutered Ukraine. He wants a peace outcome, peace in quotes, that will allow him ultimately to render Ukraine essentially a non-viable

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Progressives traditionally support diplomacy and oppose enriching the military industrial complex. When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, Bernie, listening to people with poor track records and careerist drives, has discarded that tradition. It has been self-sabotaging in more ways than one: not just ceding Trump the anti-war lane, which helped MAGA win two presidential elections, but propping up a Russia demonization effort that has been directly wielded against Bernie’s campaign itself. More than any US politician, Bernie has done so much for the progressive cause. But also more than anyone, on this issue he disgraces it. This is why progressive proxy warriors who push this agenda never want to debate it.

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

3 days ago

Disgraceful. Trump sacrifices Ukrainian lives in order to appease his fellow authoritarian, Mr. Putin. The U.S. must release the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine. No U.S. alliance with the Russian dictatorship.

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a lil career advice for my overthinkers🪽

British journalists never reported on their government's direct participation in the Gaza genocide They were obeying a 'D-Notice' censorship order sent out by the UK military Every media editor received this on 28 October 2023. You were never meant to see it. Here it is👇

Neera could wait until after the election to call the primary rigged but nah, she’s just gonna do that now.

Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden

3 days ago

Absolutely locking in that Mike Rogers needs to lose in 2 weeks, but man the pollsters that showed Haley behind over the summer were either made up or highly partisan. And a lot of smart people fell for the op.

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