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I made this illustration 2 years ago and am really struck by the visual similarities from Palestine today.
People in Gaza are under serious threat and in need of aid. I'm selling the Risograph art prints I made and donating the proceeds to
@GazaMutualAid
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this is hilarious and here's what the actual graph should look like scaled properly on just one axis lol
An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes
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Thousands are marching in the pouring rain today in NYC to shut it down for Palestine 🇵🇸✊
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The student occupation at Columbia continues going strong more than 42hrs later despite violent repression from the school and police 🇵🇸🫡
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lol what??
I built an interactive map of Latin America, with a timeline that allows you to visualize the political history of the region since 1789.
Check it out!
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Hundreds of artists and protesters are rallying outside the Met now displaying a quilt of Palestine solidarity artwork from around the world to call out the complicity of art institutions in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
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Protesters shutting it down for Palestine in Brooklyn tonight on International Working Women’s Day 🇵🇸✊
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The US is leading the world in:
- mass shootings
- incarcerations
- police killings
- COVID deaths
- student debt
- wars and interventions
- maternal mortality
- income inequality
- medical debt
- weapons
- train derailments
- CO2 emissions
- military spending
- high health costs
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americans being so conditioned to hate apartment buildings is a very bizarre cultural norm
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Protesters have now taken to the streets in Manhattan shutting it down to demand justice for Rafah and an end to US-sponsored genocide 🇵🇸
Hundreds of New Yorkers are rallying now in Zuccotti Park in the pouring rain for an emergency protest for Rafah following the horrific massacre committed by Israel last night.
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@CaIiKapowski
@NYPDTransit
marijuana possession and jumping a turnstile are both literally a $100 fine each lmao what a bunch of losers to be bragging about this. that guy is 100% more essential than these cops
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Students at The New School are escalating their occupation of the building today by shutting down the entrances to the university center to establish the area as a Gaza Solidarity Block until the school meets their demands to divest from Israeli occupation. 🇵🇸
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Students at FIT have just taken over the museum building and set up a Gaza Solidarity Encampment 🇵🇸🫡
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Just to be totally clear, this is fascist historical revisionism.
The House of Representatives just passed what has to be one of the dumbest “bills” I’ve ever seen
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China is 19% of world population and responsible for 26% of yearly CO2 emissions (1.4x). The US 4% of world pop. and 17% of yearly CO2 (4.2x). China 14% of cumulative CO2 emissions over past centuries (0.7x), US 25% (6.3x). China invests 2% of GDP in energy transition vs US 0.5%.
At some point people are going to stop trying to make frantic, bad-faith, stumbling excuses for statistics like this and just admit the simple fact that yes, China emits a lot of carbon
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this is happening across the street from the new Victims of Communism Museum in DC…
A homeless encampment that houses about 70 people in downtown D.C. is set to be cleared on Feb. 15 -- two months ahead of schedule.
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Hundreds of protesters are outside the NY Stock Exchange right now calling out the role these companies play in funding and abetting Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians
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NYPD tried blocking off protesters several times but the march has managed to outrun them and is now heading for the Brooklyn Bridge 🇵🇸
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Students are occupying Columbia today in a throwback to the 1968 protests where students occupied 5 campus buildings to protest the university's complicity in the Vietnam War, its racist policies, and repression against organizers.
More on 1968 protests:
BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.
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high energy tonight at jail support following 100+ students and faculty violently arrested at the NYU encampment 🔥🇵🇸
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Hundreds marching in the rain tonight in Manhattan to protest against US complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
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Hundreds of New Yorkers are rallying now in Zuccotti Park in the pouring rain for an emergency protest for Rafah following the horrific massacre committed by Israel last night.
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lmao look at all the insane replies calling HRW tankies and putin shills for opposing using US cluster bombs which are illegal under international law and constitute a war crime
If you want a free, safe, and secure
#Ukraine
tomorrow, don’t use
#cluster
munitions today.
🔊 Listen to
@astrehlein
’s Daily Brief:
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The Rosenbergs were CPUSA members targeted under McCarthyism to be made an example of. Some of the public figures who rightfully opposed their execution included Albert Einstein, Harold Urey, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pope Pius XII.
Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953:
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taking the post earthquake survey ✍️
Ok New Yorkers so what we all do now is we go to the US geological site and we describe how that felt. They use your feedback to help isolate where the epicenter was!
Holy shit!
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Over 100 activists arrested this morning while occupying the NY Times lobby during their largest meeting of the year to protest the media giant’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians
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even funnier when you realize the original wasnt only showing two sections of one graph but actually comparing different scales, showing changes in increments of $50B/ year for countries other than the US just to make it seem the difference in increase over time was bigger lol
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Tens of thousands marched in NYC today on Land Day to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s resistance against the ongoing forced displacement and illegal occupation of their land. 🇵🇸
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Protesters blocked the entrances today of the Pratt & Whitney aerospace factory in Connecticut to imped production of jet engines the Raytheon owned plant produces for use by Israel. Organizers are demanding the company end its complicity arming Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
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Hundreds of Brooklyn families are marching tonight outside
@RepJeffries
office demanding he listen to his constituents and call for
#CeasefireNOW
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Cant make this shit up. Both Hakeem Jeffries and far-right Hitler-apologist John Hagge, who Jeffries shared the stage with at the pro-Israel DC march this week, paraphrased George Wallace's "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" speech to support Israel lol
New: Andy Eichar, Jeffries’ NY comms director, responds to the DSA’s “watermelon” flier, saying “the use of racially inflammatory imagery should come as no surprise given the role NYC-DSA and other gentrifiers have played in aggressively attacking Black elected officials.”
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Students at
@Columbia
began an occupation on campus where the Gaza Solidarity Encampment is going strong 12+ hrs later, with hundreds picketing the university’s complicity in genocide to demand divesting from weapons manufacturers and ending repression against student organizers.
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What's also funny is in their next graph they admit the US spends double on military compared to China as percent of GDP (1.7% vs 3.5%)
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wtf are we doing here
The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple.
Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
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@_SJPeace_
"there is no racism" says the person literally being racist and destroying a sign that just says black lives matter lmao
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Wild shit from the US gov guy gleefully doing insane apologism for literal Nazi collaborationists like Bandera and his fascist admirers like Azov. Guy really doing the "Nazis and communists are just as bad" dumb bit while sewing to his shoulder an actual Holocaust collaborator...
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love to spread misinformation to try and build consensus toward nuclear world war
Russian missile entered the airspace of Moldova and Romania today.
But hey, let’s wait one more year.
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Despite 100+ arrested today students at Columbia continue their occupation after moving the Gaza Solidarity Encampment to the other lawn. Hundreds are rallying now calling on the school to meet their demands and end its complicity in genocide and repression of student organizers.
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Any reason for why "the Germans left" that had anything to do with the Soviets?
#OTD
in 1945, the Soviets apparently "liberated" Warsaw. What they actually did was wait till the last few Germans left & then entered the empty, destroyed, and completely looted city. They then quickly imposed their own puppet government & carried on raping & looting their way
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wtf is this shit
Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history but the apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.
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The US has 800 foreign military bases and a budget bigger than next 12 countries combined. This militarism is an export of our domestic militarized police. The NYPD has foreign outposts in 12 countries and a yearly $11B budget larger than entire military budgets of 100 countries:
Why does a local police department have outposts in 16 other cities that aren’t NYC?
Every single one of these outposts/ stations/ whatever they are need to be gutted and shut down.
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mf said wonton violence
Statement from Chairman Jay S. Jacobs Condemning the NYC-DSA Rally in Support of Yesterday’s Attack on Israel🔽
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The US has over 1000 train derailments per year, or about 3 per day, which is around what most countries have in a year. Japan had 5 train derailments last year. Here's the data for 27 EU countries which had 78 derailments in total combined. Germany had 6.
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Love spending my night on a DSA chapter meeting arguing with Department of Defense affiliated guy that socialists should not cheerlead US government policy of endless war and military spending in Ukraine. Entire political establishment already fully behind that just go join them.
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@carterforva
The history of the social democrats not supporting a general strike or backing the communists in armed conflict against the Nazis as they were consolidating power because they thought parliamentary actions would always suffice to stop Hitler is probably also important to study.
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The New School encampments are now taking over two buildings after students expanded the occupation into Parsons today to establish another Liberated Zone 🇵🇸 🫡
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Azov's official magazine they have published since 2014 is called Black Sun. But things are wilder, because its not some obscure thing, but something they've been publishing in the tens of thousands regularly over the past decade and its still online and sent around the world.
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2 hours after the Zuccotti Park
@WOLPalestine
rally started, hundreds of protesters continue marching through Manhattan shutting down 5th Avenue despite the heavy rain and multiple police arrests, demanding justice for Rafah and an end to the genocide 🇵🇸✊
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Fascinating watching people openly cheer for fascist Romania’s military victories against the USSR during WWII alongside the Nazis. Funnier too that these nationalist historical revisionists types always on one about Romania retaking past held territories that are now Ukraine too
Romania🇷🇴 sunk the russian flagship Moskva in WW2
Ukraine🇺🇦 sunk the Moskva in 2022
🇷🇴🤝🇺🇦
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters rallying in the center of Bucharest are marching through the streets demanding an end to Romania’s complicity in genocide and calling for justice in Palestine 🇵🇸❤️🇷🇴
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Tuesday, June 28 in NY primary,
@nycDSA
is running SEVEN socialists for State Assembly in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Four up for reelection and three new ones, all fighting to build a socialist movement. Turn out to vote NYC and volunteer to GOTV! 🧵
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Large NYPD presence and threats of arrests being made for noise at the solidarity rally outside Columbia tonight where supporters are continuing to protest against the threatened NYPD and possible National Guard sweeps at 8am of the student encampment.
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NYPD now arresting dozens of activists in the NY Times lobby who are protesting against the media giant’s complicity in Israel’s genocide
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@haydentank
@GarlicCorgi
its so funny they even skip the 300-400B range too just to move the US line lower to the bottom
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Protesters have been repeatedly disrupting this morning’s NY City Council NYPD budget hearing with squeaky pigs demanding to defund the NYPD’s massive budget to fund social programs and calling out their violent repression against Palestinian activists over the past months. 🐷
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protesters just de-occupied the lobby of AXA and Nationwide offices in solidarity with Stop Cop City and Palestine 🇵🇸✊
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the tankies who are opposing sending tanks to the war
Ukraine update: The Tankies have a rough one, as Ukraine's allies open the spigot
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NYC shutting it down for Palestine today despite escalating police repression to demand justice for Palestine and charge politicians complicit in genocide.
#FreePalestine
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The US can barely build a train line and half the country and politicians are literal clime change denialists, I wouldn't be spending my time worrying about China on this one, the country that's best known for being able to plan and carry out massive infrastructure projects...
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@TheBarbarienne
@maxleibman
@ce_murphy
I love that when things go to shit we immediately start talking about public bailouts for large business and corporations, but never for working class people struggling to stay afloat. Working people have needed a bailout for decades but its apparently communism to fight for one.
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Community protest also still going on outside Columbia in solidarity with the campus occupation. The energy and crowd has only gotten stronger after the police crackdown and arrests 🔥
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Hundreds of protesters have taken over the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum demanding the cultural institution take a stand against genocide and divest from profiteering off war. 🇵🇸
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Under Biden in the US we’ve seen the largest military spending increase in history, a massive law enforcement spending increase, a record high number of people killed by police, and the largest drop in life expectancy in the past century. This is how they pretend to “honor” MLK…
Today, we honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by continuing his unfinished work to redeem the soul of America.
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@TheEconomist
this u?
The Economist didn't just back the 1973 coup in Chile, it was an active participant in it. Indeed, as a token of appreciation to The Economist for helping propagandize the coup, "the generals bought 9,750 copies [of The Economist], distributed through Chilean embassies" - Zevin
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can confirm this was still how we were met even at 5AM last night after being held for 18 hrs ❤️🫡🇵🇸
A little summary of jail support for the 325 people detained after blockading the Holland Tunnel and the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges today.
Released demonstrators are met with cheers, food, & hot coffee. The mood is unflappable.
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Hundreds of students marching now outside Columbia University at an emergency call to action for Palestine 🇵🇸
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Every imbecile in NYC did an entire 24hr mass hysteria clown run about antisemitic Palestinian protesters attacking Jews without anyone bothering to even check on anything. Fascinating how all the graffiti is suddenly not antisemitic! The board members have to convert now sorry.
Inbox: “You take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”
The homes of four Brooklyn Museum directors were vandalized overnight in retaliation for the museum’s use of NYPD’s violence on pro-Palestine protestors. Per communique, targets include a Blackstone exec, HRC CFO.
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Student activists in Romania fighting for Palestinian liberation talk about protesting today in Bucharest despite police repression, their demands for the government to end its complicity in Israel’s genocide, and send solidarity to all students protesting for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters rallying in the center of Bucharest are marching through the streets demanding an end to Romania’s complicity in genocide and calling for justice in Palestine 🇵🇸❤️🇷🇴
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@mattduss
or maybe you should contemplate why your own foreign policy stances are more hawkish than even Henry Kissinger lol
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solidarity with
@taliaotg
fighting the entire whiny NYPD department brass dumbasses on twitter tonight 🫡
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Hundreds of protesters and cultural workers are shutting down the MoMA to call for an end to the museum’s complicity in Israel’s genocide through its board member’s ties to weapons manufacturers and support of Zionist enterprises.
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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BREAKING: Student organizers in Bucharest started the first Palestine encampment in Romania today at the University of Bucharest in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Studies yard demanding to disclose and divest from genocide 🇵🇸🫡
Follow & support
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A map of all the
@nycDSA
@DemSocialists
electeds in NYC for Congress (
@AOC
), state senate (
@JabariBrisport
,
@JuliaCarmel__
,
@Gonzalez4NY
), state assembly (
@ZohranKMamdani
,
@marcelaforny
,
@EmilyAssembly
,
@phara4assembly
), and city council (
@tiffany_caban
,
@alexaforcouncil
). 🌹🗽
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Protesters marching outside Columbia now to stand in solidarity with students facing repression and attacks on campus for protesting against genocide in Palestine 🇵🇸
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Hundreds rallied at FIT today to support student organizers at the new outdoor Gaza Solidarity Encampment in the school’s public quad and to greet the students who finally left the museum building occupation after 4 days of being locked in by security. 🇵🇸
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@Chinchillazllla
@justinhendrix
democracy is when you wait 5 hours in line during a pandemic to vote for someone you don't want to who doesn't represent your views or interests in any way and opposes policy that 80% of people support
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Last night thousands of New Yorkers marched to shut down Manhattan and demand a permanent ceasefire and justice for Palestine 🇵🇸
Labor unions together with Palestinian, Jewish, and community orgs are united calling on electeds to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
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community notes being used as just a proxy tool for pushing propaganda is one of the dumbest things about this site. just totally insane that any group of idiots can band together to target and plaster peoples posts with some dumb bullshit like that. how tf are ppl ok with it idk
He was 30 years old.
Black men deserve to grow old—not be lynched on a Subway because they were having a mental health crisis.
Jordan deserved better. Accountability now.
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I was there filming cops in full riot gear kicking and assaulting peaceful students and throwing them down the stairs knocking them unconscious.
When Jeffries says this he doesn’t mean cops weren’t violent, he just wants to see them brutalizing students. A country run by demons.
“I didn't see the NYPD use excessive force yesterday.”
— Hakeem Jeffries on the NYPD clearing out a Columbia University building that pro-Palestinian protesters took over
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@TheDuhalde
@sunraysunray
should point out that forcing a floor vote for m4a was literally part of our official m4a campaign strategy last year so idk why now this specific thing is made out to be the dumbest idea in the world?
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Yesterday I introduced H.Res 775 condemning
@nycDSA
for their shocking display of support for the recent Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. There is no moral equivalency between Israel defending its right to exist and these cold-blooded killers.
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@DunkingBaby
@WallaWallaJesus
This is my official proposal for what we should replace all Columbus statues with in order to truly celebrate Italian American culture and heritage.
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If you knew basic history you'd know some 6 million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army against the Nazis while only about 250k joined to fight on the side of Germany. Or is that inconvenient for your Nazi apologia and bullshit fascist historical revisionism?
Soviets starved 7-10 million Ukrainians, the Holodomor.
Germans show up in WWII. Ukrainians wanted blood revenge against Soviets.
People don’t even know basic history.
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Brooklyn families and kids are demanding
@RepYvetteClarke
call for a
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
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