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Writer and teen/reference librarian in NY state, a New Englander, loves reading, writing, music, science, and nature.

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@QudsNen What is the matter with all these people? Have they no moral compass at all?
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@samah_fadil I remember this vividly. One of the first and most egregious of the flood of lies that came from supporters of Ukraine early in the war.
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@Spriter99880 Crimea is Russian. The people there voted to be part of Russia, as they have been historically. What does he hope to achieve by this?
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@JortsTheCat I am crying again, Jorts.
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@HFreemanauthor @QaysSediqi That sign does not call for ethnic cleansing. It calls for an end to supremacy. Israelnhas been committing ethnic cleansing for 75 years.
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@BenEhrenreich What really gets me are the writers who were so passionate about Ukraine and have not a word to say about Palestine.
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@Hard_Crackers @epiktistes Oh, my God. That’s my college. I am going to contact them and let them know how furious I am.
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@StoryHub5 If you are tempted to click, briefly, the young man paid for an elderly lady’s groceries because she seemed sad. The next day, the woman’s daughter came to the Applebee’s where he worked and left him a $500 tip.
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@Lana_Tatour @GoodVibePolitik The Houthis in this instance are doing more to combat genocide than HRW.
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@mtracey Zelensky has to be stopped. We also need honesty about what this war is about. It's about control of natural resources. If the Donbass didn't have lithium, the West wouldn't care what happened there.
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@ColtHandsome @ask_aubry What those two men did was sexual assault. That it was not actual rape is a mercy, but it was assault and they do not deserve to be doctors.
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@kaleemhawa @morbid_elation Indigenous people standing together. Awesome!
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@theIMEU Just as they did last year. Absolutely barbaric behavior.
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@Lowkey0nline And yet Israel murdered a little boy, allegedly for making a Molotov cocktail.
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@ProfDBernstein You know as well as I do that Hamas surrendering would not end the war. Israel’s aim is the genocide of the Palestinians. That has always been its aim, for decades. Hamas and October 7 are just excuses.
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@CarlZha God forbid! I am so scared. Why, why must we in the U.S.A. always be at war somewhere? Why can’t we have peace?
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#FBRParty : The government is failing us at every turn. They can no longer be relied upon to make a difference. Please join us. Like Follow Retweet Reply We follow back Copy this tweet to your own. The group at #1Voice @1VoiceForMe will RT - add a message & be heard.
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@swilkinsonbc I am so sick of this! The people of the world oppose this cruelty. Why don’t our governments do something?
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@NPR @gaepol God bless them all. I am so sorry. I still cannot believe that people worshipping in this country are not safe while speaking to God. A church, a mosque, a synagogue—God help us all.
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@GmailKris @activestills News item: Israel destroys farmland belonging to native Bedouin in order to plant non-native trees.
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@chriskunzler @caatudeetu He’s a good kid. I think he’s brave. It takes courage to break away from indoctrination and oppose your society.
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@JalalAK_jojo @MaryCla17479727 Exactly. The Israelis are furious that their attempted total ethnic cleansing of the north has not succeeded.
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@Real_Rob_Warner @MassiveAttackUK Unlike the other two categories, the fish deserve to win.
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@PennyStockMagi1 @BNODesk Everything you said is false. 1. There is a vaccine for the flu. 2. In some populations, as many as 5% die from COVID. 3. There are also antivirals for flu, but not for COVID. 4. And COVID has long-term effects we don’t yet understand.
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@_ZachFoster Actually? That would make perfect sense coming from Palestine, whose people are oppressed, occupied, and suffering genocide. It makes no sense coming from the oppressors, occupiers, and genocidaires.
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@_SJPeace_ Please stop generalizing. This is Black and White and Brown people dancing together, and it's beautiful to see. We need more of this. I know--Biden's a very imperfect candidate. We have a long way to go. But this is a step in the right direction.
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@danNthusa @WalaaGh @QuitePeter And where are you from? A very large number of New Yorkers are Jews; there are also many Arabs and Muslims. Many Jews, God bless them, know exactly what Israel is doing and are horrified by it.
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@claremoore914 I agree with this 100%! Both my writing heroines—Ursula Le Guin and Madeleine L’Engle—were unimpressed by HP.
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@The_Acumen Yes! And we in America and Britain need to keep protesting, striking, performing acts of civil disobedience at ports and transport hubs--anything we can do.
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@kellywellread Love this thread! We have done similar things for job seekers, people looking to sign up for health care, local filmmakers, and more. Proud to have been a librarian!
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@vildechayeh Exactly. I was appalled at the world’s (non) reaction to the Great March of Return. A peaceful protest for basic human rights is not terrorism! If peaceful actions don’t work, people often get pushed to violence.
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@abigjackrabbit @SamHolloway1 And my gen x sister, near the age of that 47-year-old and also with student debt: “You have to tip 20 percent. At least!”
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@haaretzcom I’m American. I voted for Bernie when I could. Got stuck with this. God help us all. God bless Palestine.
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@isabelfoxenduke @sahouraxo @AndreHodl No. They didn’t. Yemen killed no one, and only stopped ships heading to Israel. Their only demand was a ceasefire and for food, water, and medicine to enter Gaza. In doing this, they obeyed international law. Britain and the U.S. attacked them.
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@imshin @SJG99 @AlShabaka And the whole country belonged to the Palestinians before 1947! By that logic, every Israeli Jew should be paying rent to the Palestinians.
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@abierkhatib Her reaction is human. I don’t know how to describe theirs.
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@prem_thakker @timjacobwise Well said!! Recently close to 60 K Jews gathered in NYC to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We’re all those skews antisemites? I don’t think so.
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@Sherman98562560 @AntacsB @ErikaAndiola @ProudSocialist In a democracy, the people are the government. Its rules and forms exist to help us live free and decent lives. You cannot be truly free if you are exploited, houseless, hungry, and lacking health care.
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@RobertKennedyJr Speak up for Palestinians. Otherwise this is pure hypocrisy.
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@anyaparampil @JoeBiden What a disgusting ad!! No, I don’t think I can vote for this man.
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@Galahad821 @rosiewithanie @HShahana @Lauzin Even criminals do not deserve cruel and inhuman punishment. They also have rights as Americans, and as human beings.
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@aptly_engineerd @Terrilltf I’m having a hard time telling the difference between Trump and Biden right now. Both are murderers.
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@jrjsmrtn @ajamubaraka Russia made no such thing clear. It is the Western Ukrainians who threatened to drive Russian-speakers out of the country. Zelensky was elected to make peace. The right-wingers threatened him, and he made war, instead.
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@leesolid808 @CoriBush Exactly. Here’s a compromise: cut the defense budget in half and use that money to pay for this act.
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@alexbkane @ggreenwald When, when are we going to stand up to Israel and stop them?!
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@jennineak @AdalahNY @itranslate123 This always makes me cry. It is so cruel that that brilliant young man was robbed of his life.
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@simonmontefiore What he said was right and true. These people should be ashamed of themselves.
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@ggreenwald You’re right, Glenn. Freedom of political speech, in particular, should be protected—even if that speech is wrong or bad. The answer to falsehood is truth, not censorship.
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@SankarasLawyer @nookyelur All Native Peoples should support the Palestinians.
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@davidfrum No. End these wars. Israel, in particular, needs to stop oppressing the Palestinians.
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@SketchesbyBoze Hilarious and (almost) accurate. And yet I love them both.
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@cruciverberella @The_Acumen I have been thinking for quite awhile how absurd it is that dental care is not considered health care.
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@DrHananAshrawi I can’t. The only time I slept well after this genocide started was during the ceasefire.
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@authorjla OTOH, if you are not sure about wanting to keep a book after reading it, libraries offer a way to borrow books on your kindle--and libraries pay for books.
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@taygogo Take in the settlers instead. Let the Palestinians have their country back.
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@YadzTy @saintknives Goldfish can remember stuff! Proud goldfish mommie.
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@QudsNen They are such liars! The Israelis, I mean. Horrible, horrible people.
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@MaxBlumenthal It really makes me sick how Zionists use the Holocaust to justify genocidal actions against the Palestinians.
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@RWApodcast Oh, God help them! I want the middle-aged men and young boys and ethnic conscripts to be able to surrender.
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@SenSanders Bernie, you are a good man!
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@ShimonNataf @eliavl Are you serious!?? And settlers have not stoned, attempted to bomb, tortured, and burned alive Palestinian children?
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@GoodPoliticGuy @GoodVibePolitik Exactly. The whole world should have supported the Great March of Return. That they did not is shocking to me.
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@imshin @SJG99 @AlShabaka Correction: not every Israeli Jew. There were Palestinian Jews living in peace before 1947. Every Zionist, and every settler.
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@PeImeniPusha This is deeply unfair. Whatever you think of the war (which, God willing, will be over by then), these athletes are largely civilians, aren't they?
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@UjuAnya @morbid_elation Oh, my heavens. I can’t like this. I just can’t. That poor child! I hope she’s not discouraged and keeps doing science.
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@KREckertWrites @peterdaou What is she almost always right about? Her foreign policy is terrible, and I don’t see her providing Americans with universal health care or free college.
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@EmilyGuyBirken @HondoResists Agreed. Also unexamined greed. We’ve been trained to admire people simply because they’re wealthy. Trump is the poster boy for entitled, wealthy bullies.
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@Mark05822657 @blackintheempir No. Russia did not kill over 6 million civilians since the 1960s.
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@MonicaLMarks Well, good for him! Now take the next step and demand a ceasefire.
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@pauldminshall @melissamgm @d_ylan7 No, it has nothing to do with religion. Palestinians, before the Nakba, were Christians, Muslims, and Jews. And most Zionists were non-practising. The Zionists drove the Palestinians from their homes at gunpoint and refused to let them return.
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@SamerAbdelnour @abierkhatib Let him go back there, then. The people living in the house he stole were from Palestine.
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@BenjaminNorton I’m liking Russia more and more.
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@engersal @OrenZiv_ They would not be eradicated. You are racist to say so. They would simply be citizens of a democracy.
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@sasa_ghada @Terrilltf Those settlers are such evil people. I cannot fathom this
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@jordanzakarin I won’t by Frito Lays ever again until they fix this!
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@shutupjaya @morbid_elation I sure do. Obama should have been impeached for that, and it’s a great shame he wasn’t. The powers Obama assumed can now be used by Trump. No president should appoint himself judge, jury, and executioner of his citizens.
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@ALATLTG @GoodVibePolitik There is not one neighboring country Israel has not attacked. It must be stopped.
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@MariamBarghouti It sounds as though Israel is trying to kill as many Palestinians as possible before they are stopped on Thursday. I am so sorry. I pray you’ll stay safe.
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@MullisVsMachine Very, very well said, Ryan. I hate what this country has become, and every time this guy opens his mouth, I think of Arendt’s “banality of evil”.
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@IbrahimHalawa13 So sorry! Most Irish are not like this, in my experience. But the racists make a lot of noise everywhere.
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@ToriHartman @JoshuaPotash @CarolAGardner2 Yes. And the police didn’t say a word to the child. Didn’t tell him to drop his weapon or raise his hands. Just shot to kill.
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@daliagebrial @eugeneprojectil This is utterly evil. Why don’t our leaders stand up against this?
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@tparsi @georgegalloway Good! Israel has become a fascist state. It must change, and I’m not sure it’s capable of change. The young people are seeing this clearlyx
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@jaybeware @morbid_elation And also the army. The military budget needs to be slashed. The police have been militarized because it makes money for the arms merchants.
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@JLangWood @TurncoatD Clintonism came from Reaganism and led directly to Trumpism.
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@StopZionistHate @jvgraz That’s horrible! It’s such a lie! Zionism is actually antisemitic.
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@DerbyChrisW @Channel4News Yes, thank you! The Palestinians are suffering a slow-motion genocide and have the right to defend themselves.
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@proustmalone @Goingtobelka God bless him. May he stay positive. I love this man!
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@harrysiegel @robgreeneII Lord help us! Take all those statues down!
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@Antiwarcom @DecampDave I used to think him a brave and patriotic young man. Now, I think he’s either on Azov’s side or under duress.
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@RobertKennedyJr Go away, please. Or else start supporting the human rights of the Palestinians.
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@swilkinsonbc Also, I really hope Israel loses. The whole world should be sanctioning them.
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@AlanRMacLeod Wars make some of us richer because we steal the natural resources of countries we invade—like Syria, to give one example.
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@PresidentIRE @TreenieCurran Israel deserves banning even more than Russia deserved it.
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@MairavZ Good Lord!Why did he marry her?
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@SecBlinken So when are you going to speak up for Shireen Abu Akleh? Patrick Doncaster? Eva Karene Bartlett? Julian Assange? You, sir, are a hypocrite.
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@HumpyAppleby @mtracey Why? This war was completely avoidable. All Ukraine had to do was keep the Minsk accords.
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@JackKetch1 @aoscott Exactly. I was incredulous. Who IS he? He should never be published again until he apologizes.
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@SketchesbyBoze Oh, and after the Harry Potter craze, L M Boston’s Green Knowe series ought to be much better known than it is. I also love Alexander Key— The Forgotten Door.
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@angelslenore @swilkinsonbc This excellent documentary was stolen three times from the library where I worked.
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