Rula Jebreal
@rulajebreal
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Visiting Professor, The University of Miami. Author. Foreign Policy analyst.
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Joined July 2011
Italy’s new PM Meloni is threatening to sue me over my tweet re her replacement conspiracies, which are on video & widely covered by international media. All autocrats use such threats to intimidate & silence those who call them out & expose them. Ms. Meloni: I’m not intimidated!
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Norway's parliament passes bill asking the gov’t to recognize Palestine as an independent state. Belgium 🇧🇪 is considering the recognition of the state of Palestine. Spain’s 🇪🇸PM Sanchez declared that his government will recognise the State of Palestine.
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BBC confirms video released by Israeli army was EDITED to exclude parts where Israeli troops fire on starving civilians attempting to collect food from aid trucks. Israel has weaponized disinformation/propaganda to justify weaponizing starvation & slaughtering starved CIVILIANS.
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New Yorkers turned up again today for the beautiful #BlackTransLivesMatter rally in Brooklyn. 🎥: @MarquesTracy .
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“I just want to wish Eid Mubarak to Muslims all around the world”.Tunisian tennis champion @Ons_Jabeur, #2 in the world rankings, & the first Arab/North African woman to reach the #Wimbledon final. A class act as she wishes Muslims #EidMubarak
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Often, Palestinians are invited on TV shows to defend their very existence. After 26 days & 10,000 killed (of which 4,000 were kids), American nurse, Emily Callahan provided a searing description of the humanitarian catastrophe she saw unfolding in Gaza.
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Deutsche Bank privately suspected that Trump was a money-laundering operation for Russia/Putin….but Deutsche Bank employee Justin Kennedy (son of Justice Anthony Kennedy) arranged loans for Trump, regardless his own Bank’s concerns.
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Italy has halted supplying Israel with weapons, says Italy’s foreign Minister Tajani. Reminder: Italy’s opposition leader Elly Schlein campaigned for total cessation of arms sales to Israel…the first EU Jewish leader to accuse Israel of using EU weapons to commit war crimes.
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One of the first acts of the racist Trump regime was to delay the issuance of this bill by a decade. #HarrietTubman an escaped slave, abolitionist, who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad — will not become the face of the $20 bill until after Trump leaves office.
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The White House was unable to produce answers as to why Dallas’ police chief, sheriff, and district attorney- ALL of whom are African American - were not invited to Trump’s address on the police, and Injustice, in their city, Dallas.
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Breathtaking bravery, 2021’s Afghan women are protesting the Taliban regime on the day an all-male Gov’t is appointed…Women are standing their ground!.Their message: We aren’t the same women of 20 year ago; we WON’T be silently sent back to the dark ages.
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.@MustafaBarghou1 .on @CNN just asked the key question behind US’ moral relativism: Why is the US supporting Ukraine fighting against Russia’s occupation…yet supports Israel’s occupation/ethnic subjugation of Palestinians for the last 57 years?.
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Gov DeSantis fired FL’s coronavirus data scientist. So she’s started publishing COVID statistics on her own. Today police stormed her home/pointed a gun at her kids & confiscated her tech. DeSantis will go to any length to conceal damning COVID data that exposes his incompetence.
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The Trump Administration has taken more action to punish @Acosta (for deigning to ask questions that irritated Trump) than the sum total of punishment dealt to Saudi Arabia for murdering a journalist, after chopping up his body with a bone saw, & then dissolving it in acid.
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I covered many Int’l summits & I’ve never seen a leader debasing his country as Trump did today-not even Berlusconi displayed such vulgarity/ ignorance. @GOP’s biggest lie is that Trump’s America is respected - It’s actually loathed & a laughing stock.👇🏽.
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The Trump admin deported a man to Iraq who was not born there, never lived there, he came to the US as a child, he spoke no Arabic, & had type 1 diabetes. He died. The family wrote: “Your blood is on the hands of this administration.”
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3 Italian police brutally assaulted, pepper sprayed and kicked an unarmed trans-woman in Milan. Criminalizing & inciting violence against “transgenderism” has lethal consequences… the so called “gender ideology” is used to justify Gov’t discrimination.
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As Hamas releases 1st group of hostages, Spain & Belgian PM’s broke the silence at Rafah-Egypt border; .-There is NO military solution to this problem, only political solution. -Permanent ceasefire is only way to stop mass killing civilian and children.
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Ringrazio di cuore gli autori RAI Sergio Rubino e @giorgiocappozzo ., la collega @stanzaselvaggia & Mirella Mastronardi. per aver collaborato alla scrittura del mio monologo. È stato bello lavorare con voi. #Sanremo2020 .
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Sicily is ablaze…Italian cities are left without water, w/out electricity, without public transportation, & Catania airport has closed…days after Italy’s far-right PM Meloni endorsed Spain’s Neo-Fascist:”We need patriots to stop climate change fanaticism”
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1M #Rohingya at risk of genocide, as army carries out ethnic cleansing. When victims are Muslim, silence of world leaders is defeaning.
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Trudeau says Canada will take refugees banned by U.S. Liberty moves north.
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White House incompetence on full display for the world to see!.On Monday, the entire city of DC had only 14 new cases of COVID. Trump WH alone is now responsible for 23 new cases & rising. They had every privilege available to them to limit the spread of the virus & they blew it.
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“Your time is up”:.Thousands of Israelis rallied outside PM #Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem last night as anger mounts over his corruption, abuse of office and his disasterous handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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Today's shooting at YouTube HQ is the 58th mass shooting in 2018 in the United States. I’m fed up with the number of times we’ve been offered “thoughts & prayers” in the last few months. Senseless, evil acts of violence continue, regardless of our “thoughts & prayers.”.
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After Far-right gov’t confirmed a racist (who championed neo-nazis) as speaker of the house…Italy’s sports hero #PaolaEgonu quit 🇮🇹’s national team, explaining in tears her decision was driven by racism: she is regularly asked if she’s a “real Italian.”
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Under Italy’s neo-fascist government, a peaceful protest demanding a ceasefire in Gaza unleashed horrific police violence against a group of students, many of whom are minors….
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France’s Former Ambassador to the US and Israel, @GerardAraud, IS NOT MINCING WORDS:.“What is happening right now in the West Bank is absolutely scandalous. In reality, what the settlers are doing is ethnic cleansing.”
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“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,”.~ Hannah Arendt.
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Oggi tanti colleghi USA mi chiedono se Zaia si rende conto del danno enorme all’immagine e all’economia dell’Italia, quando dice che i cinesi mangiano i topi vivi. Questo è l’uomo ritenuto moderato dalla lega, considerato per il ministero degli Esteri? 🤦🏽♀️
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I’m shattered by the news of the assassination of my friend & colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran journalist. @IDF shot her in the head while she reporting in Jenin… she was wearing a press vest. This was an execution; a heinous crime & an attack on the freedom of the press.
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.@GiorgiaMeloni’s final campaign message is a wink/a nod to her nostalgic Fascist base: “After our victory, you can raise your heads & finally verbalize what you always thought/believe in”.This is how you normalize Fascism, by making it socially acceptable.
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#Draghi ha ridato credibilità e statura al mio paese. Mi rende fiera di essere italiana. Grazie presidente.
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I grew up playing in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa while my late dad prayed in the mosque; generations of kids continue to do so…Palestinians also sleep & break fast there during Ramadan. Israel's war on Palestinian existence begins with dehumanization, including criminalizing kids.
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One of the hallmarks/pillars of Totalitarianism: treating a woman’s body as property, and citizens as subjects to dominate, by any means….Extraordinarily fierce Iranian women are the face of the resistance against Iran’s barbaric regime. #MahsaAmini
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Congratulations America. Van Jones is all of us right now!.He is every woman, man and child that fought for a greater America.
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A Palestinian kid was arrested for riding his bike flying a Palestinian flag in East Jerusalem. If our media only covers “Israel & Palestine” when bombs rain down death, whilst ignoring Israel’s apartheid & military occupation, media ends up validating extremists’ strategies.
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.@carlbernstein, the Journalist who co-broke Watergate, says of the newly released Trump tapes, "It's not déjà vu, this was something far worse than Watergate."
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Death-count in countries that took prompt & aggressive action:. S. Korea: 186.Japan: 85.Hong Kong: 4.Taiwan: 5. The US where Trump called coronavirus a hoax & ignored it for 70 days. Now, US faces huge deficit of ventilators/masks/PPEs:.US Death Toll From Coronavirus Tops 10,334.
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A sitting US senator is inciting against & calling for Americans citizens to be run over and killed. Recall: The terrorist who stabbed to death a Palestinian American child, viewed him as pro-Hamas. Hate crimes are fueled by hate speech and dehumanization.
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Amidst a global crisis, Israel has bombed Gaza for 10 consecutive days. If it were the other way around, we would have wall to wall coverage about Israeli families & workers traumatized & brutalized. Palestinians are invisible to US Media, while being erased by the occupation.
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Sono profondamente addolorata. La mia amica Shireen Abu Aqle è .stata uccisa con un colpo alla testa mentre stava realizzando un reportage nei territori occupati. Uccisa a sangue freddo dall’esercito israeliano mentre svolgeva il suo lavoro. L’ennesimo crimine di guerra…
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"When White men with swastikas storm a government building with guns, there is no need for the president to activate you, because they're getting the president's personal agenda done." .~Rep. Jayapal .
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Italy’s Jewish opposition leader Elly Schlein: "We oppose sending weapons to Israel, they are using them to commit war crimes.”.European citizens are overwhelmingly in favor of imposing an embargo on sending EU arms to Israel.
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Medici palestinesi ricevono le notizia che l'esercito israeliano ha bombardato le loro case, uccidendo tutti i loro familiari!.Il GENOCIDIO non è “legittima difesa” ma un crimine contro l’umanità. Niente può giustificare lo STERMINIO DI DONNE E BAMBINI.
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Ignazio Benito #LaRussa diventa presidente del Senato italiano. Il passaggio da donna sopravvissuta ad Auschwitz ad un fascista dichiarato. È una delle cose più aberranti e offensive di questo Paese. Perdonaci cara Liliana.
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Convicted pedophile Epstein was asked if he socialized w Trump. He responded: “YES”.Then he was asked if he had ever socialized with Trump in presence of girls under age of 18?.He plead the fifth. Trump’s Labor Secretary Acosta granted immunity to ”any potential co-conspirators.”.
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La premier Meloni letteralmente in fuga dai giornalisti, si nasconde nell'hotel Amigo. In Italia governa con intimidazioni e propaganda, ma all'estero si dimostra completamente impreparata a confrontarsi con la stampa internazionale. Una leader debole e isolata dal resto dell’UE.
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Sandy Hook marked the end of #US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over. Via @DPJHodges
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Coloro che hanno condannato la Russia per l’uso della fame come arma di guerra, sono indifferenti quando Israele usa la carestia e uccide 100 palestinesi in fila per un po’ di farina. Il silenzio 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 davanti alla carneficina non è naturale ma COMPLICITÀ.
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I love Beirut as much as Jerusalem. It is horrifying to see this beautiful city bombed into oblivion, its brilliant citizens butchered. With each massacre, Israel strikes a new nail into the coffin of our collective futures, decimating international order.
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Il ministro degli Esteri Giordano ha dichiarato: “Netanyahu dice che Israele è circondata da chi ne vuole la distruzione. Noi, 57 paesi arabi, siamo pronti a garantire la sicurezza di Israele, a patto che ponga fine all’occupazione militare e accetti uno Stato palestinese.”
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Trump Tower is under siege as Chicago Police make arrests to defend the president’s building. #MinneapolisUprising #chicagoprotest #DCProtests #NYCPROTEST #MIAMIPROTEST #AmericaProtest #VoteForChange .
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The President of the United States is using his powerful platform to bully a schoolgirl. Hey, @FLOTUS, is this what you meant when you said #BeBest?. Your husband is bullying a 16-year-old girl. Why are you silent in this?#GretaThunbergOutdidTrump.
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The UN requested a ceasefire in Gaza, to vaccinate Palestinian children and prevent thousands of Polio deaths. “If they cannot be vaccinated within the next few weeks, thousands more Palestinian children could die from an entirely preventable disease.”. Israel's response: “NO”.
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After one of Jerusalem’s most violent nights. during which Israeli forces shot Palestinians in their mosque whilst praying, threw grenades & gassed clinics filled w those already wounded. 75K returned to Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray on Laylat al-Qadr, one of Ramadan’s holiest nights.
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Pavarotti Widow & daughters: "The values of brotherhood & solidarity that Pavarotti upheld are incompatible with the world vision of Trump."
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Non accetto né interviste né inviti a "Non è l'arena” Non è informazione. Vorrei chiarire un concetto a Giletti:come sul covid non mi confronto con stregoni, così su chi sceglie la spettacolarizzazione della guerra non discuto con propagandisti Putiniani—Questo non è giornalismo.
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L’ambasciata russa conferma il viaggio di Salvini e conferma anche di avergli pagato il biglietto. Salvini, cosa andava a fare a Mosca a spese della Russia? Cos’altro hanno pagato e in cambio di cosa?.È sempre più evidente che Salvini è compromesso…è un asset del regime russo.
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Coronavirus, Riots, White House Siege: unfolding simultaneously in the US. And Trump is hiding from protest in underground bunker.
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Heartbreaking and important- Please do not miss this remarkable piece of journalism. Brave reporting inside Myanmar by brilliant @clarissaward. “We, people of Myanmar, want Democracy.”.#Feb16Coup.
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For 5 yrs I’ve been teaching a college course called:“Propaganda and Genocide”. Netanyahu echoes extremists’ genocidal rhetoric to justify atrocities as the only option in an “existential war for survival” of nuclear power Israel…. This is how “Never Again” becomes “Never Mind.”.
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A disabled black man was killed in broad daylight in Italy. The murderer was inspired by racist, anti-black, anti-immigrant manifestos that rhyme w 🇮🇹 right wing talking points. Salvini & Meloni are spreading dangerous racist lies like replacement theory.
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From Day 1, the Saudis told Kushner their interest was in A TOTAL of $15 Bil of arms (which has yet to be completed). Kushner pushed for the Saudi arms deal “headline” to read $110 Bil. All while he pursued the Saudis to finance 666 5th & family assets.
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Mi chiamo Giorgia/sono una donna/madre. Ma sei anche colei che voleva censurare un monologo contro la violenza sulle donne, che diffonde un video di un stupro a scopi di propaganda elettorale e che guida un partito che ha votato contro la direttiva 🇪🇺 sulla parità salariale.
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Forcibly expelling 400,000 Palestinians from Northern Gaza under threat of execution is textbook ethnic cleansing. There is no other way to describe it.
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La pace che chiede Santoro, quella per la quale non dorme più (figuriamoci i civili barricati nei bunker), è una pace per se stesso. Lui vuole resa dell’🇺🇦 che significa legittimare la mano armata del criminale Putin. Abbandonare un popolo che viene sterminato, non si chiama pace
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Un giorno molto triste per la democrazia italiana, per i giovani, per chi lotta per un’Italia progressista, ambientalista, produttiva, più europeista, più atlantista e meno fascista, meno corrotta e meno succube di chi vuole importatore il modello del dittatore Genocida russo…
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ADL's Greenblatt compared a keffiyeh to a swastika. Recall, 3 students of Palestinian descent were SHOT: one of them is now paralyzed. And, their crime?Wearing traditional Palestinian Keffiyeh. Hate crimes start w dehumanization & the criminalization of an entire group of people.
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Manafort committed fraud—got 47 months. A man named Fate Vincent Winslow sold $20 of weed to a stranger—got life. Little thieves are hanged but great ones escape.
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Dubbi sul genocidio?.Un medico 🇺🇸 tornato da Gaza scrive: “Non è una guerra. Ma un annientamento. Ho visto i cadaveri di bambini, tutti di età tra i 5 e gli 8 anni, tutti giustiziati da cecchini israeliani, con un singolo colpo di pallottola alla testa.”
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Having stormed The Dome of The Rock Plaza, Israeli forces are shooting bullets & stun grenades at Palestinian worshipers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, on one of Islam’s most holy nights. E Jerusalem—the nuclear core of the conflict-is exploding right now.
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Buon viaggio caro Andrea. La tua commovente umanità, umiltà, rigore, coraggio ed eleganza hanno abbattuto i muri dell’indifferenza e della diffidenza. Ci mancheranno il tuo giornalismo forte e incisivo e la tua mente brillante…Oggi in tanti ci sentiamo orfani. #AndreaPurgatori
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Meloni chiese un contraddittorio (uno stupratore) con me per il mio monologo a Sanremo contro gli stupri. Ora sfrutta gli stupri se servono a fini elettorali: x validare la sua narrazione razzista, aggiungendo alla violenza a cui è stata già sottoposta una donna, altra violenza.
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In Iran è in atto una rivoluzionare femminista e anti Fascista, guidata da donne coraggiose che chiedono liberata & dignità…cantano “Bella Ciao" in lingua persiana, per onorare #Mahsa_Amini, uccisa dal regime oscurantista iraniano, alleato di Putin.
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Cara @lauraboldrini ho presentato la tua coraggiosa proposta di legge contro il revenge porn ai consiglieri del @G7 . L'abbiamo adottata all’unanimità e presentata al Presidente @EmmanuelMacron che l'ha accolta con entusiasmo. Farà parte delle proposte di legge del @G7 🇫🇷 .
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Winners & Losers: . Doug Jones won. Roy Moore lost. African-Americans won. Steve Bannon lost. Women won. Donald Trump lost. Victims won. Pedophilia lost. Decency won & Diversity Made History. Racism Homophobia & Bigotry lost. Civilization STANDS #AlabamaSenateElection.
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Stasera Ghali ha cantato per un'Italia multietnica e multiculturale, facendoci sentire parte di una nazione libera dalle barriere della razza, del colore della pelle, dell'etnia e della religione. Stanotte, siamo tutti italiani. #Sanremo2024.
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Mi rattrista ascoltare Santoro che giustifica un dittatore sanguinario e mi preoccupa oltremodo constatare questa deriva autoritaria in Italia. Alcuni Editori e tanti conduttori si muovono come mercenari, disposti a svendere la democrazia.
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A un padre palestinese viene chiesto: "Chi stai cercando sotto le macerie?" "I miei 4 bambini.".Il governo Meloni non riconosce lo Stato palestinese, nonostante la consapevolezza che alcuni ministri israeliani mirano allo sterminio come soluzione finale.
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“Mussolini was a good politician, everything he did, he did it for Italy & there have been no other politicians like him in the last 50yrs”-Giorgia Meloni in 96:.She’s set to became Italy’s PM next month, leading a far-right/“post Fascism” gov’t since WWII.
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The last 10 days of Ramadan are the holiest for us Muslims. My father dedicated his life to protecting & caring for Al-Aqsa. Today it haunts me to see worshippers brutalized, our holy places desecrated, our people terrorized by Israel’s apartheid regime.
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Khashoggi fiancée snubs Trump invitation to White House. The fiancée of murdered Khashoggi says she has declined an invitation to the White House from US President Trump, accusing him of not being sincere about investigating the killing. #JusticeForJamal.
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After decades of corrupt charlatanic politicians who mortgaged 🇮🇹 to dictators…Italy is FINALLY led by a competent humanist, PM Draghi, who is committed to defending democracy & believes in the 🇪🇺 responsibility to protect Ukrainians from genocidal Putin.
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Netanyahu calls Bolsonaro a good friend. A few Bolsonaro quotes:.-I’m pro-torture.-I’m not going to rape you because you’re too ugly (to a Congresswoman).-I’d rather have my son die than have him show up dating some guy.-Advocated for state-sponsored mass murder. Shared values??.
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Right now, pretty much all hell has broken loose. In the center of Minsk, police in riot gear are brutalizing protesters. 1000s of citizens are gathered for the second day in a row to demand that Belarus’ [Europe’s last dictator] #Lukashenko, steps down.
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2.3 mil people in Gaza are now without food, without water, without electricity, without medicine & without communications/internet. The strongest army in the Middle East is carpet bombing in total darkness, into oblivion, a besieged heavily populated city.
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Misinformation about election fraud plunged 73% after Twitter banned Trump. underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the lies poisoning public debate when they act aggressively. Insurrectionists decry cancel culture. to avoid accountability.
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Mentre votavo pensavo a chi difende la libertà in🇺🇦, pensavo alla resistenza eroica delle donne iraniane e a chi vota sotto tiro, nei referendum farsa. Penso al futuro della generazione di mia figlia e ai nostri Partigiani che hanno sconfitto il fascismo, donandoci la democrazia.
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