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@jake_bittle Pls come to blue sky... also want to line up interview for podcast / reels etc to help people survive and thrive

Nestle is a big part of the reason Flint doesn’t have clean water.

@markweinstein Come over to Bluesky!

Hey all! Reviving my account. Get my new book "Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework" (WILEY). What would social media look like if it nourished critical thinking, mental health, privacy, civil discourse, and democracy? Order now: amazon.com/Restoring-Our-…

@ElieNYC @Shawn30718197 @thenation Come over to Bluesky please!

No. You are wrong again. Doctors are not required to perform treatments they do not think are medically advisable or necessary. But this is the futility of Twitter, because no matter how many times I can show you that you are provably, hysterically, stupidly wrong, you are unable to change your bigoted worldview.

In case you missed yesterday’s horrible anti-trans session at the Supreme Court, here’s my write up in @thenation. The entire proceeding was bigotry masquerading as law. thenation.com/article/societ…

@Revkin @ThatEricAlper Come over to Bluesky please!

> @ThatEricAlper asked: "If aliens landed and asked what Earth music is all about, which song would you play for them?" > My answer >

@ThatEricAlper Come over to Bluesky please!

Love it

@BklynDin @FrankFigliuzzi1 @davidbadash Come to Bluesky please

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @davidbadash Imagine if this guy is in charge of investigating it. x.com/jimstewartson/…

@VinGuptaMD @JDBalartMSNBC @jdbalart Come to Bluesky please

Always an important conversation when joining my friend ⁦@jdbalart⁩ to discuss important health issues of the day. Today, it is news you can use. If you’ve been hearing about “walking” pneumonia cases near you, we break down what it means and how you stay healthy!

@AConcernedPare2 @TRHLofficial According to the poster... Samuel Fuller?!

@TRHLofficial I recently learned my husband's family descended from a boy who came over on the Mayflower and lost both of his parents during his first year here. Wild.

The Mayflower passengers who arrived in Plymouth November 11, 1620 vs. The Mayflower passengers who survived to Thanksgiving 1621, less than one year later.

@khalidi79397 Come to Bluesky too please

I'm a #Palestinian and I support #Israel right to exists and define itself as a homeland for #Jews. In a similar way I support #Palestinians right for self determination and establishment of an official #Palestine state as their homeland. Do you agree?

BREAKING: The WSJ reports that the UN’s Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide has been dismissed after refusing to say that the campaign in Gaza fits the definition of a genocide based on the evidence. Alice Nderitu, an accomplished mediator specializing in genocide prevention, led an office that issued a guidance paper on the proper use of the term “genocide.” The paper emphasized that UN officials should “adhere to the correct usage” of the term due to its political and legal sensitivities and its frequent misuse to describe large-scale crimes against specific populations. Nderitu, who has served at the UN since 2020, was dismissed for asserting that Israel’s war with Hamas does not constitute genocide. She explained that while the conflict has caused significant loss of life, Israel’s actions aim to dismantle a terrorist regime, not to exterminate an ethnic group. She also noted that Israel has made efforts to minimize civilian casualties, even as Hamas uses civilians as human shields to exploit their deaths for propaganda. Her position clashes with UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s manufactured narrative. The UN is not neutral or impartial when it comes to Israel— you can’t deny it now.

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has announced plans to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This agency is responsible for protecting Americans from predatory banking, payday lenders, and for-profit colleges. RETWEET to let the American people know what they voted for!

BREAKING: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hits back hard at Donald Trump with a dire warning after he announces his disastrous tariffs — and breaks down exactly how idiotic his idea is. This is what a real leader sounds like... "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs," she wrote in a letter to Trump which she read at a press conference. "Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours," she added. "One tariff will follow another and so on, until we put our common businesses at risk," she correctly predicted. Trump's suggestion that he will implement a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada is utterly moronic and will only succeed at skyrocketing prices. "I am convinced that North America’s economic strength lies in maintaining our trade partnership. This allows us to remain competitive against other economic blocs," she continued. "For this reason, I believe that dialogue is the best path to understanding, peace, and prosperity for our nations. I hope our teams can meet soon to continue building joint solutions," Sheinbaum added. Please retweet and ❤️ if you oppose Trump's harebrained tariffs — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb

@afalkhatib Please post on BlueSky

What being pro-Palestine means to me / my platform: I'm passionately, unequivocally, and without hesitation, a proponent of the Palestinian people’s just and urgent aspirations for self-determination, liberation, sovereignty, and safety. I grew up in Gaza, where I experienced Israeli violence and bombardment, including one incident that almost killed me and caused me permanent hearing impairment; my family is still in Gaza and has suffered dozens of deaths during this latest war; my grandparents were expelled from their ancestral homelands in 1948 and fled to the Gaza Strip; and my parents were raised in a refugee camp in Rafah during the 1950s. This background informs and influences me and speaks to why I care about the Palestinian issue and consider myself pro-Palestine. I am motivated by a sincere desire to see my people obtain their legitimate and undeniable rights, which they have not had for decades. Yet I, and many others, especially those who are silent or are forced to be quiet, struggle with finding a political home in today’s pro-Palestine movement. Increasingly, it feels as if pro-Palestine activism is dominated by maximalists (wanting all of historic Palestine and other zero-sum positions and approaches), slogan-driven voices, and narratives. There is a lack of pragmatic and humanistic ability to hold multiple truths at once and to advocate nuanced and color-rich positions and views that are not black-and-white depictions and understandings of the Israel and Palestine conflict. Here’s what, to me, an effective and meaningful pro-Palestine platform entails: 1. Supporting the right of Palestinians to a sovereign and independent state living in peace side by side with Israel. 2. Condemning Israeli government actions, policies, priorities, and decisions that kill, harm, undermine, or oppress the Palestinian people. 3. Criticizing and decrying the conduct of the war in Gaza, the military occupation in the West Bank, and the Israeli government’s disregard for Palestinian civilian lives, and the destruction of property and cities. 4. Rejecting, denouncing, and exposing the theft of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and the sprawling settlement enterprise and settler violence. 5. Supporting highly targeted, specific, and effective sanctions against individuals, groups, and entities that are enabling the unjust and illegal occupation of the West Bank and harming Palestinian civilians. 6. Denouncing and combating the dehumanization of the Palestinian people or the denial of their existence as people with the right to live on the land they called home for generations. 7. Acknowledging the tragedy experienced by hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from 1948 and giving them/their descendants the right to return to the lands of a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. 8. Understanding past and contemporary mistakes that have set the Palestinian people back by decades and made them pawns in ideologies and geopolitical programs, agendas, and designs. 9. Developing a pragmatic and realistic framework for recognizing Israel’s existence, right to exist, and the inevitability of its continued existence, all of which should inform how a solution is approached. 10. Dispensing with delusional and destructive elements of the Palestinian narrative and acknowledging that there will not be a full liberation of all of Palestine, there will not be a right of return to what is now mainland Israel, and that Israel cannot and should not be confronted militarily or through any form of violence. 11. Promoting a cultural shift away from revolutionary rhetoric, martyrdom, and armed resistance, and instead, rebranding coexistence and peace as a courageous and necessary evolution to preserve Palestinian lives, lands, and heritage and foster a new generation of nation-builders who are focused on doing the most with what the Palestinians currently have and can have in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 12. Denouncing and rejecting antisemitism while also acknowledging that Zionists and Israelis are a diverse group/people and that the Palestinians have to work with all of these segments to have sustainable coexistence and peace. 13. Understanding how violent/hateful rhetoric, actions, and mistakes are detrimental because they empower right-wing and extremist forces in Israel who are opposed to Palestinian rights and that persistent mistakes and incendiary rhetoric and proclamations erode support for the Palestinian people and cause. 14. Recognizing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability when taking actions that have negative consequences and outcomes and acknowledging that, while there’s an asymmetry of power dynamics, Palestinian leaders, political groups, and prominent figures should make rational and responsible choices to optimize for better prospects. 15. Accepting that even with East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, access to holy sites must always be shared and open to all. 16. Realizing how nefarious regional players like the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies are not sincere or helpful allies to the Palestinian people and have done so much damage to the entire region and the Palestinian cause. 17. Developing the capacity to hear Jewish perspectives and grievances, historical and contemporary, to understand why pro-Israel supporters believe what they do and why Israel means so much to so many, even if one disagrees with those opinions and views. 18. Understanding that Hamas recklessly endangered Palestinian lives and placed the people of Gaza in significant harm and that the group relies on Palestinian suffering as part of its strategy to delegitimize Israel globally while perpetuating the conflict without any meaningful resolution. 19. Registering the dangers of Islamist rhetoric and ideology that seeks to Islamize Palestinian society and to turn the Palestinian national project into a religious one in pursuit of an Islamic state that, by default, will be exclusionary and incapable of accommodating diverse residents in a future Palestinian country. I am compelled to share the aforementioned because, for far too many people, pro-Palestine activism has been reduced to incendiary language that fails to capture the multiple moving parts of what is needed to advance the just and urgent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and independence. While many students, activists, advocates, academics, and analysts have their hearts in the right place, many cannot present viable and pragmatic ideas that are not mere rhetorical statements and empty slogans. I know that many strongly disagree with my views and opinions, and that’s entirely fine. Still, many more are eager to see a recalibration of pro-Palestine activism to actually help the Palestinians achieve statehood instead of inflaming division and fostering hostility towards supporters of Israel and the Jewish community. Many in Palestine are aware of the need to be pragmatic and don’t think that angry protests, BDS, antisemitism, endless academic lectures, social media activism, or “feel good” slogans will actually make a difference. It’s time for a rejuvenated pro-Palestine movement that serves as a big tent to encompass multiple views and opinions and to invite and promote broad alliances, especially with mainstream Jewish and Israeli communities, to work towards a just and sustainable resolution of the conflict once and for all. This is entirely attainable and achievable with humility, civility, patience, compassion and kindness, perseverance and determination, a willingness to accept reasonable compromises and accommodations, and, most importantly, the recognition of both sides’ undeniable and mutual humanity.

@TheBetterPath_ Come to BlueSky please

This neuroscientist worked until she was 103. She also: • Won a Nobel Prize at 77 • Became a senator at 92 • Stayed mentally sharp into her 100s Her secret? 5 daily habits that prevented brain aging: 🧵

@ImtiazMadmood Come to BlueSky

What did Palestinian money look like before the area was called Israel? All Hebrew. No Arabic. Palestine was always Jewish, from the time the oppressor Romans changed the name from Judea 2000 years ago, in an effort to deny Historical truth. Naming the area Israel restores historical truth.

@Lilith_Atheist Come to Bluesky

Morning, everyone 😊

@mmpadellan See you on Bluesky

TWEEPS: I've lost 67,000 followers since Election Day, and Elon is still throttling liberal accounts even as people are flocking to The Good Place. If you're like me and STAYING in this godforsaken app until they throw us out, give me a holler or a wave. 👋💙👋

In 2014, Elon "gave away" Tesla's secrets to BWM. Everyone thought he was crazy. But this "act of charity" was actually the most ruthless business move in corporate history. Here's why BMW never saw it coming: 🧵

@donlemon @joncoopertweets We need a record so we don't forget all that is dismantled and destroyed - and those that will later deserve reparations for death, injury, harm, and deprivation of rights - if we come out the other side of this!