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South West, England 가입일 Nisan 2012
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Thing1 319ppm@withthing2·
'The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater.'
Sony Thăng@nxt888

I don't have "deep insights" about Americans as a species. I have memory. And I have pattern recognition sharpened by what it means to live under the consequences of decisions Americans call "foreign policy." You grow up Vietnamese, you learn early that there are two parallel realities: The one you live through. And the one narrated about you on American television, in speeches, in films, in history books. My family lived through the moment when American abstractions like "credibility" and "containing communism" stopped sounding strategic and became physical: Bomb craters. Refugee boats. Bodies. You watch villages renamed "collateral." You watch coups renamed "restoring democracy." You watch blockades renamed "pressure for reform." You watch your dead filed away as "tragedy" so that no one has to call them what they were: crimes. After a while, you stop getting angry at every sentence. You start studying the grammar. Who gets to remain human in the story. Who gets turned into an adjective. Whose violence is "regrettable," and whose resistance is "terrorism." Which lives are allowed complexity, and which lives are flattened into body counts, talking points, and background noise. Then you hear Americans speak about entirely different places, entirely different wars, entirely different enemies, and the same grammar is still there: "Intervention" instead of invasion. "Stability" instead of control. "Responsibility" instead of domination. "Sanctions" instead of siege. If you grow up with that long enough, you learn that what empire calls "responsibility" usually means someone far away is about to bleed. That's where my "insight" comes from. From watching the same software run on different hardware. From listening closely to the metaphors they don't even notice they're using anymore. From realizing that, for a lot of good, ordinary people, this isn't malice. It's the water they were raised in. The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater. So when I write about American exceptionalism, I'm not claiming mystical access to "your people." I am describing the hallucination I've been forced to survive under since I was born. And once you see the pattern from outside the blast radius, it becomes almost impossible not to see it everywhere.

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Daily Iran News
Daily Iran News@DailyIranNews·
🇺🇸TRUMP: "When crazy people have nukes, bad things happen." 🇮🇷IRAN: "Trump is right. America is the only country on the planet Earth that has actually used them on civilians twice. CRAZY" SAVAGE😂🔥
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Amnesty UK
Amnesty UK@AmnestyUK·
Heard of Palantir? Because of public pressure, on Thursday 16 April, MPs will debate Palantir’s contract with the NHS. The genocide by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza is ongoing. A company linked to genocide has NO place in our NHS. We need to make ourselves heard NOW. Act now: amn.st/6015B622sv We need as many MPs as possible to attend the debate, raise Palantir’s human rights record and oppose its role in our NHS.
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The Grayzone
The Grayzone@TheGrayzoneNews·
Zarah Sultana MP invokes parliamentary privilege to inform the British public about reporting by The Grayzone on the corrupt trial of six Palestine Action activists Sultana stated that if convicted, the defendants "will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that” “They could convict them on criminal damage charges with no idea that terrorism sentences will follow," she continued. "Not a single terrorism charge has been brought forward. The proscription has been ruled unlawful and the defendants themselves have been banned from telling the jury that they acted to stop genocide under threat of contempt charges”
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Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson@DerbyChrisW·
By targeting companies linked to Israel's murderous actions, @MaxBlumenthal says that what Palestine Action activists have done is the "contemporary equivalent of sabotaging the railways to Auschwitz."
The Grayzone@TheGrayzoneNews

A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun. The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this. The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil. Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide. Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever's left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.

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Kate 🕊
Kate 🕊@affleckquine·
As far as I know @zarahsultana is the only MP brave enough to say this in Parliament. We only know this is true because American journalists have freedom of speech so won't be arrested for telling the truth as would happen in the UK.
Defend Our Juries@DefendOurJuries

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

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Daniel Lambert
Daniel Lambert@dlLambo·
@IsraelMFA Just stop. The surge in hatred for Israel across the world isn't driven by religion, it is driven by your country being genocidal maniacs. Just look at the statements of your government leaders. Nobody cares about your religion. You are a threat to everyone.
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Sarah Martin 💙
Sarah Martin 💙@smarting1975·
Another reason why keeping trial by jury is so important - imagine the consequences of judges colluding with the state like this.
Defend Our Juries@DefendOurJuries

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial. UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details. “If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”

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Nadira Ali🇵🇸
Nadira Ali🇵🇸@Nadira_ali12·
In memory of all the journalists k!lled in GAZA GEN0CIDE 💔
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Harry Eccles
Harry Eccles@Heccles94·
The average worker pays £2,000 per year in national insurance That means that 800,000 of us have had our national insurance used to line the pockets of private CEOs. Did you consent to that?
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Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸
Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸@earthygirl011·
Given the ongoing Govt shenanigans it's hard to see how the Filton 24 can possibly get the free & fair trial they are entitled to
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
Sky News exposes the horrifying reality of Israel's war on Lebanon. A 12-year-old girl named Zainab lies in a hospital bed with severe burns, completely unaware that her entire family, including her 5-year-old brother, was wiped out in a single Israeli airstrike. Pure evil.
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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
Having to ban protests is not a sign that things are going well.
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Farrukh
Farrukh@implausibleblog·
Zack Polanski, "It's not enough to just be hopeful... It's about having hope and a plan" "I also disagree that left wing policies are popular" "Didn't you - Jeremy Corbyn - get 3,000,000 more votes than Keir Starmer got?" Jeremy Corbyn, "The highest vote this century for Labour, it was 2017" Zack Polanski, "That's 3,000,000 more people who wanted to move wealth away from private capital, to nationalise our water services, nationalise our public services, and that's very popular in this country" "Broadband is a good example of how the media jumped on saying it's not possible, not pragmatic. And that's their number one weapon, to always make people think that better isn't possible, and that change isn't possible" "And we know why. The multimillionaires and billionaires who pump money into wars, or oil and gas, or into arms companies, or into gambling companies" "Once they've bought up the assets, they buy the media, then they buy our democracy" "I guess we're here tonight to say that they're taken our power, they've taken our democracy, they're taken our media" "But collectively, we are going to take it back"
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Eric Lee
Eric Lee@EricLeeAtty·
Very, very sad to report that Hayam El Gamal, mother of 5 kids detained at Dilley for 10+ months, has suffered a serious medical emergency due to systematic denial of medical attention by ICE. We can now share the following: For many weeks Ms. El Gamal has been concerned about a growth on her chest that has caused pain for many weeks. She has made complaints to Dilley staff and ICE repeatedly but has been denied a visit to an outside doctor. She had specifically made requests for a CT scan to identify the lump and the source of her pain. On Thursday April 8, a doctor at Dilley told her that he had put in a request for a CT scan but "higher ups" in either ICE or CoreCivic overrode his request, and so no scan was conducted. Medical records show she had been demanding help since February, at which time she said her pain had been already worsening for 8 weeks. A doctor at Dilley said the lump in her chest was merely a bone. Mid-morning on Friday April 9, Ms. El Gamal began experiencing excruciating pain which she rated an 11 out of 10. She described the pain as being stabbed through the back to the stomach. At about 11 AM central time she began pleading with officials for painkillers and medical attention. After two hours of asking for help (at around 1 PM central time) she was taken to an off-site emergency room. While there she received lab work and, finally, a CT scan. The CT scan confirmed that the lump was not a bone, but it did not reveal what the lump was. The scan also showed she has "fluid around the heart." The ER doctor recommended an ultrasound to determine what was causing the pain, but this was denied. Ms. El Gamal was told she had to go back to Dilley and was not given the ultrasound. We do not know if the lump is cancerous, all we know is that the pain is increasing, the incidents are becoming worse and worse, and she is not receiving proper diagnosis that could lead to proper treatment. After 10 months in detention, Ms. El Gamal remains in pain. We are concerned that the systematic denial of medical attention may result in her death. Her children are extremely worried about their mother, who is now their only guardian. Her five year old child has been denied the right to go to a dentist for 13 cavities. Her 16 year old son was told to take tylenol when he suffered from acute appendicitis. All of the children are suffering from depression. Please join us in demanding the El Gamal's immediate release so that she can acquire the urgent medical attention she desperately needs. This family has suffered enough.
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lan Byrne MP
lan Byrne MP@IanByrneMP·
Tonight I voted against the Government’s latest attempt to curb the right to peaceful protest. Time and again, we are seeing hard fought freedoms chipped away, rights secured through generations of collective action now being steadily undermined. This is not a path we should accept nor head down.
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Adnan Hussain MP
Adnan Hussain MP@AdnanHussainMP·
I’ve just voted against further government attempts to curtail peaceful protest through sweeping “cumulative disruption” measures. The right to protest is a pillar of democracy, vital for holding governments to account. I will keep defending our long-standing freedoms.
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Farrukh
Farrukh@implausibleblog·
2024: Keir Starmer, "Your government should treat every single person in this country with respect" 2026: Zarah Sultana uses parliamentary privilege to expose how Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood's proscription of a protest group - a proscription deemed unlawful by the High Court - is doing the opposite of what Starmer claimed in his first speech as PM Vote Labour out in the May elections, but do so in a way that does not vote Reform UK in
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