Erica Verrillo

In 1975 I decided to hitchhike to Antarctica. I only made it as far as Argentina, where I fell in love with a handsome guerrilla. Soon I became a target in the Dirty War. I had to escape, but my passport was a death sentence and the military was closing in on us . #A #mem #PitMad

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Palestinian terrorists ambushed a school bus carrying young children near Moshav Avivim on this day (May 22) in 1970, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at point-blank range. 12 murdered — 9 of them children aged 7 to 10. Dozens more wounded. The PFLP-GC — a splinter of the rejectionist Palestinian terror network — proudly claimed responsibility for the massacre. This wasn’t “resistance.” This was the deliberate hunting of Jewish schoolchildren. When they couldn’t defeat Israel on the battlefield, they chose to slaughter kids on a school bus. They’ve celebrated it ever since — naming streets after the murderers and teaching the next generation that Jewish blood is the path to “liberation.” Just three years after their humiliating defeat in 1967, instead of building anything in the territories under full Arab control (1948–1967), they exported barbarism: from Avivim to Munich to Ma’alot to Entebbe to October 7. The same ideology runs through Fatah, PFLP, DFLP, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Different brands. Same sickness: a culture that sees Jewish children as legitimate targets. The world shrugged and called it a “cycle of violence.” The Jewish people learned the lesson: No one else will protect our children. We must do it ourselves — with strength, deterrence, and zero tolerance for those who celebrate their murder. From the blood of Avivim to a strong, sovereign Israel today: we turned horror into unbreakable resolve. Am Yisrael Chai.

Wow. In one of the most emotional moments in television history, Stephen Colbert signs off his show’s last opening monologue by sharing that he realized his job was to “feel the news” with us. What a class act and an extraordinary person. Thank you Stephen.

Trump: So you're saying during the war you can't have elections? So 3.5 years from now, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections. Oh, that's good.

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Walking through the corridors of the Capitol, I noticed some representatives have signs on their doors “Against antisemitism and against Islamophobia. Antisemitism and “Islamophobia” are not the same thing. Judaism is both a religion and an ethnic identity. Historically, Jews were targeted not just for what they believed, but for what they were. Antisemitism was never limited to theology. It showed up as racial exclusion, scapegoating, pogroms, forced conversions, ghettos, and ultimately the Holocaust. Jews were murdered because of bloodlines, not beliefs. Secular Jews, atheists, even Jews who converted to Christianity were still hunted down and killed. Antisemitism treated Jews as a race long before Jews ever defined themselves that way. That’s why antisemitism laws exist. They were not created to protect Jewish theology from criticism. They were created to prevent racial hatred, incitement, and genocide. You can criticize the Torah, argue against Judaism, or reject Jewish religious claims entirely, and no one is arresting you for it. “Islamophobia” is something else entirely. What’s labeled Islamophobia is criticism of Islam as a religion. Calling that “racism” is a deliberate move to shut down scrutiny of ideas by pretending ideas are people. This erases the distinction: attacking Muslims as people is wrong. Critiquing Islam as an ideology must remain free. The push to racialize Islam and pass Islamophobia laws isn’t about preventing harm to people. It’s about insulating an ideology from criticism. That’s dangerous. It allows a powerful, global, dangerous religion to advance without challenge, shields illiberal ideas from exposure, and turns tolerance into a weapon against open societies. In the process, it cheapens real anti-racism. When criticism of a religion is treated like a hate crime, the concept of racism itself loses meaning, and real victims of racial hatred pay the price.

@London_W4 The male usurpation of women's bodies has been a man's right since time immemorial. This is no different. Making it into a political statement is simply part of the backlash against women's rights.

If the courts say that a man can be a woman simply because he says he is, then the whole of society breaks down. Everything becomes meaningless, because if a man can be a woman by saying he is, then a man can say he’s a lion and be a lion. Say he’s a rhino and be a rhino. A three year old child can say they’re an adult and demand to be treated as one in a pub. A mountain may no longer be a mountain; it could be a lettuce if someone has said that it is. You see? A man saying they’re a woman and being told they are by a court renders the whole world insane. And that’s exactly what it is to call a man a woman: insane.

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@MichaelKarlis I seem to remember that this has been done before...

TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists." "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.

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The current flotilla on its way to Gaza, without any coordination, contains 0 humanitarian aid for the residents of Gaza. Meanwhile, in full coordination with the UN and international organizations, approximately 600 aid trucks are facilitated into Gaza every single day. This is provocation for the sake of provocation: a "humanitarian" flotilla with no humanitarian aid. If you want to actually help the people of Gaza, choose coordination over theater.

@DiamonDie @godspeed_aflame 2000 years ago the Levant was largely populated by Arameans, Phoenicians, and Greeks, but mostly by Jews where Christ lived. Not sure which of those was "brown" as they were all Mediterranean. (Like southern Italians)

@godspeed_aflame Yeah and not to mention that the neighbors he were referring to were brown people.

Christ’s gospel was so radical, so contrary to the wisdom of the world, that people are still coping 2000 years later, insisting that he didn’t actually mean what he said.