Tom Pedroni

@FleurHassanN @RepMTG No, AIPAC does not fund Medea.

@RepMTG Code pink is literally funded by foreign enemies

I’m America First and fully against funding foreign wars and support peace because that’s good for everyone especially the most innocent people, children. I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now even though politics says that’s not allowed. I’ve learned to find bridges with others and that’s how we all win and ultimately leads to peace.

@AliAbunimah ❤️

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me: From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

This is truly commendable by the American Academy of Pediatrics —the first medical society I know to publicly stand for the children of Gaza amidst Israel’s genocide. RT to show your appreciation for @AmerAcadPeds. May this courageous act spark a wave of compassion and justice, inspiring societies like @American_Heart & @ACCinTouch to find the humanity and courage to do the same. Silence is complicity. ✊ #GazaGenocide

@USAmbUN I’m am glad you are ready to bring justice for the many many journalists killed by the IDF.

@USAmbUN When will it be time to hold Israel accountable for its direct violation of multiple Security Council Resolutions? Or does your sentiment that nations should be held accountable to security council resolutions only apply to countries the U.S. doesn’t arm?

OPINION: Coming Home to Spirit Rock Throughout my 12 years as a faculty member, I’ve never truly felt at home at Wayne State— until I spent several afternoons and evenings at the student encampment at Spirit Rock. thesouthend.wayne.edu/features/artic…

@scarmody Steve, you really need to get more perspective on your story about Flint Mayor Neeley, Ladel Lewis, and bullying. I can help. In the meantime, it sounds like you’re getting played by the perpetrators.

UAW members waving signs in Wayne, Michigan as the strike against Ford, Stellantis & GM begins. ⁦@MichiganRadio⁩ ⁦@UAW⁩

Friends - we need to get to 2,000 followers by midnight. Can you help us with this goal? RT, like, and share!

@Sistah_Space @ManduReid @SuzanneEJacob I'm sorry to hear this Ngozi. Good that some action is being taken. Too often we're forced to swallow & suffer at the hands of line mgrs, colleagues, neighbours...too many to mention. Such incidents are more prevalent than many care to acknowledge. Sending strength 🙏

@gettinviggy @jesus_jimz @AlanYuhas Jesus, Bob Sagett was very very distraught about Norm Macdonald’s passing three months ago. Take a listen. youtu.be/yEYu-7BkNDM

The actor, who had also hosted “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” was found dead in an Orlando hotel room while on tour. Via @jesus_jimz @AlanYuhas nytimes.com/2022/01/09/art…

🗣 Children should be in schools, safe & healthy schools but prevented by the toleration, capitulation, & appeasement of the GOP-led #DisinformationSpewing #DemocracyDestroying #AntiVaxxers #AntiMaskers #Jan6Backers

Michigan’s kids face unequal protection when they go to school, & this tragic graph of record-high pediatric hospitalizations for #COVID in #Michigan is the result. We call on @GovWhitmer @MDHHS_Director @MichiganHHS to level the playing field with a statewide mask requirement.

@EmeryPetchauer @AccentPontiac I have both those shirts.

@michelleisawolf @jimmycarr Could someone please activate the microchips we put in the horse dewormer already?!

If you buy one book this year, buy @jimmycarr. It’s genuinely hilarious and if you don’t like it, it’s a really nice blue amazon.com/gp/product/B09…

@billburr Could someone please activate the microchips we put in the horse dewormer already?!

Could someone please activate the microchips we put in the horse dewormer already?!

@ChoiceMediatv @pamlpugh @TomMcMillin @RodMeloni @clickondetroit Treasurer McMillin— if you lead children to the center lane of a busy interstate and the very predictable happens, I would in fact say you are responsible for their injury or death. You are on the state board— you are responsible for our children.

WATCH -- MI State Board of Education VP @PamlPugh Describes Treasurer @TomMcMillin's Opposition to Mask Mandates in Schools: "You're killing our children." Response: "Oh come on. I'm 'Killing' your children? Is that what you just said?" Reported by @RodMeloni of @ClickOnDetroit

@nyappliances Don’t order from this company unless you want endless headaches. I have had a new unit sitting in my family room for two weeks and paid for installation. This company blames it on a third party and has no accountability. Customer service is unspeakably rude.

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@casandraulbrich Ann Arbor moved the high school reopening to April 26. And guess what students do on day 1 return! Get to know each other again? No. Start to debrief and digest what has happened? No. Honor those who we’ve lost and those who’ve suffered? No. Take the damn test??? Yes!!!!

USED denies MI waiver request. This is beyond disappointing. It's shameful. The USED chose to appease special interests rather than support students. Michigan will get virtually no useful or actionable info from this year’s state tests. #miched

@KunselmanTish @LiliaCortina Publicly attacking women in leadership as drunk is a very familiar misogynist trope. Maybe the person who slandered the superintendent needs to sit with a competent feminist therapist.

@LiliaCortina why are you slandering the Superintendent? Do you always bully people when you don’t get your way? #awfulhuman