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@OilandEnergy Who determined that coastal states shouldn't charge tolls? The sovereign entity themselves or "international interests"?

The real danger isn't the size of any single toll—it's the precedent. Since the mid-20th century, international commerce has relied on the principle that strategic waterways remain open under relatively predictable rules. If coastal states increasingly view chokepoints as revenue-generating assets rather than shared international corridors, shipping could face a patchwork of transit charges that functions like a global tariff system. The result would be structurally higher transportation costs, more persistent inflation, slower global growth, and a more fragmented world trading system. That shift could prove as significant for globalization as the rise of tariffs has been for international goods trade.

It doesn’t matter if the man killed by ICE in Maine was authorized to work in the United States or not. It doesn’t matter if he had a social security or not. ICE should not be killing anyone. Period.

@BronxJo @tparsi Familial appointments have no place in a constitutional republic

@tparsi Are you stupid? It is a temporary appointment rather than favor one of the 3 well known candidates that will vie for the August (R) primary to face the (D) in November. There are dozens of examples of such familial temporary appointments.

If this happened in some other country, we would laugh at their backwardness. Some in Washington would argue they must be bombed...

@georgegalloway The IRGC stands against zionism may their righteous struggle be victorious.

To the best of my knowledge I have never met a member of the IRGC. Neither expressed “a positive opinion” about them. An English woman named Shabana Mahmood has just made it punishable by 14 years in prison so to do so as a free-born Scotsman I will have to reconsider that. So far as I’m aware - as a UK legislator across five decades - this is the first time I have been explicitly told that I can go to prison literally for my opinion. For those of you cheering, remember, it will be your opinion next.

@StateDept @SecRubio Because fascists control our government

Op-Ed from @SecRubio: Why We’re Dismantling the ICC wsj.com/opinion/why-we…

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.

@marwanbishara That's 100 billionaires too many. Reduce that number to zero with this one simple trick.

The way it is; the we they are

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Don't be fooled by current leaders statements calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. If they really wanted to end it, they would have stopped military aid to Israel. Politicians don't give a damn about you. They put on a suit, join your protest condemning the killing of children, and promise a revolution. But the second the doors close, they're cashing checks from the exact same people who are killing those children.

This statement from Liam Cunningham depicts the real conditions in Gaza.

@unusual_whales Y'all have savings?

"Lower income Americans are literally running out of money at the end of the month. We're seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they're dipping into savings," per Kraft Heinz CEO.

@declassifiedUK British nationals have been supporting genocide since the age of colonization. Doing the same in the 21st century is historically consistent.

Foreign minister Hamish Falconer refused to answer questions yesterday about the UK government’s failure to stop British nationals fighting for the Israeli army in Gaza. It comes after more than 25,000 people signed a letter to the Foreign Office demanding they investigate UK citizens who fought in Gaza and may have committed war crimes. Thousands of British nationals have served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since the Gaza conflict began in 2023, according to a Freedom of Information response from the IDF first published by Declassified. You can add you name to the petition by visiting DeclassifiedUK.org/sign

@leylahamed Some people still think serving the empire means getting special treatment

A Morocco fan held up a Palestinian flag and a banner condemning Israel’s killing of Palestinian footballers. As security violently approached her to take the sign away, the whole crowd erupted into chants of “Free Palestine.”

This is the most horrific thing happening in our lifetimes and America is complicit and does nothing to stop it. Even worse, we fund it.

Julian Assange’s 55th birthday, a reminder of why he was persecuted for over a decade: Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter. Several others were killed while the US pilots laughed. The US wants to extradite and imprison Julian Assange for 175 years.

❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges. 🧵

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

#BREAKING: Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, Israel's chief hostage negotiator, says that hostages held by Hamas could have "come back alive" but the Netanyahu government repeatedly turned down truce deals on the altar of "the lie" of "total victory." @UnxeptableD

@alexskopic They're copying the Israeli playbook.

Call me paranoid, but New Orleans city council quietly changing the law to allow militarized police drones seems "not good"

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone. UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism” The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda. Who’s actually in charge in London?