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@LongTimeHistory @rosendo_joe She’s spiritually Israeli. Her karma awaits her.

Homeowner waits until construction job is nearly done—then calls ICE on 6 of her own workers. Woman even provides the ladder used by agent to detain men—who she owes $10,000 for 3 day job. "She called the damn law on us and now we're totally screwed!" men yell in Spanish. "They surrounded us!—They surrounded us!" Agents even left behind the workers' van with doors wide open—filled with thousands of dollars worth of tools. The arrest was broadcast live for about 30 minutes by a co-worker—identified as Bryan Polanco. "Seeing it is not the same as experiencing it," he explains. "I’ve seen many videos, and sadly today I had to experience it." At the end of the video he gets the woman who called ICE on camera: "It is the same woman. Tidying up the house, and still with hatred in her heart." The incident occurred in Cambridge, Maryland.

@NoahsArk1000 Karen, is that you?

What comes to mind when you see Netanyahu’s wife?

@Hoffman8Jon The only fix is America totally and permanently breaking with Israel

Today, the chief reason the United States cannot get out of the Middle East is Israel. The special relationship uniquely binds the United States to the Middle East. The profound levels of American commitments to Israel surpasses all other regional actors. US Middle East policy is bound to Israel at both the strategic and operational levels to the point where crafting policies independent of Israeli preferences is almost unthinkable. In Washington, the perceived political costs of challenging the special relationship have long been an impediment to reform. Israel and its supporters seek to dominate the discourse surrounding US Middle East policy. This is done financially by pouring massive sums of money into politicians, think tanks, and so on; by policing what constitutes “legitimate” debate surrounding the US-Israel relationship; and by gatekeeping and intimidation. This paralysis in policymaking allows Israel to persistently pressure Washington into providing ever more concessions—which are almost always granted—thereby pulling the United States deeper into the region despite this being contrary to American interests. By entrapping the United States in the Middle East, the special relationship forces Washington to pay the strategic costs of Israeli policy.

@ChipDavis10 @ChrisMartin1961 I was born in 61 and definitely don’t feel like a boomer at all. Boomers bought a house for next to nothing. College was cheap. They worked 40 hours not 60 hours a week. They often had pensions. And they don’t acknowledge it. Finally. boomer politicians have been terrible.

@ChrisMartin1961 I read somewhere that boomers born between 1956-1965 aren't actually boomers, I certainly don't feel like a boomer. we are stuck in between generations

I’m seeing, yet again, this surge of hatred for the Boomer generation. I’m a late season Boomer, born in 1961; I’ve worked for nearly 50 years, have been in the same profession for 37 years, I’ve routinely worked 45-60 hours a week. I don’t get why we are so vilified.

@DanMKervick Everyone but the Shiites are apathetic

Why isn’t there a global uprising against Imperialism, Zionism and fascism? Why is the Resistance in West Asia fighting alone?

@europa @abusulayman What could possibly go wrong?

🇮🇱🇬🇷 A representative of the Israel Defense Minister's party has proposed Israel purchase islands in Greece “for the good of the Jewish people.” Avri Steiner, a board member of the Jewish National Fund, proposed the purchasing Greek islands as an emergency “safe haven” for Jews, and claims a framework could be created with the Greek government to eventually transfer full sovereignty. Follow: @europa

@e_galv I do feel hopeless emotionally, but Iran and the Axis are really putting up a fight against America and Israel. So I’m mentally optimistic but not emotionally.

Something happened to me over the course of the past few years. I went from holding a deep sense of hope about the future and our ability to fundamentally change our material conditions through uniting, organizing, and supporting one another... to feeling utterly hopeless. This transition has been eye opening in many ways. The human brain is tricky, and I've noticed how this hopelessness has changed the way I think, without me prompting it to. Whereas the current events of the day and the general state of the world used to live in the forefront of my mind, they have since been buried somewhere I have to search to find. I feel so out of touch sometimes. This may sound strange, but the more I speak with other people, the more I realize I'm not the only one experiencing this. I think many of us are in a state of dissociation, freeze, and numbness. We are on autopilot. Our minds are protecting us from the onslaught of negative, terrifying, horrible, unbelievable, and getting worse by the day news. One can only hold so much at once. I believe this is part of the plan. When everyone is on autopilot, then no one can act. Or plan. Or be present. Or use their critical thinking skills all that well. It's like flipping a switch and turning millions of lights off at once. But I don't want to exist in the dark. None of us do. And I don't have all of the answers on getting myself or anyone else back to a place of light and hope. I think the first step is to talk about it. I know I'm not alone and you aren't either. Maybe if enough of us share these experiences with one another and admit where we are at, we can figure out how to move forward.

@ExNewsHD Neither. It is the only way to defeat the Israeli maniacs, but it gives no joy.

🚨‼️ BREAKING 💥 The situation in Israel is extremely worrying right now. Dead and wounded in every street, and a strong media blackout. 🙏 Does watching these scenes make you: 1- Extremely happy 2- Extremely sad

@mrmikeMTL So many pivot dates: 1969, 1975, 2000, 2008, 2020. They were all years of major decline.

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse???

@normfinkelstein @PaliNewsNetwork They look like nice decent people❤️

MY CLASS, OUR FUTURE normanfinkelstein.com/my-class-our-f…

@RWApodcast @phl43 There is a bizarre meme that Iran was occupied in 1979. The Zionists cooked that one up

@phl43 I don't know if anyone really believes it but yes the Pahlavist/Zionist narrative is that Iran was a Zoroastrian liberal democracy until 1979 and then ethnic Arabs invaded and forced everyone to become Muslims

Do people really think that Iran only became Muslim in the last century? 🙃

@GeriPerna That’s because of internet competition on price

I remember back in the 80's, I got a job at Macy's for Christmas help. I was in the men's department, and my job for every shift was folding the men's sweaters and keeping the dress shirts and ties in order. That was it. I was not trained on register until I was kept on permanently. That store was as neat as a pin, and every department had 2-3 "extras" working at all times to assist customers. Now? You are lucky to find an employee, except for the one at the cash register, with 8 people standing in line waiting.

@TheFigen_ Brunch

No way! On what occasion would you wear this?

@FrankBr05713205 Rotary engine

Has anyone ever seen the insides of one of these engines and can you identify what kind of engine it is?

@GayestFesh @DomainDead No kings will not be an anti war rally

@DomainDead i think i saw plans this sunday for another no kings, no idea

It’s likely worse than “Americans can’t be bothered to protest” and is closer to a period of national grieving because most people seem to realize signs and marches won’t work. Which means we’re inching towards something else.

@DomainDead @moorehn People have given up on the possibility of change, and just want “inner peace”.

@PinballWiz4rd @ripplebrain Ironically Naser was pretty stupid

Pretty much my reaction to everything that’s happened in last 3 weeks.

@BrianCox_RLTW @Israel You give lawyers a bad name. Blocked

During the coming days & weeks, you're bound to encounter all kinds of claims that "attacks on Iran by Israel & the United States are illegal, unprovoked & unjustifiable." These claims are false. Here's why. @Israel has publicly announced - correctly so - it is in an "ongoing armed conflict" against Iran (pic 1). For anyone interested in specific reasons & justifications, I invite you to review an info paper published @IsraelMFA on Op Rising Lion available at this link (pic 1 is screenshot of 1st few paragraphs): gov.il/en/pages/opera… 🇮🇱 is also designated with 🇺🇸 Major Non-NATO Ally status (pic 2). This doesn't provide a specific legal basis for 🇺🇸 to intervene in this ongoing armed conflict, but it shouldn't be a surprise that @POTUS directs @DeptofWar to do so on behalf of our MNNA - as he did for Op Midnight Hammer. Don't let mass disinformation agents like Corbyn here distort reality & rewrite history in service of their preferred progressive social or political agenda. Yes, there have been "illegal, unprovoked & unjustified attacks" in this strategic setting. They were carried out by IRAN & it's regional proxies starting on 10/7. Israel exercised the inherent right of individual self-defense, as reflected in art. 51 @UN Charter, in response. Intervention by 🇺🇸 to support its MNNA 🇮🇱 is an issue of neutrality, not the Charter. Joining an ONGOING armed conflict is not illegal - it just means 🇺🇸 is now a belligerent (again) in the conflict. And yes, "peace & diplomacy" WERE possible. During diplomatic engagement BEFORE Op Roaring Lion, 🇮🇷 refused peace. Now they get an escalation of this ONGOING armed conflict. This IS behaviour of a rogue state. The "rogue state" is 🇮🇷...and now that behavior is met with escalated consequences. Colloquially, I believe this is referred to as #FAFO. Khamenei & his gov't have been on FA axis of that calculation for quite a while. Now, they're transitioning further along on the FO axis. No surprise there. Finally, the "flagrant breach of international law" here occurred on 10/7. Since then, 🇮🇱 has been involved in an ONGOING armed conflict against 🇮🇷 & its proxies. Responding to the enduring threat is NOT "aggression." It is war. Governments like Corbyn's 🇬🇧 can join in or stay out of the way. Either way, ops by 🇮🇱 & 🇺🇸 do NOT constitute a "violation of international law." Jeremy Corbyn here is misrepresenting both facts AND language of int'l law. Also no surprise there, considering the source. But he most certainly won't be the only one. When you encounter disinformation like his rhetoric going forward, now you'll know exactly how you're being misled. #TheMoreYouKnow

@Seanmacfadden @histories_arch Since they didn’t provide a reference, it’s unlikely. Furthermore, lending $40 under the circumstances described is implausible as that was a huge sum of money at the time

@eliotc @histories_arch Is it possible that the 'facts' could have been gleaned from a source more trustworthy than wiki?

In 1835, port of New Orleans, Irish families step off the gangway into swampland heat, carrying everything they own. Among them, a small girl named Margaret Gaffney clutches her father's hand. She is five years old. She does not yet know that within the year, both her parents will be dead. Yellow fever moves through the immigrant quarters like wildfire through dry grass. Margaret's mother dies first. Her father follows days later. At six years old, she becomes a ward of Welsh neighbors who need extra hands more than they need another mouth to feed. There is no school. No tenderness. Just work. By nine, she is scrubbing laundry. By eleven, she is entirely on her own. At twenty-one, she marries Charles Haughery. They have a daughter. For the first time since childhood, Margaret feels safe. Then yellow fever comes again. Her husband dies. Her baby dies. She is twenty-two, widowed, childless, illiterate, and alone in a city that considers Irish Catholics less than human. Most people would have broken. Margaret borrowed forty dollars, bought two cows, and started selling milk. She walked the French Quarter before sunrise, knocking on doors, undercutting prices, outworking everyone. People mocked her. A poor Irish widow with a milk cart was not supposed to become anything. Within a year, she paid back the loan. Within five, she owned the largest dairy in the city. Then she met the nuns at the orphanage. They were trying to feed children no one else wanted. Margaret saw herself in every face. She gave them all her milk, every day, and refused payment. She told them she remembered what hunger felt like. She remembered being six and abandoned. In 1858, she sold the dairy and bought a bakery she had no idea how to run. She could not read recipes. She learned by feel, by repetition, by refusing to fail. Within a year, her bread was everywhere. She standardized loaves, mechanized production, and fed a city that once looked through her like she was invisible. When yellow fever returned, she nursed the dying. During the Civil War, she fed Union soldiers and Confederate families without asking which side they supported. She became one of the wealthiest women in America and gave away over six hundred thousand dollars. She never learned to write her name. She signed every document with an X. When Margaret Haughery died in 1882, New Orleans erected the first statue ever dedicated to a woman in the city. At the base, they carved an X. The mark of someone who could not write, but who rewrote what mercy looked like. Margaret lived so simply that many people did not realize she was wealthy. She wore plain dresses, lived in modest rooms, and walked to work every day. Visitors to her bakery often mistook her for a cleaning woman. She preferred it that way. She believed attention should go to the work, not the person doing it. The statue erected in her honor still stands in Margaret Place in New Orleans. It depicts her sitting with a child on her lap and another at her side. The inscription reads simply, "Margaret." For decades, locals called her "the Bread Woman of New Orleans." Children she helped grew up, had children of their own, and told them about the woman who made sure no one went hungry. Margaret's bakery became so successful that during the Civil War, Union officers tried to seize it for military use. She reportedly walked into the commanding officer's tent and told him that if he took her bakery, the orphans would starve. He let her keep it. Another detail: she was known to test her bread by touch alone, never needing to read temperatures or measurements. Workers said she could tell if dough was ready just by pressing it with her thumb. 📷 : Portrait of Margaret Haughery, 1842, by Jacques Amans. © Daughters of Time #archaeohistories

@Parodyjeffx Serious Baron Harkonnen vibes

This is a runway walk from Paris Fashion Week, styled by Karin Roitfeld. And yes, she is Jewish.