CaptainWombat

@malcolmkenyatta If your constituents could read or think for themselves, they’d be deeply disappointed in you

The Supreme Court is corrupt.

@malcolmkenyatta Take the 9-0 L

@Ilhan @RepRashida GFY

The Nakba never ended. The genocide of Palestinians continues as the Israeli military escalates violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. I'm joining @RepRashida in co-sponsoring a resolution to recognize the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights.

@Number10cat Pretty racist assumptions on your part there…

@realrikkidoolan This you?

My better and more beautiful half is with me to Unite The Kingdom today ❤️✝️🇬🇧 Are we the far right hate filled dividers you were talking about @Keir_Starmer

@BillKristol On what fucking planet are those Democrat positions?

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda. Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events. Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive). It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas. By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee. It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population. This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence. The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

@brhodes If you didn’t operate in bad faith, you’d have no faith whatsoever

Why not be angry at the conduct instead of the reporting of the conduct?

@CPSUK GFY

Prosecutors have been issued new legal guidance on the use of offensive banners, slogans, chants or symbols to recognise the changing context and increase in increase in hate crime attacks ahead of significant planned protests in London this weekend. orlo.uk/z2Tcn

@Ilhan @RepRashida Wish the Ivy League flunky who wrote this would’ve read a history book

@PopBase Easier ways to admit you failed History

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

On This Day — May 15, 1948: The Jews Refused to Die Again While every newspaper & radio pundit on Earth was already writing Israel’s obituary, something completely insane happened. On this day, 5 Arab armies (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon) plus Saudi contingents invaded the newborn Jewish state with one declared goal: finish what Hitler started & “drive the Jews into the sea.” The math was grotesque: 600,000 Jews (men, women, and children) versus a combined Arab population of nearly 200 million with professional armies, British officers, and Soviet weapons. Israel had almost nothing — homemade Sten guns, Molotov cocktails, and whatever rifles could be scrounged. Britain and America both enforced a total arms embargo. The world waited for the slaughter. Instead, the Jews did the impossible. From the displaced-persons camps of Europe and from across the West came roughly 4,000 Machal volunteers — battle-hardened WWII veterans from Britain, the United States, Canada, and South Africa. Fighter pilots, bomber crews, and infantry officers dropped everything and rushed in. One of the most surreal moments: a young Jewish radio repairman from England arrived with zero combat experience. When asked what he could do, he said he fixed radios. The commanders’ eyes lit up. A shipment of broken walkie-talkies had just arrived. He and one Israeli partner spent weeks in a dusty former British camp bringing them back to life, one by one, so Israeli troops could finally talk to each other on the battlefield. Then came the miracles even the Bible might envy. Stalin, hoping to pull the socialist-leaning Israel into the Soviet orbit, secretly allowed Communist Czechoslovakia to become Israel’s lifeline. Prague sold the Jews Messerschmitt 109 fighters (assembled in secret), Spandau machine guns, rifles, ammunition, and bombs. Three B-17 Flying Fortresses were quietly bought in Panama, flown to Czechoslovakia, loaded with arms, and smuggled straight into a war zone — heavy bombers delivered to a country that didn’t officially exist two days earlier. Against every prediction, the tide turned. Israel lost 1% of its entire population in the fighting — a higher per-capita death toll than Britain suffered in all of World War II. Hardly a family was untouched. But by early 1949, the invading armies were pushed back and the armistice lines (the “Green Line”) were drawn — lines the Arab side itself insisted were temporary military lines only, never borders. This wasn’t just a military victory. This was the Jewish people — survivors of pogroms, exiles, and the Holocaust, joined by Jews who had never left the Middle East — declaring with their blood that after 2,000 years of wandering and persecution, they would never again be defenseless in their ancestral homeland. That is why a strong, sovereign, self-reliant Israel is not optional. It is the difference between survival and another chapter in the long book of Jewish tragedy. Never again will Jews have to beg strangers for the right to live. Never again will our survival depend on the fleeting “kindness” of empires that look away. Israel is the guarantee — secured by Jewish strength, not by the mercy of others. Am Yisrael Chai.🇮🇱

@KyleKulinski Easier ways to admit you have the emotional maturity of a apricot

Completely illegitimate court. Expand it and impeach the corrupt MAGA hacks. Enough.

Nakba Day - on May 14, 1948 Israel declared its independence. A coalition of five Arab nations including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq immediately declared war and invaded Israel. Israel won the war. The Arab nations created a day to commemorate the embarrassing loss.

@ellesep Its own love language

Sure sex is great but have you ever had your person put the Biofreeze roller all over your back

@baltimoresun New?

There is a new spring sport taking hold across Baltimore-area high schools. It does not have officials. It does not have a rulebook that anyone can fully explain. It does, however, have rankings, rosters, playoff byes, cheating accusations and at least one controversy involving Hey Dude shoes. It’s hacky sack. Students have turned a lunch-period pastime into something resembling a sport. They stand in circles outside school, keep a small beaded ball alive with their feet, post the best clips to Instagram and argue over which school has the best “sack” program. The trend has been especially loud in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, where accounts have popped up at multiple schools. Read more: bit.ly/4nr9SC8 🎥: Michael Howes, @baltimoresun

@nytimes I guess you’re wondering where to send his subscription?

Breaking News: An Iran-backed militia commander was arrested and charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the U.S., including one in New York. Prosecutors say he is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran. nyti.ms/4fuFtAS

@JamesSurowiecki You’re literally doing the meme….

How would knowing that Covid came from a lab - assuming for the sake of argument that it did, and that we could know that with certainty - have saved lives? What would have been different about our response?

@Keir_Starmer Fucking idiot has an opinion that’s moronic

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

In Citizens United, the Govt argued that it could censor a documentary about a major presidential candidate in an election year, on the theory that—like every other movie you have ever seen on TV, cable, streaming, or in a theater—a corporation was involved in its production or distribution. That cannot be correct, and is why Citizens United is plainly correct. @charlescwcooke @whignewtons

@NYTimesPR Deeply reported? I could eat alphabet soup and shit a more accurate story and deeply reported story