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Julie R.
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full-time clinical psychologist, auntie, & lover of tv. working on kicking cancer's ass.
Southern California Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Swalwell’s Sudden Collapse Isn’t About ‘Sexual Misconduct’
The most dangerous place for a Democrat to be is between another Democrat and a seat of power.
issuesinsights.com/2026/04/14/swa…
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Feels nice to be totally vindicated on this one
Zineb Riboua@zriboua
Special thanks to the Washington Post Editorial Board for mentioning me. On why Japan is the big winner:
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"When Westerners treat [Iran's] proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world."
Zineb Riboua@zriboua
The Arab Word is Watching a Different War: Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position: The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks. What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought. Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies. The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world. The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does. This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice. The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with. The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…
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Worth taking into account the thoughtful analysis by @HudsonInstitute’s @zriboua, not only on tactical turns in the Iran🇮🇷 conflict, but also about Western media being “structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible” Arab perceptions of the Persian mullahs’ strategic threat.
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Swalwell ran for president in 2020. Some of the stuff he's accused of happened before that. But we're only hearing about it in 2026, six years later. Really makes you think.
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Will you open refineries? No.
Will you expand offshore drilling? No.
Will you build O&G infrastructure? No.
Will you cut state gas taxes? No.
Will you reduce California’s season blends? No.
Will you increase permitting? No.
Will you allow for new exploration? No.
Will you do anything remotely different than Gavin Newsom? No.
Nothing will change.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
The war in Iran is driving up costs and burning billions in taxpayer dollars. As governor, I'll be laser-focused on making California more affordable for working people.
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America once built a B-24 bomber every 63 minutes. Today, it takes a decade to deliver new weapons.
What happened to the arsenal of democracy? Our new video explains.
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"I will never stop searching for my wife's killer"
GIF
Ruben Gallego@RubenGallego
I support the ethics committee’s investigation and believe Eric Swalwell is no longer fit to be a Member of Congress. He should be expelled from Congress. I want to be clear: I had no knowledge of the allegations of assault, harassment, and predatory behavior against Eric Swalwell. I trusted someone who I believed was a friend, but it is now clear that he is not the person I thought I knew. The women who have come forward have shown courage. They deserve to be believed, to be supported, and to see justice served.
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Swalwell is now out of the governor's race, but his friends are still looking for political shelter. This photo of Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) has not aged well. Notably, Gallego and Swalwell accepted roughly 100k to frolic at the Four Seasons in Doha. foxnews.com/politics/flash…
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Single. Payer. Healthcare.
We've tried to pass it twice. Even the Dem Supermajority couldn't justify the math. If this is Steyer's big play, @SteveHiltonx is looking better and better.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
Building one million homes. Single-payer health care. 25% lower electricity costs. I have a plan to address California's affordability crisis: tomsteyer.com/issues
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Schiff lied about Russian collusion.
Schiff lied about not knowing the identity of the whistleblower.
Schiff lied about Hunter Biden's laptop being Russian disinformation.
He used his position on the House Intelligence Committee to mislead the country.
He should be in prison.
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Y’ALL. This is not a drill. The Wayback Machine is often the only source of webpages that have been scrubbed from the Internet.
WIRED@WIRED
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-inte…
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This is an absolute gem from the IG Atkinson transcript. When John Ratcliffe exposed Ciaramella for having lied about not being in contact with anyone in Congress, Schiff jumped in to “explain” that when he himself denied it as well, he meant that Ciaramella had not been “permitted to testify,” not that he had not been in contact. No honest person with two functioning brain cells would ever believe this. Schiff should be in court facing charges just as Ciaramella should, and so should the Inspector General.
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This might be the most brutal community note of all time
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Just so we're clear
Iran is admitting that HAMAS, Hezbollah and the Houthis are their proxies
Iran admitted that they were enriching uranium to build nuclear weapons
Iran has been violating sanctions
And you still think that Israel is the bad guy here?
NGMI
BRICS News@BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran rejected US demands to stop backing regional proxies including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis during negotiations.
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