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Partisan Defense Committee
Partisan Defense Committee@PartisanDefense·
Stop the execution! On Thursday, April 30, the state of Texas intends to execute 37-year-old black man James Broadnax for a 2008 double murder he did not commit. Six weeks ago his cousin and co-defendant, Demarius Cummings, signed a sworn confession that it was his idea to rob the two men, and Cummings (not Broadnax) brought the pistol and shot them. He had convinced Broadnax to take the blame because he had no criminal record--Cummings had prior convictions. Analysis of the pistol revealed Cummings’ DNA, not Broadnax’s on the gun’s grip. The death penalty is racist legal lynching, legacy of chattel slavery. Prosecutors removed prospective black jurors, leaving panel of 11 white and 1 black juror--seated only after trial judge intervened. Also introduced Broadnax’s handwritten rap lyrics during sentencing to prove his “violent mentality.” 60% of those on death row are black and Latino. They are speeding up death row as part of escalating state repression coming down on workers and oppressed. We say: Stop the Execution! Abolish the racist death penalty!
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Texas Observer@TexasObserver

Texas is set to execute James Broadnax on Thursday. Another man has admitted to the crime. texasobserver.org/looming-execut…

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Zito@_Zeets·
Keep this loser ass shit to yourself
Trevor Woller@trev_nba

@_Zeets I don’t understand this. Deni had no choice but to join the IDF. We all would have joined the IDF if we were in his shoes.

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@DropSiteNews Ryan Grim: "the idea that there would be no sexual assault is not taken seriously by pretty much anybody who understands kind of war and violence" Did Ryan ever follow up on how/why he was so certain rape happened? x.com/aaronjmate/sta…
Aaron Maté@aaronjmate

If you want to understand why @ryangrim and @jeremyscahill don't want to credit the journalists who first debunked the NYT rape story, here's one reason: not confident to let facts speak for themselves, they're still going out of their way to pay lip service to the narrative. Here, Ryan declares that "the idea that there would be no sexual assault" on Oct. 7th "is not taken seriously by pretty much anybody who understands kind of war and violence." First of all, Oct. 7th wasn't a "war": this was a one-day guerrilla operation in a very limited time frame. To frame it in the context of a "war" is in fact not serious. Second, that's not how you approach allegations. An allegation needs to be backed by credible evidence. In the absence of any credible evidence, there's no need to pay lip service to the allegation. Unless you're pandering.

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Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
Allegations of rape and sexual violence against white women were one of the most commonly cited justifications for lynching Black men in America, though the historical record shows these charges were routinely fabricated or grossly distorted. Statistics show that about one-fourth of all lynchings from 1880 to 1930 were actually prompted by an accusation of rape. In fact, most victims were political activists, labor organizers, or Black men and women who simply violated white expectations of deference. White mobs used these allegations to enforce segregation and advance stereotypes of Black men as violent, hypersexual aggressors. The brute caricature of the hypersexual Black male was a myth used to justify the violence, which in turn functioned as a social control mechanism to instill fear in Black communities — sending messages not to register to vote, not to apply for white men’s jobs, not to organize, not to complain publicly. This caricature gained in popularity whenever Black people pushed for social equality. Journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was among the first to systematically document and expose this pattern. In 1892, she published Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, which connected names, dates, and identities to individual cases of lynchings and rape accusations to show that that the rape narrative used to justify lynching was a deliberate fabrication, writing, “nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women.” She documented that the true motivation for lynching was the enforcement of racial hierarchy. No independent international human rights organization has confirmed a single case of rape by Palestinian fighters on October 7.
Van Jones@VanJones68

Hasan Piker says the designated terrorist organization Hamas is 1,000 times better than Israel. His statement outraged many — who now just want to write him off. That's a mistake. He has a massive audience and is emerging as one of the major voices of his generation. Those of us who disagree owe him — and his audience — a real argument. Here's mine … And my position doesn’t come from ignorance about oppression. For a big chunk of my life, I was a grassroots activist — because of the pain of my own people. During those years, I was lucky enough to learn from elders who had been in the Black Panther Party, in SNCC, in the ANC. These were people who had to choose whether to pick up the gun — and how to use it if they did. They taught me this: even in armed struggle, there are principles. No women. No children. No rapes. No kidnapping. Mandela held that line. Amílcar Cabral held that line. You don't become what you're fighting. Hamas fails that test. They are not fighting for MORE freedom for Palestinians. They're fighting for less. They want theocracy, not democracy. And their means? They don’t use principled armed struggle (hitting military targets). They use terrorism (targeting civilians). The vast majority of Americans — including those who sympathize with the Palestinian cause — reject terror tactics. Reasonable people would agree on three principles: secure homelands for both peoples; no hatred for Jews or Muslims; and protection for all civilians. Hamas’ approach undermines all three. That's the conversation Piker's audience deserves. Not name-calling.

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Y Disassembler
Y Disassembler@loomdoop·
In amongst the fluff and empty posturing in this video, you can see some of the substance of this Silicon Valley oligarch's meme campaign for Congress. It's about framing AI, and data centers, and the increased resources needed to power them in the most aspirational light.
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Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress@saikatc

We can either let big AI companies and their CEOs control this technology, or we can take the power back into our hands. That’s why I’m announcing my 6-part plan to make AI work for people, not oligarchs.

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Jamesetta Williams 💕
Jamesetta Williams 💕@jamesetta_w·
Did you catch how quickly the press stopped talking about the Iran war and inflation now that they can obsess over ball room gossip and grill Democrats over their rhetoric? We don’t have a serious press.
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Sana Saeed
Sana Saeed@SanaSaeed·
My first long-form essay on Substack, in which I explore and look at how the charisma of leaders is used to obfuscate not just the crimes of the American empire but also chip away at demands and even structures of accountability especially and most poignantly in the context of the Gaza Genocide. I look specifically at the example of President Barack Obama, his legacy and the question of whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani is its inheritor. Some excerpts. Read in full and subscribe here: open.substack.com/pub/sanasaeed/…
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Y Disassembler
Y Disassembler@loomdoop·
"But the thing with charisma and with charismatic men is that they often disarm you just enough to make you forget what you should be questioning; they, even if momentarily, put you at ease just enough so that scrutiny and accountability are collapsed into feelings."
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Branko Marcetic
Branko Marcetic@BMarchetich·
NEW: Emails show that Peter Thiel & Jeffrey Epstein's friendship was much closer than was known - and that Epstein encouraged Thiel's growing interest in & involvement in right-wing politics, introducing him to US & foreign officials to that end, some with intel ties:🧵
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BC@_b_connell·
@LAizHOME oh man what a throwback. 2 locations on the same st lol
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@itsbelal_a extra hilarious cause I don't think those okc fans are going to forgive him
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@RevolverJerm Bron got people inspired lol
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@joewrote where is your "Zohran made the safest NYC ever" claim coming from?
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Prem Thakker
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker·
How can politicians — who turn airstrikes into memes, whose colleagues cheer or laugh or look away, who do nothing about guns, who fund a journalist-killing government, and who journalists party with anyways — lecture us about "desensitization" to violence?zeteo.com/p/the-land-of-…
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