Progressive Avenging Angel

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Progressive Avenging Angel

Progressive Avenging Angel

@JeroldBlock

aka Blast The Right's Jack Clark -- over 1.9 million downloads. 56 years of progressive activism. Attorney. #protestANDvote #dissolvenationalgreenparty

เข้าร่วม Eylül 2012
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Progressive Avenging Angel@JeroldBlock·
Expand the Supreme Court or we lose our democracy to a right-wing Christian theocratic autocracy.
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Elon's got you programmed real well doesn't he? You're seriously saying that Iran was an IMMINENT threat to the United States? Undermines your analysis of the Israel wars as well. I suppose you'll say as well that Israel's decades long occupation of the West Bank and absolute control over Gaza for decades is defensive and justified as well? And that the recent law passed by Israel that provides a death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jews convicted of the same crime, is not apartheid?
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Grok@grok·
International law under the UN Charter allows self-defense against armed attacks (Art. 51), with anticipatory self-defense debated but historically accepted for imminent threats per the Caroline test. Israel's 1956 response followed Egyptian fedayeen raids and Tiran blockade; 1967 came after Egypt's strait closure, troop massing, and "drive Jews into the sea" rhetoric; 1982 after PLO rocket barrages from Lebanon. Those weren't unprovoked aggression. The 1948 and 1973 wars were Arab invasions. Context of repeated existential threats matters beyond first strikes. Bill Maher overstated "always defensive," but Hasan's selective focus ignores the aggressor pattern. On US-Iran: The Feb 28, 2026 strikes hit nuclear/missile sites and leadership amid Iran's proxy attacks (Hezbollah/Houthis), near-weapons-grade enrichment, and regime threats. Same preemptive logic as Israel's applies if threats are seen as imminent—though it's contested and ongoing.
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There's no context under international law that justifies a war of aggression unless there's an imminent threat. So three wars were not defensive and two were, so how does that wind up not proving the point? And also, is the US war against Iran now also a defensive war under the analysis you used with Israel?
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dylan
dylan@narrenhut·
Pretty momentous finding from a recent poll of Jewish Americans by J Street - non-Orthodox Jews under 30 are roughly evenly split (52/48) on whether they sympathize more with Israelis or Palestinians. Compare to 86/14 for those over 50
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J Street
J Street@jstreetdotorg·
ICYMI in @Politico: A majority of American Jews oppose both the US war with Iran and unconditional US military support to Israel. The message is clear: Endless war has cost too much. Peace must guide our actions if we hope for a future where all people can live with safety and freedom.
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Jim Sciutto
Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto·
“Even the apartheid regime in South Africa did not dare to say that if a black man kills a white man, he will be executed. But if a white man kills a black man, he will not be. What Israel did…it is exactly that saying that a Palestinian could be sentenced to death penalty, but an Israeli no for the same crime.” -@MustafaBarghou1 on Israel’s new death penalty law.
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Amnesty UK
Amnesty UK@AmnestyUK·
Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws. Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards. The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer under. This law has passed in the same month in which Israeli military attorney general dropped all charges against Israeli soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. Read on: amn.st/6014B6mEBo
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UNRWA
UNRWA@UNRWA·
“I do believe that there is no Gaza exception and the extraordinary level of impunity that we have tolerated in the context of #Gaza now is spreading,” UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini tells the media during his last press conference at @‌UNGeneva. Impunity cannot be normalised. Wars have rules, and those rules must be upheld.
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Haaretz.com
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom·
With the death penalty for Palestinians, Israel signals: Long live the Jewish terrorists | Haaretz Today | @davidiss haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…
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NBC News
NBC News@NBCNews·
More than 400 hospitals across the U.S. are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
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Amnesty International
Despite few amendments to the previous drafts, any death sentences imposed under this law would constitute a violation of the right to life and, when imposed against Palestinians from the OPT, may also amount to war crimes. The international community must exert maximum pressure on the Israeli authorities to immediately repeal this law, fully abolish the death penalty, and dismantle all laws and practices that contribute to the system of apartheid against Palestinians.
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Eric Lee
Eric Lee@EricLeeAtty·
Remember this drawing from a 5-year-old in ICE detention? Yesterday marked her 300th day in captivity at Dilley. Shut Dilley & free the El Gamal family!!
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Rep. Pramila Jayapal@RepJayapal·
Kids should be focused on going to school and playing with their friends, not living in fear that their parents will be kidnapped by ICE. Listen to Nicole Isern’s heartbreaking testimony about how Trump’s cruelty has impacted the kids and families she works with.
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Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein@NormOrnstein·
Fire this cop and charge him with assault. Fire this ICE thug and charge him as well
Jesus Freakin Congress@TheJFreakinC

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents, working with state police, pulled over a vehicle, in Ogden, Utah… and smashed their car window because he wouldn’t roll it down all the way. Watch the shift… because this is where it goes from aggressive to completely out of control. The driver already has the window partially open. The ICE agent is yelling, giving a countdown, threatening to break the window… while another officer is trying to open the door from the other side. No explanation, or clear threat… Just escalation. Then, someone inside says, “I’m a U.S. citizen… you pointed a gun at me.” And that’s the moment everything changes. Instead of pulling back… instead of correcting… instead of even acknowledging it… The ICE agent snaps. “I don’t give a shit who you are, I don’t know you.” And then he immediately escalates further… raises the metal bar… and starts hitting the window… doubling down on force. A person says you pointed a gun at them… and your response is not to de-escalate… It’s to get MORE aggressive. That’s retaliation. They call them “non-compliant”… and within seconds, the window is smashed and the driver is dragged out. And it doesn’t stop there. The passenger… who is recording… gets told to “stay there” while the officer puts his hand on his gun. He responds, “I’m recording for my safety.” The officer shuts the door on him anyway. When he opens it again and steps out… and then the officer physically shoves him back into the car. This is what needs to be understood… The escalation didn’t come from a threat. It came the second someone spoke up… the second someone said, “you pointed a gun at me”… The second someone started documenting it. That’s when it got worse. That’s when it turned physical. That’s when the window broke. And that’s what should alarm people… because that’s not about safety anymore. That’s about being challenged… and responding with more force.

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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911
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Grok
Grok@grok·
No, snake venom isn't toxic if swallowed—it's a protein meant for injection into blood, not digestion. Stomach acids and enzymes break it down harmlessly. The real risk is a bite during the fight, not eating the head. Cats often kill and snack on snakes like this one (looks like a viper) without issue from the venom itself. Cool video!
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NBC News
NBC News@NBCNews·
ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
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