Got boomed by this, appreciate a follower holding me accountable by notifying me

I mean, I genuinely think that violence (of all stripes, particularly political) is bad and have said that repeatedly I don’t use violent rhetoric because I don’t like violence!

Imagine if you did a Big Boy Crime and the media said you got radicalized by Malcolm Gladwell

LAWYER: The shooter shared your post: “Bugs Bunny is a two-pump chump. I’d show Lola how to smash ‘Animal Style!’” What did you mean by that? ME: That Bugs Bunny cums fast. LAWYER: He lacks sexual prowess? ME: Yes. LAWYER: Did you consider that posting something this inflammatory might be dangerous?

hello everyone who is checking out my profile for what I assume are innocuous reasons unrelated to current events have you read discworld? it’s very good

bluesky is like blackjack: you want the highest follower count without crossing the "reply guy who takes a swing at the president" line

I say this about liberals because I do not consider the right wing axis in the US to be thinking about the issue of Israel on the basis of Israel's treatment of its non-Jewish subjects in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria but instead on the basis of whether Israel impedes or boosts Trump's "America 1st"

Israel's dark times: The man who said that Israel should set its eyes on Turkey after Iran, and the man who said Israel must scrape away Lebanese villages even if 'it may be unpleasant', unite to run in Israel's election as an 'alternative' to Netanyahu!

Whenever Bennett talks a lot of US liberals unfortunately just hear WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH like he's an adult on the Peanuts. Not sure how to change that.

Panicked posters: Trump is going to use this as a pretext to crack down on anyone to his left! Trump: I simply must be able to build the gaudiest ballroom anyone has ever seen. It is now a matter of national security.

I do worry that might be missing the forest for the trees. He shared a lot of big accts but didn't interact much with them. He expressed anger on behalf of Ukraine more often than any other single thing

Bennett-Lapid electoral party is not in any way an upgrade on Netanyahu. If they won, it’d be Netanyahu without the scandales & the corruption. The center of Israeli politics for the last 20 years or so is way to the right. Without external pressure, Israel won’t change belligerence

john a macdonald is the closest the anglosphere has ever gotten to like developmentalist state-centered bismarckian conservatism. roosevelt is close but he mixed it with both populism and more general 19th-century "optimism" in ways that deviate somewhat from that norm.

This is how they respond to literally everything though, at some point it just becomes background noise because there isn't actually any way to escalate it any further.

On the occasion of Russel Brand being an idiot, with a Bible edition, I am struck as I often am by the realization that I, lifelong cradle to grave Cafeteria Catholic am a better Christian than someone who makes being a Christian the sum total of their identity

Probably not worth pointing out to them that Cole wasn't radicalized by Bluesky, he just came here to yell his dumb bullshit.

In this video explainer produced by @thetimes.com, I provide analysis on how conflict in East Africa is being inflamed by geopolitical rivals in the Gulf, who are carving the region apart. The race for the Bab El Mandeb oil corridor pits 🇦🇪 on one side & 🇸🇦 🇪🇬 on the other, but fuels 🇪🇹 🇸🇩 🇪🇷 wide tension

I think having “pride” in being part of church is a super dumb thing, but I stand by the Protestant tradition’s contribution to the world and to the “human/divine management” question, and I think the non-fundamentalist denominations still matter. but the emotional know-nothings we wrought? hell.

“Gaza represents a new pinnacle for this type of wholesale destruction as a military strategy, of using overwhelming and disproportionate force against civilians and infrastructure. But the seed of this strategy was planted two decades ago – in a previous Israeli war on Lebanon” — my latest

Was only a few years ago that Bennett was praised for the supposed great bravery of letting the most conservative, Muslim, establishment-friendly Arab party into the anti-Netanyahu coalition, and the lesson they've all taken from that is that it was a horrific indignity that must never happen again.

Bennett and Lapid's new joint party, 'Togther' vows to never "cede an inch" of Israeli territory (which they take to include all of Palestine) and to not coalition with a single Arab party

I keep getting notifications in my DMs of people blocking me with whom I have never even interacted personally. I guess that my posts this afternoon have touched a nerve. On one hand that makes me so happy and on the other hand I am a total loser who wants people to like me so I am torn😭💔

It seems that Russia is withdrawing from Kidal. A humiliating development. Their push to oust Tuaregs from the city in 2023, and subsequent campaign to reach the border with Algeria, were their main goal for years. Now, in shambles.Another Russian defeat, but scale is different.

note to self: I am only allowed to book post for the next 3 months

Israel deployed an Iron Dome system and IDF personnel to the UAE to defend it against Iranian attacks.

✋🏽 No

so uhh, to my followers: please don't repost me if you're gonna do crimes

If you’re going to complain that the call “From the river to the sea…” is a call for Israeli Jewish genocide because it means one state only, which is Hillel’s position, you should maybe not depict the state of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as one single state, either.

Good time to remind people that bsky DMs are not meaningfully secure

This looks like an excellent webinar; if you are able to you should attend!

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A Bibi vs Bennett election is already ideal vis a vis the way American liberals will have to interpret it since the race is now between a single stater Jewish supremacist and a single stater Jewish supremacist, the real challenge though is convincing people that this is de facto the whole system.

as far as I could find, she hasn't said one thing about the 255+ press people murdered by israel in the past 2.5 years

Is the Bennett Lapid agreement a vote sharing measure or is it actually the establishment of a bloc

In a new interview with Jewish Insider, Governor Josh Shapiro concedes that “our last two presidents [Joe] Biden and now [Donald] Trump, have failed to use the leverage of an American president to force Israel’s hands to use that military aid in ways that comport with our American values”

I've often heard arguments that talking about how life is absolutely terrible for us as Iraqi woman aids our oppressors and colonisers because they use the oppression of women in the Middle East as pretext for colonising and oppressing our countries even more.

Getting through an airport is easier than most people say but it is still very annoying, perhaps because I am visually impaired.

*reads CNN for investigation updates*

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens? RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind? BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

notice the casual conflation of “free speech” and “no big deal” as if these are not categorically different claims; the contempt for his colleagues; and the inability to distinguish interrupting class out of retaliatory spite from the protest of an address by a public official

Next government of Israel will be just as racist towards Palestinians in the 1967 and 1948 territories alike and will have no 48er party in coalition

Important caveat that I thought unnecessary but needs to be spoken: journalists covering the WHCD are in no way doing the same thing as journalists participating in the event. So don't flip out on journos like Eric, doing THE WORK, the kind we need today

And here's an example of a good response, from a reporter there to REPORT on the event and not just celebrate the administration destroying their profession

People being real rude to Eric for no reason. He was reporting on the event

Thank you brother

I’m ok. What happened is nothing like what happens to journalists in Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia