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sooo while ed is getting cancelled rightfully i feel like it’s way too quiet about the bigger enemy here… i mean are we going to ignore the fact that he was told to drop macklemore by the promoter??? which is live nation??
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The promoter for Ed Sheeran's tour is Messina Touring Group, not Live Nation. Messina stated that it made the decision to remove Macklemore after venue operators threatened to cancel scheduled shows. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…
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Hey, What are you thinking about from this past week in sports?
🔗: jelosportsnetwork.com/top-te…
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The men who ordered me to enable the genocide in Gaza are angling to lead US foreign policy again.
I wrote about why they feel so entitled, why they haven't turned over a new leaf, and the risks of pretending Gaza never happened.
New for @zeteo_news:
zeteo.com/p/biden-genocide-s…
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Four years before he led the coup that made him First Consul, Napoleon wrote a romance novel
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The hostage crisis fell off the global agenda, because 100% of the remaining hostages are Palestinian.
Release the 14 doctors!
Following the petition we filed to the High Court on behalf of the 14 Gazan doctors, demanding their release from unlawful detention, the state announced on Thursday that it will respond to our claims and demands within two weeks.
In the meantime, our lawyers will continue visiting the imprisoned doctors in order to monitor their detention conditions and amplify their voices.
#ReleaseThe14Doctors
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Israeli soldiers admit they have a “shoot all men they saw on sight” policy in Gaza and then claim they’re “terrorists” later, even if they’re unarmed and trying to surrender
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This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
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The Riverside sequence is worth reading carefully.
The citizen group alleged 45,000 inflated votes. The county's chief election official responded with a 40-minute documented public presentation showing exactly where the group's calculations went wrong - they used raw poll worker estimates and approximated intake forms not required by law. The actual variance rate fell within normal California ranges, well below the 2% mandatory recount threshold.
Sheriff Bianco, who is also a Republican candidate for governor of California, seized 650,000 ballots the following month.
The official refutation was public, documented, and presented before the action was taken. It was ignored. That's what the Brennan Center is identifying as the new playbook: unfounded claims don't need to survive scrutiny to become the basis for official law enforcement action. The scrutiny gets acknowledged and bypassed. The action follows. The seized ballots and opened investigations then become the next round of evidence that something must have been wrong.
We dig into examples from Georgia, California, and Arizona that illustrate a new playbook for election denial: using unfounded election fraud claims from citizen activists as the basis of official law enforcement action.
bit.ly/4wciFMe
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This is correct, and in this particular case it is also true that the population of the Gaza Strip has declined since October 2023.
Claims the Gaza population has increased are based on CIA projections that were made several months before the Gaza Genocide began.
Many of the Israel flunkies using these projections are perfectly aware they were rendered irrelevant shortly after they were calculated.
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We truly don’t have to mystify this. Israeli ambassador to the US at the time Michael Herzog told Israeli media in April 2025 “We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the admin never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”
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Past GOP state supreme court packing:
AZ (2016): 5→7, locked in conservative majority
GA (2016): 7→9, flipped Dem majority to GOP
UT (2026): 5→7 after redistricting case loss
They also killed nonpartisan elections in OH and NC, are killing a nominating commission in KS, etc.
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There is a genre of writing that goes something like this:
“Look! A Palestinian in Gaza is doing something other than dying. Proof it’s not a genocide.”
If you think punching down at genocide survivors makes you look good, you are psychopathic genocidal excuse of a homosapien.
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Partisan gerrymandering should be unconstitutional in every state. It's pure Soviet politics, allowing the people in power to rig the system to ensure they stay in power.
What's particularly disgusting is what is happening in Florida, where voters overwhelmingly voted to make partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional, and then Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans decided to explicitly ignore the will of voters and pass an unconstitutional bill, counting on the GOP-packed state Supreme Court to bail them out. It's vile behavior.
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I'm often asked if I identify as a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.
The truth is, I don’t identify as either.
I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel should be dismantled.
I don’t believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel needs to exist.
I believe, as a matter of principle, that Israel does not have the right to oppress another people.
And that between the river and the sea, the rights of all people must be protected.
If Israel can transform itself to fit this equation, it should continue to exist. If it can’t, then it shouldn’t.
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Airstrikes, tank shells, and artillery create blast waves, shrapnel, and collapsing buildings. Of course they cause amputations.
The question isn’t whether Hamas IEDs can cause amputations. It’s whether they plausibly explain Gaza’s mass civilian amputations.
Given the sheer scale of Israeli airstrikes, artillery, tank shells, and other high-powered explosives used across dense civilian areas, compared to the far more limited use of IEDs, the answer is an obvious no.
The reason Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world is Israel's overwhelming use of explosives in dense urban areas. This is not even a matter of debate.
You notice that a bunch of these guys are missing a leg. The way you lose a leg is you step on an explosive that is on the ground. Israel uses airstrikes and drone strikes. Airstrikes don’t usually blow your leg off.
Hamas sets IEDs on roads and in buildings to try to blow up Israeli soldiers. There is no reliable data as to how many Palestinian civilians have been killed or injured by Hamas IEDs and booby traps. But there are a bunch of Palestinians in Gaza who are missing a leg.
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So much more needs to be done to address the surge of antisemitic attacks & make the Jewish community feel safe.
Nothing happening in Palestine or Lebanon justifies this, just as nothing done by Hamas justifies Islamophobia.
Peace & justice cannot be achieved through violence.
Last night, three people were fired upon with a replica firearm outside Chasidei Bobov synagogue in North York in an abhorrent act of antisemitism, leaving one person injured.
I am relieved to hear that an arrest has been made. Law enforcement agencies have my full support as they investigate, and as they work to bring justice for the victims and the wider Jewish community.
Last year, we introduced new legislation to the strengthen the criminal code, combat hate, and protect our communities — and we remain absolute in Canada’s commitment to combatting the scourge of antisemitism and hate in all of its forms.
Together, we will continue to build a country where all Jewish Canadians can live openly, freely, and safely.
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ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou @nicopaulmichel has revealed that he is currently unable to use his bank cards even on European soil.
The reason? He is one of the judges who issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading the United States to slap him
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When history is written, John Roberts and Mitch McConnell will go down as among the greatest enemies of American democracy in this country's history. And there is nothing either of them can do about it now.
Chief Justice John Roberts defends the Supreme Court from what he believes are misconceptions held by the American people that he and his colleagues are “political actors” who are making decisions based on policy, not law. nbcnews.com/politics/supreme…
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In one state, CPS took a teenager from her home to prevent her from having an abortion—threatening her mother with murder charges if she helped her daughter get out-of-state care.
Another mother was investigated by CPS and police for helping her teen get an abortion *in a pro-choice state* jessica.substack.com/p/cps-s…