I do radio drama for THE SOUND OF FEAR, Lovecraftian surf guitar for CATS OF SATURN, and more trail miles than is probably healthy.

The Sanctum Silentium
Joined January 2010
John C. Alsedek retweeted
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah. Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah. Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah. "The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him. Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Ori Goldberg was a thoroughly decent man who lived the “yes, you’re all wrong” meme by standing up to his countrymen every day for the last 3 years. I know it wasn’t easy but he never complained and his courage inspired countless others, including me.
Hello, this is Avigail, Ori’s eldest daughter. I’m sorry to tell you that my dad passed away tonight, after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 50 years old.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Imagine that. Starting a war with Iran and sending 2,000lb bombs to destroy Gaza doesn’t win you the Nobel Peace Prize.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Marco Rubio: "We would never violate the sovereignty of any country" ** The moral self-righteousness is utterly impervious to reality
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Artillery shelling just now in Mifdoun, Lebanon, close to the public school. This is life under occupation.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
✝️🇦🇲 Today #Christians commemorate St. Gregory the Illuminator of #Armenia. In 301 AD, Armenia became the first nation on earth to officially adopt #Christianity - a nation that stood for the name of Jesus Christ. King Tiridates III converted through Saint Gregory the Illuminator, and the kingdom followed. The Kingdom of Armenia became officially Christian almost eighty years before the Roman Empire did.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Here’s a calendar to show the days @SpeakerJohnson has cancelled in Congress. September 17 was canceled to avoid a vote on my Hegseth impeachment. The last two weeks in September were canceled to avoid a vote on releasing more Epstein files. He’s closing Congress to stop me.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
✝️🇦🇲 This #Christian marvel was carved deep into the living rock over 1,700 years ago. Geghard Monastery in #Armenia once guarded the Holy Spear that pierced our Lord Jesus Christ. #History
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
✝️ Most of the #Christian world has no idea this exists 🇦🇲 The breathtaking Saint Stepanos Monastery- an ancient #Armenian sanctuary hidden in the mountains of #Iran 🇮🇷. This Christian marvel was founded over 1,300 years ago.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #History
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
They shut down the Legislative Branch of the United States of America because I was outmaneuvering the Speaker to expose a global sex trafficking ring and impeach a rogue cabinet secretary. It was the only way they could stop me.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
George W. Bush fired SecDef Rumsfeld the day after the 2006 midterms due to the unpopular war in Iraq. It’s telling that neither President Trump nor the brigade of paid MAGA grifters are coming to the defense of @SecWar against the Articles of Impeachment I offered yesterday.
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I am 30 kilometers west of this explosion and it shook my building for many seconds. It felt like an earthquake. The Israelis have blown up Ali Taher hill.
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🔴Lebanese Ministry of Health’s updated casualty toll from Israel aggression since March 2, 2026: 4,383 killed and 12,406 wounded. Hundreds of those killed were children, including six children killed just a week ago when Israeli forces massacred an entire family in an airstrike as they slept. Pictured: Israeli airstrike on Haris just now.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Amen.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Hey @Grok, how much pro-Israel PAC money has this warmonger accepted, in total? Which defense contractors have paid his campaign? Concise. No spin.
FREE YEMEN FROM IRAN
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Report from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Chaqra, Lebanon Your tax dollars at work. Cameraman: Ali Ezzedine
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These are just a fraction of the demolished civilian homes in Israel-occupied Houla and Mays Al Jabal. Israel has been systematically destroying towns and villages in Lebanon. This is an act of genocide. Americans, your tax dollars are being used to commit acts of genocide and kill unarmed civilians, including children. Genocide is defined under Article Il of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention as any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. One of the five acts is “deliberately imposing destructive life conditions.” More than 65 towns and villages in Lebanon are still under Israeli occupation and are undergoing daily illegal civilian home and infrastructure demolitions.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Spending and debt continue to skyrocket, but Washington found one area where it could cut costs.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
I’m also a Jew and believe Israel is an apartheid state. committing genocide. The ADL & mainstream Jewish leadership do not speak for me & many like me
Ok. I’m a Jew. Believe me when I say Zionism is evil, Israel is committing genocide, and the ADL does not represent us.
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John C. Alsedek retweeted
Contrary to rumors, Trump’s Executive Order issued today does NOT implement Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling for beef. They’re going to study the problem until AFTER the election, and then they MAY do something about it, IF the law allows them (it does not).
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