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Chuckiebre retweeted
it's been a week since Trump began targeting Ilhan Omar and, unlike the raid on Bolton last year which saw condemnations from NYT, WaPo, WSJ on Day 1, theres been zero editorials in these outlets condemning it. It also went totally unmentioned on all four Sunday shows yesterday.
Chuckiebre retweeted
the President targeting a sitting member of the opposition party for arrest and deportation three weeks before the midterms would normally be a major story but it was ignored entirely by all four Sunday shows yesterday because the target is The Wrong Race, Religion and Ideology.
Chuckiebre retweeted
Interesting perspective for the “try being a Jew in Ramallah and see what happens to you 😈” crowd: a 65 year old Jewish American journalist being treated with care in a Palestinian hospital after being beaten nearly to death by Israeli Jewish settler terrorists. Makes you think!
Chuckiebre retweeted
where's the deed to the factory? where is your multimillion dollar conglomerate? you defend capitalism by attacking the consumption choices of those who fight for a more egalitarian system, but you have no capital!!
Chuckiebre retweeted
In Aug 2024, Hasan warned the Kamala campaign to change their stance on Israel because it was the moral and electorally popular thing to do. They didn't listen and then lost every single swing state.
Now they're admitting they were wrong. Hasan was right, but too early.
Kamala Harris says her and Biden’s administration should have acted “sooner and more forcefully” regarding Israel’s attack on Gaza — and that the Trump administration “offers Netanyahu a blank check”:
“America has at times fallen short on [moral obligation to human rights and international law]. Most recently, the failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government's horrific conduct in the war in Gaza, both under the current administration, which offers Netanyahu a blank check, and our administration before, where we should have acted sooner and more forcefully.”
Chuckiebre retweeted
ilhan omar is a naturalized black muslim woman & an outspoken critic of trump and us foreign wars. its not an accident that they're targeting her with lawfare to engage in electioneering. this is unprecedented. this is a perversion of justice that further erodes our social fabric
The Office of Congresswoman Omar released the following statement:
“This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies. For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.”
Chuckiebre retweeted
Any minimally honest person would acknowledge that this raid is a flagrant abuse of state power and the domestic authorities of DHS against one of Trump's most outspoken critics, right near an election.
The scurrilous claims about @IlhanMN have never had any basis in fact or evidence. Omar has lived in the US for more than 30 years: longer than Melania Trump, or Sebastian Gorka, or Steve Hilton, or countless GOP luminaries. She's lived in the US since she was 13. She's been a US citizen for more than 25 years.
This has as much to do with immigration enforcement as the Trump/Rubio policy of deporting people for the crime of criticizing Israel: which is to say, none at all. It's all about feeding the MAGA base something to excite them and, especially, persecuting one of the most vocal critics of Trump and Israel.
Chuckiebre retweeted
now a deleted post, but this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
Chuckiebre retweeted
Angie Nixon winning Florida would be the start of America's 4th quarter comeback from total collapse
First Lady Michelle Obama said when they go low, we go high.
Me? When they go low, I get LOUD.
We have to push back against the lies & the disinformation, y’all. Enough is enough.
#AngieForFlorida
Chuckiebre retweeted
He knows my name is Abdul. He says it everyday.
But he’s not just attacking me. He’s attacking all of us. He thinks so low of us. He thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office. He thinks we don’t know any better.
It’s time for change.
Chuckiebre retweeted
you all spent months harassing Abdul for working with Hasan to win, he won, and now you're celebrating having hurt your nominee in a key swing state
and he's still going to win, and people are still going to rightfully credit Hasan for the win
Oh look. I have been right and AES agrees with me.
“El-Sayed has quietly made one concession: He distanced himself from Hasan Piker after campaigning through the end of the primary with the streamer, who’s said that Jews who keep supporting Israel should worry about their safety and that America is “pound for pound” worse than Al-Qaeda. El-Sayed recently called Piker and warned his rhetoric was costing El-Sayed votes, asking him to stop
Chuckiebre retweeted
One point the film NAZA makes, which may be obvious to some, is that one of the reasons Israel decided to strike Hamas fighters in their homes with family asleep rather than when they assembled outdoors is spelled out by one intel official:
“There are only so many military sites in Gaza — hundreds? But there are lots of private homes. There are 40,000 operatives, so that’s nearly 40,000 homes.”
The goal was to maximize the carnage and the destruction of civilians infrastructure and the killing of non-combatants.
The AI used for targeting also identified many civilians as Hamas operatives — an official gives an example of a baker who has customers in Hamas; the AI would flag that he had been in contact with Hamas members and kill him and his entire family at home.
Hearing Kid Cudi’s “heart of a lion” at the Browns/Steelers game last Thursday was like being activated as a sleeper agent.
Chuckiebre retweeted
you are not allowed to have opinions as an onlyfans worker now, your body solely exists to generate profit for the company.
this is an attempt at speech chilling for sex workers, who are more left leaning than almost any other profession
Starting November 1, OnlyFans can freeze your earnings if they think something you did could hurt OnlyFans' reputation.
That's one of two new suspension triggers in the updated terms. This is part 2 of my TOS breakdown, and it's all about your account and your money.
The new suspension triggers...
Section 14.b lists when OF can suspend your account and hold your earnings without notice while they review.
Two new reasons were added.
The first is any action OF thinks "has caused or is reasonably likely to cause" a loss to OnlyFans or its users, or harm to the reputation of OnlyFans or any user.
The second is not promptly giving OF information they ask for.
That second one is going to be hard for a lot of us. Basically if OF emails you asking for documents, answer fast. Idk about you but I'm allergic to checking my emails so this is about to get annoying.
Also disputes now need to be in writing...
If OF suspends you, deletes content or forfeits earnings, you still have six months to dispute it. The new terms add that the dispute has to be "in writing" (14.d). Keep copies of everything you send.
One notice promise is gone. The 2024 terms said that when OF suspends or deletes content or accounts, "we will try to notify you." That line was removed. OF still promises a statement of reasons after a review decision (14.c).
Now the money...
Payouts that need a currency conversion now "include currency conversion fees to cover processing costs and exchange rates" (10.e). The 2024 version only warned that your own bank might charge you. If you're paid outside USD, compare your next few payouts after November 1.
OF can now add "any Tax, fee or other amount" to a fan's payment without further notice to comply with the law or payment network rules (9.f). That means fans could see a higher total at checkout than our listed price.
OF can now send your earnings to a third party entitled to them by law or court order (14.e). It can also check that your bank details match your ID verification (10.a).
One change that helps us...
If a fan's card declines, OF can now retry it multiple times before the renewal fails (9.i). That should mean fewer subscriptions lost to one declined payment.
Obviously this is my read of the new terms, and (again!) I'm not a lawyer. Read them yourself and tell me if you see it differently. Part three will be tomorrow and it's the last one about what to do before you click accept, plus the change that works in your favor.
Chuckiebre retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.