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A racist, xenophobic, classist, genocidal psychopath oversaw Israel-Palestine foreign policy in the US State Department under Obama. If this shocks you then you may be suffering from Delusional American Syndrome. Democrats aren’t leftists. I know. Hard pill to swallow.

“…the roots of the historical struggle against antisemitism before the creation of Israel in 1948. It was a struggle that aimed to protect a powerless group from powerful states, not to defend a powerful state in its attack against a powerless group.” latimes.com/opinion/story/2023

Los Angeles Times · Opinion: Here's what the mass violence in Gaza looks like to a scholar of genocideBy Raz Segal

ADL’s attacks on the Jewish Left, Palestine liberation activists, and justice movements: “In our topsy-turvy reality, the organization most associated with fighting antisemitism has cast its lot with antisemites.” inthesetimes.com/article/adl-d

In These TimesThe ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive JewIn our topsy-turvy reality, the organization most associated with fighting antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League, has cast its lot with antisemites.

X (a corporation in Nevada) is suing Media Matters (a corporation in Maryland) in Texas, a state whose only relation to either party is that it has vowed to abuse its state power to jail anyone who criticizes X.

Isn’t it cool how billionaires can just do whatever they want?

It’s absolutely rules that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Media Matters is now a mainstream media story and the headlines the entire week of Thanksgiving will be “X is full of Nazis”.

The right’s fake outrage regarding Media Matters is rooted in the right’s intentional obscuring of the actual definitions of fascism, nazism, and white supremacy. They know those terms do damage to their brands so they sow confusion about that they really mean. Fashfluencing 101.

Surveillance program run in coordination with AT&T has for over a decade allowed federal, state & local law enforcement to mine details of Americans’ calls and phone records of people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. wired.com/story/hemisphere-das

WIRED · Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone RecordsBy Dell Cameron

Portland Public Schools (PPS) leaders have a track record of spending on pro-privatization consultants and union-busting law firms, rather than funding classrooms. PPS management has now hired an “elite” ex-military-run security firm. anarchistfederation.net/portla

Anarchist Federation · Portland Public Schools management hires “elite” ex-military-run security firmBy Sabot Media

Trump’s allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers—using Oracle AI tech to comb through social media histories—as part of an operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024. axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loy

Axios · Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grabBy Jim VandeHei

Not sure why this has to be said but Christian Zionists and these ‘America First’ neo-fascists are both bad. They are two heads of the same froth-mouthed, teeth-gnashing threat to humanity. Both are racists who hate Arabs and Jews.

A Texas high school has told a student he can't play the male lead in "Oklahoma!" because he's transgender, citing a new school policy requiring all roles in student productions to be cast based on the gender assigned at birth.

Imagine being such a shit person that you ban children from doing what they love. kxii.com/2023/11/06/sherman-hi

KXII · Sherman High School transgender student loses lead theater role over gender policyBy Erin Pellet

I commented on some ufo/uap conspiracy post like two months ago explaining what a solar prominence is and I still have these conspiracy-brained disclosure loons calling me a “Fed” and a “NASA troll” lmfao