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I cannot emphasize how much I want israeli soldiers to kill themselves
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We are so fucked. If you don’t have sympathy for Mahmoud, consider they’ll come for you next.
I’m still at work so I don’t have time to read the details. I’m being told he still has his federal case, as a chance to make his case.
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Most Israelis are Terrorist MONSTERS wearing HUMAN SKIN
Musab Qatawi, a Palestinian man from the city of Qalqilya, was released from Israeli prison on April 10 after being incarcerated for three years — his head forcibly shaved and marked with a Star of David by Israeli occupation forces.
In a chilling account of the abuse and torture he endured in Israeli prison, Qatawi said: “I was diagnosed with kyphosis, and the Israeli forces subjected both me and fellow freed prisoner Ahmad Manasra to brutal mistreatment.” He also described how the Israeli prison guards punished him and Manasra before they were freed, saying,
“They shoved our heads into garbage bins and completely shaved our heads before releasing us.” Ahmad Manasra, aged 23, was released on the same day as Qatawi after spending nearly a decade of his childhood in Israeli prison.
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Shoshana Strock, the daughter of Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strock, has taken to social media with allegations of sexual abuse, accusing both of her parents and one of her brothers.
In her post, Shoshana explained that resurfacing memories compelled her to break her silence. She added that she feels she is “living under threat from criminal elements” and believes she is “in danger”. She also disclosed that she has filed a formal police complaint in Italy.
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Honestly when people insist that the end of USAID marks a "return" to some kind of hard-fisted age of imperialism, above all it shows that they somehow thought that US aid around the world was some actual act of generosity or Mere publicity for US empire, when the reality is that especially in Africa the aid Itself WAS the imperialism. The aid itself was specifically designed to undermine the development of local industries and foster dependence on the US on every economic level to undermine national sovereignty. Without the aid there's suffering in the short term, but also a complete retraction of leverage in the long term and again, let's be realistic: the US is not going to bring in boats and planes and conquer states on the African mainland that refuse to submit to its dictates. It can't afford to and even if it could it can't win.
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Thank you zionist jewish students for aiding the state department by making baseless claims that muslim and arab students are terrorists because visibility of palestinian advocacy makes you uncomfortable and shielding your corny post 9/11 Islamophobia as "defending" yourselves. You were never in danger but you certainly helped put students in danger by being a mouth piece for the governments anti palestinian and xenophobic policies because thats where you currently find power. Congrats.
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Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now
He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.
For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.
Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.
He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor
Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going
For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.
He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.
Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."
The new record speech is on the right side of history.
he ended the stunt by calling ‘the founding fathers’ - no joke - “imperfect geniuses”. you know, those imperfect geniuses who owned people.
Some of his other positions share more ground with Republicans than his fellow Democrats. He famously defended Bain Capital during the 2012 presidential race. In 2018, he co-sponsored a bill which opposed the boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, a piece of legislation other 2020 Democrats like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Sanders opposed.
His support of the anti-BDS movement could coincide with the significant financial support he receives from pro-Israel groups. In 2014, his largest overall contributor was NorPAC, which donated $158,871, much of it earmarked for Booker by individuals giving to the PAC. NorPAC states its mission as supporting congressional members who “demonstrate a genuine commitment to the strength, security, and survival of Israel.” One of the issues they mention on the group’s site is opposition to BDS. Also in his last Senate race, he received money from eight other pro-Israel PACs, totaling $36,527.
Booker has been a powerful fundraiser in his time in the Senate. Since 2013, he raised more than $25.9 million. In the 2018 cycle, a cycle in which he was not running, Booker’s campaign brought in more than $8.3 million in total.
An issue that may arise in the 2020 Democratic primary is the close relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and Booker. New Jersey hosts the headquarters of many major pharmaceutical companies and they have long had good relations with the New Jersey delegations. Booker said in 2017 that he would put “a pause” on accepting money from the industry. This was after he received heavy progressive criticism for helping kill a bill sponsored by Sanders to lower drug prices. In 2016, pharmaceutical PACs gave $57,500 to Booker. Becton, Dickinson & Co, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi PACs all contributed $5,000 each in 2016. Before that, in 2014, a cycle he was actually running in, Booker’s campaign took in $161,000 in pharmaceutical PAC money. Pfizer contributed $17,500, Merck & Co gave $12,500 and several more gave $10,000 each.
Throughout his Senate career, PAC contributions have played a major part in his fundraising. Since 2013, Booker’s campaign has been given more than $2 million in PAC funds, particularly from business PACs which make up almost 76 percent of PAC contributions in his career. In the 2018 cycle, PACs from the communications and electronics sector led the way with $49,500 in contributions. One communication industry PAC donor was T-Mobile USA which gave Booker’s campaign $6,000 in 2018. T-Mobile has been pursuing a merger with Sprint, which Booker expressed concerns over.
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But fear of the government and security forces runs particularly deep in the Gujjar community, following a series of killings and unnatural deaths in recent years. The community, along with an ethnic subgroup known as the Bakarwals, constitutes about 8 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir, according to India’s last census in 2011, though some community representatives argue that their numbers are underrepresented because of their nomadic lifestyle. In 2020, an Indian army officer allegedly abducted and killed three young Gujjar men in Rajouri district. The police filed a chargesheet against the officer, accusing him of abducting and killing the three labourers in a staged encounter. A court martial held the officer guilty and recommended life imprisonment. But in November 2023, an Armed Forces Tribunal suspended the sentence and granted bail to the officer, while the case continues to be heard. Three years later, in December 2023, following an attack by armed fighters on army vehicles in Poonch district’s Topa Pir village, security forces detained many locals for interrogation. Subsequent videos surfaced showing officers beating civilians and applying chilli powder to their wounds. Three Gujjar men — Mohammad Showkat (22), Safeer Hussain (45), and Shabir Ahmad (32) — died in custody, with their bodies displaying signs of severe torture. Then, starting in December 2024, 17 people from the community died under mysterious circumstances in a little over a month. The victims, including 13 minors, exhibited symptoms such as fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain before their deaths. Investigations ruled out viral or bacterial infections, with preliminary findings suggesting neurotoxins as the likely cause. Despite extensive testing, the exact toxin and its source remain unidentified, leaving the community in fear and seeking answers. In February 2025, a 25-year-old Gujjar man, Makhan Din, recorded a video explaining why he was about to kill himself — detailing alleged torture at the hands of security forces. Din, who died by suicide, was questioned over suspicious Pakistani contacts — and was not tortured — the police claimed. That is not a story many Kashmiri Gujjars believe. “Our people disappear, and we are told to stay quiet,” said Abid Awan, an 18-year-old neighbour of Sadiq in Kulgam. “We live in fear, knowing that our voices are ignored, and our suffering is dismissed. It feels like we don’t exist to those in power.”