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Advocate, Activist, Professor, Trainer

College Park, MD
Joined May 2013
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🧵Big news: the Senate just advanced Sen. Tim Kaine’s Iran War Powers Resolution, voting 50-47 to discharge S.J.Res.185 from the Foreign Relations Committee. This is a major step toward reasserting Congress’s constitutional authority over war powers. 1/3
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Ro, I agree with you that we need a strong populist coalition of the right and left that can come together on the most important issues for the future generations of Americans. This is no easy task given years of deep political divisions between the right and the left on issues both sides are passionate about. For the sake of my children’s generation, I’m willing to come together, go to the whiteboard, and begin to try to sketch something new. We both know the powerful political industrial complex of the Democrat and Republican parties will do anything to stop a right/left true America First coalition supported by ordinary Americans and not big money special interests and foreign agents and their donors. This is likely the only way to break free of the corrupt system from both sides that controls everything, constantly goes to war, and only enriches themselves while average Americans continue to lose. It’s definitely worth starting the conversation.
Trump backed down. No credit to Congress, which barely made a whimper. Credit to the American people—progressive activists & anti-war conservative voices like @TuckerCarlson, @mtgreenee, and many more. We need an anti-Epstein class, anti-war, pro-working class coalition.
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RT @repdeliaramirez: We can't bomb our way to peace. Israel’s attacks on Lebanon most stop.    Trump and Netanyahu must be held accountable…
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Yesterday, Israeli strikes across Lebanon killed 250+ people even as Pakistan said the ceasefire it brokered includes Lebanon. Netanyahu urged Trump to start this war, now Trump must demand he help end it. Who's calling the shots here? reuters.com/world/middle-eas…
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Eli McCarthy retweeted
US military must refuse orders to commit genocide or war crimes. @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems should PLEDGE now that anyone carrying out genocidal acts and war crimes WILL be prosecuted. It's unfair for the US military to be put in this position — but they must refuse orders.
The President just threatened genocide. The Joint Chiefs of Staff must disregard any such military orders that violate federal and international law. Republicans in Congress can't hide anymore: we must consider all options – including impeachment – to stop Trump.
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From ‘Just War’ to just peace. Both sides claim to be acting in ‘legitimate self-defence’. Over a thousand dead, millions displaced & its economic consequences are being felt around the world. @emccarthy3 asks, How can we break out of the cycle of violence? thetablet.co.uk/features/fro…
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Eli McCarthy retweeted
In this week’s @The_Tablet newsletter What Rowan Williams learnt from being the Archbishop of Cantherbury @liz_dodd is running against Trump’s war @MaryKenny4 is older, leaner and meaner; Chris Yates says being good at things is not the same as being good; Romero’s preaching @davcr on Tyndale @emccarthy3 on just peace @PhyllisZagano on women deacons @AlexaCoghlan meets @tansydavies Patrick Hudson’s View from Rome; Emily Nelson sees a Turning Tide @IsabelLloyd’s apocalytic garden; Mark Lawson @benedictrogers on Mao @arianebankes on Paris in the 30s @LucyLethbridge on the telly @IsabelleGrey on fillums @JonathanTulloch on hedges + wine arts books news letters puzzles + the rest email.digitalvirtue.net/t/r-…
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‼️ Call 1-833-786-7927 today and follow the prompts. Senate vote is imminent.
🚨The Senate will be voting soon on several war powers resolutions (WPRs) to stop the war on Iran. Trump wants Congress to OK billions of dollars more to fund it. ☎️Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to tell your members to SUPPORT the Iran WPRs & REJECT funding the war!
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In the name of Jesus, we urge our U.S Christian political leaders to stop the terror and trauma of bombing and war in Iran! This is not love of friends and enemies. @ChrisVanHollen @Pontifex
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Even in the very rare times, violence appears to topple a regime, it inevitably leads to massive cycles of violence such as more war, civil war, military coups, political corruption, and generational trauma.
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Hence the data shows that nonviolent resistance is at least ten times more likely to yield a durable democracy. Stop the inhumanity!
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