I'm a really nice guy who loves football (go @ChelseaFC); and anime. I’m also a history & political science alumn from @UCBerkeley and @UCL. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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The one issue that truly changed my perspective on—or to put it more accurately turned me against—Mainstream Corporate Media is the Israel/Palestine Conflict! #Palestine #PalestineUnderAttack #PalestinianLivesMatter
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
You don't know Chelsea
Farke was about to be sacked last season. Chelsea saved his job
Arteta was about to be sacked in 2020. Chelsea saved his job.
Any team on a bad run? Want to turn your fortunes around? Better call Chelsea
We are a charitable institution and I would be more surprised if we beat united
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
The US hosts criminals, drug-traffickers, and corrupt oligarchs from across Latin America.
Brazil's Bolsonaro crime family is propped up by the US.
The US government has admitted that it is giving a visa to corrupt Brazilian politician Flávio Bolsonaro, who is a fugitive from justice who fled an investigation into money laundering.
Flávio's father, the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, fled Brazil for Florida after he refused to accept his loss to Lula in the 2022 election and tried to launch a military coup, which failed.
Flávio's brother, the corrupt far-right former politician Eduardo Bolsonaro, is also a fugitive from justice who has been living in the US, and working closely with Trump's MAGA movement.
Jair admitted that Eduardo is even seeking US citizenship.
The Bolsonaro crime family is loyal to the US empire (and its own portfolio), not Brazil.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
FOURTH-TIER FLEETWOOD TOWN ELIMINATE 2025-2026 PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS ARSENAL FROM THE CARABAO CUP 😱😱😱
BIGGEST UPSET IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL HISTORY 😤
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
"The data says the issue of Israel is not a detriment to El-Sayed. If anything, it may be helping him."
That's what our data shows, too, @ForecasterEnten. That's why we've got our own ad on deck via @TrackAIPAC.
Link below to help us get the ad on the air immediately.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
New: An NYPD spokesperson confirms the police department no longer plans to enter into a no-bid contract with a controversial Israeli surveillance tech company — a reversal that comes after the procurement drew pushback from Mayor Mamdani's allies and civil rights advocates.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Michigan has been overwhelmingly anti-genocide longer than any other state and while the establishment's strategy is to ignore voters and tell us we're wrong, Abdul El-Sayed chose to listen to us. His platform is the popular one here, regardless of the opinions of zionists.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Netanyahu did not commit the genocide alone. Those competing with him today took part in it. Gadi Eisenkot sat in the war cabinet, and the war killed his son and two of his nephews. There is no fundamental difference, nor will there be. Eisenkot will simply seek political subjugation after a war that will continue, backed by the lie that a new era has arrived.
The truth is that only the mask has changed.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
🇴🇲 Oman says excluding Iran from Gulf security has been a fundamental mistake:
🔸Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi criticized decades of Gulf security arrangements built around excluding Iran and relying on foreign military powers, calling for a new regional security framework that includes Tehran.
🔸“Perhaps the most damaging of the priorities imposed on the region from the outside has been the requirement that Iran be excluded,” he said during a lecture at Cambridge University.
🔸This, he said, created an unstable system based on the “entirely false perception” of fundamental antagonism between Iran and Arab Gulf states. “There is no such fundamental antagonism,” he said, adding that any security architecture excluding Iran is “inherently unstable” and “structurally unsound.”
🔸He also said that Oman and Iran had developed the outline of a temporary arrangement to restore navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, but said implementation would require compromises by both Tehran and Washington.
More in post linked below.
🇴🇲 Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi called for a non-aggression pact among the six Gulf Arab states, alongside Iran and Iraq, that would end the US role as the region’s primary security provider, speaking at Cambridge University on Monday.
Gulf security has “relied for too long on the involvement of external powers,” Albusaidi told an audience of over 100 diplomats and foreign policy specialists, making issues like the Strait of Hormuz “impossible to resolve.” He said “perhaps the most damaging” priority imposed on the region from outside was the exclusion of Iran for nearly 50 years: “Not just excluded. Worse. Positioned as the threat against which regional security had to be organized.”
In what The Guardian described as an indirect challenge to President Trump’s case for renewed strikes on Iran, amid reports that the US and Israel are considering another round of attacks, Albusaidi reiterated that the US-Iran talks Oman mediated in February were “making significant progress” and that “an agreement was within reach” when the war was launched. “We still stand by that judgement today,” he said.
The speech came the same day Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran.
WHOA! I did not see this one coming. Bear in mind the UAE is actively backing the Southern Transition Council (STC) in hopes of ending the unification of Yemen which happened in 1990.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The UAE, a close US and Israeli ally, is quietly helping Ansarallah (Houthis) fight Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, four sources have told Drop Site. This comes after Riyadh forced the UAE out of Yemen last December following clashes between their rival Yemeni allies in the south.
Key findings:
➤ UAE-aligned Yemeni forces have given Ansarallah targeting help while Abu Dhabi looked the other way. Two sources said the UAE has also shared intelligence directly.
➤ The assistance is limited to targets inside Yemen, not Saudi Arabia, according to some sources. One source said a senior US official warned the UAE to stop, but sources indicated the assistance was ongoing.
➤ Commanders in the Giants Brigades, a predominantly Salafi militia from the south, have repeatedly abandoned positions without a fight, while UAE-backed southern separatist commanders have refrained from fighting Ansarallah on key fronts, a Yemeni source said.
Senior Ansarallah official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti denied the assistance, citing UAE “neutrality,” but said Riyadh could avoid “the possibility of a future Yemeni-Emirati alliance against it” by ending the war and lifting the blockade. The STC separatists denied contact with Ansarallah or unwillingness to fight it in the south. The UAE ambassador to Washington did not respond to requests for comment.
🔗 Read the full report from Ryan Grim and Iona Craig below. ⬇️
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
🇧🇷 The US State Department will grant visas to defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family, a senior official told the Associated Press, as the Brazilian senator reportedly heads to the US after losing Sunday's runoff to Lula da Silva.
"The State Department will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States," the official said.
Allies of the Bolsonaro family told Folha de S.Paulo that the Trump administration is aware of Flávio's trip and is expected to grant him political asylum. They said he could land in Miami or Dallas within hours. He reportedly traveled with his wife, Fernanda, and two daughters.
The senator faces two criminal investigations at Brazil's Supreme Court alleging corruption, money laundering and foreign exchange evasion. He denies wrongdoing in both. Winning the presidency would have given him immunity from prosecution for crimes committed before taking office. Instead, he loses the special legal protection of his Senate seat when his term ends on Jan. 31, 2027.
On Monday, Bolsonaro posted a video on Instagram saying police had served him a summons to surrender his passport as he left the home of his father, Jair Bolsonaro. The former president is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election to Lula.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
You live at the center of a global military empire with ~1,000 overseas bases, strangling countries w/ sanctions, coups & war for refusing to submit to US dictates. Thinking Americans shouldn’t care about elections abroad is brain dead imperial chauvinism
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Folks, this is not a “rescue” operation El Salvador is conducting in Haiti — that’s a narrative for domestic consumption. The US is again outsourcing to El Salvador — like it did on immigration. US frustration with GSF and Haitian gov has been building for months. This is an end around.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Correction: El Salvador invades Haiti b/c the white supremacist empire asks it to.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
According to Channel 13 Netanyahu's bloc is now ahead, 52-50. It is clear who has the momentum as the real time results come in.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Netanyahu has tied the change bloc according to the updated exit polls. The increase in Likud mandates to 27 has changed the forecast to 51-51 between the blocs on the Kann 11 and Channel 13 forecasts, while Eizenkot stays ahead on Channel 12. Netanyahu is far from defeated. I believe he will remain PM.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Netanyahu's main focus in this election wasn't winning (he knew that's a long shot). His plan is to make it impossible for opposition parties to form a Zionist coalition without the support of Arab parties
In the best case scenario, the opposition can ONLY tolerate Ra'am's Mansour Abbas, but not the Arab Joint List (the opposition has many far-right figures & anti-Arab racists). This scenario would put the opposition at 59 seats, 2 seats short of a majority.
The alternative would be a "center-right" unity government that includes Netanyahu & Naftali Bennet (& possibly Gadi Eisnkot) where Ben Gvir would be kicked out of the ruling coalition.
Eisenkot's second in command, Yoram Cohen, already said he thinks their party, Yashar, could sit with the Likud and Smotrich, but they prefer not to sit with Ben-Gvir or under Netanyahu as prime minister.
One obstacle here is the ultra-Orthodox exemption law; they demand to be exempted from military services while opposition parties campaigned on the promise of forcing the Heredim to serve.
If the opposition can't figure out a way to form a viable government, there's the scenario of going to another election round (and then another, and another and another with no clear winner). That scenario also works well for Netanyahu.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
The main candidates in Israeli election all far right or more far right. None have promised to dismantle 🇮🇱’s apartheid, end the occupation or stop the genocide.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
If Israel's current exit polls hold, the parties representing the Jewish center will have to make a choice: partner with Arab parties or else keep Bibi in power.
A pretty clear metaphor for the choice facing Israel more broadly.
Playmaker08 🇵🇪🇺🇸🇵🇸⚽️⭐️⭐️ retweeted
Channel 14 exit poll now giving Netanyahu's bloc an outright majority! It's the only one showing that but other exit polls give him a very strong showing short of a majority. There's just no evidence "Israel's" psychotic, genocidal population wishes to be "saved" from him.
