What was I supposed to do, not dance with a dog?
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Erica retweeted
How to introduce use of the military in American cities in 3 easy steps:
1) Send large #s of masked, heavily-armed ICE agents to indiscriminately harass citizens & non-citizens alike.
2) Foment protests & messy confrontations.
3) Announce that troops are needed to protect ICE.
Erica retweeted
Mahmoud Khalil has been "doing politics the right way" by exercising and defending free speech rights, and having public policy debates on campus with a hostile public. His reward hasn't been hagiography, it's months of unlawful detention and retaliatory threats of deportation.
Erica retweeted
it’s so insane to watch palestinians be bombed and starved for 2 fucking years and every time someone tries to help them, this cruel bullshit happens. this isn’t normal! this shouldn’t be normal!
Erica retweeted
STATEMENT FROM COUNCILMEMBER ROBERT WHITE: URGENT CALL TO END FEDERAL OCCUPATION IN D.C.
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say bbc.in/42bgCdY
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In 2024 @SenJeffMerkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah — home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble.
The Netanyahu government has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
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Every day. The genocide continues. With full US complicity.
BREAKING: At least 50 Palestinians, including 10 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, sources in the besieged enclave’s hospitals say.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0kczn
Erica retweeted
To recap:
* They took $1b out of DC's budget
* They promised to restore it
* They never did
*They gutted the National Park Service
* They called in the National Guard from a number of states to combat crime
* The guard is doing custodial work that DC and NPS usually do
Erica retweeted
Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread.
The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.
Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza.
Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns @theIPCinfo.
An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives.
wfp.org/news/famine-confirme… — via @WFP
Erica retweeted
Interesting that @lpolgreen's essay on Anas Al-Sharif's assassination already has a different headline to include what "Israel says."
Erica retweeted
Since Mar 2024 I’ve warned the UN I serve at great personal cost: the destruction of Gaza’s health system is clear proof of genocidal intent.
I’m in disbelief at its paralysis.
States must break the blockade, send NAVIES with aid, and stop the genocide.History will not forget.
Apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory & IDF attacks are straining #Gaza’s last healthcare resources, warn @drtlaleng & @FranceskAlbs.
'Targeted, detained, tortured—now health workers are being starved along with the rest of the population.'
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
Erica retweeted
In all seriousness, what I hear from DC residents is that they’d like the 1 billion dollars Congress cut from the city budget back to make schools better (and the local police better funded). Also, if people don’t like their city government, they vote them out. That’s normally how these things work.
Erica retweeted
One way we could make DC safer and cleaner without using the national guard would be to restore the $1b in cuts to the city budget that was passed into law with Trump's signature—which Trump and Republicans were supposed to reverse but never got around to.
Erica retweeted
I respect Pete. But we need moral clarity, not status quo. Yes, @jonfavs Dems should have voted for the Sanders Amdt. Yes, Dems should join my letter recognizing a Palestinian state. Yes, Trump AND Biden disastrously failed on Gaza, & we need a new human rights centered vision.
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#Gaza: We condemn the killing by Israeli military of 6 Palestinian journalists by targeting their tent, in grave breach of international humanitarian law. #Israel must respect & protect all civilians, including journalists. At least 242 Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023.
We call for immediate, safe & unhindered access to Gaza for all journalists.
Erica retweeted
Is there really any job, any reward, any avoidance of discomfort that is worth supporting what is happening in Gaza right now?