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Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Jeffries spending the morning taking a false high road about "not getting even" is not a great sign that he knows what to do with this moment.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
I find this effort to distance Stevens from her staff/supporters tiresome. I buy they were left in the dark about the explicit Rogers endorsement but—even on the issue of partisan loyalty—they had no problem with her primary being funded almost entirety by Trump mega-donors (1/5)
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Former Stevens staffers blast her "selfish ... irrational ... shameful" decision in open letter
Comes from former organizing director Max Skove and 20+ other (not named) ex-staff, including one now in senior role on El-Sayed campaign
ALT We worked for Haley Stevens’ Senate campaign because we all believed in one thing: that it is absolutely essential to keep Michigan’s Senate seat blue come Election Day. For over a year, Rep. Stevens criticized Mike Rogers as a corrupt career politician who would blindly rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s chaos, regardless of the damage it inflicted on Michiganders. It’s infuriating to watch her become the very thing she once condemned. She told CNN there was too much “on the line” to play games a few days ago. Now, she's doing just that. Her appalling behavior is an insult to anyone who wasted even a moment of their time supporting her campaign. Here is what her selfish – and irrational – decision puts in jeopardy: reproductive rights, health care, voting rights, at least two Supreme Court seats, and the manufacturing jobs that she claimed to champion. The day before she endorsed him, leaked audio confirmed Rogers would support a national abortion ban. That is what’s at stake. As former.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
The skies over Gaza are now filled with an intense and terrifying presence of warplanes and drones on an unprecedented scale.
At the same time, Israeli artillery continues to shell and demolish what remains of the buildings, amid violent, deafening explosions that shake the entire Gaza Strip!
We are facing extremely terrifying and horrifying conditions, unlike anything we have ever witnessed before!
Please, never stop talking about Gaza.
Please, keep your eyes on Gaza.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Their goal is routine disciplining of Israel critics but the reason they’re going scorched earth here is El-Sayed would be the first (what they index as) openly anti-zionist candidate to win a swing state. It completely nukes their “electability” line which is all they have left
Explain to me the AIPAC/Mr. Stevens endgame here? If Rogers wins and is god forbid the 49/50th vote for ICE camps & who knows what else they will be blamed! It will reduce their power in the Dem party even more. If Abdul wins anyway (which I expect) then they reveal themselves to be whining losers w no influence. It’s just one big temper tantrum that is serving to undermine their stated goals. Crazy.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Again this is empirically false. The AP keeps writing that Dems are “divided” over El Sayed. They are not. He has 95% support among Dem voters—a higher % than Kathy Hochul, Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown (and dozens of other candidates) and on par with Josh Shapiro and Mike Rogers.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
I can hardly imagine anyone who hasn’t seen this photograph. But it was taken on this day in 2000.
I cannot believe the photo is 26 years old now.
The boy in the photograph was Fares Odeh. He was just 14 years old.
Ten days after this image was captured, Fares went out again to throw stones at Israeli tanks, seeking to avenge the killing of his 17-year-old cousin.
An Israeli sniper shot him in the neck, killing him.
And there is another chilling detail to this photograph.
The photo changed Israeli tank doctrine. In August 2001, The Jerusalem Post quoted an anonymous tank doctrinist saying tank personnel were now instructed to fire upon rock-throwers.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
“Arabs don’t produce literature” is really something you can only say if you’ve never had a moment’s contact with genuine civilization. A mind totally consumed by television and self-help books.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
This is bone chilling.
She straight up says Palestinians should be forcibly removed from their land, that God commanded them to take the long, that Lebanon, Jordan and Syria belong to Israel and that Palestinians should be killed.
Why isn’t there more outrage about this?
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Important thread on bird flu— TLDR: the response from the federal government has been insufficient, this should have been over two years ago. Instead, we keep giving the virus chances to evolve, potentially to do human to human transmission
There is something really concerning (and disappointing) going on in the US right now.
A dangerous and preventable situation.
Let me explain.
nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5n…
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Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
#Brazil: Here's an awful, dishonest sentence in today's #NYTimes. The truth: "Big cattle ranchers plan to burn the Amazon -- pushing the rainforest toward total collapse, and triggering a global climate catastrophe." I explained here: newrepublic.com/article/2162…
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Over 2,000 Palestinians expelled from their homes by the Israeli military in Hebron during the last 48 hours. Half a million people kept under siege.
Nearly 500,000 Palestinians in Hebron are facing a sweeping Israeli lockdown and military assault, with large-scale demolitions across the city.
More than 200 families were forcibly driven from their homes overnight, while Israeli forces seized some houses and converted them into military positions.
Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh reports from the occupied West Bank.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Brad, ur in Palestine. Pls exercise some humility. Listen more, lecture less. Framing the targeting of soldiers as a “cycle of violence” - rather than resistance 2 apartheid & genocide- while also not demanding US sanctions/arms embargo is asking Palestinians to die politely.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
The blockade of the West Bank, the siege of Hebron, the expulsion of thousands from their homes there, & the demolition of buildings & houses are not only to serve Netanyahu’s fascist elections campaign, they’re primarily to implement his longstanding strategy of the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the West Bank. Israel’s criminality & cruelty know no bounds.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Scenes of the destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation army yesterday in the Farsh al-Hawa area of Hebron.