Journalist & filmmaker. Director of Our Home Is Not Of This World & Lords of War.
Queens, NY
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Russ Finkelstein retweeted
Oggi, 2 novembre 2026, a cinquantuno anni esatti dal brutale assassinio avvenuto all'Idroscalo di Ostia nella notte tra l'1 e il 2 novembre 1975, la Procura di Roma ha ufficialmente riaperto le indagini sull'omicidio di Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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The Rogers spokesperson you see starting this press conference is Abby Ronson. She is currently registered as a foreign agent for the state of Israel, according to @DropSiteNews reporting today
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Hi Haley
American Jew here. Never been to Israel. Are you saying America is not my homeland?
This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.
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Thousands of people in the center of Rio chanting obscene and justified anti Neymar slogans is the vibe right now
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BORA LULA
Presidente Lula fala após ser reeleito presidente do Brasil teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1rGmqpPmo…
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My story about two-mid level State Department officials who deployed levers of US power to try to restore the Bolsonaro clan to power in Brazil. Their plan faces a reckoning in tomorrow's runoff, with Flavio Bolsonaro and Lula neck-and-neck in polls. reuters.com/world/us/inside-…
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying.
No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints.
Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.
We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
This was not about harvesting olives.
It was about harvesting headlines.
Brad Lander’s latest stunt is nothing more than a calculated political provocation.
Lander traveled to a foreign country, deliberately entered a restricted security area, and participated in an unauthorized activity without the required coordination.
What makes this stunt even more outrageous is that his own team contacted Israeli representatives in the United States ahead of his visit and was explicitly informed that proper coordination with the relevant authorities was required.
He chose to ignore those instructions.
At a time of heightened security tensions, Israeli security forces have a responsibility to protect lives, prevent dangerous incidents, and maintain public order.
Had anyone been injured as a result of his reckless political theater, Lander would undoubtedly have been among the first to demand that Israeli authorities intervene and provide protection.
Brad Lander came looking for a confrontation. Now he is pretending to be its victim.
Russ Finkelstein retweeted
One month ago, I sat down with President Lula to discuss how government serving poor and working people. Weeks later, Brazil took a historic step: a 40-hour workweek, at least two days off and no cuts to pay for more than 30 million workers.
Workers fought for decades to win the five-day workweek in America. Brazilian workers have fought for this victory, too. I congratulate them on this achievement.
Working people deserve time to live, not just work. Building a better future means giving people more of their lives back. And we’ll keep fighting for it.
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Se vieron bien tibios y culones cortando el speech @NPR, que pinche desgracia.
Así de entrada, con lo primero que me quedo del Tiny Desk de los @tigresdelnorte, es con la presentación.
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While you’re all laughing at that Peruvian politician called “Hitler Mussolini”, this is Brazil’s fascist Presidential candidate, currently ahead in polls, literally copying Mussolini’s aesthetic to be elected
Priorities folks. Every tweet counts
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It's always the same tiny powerless sects that don't have any tactics other than targeting prominent left-wing figures and hurling the most vitriolic, most ridiculous things they can at them, purely for attention. They go viral, accomplish nothing else, and rinse and repeat. Yawn
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.