Kevin Bruyneel

"They assassinated our voice, the one who dedicated all his time, his life and his health to make the world hear every cry we live, the hero whose courage and loyalty will be taught to all generations. Our hearts burn with pain, our hearts cry with pain."

An image of Anas al-Sharif

Gaza is heartsick at the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal. They worked to give voice to the civilians and their plight.

Tasneem sent me the message and image below. Please give to Tasneem and help others in need.

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It is important to note that the police did NOTHING to prevent or stop the mass shooting in Manhattan. We need other strategies than sending SWAT teams after everyone (including the shooter) is already dead.

Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. But Monday’s mass shooting showed their limits, security experts said.

Alternate Headline:

"Even the $5 billion NYC Spends on the NYPD Couldn't Prevent the Midtown Shooting.

NYC has the highest per capita level of policing in the US. But Monday’s mass shooting showed policing's limits, security experts said."

Why not go with that headline? Why not? WHY. NOT?

This is like if you combined the Israeli government with a health insurance company. Just the absolute worst. Do not give this company money. Hey guys, did Anne Frank have any pre-existing conditions? Jesus christ.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb Never have never would But calling this genocide Is a blood libel and if I had standing I’d be serving you with defamation papers as we speak Stop spreading lies !!!

May I present Edward Lake, a Democrat lawyer threatening to sue me for saying it’s a genocide

Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.

Pathetic and disgraceful, if unsurprising

Brilliant!

The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.

Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.

The problem is not they were caught cheating, it's that they were caught liking Coldplay.

Grounds for divorce.

Immigration court felt like a murderous reality show today.

The judge granted two gentlemen asylum hearings in 2029. But it was all a sham—They were abducted by ICE before they left the building.

There is more the City & the State must do. We cannot allow the rule of law to be eroded case by case.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

Four years ago, when the nyt really revved its politicized anti-trans campaign, it pubbed a story that attacked gender-inclusive language, demonized trans ppl and tried to pit cis women against us.

How many trans ppl did they interview? Zero.

repeating “ICE aren’t going after criminals like Trump said they would” is a fantastic triple threat of propaganda: it affirms arguments about immigrants as public safety or national security threats, shoring up arguments plenty of Dems parrot, even as it purports to defend some “good” immigrants

Less than a year ago @nytimes.com was sent hacked data about Trump's vetting of JD Vance, which they refused to publish.

But Mamdami's hacked college application gets an exception because of interest from random online Nazis and Chris Rufo, the NYTimes' de facto executive editor.

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.

They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

He pointed out the Mamdani gotcha story was solely anonymously sourced to a genuine race science eugenicist already identified by other media. The NY Times is circling its wagons to defend what is a shockingly racist story.

The “no tax on tips” part of the GOP bill is a total joke. It only applies to $25,000, is only for voluntary tips, isn’t received until you file taxes, only explicitly lists food service and beauticians for who gets the deduction, excludes married people filing separately, and expires in 2028.

It never stopped being birtherism Donald Trump is repackaging a familiar smear against Zohran Mamdani.

"Shouting that this is “authoritarian” does not quite do it justice; they are literally proposing to do to Mamdani what Idi Amin did to his father." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Find someone who loves you as much as the New York Times loves Trump, any batshit topic is fine long as it means getting to bat their eyes at him.

“We can be free and we can be fed.”
- Zohran Mamdani

This line is elegant and anti-fascist.

It pairs freedom and plenitude, political and economic well-being, and it refuses authoritarianism and austerity, as a pairing or as a false choice.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

It's like these guys share tactics with the Patriot Front...or are Patriot Front.

"Then Israel attacked. It acted less to preempt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy. A new nuclear deal would have lifted sanctions ... stabilized Iran’s position in the Middle East and potentially strengthened it over time."

- Stephen Wertheim

Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.

What Republicans are doing in response to the anti-ICE protests is EXACTLY what the Dakota Access pipeline company did in response to the 2016 protests at Standing Rock

Those protests saw FBI infiltration & a $660 million judgment against Greenpeace

Super important to be informed on these tactics

Everyone: don't rank Cuomo, a serial groping disgraced grandmother killer

New York Times: don't rank Mamdani, a visionary young man

In her 2018 paper on the subject, Daggett argues that traditional masculine identity is inherently tied to the fossil fuel economy. “The narrative of righteous fossil democracy is crucial not only to American identity writ large, but to its hegemonic white masculinities,” she writes. When the narrative of righteous fossil fuel democracy is challenged, it thus becomes interpreted as a challenge to those masculinities. “Through the rosy nostalgia afforded by petro-masculine identity,” Daggett writes, “the affront of global warming or environmental regulations appear as insurgents on par with the dangers posed by feminists and queer movements seeking to leach energy and power from the state/traditional family.”

The connection between fossil fuel money and anti-trans groups makes way more sense once you understand the concept of petromasculinity

When you look at Trump's cratering immigration numbers, remember what Zohran Mamdani was already doing three months ago — while the rest of the Democratic party was still twiddling their thumbs on detaining student protestors and giving ICE more power:

Cue the scene on their Mountainhead where two of them try to kill the guy with the beard...

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.