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Stephen Semler

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2 years

The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis

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Kyrsten Sinema won’t support spending $3.5 trillion over 10 years for the reconciliation bill, but supported giving the Pentagon $4.2 trillion over the last six by voting for every military budget since she’s been in office

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These protestors are the doing the lord's work

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Elizabeth Warren (along with Merkley, Van Hollen, Welch & Durbin) just voted for a bill that defunds UNRWA (the largest/most capable provider of humanitarian aid in Gaza) and gives Israel $3.8 billion in weapons, no strings attached.

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

1 month

Netanyahu's bombing campaign, blocking of humanitarian aid, and hospital raids have devastated people in Gaza. @SenJeffMerkley , @ChrisVanHollen , @SenPeterWelch , @SenatorDurbin & I are urging the Biden admin to do more to deliver life-saving medical care.

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The Biden administration opposed a ceasefire in Gaza and announced a $500 million weapons sale to Israel on the same day. This is cartoonishly evil. How is this even real

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

5 months

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — US vetoes UN resolution backed by vast majority of Security Council demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

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3 years

Reminder that we got a space force before universal healthcare

John Rogers

@JohnRogers7News

3 years

Today the US Space Force revealed the prototype for its service dress uniform. What do you think? @SpaceForceDoD

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@stephensemler

1 year

According to the user guide for this robot police dog (), it definitely shouldn’t be submerged in water. Some other behaviors we should avoid in order to not damage/break it:

Bernadette Hogan

@bern_hogan

1 year

“I’m a computer geek. I think technology is here and we cannot be afraid of it,” @NYCMayor says in Times Square, rolling out 2 new technologies the NYPD will use to supplement the PD. A contract for “Digi dog” was previously axed after criticism over surveillance methods & cost

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Joe Biden prefers losing in 2024 than stopping Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign. Let that sink in

Ali Velshi

@AliVelshi

6 months

BREAKING: Biden’s standing hits new lows amid Israel-Hamas war. The erosion is most pronounced among Dems, a majority of whom believe Israel has gone too far in Gaza. Among voters ages 18-34, 70% of them disapprove of his handling of the war.

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Biden actively killed off emergency SNAP benefits, Medicaid continuous enrollment, the student loan repayment pause, and free covid vaccines/tests. In his FY23 budget, he didn't request funding to extend the child tax credit, earned income tax credit, free school meals, WIC, etc

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5 months

@stephensemler What welfare programs has he cut?

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2 years

The House just passed a bill authorizing $840 billion for the Pentagon. More Republicans voted against it than Democrats.

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Chris Coons just voted to give Israel $3.8 billion in weapons, no strings attached.

Senator Chris Coons

@ChrisCoons

1 month

My heart goes out to World Central Kitchen and the families of the seven brave aid workers killed by an Israeli air strike yesterday. Too many aid workers have died in this conflict, which makes the prompt resolution of this truly tragic incident even more urgent.

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Biden: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country…since World War Two, nothing like that has happened.” US troop levels in Iraq: 2003: 141,800 2004: 130,600 2005: 143,800 2006: 141,100 2007: 148,300 2008: 157,800 2009: 135,600

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"Genocide deniers don't belong in Congress" -- John Fetterman, Oct 2022

John Fetterman

@JohnFetterman

2 years

I stand in solidarity with PA's Armenian community. Oz’s continued refusal to recognize the Armenian genocide is disgusting. Genocide deniers don't belong in Congress.

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Brian Schatz just voted to give Israel $3.8 billion in unconditional military aid. He also voted for Biden's foreign aid bill, which gives $14.1 billion in weapons to Israel.

Brian Schatz

@brianschatz

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This is just so devastating. One of the most careful, caring, undeniably virtuous organizations I’ve ever observed. Their workers deserve to be safe.

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3 years

Police are on track to get more military hardware under Biden than they did under Trump:

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10 months

Climate: $369 billion over 10 years Pentagon: $886 billion in 1 year

President Biden

@POTUS

10 months

The Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to take the most aggressive action ever in confronting the climate crisis and strengthening our energy security. It's allowing us to fight environmental injustice and deliver a clean energy economy.

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1 year

The US military-industrial complex produces more greenhouse gasses than 167 countries and has higher per capita emissions than *all* countries. New from me:

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The House just passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. Nearly two-thirds of its funding goes to military and law enforcement programs:

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3 years

Lockheed Martin received more federal funding last year than the amount climate programs will get in Biden’s reconciliation bill:

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2 years

In 2021, Biden delivered 8% of the funding he campaigned on for physical & human infrastructure, and 105% of the amount he ran on for the Pentagon

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3 years

The House just passed a $778 billion Pentagon budget, 316-113. Over twice as many Republicans voted against it than Democrats

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Nancy Pelosi

@TeamPelosi

8 months

Health care is a right, not a privilege. No one has fought harder to make that principle a reality than my friend, @AdyBarkan . It was an honor to be with you and your beautiful family at the FDR Four Freedoms Awards. Ady, you urge us all to #BeAHero — you are mine! -NP

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The House just passed a bill that cements genocide as official US policy. The legislation gives Israel $3.8 billion in weapons, sanctions UNRWA as Palestinians starve, and defunds a UN investigation into Israel's violations of international law. All but 22 Democrats voted for it

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1 year

It has trouble detecting objects shorter than 30cm, so be sure not to put any cans or buckets in front of it, especially if those containers are filled w/ paint or Nickelodeon green slime or whatever.

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@stephensemler

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All but two Democratic senators just voted to: -give Israel $3.8B in weapons, violating US law -defund a UN inquiry into Israel's violations of international law -defund UNRWA, worsening famine in Gaza -sanction the UN Human Rights Council if it highlights Israeli abuses

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@AP

2 months

BREAKING: Senate passes $1.2 trillion funding package in early morning vote, ending threat of partial shutdown

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The heaviest bombs the US dropped on ISIS in Mosul was 500 pounds. Biden is again giving Israel 2,000-pound bombs to drop on Palestinian civilians.

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3 years

In December, Pelosi was quick to call back Congress to bail out weapons manufacturers. But to extend the eviction moratorium? Still AWOL.

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@stephensemler

1 year

Please do not place a mirror in front of it because it’ll confuse its obstacle detection system. Bright lights can mess it up too. And don’t put a big blanket over the robot either

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@stephensemler

2 years

The US spent at least $277 billion on police and prisons last year, or $759 million per day:

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It’ll also likely take a tumble if its legs get caught in wires, cords, nets, rebar mesh, fencing, etc. And it generally doesn’t do well on slippery surfaces (sand, dust, liquids).

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@stephensemler

3 years

Biden’s spending plan for 2022 would give $1.3 billion more to the Israeli military than to international climate programs:

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@stephensemler

1 year

Don’t turn it off (which is done by pressing and holding the blue button at its rear for two seconds)

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1 year

Definitely do not attempt to give it a bath or otherwise dump a large amount of water or diet Mountain Dew on it.

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2 years

The think tanks that Congress consults for foreign policy advice are bankrolled by the weapons industry:

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2 years

More government funding went to four military contractors in one year than went to the public through the $600 stimulus checks:

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1 year

In the two months since Biden ended SNAP emergency allotments, an additional 1.3 million people reported not having enough to eat (per Census data). Total food insecure population among US adults is now 25.4 million.

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3 years

I compared how House Democrats voted today on Trump’s military budget with how much campaign cash they took from the defense industry. On average, Democrats who voted for the bill received 4x more industry cash than those who voted against it. Read more:

House Democrats get paid by weapons makers to buy more weapons, a breakdown

Speaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Organizers and Candidates, n°59 | 8 December 2020

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@stephensemler

1 year

It can fail to detect transparent objects (like glass doors) and objects thinner than 3cm (like poles and ladders). So be mindful of that I guess

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5 months

Yesterday, an investigation found that an Israeli tank crew murdered a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon. Today, Biden proposed giving Israel 45,000 tank shells.

Hümeyra Pamuk

@humeyra_pamuk

5 months

SCOOP: The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve the sale of 45,000 shells for Israel's Merkava tanks for use in its offensive against Hamas in Gaza, sources tell me, amid concerns over the use of U.S. weapons in a conflict that has killed thousands of civilians.

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Over half the signatories to this letter also have their names on a petition supporting Biden's foreign aid bill, which would give Israel $14.1 billion in weapons

Rep. Mark Pocan

@RepMarkPocan

1 month

The Israeli airstrike that killed seven @WCKitchen aid workers, including an American citizen, was absolutely horrifying and unacceptable. Today, I called on the Biden Admin to withhold offensive arms transfers to Israel with @RepMcGovern , @Janschakowsky and 37 other colleagues.

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3 years

Biden wants to double federal funding for a program that pays state/local governments to hire more police officers:

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60 Minutes

@60Minutes

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The Pentagon announced in March its largest-ever budget: $842 billion. Almost half will go to defense contractors. A six-month 60 Minutes investigation found that contractors are overcharging the Pentagon on almost everything.

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3 years

Joe Biden’s budget proposal increases funding for ICE:

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2 years

Biden just signed the FY2022 spending bill into law. Of the $1.5 trillion in the bill, more than half goes to the Pentagon—just like last year’s budget:

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@stephensemler

3 years

Democratic leadership is defunding widely-popular provisions in the reconciliation bill while inflating the Pentagon budget. This is what losing looks like:

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2 years

Biden only had to cut three-quarters of the bill’s funding to get that sacred bipartisan label no one actually cares about

President Biden

@POTUS

2 years

It’s official, folks: I’ve signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal into law.

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3 years

The year before the Afghanistan War started the top 5 military contractors received $49 billion in public funds. Last year they ate $168 billion:

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3 years

Wow. More COVID relief funds have been delivered to *military contractors* than to renters.

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2 years

In his FY2023 budget request, Biden proposes spending 18 times more on the Pentagon than on tackling the climate crisis:

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3 years

The US spends more on policing than all but two countries spend on their militaries (and one of those countries is the US)

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In just two years, Biden has signed off on over $1.72 trillion in military spending — $737 billion more than what the infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act provide over *ten* years:

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World Central Kitchen gave Israel their location; Israel used those coordinates to bomb them. Israel has repeatedly done the same with other humanitarian groups, but Biden kept giving Israel weapons anyway. Biden owns this.

Louisa Loveluck

@leloveluck

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"The @WCKitchen team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in 2 armored cars branded with the WCK logo. Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the warehouse, where the team had unloaded 100+ tons of food aid."

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2 years

Biden abandons yet another campaign promise. Free community college costs ~$11B/year; the Pentagon spends that much every 5 days

The New York Times

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2 years

A plan to provide two years of free community college to all eligible students is off the table, Jill Biden will say in a speech on Monday. It will be her starkest acknowledgment yet that a measure she had championed is dead.

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The House just passed a $778 billion Pentagon budget during a pandemic. It’s $37 billion higher than last year’s military budget, which they passed during the same pandemic. So much “national security” spending, so little security to show for it.

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The US doesn’t have the credibility to claim it’s a global leader on climate when its budgets are dominated by militarized spending:

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Biden just ended the Covid national emergency, but continued 12 other national emergencies this year, including one on Iran that originally started in 1995, one on Cuba from 1996, one on Zimbabwe from 2003, one on Libya from 2011, and one on Venezuela from 2015.

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Netanyahu knows he can humiliate Blinken like this without consequence because Biden already committed to "not drawing red lines for Israel" and giving the country $14.3 billion in weapons

POLITICO

@politico

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Israel will keep bombarding Gaza with 'all of its power,' Netanyahu says after Blinken calls for pause

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I estimate that Biden’s FY2023 Pentagon budget will transfer ~$452 billion to private companies, based on my analysis of US military spending from FY2012-21:

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The progress Biden’s infrastructure bill makes on climate is effectively canceled out—several times over—by the pollution enabled by his outsized military budget. Read my analysis (via @OutriderFdn ) here:

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@stephensemler

2 years

Could provide housing to 1,039,063 people with this money, or:

Business Insider

@BusinessInsider

2 years

The total cost for the USS Ford is $13.3 billion

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Turns out Biden's decision to cut welfare programs in the US and fund genocide in Gaza isn't resonating well with voters.

Trita Parsi

@tparsi

5 months

BREAKING Bloomberg poll: Biden now trails Trump in ALL battleground states that will determine the 2024 elections. Young voters (18-34) haven't been won over by Biden's student loan measures - the anger over Gaza is too strong. Will Biden learn?

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Hakeem Jeffries’ team is against reversing a military spending increase that 80% of the public didn’t want in the first place. Annual military spending is $240 billion higher than when Obama left office. Social spending has been cut two years in a row. What are Democrats doing

Christie Stephenson

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In the vote counting, do not lose sight of what McCarthy is giving away. This is a **$75 BILLION defense cut** agreed to behind closed doors.

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Biden could immediately improve public safety by recalling the billions worth of combat gear the Pentagon has loaned to police. Instead, Biden has let even more weapons flood our communities:

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US state and local governments spend more on police (and incarceration) than most countries spend on their *militaries*

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Biden cutting his reconciliation bill in half leaves ~$300 billion/10 years for climate. We are on pace to spend $8 trillion more than that on the Pentagon (due in large part to Biden):

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Strange that hardly anyone in power yells about inflation for Pentagon spending, even though it’s 2x the cost of Biden’s whole economic agenda:

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The US military-industrial complex produces more greenhouse gas emissions than 171 countries:

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Pentagon budget: $840.2 billion Stimulus checks: $401.5 billion Guess which one gets blamed for making inflation worse

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Senators who voted for Biden's Pentagon budget—which increases military spending by $37 billion— took over 7 times more campaign cash from military contractors than those who voted against it

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Starting this month: -student loan repayments -additional work requirements for SNAP Ending this month: -supplemental $ for child care provider grants -extra $ for fruits/veggie purchases in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program

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In 1982, then-Senator Biden delivered an "impassioned speech" not only defending Israel's brutal invasion of Lebanon, but also arguing that women and children should be considered legitimate targets

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The Biden administration gives Israel the coordinates of humanitarian aid groups, Israel uses those coordinates to bomb those aid groups, then Biden gives Israel more weapons. Welcome to Biden and Israel's war on Palestinians, international law, and basic morality.

Erin Banco

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Scoop: The U.S. has sent the coordinates of aid organizations on the ground in Gaza to Israel to help prevent strikes. Despite that effort, many humanitarian sites have been bombarded

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3 years

“Self-defense”

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2 years

Biden didn’t want to distribute Covid-19 tests due to his concern about cost and waste. 500 million tests cost $4 billion; or 1/3 of the amount Biden spent on F-35s this year. Most F-35s aren’t mission-capable—including the one that just crashed into the ocean

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Because ~55% of military spending goes to contractors, arms companies will likely get more money from Biden’s Pentagon budget than the public got through his $1,400 stimulus checks:

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Biden 1) cut pandemic welfare programs; 2) didn't replace them with anything, despite promising to do so.

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Last week, Nancy Pelosi signed on to a letter calling on Biden to halt most weapons sales to Israel. Since then, she's been whipping votes for a bill that would give Israel $14 billion in weapons, no strings attached.

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Instead of another relief bill, the Senate just passed a $740.5 billion military budget (FY21 #NDAA ), 84-13. I found that Senate Democrats who voted Yes took in nearly 6x more campaign cash from the defense industry than those who voted No. Read more:

Senate Democrats bail out war corporations instead of people, a breakdown

Speaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Organizers and Candidates, n°60 | 11 December 2020

stephensemler.substack.com

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Earlier this month, Elizabeth Warren said she thought there was enough evidence that int'l officials could find Israel guilty of genocide. Today, she voted for a bill that gives Israel $14.1 billion in weapons, no strings attached. .

Elizabeth Warren says she believes Israel’s war in Gaza will legally be considered a genocide

“If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” Warren said of the case before the ICJ.

www.politico.com

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Jeff Merkely just voted for a bill that gives Netanyahu $3.8 billion in unconditional military aid and defunds UNRWA, the largest/most capable provider of humanitarian aid to Palestinians Does he not know his votes are public record?

Senator Jeff Merkley

@SenJeffMerkley

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On this Easter, let’s ponder Netanyahu’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 20,000 women and children, and his restriction of humanitarian aid, which has pushed Palestinians to the brink of famine.

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Jen Psaki asks “how you do pay for that” for #COVID19 tests a week after advocating for the BBB Act, which has a $285 billion tax cut for millionaires.

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@mkarolian

2 years

Jen Psaki somewhat mockingly asks reporter at the White House Daily Press Briefing if the US should be sending out rapid #COVID19 tests to every household. In the UK you can order 1 pack (containing 7 tests) everyday.

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On average, Senate Dems who voted to advance the NDAA—at the expense of Sanders’ effort to get us $2k checks—accepted the equivalent of 106 relief checks each from military contractors this election cycle ($191,961). A member-by-member list, sorted by war industry cash received:

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You could also say Sinema supported giving the Pentagon $5.4 trillion over the last 8 years, too, if you include her Yes votes on the FY2014 and FY2015 military budgets. Same message though: welfare for warfare, but no help for us

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The annual cost of *five* Green New Deal bills combined is still almost $300B less than the amount the House voted to give the Pentagon next year:

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1 year

The deal Biden negotiated with McCarthy will increase the Pentagon budget to $886.4 billion and make it harder for people to secure food assistance.

Olivia Beavers

@Olivia_Beavers

1 year

McCarthy on this call claims they are repealing $1.9 billion on new IRS agents He's also touting securing work requirements on SNAP, covid rescissions, defense spending to $886b

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Darwin Leuba 安達文

@darwinleuba

2 years

Every bridge in poor condition in Allegheny County

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Joe Biden is kicking 1.5 million people off Medicaid per month for the next 12 months. He just cut food assistance. But I’m sure there’ll be no hard feelings after he deploys this army of definitely-not-annoying social media influencers.

Sophia Cai

@SophiaCai99

1 year

NEW: President Biden is enlisting hundreds of TikTok stars and social media influencers to promote his political messaging to young voters — and may give them their own briefing room at the White House.

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You can’t police your way out of policy failures, but Biden is still hellbent on trying:

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The US can't enforce a ban on military aid to this battalion because it doesn't have a mechanism to accurately track which US weapons go to which Israeli units, and Biden has no plans to set one up. A critical detail Ravid decided to leave out.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

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🚨Scoop: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce within days sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank. My story on @axios

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@stephensemler

3 years

The top 5 weapons companies received over $2 trillion in public funds during the Afghanistan War. Corporate welfare through warfare:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

2 years

The House members who voted to increase the Pentagon budget by $37 billion took nearly 3 times more campaign cash from weapons companies than those who voted against the increase:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

1 year

The number of people killed by police reached a ten-year high in 2022. Federal subsidies to police did too:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

1 year

The FY2023 omnibus bill has $0 for COVID. This is the *fourth* time Biden has failed to secure emergency pandemic relief this year. A timeline:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

3 years

Biden requested 85 F-35s. Trump never requested more than 79. This is embarrassing #BidenBudget

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

2 years

Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

2 years

Pentagon budget: $840.2 billion Stimulus checks: $401.5 billion Guess which one gets blamed for making inflation worse

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

1 year

Biden is a) withholding funds from the UN Human Rights Council for talking about Israel’s human rights crimes; b) threatening to withhold economic aid to Palestinians if they support an ICC investigation of those crimes:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

5 months

The antisemitic resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism just passed the House. Here are the votes:

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

7 months

As of this month, 94 million US adults are facing financial hardship and 28 million are food insecure.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

7 months

JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the country can 'absolutely' afford another war.

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

3 years

Just hours apart. This is what the US chooses to subsidize w/ billions of $ each year

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Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

7 months

Herbie Ziskend

@HerbieZiskend46

7 months

QUESTION: “Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?” POTUS: “We’re the United States of America for God's sake! The most powerful nation in the history of the world!” 1/

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