mark ruffalo stood up for yemen when literally no one knew what was going on there. he worked directly with the advocacy & yemeni communities on the war powers resolution a few years ago. heโs a pretty solid guy.
not enough people fully grasp that US law enforcement literally disappeared Muslim men from their homes after 9/11. just took them in the middle of the night. american citizens and non-citizens alike. i never know what people are talking about when they call it a free country lol
The Biden Admin took the Houthis OFF the terrorist list in 2021. Now, because of commerce disruption, he will put them back on. thank you to the biden admin for clearly demonstrating the political nature of terrorist designations.
cpd showed to tell us using chalk on the sidewalk was illegal. when we asked them to cite the city ordinance they went back to their cars & were trying to figure it out for 20 minutes
โnot feeling welcome on campus at elite universityโ vs the bodies of children executed with their hands tied behind their backs being carried around in bulldozers feels like a very insane conversation to be having. i wonโt be having it
Iโm a bernie hoe because I donโt give a shit about his policies. I just think heโs so hot. I canvass until my feet bleed because I want to kiss him.
Palestinian youth are blocking employees from entering Woodward, a weapons manufacturer that works with boeing and israel, in Illinois this morning. ๐๐๐
๐จHappening Now๐จ: 100 Palestinian and Youth led protestors shut down WoodWard (weapons manufacturer) near Chicago IL. Woodward provides systems to
#Boeing
bombs that are currently being used to massacre over 27,000 Palestinains in Gaza. Protestors have blocked all entrances.
iโm at a hearing in congress about antisemitism on campus and this kid from harvard just said โif antisemitism was a disease, then Harvard University is the Wuhan wet marketโ. very interesting
this guy is one of the main proponents of keeping medical supplies and other necessary items out of Cuba thru the US blockade. Donโt let him do memes.
BREAKING: Senator Tammy Duckworth refusing to even allow her constituents to deliver a petition asking for her to call for a ceasefire. The Department of Homeland Security is here refusing us entry.
since tweeting this iโve learned that Lockheed Martin charged the government $600+ each for toilet seat covers, over $7000 for a coffee maker, etc. they think weโre stupid
is there any institution better at laundering money than the US military? wdym itโs $400k to unclog the toilet on an aircraft carrier? get elbow deep in that thing
@lib_crusher
my fave is when he put the chocolate bar on top of that kid in the minion costume instead of handing it to the child and it slipped right off
i donโt think u all get iโm scared and anxious about everything. if i can yell at the president you can stand up for palestine. itโs not the time to be afraid
BREAKING: Our co-director Danaka (
@wifeoftoast
) just disrupted a congressional hearing on U.S. attacks on Yemen.
"You say you care about service members who have died? You have said nothing about Aaron Bushnell! He lit himself on fire at the Israel Embassy two days ago!"
i just have to shout out the
@whitesox
(dan from guest services). my brother has down syndrome & loves baseball but was scared when he got up to the 500 level at the sox game, they moved us to the 100 level and gave him a cute hat ๐ญ๐ญ heโs so happy now. i luv my team
This week there will be protests all around the US to call for a War Powers Resolution for Yemen, to end all US complicity in Yemenโs suffering. If youโre anti-war, that needs to include Yemen.
Hereโs a list of protests & an explanation of a War Powers Resolution:
people yelled at me that it โwasnโt the timeโ. there is a genocide happening! how many more palestinians have to be k*lled for it to be the time?!
my favorite chapter of election season is upon us. facebook liberals telling young people who have been protesting literally every day all summer that they are not doing enough because they arenโt excited about biden
i just have to shout out the
@whitesox
(dan from guest services). my brother has down syndrome & loves baseball but was scared when he got up to the 500 level at the sox game, they moved us to the 100 level and gave him a cute hat ๐ญ๐ญ heโs so happy now. i luv my team
Most prisons are in republican districts.
People incarcerated are counted in the red districts census. They get more electoral votes for locking people up.
The people locked up canโt vote.
Illinois has one republican district with 6 or 7 prisons.
NEW: Massive furnished homeless *caves* discovered in California 20 feet below street level.
Insane.
Volunteer groups removed a whopping 7600 pounds of trash and also found guns and drugs.
The caves were so intricate that they had murals, floor tiles and one even had aโฆ
@Evan_But_Cool
also Iโm an independent contractor so literally they donโt even help me guess Iโll just have to write a huge check at the end of the year
โfolks my age have not done enoughโ sir you were the commander in chief of the largest polluter on earth & president of the most powerful country in the world
"Vote like your life depends on it, because it does," said former President Barack Obama in an address to young people at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, urging them to engage in activism to push world leaders into action on the climate crisis.
Ellen does her first show from home: โBeing in quarantine is like being in jail. Itโs mostly because Iโve been wearing the same clothes for ten days and everyone in here is gay.โ
i donโt give a shit about joe rogans podcast. weโre about to go to war with russia, the US is helping Saudi Arabia & the UAE bomb and starve yemen, and oil is pouring into the amazon river
there are still 40 muslim men in guantanamo, 20 years later. no charges. no trial. no justice for any of the victims of the united states empireโs โwar on terrorโ
the event that i disrupted biden to demand he call for a ceasefire was a UAW event in Illinois. happy to see they have joined the call for a ceasefire as well. this is huge!
From opposing fascism in WWII to mobilizing against apartheid South Africa and the CONTRA war, the
@UAW
has consistently stood for justice across the globe. That is why I am proud that the UAW International is today officially calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine.
biden said he wouldnโt deport anyone in the first 100 days, over 26,000 people have been deported.
he promised $2000, broke it by saying $1400 (means tested) and we still have absolutely nothing ๐
@melliem_no
Yeah like I promise bro Iโm just stupid. Other 20 year olds have parents to do it for them and I donโt even know what โadjusted gross incomeโ is
Photo of Alec Baldwin being pulled away by cops after becoming irate and refusing to answer a protestor asking if he condemns Israelโs killing of thousands of Palestinians.
a certain weapons manufacturer i tweet about a lot is having a panel for womenโs history month where they have not one but two canva graphics of muslim women on their flyer
we lack so much public space that when people use whatever public space is left as intended (dancing, playing music,) ppl see it as criminal, odd, or threatening.
fun fact, CODEPINKโs co director (me), our palestine director (nour) and our admin/feminist foreign policy person are all
@DePaulU
alumni.
we stand in full solidarity with the students taking over the quad for Gaza.
@codepink
if encampments pop up in chicago it will be a good test of how progressive brandon really is. and a good indication of how they will treat us in August when the democrats get here.
BREAKING: Palestinian & Arab organizers in Chicago occupying the Egyptian Consulate to demand that Egypt:
1. Grant permits to Global Conscience Convoy
2. open the border to let humanitarian assistance into Gaza & the injured to be evacuated to hospitals. W/ no restrictions.
Please sign this petition to get more aid to Yemen. The yemeni people are experiencing the worlds worst humanitarian crisis AND if you have funds, donate to
@yemenrrf
I canโt emphasize this enough. CALL your representatives office right now. Pick up the phone ASAP and tell them they need to support this bill. This sale is mostly JDAMS which are essentially kits that turn unguided bombs into precision guided weapons.
๐จ ๐จ ๐จ BREAKING NEWS:
@AOC
is preparing to introduce a resolution that would block the United Statesโ planned $735 million sale of bombs to Israel.
why do campus police have riot gear?
i turned down my admission to graduate school at U Chicago in April. I was sure about it but now iโm even more sure.
NOW: UChicago Police have barricaded student protesters out of the Quad after multiple reports of Gaza solidarity encampment being raided by police. I've just arrived on scene. Gathering more info now.
#OnAssignment
for
@BlockClubCHI
this stimulus feels like when in victorious they were stuck in beckโs trailer and Trina had 1 bottle cap of water for everyone to share and they dipped their tongues in it
marco rubioโs statements on cuba get funnier every time i remember that he lied about his family fleeing castro. rubioโs family left cuba under batista
Please do not look away from the ongoing horrors in Yemen; horrors that we as Americans have to take some responsibility for; horrors that the Biden administration doesn't seem to want to stop.
My commentary on
@MSNBC
. It's important. Please watch/share:
Abdulrahman should have been celebrating his 26th birthday today, but 10 years ago the US killed him with a drone strike in Yemen. The War on Terror has stolen so many futures. my new piece in
@truthout
Iโm 20 years old. The US has been at war my entire life. The US empire uses your money to make weapons to kill people instead of providing us with things like healthcare and education. Thatโs not normal. We can demand for things to be different.
#YemenCantWait