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When #PinkPantheress sings, "I'm flying intercontinental with you," is she really talking about international labor solidarity? #Stateside
Don't believe anyone who says their #politics is motivated entirely by reason or entirely by emotion. We all exist at the conjunction of feelings and logic and politics is the same.
In what ways is your #politics based in fear? How is it based in hope? And how can you shift from the former to the later?
A gray cat lays down inside an open suitcase.
When you get back from vacation and your cat wants to make sure you don't leave again... #Cat #CatsOfBluesky
Went to sleep in Chicago and woke up in London! (Actually, I don't think I slept a wink and am bone tired but heck I'm on #vacation!)
#Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz because we attacked, but now opening it is someone else's responsibility? Amazing leadership as always.
I'm so glad we killed all those people in #Iran so they won't have a nuclear weapon that they weren't trying to get.
when you're easy listening on the outside but #punk on the inside
The people who wax nostalgic about 1950s America are the same people who are completely unwilling to countenance the tax rates the wealthy paid at that time. It's almost like their nostalgia isn't about the opportunities their families had at that time but about something else... #WealthyElites
If the only reason you made something was to have enough money to buy and sell everyone else in the world twice over, please -- keep your product to yourself. #WealthyElites
Who benefits when we blame the #WealthyElites?
...
Better question: who doesn't benefit?
Who's to blame? Immigrants? The white working class? University wonks?
None of the above.
The #WealthyElites benefit by dividing the rest of us from one another.
Quote-unquote #IllegalImmigration isn't caused by migration but by American policy choices.
There were almost no controls on #immigration in the early and mid-1800s, and that seemed to work out OK for the Irish, German, and Italian immigrants, their descendants, and the rest of the US population. What's different now?
#StPatricksDay reminds me of my great-great-grandfather Patrick Burke, who stowed away on a boat at the age of 14 to emigrate from Ireland to the US under conditions that would today make him an "illegal immigrant". Its an opportunity for me to find empathy for others in similar situations today.
If I lived my life by "preemptive attack", I would have no friends or other close relationships because peppe would recognize me as pathological. #USAbelike
We can't only rely on #voting, but it is one tool in our toolbox. I encourage you to get out there and vote, especially in your local elections.
#iranians are being killed by their political leaders, what're we going to do?
i know, kill some Iranians!
Is it politically risky to condemn the strikes on #Iran? The American people don't want them. It's hard to know exact numbers, but many Iranians don't want their own country bombed. It's costing Iranian and American lives. As a smaller issue, it's costing us a significant amount of money. For what?
Democrats can only offer halfhearted commendations of Trump's attacks on #Iran because Democratic presidents have engaged in their own unjustified drone and missile strikes.
If the #USA was a computer program, I'd be hitting the "undo" button over and over again right now...
sure president obama bombed some people but did you see what trump did
sure I did some heinous things but did you see what satan did
#usa #presidents #extrajudicialkilling
Presidents from both parties have bombed other countries with little reason and to ill effect. That doesn't mean we should stand by. It means we should stand up to them all. #iran #venezuela #libya #iraq #vietnam
The knowledge is simple that we must stand up to our government as it attacks innocent people who pose no imminent threat. The process for doing so is complex, but we must not let that dissuade us. #iran #usa #nomorewars
Strikes on #Iran, invasion of Venezuela, strikes on Libya, invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, invasion of Vietnam, invasion of Korea...the US hit list goes on and on. Presidents of both parties continue to use the military as their plaything to inflict damage on people around the world.
The US starts another unprovoked war -- unjustified and illegal and immoral but far from unique. #iran #iranwar #usa
When you get all hyped up to go on the #CTA because you heard public transportation in #Chicago is filled with a bunch of psychos and then you just sit there bored cause nothing's going on
Are we talking about invading #Iran to protect protesters when there are 1000s of protesters in other countries? To stop them from getting a nuclear weapon that all our sources tell us they are not close to getting? Or is it to help our "ally" Israel? I think the answer is self-evident.
Defending yourself in advance of a threat is some kind of super-secret Jedi mind trick. It's also known as assault. #iran #usa