“The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.” — Shirley Chisholm
If only Biden had kept his campaign promise to codify Roe.
“States like Texas with near-total abortion bans are dealing with more parents abandoning their children for several reasons like desperation and a lack of information.”
“he claimed his unit had killed ‘6,000 terrorists’ during the war. When asked, in the context of the rescue operation to free four Israeli hostages in June, which resulted in the killing of over 270 Palestinians, ‘How do you identify who is a terrorist?’ he answered: ‘We attacked on the side of the street to drive civilians away, and whoever did not flee, even if he was unarmed, as far as we were concerned, was a terrorist.’”
Every once in a while a Zionist hits the comments section on my TL insisting that #Israel wouldn’t desecrate mosques unless they were being used by #Hamas. The Zionists are never able to explain how destroying cultural artifacts stops Hamas.
“Today, the white folks ruled that in the 80-mile stretch of land in #Louisiana famously known as Cancer Alley, the refineries are now allowed to CONTINUE murdering the Black and brown people who live there and poisoning the #air and #water around it. #climate#health
“At some point people will realize that the REAL Democratic platform is ‘more cops and more bombs’ - this is not some optics game they're playing for centrist votes.
The optics game is actually the progressive stuff they talk about but never achieve.
Still no policy proposals on the #HarrisWalz2024 website. So, all we’re left with as an informed electorate is the GOP-lite #DNC display to fill the void. It’s safe to say that we’re not getting anything different from the last 4 years. #USPolitics#uspol#politics
“Can't have a Palestinian speaker but we will give you #Republicans, every type of war criminal, a sex pest former president, billionaire parasites, and a white q-an*n sheriff raving about how effective #Biden / #Harris have been at expanding the white-supremacist #police state.”
“The idea that anyone who demands Dems live up to the ideals they’re publicly claiming to own is an enemy and, therefore, must be excised from public life is an ultimately corrosive politics that people shouldn’t indulge in if they’re genuinely looking to build a durable coalition in the long term.“
“Both the Uncommitted National Movement representing 740,000 uncommitted voters and unions representing nearly half of all #union members in the #US are calling for a stop to arms shipments to #Israel.
Now, thousands of protesters gathered in #Chicago are uniting behind the demand to cut off all aid to Israel and end the #genocide in #Gaza. These demands go beyond the call for an arms embargo, but share the emphasis on stopping material support.”