Notices by JeffreySmith 🌻🍉 (jeffreysmith@mastdn.social)

@HamonWry

It's right to oppose a genocidal invasion in Ukraine; it's also right to oppose a genocidal invasion of Palestine, and its supporters. You don't get to choose who is worthy of life. I voted for VP Harris, but I also feel she risked our democracy by supporting the Israeli genocide in Palestine. If she alienated enough progressive voters by doing so to tilt the election, that's her responsibility.
Don't blame people who, unlike you, couldn't ignore a genocide. #Palestine #Ukraine

@ukrdef

Our Congress provided funds and weapons as grants, not loans. Ukraine paid all of the help back already by killing destroying much of the russian weaponry and invading soldiers - our joint enemies! This was done at great human sacrifice of valiant Ukrainians. Trump seeks to help Putin and weaken Ukraine out of his personal interest as putin owns the orange rapist - through kompromat apparently. I grieve for our lost American honor, but may all patriots now send money to #Ukraine!

Now showing:

Gaza - the Slaughterhouse

Producer: President Joe Biden
Associate Producer: Antony Blinken
Assistant Producer: V. P. Harris
Director: Bibi Netanyahu

Cast: the survivors, so far, of the Palestinian population
the IDF
Hamas
AI Lavender: an Israeli bomb targeting software - programmed to allow sociopathic targeting of innocents (ten babies next to a Hamas member - go for it!).

A sequel has begun shooting: Gaza 2.0 aka Lebanon

#FreePalestine #Palestine

The pluralistic self-governing region of Northeastern Syria known as Rojava is under attack by mercenary bandits funded by Turkey. The area is defended by a multi-ethnic militia of Kurds & Arabs, the SDF, which defeated ISIS as an ally of the US.

Women have full rights in Rojava, and form 25% of the militia. Due to attacks of SNA bandits supported by Turkey, hundreds being former ISIS members - 20,000 Kurds have fled the Aleppo area to #Rojava

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Red_Crescent#

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Michael Wilk, @michaelwilk - a German emergency physician who has worked in Rojava, has asked for donations to the well regarded Kurdish Red Crescent, to help these refugees from turkish mercenaries who have fled to autonomous NE Syria. The Red Crescent's wikipedia page is attached with contact information. .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_Red_Crescent# #Rojava #Syria

@AfroIsReborn

Hi, welcome to the fediverse. A few folks I follow who make my feed interesting are:

@mekkaokereke (former NFL player now in IT)

@aral

@timnitGebru (researchs AI from ethical standpoint, and is how I learned about mastodon)

@seachanger (she puts the capital P in progressive and makes a living fishing/marketing salmon)

@QasimRashid

At the Amazon Post the truth has also been purchased by Jeff Bezos. Subscribers recieve: "The World According to Bezos", where only billionaires and their interests matter.

@quinn Fortunately, our military has a tradition of non-involvement in civil affairs due to fealty to the Constitution. The failure of trump to secure even 50% of votes should help support officers who don't want to follow illegal orders if trump invokes the Insurrection Act.

@cstross @quinn

Fortunately, there will also be millions of bureaucrats in state government who can resist by doing nothing. I lost track of a deportation order once which resulted in a young working guy being able to stay in the states despite having a minor drug using offense. I worry most about militias being emboldoned to act in accordance with racist policies.

@glynmoody

I voted for V. P. Harris, but if I had lost multiple relatives due to Israel using bombs mostly supplied by the Biden - Harris administration, as many Palestinian Americans have? Would I have a super-human level of forgiveness? I doubt it.

@aral @FascistCentre @JoeGrowling

Even worse: immediately after kidnapping all but two male doctors at the hospital, Israel bombed a nearby apartment building, killing 90 people and injuring many. Israel indirectly murdered the injured by detaining 50 medical staff who could have saved them. #Palestine #Genocide

@inthehands

And if they don't crumple: that's why we fund emergency rooms. It's better to end up with a bit of an external injury, than deal with the regret of not having intervened when someone was being bullied.

@HistoPol @Free_Press

Wow! It's like a cross between Monty Python and Band of Brothers.

@randahl

I wonder if the Secret Weapon of Ukrainians might be that they have preserved their humanity, despite Bucha, and follow the Geneva Conventions in treating Russian POWs? These young conscripts seem to trust that they will be treated decently if they surrender. Better, to surrender & be forced to say Slava Ukraini - then to retreat and have some tik-tok chechen shoot them. May the steady stream of surrenders become a flood! #Ukraine

@WarnerCrocker

A nakedly partisan Judge such as Cannon breathed a sigh of relief when SCOTUS revealed it was also partisan by throwing out the Constitution and granting Trump immunity for official actions. She knows her fellow partisans on the Court have Trump's back, just as she does. The only thing able to rein them in will be a unified democratic Congress with President Biden having the votes to reform this biased Court.

@benroyce

Apartheid South Africa, like Trump's kkk active dad, should get some credit for helping form these racists.

@WarnerCrocker

This Judge has been the first to demand immediate obedience from TFG when he muttered and gestured at a potential juror. I suspect there's a good chance one of these witness attacks will result in more than fines if that is what it takes to protect a witness or juror.