"Few communities in America prospered as much as Texarkana during President Joe Biden’s four years in the White House, and few communities were more ungrateful than the voters of that region, which is anchored around twin cities spread across the Texas-Arkansas border." ~ Thomas B. Edsall #Trump #MAGA #racism #immigrants #Arkansas #Texas /1 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/liberalism-texarkana-economy-democracy.html

(continued from /5) according to Israeli jurist and genocide expert Daniel Blatman, Amos Goldberg, Lee Mordecai, Omar Bartov, … Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, you name it. There's not one entity and institution that including the United Nations rapporteurs, they said that what's happening meets the threshold of a genocide." #Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation /6

"What Israel is doing with, you know, with deeds and words is exactly what meets all the perfect definition of genocide in service of ethnic cleansing. What Israel is doing, according to the International Court of Justice, according to 800 genocide scholars and jurists, according to every human rights organization, B'Tselem, Israeli One, Medics Without Borders, according even to Israeli newspaper Haaretz," (continued in /6) #Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation /5

I read a report like this and understand why people keep saying on social media, "We're living in the stupidest timeline." Robyn Pennacchia writes, "[Candace Owens] has spent over a year 'transvestigating' France’s first lady Brigitte Macron — intent, for whatever reason, upon proving she was assigned male at birth. Actual hours of videos, based on zero evidence whatsoever, putting together her 'case.'" #CandaceOwen #Macron /1 https://www.wonkette.com/p/candace-owens-abandoned-by-trump

"The mRNA Covid vaccines are estimated to have saved 2.5 million lives globally, with 9 out of 10 of those lives being people over the age of 60. ... In withholding funds appropriated by Congress, Kennedy is engaging in the same conduct that the GAO ruled was illegal when performed by Trump." ~ Robert B. Hubbell #RFKJr #vaccines #HHS /2 https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/democrats-refuse-to-flinch

"In Gaza, survival has been redefined. It is no longer just about fleeing bombs — it is about keeping ourselves from dying of hunger. The echoing question — 'Where do we go?' — has now been compounded by another, more desperate one: 'What can we eat so we don’t collapse?” ~ Hend Salama and Abo Helow #Israel #Gaza #genocide #starvation /1 https://truthout.org/articles/we-often-return-home-from-gaza-markets-empty-handed-if-we-return-at-all

"The banality of evil doesn't do justice to DHS and ICE; it's more like the brutality of the morally feeble. ... This isn’t about border patrol. It is about who is permitted to walk (or, in many cases, ride in a car) freely about society, and who is presumed guilty because of their surname and skin." ~ David Shuster #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants #deportations #kidnappings /1 https://www.blueamp.co/p/dhs-trumps-bungling-despots-of-deportation

"The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding." ~ Nina Lakhani #Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide /1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/gaza-starvation-un-expert-michael-fakhri

"In an audio-only press gaggle on Air Force One, Trump confirmed that Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre worked for him when she was sixteen years old. Trump also complained that Epstein 'stole her' from him." ~ Scott Dworkin #Epstein #Trump #pedophiles #CoverUp #VirginiaGiuffre #GhislaineMaxwell /1 https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news-thats-horrible-for-trump-22d