Our foreign policy of overthrowing governments and installing dictatorships is usually why our credibility is shaky to begin with. Itâs why WE have lost credibility as the defenders of democracy. And now itâs the unchallenged use of US foreign policy *here*. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Around the world, Trump allies are laying the groundwork to sow doubt in the democratic process and, if necessary, subvert elections.
Thr TikTok ban is a sham- we have far greater problems with our own platforms, not just TT because itâs âforeignâ. When thr public says what they need or this is unacceptable to thr government / establishment- the correct response isnât to ignore public and take away their voice.
25K likes, 543 comments - pinkkitchen on March 22, 2024: "Shut the system down!".
ââŚ..recalled being forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked so often that, after initially urinating uncontrollably, he then stopped urinating for several days. He, too, had been forced to wear nothing but a diaper, to stop him from soiling the floorâŚ.âl
ââŚA leaked draft of the UNRWA report detailed an interview that gave a similar account; Interrogators âmade me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,â and also said that another detainee âdied after they put the electric stick upâ his anusâŚ.
Wtf. I feel like Israel have become the Nazis the Jewish people once suffered similar treatment from.
Since Israel invaded Gaza, the Sde Teiman military base has filled with blindfolded, handcuffed detainees, held without charge or legal representation.
OTD 1985: police assaulted the MOVE house in Philly with rounds of bullets, water cannons, and smoke grenades, and tear gas, and dropped a bomb on it. The city let the fire burn and the fire commissioner said that he could control the blaze. But the fire engulfed the house and spread to 60 others.
