Tim Wise

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

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Putting aside legality or propriety or morality, MAGA folks bragging about the unqualified success of the attack on Iran tweet as if history is a 24 hr news cycle. As if nothing could possibly go wrong afterward. Iraq and Afghanistan would like a word. As would 1953 Iran

5/ And if your contempt for anything remotely "mainstream" prevents you from understanding his value and celebrating it in this moment, you are indecent. Irrelevant. And you should be, and most assuredly will be, forgotten.

4/ to the last time I saw him--at the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's death at the site of the assassination--he was always a source of strength and inspiration...

3/ I didn't know Rev. Jackson well. But he was always kind and supportive of those of us trying to figure it out and make a difference. From his endorsement of our anti-apartheid activism at Tulane in 1990 to his kind words to me personally in the early 2000s when we were on the Donahue show...

2/ Shut up. Disappear. Forever. You haven't done 1/10th as much or faced 1/100th as much hate as he did, in order to make this country better. If that's the best you can offer at the moment, you are a waste of carbon, and the wrong person passed today...

1/ I'm not here for anyone's hot takes about how Rev. Jackson was a "sellout" bc he worked within the admittedly limited framework of the Democratic Party, or whatever the fuck "more radical than thou" bullshit certain among the more vulgar leftists have to offer, and which, I've heard today...

It’s amazing how easy it is to NOT end up in the Epstein files.
1. Don’t be a rich, entitled asshole.
2. Don’t appreciate the company of rich, entitled assholes
3. That’s it. That will ensure you’re not wrapped up with the pedo ring of a rich, entitled asshole.

The Epstein Files show what happens when misogyny and patriarchy go unchallenged. Men abusing girls because power allows it. If you want to stop this abuse, smash those two things

MAGA insists people should fear Black folks, brown skinned immigrants, gay men, and trans folks… and yet, none of these are in the Epstein files. Just a lot of rich, straight, cis white dudes. So who are the real predators?

When Black folks disrupt white folks’ places of worship they do it peacefully. When white folks disrupt places of worship they murder people. Birmingham, Charleston, Pittsburgh, etc. Seems like a pretty important difference

So, apparently Google is too afraid to make their MLK Day Doodle about anything connected to KIng's actual life or work...instead they made it about marching bands...awesome

GiveSendGo fundraising page for Jonathan Ross: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"

Ashli Babbitt RANT YouTube video by Tik Tok Must See

Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you" to the guy who shot her. Yet MAGA calls her a "radical lunatic." Meanwhile, here is the person they hail as a martyr and patriot. This unhinged freak.

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Here’s What I Said to the Terrorist Who Solicited My Murder Reflections on hate, redemption, and what it means to be human

My victim impact statement, delivered in the sentencing hearing for a Nazi terrorist who was just sentenced to 30 years for a number of crimes, including plotting to have me killed, among others.
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Progressives who mock Stephen Miller bc he "apparently doesn't know" Dean Martin & Sinatra were children of immigrants are embarrassing. He knows. He doesn't care. He's not anti-immigrant, y'all. He's a white supremacist. Italians are fine bc they're European. He hates black & brown people. Period.

The president is a fucking psychopath.

Oh wait so ya mean it wasn’t bc of DEI? Hmmm imagine that

These lawyers kicked ass and their boss won’t even celebrate them bc it messes with her narrative (i.e., Antifa is the problem). No witch, Fa is the problem

They knew the optics of dismissing were bad and thankfully the amazing and dedicated DOJ lawyers on the case were steadfast. Bondi couldn’t care less about white racist terrorists

They only prosecuted it bc the indictments were secured under Biden. If it had been up to Papadummy Patel’s FBI they would never have caught Terrorgram at all.

The DOJ today secured a 30 yr sentence against one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi Terrorgram collective. They plotted murder and bombings (I was one of their targets). You’d think they’d be proud. But no. Because racist violence from the right doesn’t matter to them.

Imagine Pam Bondi’s DOJ just secured a 30 yr sentence against a Muslim or left wing terrorist. Do ya think they’d be shouting it from the rooftops? So why aren’t they doing that today after securing that sentence against a Neo-Nazi terrorist leader? You know why. We all do.

What do you call a South Asian Cracker?

A) Papadum
B) Kash Patel
C) Both

#PapadummyPatel

It’s unfair to analogize Trump supporters to supporters of Jim Jones. At least Jones’s followers knew when it was Kool-Aid time. Not advocating it. Just noting the substantial difference in commitment to one’s cause

The Myth of White Innocence Got Charlie Kirk Killed If he’d been speaking in Chicago, Los Angeles, or anywhere with lots of people of color, they’d have checked the rooftops

Irony: if Charlie Kirk had been speaking in Chicago, L.A., etc., they'd have swept the rooftops and had tighter security. But Utah? Nah...So, the myth of white innocence, which he believed in, got him killed. Fascinating. My latest piece explores this, below...

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There’s a Revealing Flaw in the Attack on Trans Athletes And what the transphobes don’t talk about gives the game away

And finally a piece in which I don't mention Kirk at all, but address one of those issues he was particularly obsessed with and hateful about...trans athletes

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There’s a Simpler Explanation Than Politics for the Killing of Charlie Kirk Although everyone wants to blame the other side, the real reason may be more personal and frankly even more tragic than that

And another one, offering a theory of the motive behind the killing of Charlie Kirk, which holds that it was only marginally political, and really based more on intense and almost entirely personal passions, disconnected from any larger political project.

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Charlie Kirk’s Views on Masculinity and Politics Were Amazingly Ignorant And despite his death, those ideas live on, and deserve to be utterly repudiated

Here's a piece responding to one of Kirk's many absurd positions: that testosterone is linked to voting behavior

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Many Charlie Kirk Supporters Don’t Realize What He Actually Believed The scary but true reality of media silos in America

Next is, I think, an important piece about the silos people are in, which keep millions of people from knowing what most of us on the left know about Kirk, and why humility about other people's knowledge base is important.

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