Socialist, Jewish-Israeli, text guy, against apartheid and genocide. Never not mad at Germany. Founding editor @thediasporist.bsky.social, co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info
📍Chicago, via Leipzig and Jerusalem
Michael Sappir
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Whoa. Overnight, this ICE flight landed in Tel Aviv. Previous ICE flights to Israel, on small jets, held Palestinians, who remained shackled when transferred to Israeli authorities. They were driven to the West Bank and dumped on the side of the road. This would be the first large jet removal.
This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.
prediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios
Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
Politics and the economy were never separate. For the owners of our world, pulling political strings and making profitable investments are just two different means for staying in control of our lives and living off our backs another year.
No procedural trick can fix it.
Gotta fight them and win.
the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence
