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26 Jan, 9 tweets, 4 min read
Days that Biden has chosen not to honor his campaign promise of ending support for the war on #Yemen:
Every day Biden chooses not to act on his Yemen campaign promise means many more dead children. This article explains how Biden could have taken steps toward ending this atrocity on day one. He's chosen to make it a low-priority issue. #DayofAction4Yemen
inthesetimes.com/article/joe-bi…
We're seeing some movement: a temporary limit on Trump's Houthi FTO designation (which amounts to starvation sanctions ON TOP OF the siege warfare used by the Saudi-led coalition) is now in effect. There's still VERY far to go though. #DayofAction4Yemen
news.antiwar.com/2021/01/25/us-…
There should actually be even more of a push on Biden to end this war than there was on Trump to pardon Assange, because (A) Biden actually promised to do this thing and (B) this is more urgent. If you're in the US, here's a thread on things you can do:
More info:
More info (my super-simplified breakdown of the situation):
caityjohnstone.medium.com/we-are-the-ter…
More info (lots more detail and info throughout the article):
thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/us-…
Everyone who said they plan on holding Biden to account after getting him elected should have laser-like focus on this issue. It's the single worst thing that is happening in our world today, and Biden has the ability to stop participating in it and help bring it to an end.
I sometimes get confused comments saying it's not Biden's place to intervene and stop a war. This isn't a pressure campaign for intervention, this is a pressure campaign to STOP an intervention. The US is actively participating in this war, and must stop. #DayofAction4Yemen

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Be Your Own Revolution

"Just blast forward into your own revolution, burning brightly and scorching the machine with your own light. If you shine brightly enough, the others may follow when they are ready."
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Be your own revolution. You have all the media access you need to help wake the world up with the power of your own inspired action. Reject cliques, factions and sectarianism, and have the courage to stand on your own two feet attacking the machine with your own unique abilities.
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27 Jan
Be your own revolution. You have all the media access you need to help wake the world up with the power of your own inspired action. Reject cliques, factions and sectarianism, and have the courage to stand on your own two feet attacking the machine with your own unique abilities.
If you're doing something that people want to help uplift and amplify, let them do so. When they don't want to anymore, let them go. Don't try to manipulate them into staying.

If you see people doing something you want to uplift, uplift it. When you're done, don't stay. Move on.
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26 Jan
Days that Biden has chosen not to honor his campaign promise to end support for the war on Yemen: Image
Every day Biden chooses not to act on his Yemen campaign promise means many more dead children. This article explains how Biden could have taken steps toward ending this atrocity on day one. He's chosen to make it a low-priority issue. This is inexcusable.
inthesetimes.com/article/joe-bi…
Biden *temporarily* limited Trump's Yemen sanctions for one month, and people are still going to die anyway. He needs to PERMANENTLY end *ALL* US facilitation of this mass atrocity.
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26 Jan
This is a bad faith smear trying to tie Dore to comments made by random Nazis on websites that have nothing to do with Dore. Is Jimmy now so omnipotent that he's responsible for everything anyone says about him anywhere on the internet? Very sad to see SEP/WSWS pulling this shit.
I SO didn't want to get involved in this latest flare-up, if for no other reason than that there's a whole lot more happening in the world than Jimmy Dore. But Jesus Christ people are acting bat shit insane.
IT'S. NOT. DORE'S. FEED. It's some random corner of the internet that has nothing to do with Dore. That's my entire point here; people are trying to make Dore responsible for every time any asshole speaks his name anywhere on the internet.
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For years idiots have been calling me a "red-brown" who is secretly trying to turn leftists into Nazis and sneak Nazis into positions of leftist leadership. You'd figure after all this time they'd be able point to a single instance in which I've been able to achieve such a thing.
Back in 2017 they were certain, 100% certain, that I would be pied-pipering leftists into Nazism. At the very least they were certain that I'd be one of those Berners-turned-Trumpers like Fairbanks or HA Goodman who cheerleads Trumpism. They were wrong then, they are wrong now.
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Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets

"Whoever controls the narrative controls the world."
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Twitter has announced that it will be employing "a new community-driven approach to help address misleading information" called Birdwatch which news media are comparing to the model of content moderation used by Wikipedia.
"We know there are a number of challenges toward building a community-driven system like this — from making it resistant to manipulation attempts to ensuring it isn’t dominated by a simple majority or biased based on its distribution of contributors," Twitter's statement says.
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