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8 May, 7 tweets, 2 min read
If you’re playing Israeli war crime whitewash BINGO tonight be sure to mark “unrest”, “tensions boiling over” and “clashes” off your card
“Contested”
“ongoing confrontations”
From 2018 fair.org/home/launderin…
this one’s a banger because the party responsible, Israel, isn’t even named until the end of the third paragraph
“flare-up”
Masterful work, absolutely nothing is said in this statement. Who did what to whom? where? Unclear but the speaker appears vaguely upset at someone. About something.

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10 May
Bullshit offer that’d require the worker to work at the restaurant 3 mo’s then attend school and study 30hrs/wk while working over 32hrs/wk to qualify (presumably if they dip below either they’ll be kicked off) but it allows the owner to push anti-UI talking points on national TV
Would love for CNN to follow up in a year and see how many people actually followed through on this alleged offer (they won’t)
owners keep “offering” increasingly goofy gimmicks to “lure workers” that will get them on TV so they can spout Chamber of Commerce propaganda but mysteriously won’t just offer higher wages which would (a) actually solve said “shortage” (b) not get them on TV to lobby against UI
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9 May
J Street’s descent into irrelevance in one bafflingly inane statement. J Street supports billions of dollars in US military aid to Israel and opposes even conditioning it, but thinks we can earmark a dozen F-35A Joint Strike Fighter Jets with “no war crimes with this, please thx” Image
Buddy what do you think all the tanks jets and missiles are for? Probably not some abstract cartoon concept like “terrorist” but to be used against a population who may have a thing or two to say about being ethnically cleansed from their land over 70 years
The cottage industry that has emerged recently targeting or boycotting specific subsets or Israel is so goofy. You couldn’t only boycott the racist parts of South Africa or call for only selling South Africa arms they’d use in a totally non racist manner, it doesn’t work that way
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7 May
worth highlighting too that Bill Gates’ biggest intellectual influence is Steven Pinker who, in addition to dabbling in race science in 2006, aided the defense of Jeffery Epstein at his 2007 child sex trafficking trial at the request of Alan Dershowitz buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…
Pinker, like Gates, frequently socialized with Epstein after Epstein’s conviction and release from prison. Which is morally relevant but also speaks to the broader ideology-building of elite immunity. They are bound by different rules— after all, Pinker’s...
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7 May
watch as everyone moves to coopt the patent waiver debate and make sure it’s as watered down and temporary as possible. Here we have the bleeding heart humanitarians at the Gates Foundation calling for a “narrow” intellectual property waiver whatever that means
This explains why Gates funded corporate PR front @GlblCtzn came out for the first time last night to nominally support a patent waiver. It was getting embarrassing not to. But again, **what type of patent waiver** is what’s important.
fine line between activist pressure substantively changing policy positions of those in power & those in power co-opting nominal policy stances to take the heat off and own the space around what is possible and necessary. Theres risk in coming weeks of descending into the latter
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6 May
every single time!
“Dont get a liberal arts education, it may expose you to ideas like anti-racism or feminism or socialism or other things that make you difficult to control. Instead just learn purely technical training that makes you useful to me but doesn’t risk you getting uppity” -Charles Koch
Love it, let’s cut to the chase
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6 May
love to know how many “worker shortage” stories are pitched by local or national chamber of commerces. I assume reporters aren’t driving around knocking on the doors of restaurants until they find the most sympathetic cases, presumably an intermediary filters these tales of woe
I know that in our research all of the “labor shortage” stories from years past were sourced predominantly or entirely by trade groups and chambers of commerce. This implies they are the ones pushing the narrative. I suppose whether it’s “true” is a separate question
Note how fast the cameras and reporters moved in by the hundreds to run sympathetic stories of struggles restaurants owners over the past month, all echoing the same talking points. Has one ever seen this for restaurant workers in the decades they’ve been abused and maligned?
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