Tacit admission by @washingtonpost copy editor that there’s “an auto correct at WaPo that targets all instances of the word Palestine” is going about as well as expected
Her last tweet calling attention to the proliferation of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories without a shred of irony or self-awareness is almost too perfect
New justification just dropped, let’s see how they do in round two
My style guide dictates that @washingtonpost has 24 hours to get this many likes or I’m in charge of their editorial standards now. Fwiw when referencing Palestine I defer to the PFLP
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Dr. Berhanu Taye sets the record straight about Ethiopia at #NoMore panel in DC this weekend
“First, there was no genocide in Tigray”
In reality, the “ethnic-based constitution imposed by the TPLF in 1991… is the source of most of the troubles” in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa
Dr. Taye explains how, by “looting trucks, blocking convoys, and using food aid for military purposes only,” TPLF terrorists are actually responsible for humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia
FRAUD ALERT: Less than 10 hours before elections in Honduras begin, the National Electoral Council website is completely down. There’s currently no way for voters to find their polling place.
The latest poll showed the ruling National Party losing to leftist candidate Xiomara Castro by 17 points. It’s widely understood that their only real chance of staying on power—like in 2017 and 2013—is electoral fraud
Update: some parts of the CNE page appear to have been restored but the site is currently so slow that it’s practically non-functional.
Cops went NUTS on racial justice protesters who’d begun to disperse after marching through DC—by far the most aggressive police tactics seen since last summer
Watch as they rush demonstrators, beat them w/ a baton, throw a woman to the ground, hurl obscenities & deck a bicyclist
.@DCPoliceDept seemed to take advantage of the chaos they caused tonight to pick off anyone wearing black.
While most cops were charging the protesters at the famed Chinatown arch, others pounced on activists walking home via 7th St. At least 1 of them was a teenager.
What seemed to set off @DCPoliceDept was protesters burning a “Thin Blue Line” flag on the notorious Christopher Columbus statue by Union Station
Cops doused it with an accelerant and, apparently undeterred, poured it onto several other flares until the whole platform was alight
.@washingtonpost: *publishes an obscene array of xenophobic attacks on China accusing them of everything from harvesting organs to committing genocide to causing the pandemic*
Check out this thread to see just a small sample of the horrific racial violence generated by the yellow peril propaganda that imperialist outlets like @washingtonpost have been pushing for well over a century:
After massive public outrage over viral video I posted showing police rampaging outside the White House early Saturday morning, the @DCPoliceDept announced they're launching an investigation
Can't wait to hear how they justify nightly beatdowns of anti-police brutality activists
Here's the footage that forced @ChiefNewsham to open up an investigation into the ongoing campaign of racist polic terror unleashed by @MayorBowser's DC police on activists campaigning against exactly that
Letter from Councilmember @charlesallen to Police @ChiefNewsham last night condemns "serious lapse of judgement & leadership," demands body cam footage of their reign of terror & explanation of @DCPoliceDept's Saturday luncheon w "white supremacist media"
The sister of Omar Calles, who was gunned down by the Añez regime's security forces, has strong words for her brother's killers.
"If you kill a dog or a bird they put you in jail. But they killed my brother & I don't see anyone responsible in jail... How do they sleep at night?"
"We were getting ready to take a family vacation when we heard over the radio: 'Omar Calles has died.'" Then they found out Bolivian police pushed their aging mother to the ground, broke her hand, robbed her, and called her a "bitch."
"How can these cops treat people like this?"
The Añez-led military junta is now floating a plan to pay 50,000 Bolivianos (approx $7000 US) to each of the victims' families.
"Those 50,000 Bs won't bring my brother back to life. He won't show up singing "look sister, I came back! Here I am to take care of you!""