🧵Barak Ravid is:

1) A current or former Israeli military reserve officer.

2) A reporter for @Axios and @CNN on Israel and foreign policy.

This is a dramatic conflict of interest.

How can @BarakRavid possibly report independently on Israel / Gaza?

1/ 2/ @BarakRavid "served for six years in the Israeli military. Ravid will be based in Washington, DC."

cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2023/11/28/bar…

Retired Israeli general Giora Eiland SUPPORTS disease epidemics in Gaza.

So why do Western journalists and editors keep quoting him?

A thread 1/ 2/🧵 First, here is where retired Israeli general Giora Eiland calls FOR disease epidemics in southern Gaza.

Published in Israeli newspaper @YediotAhronot according to Google translate.

Via @davidsheen:

https://x.com/davidsheen/status/1726206510286647501?s=20

The first draft is already in for #CocaineBear 2: Cocaine Shark.

I asked #ChatGPT to do a movie plot on "a killer shark that accidentally eats cocaine in the Pacific ocean and then disrupts human life."

1/

@cocainebear 2 spoiler: I see #JeffGoldblum as the marine biologist. @cocainebear Let's begin the #ChatGPT draft plot for #CocaineBear 2: Rise of #CocaineShark:

"The movie opens with a group of college students on a yacht in the Pacific Ocean, celebrating the end of the school year with a party."

2/

You might not recognize this Mitch McConnell.

As a new senator in 1986, he helped a Republican-led US Senate reject President Reagan's veto and pass a sanctions bill that ended US support for South African apartheid.

Why is this important? 1/ When the Democratic House and Republican Senate ended Reagan's support for South African white supremacy, it marked a high point for activists across the US who stood in solidarity with South Africa's anti-apartheid democracy movement.

nyti.ms/29BpfEB

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Re #FTX and #EffectiveAltruism:

After the business collapse of former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, I'm seeing lots of hot takes condemning the philosophy of effective altruism that he helped fund.

Don't throw the EA baby out with the billionaire bathwater. 1/ 2/ I'm a newcomer to this moral philosophy and framework, with just 10 to 20 hours of EA readings, podcasts, and discussions under my belt.

It is clear to me that some criticisms of EA rely on very oversimplified descriptions of the subject. Other criticisms are valid.

Want to see how propaganda works in Washington DC?

A quick case study 🧵 that you can test yourself.

Check out Washington's so-called "Middle East Institute," which is heavily funded by certain dictators.

@MiddleEastInst
mei.edu/about

1/ "MEI’s biggest funders are the UAE and Saudi Arabia. In fact, in 2017, leaked emails revealed a $20 million “secret” grant from the UAE to MEI."

- @BenFreemanDC of @QuincyInst in @RStatecraft

2/

responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/04/25/gul…

Wonderful news! After 1000 days in a Saudi prison, Saudi women's rights activist @LoujainHathloul is no longer behind bars.

But the Saudi monarchy that imprisoned her is still a brutal government. And Loujain may still not have her freedom.

More 1/ Loujain al-Hathloul's release from a Saudi prison is a testament to the perseverance of her family and the global solidarity movement that has demanded her freedom.

But no one should be fooled by the Saudi monarchy's behavior.

2/

These are the 305 U.S. cities that are larger than South Bend, Indiana, the home of Mayor @PeteButtigieg:

1. New York, New York -- 8,398,748
2. Los Angeles, California -- 3,990,456
3. Chicago, Illinois -- 2,705,994
4. Houston, Texas -- 2,325,502

More ... More...

5. Phoenix, Arizona -- 1,660,272
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- 1,584,138
7. San Antonio, Texas -- 1,532,233
8. San Diego, California -- 1,425,976
9. Dallas, Texas -- 1,345,047
10. San Jose, California -- 1,030,119
11. Austin, Texas -- 964,254

How to End U.S. Support for Saudi Arabia's war in #Yemen:

STEP 1: Call your U.S. Representative in Congress and ask them to cosponsor the War Powers Resolution: "H.Con.Res 138."

Details ... 1/x
(#HConRes138) - Dial (202) 224-3121 Mon-Fri 9 am -5 pm Eastern Time.

- Ask for your Member of Congress by name.

- Say: "Please cosponsor H.Con.Res 138 and end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen."

2/x

Yesterday, I spoke on the phone with a top elected official in Congress.

We talked strategy for stopping the #GOPTaxScam bill. This bill is moving fast. Here is what the person said. 1/x

#NotOnePenny #TrumpTaxScam (I repped for @MoveOn. Was joined on the call with leaders from allied orgs. Here's what the elected official shared (with their permission)): 2/x

Good morning.

I need to share a few things.

About a war.
Many don't know about.
That has killed a lot of people.
That we the U.S. are helping fight.
But Congress never voted on.

YEMEN. (And next week Congress will finally vote.)

Thread (1/x) (photo: Hani Mohammed/AP) This war is bad. Do not look away. It's brutal.

A dictatorship -- Saudi Arabia's King Salman -- is bombing its next door neighbor -- Yemen. And not paying much attention to where those bombs land. (2/x)