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chargrille

@chargrille@progressives.social

M.A. Intellectual History, Duke U.
B.A. History, Reed College
Yale Law School '04

History: interwar fascism & political anti-semitism; French colonization of North Africa; legal history

Litigation: appellate, environmental justice, civil rights

Mom for climate action
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chargrille, to H5N1
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Who is tracking #AvianFlu #H5N1 closely?

Somewhat closely?

Who should I be following?

I have questions about the quality of research identifying temperature at which the virus is guaranteed to be killed.

Other questions too. Always with the questions.

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤔This is an article attempting to understand Black men voters' lack of enthusiasm for Biden... that doesn't include the word "police" once. Like, not even included once!

Y'all aren't even pretending to listen.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-voters-opinions-michigan-joe-biden_n_6647a22ce4b00e1a0a6c0fd5

The article also repeats the lie that Black people didn't turn out for Hilary like they did for Obama, which is another not so veiled way of victim-blaming Black people for the most successful and egregious voter suppression campaign in modern US election history

chargrille,
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@mekkaokereke

I have the strong impression that the people who are running the Democratic party are committing electoral malpractice on a number of different levels. I began to panic when they decided to dump the entirety of our legislative political capital on infrastructure instead of voting rights.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Do y'all think other countries committing atrocities will receive the same type of rightful and long due backlash that Israel has been receiving.

Will there be a boycott against China for their treatment Uyghurs?

What about Saudi Arabia's treatment of folks in Yemen?

chargrille,
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@noondlyt @BlackAzizAnansi

I hope so too. I think if the US were directly arming those countries with weapons while they flattened 70% of the buildings, there would be a much greater pressure towards big protests and boycotts here in the US.

chargrille,
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@BlackAzizAnansi @noondlyt

Are we still arming SA against Yemen? There were a lot of protests against Trump's/Pompeo's policy of arming SA and I thought Biden made changes to Trump policy in 2021?

I am not wanting to minimize harm to Yemen but the scale of bombing of Gaza is worse than anything I've seen since US attacks on Baghdad. Maybe even worse than that?

chargrille,
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@BlackAzizAnansi @noondlyt

I looked back & while I correctly recalled that Biden made big, consequential changes in early 2021 (in his first foreign policy speech to State Dept) to fulfill his campaign promises, including a commitment not to sell arms to Saudis to use against Yemen, HRW says that he left a loophole. We are still selling arms to SA - ostensibly for use in other conflicts.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/15/biden-doubles-down-failed-yemen-policy

…exactly how deeply the US was implicated in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. “When Saudi F-15 warplanes took off from an air base in southern Saudi Arabia for a bombing run over Yemen, it was not just a plane & bombs that were American. American mechanics serviced the jet & carried out repairs on the ground. American technicians upgraded the targeting software… As a candidate Biden had been clear & unequivocal, writing in an essay in Foreign Affairs: “We should also end our support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.” “This war has to end,” Biden declared. But instead of ending all weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Biden made an important caveat, pledging to end US support for all “offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales." What some saw as the difference between campaigning in poetry & governing in prose, others saw as the new administration creating a massive loophole… Biden’s second move, which he also announced during the speech, was appointing a US Special Envoy for Yemen [to] support UN efforts to end the war in Yemen & lead the US’ renewed diplomatic push for peace. The next day, February 5, Biden made his third move, rescinding the 11th hour Trump administration decision to list the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. In just over two weeks, the Biden administration had ended US support for Saudi Arabia’s offensive operations in Yemen, re-centered its diplomatic efforts under a Special Envoy & removed the Houthis from the FTO list.

chargrille, to random
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Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was targeted by US CBP this week. They took his phone & asked him questions like did he believe Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, &if he had any Palestinian friends.

My first reaction was that CBP doesn't know the first thing about Israeli historians, & likely Israel's govt told the US to target him. Turns out Pappe believes Israel's govt was involved.

It would be a good time to read his work. #Histodon #Lawstodon

https://www.huckmag.com/article/zionism-is-not-judaism-myths-about-israel

chargrille,
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The US shouldn't be using our vast border patrol - which Trump converted into his political instrument, a burgeoning SS, during his regime - to arrest Jewish historians for thought crimes.

All at the bidding of a right-wing authoritarian like Netanyahu.

Do you really want to live like this in the US? Everything must be done to halt this. The Biden Administration has not condemned the police attacks on peaceful protesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/israeli-palestine-psyche.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.-IR6.pzaDnbRDlVvb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

chargrille,
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Oh, the #doublespeak.

"A spokesperson for CBP did not comment on Pappe's specific claims, saying in a statement: "Respecting privacy rights of travelers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) does not disclose specific details about individual encounters during inspections at a port of entry."

Pappe: "they took my phone and copied everything on it." #Privacy

"Over the decades, Arab American advocates in Michigan have raised concerns about being profiled at airports"

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2024/05/17/israeli-historian-ilan-pappe-said-he-was-questioned-at-detroit-airport/73720408007/

gerrymcgovern, to random
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What good is AI if you don't have a planet to use it on?

Microsoft released its 2024 Sustainability Report on Wednesday, and it's mostly bad news. Last year, Microsoft's emissions went up 29%, and it used 23% more water, primarily due to "new technologies, including generative AI."

https://au.pcmag.com/news/105283/microsofts-emissions-spike-29-as-ai-gobbles-up-resources

The Great Lying Machine is eating our environment and spewing out toxic misinformation. Big Tech has become a clear and present danger to all our futures.

chargrille,
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@gerrymcgovern
23% more water!!!

29% more emissions!!

In ONE YEAR??

This is the most insane increase in environmental damage in one year that I have seen in a long time.

If this were a power plant, we would be demanding EPA shut it down until pollution controls were in place. Same should happen with Microsoft.

chargrille,
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@gerrymcgovern Oh my god. Nuclear waste so we can cover the internet with AI waste. Great.

inquiline, to Columbia
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Well well well

"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

chargrille,
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@inquiline

I'm sure they'll be real reliable allies.🙄

"Blavatnik made his initial fortune after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the privatization of state-owned aluminum & oil assets." 👀

Blavatnik's one of the GOP's biggest donors & "closely associated with Russian oligarchs such as Viktor Vekselberg & Oleg Deripaska.

$7.35 million to 6 GOP candidates in 2015-16

$1 million to Trump's inauguration fund

$3.5 million to Mitch McConnell's super PAC

A whopping $5,600 to Biden in 2020.

chargrille, to random
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chargrille, to random
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Among Kahane’s other visions were an ethnically-segregated education system [&] dismantling…democracy, calling for a state based on Jewish religious law…Israel outlawed Kach as a terror organization in 1994 (the U.S. followed a year later) [but] the core members of Jewish Power—Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Michael Ben-Ari, & Benzi Gopstein—are all disciples of Kahane…they have variously persecuted Palestinians, leftists, African asylum seekers, & the LGBTQ community"
https://www.972mag.com/as-kahanists-return-israels-fascist-sideshow-takes-center-stage/

Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League and for whom the Kahanists are named, was a fascist. He wanted to remake Israeli society by expelling Palestinians and making Jewish law the law of the land. He believed in Jewish supremacy, was fixated on ethnic purity, and declared antisemitism in the diaspora necessary in order to prevent assimilation. Violence and militarism were, for Kahane, instruments through which to ensure national rebirth. The JDL manifestos Kahane wrote in the 1960s and '70s in New York contained seeds of this fascist ideology. The policy platform his party, Kach, ran on in the 1984 Israeli elections, and which got him elected, was explicitly fascist. It's important to state this unequivocally. Referring to 'Kahanism’ without naming its ideological pedigree makes it impossible to have an honest discussion about this latest evolution in Israeli politics. From fringe to mainstream Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last
Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last point was a particular obsession for Kahane: his political rallies in Israel regularly featured histrionic, concocted tales of scores of Jewish girls kidnapped and taken to Palestinian villages; and during a Kach election broadcast in the 1980s (delivered, curiously enough, in English), he warned of “the destruction of Israel not through bullets but through Arab babies.” His party’s security principles, meanwhile, continued the theme of righteous Jewish violence that informed his writings for the JDL — violence that he invested with both a biblical lineage (Bar Kokhba, Judah Maccabee) and a redemptive potential (an end to Jewish oppression). His Second Amendment-style JDL slogan, “Every Jew a .22," made aliyah in the form of a call to give the Israel Defense Forces a “free hand” when dealing with Arabs — in other words, a shoot-to-kill policy with no questions asked.

chargrille, to Palestine
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Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to , raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.

I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve . His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to .

chargrille,
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I hope I'm wrong and it helps a lot.

I hope it averts starvation for every man, woman & child in .

I hope it averts the deaths of the dozens of children under 5 who are presently dying every week in Gaza.

And I hope everyone who celebrates this step, thinks about the reasons it wasn't taken earlier, even though it could have easily been done by picking up the phone.

chargrille,
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So the question is, what will it take to rein in Netanyahu's that is being carried out by the IDF?

Because this phone call isn't going to be enough. The genocide has been underway for months. Genocide's soldiers, primed with Bibi's speech & sent into the ground invasion, will not turn on a dime.

US citizens still want a , an end to war crimes, an end to starvation. The US will need to stop sending them weapons. So call your reps & tell them that.

chargrille, to random
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"israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years"

Graph of Aid worker deaths showing more than 70% of all the aid worker deaths in 2023 were in . Even more in 2024 - roughly 75-80%

All 161 deaths of Palestinian aid workers in 2023 were after Oct. 7

Data is as of April 1, 2024. The data from 2024 & some incidents from 2023 are provisional

Source: Aid Worker Security Database

chargrille, to Israel
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Since POTUS loves tailoring policy & elections to listening to Republicans and MORNING JOE:

"Former Condoleezza Rice advisor & NSC spokesperson Elise Jordan erupts at President Biden’s unwillingness to condition weapons aid to #israel"

"Morning Joe guest Richard Haass calls for sanctions on Israel, criticizes Biden: "At some point, the words become empty...there has to be trade sanctions.”

"[Biden] looks weak and impotent."

#Gaza #IsraelPalestine #CWK #Genocide

chargrille, to random
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the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:

  1. He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].

  2. "It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]

https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1775608996759580815

chargrille,
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"[I understood] that it was going to be some sort of working dinner" re "the humanitarian catastrophe in "

"The President walks in…he just says: 'This is a listening session, we're here to hear you guys out…we're working very hard on it.' There's no mention of Gaza, or Palestine, or , people who have been killed, the starvation or the famine in the north, or the looming invasion in Rafah, which we're all very concerned about & trying to communicate a sense of urgency"

chargrille,
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[Contrast this to Biden's famous empathy for & personalized outreach to grieving people.

There is none of that here. None of it.

He knew the ER doctor was Palestinian American and had just been serving in a hospital in Khan Yunis & must have seen absolute horrors. He didn't ask if he'd lost anyone.

The reception sounds cold AF.

I think you can compare it yourself to other receptions Biden has given to other Americans - or even his embrace in the Oval Office of an Italian fascist.]

chargrille,
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Back to the start, however.

How can you possibly take seriously or sincerely an Administration that has so visibly given the cold shoulder to Palestinian Americans.

How is it possible they found it wise to only find one Palestinian American to hear from at this meeting.

chargrille, to random
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Center for International Policy NEW MEMO on

5 recommended steps for Admin

  1. Use U.S. leverage to press for a full

  2. Fully enforce U.S. law & arms policy to ensure accountability & adequate humanitarian aid delivery

  3. Focus diplomacy toward a multilateral, just resolution

  4. Take meaningful anti-occupation, anti-annexation steps

  5. Substantially expand support for the Palestinian people & Palestinian leaders who seek peace with Israel

https://t.co/q1eeJWs4bH

chargrille,
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The only thing missing is

  1. Substantially expand support for leaders who seek peace with
chargrille, to random
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Heartbreaking post from Chef Andrès this morning addressed to his friend Zomi, a aid worker assassinated by the Israeli government while in to feed starving .

"I’m sorry my friend…I wish I never founded @WCKitchen
..you would be alive somewhere today, smiling & making somebody somewhere feel like they were the most beloved person in the world…That how I always felt with you…"

chargrille,
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How heartbroken & guilt-ridden do you think this man has to be to feel such regret, when he and the vast team that has built have fed billions of meals all across the globe to people in need?

How much good are you willing to destroy, to satisfy the Amalek genocide revenge fantasies of the Israeli right-wing @potus?

You are treating these aid workers like their lives mean nothing. After you've spent 6 months treating Palestinians like their suffering & deaths mean nothing.

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