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DrALJONES

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Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko

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Don't worry. You just have to vote really, really hard for Democrats. That will do it.

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President Donald Trump promised Friday that he will make it harder to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

"The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections," Trump falsely posted on his Truth Social page. "This was not what our Founders desired."

Trump claims to have "searched the depths" of legal arguments on the subject.

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" Trump threatened.

A new GOP proposal would impose strict voter ID requirements. Trump, who has previously cast his vote through mail-in voting, said he wants to severely limit who can vote by mail.

"Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel," Trump said. "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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@aral

👏👏👏 😂

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Report: "A colonial outrage" & "violation of international law" is how fmr UN official Craig Mokhiber describes the Security Council’s backing of a US plan for foreign forces & governance in Gaza.

Mokhiber called it "a day of shame for the UN" & accused governments worldwide of being “on their knees before the US empire & its violent Israeli client”.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-un-official-slams-security-council-adoption-trump-gaza-plan-colonial-outrage

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@faab64

Yes, Farhad, that's true.

However, you realise the ruling classes of western so-called "civilisation" have been cruel & genocidal since their inception ~6000 years ago.

The only aspect that's changed recently is they've stopped pretending to be civilised.

Due to the climate catastrophe, they're now all out against their unwanted populations & expanding to encompass all forms of dissidence.

That's why they're building vast concentation-camp prisons.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115542819552938286

It is perfectly normal, Israel has the right to "defend itself" and Palestinians are disposable and not worth the empathy or seen as human beings.

We have reached a new level of inhumanity, unlike the 1930s, we KNOW exactly what they are doing and almost the entire western world stands firmly behind this monstrous rogue regime of Netanyahu.

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@faab64

Re "It is perfectly normal"

Have to disagree; all over the globe, people know the truth. Our bought leaders pretend genocide is "normal". But they know it's not.

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Report: Netanyahu has released another video denying any Israeli government link to Charlie Kirk's assassination.

This second public denial "gives oxygen to the storyline, suggesting Netanyahu paradoxically sees some public-relations benefit to it."

He suggested claims about Israel may be paid by Qatar.

"His own office is embroiled in scandal over Qatari payments to some of his top advisers."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-gaza-city-bezalel-smotrich-netanyahu-charlie-kirk

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@faab64

That's not the point. The point is to never stop forcing them to expose their own lies and psychopathy in whatever forum. Never stop, no matter how small the exposure. That's how movements grow, molecule by molecule...

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Interview: Israel, Charlie Kirk, & the Weaponization of Murder: The tension between Charlie Kirk & Israel in his final months"...

... "and what to expect from a new era of right-wing repression in response to his killing".

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israel-charlie-kirk-and-the-weaponization

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Trump as mussolini
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@faab64

? Neither image gets the main point in the interview, imo... frozen with fear.

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Report: £2bn UK contract with Elbit, Israel's largest arms manufacturer, to train 60,000 British soldiers a year."

Elbit provides ~85% of Israel’s drones & land-based military equipment & supplies its genocide.

Such a major contract would make Israel a strategic partner of Britain's Ministry of Defence.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-close-giving-israels-largest-arms-company-ps2bn-contract-train-troops

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@aral

Yeah, nah, both are lined with razor wire.

@Tattered

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Report: £2bn UK contract with Elbit, Israel's largest arms manufacturer, to train 60,000 British soldiers a year."

Elbit provides ~85% of Israel’s drones & land-based military equipment & supplies its genocide.

Such a major contract would make Israel a strategic partner of Britain's Ministry of Defence.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-close-giving-israels-largest-arms-company-ps2bn-contract-train-troops

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@Tattered

😁 i did wonder. Well said. 👏👏👏

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Report: 18 fmr Israeli Security Chiefs demand “End the war"

It "could have ended a long time ago.. has inflicted severe reputational damage on Israel.. & the loss of its security".

“We are on the precipice of defeat. No matter how good the army is, a war with no political goal is a guarantee of defeat" ~Tamir Pardo, ex-Mossad

"We are now mostly offsetting losses” ~Nadav Argaman, ex-Shin Bet

https://aje.io/6n5fcc?update=3871653

@palestine .

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Israeli former military leader | would fight against Israel in order to achieve my liberty.
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The group also wrote to Trump urging him to pressure Netanyahu:

"Stop the Gaza War! You did it in Lebanon. Time to do it in Gaza as well.”

"It is our professional judgment that Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel."

The letter was signed by 550 former security officials.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-israeli-intelligence-chiefs-call-end-war-gaza

@palestine .

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The billionaires called it an "excess of democracy", & they worked out how to defeat it:

THE PLAN

In 1975, Samuel P. Huntington said the "excess of democracy" was caused by mass education in the 1960s.

It followed that education had to be de-democratised. Along with the media.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165

HOW IT'S GOING

2025: SCOTUS complies:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/15/headlines/scotus_greenlights_dismantling_of_education_department_unleashing_untold_harm

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America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War Il, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent. The report summed up the threat thus — education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable: The more educated a person is, the more likely he is to participate in politics, to have a more consistent and more ideological outlook on political issues ,and to hold more “enlightened” or “liberal” or “change- oriented” views on social, cultural and foreign policy issues. ...Black political participation,’ the report said, ‘was the product primarily... of increased group consciousness.
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@giantspecks

Well, it was the typically marginalised groups they were really really worried about. They were pretty content with their propaganda-plus-privilege control over the middle class.

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Report: US contractors fired live bullets & stun grenades at Palestinians queuing for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites

The contractors are heard on video cheering as they shoot.

"One contractor said he saw other contractors shooting at Palestinians from a tower above the site as they were leaving the area, having collected food parcels."

"He said it was unclear why they were shooting at people departing the site."

Video footage:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/fury-online-ap-reveals-us-contractors-fired-gaza-civilians-aid-sites

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Related report: Netanyahu is outsourcing some of Israel's genocide to private US security contractors.

"He wants to use the private contractors... to shoot defenceless people" and collect intelligence, among other purposes.

Among the "biggest advantages of using private military contractors [is] they are not responsible to anyone & they are under-regulated."

~Military analyst Yusuf Alabarda

https://aje.io/xoi4su?update=3817560

@palestine .

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Analysis

The set of maps shows a century of expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.

Palestine has existed for millennia as a country under various overlords.

But Israel claims, disingenuously, that the land cannot properly be called "Palestinian".

Their reasoning? Much of the land in Palestine was state owned.

So, by such "logic", US-state-owned land cannot properly be called "American"

1930s map Alamy ID:GDK7FP
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-1930s-map-of-palestine-left-and-south-west-asia-right-111675754.html

https://palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestine-map-Balfour-Nakba-Occupation.png

@Palestine .

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@solomon_schloosser

Re "i didn't see any evidence for"

All that says is that you haven't looked into it. Myriad researchers and scholars have. I read them.

Check out historians Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, Juan Cole, et al.

If you must have other people do your homework, start with:

https://britainpalestineproject.org/film-of-britain-in-palestine-1917-1948/

https://britainpalestineproject.org/tag/palestine/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0QUTui6GY

@palestine .

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Analysis

The set of maps shows a century of expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.

Palestine has existed for millennia as a country under various overlords.

But Israel claims, disingenuously, that the land cannot properly be called "Palestinian".

Their reasoning? Much of the land in Palestine was state owned.

So, by such "logic", US-state-owned land cannot properly be called "American"

1930s map Alamy ID:GDK7FP
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-1930s-map-of-palestine-left-and-south-west-asia-right-111675754.html

https://palestinecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/Palestine-map-Balfour-Nakba-Occupation.png

@Palestine .

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@solomon_schloosser

Re "I don't think..."

As my bio indicates, I value evidence-based reasoning, not evidence-free opinion....

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"The Rule of Idiots"

"In the last days of all empires the idiots take over."

"The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian & Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations & retreated into echo chambers where fact & fiction were indistinguishable."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots

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@TenPastTwo

Yes, exactly. And Thatcher & Reagan were spawned from the plutocracy's 1970s counterrevolution to the democratic social movements of the 1960s.

Rockefeller et al. said the uprisings were due to an "excess of democracy" that had to be dismantled.

And that's precisely what they've been doing since.

They're out in the open now bcz they believe they've won.

In case of interest, the beginning in 1971
AUR 64, 1, 2022, 65-9 scroll to p. 65
https://issuu.com/nteu/docs/aur_64_01

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"The Rule of Idiots"

"In the last days of all empires the idiots take over."

"The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian & Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations & retreated into echo chambers where fact & fiction were indistinguishable."

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots

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@TenPastTwo

"We've"

Look, I get your point, but please don't fuel the fascist propaganda that we're all equally culpable. Victims don't create the social orders that kill them.

billionaire fascist psychopaths do

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    @8124

    Well done, keep publcising 👍