This, to be clear, is a halving of the EU humanitarian aid for Gaza in 2024 (€238m). Nice tweet though.

The American Historical Association claiming op-eds are a "form of historical scholarship." Translation: Princeton or Yale profs will publish corporate liberal groupthink pieces on MSNBC or in the NYT and count it as "scholarship". This is mainly about the rich getting richer.

NEW: MIT has received millions of $$ in funding to conduct research for the Israeli military. Students say the school is now suppressing a new report on MIT's work for Israel and took down an internal search tool used to find info Israeli grant funding theintercept.com/2025/01/16/…

Israeli genocide forces used a quadcopter drone to drop a bomb on the roof of the Nama Association in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip this morning. Israel is using the period before ceasefire to destroy as much Palestinian life and life-sustaining infrastructure as possible.

The Americans continued supplying oil and gasoline to Germany almost until 1945. Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon) directly sold $20 million worth of gasoline and lubricants to Germany. But that was just the direct transactions. In reality, the flow was much larger. From the company’s refineries in the Dutch Antilles, oil and gasoline were shipped to Spain. The entire Spanish tanker fleet, as well as American tankers, were involved in these deliveries. In just the first months of 1944, the Nazis received 48,000 tons of oil and petroleum products monthly from Spain. How much fuel was shipped to the Germans via Portugal and Spain is unknown, but both countries exported several times more fuel throughout the war than they needed for their own consumption. Not all of it went to the Germans—Italy also used this supply route. Therefore, the often-repeated claim that Romania was Germany’s only source of oil is somewhat questionable. Additionally, Standard Oil signed an agreement with Nazi Germany, committing to regular supplies of raw materials, fuel, and rubber to Germany and Italy. The owners of the corporation—the Rockefellers—managed to profit from both the Pentagon and the Reich, selling products to both sides. They essentially profited off the blood of American soldiers—but to them, it was just “business, nothing personal.”

Countries that committed genocide while losing a war at the same time: - Nazi Germany - Rwanda - Pakistan in Bangladesh - Serbia in Bosnia - Ottoman Empire Genuinely how stupid do you have to be to tweet this

Israeli soldiers rush to demolish the remaining Palestinian homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip

Public bathhouses in Shenzhen parks. 15RMB for 20 minutes.

this was the only thing spaceX was ever really about btw: super fast intercont travel for the super rich. anything in higher orbit is sideshow. and mars was always just a complete joke. but he did it again: loads of public funding to advance private institutions for the rich.

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On this day in 1961 the 1st. democratically elected leader of the Congo, African hero Patrice Lumumba, was murdered in a CIA backed coup.

So many truths in Biden's speech, but zero acknowledgement of his role in undermining the very principles he now professes to Care Very Much About: "The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit." Indeed: the truth has been smothered by lies he told for the power of Israel to commit a genocide and the profit of weapons manufacturers.

A good one: “Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power,” said Bidenl But Biden himself was a chief purveyor of such lies, using his bully pulpit to falsely claim he witnessed “beheaded babies” and "mass rapes" to build support for Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. (He never apologized). All lies, for evil political ends.

Instead, all we got from Biden was broken promises to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the "blank checks" for weapons to Egypt. The Ukraine and Israel arms transfers Biden promoted were an absolutely bonanza for the weapons dealers who finance Democratic campaigns. Biden has been a pig at the trough as much as anyone; he's guilty of the very bad behavior he's now crying about.

Biden complained about the “tech-industrical complex” becoming worse than the military industrial complex, but all he did was feed the military industrial complex, with greater and greater arms sales with new wars that made them prosper at historic levels, showing the tech-bros exactly what they could freely get away with, literally writing their script. He could have pushed forward on the Arms Trade Treaty to at least put some breaks on this gross industry, but nope, he did NOTHING. stimson.org/2024/bidens-miss…

This one was a gem: "We need to get dark money — that’s that hidden funding behind too many campaign contributions — we need to get it out of our politics." Did Biden stop taking dark money from Super PACS? Nope, he thrived off them, building campaign financing from at least a dozen dark-money group boosting him. “Do as i say, not as i do”. Dark money reached $1 BILLION in the 2020 campaign, and Dems and Biden sponged the MAJORITY of that: opensecrets.org/news/2021/03…

It’s very true that “oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power & influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights & freedoms,” as Biden said. What did Biden do about it? Nothing. Zip. Zero. Did he pass conflict of interest laws to prevent outgoing staff from working for foreign governments or arms dealers? (no) Campaign finance reform? (no) Limit foreign govt acquisitions using their power and influence to subvert our democracy? (no) Force @aipac and @IsraelBonds to register as foreign agents? (no) Condemn oligarchs interfering in academic freedom and pumping attacks against individuals and groups critical of Israel (nope, not even that)