Today, I plan to vote no on the bill for aid to Israel. I cannot support a bill that has no conditions on military aid to the Netanyahu government with the carnage we are seeing in Gaza.

On this day in 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, 'Strange Fruit’

The Chilling Story of Strange Fruit and Billie Holiday.

A THREAD!

sound familiar?

I’ve heard:

“The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students.

They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president.'

Good.

I spoke on the House Floor against giving Benjamin Netanyahu a blank check for more offensive weapons to continue his indiscriminate bombing campaign in Gaza.

This footage is from the University of North Carolina where the administration told students that camping out in tents on campus violates school policy.

UNC SJP said, 'In an attempt avoid their tents from being seized, students put their tents on chairs as to “comply” with

All of us have seen the tragedy of Gaza.

We've seen how Netanyahu's government has used US weapons to kill indiscriminately and create famine.

I will not participate in this carnage.

When Congress votes on sending more offensive weapons to Israel today, I will vote no. 1/

FISA was NOT used to spy on Trump's campaign.

Do republicans honestly think it would have been a good idea to completely do away with FISA?

Honestly?

You do realize that getting rid of FISA will allow Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean spies to surveil their targets

“It's a serious misjudgment to say that Russia doesn't matter.” I ask Britain’s ex-spymaster John Sawers if far-right Republicans are falling victim to Putin’s propaganda. “If you're looking at the next decade or two, the real security threat comes from Russia,” he warns.

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They bound and gagged Black Panther Bobby Seale at his trial so he couldn't use the trial as a political platform.

'Sir sit down': Judge increasingly 'expresses annoyance' with Trump's antics in court rawstory.com/trump-trial-an…

President Biden: We made protecting union workers' pensions happen, while Trump never lifted a finger. Matter of fact, he lifted a finger and put a thumb on it, putting union busters on the National Labor Relations Board. The people I've appointed actually care about American

BREAKING: In solidarity with Columbia, hundreds of Yale students have just constructed an encampment of tents outside a Board of Trustees meeting.

Organizers say they won’t leave until Yale divests from all military weapons manufacturing.

FREE PALESTINE!

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake called on county sheriffs to enforce Arizona’s total abortion ban from 1864, days after she appeared to soften her position

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Multiple families are alleging that their loved ones — Alabama inmates who died in the state Department of Corrections — had their organs removed without their consent when the University of Alabama at Birmingham conducted autopsies. All these families deserve ANSWERS!

In the 1930’s lots of American communists emigrated to Russia to pursue their vision of socialist utopia. In spite of their idealism, they were routinely rounded up and sent to the gulags where most of them died. Seems the same thing happened here in a more twisted version of the

Russia attacking the world’s food supply yet again.

This guy is a Republican. He pretends to be a Democrat but once elected will be a Republican.

Watching history tonight in Chattanooga, as Volkswagen workers voted in a landslide to join the UAW.

Despite pressure from Gov. Lee, this is the first auto plant in the South to unionize since the 1940s.

This incredible victory for labor will transform Tennessee and the South!

The President of Columbia University lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵