SJ
@sjafri.bsky.social
Running on vibes, chai caffeine, and sheer delusion. I have four cats who act like landlords and two dogs! 👀
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Worst day for stocks since 2020 at current levels
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Worst day for stocks since 2020 at current levels
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I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
April 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.
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Pakistanis demonstrate in the capital, Islamabad, in support of Gaza and in condemnation of the occupation's massacres.
#GazaGenocide
#GazaGenocide
December 30, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Pakistanis demonstrate in the capital, Islamabad, in support of Gaza and in condemnation of the occupation's massacres.
#GazaGenocide
#GazaGenocide
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From Gaza, writer and video maker Huda Skaik recounts over a year of displacement with her family
www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...
www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...
Israel’s genocide is making us strangers on our own land
From Gaza Huda Skaik recounts over a year of displacement with her family, the destruction they witnessed, violence they fled, & starvation they experienced.
www.newarab.com
December 30, 2024 at 2:38 PM
From Gaza, writer and video maker Huda Skaik recounts over a year of displacement with her family
www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...
www.newarab.com/opinion/isra...
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I don't get it.
All those trumpers were bragging that trump is so peaceful, yet now he wants to force Greenland into being bought, then they'd have to pay protection money?
How is this supposed to make the price of eggs cheaper? Explain it to me like I'm an idiot trumper.
All those trumpers were bragging that trump is so peaceful, yet now he wants to force Greenland into being bought, then they'd have to pay protection money?
How is this supposed to make the price of eggs cheaper? Explain it to me like I'm an idiot trumper.
December 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I don't get it.
All those trumpers were bragging that trump is so peaceful, yet now he wants to force Greenland into being bought, then they'd have to pay protection money?
How is this supposed to make the price of eggs cheaper? Explain it to me like I'm an idiot trumper.
All those trumpers were bragging that trump is so peaceful, yet now he wants to force Greenland into being bought, then they'd have to pay protection money?
How is this supposed to make the price of eggs cheaper? Explain it to me like I'm an idiot trumper.
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www.trtworld.com/middle-east/...
gazaunderattack
#palestine
#israel
#gaza
#palestineday
#lebanon
#racism
#genocide
#savepalestine
#westbank
#jerusalem
#holocaust
#islamaphobia
gazaunderattack
#palestine
#israel
#gaza
#palestineday
#lebanon
#racism
#genocide
#savepalestine
#westbank
#jerusalem
#holocaust
#islamaphobia
UN official urges global medical professionals to boycott Israel
The comments reflect growing international concern over the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where hospitals and clinics have been targeted and overwhelmed by the relentless Israeli violence...
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December 30, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Every story on the front page of today’s NYT Business section should be under a single headline: Billionaires Are Bad.
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Every story on the front page of today’s NYT Business section should be under a single headline: Billionaires Are Bad.
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The Israeli military continues to operate in the Quneitra countryside close to Damascus, displacing civilians in towns and villages in the area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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Arab diplomats condemn Israel’s incursion into the buffer zone
US and regional diplomats are meeting in Aqaba, Jordan to decide Syria’s future as refugees return home from abroad.
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December 14, 2024 at 6:54 PM
The Israeli military continues to operate in the Quneitra countryside close to Damascus, displacing civilians in towns and villages in the area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
December 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
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STOP obeying in advance.
trump has NO fucking mandate.
PASS IT ON.
trump has NO fucking mandate.
PASS IT ON.
December 15, 2024 at 7:37 AM
STOP obeying in advance.
trump has NO fucking mandate.
PASS IT ON.
trump has NO fucking mandate.
PASS IT ON.
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From a piece I wrote for the Guardian in 2012 about how the US sent innocent people to Syria to be tortured by the Assad regime as part of their ‘war on terror’ rendition program:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 8, 2024 at 9:12 PM
From a piece I wrote for the Guardian in 2012 about how the US sent innocent people to Syria to be tortured by the Assad regime as part of their ‘war on terror’ rendition program:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who was thrilled to see the collapse of brutal dictator Bashar Al-Assad's empire as he fled Syria. Now we have to make sure trump doesn't nominate him for a position in his dumb cabinet.
He and Tulsi Gabbard have much in common.
He and Tulsi Gabbard have much in common.
December 8, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who was thrilled to see the collapse of brutal dictator Bashar Al-Assad's empire as he fled Syria. Now we have to make sure trump doesn't nominate him for a position in his dumb cabinet.
He and Tulsi Gabbard have much in common.
He and Tulsi Gabbard have much in common.
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“I won youth by 30%. All Republicans lose youth. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s changing. And last time, we were down 30% with youth. This time, we’re up 35% with youth."
Trump on Meet the Press today just couldn't stop lying, as usual.
He lost young voters by double digits.
Trump on Meet the Press today just couldn't stop lying, as usual.
He lost young voters by double digits.
December 9, 2024 at 12:58 AM
“I won youth by 30%. All Republicans lose youth. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s changing. And last time, we were down 30% with youth. This time, we’re up 35% with youth."
Trump on Meet the Press today just couldn't stop lying, as usual.
He lost young voters by double digits.
Trump on Meet the Press today just couldn't stop lying, as usual.
He lost young voters by double digits.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says an arson attack on a synagogue in Australia “cannot be separated” from what he called its government’s “anti-Israel sentiment”.
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At least 29 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital
Dozens killed in Israeli attacks on besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza, carried out with “no warning”, says WHO
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December 6, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says an arson attack on a synagogue in Australia “cannot be separated” from what he called its government’s “anti-Israel sentiment”.
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 3, 2024 at 10:49 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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Meanwhile….Journalists flock to @bsky.app as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Meanwhile….Journalists flock to @bsky.app as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is currently in a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, adding that it is not the end of the war.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is currently in a ceasefire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, adding that it is not the end of the war.
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BREAKING: South Korea’s president has declared emergency martial law in the country, accusing the opposition of anti-state activities ⤵️
South Korea’s president declares emergency martial law
While declaring the martial law, President Yoon accused opposition of anti-state activities.
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December 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM
BREAKING: South Korea’s president has declared emergency martial law in the country, accusing the opposition of anti-state activities ⤵️
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"It is important to recognise that a national-level Arab-American political effort has been born from the fires and devastation of the US-Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon."
— #AJOpinion by Rami G Khouri ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Rami G Khouri ⤵️
This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore
Arab Americans no longer ‘accept crumbs’, they want their ‘share of the pie’ in US politics.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:33 PM
"It is important to recognise that a national-level Arab-American political effort has been born from the fires and devastation of the US-Israeli genocide in Palestine and Lebanon."
— #AJOpinion by Rami G Khouri ⤵️
— #AJOpinion by Rami G Khouri ⤵️
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Israeli quadcopter drones have bombed Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in their fifth attack on the medical facility in recent weeks.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Israeli quadcopter drones have bombed Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital in their fifth attack on the medical facility in recent weeks.
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You lot are my wee birds who've moved into my heart. ❤️
December 3, 2024 at 11:10 AM
You lot are my wee birds who've moved into my heart. ❤️
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“This isn’t a life. It isn’t. Our house, our land, we are surrounded and strangled and attacked, and even to harvest our olives is a danger.”
A Palestinian family’s olive harvest.
A Palestinian family’s olive harvest.
‘Rooted in this land until death’: A Palestinian family’s olive harvest
How one family endured settler violence and army raids in their occupied West Bank village to harvest their land.
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December 3, 2024 at 11:16 AM
“This isn’t a life. It isn’t. Our house, our land, we are surrounded and strangled and attacked, and even to harvest our olives is a danger.”
A Palestinian family’s olive harvest.
A Palestinian family’s olive harvest.
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Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has issued forced evacuation orders to Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza's Khan Younis.
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December 2, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee has issued forced evacuation orders to Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza's Khan Younis.
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