"Take the fucking bus:"

Just don't take it tomorrow. 440 (and growing) of 660 drivers scheduled to be on duty, will be off for murdered driver Sean Kim's Memorial. Don't expect to see a bus on time, or at all, tomorrow.

@1, Shawn Yim

so
When
did schlogg Am
make the Leap to Pm?

is this all due
to Thedonolde?

I guess
Everything's
up for Grabs now

'thanks'
Obama.

@2, Correct. My apologies.

@4 No need to apologize. Everyone knows you're a moron.

@5: Courtesy is not moronic.

"But now’s as good a time as ever to remind you that taking the bus is awesome and the more of us who do it the faster we can all get where we need to go!"

YES YES YES... but... awesome people cannot get where we want to go when the cars are in the way of the bus. That was in full view early New Years catching a bus home from the Seattle Center. Sure New Years at the Needle is a tough test as the drone show and fireworks display with the Space Needle as the launching point is THE BEST SHOW ON THE PLANET and draws a great crowd. Seattle failed this transportation test bigly with hour+ long waits for every bus because of lines of cars in the way. SDOT didn’t prep streets for transit priority. Traffic control did nothing to prioritize transit. Even existing transit lanes were not enforced. Transit needs priority always and failing that we should expect people to not be awesome. Had people sat idly in their cars early morning 2025 watching transit zoom by then there would be far more awesome people for new year’s 2026. Of course this doesn't just hold for new years eve celebrations. Transit priority needs to be every stinking day please!

Kudos to Metro and Sound Transit for free fare new years... that's awesome. Wish we had that 24/7/365.

speaking of spending
our Hard-earned Taxes on
Massacring alotta Homeless:

more on the
Is-it-Genocide? debate/
Distraction by focusing on Definirions:

The Zionists
Kill Doctors in Gaza
and Silence Them Here

WTFF?

(w/ Rupa Marya) | The Chris Hedges Report

“The protection of hospitals
during warfare is paramount and
must be respected by all sides, at all times.”

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times.”

International law enshrines medical facilities as sanctuaries for those in direst need but as Dr. Rupa Marya tells host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Israel’s attacks on hospitals amidst the ongoing genocide represent a catastrophic violation of this principle.

A professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Marya now faces suspension for speaking out against Israel’s blatant violations of international law.

“The killing of healthcare workers [in Gaza] is related to the silencing of healthcare workers here [in the U.S.], and that by silencing us, the medical institutions we are a part of, which have an obligation, professionally and morally, to uphold all life, are actually abetting and enabling genocide,” Marya tells Hedges.

Marya describes the horror scenes at hospitals across Gaza. The IDF not only targets hospitals with airstrikes but also enters them to deploy gun strapped drones that kill patients and staff as well as destroy vital medical machines and instruments.

“Hamas is not hiding in those machines. This is an attempt to shorten the life of Palestinian people,” Marya says.

Mayra, collaborating with a handful of medical professionals and lawyers, is authoring a UN report, addressing what they refer to as “the genocide enablement apparatus of Israel.”

Alongside bringing critical attention to the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system, they urge the inclusion of medical professionals future international legal frameworks for defining genocide. “It does not take months to see that this was a genocide.

So for those of us who were in touch with the physicians on the ground and the healthcare workers on the ground in October, it was clear that this was a genocide.”

--byChris Hedges
Jan 09, 2025

This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble.

oodles more
including Chris’ disturbingly
illuminating interview w/ Rupa Marya

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-zionists-kill-doctors-in-gaza?

Shrieking
"Look -- a HAMAS!"
doesn't give one Carde Blanche
to murder a hundred thousand souls

in Spite of what
our resident
Apologists
AIPACers
LOVE to
Claim.

@7, So more cops to make transit work.

@8: “Marya now faces suspension for speaking out against Israel’s blatant violations of international law.”

Actually, according to her employer, she faces suspension for unlawful discrimination on the basis of national origin. Of all the champions of Palestine, this is the one you choose to celebrate? Ha ha, don’t let me stop you! 😂😂😂

ah!
shooting
the Messenger.
well-played,🔨🛴.

'Marya describes
the horror scenes at
hospitals across Gaza.

The IDF
not only targets
hospitals with airstrikes
but also enters them to deploy gun-
strapped drones that kill patients and staff
as well as destroy vital medical machines and instruments.

“Hamas
is not hiding
in those machines.

This is an attempt to short-
en the life of Palestinian
people,” Marya says.

Mayra, collaborating with a handful of medical professionals and lawyers, is authoring a UN report, addressing what they refer to as “the genocide enablement apparatus of Israel.”

Alongside bringing critical attention to the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system, they urge the inclusion of medical professionals future international legal frameworks for defining genocide.

“It does not take months
to see that this was a genocide.

So for those of us who were in touch
with the physicians on the ground
and the healthcare workers on
the ground in October, it was
clear that this was
a genocide.”

--@Rupa Marya

but yeah pls
don't Listen
to her. she

did What
was it?

@11: Ha ha, well I’m not shooting any messenger. I just wonder whether a messenger whose employment has been suspended for discrimination is a messenger anyone should trust. 😃 Your call of course!

Say, speaking of trustworthy messengers, you see that NY Times article a couple days ago where the Hamas fighter says they’ve been using the hospital to store weapons and stage patrols? And he’s also an employee of the hospital? 😂😂😂

@12 you're 'not shooting
any mesengers' Just like
Israel's not committing
any War Crimes, right?

oh
🔨🛴*
you crack me up!

*'discrimination'?
you Don't say!
at least if ain't
Humanicide!
am I write
or What?

oh &
Oodles
of Smiley
Faces to You two!

btw which do
you prefer

🔨🛴
🛴🔨

I like the latter
cuz it really
shows off
your ruth-
lessness

& your
Childish
sense of
"Humor!"

what Was that Chant?

'there Is No school
In Gaza - we Killed
all of your Children!'

smiley face!
smiley face!
smiley face!
ad vomitas!

@13: lol, first time I’ve ever seen a lefty put “discrimination” in scare quotes. I wonder why the change… 😂😂😂

@🛴🔨

but
was it
Full-blown
"Discrimination"?

cuz
our Standards
are Quite Fucking Hi.

@16: “our Standards are Quite Fucking Hi.”

…at least when it comes to certain groups! 😉

nyt:
House
Passes Bill to
Punish I.C.C. Officials
for Israeli Prosecutions

The measure, which would impose sanctions,
is on track for likely enactment given support
for it among Republicans and
President-elect Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/politics/icc-sanctions-house-israel.html

Welcome
To fascism
In Amerika

where it’s Only a
War Crime IF
Thedonolde
Says it Is.

You must be
Over the
!Moon!
🛴🔨.

@18: lol, if I were in Congress I likely would not have voted to sanction the ICC personnel.

I do think the ICC prosecutor brought a bad case against the Israelis: legally inadmissible under Article 17 and factually untrue under Articles 7 and 8. But even though I think it’s a bad case, there are still plenty of defenses Israel can raise in court and in the area of diplomacy to protect its officials. The court has even hinted it would be open to an Article 17 defense by Israel. I would reserve the sanctioning of ICC personnel for cases of truly egregious misconduct by the court, which this case is not.

Still, the sanctioning of the ICC personnel is not without merit, even though it wouldn’t have been my choice. The members of Congress who voted for it have their hearts in the right place, they just went a little farther than the situation warrants! 😄