This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
It’s all so stupid and evil, developed by the worst people for the worst reasons.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last yr."Those who own land would be offered a digital token by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere or eventually redeemed for an apartment in one of six to eight new “AI-powered, smart cities” to be built in Gaza."
If you can't come up with a winning message about how the power mad dunce emperor marching federal troops into peaceful cities is bad, you should not have a job in politics
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · last yr.This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites, arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
The explicit plan is to ethnically cleanse Gaza with US help while the whole world watches.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.(AXIOS) - The director of Israel's Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/07/18/i...
we have an elite impunity problem (globally, but the US is certainly no exception) and nothing will get better until we deal with this
Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last yr.so much driving motivation in people in even the slightest position of power, regardless of where they find themselves on the political map, is "i should never have to feel bad, feel regret, feel shame, or otherwise reconsider my decisions" and every choice, policy and personal, falling from there
Today, the World Food Programme stockpiles inside Gaza finally ran out, 54 days after the Israeli military banned aid supplies to the area. Unless Israel’s blockade is ended or broken, civilians in Gaza will eventually start dying of starvation in large numbers. www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...
WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza as border crossings remain closed | World Food Programme
GAZA, Palestine – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
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Today marks one month since US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil was ripped apart from his US citizen pregnant wife, forcibly disappeared, and taken into ICE custody thousands of miles away, all for exercising his constitutionally-protected rights. #FreeMahmoudKhalil
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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Rafah, an hour ago. Photo: Abdallah alAttar (X). The city's population ordered by the IDF once more to leave. Unending ethnic cleansing
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y agoVideo of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
And the mid/long term plan is to expel Palestinians from Gaza, occupy it permanently and settle there. The Trump "plan" created a tangible horizon of ethnic cleansing and the Israeli right wing is moving towards that horizon, even if actual expulsion may take years. 2/2
One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.
If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
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NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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A U.S. greencard holder of Palestinian origin, active in Columbia's student encampment, was arrested by ICE yesterday from his home, separated from his 8-month pregnant wife, told his greencard would be revoked, and taken into custody. America today. apnews.com/article/colu...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
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Israel is resuming its illegal Gaza siege. Israel and Hamas agreed to a 3 phase framework in the final days of the Biden administration. Israel alone is refusing to move to phase 2 of that agreed framework (release of all remaining hostages and ending the war). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US
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President Trump’s comments tonight suggesting a US Gaza takeover are a call for a crime against humanity & should be unequivocally rejected & condemned by world leaders & American lawmakers regardless of party. Statement from @nancyokail.bsky.social ↘️
For comparison: Central Mariupol: 54% Source: www.hrw.org/feature/russ... Rebel-held Aleppo: 45–57% Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reuters@reuters.com · 2y agoBillions of dollars will be needed to rebuild Gaza after the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to assessments from the United Nations. Here is a summary of the destruction in Gaza reut.rs/3Wrc8xf
🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
This reporting is so utterly damning. www.propublica.org/article/bide...
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
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This reporting was over a year in the making. Our investigation into how Israel weakened its own internal rules on killing civilians in Gaza, to allow for one of the deadliest bombardments in the 21sr century: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...
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I'm not a legal expert, but it seems to me that Israel is clearly carrying out the forced displacement of civilians from northern Gaza (in accordance with the "General's Plan"), which is a war crime and a crime against humanity: wapo.st/4gQi0Yt
Israel is demolishing northern Gaza and fortifying military positions, imagery shows
Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military cuts a new corridor through Gaza.
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