WFP assistance helps displaced families in the West Bank afford the basic food they need each day. Now, severe funding constraints put that support at risk. WFP’s Shaun Hughes explains what the cuts could mean for families like Aysha’s. ⤵️
Paul Nabil Matthis
@paulnm.bsky.social
Syrian American author & musician. Multiple interviews on Al-Jazeera. Rep'd by Speilburg Literary. On submission. He/Him. No one is free until we all are. beacons.ai/paulnm
On 18 August, we remember Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to reveal the hidden treasures of Palmyra. www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a...
His fans spent over a year collecting evidence that might set him free or at least get him a mistrial. Meanwhile, Luigi Mangione:
My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4mo agofascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!
A response video to the most common arguments I get from liberal Zionists on my content, so now I can just direct them here instead of having to repeat myself over and over. Yes, it's 20+ minutes and in vertical format, it is what it is ok youtu.be/xG6IS4uqnwo
A Liberal Zionist and an Antizionist Debate the Palestinian Right of Return
YouTube video by Paul Nabil Matthis
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Very happy to have hosted this roundtable with Tech For Palestine on migrating away from big tech. You can watch the full discussion on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHS...
Tech for Palestine Roundtable: Moving Away from Big Tech
YouTube video by Tech For Palestine
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also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
This is a fantastic resource on Palestine for citations, info, and documentation. Well done, @paulnm.bsky.social ✊🇵🇸 #westbank #gaza #palestine #syria
Paul Nabil Matthis@paulnm.bsky.social · 6mo agoQuick tour of the new Palestine List website, including a new SmartSearch feature powered by Thaura, an ethical AI companion supported by Tech for Palestine. youtube.com/shorts/hyAF2...
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
Quick tour of the new Palestine List website, including a new SmartSearch feature powered by Thaura, an ethical AI companion supported by Tech for Palestine. youtube.com/shorts/hyAF2...
Tour of the new Palestine List resource list website #booktok
YouTube video by Paul Nabil Matthis
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RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
Excellent article today from @charleslister1.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. The Assadist scourge of Captagon persists in Syria, and Israel is its primary pusher. newlinesmag.com/argument/how...
How Israel-Backed Sweida Became Syria's Narcotics Capital
The militias profiting from the drug trade do not answer to Damascus
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Potentially landscape-shifting legislation in Hawaii. TLDR, corporations doing business in Hawaii do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns, since that was not one of the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. prospect.org/2026/05/18/h...
Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics - The American Prospect
A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.
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Israel now ranks dead last in "global overall perception" according to the 2026 Democracy Perception Index (DPI), which is the world’s largest annual study on democracy conducted by Latana in collaboration with the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies.
Today is May 15, 2026, marking year 78 of the Nakba. It's known as #NakbaDay, but really it marks the UK withdrawal from the Mandate, and the first full day of the official Israeli occupation under Zionism. This however has little to do with the actual history of the Nakba.
I'd thought the multiseason point tally for @makesomenoise.dropout.tv had @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social as the clear leader with a googolplex of points, making all other points totals trivial. However, Frank Garcia-Hejl got infinite points in S1, but "infinity" is not a number. So, who's winning?
Actual footage of Microsoft firing its Israeli GM Alon Haimovich www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnp...
Shocked that gambling is happening - Casablanca (1942)
YouTube video by Raindog's House of Oddities
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My Palestine Timeline just went live on the Palestine List site. Multisourced anticolonial approach beginning in 1770 until present. Converted from the og Google Doc via a fair amount of automated tasks, so feedback is welcome if you catch something that looks off. palestinelist.com#supplements/...
The Palestine List | Sources, Citations & Other Media
A comprehensive collection of multimedia resources for Palestine covering history, current events, how to get involved, and more.
palestinelist.com
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 7mo agocongratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers
palestinelist.com exists as a website now instead of a redirect to a Google Doc (the doc will also continue to be updated along with the site). This has now expanded to around 60 pages worth of resources regarding Palestine.
The Palestine List | Sources, Citations & Other Media
A comprehensive collection of multimedia resources for Palestine covering history, current events, how to get involved, and more.
palestinelist.com
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court
String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’
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"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’
Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse
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