RichWood
@richwood.bsky.social
Writer, living close to the wild, politics, religion, arts, sciences, hiking, wilderness, climate change, Free Palestine! Free Syria! Black Lives Matter! Indigenous people’s power; power & freedom for Women. Overthrow Trump! Abolish ICE, Stop the Fascists.
Dr. Abdul el-Sayed is one of the faces of the new wave of Democrats that want Medicare for All, affordable housing, an end to ICE thugs beating & killing people in the streets & in their cars, lower prices for groceries & electricity. We are sickened by genocide in Gaza and wealthy elites. Basta!
Thanks a lot New York Times for publicizing the idiotic "moderates" (read AIPAC-infused Democratic elites) for their plans to go to war with progressives and socialists after Mchigan victrory of Dr.Abdulel-Sayed. Trump is the force we go to war against, not el-Sayed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
nytimes.com
Bashar al Assad’s thugs perpetrated a massacre in southern Syria in 2013, the same area Israelis are trying to occupy now: newlinesmag.com/reportage/un...
Unmasking Two Butchers of Quneitra
How officers in Assad’s army turned the deepest valley in southern Syria into a mass grave
newlinesmag.com
What’s up with Pakistan? First they deport Afghans, then attack Afghanistan and now they attack Kashmiris. www.democracynow.org/2026/8/6/kas...
“Struggle for Dignity”: At Least 40 Killed in Mass Protests in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a coalition of local politicians, activists and small-business leaders called the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has been leading mass protests over the soaring ...
democracynow.org
David Hogg on progressive challenges to the Democratic Party, on Gaza, health care, and just about everything: zeteo.com/p/the-dem-es...
The Dem Establishment Kicked Me Out. Now They're Losing
David Hogg, the former DNC vice chair, writes for Zeteo that the victories of Abdul El-Sayed and other progressives show Democrats didn't lose young voters – they just needed candidates to vote for.
zeteo.com
Gaza Genocide debate continues to roil academia: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
theguardian.com
Israeli indicted for murder of Palestinian, Awdah Hathaleen: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/w...
Israeli Settler Charged in Death of Activist Awdah Hathaleen
The indictment was a rare case in which the Israeli authorities pressed charges against an Israeli in the killing of a Palestinian.
nytimes.com
Now AIPAC will stop spending on the Democrats in Michigan (Haley Stevens) and will begin funding Mike Rogers. AIPAC is finished and so is support for Israel In the Dem. Party. www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/05/l...
Lessons from Michigan: How Standing Up to Israeli Genocide Could Win Democrats Congress
At 2 AM Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC's candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens' defeat in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is the last na...
counterpunch.org
You could say Abdul El-Sayed won despite $64 million being spent against him… one may also wonder if he won *because* of it
Coincidence? You know it isn’t. Trump’s Board of Peace meant more Israeli attacks on Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
Israeli Strikes May Undermine Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza
President Trump announced a proposal aimed at achieving the disarmament of Hamas and an Israeli withdrawal. Israel ramped up attacks on the Palestinian enclave.
nytimes.com
Progressive, climate change activist wins in Michigan against a Navy Seal and former ambassador: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Progressive activist wins Democratic primary in one of the country’s biggest House races
Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 7th District, NBC News projects, a key battleground in the fight for the House majority.
nbcnews.com
Progressives win in Michigan: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
nytimes.com
Bret Stephens, right wing Zionist, finally wrote something I can agree with wholeheartedly: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.
It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
nytimes.com
Say it loud and clear: Abdulrahman Muhammad el-Sayed won the Democratic primary and will become the next Senator from Michigan. AIPAC failed again and the people of the U.S. are systematically rejecting the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Democratic establishment that supported it & demanding change.
U.S. Immigrant Detention Center offers poisoned water to inmates: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures
‘Disturbing’ footage shared by California detainee surfaces amid wider complaints about conditions in ICE detention
theguardian.com
The Israeli threat to the Islamic heritage in Jerusalem, the control of Haram al-Sharif, or the Temple Mount, is mounting. Beware the religious war of Islam versus Israeli extremism: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan
Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’
theguardian.com
Ecuadorean Prosecutor of U.S. boat strikes assassinated: www.democracynow.org/2026/7/31/ec...
“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
democracynow.org
The death of a Palestinian activist featured in a famous film about settler violence in the West Bank: www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/kil...
The Death of Awdah Hathaleen: Report Details Settler Killing of “No Other Land” Producer in West Bank
One year ago, an Israeli settler shot and killed the Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank. Hathaleen, an English teacher and father of three young children, played a key role...
democracynow.org
Islamic movement preparing to rise up against dictatorship in Tunisia, rekindle the Arab Spring. www.middleeasteye.net/news/tunisia...
'We will rise again': A new generation of Tunisians prepare for Ennahda's return
President Kais Saied's crackdown was meant to bury Tunisia's largest Islamist movement. Five years later, the movement's youth wing insists their comeback is near
middleeasteye.net
The US and Israel are to blame for the genocide in Gaza, but so are the cowardly Arab regimes that stood by and watched the slaughter: www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/03/r...
Rot from Within: The Palace-to-Street Silence Consuming the Arab World
The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted slogans,
counterpunch.org
John Caravello, professor and solidarity and anti-ICE activist: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE agents descended on a cannabis farm. The lives of an army vet, a farm worker and professor changed for ever
Raids on Glass House Farms in California became a ‘litmus test’ for how much violence agents could inflict during Trump’s deportation campaign
theguardian.com
The best purchase order BLOOD-SOAKED BRIBES can buy
SirKidStarverIsGone@sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · last wk.Journo Sam Hussein interrupts ISRAEL'S TOP PROSTITUTE Chuck Schumer over his COMPLICITY in the GENOCIDE of PALESTINIANS Hussein pressed the BIDEN-HARRIS for arming the MASS MURDER of CIVILIANS, you may recall he was forcefully removed by BIDEN-HARRIS THUGS. We need more journalists like him
With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today
Rahm Emmanuel says Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea “ over my dead body”. That sounds fine, doesn’t it? Mamdani denied the remarks were made in the meeting but if they were he should have agreed to that deal.
