'No ceasefire can be considered meaningful while children continue to be killed' says UNICEF.

Israel continues attacks on Lebanon despite agreeing to ceasefire https://aje.news/axfp2o

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

Before the genocide, Gaza’s residents carried their TVs into the streets to watch the World Cup with their neighbors. Today, following a match requires electricity that many don't have, and money that most people can’t afford. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/in-g... #Palestine #Israel

Stealing from Matthew Petti Remember: the reason Ben Gvir is bad is not that he says uncomfortable things. The reason he is bad is that he has power over prisons and police which he uses to torture real human beings.

SEO (and now chatbot optimization), whether done by bots or underpaid freelancers, is having a direct effect on the quality of online text. Improving, changing, or breaking this dynamic is key to getting human internet back

embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world

NEW Japanese to English translation competition!!! This is aimed at emerging literary translators who have never published a novel before. You must translate one of the short stories from 「#真相をお話しします」by the end of October. omusubi-agency.co.jp/competition1/

For incarcerated Black people, Juneteenth is a reminder of the freedom they are routinely denied of. Today, our Editor in Chief invites readers to learn about how the legacy of enslavement shows up in the prison system. Read here: tinyurl.com/4f6p2unu

Eight Palestine solidarity activists in Michigan face decades in prison over property damage. The Justice Department's disproportionate charges reveal a broader effort to crack down on Palestine solidarity activism as a whole. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/insi... #Palestine #Israel

Though this is laudable, the timidity of Europe with respect to Israel is far too much. Israel is waging a war of agression on Lebanon atm, and conducting genocide in Gaza. This is not the behaviour of an ally. Where are the boycots of Israel? Where are the weapon supplies to Lebanon?

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

I find Juneteenth is a complicated day because while the holiday celebrates emancipation, this day is also the anniversary of the sale of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community (the GU272) on June 19, 1838. 1/3 #slaveryarchive slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1

Democrats should make 2 key points. 1) The illegal war in Iran has been a blunder & we are worse off than before it started. 2) There’s no good way out of a bad war. We should reject the talking points of those who cheered it on & want to drag us back into it. When you're in a hole, stop digging.

Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/if-w... #Palestine #Israel

No one could have foreseen this. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Spending the rest of this summer/fall turbulently employed so any id appreciate any support! ko-fi.com/chriskindred

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

IGC Navy has closed the Strait of Hormuz, warning all vessels to not attempt to cross, following Israel’s refusal to withdraw from and strikes this morning on Southern Lebanon.

israel needs a forever war. whenever peace is close, it ramps up the bombing to derail things

This is a really good read on the status of the ICE warehouses and how they are being stopped.

病み上がりなので遅刻参加でした。 政治状況は全然良くないんですが平日にスパッと2万人集まっている事実が歴史に残ってほしい…民意は政府と異なっていたということが残りますように #国会正門前大行動0619

Horrible old man!

At least 16 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported, as planned U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland to reach a permanent end to the Iran war were delayed.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I don’t know how you remain consistent by claiming an anti-apartheid legacy here in the United States of America while enforcing it abroad.” Coates told Chris Hayes that the Dem. Party cannot continue avoiding the issue of Gaza & Palestine, saying the party is already facing a...

NEW: A branch of Israel's largest weapons contractor, Elbit, is seeking a massive deal with Trump's Pentagon. Comes as Netanyahu and Republicans push to fuse the US and Israeli militaries. If Elbit gets the deal, it could make the US "dependent" on the weapons contractor for a generation to come.

NEW: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-affiliated media has made Iranian implementation of the US-Iran agreement, particularly provisions concerning the Strait of Hormuz, contingent on an end to Israeli operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. More: isw.pub/IranUpdate06... Other Key Takeaways:

The 20-point plan for Gaza is bad because it's at face value something you'd see out of the League of Nations era colonial offices of the UK and France, does not actually enshrine Palestinian self-determination as a defined end goal, and gives Israel effective veto power over any progress.

World leaders are returning home from the annual G7 summit, having failed to address issues such as income inequality, climate change and territorial conflict, while entertaining the wealthy executives of the artificial intelligence and fossil fuel industries.

Analysts warn that pro-Israel groups and politicians in Washington will likely push to derail diplomacy with Tehran.

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

Hegseth is determined to take the US military at least 250 years backwards www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Israel has blocked 18,500+ Palestinians from evacuating Gaza for life-saving medical treatment they can only receive abroad. “A 15-year-old girl lost her eyesight. A five-year-old lies motionless in a nylon tent. Both have medical referrals to leave Gaza. Neither has been allowed to leave.”

Hillel International’s antisemitism trainings and Campus Climate Initiative are wolves in sheep’s clothing, designed to ensure that Palestine-related speech, protest, and even thought are rendered forbidden on U.S. college and university campuses. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-... #Palestine #Israel

there is an alternative, @hillaryclinton.bsky.social. it's called "ending the illegal israeli occupation of the palestinian territories and sanctioning, not rewarding, israel for its repeated violations of palestinian rights and its international commitments."

as promised months ago when I expected this to be a shorter thing, it's available on a pay-what-you-like basis on itch dot io. been taking a while to finish but I think summer is the right time for it: turndecassette.itch.io/the-prisoner...

The claim that "Israel wants to kill its way out of every problem" is the sort of thing that tends to draw a DOJ investigation and the blocking of federal funds when made by campus actors.

OOI gets a break -- though a lot of change could come still depending on the recommendations of the review panel (and who ends up on it). But this at first blush sounds like the due process oceanographers were asking for.

the worst thing about this country is that a democrat saying this objectively sensical statement would be eviscerated and a republican can say this even though they're the entire reason we're here

This is so beast

This is a great zine to share with folks who are considering joining PSL, or another authoritarian micro-party www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zine...

🚩 Warn your community about this organization! 🚩 A PSL central committee member previously involved in covering up sexual abuse within the party has resigned and is claiming, among other things, that leadership is developing AI powered software to spy on its own members.

“Our findings indicate that LLMs can reinforce or exacerbate existing gender imbalances in scholarly recognition.”

Israeli soldiers shot seven-year-old Rayyan Abu al-Ajeen in his father's arms and mocked his father's pleas as he cried for his dying son. The father says they were in the part of Gaza designated as "safe" for civilians during the "ceasefire." mondoweiss.net/2026/06/a-ga... #Palestine #Israel

It is absolutely statistically true that the current Syrian Army has won more wars this century than the Israeli Army

Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/

hey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again

Point blank in broad daylight