Read the full report: “Hamas: We Did Not Surrender and Will Not Abandon Our Struggle for Liberation” By Jeremy Scahill (@jeremyscahill.com) and Jawa Ahmad www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-trum...

Marianne Stokes (Austrian, 1855–1927). Madonna and Child (1909, tempera on panel).

Clive Fredriksson (British, born 1950). Sardines on a Dish (2023, oil painting).

John Martin (British, 1911-1996). Annunciation (1935, oil on wood).

Eleanor Esmonde-White (South African, 1914 - 2007). Ladies caught in the wind (oil on hessian).

#WestBank, 21 Dec 2025 Elderly Palestinian man Saed Al-Omoar from Masafer Yatta, southern Hebron, stands firm on his land, persisting in protecting it despite constant Israeli settlers’ attacks, which led to the loss of his leg, in an attempt at ethnic cleansing. #NetanyahuWarCriminal #FreePalestine

Denys Gorodnychyi (Ukrainian, b. 1984). Winter Evening (2024, oil on board).

Andrea di Bartolo (Italian, died 1428). The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (1400-1405, tempera on poplar panel).

oh is that what we're calling it, affectionate converse eh

Vicente Manansala (Filipino | 1910 - 1981). Mother and Child (painting).

A second infant has died of extreme cold while Israel blocks all building and shelter supplies from entering Gaza

Robert Brindley (British, b. 1949). Sparkling Morning Light, Grand Canal, Venice (acrylic).

If CNN is still your primary source of news ... I don't know what to tell you

FBI OPS DIRECTOR: Antifa - that's our primary concern right now. CONGRESS: Where is Antifa headquartered? FBI: [Pauses]...We are building out the infrastructure right now. CONGRESS: What does that mean? FBI: Well, that's very fluid.

100%. It's ridiculous to call the MB a terrorist org. And look who's calling it that.

Ottoman textile design from the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul

Map of the heavens, featuring the Zodiac and the mansions of the Moon, by the Ottoman artist Ṣun'ī, from Luqmān's late 16th century universal history, Zubdat al-tawārīkh

You may be tired of following it but the death and destruction wreaked by Israel on Gaza has NEVER stopped

9-month-old baby Rahaf Abu Jazar has died overnight due to severe cold in a tent in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Israel has blocked over 4,000 pallets of shelter aid since the ceasefire, allowing only a trickle in. 1.3 million people lack proper shelter.

Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.

Emanuel A. Petersen (Danish, 1894-1948). Midnight sun, hunters at Diskobugten (oil on canvas). A painter of Greenland.

Iva Hladis (Czech-American, b. 1965). Origins Extinct #152 (2014, mixed media).

Arturo Bacio Terracina (Italian | 1882 - 1960). Positano (1927, oil on canvas).

🔴 A grandfather in northern Gaza says Israeli soldiers shot his 16-year-old grandson yesterday & then drove a tank over the child “four or five times,” crushing him in the street. He says the family hasn’t known a moment of calm: “There are quadcopters every day and every night.” X: @sahatenglish

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (German, 1797–1855). Moonlit Night on the Gulf of Salerno (1827, oil on canvas).

Orange and lemon trees, spinach, garlic, mint, onion, eggplant, roses, marigolds in my mother’s December garden #Lahore #Pakistan

Georgia Beaumont (British, b. 1996). The Spirit Moves at Its Own Pace (Diptych) (2024, oil on plywood panel with aluminium frame).

Steve Burgess (Canadian | b. 1960). In the Bleak Midwinter (oil on board).

Pavel Popov (Russian, b. 1966). Water lily. Northern lotus (2014, oil on canvas).

Visiting family in Lahore, Pakistan. The weather is perfect and I am utterly blessed with a loving family.

hi friends, i am sharing Elham Abdelrahim’s story in Gaza. if you are able to repost, share and donate! it will be greatly appreciated it 🍉🍉🍉

hourslong community resistance against ice still going on in elgin, illinois—a western suburb with a large latine population and a frequent target for ice/cbp. state rep. karina villa is on scene, per live feed, and used a bullhorn to call out to the person agents are ostensibly looking for.

Mikhail Abakumov (Soviet Russian, 1948-2010). Morning dew (2004, painting).

Dan Mondloch (American). Appleton (watercolor).

⭕️ Yale Lab Warned for 2½ Years About the Coming Massacre in El Fasher — & No One Acted Nathaniel Raymond, head of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab, explains that from the very first weeks of the war, his team was tracking a pattern the negotiators were missing: the RSF was conducting large-scale...

"At some point the men began waving to something overhead, which three people familiar with the briefing said logically must have been U.S. aircraft flying above them. All three interpreted the actions of the men as signaling for help, rescue, or surrender."

among many other things, this now completes the loop. it incentivizes people to stage disruptive geopolitical events for pump and dump schemes

U.S. sanctions, violence, threats, and theft are war crimes waged against Venezuela for decades. A scandal about a “double tap” killing should not be the focus of attention. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social. blackagendareport.com/double-tap-v...

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...

BDS is so widely popular that a failed mayor FORCES people not to practice it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A court order issued Wednesday revealed that the city Department of Investigation has an ongoing investigation of whether Mayor Eric Adams violated ethics laws — a probe that is proceeding even after the mayor got his corruption case tossed. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/03/e...

Inuit Tapestry! Malaya Akulukjuk (Inuk/Canadian, 1915-1995). Mermaid (1977, wool and cotton tapestry).

I don't know about you guys, but I love cozy old house paintings. Kenneth Rowntree (British, 1915 - 1997). Brent Hall from the South, Finchingfield (1940, watercolor).

Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860–1939).

Shocking news from Marwan Barghouti's son: "[This morning a] released prisoner told me they had physically crushed my father. They broke his teeth and his ribs, cut off part of his ear and broke his fingers in stages for amusement…What do I do? Where do we turn?" #FreeMarwanBarghouti

Getting ready for travel and already missing these guys so much.

Sano di Pietro (Italian, 1405 - 1481). Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome, Saint Bernardino, and Angels (1460-70, tempera on panel).

John Whorf (American | 1903 - 1959). Connecticut Farm after the Snow (watercolor).

*Everything* about these bombings is immoral and illegal. And *everyone* involved must be held accountable for the killings.

"Lakanwal had joined the 03 Unit to earn money for his family and get medical training," - but after entering it, "the friendly, once-outgoing young man" was entirely changed. The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants was told of his PTSD and did nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...