Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"

Tens of thousands joined the general strike across Italy against the genocide in Gaza+Italian gov's complicity. 100.000 in Rome alone. Two poignant things: many primary school teachers marched with their students; when the protest blocked the ring road, drivers got out to applaud the demonstrators.

Il riferimento a “Bella Ciao” sui bossoli dell’assassino di Charlie Kirk potrebbe avere più a che fare con i videogiochi che con l’antifascismo. Robinson non era di certo un militante duro e puro, ma un gamer imbevuto di una cultura Internet fatta di meme, trolling e ironia. Ne ho scritto qui 👇

The future of Gaza should be decided by the population of Gaza. Anything else is colonialism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Given Israel's Kahanist government, it was already on 7 Oct that genocide in Gaza is a real possibility. I personally did not know when the accumulation of Israeli crimes would cross that threshold. Two things could have stopped it: both failed. 1/

Hilarious how many levels of wrongness are contained in one single piece of design

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a timely reminder that there is so much beauty to be found in this universe, if we look for it.

There is not a single Israeli reporter, analyst, academic or commentator that I know of, who thinks that Netanyahu was "simply waiting for Trump" to take the same deal that was on the table in May 2024. 1/

The IDF bombed a clearly marked vehicle and killed four engineers going to repair water infrastructure in southern Gaza after they had coordinated the trip with Israeli authorities, Oxfam says www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

When I wrote this, in March 2022, I was accused of "handwringing".

my academic framing may actually undersell even the understated diplomatic framing of the original statement, which essentially indicates that an IDF *tank* fired on a UNIFIL tower and two peacekeepers fell out (and, somehow, were only moderately injured)

In addition to Israelis, on 7 October Hamas captured dozens of Thai migrant agricultural workers from farms in Southern Israel; Thai nationals reportedly made up the largest number of foreign dead and missing. Important that we also hear their stories and anguish www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

So many advocates for Israel treat it as a besieged ghetto in the middle east rather than a sovereign state, because they know that sovereign states can and often do horrible things, and they do not want to face up to that knowledge.