"Here are a bunch of unarmed people with baby formula on a ship, and then there’s this elite navy who are just armed to the fucking teeth ... there to intercept us." I wrote in @jacobinmag.bsky.social about @freedom.press' recent panel with 3 U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas.

⚡️NEW from Drop Site: A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week 3 NJ-based logistics companies have worked for decades with Israel's Ministry... By Jose Olivares (X: @jlosc9) and @recolston.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/jersey-cit...

"A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that 'if it bleeds, it leads.' Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true." Read @recolston.bsky.social's thoughts after his detention by Israel in @thenation.com. And RSVP to hear more from him and others in 30 minutes.

🔔 Tomorrow: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social. 🗓️ Nov. 3, 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST RSVP: freedom.press/gaza-flotillas

🔔 Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social. 🗓️ Monday, Nov. 3, 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST RSVP: freedom.press/gaza-flotillas

This is a must-read essay by @recolston.bsky.social, who was one of the journalists aboard one of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla and was detained by the Israeli military for five days last month, in @thenation.com. A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla

This piece from @recolston.bsky.social in @thenation.com (recommended by the always astute @studyhall.bsky.social) is such a smart meditation on the myth of objectivity and the structural problems of news media ❤️

⚡️New from Drop Site: Returning to Shujaiya: Palestinians Are Going Back to Gaza City Despite Proximity of Israeli Troops Parts of Shujaiya lie inside the “yellow line,” an invisible demarcation where the Israeli military withdrew By Abdel Qader Sabbah www.dropsitenews.com/p/shujaiya-p...

A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.

⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: “We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.” Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...

A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. Read Aida Alami. www.cjr.org/news/reporte...

“I was beaten, blindfolded… we were kept up all hours… they played a loop of Oct. 7 footage the whole time we were there.” Drop Site’s Alex Colston @recolston.bsky.social describes the 4 nights & 5 days he spent at Israel’s Ketziot Prison after being illegally detained from the Gaza-bound flotilla.

“We are in completely uncharted waters here…Never has there been this much public pressure.” Speaking from the Global Sumud Flotilla, Drop Site editor Alex Colston said the best outcome would be forcing open a sustained… @recolston.bsky.social @ryangrim.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social

Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) update, September 25: Greek ships join the fleet of over 50 ships, Italy sends a second naval vessel alongside Spain’s navy escort, and GSF claims credible intelligence of further Israeli attacks. Report by Drop Site’s @recolston.bsky.social and photo by Enzo Pianetti.

⛵️ Global Sumud Flotilla Update, September 20: 40+ Boats Continue Toward Greece, Four Boats from Tunisia Break Down, and Greta Thunberg Steps Back from Steering Committee. The Barcelona, Tunisia, and Italy fleets now sail together in unison, with the majority of those ships—over 40—smoothly...

🚢 The Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest civilian mission to break Gaza’s siege—launches today, with 50+ ships from 44 countries. Drop Site editor Alex Colston is on board and will be reporting live as it sails from Barcelona toward Gaza.

⚡️In Gaza, Hunger Has Overtaken Bombs as Israel’s Cruelest Weapon "We do not need pity. We need pressure on those who are blocking food, those who remain silent, and those who still have the power to stop this but choose not to." ✍️ By Heba Almaqadma www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-city-...

'A Pro-Israel Nonprofit is Funneling News Content Through Bari Weiss’s "Free Press"' As Weiss’s organization explores a deal to sell to CBS, much of its MidEast content is produced by a shadowy think tank tied to pro-Israel advocacy, per @dropsitenews.com.

NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses. www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...

⚡️To the Field First, Comrades! The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has pulled off another stunning upset through Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. An insider shares DSA’s grassroots strategy. By Michael Thomas Carter for @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mam...

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

NEW: Noor Abdalla, an American citizen of Syrian descent and eight months pregnant, spoke with @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s efforts to deport her husband, Mahmoud Khalil.

Little has been reported about the life of Mahmoud Khalil before the Trump administration treated him as a public enemy and scapegoat for pro-Palestine advocacy. Drop Site News paints a fuller picture of him and the scenes on Columbia’s campus. www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil” — Meghnad Bose and two student journalists at Columbia deeply report the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner. Read at @dropsitenews.com 🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

One challenge Palestine presents (among many) is keeping your heart open to the murdered & debilitated men, women and children who suffer Israel's genocidal aggression. To ensure you still feel their pain as your own as you should with any human being but particularly the people murdered in our name

🚨 At least 112 people killed in renewed Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

Today, I'm starting as the Story Editor for @dropsitenews.com, far and away the best independent news organization—one that has stepped up in our dire times to do the vital journalism largely abandoned by the US mainstream press. I could not be more excited to get down to work.

Things you could do: -NSJP has called for a day of action 3/11; hold a rally or protest. -send senior faculty to meet with admin and demand guarantees they won’t coordinate with ICE or admin -have all campus unions demand admin non-cooperation or compliance with Trump agenda

For Parapraxis Magazine, I wrote about Zionist Holocaust trauma and ideological dynamics that have moved Zionism towards the present genocide parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

NEW: The International Criminal Court has been asked to investigate former President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Too much is made of personal choice in an era where “rational choice theory” is the hegemonic shape of individualism and conformity to a sick and twisted system, but I would be lying if I said I have not discovered a renewed respect for existential paradoxes of living with integrity.

If yr in Pittsburgh, this is tomorrow

Also reading today, Esmat Elhalaby's "Nakba Denial: On the Politics of History and Genocide." Critiquing Omer Bartov and other "important voices" in NA speaking about Israel's genocide in Gaza, Elhalaby writes that this work is rooted in Nakba denial. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nak...

“I realized,” Edward Said once remarked in an interview with Phillip Lopate, “that the people who had had the most influence on me, Auerbach, Freud, now Adorno, were not only émigrés and Jews, but also people who would have had very little interest in me.”

Important and penetrating read by my colleague Esmat Elhalaby. Nakba Denial: On the politics of history and genocide. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nak...

This invaluable article highlights a telling exchange between Omer Bartov and Martin Shaw over ten years ago. It points to the persistence of romantic nationalism in the former against the structural analysis of the latter. By now, it's clear who prevailed. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/nak...

People should read this book to understand the reaction happening rn, imo

"Attacking neoliberalism for its official aversion to government intervention has limited political traction in an age when public institutions are so deeply intertwined with the escalating concentration of private wealth." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"Yet faced with a right that appears set to turn the bailout state into an explicit system of executive grace and favour, is it realistic to imagine that more technically sophisticated and nuanced policy agendas will carry the day?" Excellent piece. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Just a reminder that Wired reported (with less detail) what I reported here just under 37 hours after I did. Both Wired and my reporting was confirmed by court documents submitted on Tuesday. I was the first source on this. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Something smart people need to continually learn is that powerful people are thinking a lot less hard than you are and there is not a secret or clever meaning a ton of the time- in a way that can make those of us unused to thinking about the interiority of the rich and powerful uncomfortable.

Breaking News | An Israeli sniper has shot and killed a 15-year old child in central Gaza's Al-Buraij Camp. The boy was reportedly trying to inspect his family home in an area from which the Israeli military recently withdrew.

The Israeli military’s invasion of Tulkarm Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank has entered its 18th day, displacing 10,500 Palestinians and creating a severe humanitarian crisis. The Media Committee in Tulkarm Refugee Camp shares the following:

HUGE NEW PIECE: New court documents confirm @wired.com & my reporting, @jeffstein.bsky.social credits my reporting in WaPo but, most importantly, new court documents reveal both comical lies and disturbing details confirming our constitutional crisis intensifies www.crisesnotes.com/bombshell-co...

“All Americans are now receiving therapy, and it’s called war.” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Explosive Remnants in Gaza Cause Dozens of Casualties Up to 10% of munitions fired by Israel into Gaza have failed to detonate, leaving behind deadly hazards for years to come Story by Abubaker Abed www.dropsitenews.com/p/unexploded...

Shocked but not surprised: Documents show Elon Musk’s Tesla is set to win the State Department’s largest 2025 contract for $400 million worth of armored Tesla’s. Watch @ryangrim.bsky.social break it all down, and then read the story linked below ⬇️

Great essay on “the desire called ‘Fredric Jameson’,” — @nicobaumbach.bsky.social on the pages of @parapraxismag.bsky.social 📖🖊️⚡️✨ www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

“For transgender people, facing a hostile state bent dismantling the delicate and still incomplete scaffolding of transgender rights, the situation is dire.” New: Paisley Currah on the Trump administration’s anti-trans assaults. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...