🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of...Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah... More details: ⬇️ 🧵

Deja vu. bsky.app/profile/equa...

THREAD: There is no explanation for the New York Times continue this level of unethical reporting. I’ve talked to reporters and editors there and no one defends this: reporting the stated reasons of the government as its *actual* reasons.

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Periodic reminder that teargas is an abortifacient. I've been documenting the effects of teargas for five years by speaking to people directly impacted and exposed in the US. 🧵

If you’re interested in any facet of Virginia Folklore please join this virtual meeting on Nov 19 @6pm and/or pass the invite to your friends! We’re trying to cast as wide a net as possible and get a ton of different voices statewide on the call.

People want to talk about supporting our Black, native Washingtonians. Then they strip the very laws that our people have benefited from for decades - and pay lip service in the process while stealing opportunity from straight under their feet. Shame.

First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.

⚡️Mousa Abu Marzouk has spent decades building Hamas as a resistance and political movement. After being born a refugee in Rafah in 1951, he studied in the U.S., earning a Master’s in engineering at Colorado State and a PhD at Louisiana Tech in 1991 — the same year he became chairman of the Hamas...

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital." Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth. Some experience dangerous complications as a result. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

NEW — Freedom Flotilla Coalition says there may soon be an attempt by Israel to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. Say radars show roughly 12 unidentified vessels, just 5-15 miles away. Some flotilla boats seem to be losing connection, possibly experiencing signal jamming.

a single, beautiful tithonia and not where I planted it (them)

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

Say his name: Yahya Barzaq, one of the 275+ journalists killed in Gaza. He was known as one of the most prominent photojournalists still alive in Gaza. Prior to the genocide, he was known for gently photographing newborn babies.

Footage shot by Enzo Pianetti from Sirius, where Drop Site’s Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social) is reporting. Mast lights from ships dot the horizon where all the boats are gathered...every so often an explosion can be seen and heard. Crews remain vigilant awaiting more...unpredictable attacks.

Highlight of the last week for me. Yasmin showing us how to do it. ❤️‍🔥

Remora House is the real deal supporting their community and they need your help. Anything helps and they're a great cause.

⛵️Global Sumud Flotilla update: The Sumud Flotilla’s fleet from both Barcelona and Tunisia is currently sailing west of the island of Malta.

I actually think that learning how to grow protein rich peanut crops that are delicious and also fix your soil is more important than computer glasses but what do I know…

This is horrifying & devastating. Every single person that has said unhoused people are dangerous, that they are undeserving of support, that they need to just be cleared out & warehoused for forced treatment, contributed to this happening. Hating homeless people is a bipartisan policy position.

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity. These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane. The silence of the international community is a disgrace. Shame on this world.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

NEW: Student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas tell us the story of how they formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus. unicornriot.ninja/2025/rip-mer...

This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.

Join Aldona & myself with Virginia state folklorist Katy Clune for our presentation on the Virginia Folklore Society, one of the oldest folklore societies in the US, & home to the largest collection of ballad material in the country. Heres the registration link 🪕❤️ virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Really excellent thread on Gabriel’s Rebellion.

"The admission is stunning coming from [former top State Department spokesperson Matthew] Miller, who was a key face of the U.S.'s backing of the genocide. ... But he absolved himself of any guilt, claiming that he was simply doing his job."

"Nazi Germany used deliberately deceptive & bureaucratic euphemisms to refer to the transportation of Jews for extermination. The most common terms, "resettlement to the east" & "evacuation," were designed to hide their true intentions from both the victims & the public" — ‪@cvilletgr.bsky.social

Today’s press conference by the DC mayor amidst the military/ICE fascist kidnappings and takeover of D.C. is one of the most disgraceful things I’ve seen. A clown cheering as she walks us off the cliff.

Recently @prismreports.org has published many dispatches from Gaza, written by Palestinians surviving the genocide. All of them are heartbreaking, necessary reads. This one, written by Logain Hamdan about kids eating "ice cream" flavored with antibiotics, will stick with me for the rest of my life.

Say her name: Marwa Musallam. She was buried alive in a bombing July. She was screaming for help. US-Israel would not allow anyone to attempt to rescue her. By the time her body was recovered, all that was left was her skull!! Marwa is among about 270 journalists killed in this genocide.

Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe

The Trump admin’s goal is over 100,000 people in detention on average every day, by the end of the year. Tens of thousands of those beds would be located in facilities similar to the Everglades detention camp in Florida.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

🔴 Gaza’s Government Media Office reports famine deaths have climbed to 235 — including 106 children — as Israel’s blockade continues.

In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...

Media blackout on the eve of an invasion the whole world has condemned, by a state that’s been willing to do a genocide on livestream. What do you think comes next? Hearing reports of intensive bombardment. They’re leveling whatever is left.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

"If a publication ran an editors' note to 'clarify' that some portion of Nazi death camp victims had preexisting conditions, it would rightfully be accused of Holocaust denialism." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them." A five-year-old child.

U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against starving Palestinians. "The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps."

New: Gaza aid ship volunteers detained in Israeli prison report being confined in small, overcrowded rooms with no ventilation, despite very hot temperatures. Also report rooms infested with bedbugs & being denied hygiene supplies and showers. Per Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

Framing the honouring of Palestinian rights as a punishment for Israel and the denial of them as a reward is not conducive to any "peace process", on multiple levels.

So the reward offered to Israel merely for *partial* compliance with international law is that the UK will continue to deny recognition to a Palestinian state? This is the great Peace Plan that Starmer has served up?

The most benevolent reading of this is that the air drops are incompetently targeted. Some might be inclined to think they're designed to not actually work. Remember - 5 perfectly targeted air drops = one single truck

Israel is blocking baby formula from entering Gaza, putting 40,000 infants at risk of slow, preventable death, according to the Government Media Office. This is starvation used as a weapon of war.

🚨 Zainab Ahmed Muhammad Abu Hlaib, starved to death under the U.S.-Israeli siege, was brought lifeless to Nasser Hospital an hour ago. Gaza hospitals recorded 9 new deaths from starvation in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 122, including over 80 children.