What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

Good moment to remind ourselves about causes of terrorism- from DOJ: “militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States” and that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”.

She’s in jail for writing an op-ed.

listen. God works in mysterious ways or whatever but it is hard to describe how spectacularly unpopular the highly conservative U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has made itself with the rest of church leadership. the Vatican sees them as WAY too enmeshed in GOP politics and Francis legit hated them

A very thorough investigation by Sky News into the murder of 15 unarmed Palestinian medical workers by Israeli soldiers, who went on to bury the victims in a mass grave and lie about the circumstances of their deaths. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

Not only did the IDF deliberately attack an ambulance and murder the health workers travelling in it, it appears likely the survivors of the initial attack were executed in cold blood at short range. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

on.ft.com/4jGj02R Letter: As British Jews we can no longer stay silent on the war in Gaza

Another great read by @brianklaas.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

aje.io/4lt2wy “Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave,” OCHA head Jonathan Whittall said from the scene. “We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives,” he said.

Because just one anti-trans article on the Times website just isn't enough

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country? Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades. What’s going on? 1/7 @thetimes.com Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

This is the sort of thing you read about happening in junta countries, banana republics and desert sheikhdoms. Now in the USA!

NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas." Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.

In other news, Der Spiegel found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Not sure what’s worse. The security breach or the lame obvious lies and distraction to cover them up. I mean, at least *try* to lie plausibly.

This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:

The resumption of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with the full backing of the US government, is an outrage. Israel’s ongoing assault will only deepen the devastation and suffering already inflicted on Gazans.

The collective punishment of Gaza must end. We call on the Australian government to take substantial action pressuring Israel towards an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

Seems it may only a matter of time before the US threatens to attack Europe

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... journalists found early Hitler insecure and bloviating, the picture of a “small man”. Too many analogies.

“If you can't see what is at stake - if you can't see what is at risk - you are silently facilitating the biggest fascistic take over of our lifetime. Where were you when it mattered?”

It’s a wedge. You first take away the civil liberties of those on the margins. The unpopular people. And dare anyone to defend them. That will set a precedent and pave the way for more “respectable” targets next.

Spotted in Surbiton

Wondering if mounting hatred of Muslims in the west is a way of channeling the rancour of today's polarised society in a bid to unify it? Is this what happened to the Jews in Germany? And is it now Europe's Muslims' turn? From an interesting paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Alarm bells should be ringing out across the U.S., but the tepid pushback and strong polling for Trump bodes ill for the future of the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Each new passing day reveals to us horrors beyond imagination committed by the dumbest, vilest, most selfish idiots among us. But getting your own wife deported and failing to acknowledge your role in that tragedy is a whole multiverse beyond the pale. What a weak man he is.

If you have access to @foreignaffairs.com magazine this podcast with Russia expert Fiona Hill is excellent - sharp analysis of Trump, Putin, their relationship and what that means for geopolitics and Ukraine. No shareable link unfort

Chilling

FAFO

Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians in Gaza in strikes on Saturday, according to the Gaza health ministry, the latest in a string of Israeli attacks that have kept up despite a roughly two-month-old truce with Hamas.

At least 98 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the ceasefire in the enclave began, according to a tally by Al Jazeera relying on Gaza Health Ministry data. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/as3ggx

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I’m sure all the people who shared NYT’s ‘Screams Without Words’ and Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Screams Before Silence’ will be sharing this new UN report on Israel’s systematic sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian men and women, right? Right?