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Excellent article today from @charleslister1.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. The Assadist scourge of Captagon persists in Syria, and Israel is its primary pusher. newlinesmag.com/argument/how...

Potentially landscape-shifting legislation in Hawaii. TLDR, corporations doing business in Hawaii do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns, since that was not one of the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. prospect.org/2026/05/18/h...

Israel now ranks dead last in "global overall perception" according to the 2026 Democracy Perception Index (DPI), which is the world’s largest annual study on democracy conducted by Latana in collaboration with the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies.

Today is May 15, 2026, marking year 78 of the Nakba. It's known as #NakbaDay, but really it marks the UK withdrawal from the Mandate, and the first full day of the official Israeli occupation under Zionism. This however has little to do with the actual history of the Nakba.

I'd thought the multiseason point tally for @makesomenoise.dropout.tv had @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social as the clear leader with a googolplex of points, making all other points totals trivial. However, Frank Garcia-Hejl got infinite points in S1, but "infinity" is not a number. So, who's winning?

Actual footage of Microsoft firing its Israeli GM Alon Haimovich www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxnp...

My Palestine Timeline just went live on the Palestine List site. Multisourced anticolonial approach beginning in 1770 until present. Converted from the og Google Doc via a fair amount of automated tasks, so feedback is welcome if you catch something that looks off. palestinelist.com#supplements/...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

palestinelist.com exists as a website now instead of a redirect to a Google Doc (the doc will also continue to be updated along with the site). This has now expanded to around 60 pages worth of resources regarding Palestine.

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Supreme Court:

The ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas has an alarming record of horrific abuses and abject neglect within its walls. Call your Senators and Representatives and urge them to work towards the release of all children in abusive detention camps!

"We see [Israeli] attacks still occurring. But we also see complete impunity." Amnesty International USA’s Amanda Klasing tells @premthakker.bsky.social the organization warned the White House in 2023 about Israel’s non-adherence to international humanitarian law. Watch: zeteo.com/p/how-the-us...

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis @justinhendrix.bsky.social 2023 www.techpolicy.press/substack-fou...

New: Susan Collins raised more from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. We asked her campaign about it. They hung up. Last year, we asked if she knew how many Americans the Israeli military had killed. She replied: “I am pro-Israel.” @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

The Wire India interviewed my dear friend Noa. thewire.in/world/from-a...

Every single hater can go to hell for all I care. Nothing can take away from the beauty of this sight after all these years. #Syria

Rafah Israeli troops blew up the Morag Water Station, which according to Gaza’s water utility supplied water to roughly one-third of Rafah’s residents prior to the war. Soldiers captioned: “We specialize in paint jobs, and small renovations. Details on DM" threadreaderapp.com/thread/20184...

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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

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Freed children recount torture as Syrian forces assume control of SDF-run detention facility All were under 18. Some appeared to be primary school age. Several described abuse and torture by SDF. One child said he was electrocuted and whipped. — Middle East Eye www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-f...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

My newest article on #Syria "The Western Fetishization of Rojava" paulnm.medium.com/the-western-...

Insisting on the “right to defend itself" after killing people. Blocking ambulances from victims. Building pretext to hurt kids. And taking billions from US taxpayers to do it all. Is this the Israeli military? …Or ICE? Yes:

Los Angeles Police Department can no longer fire less-lethal foam rounds when confronting protesters. A federal judge found the department in contempt of a previous ruling limiting the use of 40-millimeter munitions and has now ordered a ban on their use for crowd control. abc7.com/amp/post/lap...

Free and open source markerless motion capture of a runner on a treadmill! Reconstructed from 6 webcams using FreeMoCap v1.7.2 #freemocap #blender #motioncapture #mocap #animation #biomechanics

All of those pictures of that ICE agent’s face are AI. Here’s the proof.

Reminder: 32 people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025 – making it the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life. " mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

I remixed a Syriac Aramaic Christmas chant. The recording is from the Syria Music Map project, used with permission. Merry Christmas. youtu.be/Ozt9aOUtrco

This is legitimately amazing research nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...

It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?

My article for today, the one year anniversary of Syrian liberation #syria paulnm.medium.com/one-year-of-...

Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.