NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Hind Rajab was afraid of the dark. After killing her family & wounding her, Israel prevented her rescue & left her to die alone in the dark. I write about those critical hours & the film that brings back her voice to induct the world’s silence @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...

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"We still don’t know when Hind’s life ended. She feared the dark, and for all the heroism and sacrifices of the PRCS, the darkness found her."  @idreesahmad.bsky.social reviews the Oscar-nominated feature “The Voice of Hind Rajab.”

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

U2 have produced their greatest song since the 80s. This is not the corporate, celebrity Bono. This is the anti-Apartheid activist Bono. A memorable song with heart. (It's a tribute to Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen who was killed by Israeli settlers). www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRmp...

Editor's Pick: Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab” retells the story of the 5-year-old’s final hours, amplifying her pleas to indict the world’s silence over Gaza’s children. @idreesahmad.bsky.social reviews the film. newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...

Lifeforms that live like this are typically called parasitic

‘Gaza is Hind’s story multiplied thousands of times. That’s why it resonates.’

'Palestinian woman who has been held in immigration jail for nearly a year after she attended protest in NY said she suffered seizure after fainting and hitting her head, due to “filthy” and “inhumane” conditions inside privately run detention facility' apnews.com/article/leqa...

Hind Rajab was afraid of the dark. After killing her family & wounding her, Israel prevented her rescue & left her to die alone in the dark. I write about those critical hours & the film that brings back her voice to induct the world’s silence @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/review/hind-...

"'The Voice of Hind Rajab' collects its audience’s diffuse sense of loss and injustice and gives it focus. It is a permission to grieve — freely and without shame. And to find community in that grief." | @idreesahmad.bsky.social 

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms. This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.

Yet another societal failure caused by the youth with their avocado toast, alcohol-free beer, and refusal to do murders

On this day two years ago, the IDF killed Hind Rajab, her six family members, and the two medics sent to rescue her. They terrorised her for five hours before they killed her. She was 3 months shy of her 6th birthday. Her mother Wissam writes of the loss. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

And, to the extent it matters, the video does not show Pretti "spitting in the face" of anyone – a reverse angle shows he spat on the unmarked car, and vented his rage at the agents 6 day after they murdered Renee Good, a few blocks away, as we reported www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

cover of The Economist this week

No children should be in immigration detention centers

On this day two years ago, the IDF killed Hind Rajab, her six family members, and the two medics sent to rescue her. They terrorised her for five hours before they killed her. She was 3 months shy of her 6th birthday. Her mother Wissam writes of the loss. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Not from The Onion

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by Border Patrol on Saturday, gave a final salute to a veteran while he was an intensive care nurse in 2024. https://wapo.st/4t1KC81

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

They are desparately trying to find anything bad about Alex Pretti.

The worst thing this tit has heard is that some goons had to leave out a back door so they wouldn’t be yelled at?

Of all the "why the fuck would you think that, let alone, write it down and get it published?" that get published constantly, this has up to be up there as one of the most "why the fuck?" pieces ever.

The apple of his parents eyes (This is from The Times, not The Onion)

What cities around the world have really interesting, dynamic intellectual “scenes”? Want to tell the story/paint a portrait of such a “scene” — especially in the Global South — for @newlinesmag.bsky.social’s Global Thought series? Pitch me: [email protected] newlinesmag.com/topic/global...

Argentina cut a deal with China that undercuts American soybean farmers already crushed by Trump’s tariffs. Now Trump wants send $20 billion of YOUR tax dollars to bail out his political ally in Argentina. America First? More like Trump first.

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

My friend, @idreesahmad.bsky.social, wrote about about Tony Judt's proposal for a well-defended Palestinian state as the only durable solution. (Judt's position was misrepresented by Jonathan Freedland in an essay for NYRB). www.thenation.com/article/arch...

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.

Why Arab dictators betray the Palestinians and do nothing serious to stop the genocide even suppressing protests against Israel in their own countries #SaudiArabia #UAE #Egypt @idreesahmad.bsky.social @marcnelsonart.bsky.social @petertatchell.bsky.social responsiblestatecraft.org/arab-leaders...

Urgent - Gaza Censorship Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war. Int journalists banned as the Israelis also allowed by NGOs to submit to censorship like #IRC which refused to comment on complicity in report #GazaStarving @idreesahmad.bsky.social www.dw.com/en/aid-worke...

On this day in 2013, Bashar al Assad launched the biggest chemical attack of the 21st century, killing over 1,400, including 426 children. I wrote for @newlinesmag.bsky.social a detailed account of what happened that day and the impact this event had globally. newlinesmag.com/review/the-d...

NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge. 🇦🇺👏

In my latest, I examine Bret Stephens’s silly attempt to deny Israel’s genocide. More revealing than the incompetence and bad faith on display is his motive for writing it in the first place—a motive he does not divulge lest he trash his own credibility in the process. 🧵

“One in three Gazans goes multiple days without eating, the World Food Programme said this week. Malnourished mothers can no longer produce milk to breastfeed their children, the injured are unable to heal and hospitals have run out of nutritional supplements to treat gaunt babies.”

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

If the videos and photos of emaciated bodies and corpses coming out of Gaza were in black and white, what would they remind you of?

🚨 Medics across the Gaza strip have sounded simultaneous ambulance sirens in an SOS distress call about the escalating famine and resulting collapse of the remaining healthcare system:

I posted this on LinkedIn at the same time and it got removed for "terrorism"??? bsky.app/profile/sall...

Israel continues to target the same ports on Yemen’s Hodeidah coast. It's been over a year since the first strikes on these ports. Despite significant damage to piers, visual evidence suggests the Houthis' fuel supply lines from the ports are still active www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

3 Books Incarcerated Writers Recommend All Students Read

For years Frontex gathered data and automatically passed it unlawfully to Europol. With @stavinoha.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we investigated how this dragnet scooped up thousands of people, migrants and EU activists. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...