We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

is this what people on the right side of history say

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Pretty sad when the bad site actually has a ton of replies and a community note correcting this, but here all you get are tons of blue maga replies and qt's boosting this complete bullshit

from the sole Palestinian-American in Biden admin who resigned in protest in Jan 2024. he didn't work in foreign policy (was a political appointee in dept of education) so I guess it was nice of Jon Finer to reach out to him personally with obscene lies justifying Israel bombing Gaza's hospitals.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

The idea that the Uncommitted movement called for people to withhold votes from Biden/Harris in the *general* election rather than the primary is one of those load-bearing falsehoods that it seems impossible to disabuse people of. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Watch: American nurse Andee Clark Vaughan, volunteering with the Palestinian-Australian-New Zealand Medical Association (PANZMA), is trapped inside Al-Quds PRCS Hospital in Tel Al-Hawa, Gaza City. The hospital has been under heavy attack for 48 hrs and is now surrounded by fire and Israeli troops.

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

📚 New CA Bill Could Punish Educators for Discussing Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Teacher unions (CTA, CFT, CFA), civil rights groups, and 100+ grassroots orgs are sounding the alarm over AB 715 — a bill passed overnight that gives a governor-appointed “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” -

🚨 AB 715 has passed the Legislature early this morning and now heads to Governor Newsom’s desk. Tell Governor Newsom: Veto AB 715. Link 👇🏽 win.newmode.net/caircaliforn...

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

Let the record show that @bsky.app suspended me for saying Mashalla at the news of his death

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

“It's hard to imagine anyone in the Middle East being willing to take part in US-brokered talks anytime soon, since that now seems like an invitation to a surprise bombing.” Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, um, ah, don’t get fooled again. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/assassinatio...

“what is one to make of a book that, after detailing how Biden and his team helped perpetrate an era-­defining catastrophe in Gaza, proceeds to describe that team as ‘an example of steady and purposeful leadership’?” On Woodward’s “War” @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It's 909 day, here's Jeff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtn...

Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees Classified Israeli army database indicates vast majority of 6,000 Palestinians arrested in Gaza and detained in appalling conditions are civilians. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

🚢 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.

Netanyahu is restricting aid trucks into Gaza—the best way to get food to starving people there—so Jordan is delivering some with air drops. The Jordanians said @merkley.senate.gov & I could join one of those flights to see the devastation, but Israel denied authorization for our scheduled flight.

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

New: Israel is starving Palestinians, forcing them to beg for donations on sites like Bluesky. Their accounts keep getting flagged as spam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Israel's Greek Ambassador accused Athens of allowing antisemitic graffiti. Mayor's reply: "We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians…the Amb. focuses solely on graffiti (which, obviously, is being removed) at a time when an unprecedented genocide is taking place in Gaza."

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Palestina livre! Atenção! Handala está sendo sequestrado pelo estado genocida de Israel!

"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt. "Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.” youtube.com/watch?v=72aZ...

NEW: UCLA hired a registered foreign agent of Israel to shape the university's media narrative The firm SKDK registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of February. They crafted UCLA's media responses to the encampment, strikes, and other demonstrations.

I’ve come to believe that making genocide a legal framework has allowed the intellectual class to distract people from the morality of things like “children starving to death” and “people being slaughtered at aid distribution site” and instead engage in endless legal nitpicking

Read my latest:

Politico Playbook named this new Foreign Policy piece by @cipolicy.bsky.social’s @mattduss.bsky.social a “must-read.” “Biden’s Team Lied About Gaza. It’s Time to Hold Them Accountable.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/b...

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO GET FOOD AND WATER IN TO GAZA. This is from Lemkin Institute begging..... we are all begging.

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

Bob Vylan

After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

Ward Sakeik is married to an American, has a pending green card application, owns a home in Texas, and has never been to Israel-Palestine. Why did ICE arrest her on her honeymoon and try deporting her to a country she's never seen? My latest for FWST: www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...