31/x If you're reading this, you were very likely BORN IN A WORLD where it was entirely legal for prison officials in the USA to use rape as a punishment to discipline literally anyone in their custody. And it was only a Black trans woman with nothing to lose that changed that.

I feel it is important to also note that it didn't need to be this way, Iran need not have been the only country which is willing to escalate on the issue of Beirut or Lebanon. Europe and especially France make a big show of being Lebanon's sister but have done nothing, less than zero, for it.

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I'm out of pretty words. A bullet manufactured in West Virginia is sitting, shattered, in a teenage girl's brain in Gaza. Every weekend, we try to help her secure the daily medicines that are keeping her alive. 48/220 by Monday. Then act to make that stop. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

IDF shoots baby; pleads mistake: the infant was critically wounded by the same bullet that injured his mother. His father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand. They were traveling from Bethlehem to visit family in Hebron.

The "maximalist" demand to not have a foreign army within your sovereign borders...

Our deaths are profitable to the Israeli death machine and multiple Western governments are then buying Israeli products tested on our bodies

Ok folks, I'm channeling some radical hope here. We're losing pledges...while they're still losing friends & family. Pledge a coffee, hit "weekly" on a five, to provide dependable help for 100 Palestinians as siege tightens: food, medicine, more. But then take bold, new action for their lives.

"A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

The ambulance video was one of the most disturbing videos I've watched for how totally insane it is to just casually destroy a medical vehicle for fun. The soldiers laugh throughout the entire clip.

For work I've watched dozens of videos of Israeli soldiers using D9 Caterpillar bulldozers (US-supplied) and other excavators to destroy 1. Solar panels 2. Ambulances 3. Apartment buildings 4. A clinic 5. A school 6. A soccer field That's just with D9s. Not even going into other destruction.

This is a perfectly rational position. Splitting Iran & Lebanon into separate theaters makes no sense www.liberalcurrents.com/a-peace-wort...

It is pretty noteworthy that the UKG can find the time to ban a couple of Americans from entering the country but cannot find the time to publish a formal response to something that happened 22 months ago

I had a very good call with Hezbollah

"The paper also notes the widely repeated claim that the woman was dragged across the floor by her hair is inaccurate – the video appears to show her being pulled by her collar." OH okay that's fine then. 😡

An old man’s fruit trees, century + old olive trees, a town’s electrical lines all pulled out of the ground. The homes of elderly folks razed to the ground. An old Palestinian woman telling me ‘death is better than life’ after her 3rd displacement in 2 years.

Israel already invaded Lebanon twice, in 1978 and 1982, before Hezbollah was founded. Israel had already been continuously occupying the Gaza Strip for 21 years before Hamas was founded. And putting these things aside, not a single thing Hezb does justifies Israel destroying 80+ Lebanese villages.

U Lun Gywe (Burmese, b. 1930). Green Scenery (1) (2011, acrylic on canvas).

People talk about annexation as this big momentous thing that will happen when the Knesset passes a fancy law declaring it outright but annexation began in 1967 and has been a continuous process, and here is the official Foreign Ministry of Israel saying that Palestine is Israeli land.

Maurice Bishop. Born 82 years ago today

The cruel American siege of Cuba is now depriving Cubans of water. Unable to transact on the world market to buy fuel or parts because of the US, the besieged island can't run water pumps effectively.

Article spends a lot of time talking about little gadget bullshit with barely a passing mention of the real big seller, air defense systems, and doesnt mention that the vast majority of this boost is solely due to Germany's Arrow 3 purchase.

In memory of: Misbah Abdel Shakur Misbah Al-Arair / مصباح عبد الشكور مصباح العرعير Age: 30 We will not forget you.

Van Hollen also says the likes of Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk, Amos Hochstein, and Jack Lew should be disallowed from serving in high administrative office in the future.

Nuns, underground Basilica of St. Pius X, Lourdes r/brutalism

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📷 Paul Willson, Across Loch Tay

Israel is still bombing Lebanon, still bombing Gaza, not that you would know because this app is really western centric

They were protesting the Dutch governments ongoing complicity in Israel's genocide, not that you would know it from reading this article.

Don’t tell me the flotilla does nothing. The flotilla pressures international governments to act against Israel in unprecedented ways like banning their leaders when the evidence of the brutal sadistic abuse of international citizens by Israel breaks international consciousness.

You're allowed to be shocked that Ivanka's being targeted after we turned much of Ali Khamenei's family into stains on walls, but I don't think you're allowed to be scandalized

It was probably still 2023 when we got reports that Palestinians were having limbs amputated in Israeli custody from prolonged binding in stress positions. Torture is standard practice.

The battle over BDS at the Park Slope Food Coop has become a symbol of a broader struggle to hold Israel accountable. https://bit.ly/4dWXff4

Spanish MEP Irene Montero criticised EU Vice-President Kaja Kallas for the international body’s inability to protect pro-Palestine activists that have been abducted in international waters by Israel:

I am fairly certain the $30 million in question here was USAID money that was obligated to GHF as one of the last actions of many USAID staff before departing the Agency or transferring to State. I have a little more info below, all from former colleagues who saw it happen...

Israel murdered an Iraqi shepherd in order to keep their military base in Iraqi a secret. Arab life is so cheap to the West that this doesn't even get a condemnation from world leaders. Israel is entitled to as much Arab and Muslim death as they feel necessary for "security" It will never be enough

Israeli fascist and minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video of himself on Twitter abusing the illegally kidnaped and detained members of the Global Sumud Flotilla while yelling “Welcome to Israel, we are the owners of the house".

I saw the aftermath of Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2018. Burial sites encased in concrete next to hospitals that had treated the sick. Orphanages overflowing. And now we have decimated the aid budgets that could help DRC to cope.

Percy Kelly (British, 1918–1993). Maryport harbour (watercolour).

Today, the most stagnant fund I host is: • Ahmed: tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF • Last donation: May 10 • Ahmed is an art therapist treats the trauma of children in Gaza. Now in exile, he still needs help with basic living costs. I visited him last week; he's a very real person. £114/387 by May 21.

The "transfer of Israel's own population as a war crime" is in reference to the illegal settlement enterprise in occupied Palestinian territory, which is a definitively outlined war crime according to the 4th Geneva Convention. It is one of the easiest things to prove.

Sometimes you receive a better sense of clarity once you simply look at some newspaper archives

From 1982

Everyday, what you see on your screens, is the nakba, the catastrophe, the theft of Palestinian lives and land, ongoing, for 78 years now.

India, where mosques and Muslim shrines are routinely attacked and occupied and turned into Hindu temples.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. Join the thousands of members organizing arm embargo campaigns, campaigns to end our complicity in apartheid, and much more today. Read our statement: www.dsausa.org/statements/d...

Nakba denialism is first and foremost primarily a function of wanting to reject the colonial element of the Palestinian issue in favor of a “more complex” co-belligerency between two states on (one of which only exists de jure) regarding “contested territory”.

Frederic Edwin Church, Aurora Borealis, 1865

My father was also 9 years old, like Inea, and he was also living in Jerusalem in 1948. They had to leave everything behind. He still breaks down in tears when trying to speak about this time. I've never heard his full story. 💔 Another year and still no justice...

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in 2026. Maybe in 2025 too. Impossibly it gets funnier the longer it goes on.