Rabbi Eliezer said, "Other people’s dignity should be as precious to you as your own." —Pirkei Avot

It was one of those days where I felt great admiration for ppl trying to stop HIV in a part of the world that doesn’t even have paved streets, privilege about my own position, & anger at Trump, Musk & the US for harming these kind souls who have so little and are just trying to help their neighbors

“When Mamdani promised to launch one city-owned grocery story in each of New York’s five boroughs … it reminded Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, of the city-run grocery store she had visited in Istanbul in 2014.”

"As a member of the Jewish-Arab leftist Hadash Faction in the Israeli Parliament, I would like to congratulate Zohran Mamdani for his remarkable victory in yesterday’s election. From New York to the Middle East, may there be peace, justice and equality for all!" - Ofer Cassif, Jewish Communist MK.

Hanan Ashrawi, chairwoman of the board of trustees at Birzeit University in the West Bank and a former official for the Palestine Liberation Organization, called Mr. Mamdani’s victory “a wake-up call to the U.S. and the world, especially to the Democrats who worked against their own progressives.”

Rest in piss, Dick Cheney🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 I am still alive in Baghdad while you rot in hell's bottomless pit for all eternity. Life is good, despite everything!

This is the Cheney obituary to read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.

The judiciary is a subsidiary of the overarching occupation and apartheid.

Every day, the Israeli occupied southwestern Syria becomes more like the Israeli occupied West Bank. Military occupation, raids on villages, arbitrary kidnappings, murder, and now checkpoints and road obstructions by the foreign army:

Project Esther’s premise was essentially to lay all the blame for antisemitism at the feet of Muslims. I think people like Goldfeder went in cognizant that their partners didn’t like them, but that they could direct that energy at another hated minority. Very good that it has failed.

The promised flood of aid to Gaza post-“ceasefire” has not arrived yet. Israel is still deliberately blocking entrances with some trucks trickling in. A few crowdsourced dollars can help.

Re-upping: Was told that at an early State Department meeting on the civil war in Sudan a senior official asked “so, who thinks the USG is going to jeopardize the Abraham Accords to curtail Emirati support for the RSF?” Nobody raised their hand.

Ideal Iranian bathroom

I mean yeah, blue state governors and university presidents called the cops on and tear gassed their kids. Karine Jean Pierre called them Charlottesville Nazis from the White House podium. Don’t know what people thought was going to happen.

It's really under discussed just how aligned the Israeli and Emirati lobbies are.

Still, the suffering of the Sudanese people is on a whole other level. The indifference isn’t owned by the West alone; it’s shared by those closest too. Arabs watch Africans burn and feel nothing, just as others once shrugged as Syrians fought the flames. It’s not geography. It’s hierarchy. 2/5

We had to pay for our own water at the water cooler and I was second-guessing whether I could print a one-page return label lol

Repst= life

The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I really love Rick Steves as much as one can love a public figure. His Iran episodes were very important to me personally—the first piece of major mainstream media I saw that didn’t treat us like comic book villains. IDK what happened to WASPs; they need more sources of emulation like him.

Yet one more example of an industry impacted by climate change: England's hottest summer on record produced unusually sweet apples, which bumped up the alcohol content of scrumpy (hard cider). Now, it's classified as “wine”...taxed at a higher rate...and too expensive for producers to sell to pubs.

46 Palestinian children killed in one 'ceasefire' day! Imagine if these were Israeli children, with or without a ceasefire! Heartbreaking and criminal.

Killing hundreds including children because Palestinians can’t dig up bodies buried under stories of rubble fast enough with their bare hands, quite literally ignoring the remains of their own kin because certain lives are worth more, even in death. Demented and deranged.

Going to sleep and hope wake and see any support, I hope I wake up and see there is anyone surprised me I love u all 🫶

This man? Not actually related to the Tanners at all, yet they call him "Uncle Joey"

I think I’m a bit more sanguine than many of my peers about what’s happening in the US because I recognize it as part of a global phenomenon thanks to excellent resources like @merip.bsky.social I’ve been reading for years. Follow, like, subscribe, donate, etc.

A Bishkek court has just ruled that two of the countries most influential independent news sites Kloop and Temirov Live (both in exile abroad) are extremist organizations. This means that liking or reposting their content may be deemed a criminal act in Kyrgyzstan kloop.kg/blog/2025/10...

I'm really struggling with the information that the guy who got sent out to investigate this and is now accusing the Biden admin of a coverup was the former head of Guantanamo.

You are warm. You are satisfied. You are safe. I am writing this under the rubble. My mother is crying from hunger. I tell her the sky is just "noisy," not deadly. You can pass... or save a life. We don't need pity. We need action. Please help us survive tonight💔 chuffed.org/project/help...

Unsolicited 6:30 AM text from my dad

Please share. Akram has been desperate to get any assistance to rebuild his family's home. Not as a vanity project; they have nowhere else to sleep. And now his mom has emergency medical needs. Won't someone listen? Give / find their link here. 12 hours left. 97/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...

It sounds surprising in the Persian Gulf. Below is a video circulating on social media from October 24th showing a rock concert in Tehran's Iranshahr district. A little taste of the 90s...

We are producing a detailed podcast series about this whole time period in Italy. This was part of a wider movement called self-reduction, whereby workers and local working class people would choose their own prices for many goods and services, and enforce them with strength in numbers.

21 hours left ⚠️ I’m offline for health. Please share for Link; he was our big sharer 🙏🏾 I’m here every hour for six families & displacement camp—mostly kids—who still strugge to survive. Help with food, shelter, winter items, medicine, baby supplies for someone arriving soon 🩷 Last check 0/1000

I’m crying at these WSJ commenters. “I wish your movement well.” “What a breath of fresh air.” Sir you are talking about ISIS

More than 200 Texas churches are the target of a pro-Israel public relations campaign. A group called "Show Faith by Works" outlined plans for a digital 'geofencing' campaign at churches in multiple states in the U.S. The churches are asking DOJ to stop it. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

I’m Muslim and didn’t even know there was such a divide until reading a TIME magazine article in my dentist’s office in the mid-2000s that had a map of Iraq with the populations divided. Asked my parents about it! In my experience, this has always been a particular object of western fascination.

Relatedly, someone should tell Dems that a lot of the white, non-college educated, working class voters in the Midwest are (((“””Dearborn”””)))-style individuals, maybe that’ll help.

Electoral politics aside, this full-throated defense of Muslims as political beings in public life made me emotional. The attacks on him have been so violently anti-Muslim and I know a lot of people needed to hear this; I was one of them. We deserve so much better than this bipartisan hate.

According to a family member: 1) Putin is making Trump destroy the WH & build a ballroom (bad) and 2) the new ballroom will be a beautiful major upgrade because the WH is old and decrepit (good).

If you can spare a few dollars, you can do a really great thing today.

Will someone be first? Anyone? Zero??? ZERO???

Journalists reporting. Aid workers delivering food. Peace activists opposing home demolitions. Teenagers shot at checkpoints. A grandfather detained and left to die. None of the killers of these U.S. citizens have been held criminally accountable by Israel's government: dawnmena.org/u-s-congress...

Please share, matching 215 💚 Today we highlight my lovely friend H, a young dad with two toddlers. YOU have kept them sheltered for almost a year—nothing short of lifesaving. It still is, since fire is very unceased in their area. 12 hours left ⚠️ 57/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Winter is coming is really a scary statement for those in Gaza. Heavy rains and temperatures dropping to 6-9°c. The global north has heating: in gaza THERE ARE NOT ROOFS. Helping a Palestinian family secure a roof is 100% worth it chuffed.org/project/help...

Please consider reading my new article and the thread that goes along with it.

15 years after a local DA in Orange County decided to criminally prosecute the Irvine 11 after leaks from a far-right, racist website, the Santa Clara DA follows suit.