When major donors like the US and Germany condoned Israel's killing of hundreds of @unrwa.org's humanitarians in Gaza.

These Afghan refugees were in Qatar waiting for resettlement. They had been evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, since they had worked for the US & Western military, embassies. Nasty racism on display.

US weapons manufacturers are reporting a surge in demand for military equipment, as the war in the Middle East prompts fresh orders from governments around the world u.afp.com/SE92

The endpoint of all this stuff is replacing UI design with a red queen's race where LLM agents acting on behalf of users are exploited by counter-agents acting on behalf of services and vice-versa, burning more and more compute and more and more trivial tasks in ways that produce no value.

“Open The Road!” These brave children held a protest after being tear-gassed by IOF/IDF for attempting to cross a razor wire fence in Umm Al-Kheir, West Bank. (Footage: independent journalist Andrey X for Caravan Collective, in Palestine)

Video wasn’t working earlier but watch as the Surprise mayor flees like the coward he is.

Two CIA agents were killed in a vehicle accident in Mexico over the weekend after destroying their competitor's drug lab.

Trump threatens Iran with potentially "blowing up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!"

Hello from the Surprise City Council meeting where most of the crowd is here to speak out against the proposed ICE concentration camp and the council’s refusal to put the detention center on the agenda as an action item like they said they would.

New short on @threewayfight.bsky.social: threewayfight.org/southern-pov...

Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.

Reminder that Canada is helping facilitate the US strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

This man is known for being awful and evil. New Hitler, potentially? Anyway. What do you think of him?

“In the S&T budget, the smart-glasses work appears under the Border Security and Immigration Mission Center’s Detention and Removal Operations program, which is funded at $7.5 million for FY 2027.”

“In other words, the glasses are being developed as a mobile biometric interface for frontline immigration enforcement.”

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

Germany’s far-right AfD hosted a white nationalist organization and neo-Nazi linked figures inside the European Parliament, highlighting how institutional platforms are being used to legitimize extremist actors and embed far-right networks within European political structures. Read more:

Lebanese francophone outlet L’Orient Le-Jour: the Nakba of South Lebanon. We Lebanese are calling it for what it is: a continuation of the 1948 Nakba. The photo shows a Lebanese village with an Israeli flag on it, planted by the genocidal army.

BREAKING: U.S. Personnel Who Died in Mexico Were Working For the CIA, Sources Say Two Americans killed in Mexico, previously identified only as “staff from the United States Embassy,” participated in a raid on a drug lab. theintercept.com/2026/04/21/c...

What do European ravers in Morocco & the U.S.-Mexico border have in common? The concept of Saharanism, imagining deserts as lawless & ripe for conquest. Our latest article connects the film Sirāt to border militarization. Click below to read the full piece🦂🔗:

In 2025, at least 110 people in the EU were “criminalised for trying to rescue people in distress at sea or in border areas, for participating in civil disobedience actions, providing legal aid or information, or offering food, water and/or shelter to migrants” picum.org/blog/at-leas...

The Hormuz Closure Is Driving a Shortage of Battery Ingredients #Climate

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”. -Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

Aktion T4 meets neoliberalism in woo-woo nepo baby’s attempt to rescue a declining empire from itself and its house of cards economy

This would be horrific no matter what it was referring to. But "cleaning up the risk pool" by eliminating vaccines just means you kill a bunch of people WHILE ALSO creating a whole new "risk pool" of people with post-viral issues.

The extremely propaganda-driven right wing backlash to COVID protections was because they realized they finally found their moment to take the mask off and start killing the elderly and infirm en masse. Maybe the one functional bit of consent building they’ve pulled off in years

Frankly we do not, collectively, hate these people enough.

For the Labour government, if you're not an old white man convinced fascism is the only way forward, you are not part of "the people" You are part of naive youth, the woke identity politics minorities, white liberals etc but you are not "the people" and it doesn't matter if you're the vast majority

MAHA antivax ideology is willingly being used by the U.S. military to biologically warfare themselves

̶T̶h̶a̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶i̶m̶m̶i̶g̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶y̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶: www.commondreams.org/opinion/chip... Immigration policy is the architecture of a police state:

Liberals Think About Material Relations in Society Challenge, difficulty: impossible

Save the billionaires? Blame the elderly? WTF?!

“Commonsense guardrails” for the fascist paramilitary forces? And because they target citizens and not just non-citizens? Fck them, fck that, and fck u.

Your 5 year old nephew telling you a story

Point out that MAGA is fracturing, fine. Promoting those who seek to become its new figurehead, bad.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

While we're doing maps, look at how much of Lebanon's farmland sits in the "Forward Defense Zone" which was also subject to this white phosphorus use.

The twist? They settle on Chiang Kai-shek.

Tennessee House passes bill to force county sheriffs to work with ICE The bill is part of a package of nine bills drafted by Tennessee Republicans to carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda on the state level www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Successfully kicking off what might turn out to be a series of anti-ICE/meet your community townhalls across the heartland

These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/04/20/p...

Amplifying vulnerability: State policy and the consolidation of a migratory chokepoint on Mexico's southern border www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paper companies conspire to fix and inflate prices

he's just using his childhood catholic identity to reiterate his loyalty to trump.

Says guy who supplied material support to ISIS-linked groups in Gaza and Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria

Boos erupt against pro-Israel candidates at Michigan Democratic convention www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260420-boo...