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During apartheid, South African armed forces killed 69 civilians in the Sharpeville Massacre. The world was shocked. This event is still taught in history classes. On average, Israel has massacred more than 70 Palestinian civilians *every day* for the past 18 months.

My latest story in Salon, about innovation and technology in Gaza under the most extreme duress, and about decades of innovation under the shadow of deliberate de-development by Israel. www.salon.com/2025/03/29/z...

Israeli army's 7 Oct probe further confirms implementation of Hannibal Directive

Media coverage of the shooting of two Israeli tourists who were mistaken for Palestinians ignored the root cause of the violence: Zionism. https://buff.ly/41qweKC #Palestine #Israel

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

Anti-Palestinian racism is harmful to Jews. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/miam...

What's the tenor in your social circles on why the ceasefire might fall apart? Is it the usual lies that "Palestinians reject peace every time"? Or are people starting to get it?

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

As it has been for 15 months, the narrative about who is obstructing a Gaza ceasefire is upside down. Since the ceasefire officially went into effect Jan. 19, Israel has repeatedly violated it by shooting & killing Palestinians and continuing to withhold aid, tents, mobile homes.

NO OTHER LAND - watch and feel the rage at the impunity of Israeli theft of peoples' homes. You can only do such a thing if you've dehumanized your victim and in doing so, yourself. releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land

Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased - https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/

Eight. Months.

I am taking the plunge in completing deletion of my profiles on "the big 3" (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). I only have Twitter to go, and it has already felt isolating but mostly in surface ways. I am trying to build some sense of "staying in the loop" by using Bluesky and an RSS reader for news.

Just imagine if that had happened to an American, French, not to mention Israeli pregnant woman. It would have been headline news - rightly so - everywhere. But not so when a Palestinian 8-month pregnant woman is shot dead. Then it is not newsworthy... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

Excellent.

YES...HA HA HA, YES! cdm.link/ubuweb-lives/

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

Donald Trump hired the richest man in the world and a 19 year old named Big Balls to destroy the Department of Education. If this midterm is anything less than a rout, we can start winding the Democratic Party down.

We're about to find out who really runs this country real quick

If your lack-of-transparency grievance tends to only ever coincide with your self-interest, then...wellll....ummmm

Bluesky is built on an open source protocol that can be moved to another server once they start federation capabilities. Meaning baddies can buy the company but you could move your account somewhere else. If we can do that for YouTube TikTok etc then a few evil nerds wouldn't control our brains

pluralistic.net/2025/01/23/d...

Been feeling a little stuck lately, in the theoretical, in the domestic. In one of my jobs I work with co-op housing. I don't know the full picture of where co-ops sit in the capitalist base...and not so naive to think they sit outside it.

Another whitewash job from NYT. Rather than an active participant in what both Amnesty International and HRW call a genocide (a designation left unmentioned, ofc), Blinken is presented as a bumbling humanitarian who simply cant get the rogue Israelis to listen to his alleged humanitarian concerns

No One Quite Sure Why 8-Year-Old Has Voice Of Lifelong Chain Smoker

Israel’s responsibility vaguely mentioned once in paragraph 9. Note when NYT does put a human face to the horrors of Gaza it’s written like a natural disaster story. No mention of Israeli officials’ genocidal statements. It’s just an earthquake with no author or moral agent responsible for anything.

What to say about Lynch, famously prepared to move onto the next plane of existence? If you don't know about this book it is a cover-to-cover treat for sonically sensitive Twin Peaks aficionados. www.routledge.com/Music-in-Twi...

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, Shane Woolman presents The Wire's Adventures In Sound And Music, featuring special guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal + music by Grup Ses & Gökalp K, Sansouni, King Jammy & more. Listen from 9pm GMT. extra.resonance.fm