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Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.

The Israeli cabinet has approved the establishment of an “administration for the voluntary transition of Gaza’s residents to third countries” - aka for mass ethnic cleansing

That’s the spirit. Nothing less than democracy and a country to save from despotism.

“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

The UN human rights office has expressed horror as at least 200 Palestinian children were killed in Israel’s renewed attacks on Gaza this week. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/lcwldb

My brother represents undocumented children facing detention and deportation so that the kids don’t have to go to court alone and have a Spanish speaking attorney to help them navigate the system. The government just canceled his coalition’s contract, and the law firm representing them backed out.

Video captured the moment Israeli forces blew up Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and an adjacent medical school over what the military claims was a Hamas presence.

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BREAKING: The Israeli military has hit the Turkish Friendship Hospital for Cancer Patients in central Gaza, the only medical facility delivering cancer care in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/81f3yk

this is great

Let it sink in how depraved it is that Columbia University just expelled students for protesting US-backed genocide Now Israel is blowing up entire families in the middle of the night with US bombs. After 16 months of extermination, US institutions still side with genocide

Bombing schools and hospitals is a terrible way to free hostages

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

This is a PhD student in *epidemiology*

Pentagon removes page on Iwo Jima flag raisers and Navajo code talkers, via @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

A pregnant TX mom infected with measles shows up at Lubbock Hospital to give birth, exposing dozens of newborns to measles. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

every damn time

"Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair."

LOL plot twist. 🤡 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease and the loss of $80,000 in grant money promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (2024) following repeated intimidation attempts by the mayor.

Perhaps the most devastating part of this harrowing UN report is the attack on Gaza's maternity, fertility and reproductive health clinics, attacks which the commission describes as genocidal acts. The IDF bombing of the Basma IVF Centre killed 4,000 embryos. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

christ

You never invite the enemy

"A religious Jew was voted as Mayor, along with a Zionist city council. Unlike other cities, we have zero tolerance for pro Hamas/ terrorist propaganda." That's from one of the Miami Beach city councilors.

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

So to recap: it’s illegal to protest genocide. It’s illegal to leave a protest against genocide. It’s illegal to be near a protest against genocide. It’s illegal to appear to support Palestinian right to life. It’s illegal to go to college. It’s illegal to be.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

I try to envision a world where I, or someone like me, could be *this* stupid and be given so much power. Unfathomable.

I hate how there was this pause in Gaza where things were better but still bad and now it’s just right back to desperation for everyone- it’s a stain on humanity that no one has intervened to stop these blatant war crimes

Breaking News: The Education Department announced that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency. The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.

Again, this should be the end of it, & the fact that we’re tolerating it is both a massive national security crisis & a massive constitutional crisis. Maybe nothing ever mattered, but I don’t think that’s actually true, & one wonders why we are so deeply unserious now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The US won the geopolitical lottery having Canada and Mexico as neighbors. This kind of offensive nonsense is doing so much damage, not just to America's standing in the world, but to our security.

A thing that I find incredibly interesting is the world is full of people who genuinely believe they have a *right* to be liked and for people to be obsequious towards them. I have seen it from a wide range of people, and it never ceases to amaze me. No one *has* to be your friend!

This isn't the main point of this very good thread. But look at this as example of the laughable quality of what gets printed in The Federalist. "arrested ... on charges he was providing support to Hamas". What? He wasn't arrested on any charges at all. At a basic level, how does something like ...

Leavitt: Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries and a tax cut for the American people Reporter: Have you ever paid a tariff? I have. They don’t get charged on foreign countries Leavitt: I think it’s insulting that you are trying test my knowledge on economics

Last weekend I tried to get a correction from Matt Taibbi on a basic “mistake”: claiming a report I wrote was source of the stat that 126MM people saw Russian influence op content on FB. Rather than correct, he fought me. He made more “mistakes”. Hilarity ensued. open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...