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Russia has grown its forces beyond pre-war levels of 600,000-700,000 personnel. By 2026, Kremlin aims to have 1.5 million. Near Estonia, Russia has multiple units ..the 69th & 68th Motor Rifle Divisions, showcasing “Russia’s capacity to create large military formations in a relatively short time

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Renowned Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer was Reem Hamadaqa's professor and close mentor. She writes of his posthumous book If I Must Die, "Alareer's poems embody the essence of resistance, grief, steadfastness—sumud—and storytelling as survival." https://buff.ly/416LE5x #Palestine #Israel

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Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

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The fight for Palestinian freedom needs independent media. Mondoweiss amplifies the voices mainstream outlets erase. Your support funds fearless journalism that holds power accountable. act.mondoweiss.net/a/donate?sou...

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This has been my point for weeks about what Musk is after. Consolidated data from the biggest mine of information in the world. He’s so thirsty for data he’d get his hands on the nuclear codes if he could. Could he? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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This is why he is such a unique liar - he repeats the lie that has been repeatedly debunked and discredited, even in front of him (as it was in the Oval Office the other day).

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Israel’s genocide on Gaza isn’t over—but right now, it’s turning its sights on the West Bank, where over 40,000 Palestinians have already been forced from their homes. Ethnic cleansing doesn’t pause—it expands. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

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Some of the most fervent pushback to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza is coming from the same people, institutions, and newsrooms that refused to challenge, and even supported, the mass slaughter of Palestinians during the Biden administration. https://buff.ly/4gSXu94

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“It is deeply ironic and telling that both the alleged pro-Israel perpetrator and the pro-Israel victim in the Miami Beach shooting reportedly hold racist anti-Palestinian views,” said CAIR's Nihad Awad. https://buff.ly/4gKuLDu #Palestine #Israel

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Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction. https://buff.ly/41d4VU1 #Palestine #Israel

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Trump’s call to ethnically cleanse Gaza is an affirmation of an ascendant global movement, with Israel in the vanguard, seeking to overturn long-standing international norms. Palestinian ties to the land stand in direct resistance to this project. https://buff.ly/4gEsyto #Palestine #Israel

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Yara Hawari and Abdaljwad Omar discuss Israel’s attempts to sabotage the fragile ceasefire, emerging questions about post-war governance in Gaza, and what this means for the future of Palestine. https://buff.ly/4gGDBSE #Palestine #Israel

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The U.S. and Israel are preventing Gaza reconstruction in order to prevent Palestinian return. The only way to stop this is to commence the full reconstruction of the Gaza Strip immediately, regardless of what Israel and the U.S. have to say. https://buff.ly/4k1mRbR #Palestine #Israel

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The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network calls on global leaders to protect Palestinian children by cutting off the military, political, financial, and diplomatic support that sustains Israel’s systematic human rights abuses. https://buff.ly/41dQrmP #Palestine #Israel

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Last month Donald Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who advocate for Palestine. Mondoweiss talked to legal experts about its possible impact and the wider attacks on Palestine advocacy in the U.S. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/expl...

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Israel follows its usual playbook—violating the ceasefire, blaming Hamas, and securing U.S. backing to escalate more war crimes, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. By Carlos Latuff.

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The United States and Israel are openly pushing their plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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So, conservatives pressured Obama into becoming the 1st POTUS to release visitor logs. Bush didn’t do it before him. Trump didn’t do it after him. But Biden did. Trump is back again & not releasing them again. A reminder of how asymmetric our politics are

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The latest statements are very dangerous Trump seeks to confuse the Palestinians and make them refugees forever

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Harvard's differential treatment of pro-Palestine students continues to draw attention. This recent IHRA adoption is just one example. In recent weeks, three faculty members have resigned in protest of student repression. @shraddhajoshi.bsky.social reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

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Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

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All I hope is that if - if - Dems ever get back into power, they've learned lessons from this period, and they understand that they're actually allowed to use a little of that power, given what we've seen Republicans and Musk do in just three weeks. Sheesh. I hope but I'm not optimistic.

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There have been some truly awful and egregious headlines on Gaza in the New York Times over the past 16 months but we may have a winner, folks. ‘Gaza Development Plan’

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I used to be really big on calling myself a feminist but now I feel like it's too small to match my worldview and leaves too many holes for justifying harmful ideology.

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Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ Trump says ahead of Vance-Zelensky meeting | CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/e...

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READ: Trump’s call to ethnically cleanse Gaza isn’t just genocidal—it's part of a global movement to scrap international law, with Israel leading the charge. Palestinian ties to the land stand in direct resistance to this project.

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Publishers for Palestine: "The attack on the Munas [family] and the store [The Educational Bookshop] … is part of Israel’s practice of cultural erasure and its larger genocidal project against Palestinians." publishersforpalestine.org/2025/02/10/p...

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NYC Saturday at the People's Church: Music Marathon for Palestine, organized by Palestinian Youth Movement NYC chapter and raising funds for the Middle East Children's Alliance www.eventbrite.com/e/music-mara...

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🚨 New episode! After 16 months of genocide, Gaza’s ceasefire offers a brief pause—but Israeli violence rages on. As Trump & Netanyahu plot Gaza’s future, we break down what’s next for Palestine. Feat. @dianabuttu, in collab w/ @AlShabaka. 🎧 Listen now:

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Palestinian Sound Archive is coming to Brooklyn, Beacon & Troy NY! Get a glimpse into the archive – which compiles vinyl, tapes & album artwork from across Palestine + the stories that go with them – and learn about archival practice as an act of resistance www.wildarcfarm.com/blog/2025/2/...

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During the Super Bowl halftime show, a protester stormed the field waving a Palestinian and Sudanese flag, demanding the world’s attention on genocide and oppression. He was later tackled by security.

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“They want to make us afraid. Not just us, they want to send a message to all Palestinian people,” Morad Muna said. “We are now going to reopen both branches of the bookshop. I think this is the best reaction that we can do to such a situation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Got your #ZeteoMerch yet? 😉 shop.zeteo.com

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"You know they have a denaturalization commission now? A group that will look at American citizens and say, 'We think you're actually an illegal immigrant,' and they will strip you, retrospectively, of your citizenship." This week's 'We're Not Kidding' pod with me and Bassem Youssef:

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A new book looks at the life of Marie Curie through the lens of some of the 45 women who passed through her laboratory.

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Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/stud...

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youtu.be/qZcQ4EV-kU0?... Congressman Al Green delivered remarks on the House floor to condemn President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu's ethnic cleansing remarks. He also called for a boycott and impeachment.

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The U.S. and Israel are preventing Gaza reconstruction in order to prevent Palestinian return. The only way to stop this is to commence the full reconstruction of the Gaza Strip immediately, regardless of what Israel and the U.S. have to say. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/the-...

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"the Academy noted that the award cycle was suspended this year in light of Armaly’s rejection of the prize" 🗣️ No business as usual for cultural institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide

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Trump and Netanyahu are openly discussing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—framing Gaza as a 'demolition site' and questioning why its people would want to return. This isn’t policy; it’s genocide. And the U.S. isn’t just endorsing it—they have been actively making it happen.

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Nothing to worry about: the world’s richest man, and donor to Donald Trump, is bragging about killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The party of the little guy against the elites! Yeah!

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More fascist policy making from the Biden administration on their very last days.

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The people who taught you communism is bad are the same people who benefit from fascists being in power, just saying.

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The US has always been an Evil Empire since its inception on stolen land built by stolen labor. Like all empires throughout history, it will fall. & the generations of global victims of the EE deserve to see its collapse. It's just a ponzi scheme for those okay w exploiting other living beings.

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Democrats are in cahoots with Republicans.

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This is insane. Musk, the world's richest man, owner of the most influential political messaging platform, and a de facto government member and top ally to the president, is accusing a journalist of being a criminal, because she reported on one of his racist DOGE staffers. This is fascist behavior.

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Trump’s call to ethnically cleanse Gaza is an affirmation of an ascendant global movement, with Israel in the vanguard, seeking to overturn long-standing international norms. Palestinian ties to the land stand in direct resistance to this project. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/trum...

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