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Covid cautious, open border advocate, dog and cat lover, justice and peace , abolish police , against genocide
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"It felt like the entire city was dying."

"The 6-year-old boy has been diagnosed with leukemia and has missed a medical appointment to be treated for worsening symptoms, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday." www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Israel just killed *another 44 people* who were waiting for food at a "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" aid site. Meanwhile:

"Palestinian suffering has become too constant and too expected to trend. ... What Israel is doing in Gaza is a stain on humanity — a widening persecution spreading to other parts of the Middle East without accountability. Speak for Gaza so the genocide will not be normalized and repeated."

🚨BREAKING: Trump announces U.S. forces have carried out a full-scale bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. “All planes are safely on their way home,” he wrote, claiming a “full payload of BOMBS” was dropped on the primary target—Fordow.

Preventable Diseases Parade at the CDC in Atlanta on June 25th #Measles #Vaccines #CDC #VaccinesSaveLives

Make this go viral. This is where we are folks. Americans being kidnapped off the streets and disappeared. The White House is not happy with this video. Too fucking bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7SO...

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

"LAPD tear-gassed a baby under age two. When we were trying to chant their rights ICE honked so no one could hear." —An immigration lawyer on the scene in LA.

We need more big picture reporting like this. Most reporting is on the details and the daily outrage in the absence of the reality that $155 billion is not a TACO plan. They mean it and Americans don’t want it.

Absolutely wild how extremely far right rhetoric on Covid/disabled people, that liberals and leftists rightly attacked MAGA for in 2020, has now been mainstreamed to the point that leftists/liberals are further right on public health than most MAGA people were in 2020. Julia outlines it well here

A beloved member of my organizing community was taken by ICE today during an immigration check-in. Please sign this petition demanding her release.

'[A]n Israeli quadcopter drone hovering overhead and ordering them via loudspeaker to enter the fenced delivery center at 6:00 a.m." "After hundreds of people had entered, Israeli forces fired on the crowd, killing 75 people at the Rafah site." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

🔴 United Nations: “Since March 18, our humanitarian partners estimate that more than 640,000 people — that's nearly a third of Gaza’s entire population — have been displaced across the Gaza Strip.”

"Gaza is now the heart of the world ... still beating."

The TODAY Show recommends N95s, vaccines, and frequent testing to dodge the potentially forthcoming NB.1.8.1 summer wave. 💉💪😷 The U.S. government recommends against vaccines for children and pregnant people. 🤦 Link to video & more detailed article: www.today.com/health/coron...

“The experts said there are a few reasons why people might still be dying from the virus, including low vaccination uptake, waning immunity and not enough people accessing treatments” The word “experts” doing a lot of heavy lifting when there’s zero mention of respirators, clean air or free testing

mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

🚨NEW | Israel Approves Plan to ‘Capture’ and Occupy All of Gaza and Control Humanitarian Aid Israel has approved a sweeping plan to seize all of Gaza, to occupy it indefinitely, and displace its people south—advancing what rights groups warn is a military-engineered campaign of ethnic cleansing. 🧵

Alright because this is popping up more and more- the situation in Gaza (and I don’t say this lightly) is the worst it’s been. People are being constantly displaced, no aid has gotten in for weeks and I’ve known more people have relatives die this week than any other week since it started.

It's not exactly subtle, is it? Be sure to watch Louis Theroux's documentary on iPlayer

End the genocide

NEW at @dropsitenews.com: Tennessee Man Has Been Stranded in Guatemala Since 2022 Over Tattoo A major legal challenge seeks to overturn a Biden-era case that helped lay the groundwork for Trump’s tattoo-based deportation regime. Story by @mazmhussain.bsky.social

"Elon Musk is polluting the air of Tennesseans. He is continuing and perpetuating environmental racism and environmental degradation ... [I]t's having horrible ramifications — 17.2 tons of formaldehyde being sprayed into our air because of these gas turbines, over 130 tons of nitrogen oxide."

Fuck this fuck this FUCK THIS

The genocide continues

"Florida ... breeds mass shootings, to the extent that multiple past shootings in the state haunted [April 17]'s violence. The shooting resulted in the cancellation of a memorial scheduled for that day for FSU senior Maura Binkley, who was killed in a 2018 Tallahassee [hot yoga studio] shooting."

fighting tears

Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian Protagonist of Cannes-Bound ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,’ Killed in Israeli Missile Strike variety.com/2025/film/gl...

"Gaza has been turned into a mass grave of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance ... We are witnessing in real time the destruction and forced displacement of the entire population in Gaza."

"What broke me was her screaming."

Jeezus. A Guatemalan immigrant with no Massachusetts criminal record was arrested Monday on Tallman Street after federal agents shattered the glass on his vehicle as he and his wife waited inside the car for their lawyer to arrive. newbedfordlight.org/lawyer-feder...

A 14-year-old American boy and his two friends were gunned down by Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Their largely American village in the West Bank is wondering why Trump and the U.S. government have said so little about the killing of one of its citizens.

Where is your line?

Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions. Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of. There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.

"[T]here's zero information ... There's no transparency."

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

Catholic doctor haunted by work in Gaza: 'Every day I relive what I saw' www.ncronline.org/news/every-d...

"Israel's violence toward children stems from the view of an entire people as a 'demographic threat' ... Israel's open fire policy toward Palestinian children is inseparable from other draconian actions that clearly seek the depopulation of Gaza and the West Bank."

"It's our duty that we make their stories immortal ... Most of our writers lost their homes. They lost their laptops. They don't have electricity or internet connection. But they write their stories on their phones, wait a few days for internet connection and then submit them to us."

In our country of mass incarceration don’t forget this that are imprisoned. Many unjustly. They need our support too

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Most people have no idea there's this whole other entity making decisions on public safety."