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If Israelis were actually against genocide they'd be voting for the Arab bloc

Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

what today has taught me is that for many men, a certain amount of abuse of women is always acceptable. sure, there's an amount that isn't, but that's up to them to decide, and if you try to question them, well you're just a crazy fucking bitch aren't you.

Need those fabled re-education camps to teach these slobbering nazis basic, pre-K level human decency

B’Tselem released footage showing the moment Israeli forces opened fire on a family car in Hebron, in which 7-month-old Sam Abu Heikal was shot and killed several days ago.

good on him for not agreeing to lie about Renee Good, but the line they’re fighting over is already to the right of the truth. Throwing snowballs and kicking taillights does not make protesters “half” of the story about extrajudicial killings by paramilitary troops sent on a mission to terrorize.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of cameras and other equipment from a photojournalist who had been injured covering tense protests outside a Newark immigration jail.

Here are the 117 Democrats who voted with Republicans against Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon war powers resolution. Thomas Massie was the one Republican to join 91 Democrats — who all bucked party leadership — in voting for it.

www.andreaformaine.com

Family members have been reaching to groups sounding the alarm that their loved ones in the Adelanto ICE facility are being retaliated against for speaking with Congress members about the inhumane and abusive conditions they are experiencing from the guards.

The sole thing Democrats are willing to use "I'm the President and no parliamentarian shall stop me" power for is killing Gazans.

Trump: "26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military...What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" Platner: "How about women just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to"

Democratic governors really beating the collaborator allegations this week

“masked individuals” oh you mean the people forced to wear gas masks because your goons are spraying toxic chemicals at them

Sherrill is saying "outside agitators," but she's referring to the activists who've spent the past year volunteering their time to aid people visiting their loved ones at Delaney Hall, while ICE stonewalled visitors and NJ Dems twiddled their thumbs.

Governor Mikie Sherrill says it was “absolutely necessary” for the NJ State Police to attack protesters at Delaney Hall last night. This was in order for NJ State Police to “secure the area outside of Delaney Hall,” “protect public safety, and avoid escalation from ICE.” www.nj.gov/governor/new...

There is zero difference between this and the claims that Trump was the peace candidate

I don't even know what to say

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

The Israeli occupation army continued its assault on Lebanon, committing a massacre in Kfar Rumman that killed four people. A barrage of rockets targeted the city of Nabatieh, striking the al-Midan, al-Maslakh and al-Rahbat areas.

🚨BREAKING: Protesters trying to block transport van as ICE tries to transfer out Martin Soto, one of the leaders of massive hunger/labor strike at Delaney Hall ICE prison currently on day 3. Guards threatened to toss him in solitary confinement & threatened his wife w/ cutting off visitation. MORE⬇️

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

Last week, from Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: About 822,500 U.S. citizen children in Texas live with at least one undocumented parent. No federal or state programs exist to help cover rent, utilities, or childcare when the breadwinner is deported.

The prosecutors did what they always do but made the mistake of targeting people who could raise money for an adequate defense

Incredible. The newly-published DNC autopsy of 2024 is 192 pages. *Zero* mentions of the words "Israel," "Palestine," or "Gaza." (DNC Chair Ken Martin concedes the autopsy does not meet his standards, nor would it meet yours).

On Monday, I attended a meeting between lawyer & client revealing the banal cruelty of immigration detention. The woman (who btw has a slam dunk asylum case) crossed earlier this year: Hegseth's statement that there's "zero" crossings is a total lie. Approximately 300 people cross daily 1/

Journalist Ed Augustin, reporting from Havana, calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba “collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, children and the elderly.”

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

UAE tried to keep secret its purchase of weapons from Israeli contractor Elbit, the largest in the company's history

Cuba’s government said the country has completely run out of fuel oil and diesel needed to keep the lights on, with extensive blackouts sparking protests for the third day in a row this week. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

1/ Last fall, as we were interviewing immigrants detained during a dramatic immigration raid at an apartment complex in Chicago, we kept hearing about a Nigerian man whose leg was mauled by a police dog. 🧵:

This website collects, summarises, analyses and visualises the starvation of Gaza in the last 30 months. Initiated by colleagues of mine from the Hebrew University. bearing-witness.com/starvation-s...

Featured story: Cuba is in the dark. Literally—for most of the day, most of the country has no electricity. The national power grid, known by its Spanish acronym, SEN, has collapsed 7 times in the past 18 months.

Mondoweiss speaks with media critic Adam Johnson about his new book detailing how cable shows, newspapers, and online news sites helped build support for the mass killing of Palestinians. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/how-...

In Gaza, a new terror has emerged for displaced families: Predatory rodents are shredding the tents that residents spent years pleading for at aid organizations and have also begun attacking and biting humans.

NEW: After years operating in almost complete anonymity, the top content producers of Canary Mission have been identified. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

I guess that's why they did unprecedented wargames practicing the attack with the Israelis

Molly Shah is a hero, and the effort she made to help Palestinians in a genocide literally saved lives. There are people here, today, now, who would be dead without her.

Israel detonating what’s left of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. They were already destroyed. Israel is obliterating everything. Day 2 of the “ceasefire” between Lebanon and the genocidal nation

Pretty cool how liberal justices sat on this smoking gun evidence of a fascist coup for a decade