Time for the world to #BoycottUSA

Brooklyn friends, especially Bushwick and parts of Ridgewood, please keep an eye out for my friend’s dog Penny who ran away last night ❤️

More than 800,000 in Gaza City face ‘catastrophe’ as Israel deepens invasion Hundreds of thousands of families are crammed in city's centre as bombardment rocks southern and northern parts 

More than 800,000 in Gaza City face ‘catastrophe’ as Israel deepens invasion - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-800000-gaza-city-face-catastrophe-israel-deepens-invasion

Nice relaxing walk with #sophiefromromania though she still has to learn how to relate to other dogs in a more polite way

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

To quote the late, great Carrie Fisher, things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.

Norway wealth fund terminates Israel asset management contracts Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it is terminating contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it is terminating contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank

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Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice By killing five Al Jazeera journalists, Israel hopes to obscure its genocide from the world. Instead, this brings it into sharper focus

Anas al-Sharif was murdered for being Gaza's voice - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/anas-al-sharif-was-murdered-being-gazas-voice

Court dismisses lawsuit aimed at defunding UNRWA <article data-history-node-id="427020" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/court-dismisses-lawsuit-aimed-defunding-unrwa" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/court-dismisses-lawsuit-aimed-defunding-unrwa" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Court dismisses lawsuit aimed at defunding UNRWA</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A US federal district court dismissed a civil lawsuit that falsely claimed that a US charity supported terrorism by providing financial contributions to&nbsp;the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) on Friday.</p> <p>The lawsuit is part of a broader attack by the Israeli government and its supporters on Unrwa, until recently the primary provider of humanitarian assistance in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>In response to the ruling dismissing the lawsuit,&nbsp;Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director of Unrwa USA&nbsp;said, “Unrwa USA is gratified to see that the court judge recognized the multiple defects in the plaintiffs’ argument and sees this meritless case for what it is.</p> <p>"It is a politically motivated attempt to bog Unrwa USA down in frivolous lawfare and intimidate us out of doing our essential humanitarian work.</p> <p>"That effort is all the more disturbing given that experts around the world, including Israeli human rights groups, are terming what is happening in Gaza a genocide.”</p> <p>Mandated by the UN to provide a range of essential services to registered Palestine refugees throughout the Middle East, Unrwa has played an indispensable role&nbsp;amid the latest Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 (a conservative estimate), and displaced nearly the entire population of more than two million, half of whom are children.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Throughout the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Unrwa USA – which is a nonprofit independent of the UN agency – has been an important vehicle for people in the US to help Palestine refugees in need.</p> <p>Unrwa managed the logistics for the UN’s aid delivery system, operating 400 distribution sites across the Gaza Strip—until Israel replaced them with the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).</p> <p>GHF is a privatized, militarized aid scheme conceived and backed by Israel and the US to control and coerce a starving population.</p> <p>It&nbsp;operates just four aid sites and Palestinians are forced to walk miles through rubble and danger for a chance at food, only to be corralled into fenced-off pens and, in many cases, shot.</p> <p>Since GHF’s implementation, the Israeli military and private contractors – or mercenaries – have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians at or near GHF sites.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Court dismisses lawsuit aimed at defunding UNRWA - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/court-dismisses-lawsuit-aimed-defunding-unrwa

Norway sovereign wealth fund drops investments in 11 Israeli companies CEO of organisation managing $2 trillion fund says 'situation in Gaza is a serious humanitarian crisis'

Norway sovereign wealth fund drops investments in 11 Israeli companies - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/norway-sovereign-fund-drops-investments-11-israeli-companies

Israel murdered five al-Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al-Sharif.

They did so because they're now liquidating Gaza City, and want to silence the remaining witnesses.

To Western journalists silent about the slaughter of your colleagues:

Their blood is on your hands, too.

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... The wonderful Jagdeep Aujla is the final Parky Portrait in the #MoversAndShakers mini series. Just five years since his diagnosis he’s climbed Kilimanjaro, started the Dopamine Warriors Boxing Club and campaigned to get more ethnic minorities in clinical trials

Big moment as #sophiefromromania allows both grandchildren to stroke her

BREAKING: This note Trump wrote to Alabama evangelist Acton Bowen, who was sentenced to more than 1,000 years for sexually abusing a half dozen teenagers, has resurfaced amidst Trump’s clear Epstein involvement.

Thoughts?

Govt intends to continue with OTB after Congress letter Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has said the Government intends to continue to advance its commitment to the Occupied Territories Bill.

Responding to a letter written by a group of US Congress members about the Occupied Territories Bill, Tánaiste Simon Harris said the Government intends to continue to advance its commitment to the bill.

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

For decades I have swum and boated in this lake. You don’t have to get the government to raise its water level to kayak. You get in, push off, and paddle. Decadent empire stuff.
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You cannot buy taste at any price.

Taoiseach condemns Israeli plans to occupy Gaza City EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has called on Israel to reconsider its plan to further extend the military's control over the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he unreservedly condemns Israeli plans to escalate its offensive in Gaza and to occupy Gaza City.
www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0808/1527532-middle-east-reaction/

"It is one of the great stains on both our political parties that two presidents, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, gave Benjamin Netanyahu pretty much everything he wanted."

I joined @briantylercohen.bsky.social to talk Gaza and genocide and complicity.

Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5h...

Excellent thread by @hansilowang.bsky.social on President Trump’s unconstitutional proposal.

But #FactsFirst: He has no powers afforded to him in the Constitution nor in US Code to alter the timing of the decennial Census, nor the humans — every person — it counts.

'Keir Starmer's Palestine Recognition Delay Is Obscene - The UK Must Act Now Without Conditions' We cannot justify waiting a single day more while Israeli forces level Gaza, before finally choosing to act, argues Linsay Taylor

🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Palestine Recognition Delay Is Obscene – The UK Must Act Now Without Conditions’

We cannot justify waiting a single day more while Israeli forces level Gaza, before finally choosing to act, argues Linsay Taylor

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/01/k...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "President Trump wants to hurt the American people, and that's exactly what he's doing."

This is Jelly. She did not bring back the wrong rock. Simply went above and beyond. 13/10 (TT: collinsbrothers)

Is there a Nobel Prize for fellatio?

I would pay good money for a reporter to ask Donald Trump to explain what an mRNA vaccine is and what his administration’s exact objection to it is.

Families fight to block parole for murderers who refuse to reveal location of their victims The families of victims involved in Scotland's highest profile murder cases are demanding convicted killers be refused parole unless they reveal where they dumped the bodies.

Families fight to block parole for murderers who refuse to reveal location of their victims