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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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thank you for the kind words!

By the Netroots | Arvin Alaigh At Netroots Nation, an activist vanguard sits uncomfortably alongside those amenable to the status quo of the Democratic Party.

i attended netroots nation earlier this summer, and wrote about it for @thebaffler.com - check it out!

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By the Netroots | Arvin Alaigh At Netroots Nation, an activist vanguard sits uncomfortably alongside those amenable to the status quo of the Democratic Party.

Who is Netroots Nation for anymore? Activists? Democratic Party advocates? Arvin Alaigh visits the 2025 conference for answers.

These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.

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Resistance Reexamined The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.

Arvin Alaigh: The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons to teach today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/resistance-r...

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

yeah... you can say i'll be on here a lil more :P

twitter is great bc every day your algorithm is constantly force-feeding you race war bait, incomprehensible quasi-schizophrenic promoted tweets, crypto scams, and fight videos... all without even asking :-)

Can you see what’s happening in LA?

5 straight days, 1,000+ students, at least 8 schools across the city & county…

Encourage the young people in your life to take action! Help them organize & mobilize their schools & classmates. Shut it all down!

I'm in the @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com this morning asking: Who exactly is running the federal government?
If we can’t answer that simple question, government officials and civil society must recognize warning signs of state capture and take back what's ours. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Loud and clear brother🗣️

It's all love blue sky fam.. but twitter is a lot better rn :/

Ben Horowitz’s cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department aided a16z portfolio company Skydio | TechCrunch When Skydio, a young maker of drones in San Mateo, California, sent a customer proposal in 2023 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, its chief

New bad thing just dropped:

Tech bros buying/donating surveillance gear to police departments, skipping public, elected official input and scrutiny on how it will be used.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/b...

The Fracture of Good Order | Arvin Alaigh It’s never a fair fight when the institutions that determine the acceptable bounds of dissent are the same ones conducting or enabling mass slaughter.

Contemporary antiwar protesters—smeared by journalists, beaten by police, rebuked by the public—will one day be seen as prophetic. At least, that’s what happened to the Berrigan brothers, two radical priests who stood up against the Vietnam War.

Sorry blue sky Fam
... twitter is much more fun right now :/

A collection of Bill Walton quotes on basketball from FreeDarko’s “The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History.”

Larry Johnson admonishment, Hugo Chávez praise. Walton forever.

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Logged into blue sky just to upvote this.

Ep. 268: Taking On The NJ Machine ft. Arvin Alaigh Party control and influence over New Jersey ballots could be coming to an end.

New Jersey's ballot design has given incumbents and friends of the political machine an unfair advantage for years.

Arvin Alaigh joined me to talk about why those days may be behind us, paving the way for more progressive and insurgent challengers: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-268-tak...

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Crossing Over | Arvin Alaigh Democrats have cribbed hardline rhetoric on immigration from their friends across the aisle. It’s a losing strategy.

​​Democrats have decided to be tough on immigration—which is to say, they’ve capitulated to the right. As Arvin Alaigh writes, it’s a losing strategy.

AIPAC of Lies | Arvin Alaigh The pro-Israel lobby wants to eliminate dissent among politicians on the question of Israel. They’re prepared to spend big on the 2024 election.

With few exceptions, the Democratic Party marches in lockstep behind President Biden when it comes to Israel’s bloody campaign in Gaza. Pro-Israel donors are spending big this election cycle to keep it that way.