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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽

"From last October until late June of this year, 12 people nationwide had died in ICE facilities — more than the total deaths in all of the last fiscal year… the highest … ICE detainee deaths since the Covid pandemic in 2020.

Among the 12 deaths were at least two suicides."

The New York Times office was vandalized last night with red paint and spray paint saying "NYT Lies, Gaza dies."

AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers - Techie + Gamers Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also at the center of a growing environmental debate. Microsoft’s Stargate campus in Abilene is leading a data cen...

Coming soon to a nation near you: Mad Max

"In San Antonio, Microsoft and U.S. Army Corps facilities used a combined 463M gallons of water in 2023 and 2024, according to local water utility SAWS. That’s the equivalent of usage for tens of thousands of households."

techiegamers.com/texas-data-c...

Screenshot from gazafreedomflotilla's Instagram post. https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/p/DMrNsBiMTOj/ Image is a black background with white text. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition logo in the top right corner. A picture of Chris is in the bottom right corner. Text: Assault of Human Rights Defender Upon Arrival in Israeli Custody The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that upon arrival in Israeli custody, U.S. human rights defender, Christian Smalls, was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back.

Screenshot from gazafreedomflotilla's Instagram post. https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/p/DMrNsBiMTOj/ Image is a black background with white text. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition logo in the top right corner. Two pictures of Chris Smalls, one near the bottom right and another slightly blurred in the background. Text: When his lawyer met with him, Christian was surrounded by six members of Israel's special police unit. This level of force was not used against other abducted activists.

Screenshot from gazafreedomflotilla's Instagram post. https://www.instagram.com/gazafreedomflotilla/p/DMrNsBiMTOj/ Image is a black background with white text. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition logo in the top right corner. Text: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition condemns this violence against Chris and demands accountability for the assault and discriminatory treatment he faced.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has been posting updates regarding the activists who were aboard the Handala.

This post is regarding Christian Smalls, a Black American union organizer and co-founder of Amazon Labor Union.

In addition to genocide, Israel has broken something at the core of the human species.

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

"Do not underestimate the aid and support you provide even if it only helps us hold on for a little while"

Israeli terrorists have boarded the Handala flotilla.

Israel is arresting bringers of baby formula.

If, in this moment, you are looking at Gaza and feeling powerless, try, as Fred Rogers told us, to be a helper. bsky.app/profile/thec...

“The idea that there is genocide in Gaza and fascism at home are not unrelated. They’re deeply entwined and need to be attacked together.”

Thank you to Samer from @arocbayarea.bsky.social for these powerful words, laying out so concisely how we got to this moment.

Omar Hamad, who is a brilliant published writer and a pharmacist in Gaza has taken a leap of hope and just got engaged with his lady love!
So let's celebrate Omar's engagement with some gifts of cash and prayers of love!
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River Road Asset Management

Wolf Hill Capital Management

🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:

Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO

River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW

Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST

They smashed his window & beat him & left him bloodied with 9 stitches because he didn’t have his lights on.

During the day.

YouTube video by Unicorn Riot Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel

A militant mobilization by dockworkers at Greece’s Port of Piraeus prevented the trans-shipment of military grade steel destined for Israel & expected to be used in the genocidal war on Gaza.

The dockworkers refuse to be “accomplices to the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

youtu.be/lq_bRVIQR_M

Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel - UNICORN RIOT A militant mobilization by dockworkers at Greece’s port of Piraeus prevented the trans-shipment of military grade steel destined for Israel.

NEW: Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel

A militant mobilization by dockworkers at Greece’s Port of Piraeus prevented the trans-shipment of military grade steel destined for Israel on July 16. [Video in link]

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Oh yay @lifewinning.com ! I forgot you were on here :) Still a fabulous piece of writing.

There's something there that I can't quite articulate yet that connects all 3 examples, not to mention the tech bros who think their tech is solving social problems. The hubris and arrogance around social theory, the dismissal of the humanities whilst dabbling in it....

Droneism - Dissent Magazine “Is there racism against drones?” asked an audience member at the Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference in New York City last autumn. Drone hobbyists are seeking to divorce their toys from images of w...

Been thinking of this too. Reminds me of 1) Wendy Chun's work on homophily - how compsci took the social construct of homophily and naturalized it in network theory (to devastating consequence in war). 2) when i was accused of being racist towards drones. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dron...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Scholars fear that the the capitulation of universities is hurting an entire field of study at the time when it’s most needed. Thea Abu El-Haj warned that the special issue’s cancellation also sets a dangerous precedent...“it’s not going to stop with Palestine.”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Image of Ala Kheir a Sudanese photographer. His face is forward in the frame. Set against a dark read background. In yellow letters it says: The Power of Visual Narratives. Sunday July 27th at noon. Virtual via zoom. Workshops4Sudan.

Our next workshop for Sudan is coming up in less than a week on July 27th with the talented Sudanese photographer Ala Kheir. Sudanese students can attend for free wherever you are. All proceeds go to mutual aid networks on the ground.

Sign up here:
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“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.

But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

Things are unimaginably bad. The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign operation is under intense crisis. They're trying to find any food they can to help people in serious need. If you can, please donate! The situation is getting worse every day.
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My friends in Gaza are fainting in the street from hunger. They are being starved. It beggars belief that the world is allowing this depraved criminality to continue.

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances.

It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images 404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just point...

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems ever because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems

www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Zohran Mamdani tells NYC business leaders he will discourage use of 'globalize the Intifada' The Democratic mayoral nominee told members of the Partnership for New York City he still supported the ideas behind the slogan.

Extremely disappointed in the concession to Zionists by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . Do better, have some spine, or I'm out -- as will be many others in the coalition that supported you. Not only is this unethical, it's also strategically stupid. gothamist.com/news/zohran-...