Ariel Kalishman Walsh

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

11 died of starvation in Gaza yesterday.
Israel has starved to death more than 100 human beings since 20 of July 2025.

Logo of "The Hill" Headline reads: CBO projects 'big, beautiful bill' would add $5 trillion to deficit if temporary tax cuts extended

Bookmarking this for the next time Republicans complain about how we can’t improve health care or build renewable energy projects because of the national debt.

Man it feels so good to see these guys getting booed lol

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

This is a very good (but also very disturbing) survey from @peterbakernyt.bsky.social of the Trump admin policies that are intended to deprive the public of accurate info about government. I might have also included the expulsions from the White House press pool.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

This is so beyond the pale. It's insanely offensive, incorrect and embarrassingly stupid.

This description of depression is truly insightful and lovely. I'm sorry it took watching the smurfs movie to get though.

YouTube video by Tyler Ballgame Tyler Ballgame - "Help Me Out" (Official Music Video)

Well this is the best new music I've heard in a while. youtu.be/oH0MNxWHRRw?...

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones

The Road to Famine in Gaza | Neve Gordon, Muna Haddad In the days that followed Hamas’s heinous October 7 attack on military bases, kibbutzim, towns, and the Nova music festival, several high-ranking Israeli

“As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza,” it notes, “Israeli officials have confirmed to [embassy officials] on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge.”

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

One thing I cannot emphasize enough in these benighted times is that NO ONE who is not a US Citizen should be crossing the US Border in either direction unless they have no other choice.

It's immensely unsafe.

Not long ago the tech sector was perceived as the key driver of the energy transition in the US. A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows that this is no longer the case: data centers have a carbon intensity 48% higher than the average US electricity user.

Lolsob to posting this 6 days ago and now sitting up all night waiting for a tsunami to hit.

Lol

The Green Beret of Gaza Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractor Anthony Aguilar describes witnessing war crimes.

New — I wrote about Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and his harrowing stories of what he witnessed while being there under the guise of distributing food aid to starving Palestinian civilians:

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

well better today than tomorrow I guess

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

Agreeing with what Palestinians have been saying for nearly 2 years, & what an increasing chorus of international human rights organizations & experts affirm, today Israeli NGOs @btselem & @PHRIsrael agree: Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip

www.btselem.org/press_releas...

Reform Jewish Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza July 27, 2025 - The ongoing crisis in Gaza is a devastating reminder of the immense human cost of war. Nearly two years into Israel's war against Hamas, Israelis are still waiting for the return of their loved ones held hostage, and innocent Palestinians are caught in a mounting humanitarian catastrophe. Hamas has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice the Palestinian people in its pursuit of Israel's destruction, but Israel must not sacrifice its own moral standing in return. Neither escalating military pressure nor restricting humanitarian aid has brought Israel closer to securing a hostage deal or ending the war. While long-delayed and not-yet-certain to be more effective than previous efforts, we are encouraged by Saturday night's announcement that the Israeli military would revive the practice of dropping aid from airplanes and make it easier for aid convoys, including those from the UN's World Food Program, to move through Gaza along "designated humanitarian corridors," and to temporarily cease fighting in Gaza for a humanitarian pause. No one should be unaffected by the pervasive hunger experienced by thousands of Gazans. No one should spend the bulk of their time arguing technical definitions between starvation and pervasive hunger. The situation is dire, and it is deadly. Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster. The primary moral response must begin with anguished hearts in the face of such a large-scale human tragedy. Our tradition teaches that all people are created b tzelem Elohim — in the image of God. One consequence of this is the moral priority, which is affirmed throughout the Bible and rabbinic tradition, of feeding the hungry - both for the individual and for the self-governing Jewish community. More than a few members of t…

Despite PM Netanyahu's calls to ignore these full members of his cabinet, their presence in this government has consistently morally compromised Israel's actions. Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the "total victory" over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law. It's hard to imagine that this tragic approach will bring home the 50 remaining hostages, including the 20 who we pray are still alive. It's imperative that the Government of Israel ensures that the recently announced plans to deliver humanitarian aid succeed as Israel works with international partners to ensure its safe and sustained delivery and do whatever possible to reduce or eliminate the shootings and other injuries sustained at food distribution centers. We applaud Israel's green light for foreign nations to resume providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza population desperate for food and are confident that they will do all they can to ensure that such aid does not fall into the hands of Hamas. As Israel has effective control of 70% of Gaza, with the intent to remain in significant swaths of it, even if only temporarily, it should be directly involved, facilitate and cooperate with the international community, international humanitarian NGOs, and regional friends, to take urgently needed actions, such as these suggested by Israeli Reform rabbi and Member of Knesset Gilad Kariv: • To prevent the alarming number of civilian deaths in and around the food and humanitarian aid distribution sites. • Opening a significant number of food distribution centers at various locations across the Gaza Strip. • Large-scale entry of infant formula (especially liquid formula) and ensuring safe delivery to both functioning medical centers and the few remaining international aid facilities. • Establishing secure methods - potentially through cooperation with regional countries - for delivering food supplies to aid organizations and international agencies. • Resuming su…

Finally, while it is imperative that Israel and the U.S. resume diplomacy to bring home all hostages and end this war, denying basic humanitarian aid crosses a moral line. Blocking food, water, medicine, and power- especially for children- is indefensible. Let us not allow our grief to harden into indifference, nor our love for Israel to blind us to the cries of the vulnerable. Let us rise to the moral challenge of this moment. Union for Reform Judaism Shelley Niceley Groff (she/her) North American Board Chair Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him) President Central Conference of American Rabbis Rabbi David A. Lyon (he/him) President Rabbi Hara Person (she/her) Chief Executive Officer American Conference of Cantors Cantor Josh Breitzer (he/him) President Rachel Roth (she/her) Chief Operating Officer

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring:

"Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

If you’re looking for a place to do it, join @israelispeaceny on Sundays at 5pm in Union Sq – where we cry out for a ceasefire & the return of the hostages, hold up pictures of those killed in Gaza, read the words of hostage families, and pray for an end to starvation & war.

Prison debt is crushing Black women, advocates say Advocates say prison fees push debt onto families — especially Black women — who are left paying for services their loved ones can't afford.

www.axios.com/2025/07/26/s...

I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids Perhaps controversially.

"In my mind, this is no longer a conversation about anything else. Children are starving and being murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military while they seek to feed themselves. It feels impossible to talk about anything else in this conflict when that degree of sociopathic violence is occurring."

Tumblr normal-horoscopes Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture The whale looks delightfully round and seems to be smiling.

We have always made delightful little guys.

What a joke. Aid is sitting in trucks just outside Gaza waiting to be let in.