JC

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

These countries have had universal health care for their citizens, as shown below.

There are more after 1995

Caroline Leavitt, Trump’s COS, wearing a red suit, stands in front of a sign that reads WHITE WASHING

Karoline Leavitt standing in front of her sole job description

Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque and spray racist slogans <article data-history-node-id="431455" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-west-bank-mosque-and-spray-racist-slogans" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-west-bank-mosque-and-spray-racist-slogans" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque and spray racist slogans</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;settlers set fire to a mosque near the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/occupation" target="_blank">occupied</a>&nbsp;West Bank city of Salfit on Thursday, in the latest attack amid a wave of escalating violence against&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>.</p> <p>Residents were shocked when they arrived at the Hajja Hamida Mosque, located between the towns of Kafr Haris and Deir Istiya, for dawn prayers, to find the door broken and flames raging inside.</p> <p>“I tried to go inside the mosque to put out the fire, but I couldn’t because of the thick plumes of smoke and the intense heat,” Imam Ahmad Ahed Salman, who leads prayers at the mosque, told Middle East Eye.</p> <p>“I immediately called the Civil Defence in Deir Istiya, who managed to bring the blaze under control.”</p> <p>Mesalman, a resident of the town, told MEE that settlers had poured flammable materials inside the mosque before Fajr, or dawn prayer.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-set-mosque-ablaze-salfit-vandalise-walls-racist-slogans">Read more:&nbsp;Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque and spray racist slogans</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="align-center media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Aftermath of Israeli settlers' arson and graffiti attack on mosque in the town of Deir Istiya in Salfit, northern West Bank, on 13 November 2025 (MEE/Hisham Abu Shaqrah)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b414219a-61a7-4f1d-9706-13e9790c5f8b" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/image00008%20%282%29.jpg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Aftermath of Israeli settlers' arson and graffiti attack on mosque in the town of Deir Istiya in Salfit, northern West Bank, on 13 November 2025 (MEE/Hisham Abu Shaqrah)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Aftermath of Israeli settlers' arson and graffiti attack on mosque in the town of Deir Istiya in Salfit, northern West Bank, on 13 November 2025 (MEE/Hisham Abu Shaqrah)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background:rgba(220,220,220,0.5);background-image:url(https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png);display:none;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque and spray racist slogans - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-west-bank-mosque-and-spray-racist-slogans

also worth noting how much racism made everything mentioned in this thread possible.

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

Turning off replies because I'm not interested in debate.

I'm right.

Also, don't tell me that the state cops protect us from ICE when I was personally brutalized by ICE in the presence of a mob of state cops. Police do not protect protesters. That's simply not how they exist in relation to us.

Imagining a society that considers children to be people and smiling peacefully

Israel advanced plans for 26,000 new settlements since start of 2025: Arij <article data-history-node-id="431453" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-advanced-plans-26000-new-settlements-start-2025-arij" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-advanced-plans-26000-new-settlements-start-2025-arij" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel advanced plans for 26,000 new settlements since start of 2025: Arij</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (Arij) said Israel has advanced plans to build more than 26,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year.</p> <article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-20" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-WEB:e794b7c6-9f27-4bcc-983a-4e6cc6bafa05-9" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="93" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="0">These plans cover over 30,000 dunums (around 3,000 hectares) of Palestinian land.</p> </article> <p data-end="247" data-start="0">In its report, Arij said that between the start of 2025 and the end of October, 194 settlement plans were proposed - most of them concentrated in the Jerusalem governorate, signalling one of the largest expansion drives in recent years.</p> <p data-end="481" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="249">The analysis shows that the new plans mainly target areas around occupied East Jerusalem, with the settlements of Maale Adumim, to the east, and Givat Zeev, to the northwest, identified as key centres of expansion.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel advanced plans for 26,000 new settlements since start of 2025: Arij - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-advanced-plans-26000-new-settlements-start-2025-arij

Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization

Join us at Communiversity on Saturday. It's our final set of sessions and I will be facilitating a conversation about radical Black women in the US. [early-mid 20th century]. There are 3 required readings but ok if you only get through 1 or 2. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

oh hey, looks like there is moral rot at the core of this morally rotten empire

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza <article data-history-node-id="429641" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-agrees-release-hostages-rejects-foreign-governorship-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-agrees-release-hostages-rejects-foreign-governorship-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas agreed to release all&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;captives held in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-war-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza</a>&nbsp;on Friday, after what it described as "in-depth consultations" with leadership ranks, Palestinian factions and mediators</p> <p>The announcement comes just hours after US President Donald Trump warned on his TruthSocial account that Hamas should "RELEASE THE HOSTAGES, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE BODIES OF THOSE THAT ARE DEAD, NOW! An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time".&nbsp;</p> <p>It also comes five days after Trump announced his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-trumps-20-point-plan-end-war-gaza-0" target="_blank">20-point plan</a>&nbsp;for Gaza alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</p> <p>"The movement announces its agreement to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead, according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump’s proposal, provided the field conditions for the exchange are met," Hamas said in a statement.</p> <p>"In this context, the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter into negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details of this. The movement also renews its agreement to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats), based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support," the group added.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-agrees-release-all-israeli-captives-dead-or-alive">Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Khaled Meshaal, a senior leader in Hamas, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar on 14 October 2014 (Fadi al-Assaad/Reuters)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f5b10a13-011b-4ecd-98ff-636cbabed362" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/2025-09-09T165356Z_2065682040_RC2FOGAXVBXE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-HAMAS-LEADERS.jpg" width="1920" height="1080" alt="Khaled Meshaal, a senior leader in Hamas, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar on 14 October 2014 (Fadi al-Assaad/Reuters)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Khaled Meshaal, a senior leader in Hamas, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar on 14 October 2014 (Fadi al-Assaad/Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img alt height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Hamas agrees to release hostages but rejects foreign governorship of Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-agrees-release-hostages-rejects-foreign-governorship-gaza

@govpritzker.illinois.gov instead of backing up ICE (in apparent violation of state law) maybe ISP should be arresting people who deploy tear gas from a vehicle in a neighborhood full of innocent civilians

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Same guy this morning ran into a protestor and told him he would slam him to the fucking ground.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

Hey @mayorofchicago.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social , why are you letting this happen? You've been talking a big game, now it's time to act! Why are state troops protecting the Gestapo?

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

“ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov