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Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

This is just how the rules work. If an aid flotilla approached occupied Mariupol we would not be asking questions about whether the Russians get to say no to its entrance. To be sure, they would say no, but we wouldn't recognise that as legitimate.

I keep trying to spend time on Bluesky. Even this morning, as I am tracking the flotilla, there’s nothing in my feed about Gaza. I check “friends” & “interest” but nothing. Loads over on Twitter. I imported the people I followed over here & interact whenever I do find a post abt Gaza. Still nada.

#booksky

Israeli rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel just said that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to "genocide" against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs.

On Her 7th Birthday, We Know Who Killed Hind Rajab. And We’re Taking Them to Court ​ Brussels, 3 May 2025  — Today, little  Hind Rajab should have been blowing out candles on her 7th birthday .  On this day of remembrance and heartbreak, the  Hind Rajab Foundation  has...

In case you missed it, we have the face and name of the man responsible for the murder of five year old Hind Rajab and her family.

His name is Beni Aharon, Commander of the 401st Armored Brigade of the IDF. Hind would have turned 7 years old this year.

www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators...

Zionism is the greatest threat to Jewish safety across the globe.

Around 800 aid seekers killed in Gaza, UN says <article data-history-node-id="425616" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/around-800-aid-seekers-killed-gaza-un-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/around-800-aid-seekers-killed-gaza-un-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Around 800 aid seekers killed in Gaza, UN says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The United Nations human rights office said that it has recorded the killings at least 798 Palestinians both at aid points administered by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.</p> <p>It added the deaths were also reported near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN.</p> <p>“Up until the seventh of July, we’ve recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Around 800 aid seekers killed in Gaza, UN says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/around-800-aid-seekers-killed-gaza-un-says

Woman says NBC News report helped her recognize liver damage from turmeric supplements "I had essentially poisoned my liver": The 57-year-old's daily high dose of turmeric pills caused stomach pain, nausea and fatigue.

‘From 1995-2020, supplement-related liver failure requiring transplant increased eightfold in the U.S, according to a study in the journal Liver Transplantation. A review in the journal Hepatology found that 20% of liver toxicity cases are tied to herbal and dietary supplements.’

Netanyahu has visited the White House three times since being charged and indicted for war crimes by the ICC, making him, if I am not mistaken, the most frequent foreign head of state to visit the US. It is quite a statement about the US respect for international law

Much of the west is so busy trying to "avoid" war that they don't realize we are already in one and we are losing badly. God bless Ukraine who is shouldering the full weight of our collective cowardice, mistakes and broken system. They need all the help and support they can get. #StandWithUkraine

Don't forget what Ukrainian men, and women, are going through.

East Africa has been playing the long game and I for one think it's beautiful

If we are going to hold Russia accountable, we need to hold Israel accountable. Impunity for one is impunity for all. Justice matters. #3E #EndImpunity

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

Man, I've worked on visas for Iranians who have suffered persecution and even imprisonment for their political speech or even just books they've written and I'm pretty sure they don't want their country bombed to shit.

I hate our government and don't want America bombed, but maybe that's just me.

Palestine: Israeli authorities are suffocating Gaza with deliberate shortages of food, medicine and fuel  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... In Gaza, essential access to medical care, clean water and humanitarian aid is being systematically obstructed. MSF warns of catastrophic consequences as hospitals run out of fuel and supplies amid es...

#Gaza: Our supplies are running critically low due to Israel's restrictions imposed on entering goods.

Doctors Without Borders calls for Israel to allow the entry of sufficient medical supplies and fuel:

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

All of these crusty Dems endorsing Cuomo, a corrupt, misogynistic bully credibly accused of sexual harassment by several women just reinforces the point that this party will spend ALL ITS TIME crushing progressives rather than holding the GOP accountable or saving our democracy.

angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here

All of this imperialist aggression in defense of an ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians.

I hope it’s obvious to the folks here, but the argument that women are treated poorly in Iran (which they are) therefore we have no choice but to kill them in an effort to free them is, frankly, as ridiculous as it sounds. No one saying that actually cares about Iranians.

The U.S. and Israel aren't rational actors.

They bomb nuclear sites, escalate a regional war, commit genocide, then act shocked when there's retaliation.

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

Just a reminder they’re not “bombing for peace”… they’re bombing to assert dominance

War is never about what they say it is. It is always about money and who has the nuclear power

The US is a military state. Ever since its creation in 1787 it’s been designed for war. We’ve never known peace

Sick of reading Starmer and Lammy are insisting that Iran must come to the negotiating table to avert all out war.

They were AT the negotiating table, with reports that they were close to a deal - until Israel began bombing them.

How about demanding that Israel come to the negotiating table?

He was humiliated on No Kings Day, so he bombed a country to self-soothe.