Erin Cunningham

How the U.S. Failure in Iraq Haunts Trump’s Gaza Plan The American-led trusteeship will command no legitimacy among Palestinians.

Thank god for @abuaardvark.bsky.social — this is the most clarifying read so far on the Gaza ceasefire agreement, a sobering antidote to the declarations of a “new dawn,” even amid widespread relief that, at least for now, the mass killing has stopped foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/16/a...

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing

"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria

From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".

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Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises Israeli bombardment punched large holes in Gaza City’s skyline by repeatedly demolishing high-rise buildings containing hundreds of homes and businesses.

Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises wapo.st/4q6j4g8

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

“I predict the journalists of tomorrow will look back on our time with disbelief at the benefit of the doubt afforded to claims made by Israeli military spokespeople, justifying air strikes on hospitals, ambulances, refugee camps, schools, apartment complexes, ‘safe zones,’ and journalist hangouts. And I think future observers will find it difficult to understand how reporters who tried to move the dial on their employers’ coverage were often forced out or pressured into silence.”

On Orwell, the unbelievable stupidities of our era, and how the press can rise to the moment. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

It was a long time ago. Different soldiers, different leadership. But the 82nd's absolutely boneheaded bro-ness was what lit the Fallujah powder keg circa 2004 and all the bodies that piled up as a result. bsky.app/profile/bcfi...

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s Gaza peace plan leaves door ajar for Palestinian state Trump’s 21-point peace plan includes Hamas disarmament, an international security force and a “Trump development plan” to rebuild the shattered enclave. But Israel might balk at some proposals.

Trump’s proposal for Gaza provides “little or no detail” as to how its 21 points would be addressed. Oh, and no one has given a copy to Hamas. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

According to @unraveledpress.com , their reporter Steve Held has been detained during a protest near Chicago, Illinois. Steve is a fantastic reporter, a very good man and doesn’t deserve to be harassed doing his job.

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict.

They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning"

When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Vaccination and the price of forgetting History shows how dangerous anti-vax sentiment can prove

“In the 100 years before eradication, half a billion unvaccinated lives were lost to smallpox, 300 million of which occurred in the 20th century itself.

When it comes to disease, human memory is fallible — the dark shadow of smallpox has faded.” on.ft.com/4pE1IXS

More than 820,000 people face dire hunger in D.C. region, report states The annual report from the Capital Area Food Bank points to troubling trends for hunger in the region.

For the third year in a row, the number of people living in the Washington region facing the most severe form of hunger has increased, with more than 820,000 adults regularly skipping meals and struggling to find food in the last year. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either,” Former F.B.I. Director James Comey says

Gaza City hospitals close, patients flee as Israeli forces advance Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza City has put several hospitals and more than two dozen primary health care providers out of service, medical staff and the U.N. say.

Once again, as Israeli forces pummel Gaza City, the area's already threadbare health-care system is unraveling at a rapid pace, with patients and doctors forced to flee the bombardment and residents burying their loved ones in hospital courtyards. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

David Letterman Slams 'Ridiculous' Decision to Pull 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' David Letterman expressed his frustration with ABC's decision to pull 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' following pressure from the Trump admin.

"We see where this is all going, correct?"
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How Charlie Kirk’s social media machine rewired a generation’s politics The 31-year-old activist and provocateur build a modern political organization for the social media age, through the arts of online discourse and discord.

⦁ Created watch list of professors while preaching free speech
⦁ Captured internet with viral videos playing liberals for laughs and sound clips calling George Floyd a "scumbag" and the Civil Rights Act a "huge mistake"
⦁ Made tens of millions in dark money to boost Trump to victory

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How Charlie Kirk’s social media machine rewired a generation’s politics The 31-year-old activist and provocateur build a modern political organization for the social media age, through the arts of online discourse and discord.

Important to be clear-eyed about the reality of Charlie Kirk's social media machine:

⦁ Built movement that mocked diversity initiatives, called trans identity a “mental delusion," sowed baseless suspicion about vaccines and election fraud ...

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Trump officials to link child deaths to covid shots, alarming career scientists The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths alarms career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.

Exclusive: Trump health officials plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting who should get the shots. The findings appear to be based on unverified reports submitted to an online reporting system which is open to anyone.

RFK Jr. contradicts his past false statements and himself Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 4 denied and downplayed his previous positions, including public health falsehoods he pushed.

It’s really striking when you see the side by side video footage of how RFK Jr. contradicted himself at the Senate hearing. www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

Severe drought is devastating war-torn Syria The most severe drought in decades is gripping much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East following the impacts of climate change, leading to a particularly dire situation in Syria.

The most severe drought in decades is gripping much of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, leading to a particularly dire situation in Syria, where the fledgling government is trying to stitch the country back together after a 14-year civil war that left millions impoverished.

Behind the Curtain: Why you should be AI-obsessed Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming.

“… the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.”

Yes. Yes it would. You’re sooo close, Axios… www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

N.Y.C. Man Is at Least Fourth Person to Die in Custody in Just Over a Week A Turkish-born pedicab driver who was arrested on Friday night was found unconscious and unresponsive in a police station house cell. He later died at Bellevue Hospital.

A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.

Do we think they’ll eventually figure it out or nah

Nationwide Labor Day protests denounce billionaires in Trump’s orbit The “Workers over Billionaires” event, backed by AFL-CIO and others, focused on issues like Medicaid and Social Security cuts.

Hello! This is on the WashPost homepage www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading scholars’ association says Israel’s foreign ministry called the resolution “disgraceful,” but it added to a growing chorus from rights groups concluding that Israel is committing genocide.

Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide,” the oldest and largest association of genocide scholars said in a resolution. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...