Nicholas Cohn

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS

I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling.

These are human beings.

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt.

The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement."

Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

“… They went after Musk’s cars …”

As the right-wing pundits start wringing their hands and stoking outrage over Kirk’s death, it’s worth noticing how they hold the life of one of “their own” as equal in value to the price tag of a Cybertruck

We conceptualize borders as a space outside of law, where we can use extreme forms of policing (warrantless searches & now execution). But these acts do not protect us; they endanger us by creating a vast, unregulated police state. What happens at the border will eventually happen everywhere.

I’m saying that Burke and Gavin would be buddies

Gavin Newsom has the exact vibe of a Weyland-Yutani executive who watches in glee as a xenomorph eats you

What the fu**ing shit, nyt!?!?!?!
Just within 24 hours after five of al-jazeers journalists were killed, nyt published this.
Who wrote it?
An israeli writer.
The blood of the journalists is still fresh in the journalists’ graves.
Blood is on nyt hands.

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

Whelp, they were only a couple years off…

all this talk of Columbia’s admissions procedures reminds me that a member of the NYPD’s notorious SRG put a bullet in a wall of our admissions office about 14 months ago

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

BREAKING: "A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team — referred to internally as the “Tiger Team” — rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website."

Here’s the link to register for tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/gsoc-fundr...

GSOC-UAW Local 7902 will be hosting a screening of the documentary UNION at the Anthology Film Archives, on July 14th!

We’re raising funds for the GSOC Hardship Fund, offering support to NYU graduate student workers facing hardship:

This was twenty months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 14,186 kids since.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

Each day, each hour, capitalism renders up a world the texture of broken glass.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

This.. doesn't even make sense. What is the purpose of a citation and how is citing AI meaningful?

They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.

We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

And I want to fucking end colonialism on this planet, while I’m here.

I don’t want to colonize the galaxy. I want to hold my loved ones close, to care for my neighbors and siblings of conscience, to go through the difficult work of finding the miraculous in the present

Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:

"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."