Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham

PHOTO ESSAY: Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents' arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp.

My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.

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From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes

Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation
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"At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view."

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

amazing/lucky you have Arabic majors to teach!

If there is a Hell, the people responsible for this will burn for eternity on fires stoked with biscuits.

majors here meaning history majors? (not Arabic

Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education: See how much federal funding your school district could lose Last month, President Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to move forward with plans to close the Department of Education (ED). While this move is illegal and has been met with litigati...

this EPI primer on loss of federal funding for school districts across the country includes a map, and if I'm reading it right, some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding.

Great to hear

am I reading that map right - some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding?

Knuffle Bunny play ftw.
the Saunders is sublime. the best and most hilarious take down of neoliberalism I've ever read.

Willems' We Are in a Book is genius. highly entertaining high theory.
ever read Saunders' The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip?

but for kids' books, double that for Mo Willems - like 20+ books, for sure.

Jefferson enslaved his own children. Two of his sons were only freed, along with their mother, after his death.

I cannot believe we cannot impeach him.

if you put out large slices of cucumber, the slugs will leave everything else alone to go for the cucumber.

Seeking Our Next Executive Director! The West Virginia Council of Churches, one of the nation’s oldest and most revered state councils of churches, with roots going back to 1820, is embarking on a search for our next executive steward…

Job Post: Executive Director of the West Virginia Council of Churches wvcc.org/2025/07/01/s...

I'm Resigning in Protest from the University of Pennsylvania. Oh, and I'm Suing Them. The University of Pennsylvania, where I am a lecturer, recently announced that it is capitulating to the Trump Administration’s demand that it ban transgender women from participation in women’s sport...

I don't know if it is of interest, but here is the resignation letter that Carter Carter submitted to Penn, in protest of targeting and capitulation. carterjcarter.substack.com/p/im-resigni...?

oh I missed the post about your resignation before this.... congrats? Wishing you groundedness and fulfillment.

Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya—these are not small cities at all

56m meals since May 19th for 2.3m people in Gaza.

One meal per person every two days for 44 days.

Starvation rations….

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

I wonder if anyone has ever looked into what happens when elected leaders with authoritarian tendencies create massive law enforcement divisions accountable only to them that are comparably funded to the military but specifically designed to be used domestically.

Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI

World Council of Churches denounces Israel’s apartheid and occupation, calls for divestment and sanctions In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it “a turning point in the moral...

BIG: In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it "a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.” mondoweiss.net/2025/06/worl...

Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell joins growing international outrage over the controversial US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-european-diplomat-josep-borrell-slams-eu-inaction-against-us-mercenaries-killing-starving

The British brought these revolt-suppression techniques to mandate Palestine in the 1930s after first developing them in Ireland, the first British colony, around 1920.

Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.