Jason Raitz

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YouTube video by The Intercept What Our Reporter Saw In Gaza: A Famine of Israel’s Making

Reporter Afeef Nessouli spent months in Gaza. He witnessed a famine of Israel's making.

Read the full story: interc.pt/46k3eY5

✍️ Afeef Nessouli @thrasherxy.bsky.social
📹 @chelseybcoombs.bsky.social

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.

It's so hard for people like me to describe the level of ongoing tragedy. Which is why we need the journalists! Fuck.

I'm an American in my early 40's and throughout my childhood we were taught how detestable fascism and genocide were. And how the world should never again let it happen...

https://www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair-multigenerational-trauma/

Today Israelis murdered the author of this article, a Palestinian father who tried hard to protect his son from their sadism: www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair...

Gaza aid site offered a 'women only' day. It didn't stop the killing Families say mothers Mary Sheikh al-Eid and Khadija Abu Anza were shot while seeking aid from GHF station in southern Gaza.

Gaza aid site offered a 'women only' day. It didn't stop the killing

Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.

It is abominable that the response to a deliberate campaign of starvation in Gaza has been so muted. @ryanlcooper.com calls it out today, and connects the dots: ethnic cleansing is clearly the future for the West Bank, which the Israeli Knesset this week voted to annex.
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≥4 Nazi symbols. See comments for the breakdown.

Honestly thought this must be fake, but I checked, and this is an actual post from the official DHS xitter account. (Not linking here. F all of them!)

I truly hate that such impudent, hateful, people have access to the levers of power.

this reminds me of the time i got an email about my “vocal fry” in a guest lecture

Thread about why Jubilee is bad.

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve

You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.

NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE

MSNBC put together a supercut of Republicans trashing on Trump's big bill before they voted for it

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Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:

"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"

Wow. Please, PLEASE watch this two-minute video.

In which Lisa Murkowski, in a self-pitying way, admits to being everything that is wrong with the politics of this moment.

Abandoned ice cream carts, fruit, and taco stands. Trucks with broken windows left in the middle of the streets. It’s the new reality ICE has brought to our beautiful city. This taco stand appears to have been hit last night, 6/27 in South LA by Florence and Gramercy.

Burnett: Do you like capitalism?

Mamdani: No, I have many critiques of capitalism.

Yes! For too long it has been taboo to discuss legitimate critiques of capitalism in mainstream US media. This has shut down any chance of implementing real solutions to social crises. A new day is coming.

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?

VOUGHT: I reject the assertion

MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

AOC: “grounds for impeachment”

Jeffries: “Trump needs to explain”

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: January 2025: Atrocities 1-22 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

2. January 20, 2025 – Trump offered unconditional pardons to approximately 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. “These are people who actually love our country,” Trump announced.
#LestWeForgetTheHorrors

I'm starting to think that the privatization of space was a mistake.

I'm sure there are tech savy people in all the parties that could set up a suite of tools that would make it easy for the most tech illiterate members do the thing.

Honestly, it would be amazing if every elected member of congress had an office hours kind of thing on YT or Twitch. Like, just an hour a week where anyone could type in to the chat their questions/concerns.

Spotted in Durham, NC

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Holy crap. The US-UK trade deal is a blank sheet of paper and only Trump signed it. (Genuine screen grab).

Posted up at a local bar for a sammy and a beer while I file my story about today's protests. but here's a story y'all might appreciate.
While I was there I saw and older gentleman with this sign.