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Israeli Soldiers Open Fire Near Gaza Aid Site. Gaza Health Officials Say 27 Are Killed. The Israeli military said its troops fired on people who strayed from a designated route toward a food distribution site. It was the latest deadly incident involving a contentious new aid system.

“Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest.”

The @nytimes.com edited out this quote from its reporting on the mass killing of people at a food aid distribution site in Gaza—here’s the original:

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A fan flying the flag for Palestine at Eurovision.

Israel shouldn't even be there.

This week, CODEPINK Britain joined Healthworkers for Palestine in honouring the life of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, who was tortured to death by Israel in April 2024.

We honour him and the over 1,200 healthcare workers who have been killed by Israel in the past 18 months.

I was doing street plays on reproductive rights and racial pay disparities when I got out of college

It's just another way of making sure the parts o racism they enjoy and thrive from keep going

and creates an atmosphere where if Black people don't coddle them it justifies resource withdrawals

People are trying to act like it’s a new propaganda campaign but I’ve been seeing ‘Diversity is white genocide’ billboards around the country since like the mid 2000s & they been running this play to gaslight people since forever.

This shit is not a new thing. It’s just nobody ever cared.

Thank you Greyhound!

The fact that we were conditioned to accept the mass killing of infants in Gaza and the fact that we are now witnessing toddler citizens be disappeared are related.

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.

It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

The overwhelming messaging on Covid in media right now is that it’s something that was once very serious, and now is over. And every week, a new waterfall of studies comes out showing the continued and growing long-term health risks of repeated infections. Our language has got to respect that truth.

Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation | Ministry of Health NZ This discussion document considers options for modernising New Zealand’s regulation of the health workforce. It supports public consultation on this topic.

Some it pulls power away from the professional bodies and into the hands of MPs.

Most health professional bodies, associations, and unions are very concerned.

The government documents are here:
www.health.govt.nz/publications...

It might not have made it on your radar but some sketchy things are a foot with our current coalition government looking to overhaul health professional regulatory bodies, claiming the move "puts patients first" but looks to put profit first and remove cultural competence from professional standards

Lawyers, advocates and people who have been pulled over say Oswego County sheriff’s deputies are cooperating with Border Patrol agents in a way that smacks of racial profiling. Videos and court records support that theory. Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the Syracuse.com investigation shows. In other cases, immigration agents act on anonymous tips and stake out homes. They follow migrant workers from work sites to restaurants. Undercover officers in ski masks show up at dairy farms in unmarked cars. They split up families. They take children from schools, even when they turn out to be U.S. citizens.

Horrible -- and unlikely this is just happening in upstate New York: www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...

New Zealanders could be forgiven for thinking Pete Hegseth is just some embarrassing chud, and he is.

But he also has a tattoo of the same phrase the Christchurch shooter used in his manifesto, and a staffer at one of his 'charities' reported him for chanting "kill all Muslims".

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In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights and due process rights. PARTIES 8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.

After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States. 22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia University Buddhist Association and led it for two years. 23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to Palestine.

Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and kill his best friend in the West Bank. 27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.

…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all. 25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against 2:25-cv-00389 Document 1 Filed 04/14/25 Page 6 of 19 7 antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions.

Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of.

There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.

-You cannot legally deport people without due process.

-You cannot legally deport citizens.

-They are defining down deportation to break the law.

I honestly think this point is more than whatabouttery. There were multiple obvious angles for Jago follow-ups – a convicted sex criminal presided over two different sexual abuse investigations, for a start – and no one did it. Otoh, joining this current pile-on is cost-free.

HEADLINE: ‘You guys definitely want her ass booked’: Texts revealed in Golriz Ghahraman supermarket incident A Foodstuffs security worker’s messages to police about former MP Golriz Ghahraman have been revealed. The guard also said ‘We want her done too.”

HEADLINE: Peters raises prospect of police investigating Green Party MP; Greens claim ‘disinformation’ Screenshots from Benjamin Doyle’s Instagram account, which included captions that could be interpreted as sexually explicit innuendo, were circulated online.

*applause* The very same day Stuff runs an article suggesting the GG story was a hit job shopped to them by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens, they headline another hit job clearly set up by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison

that Noem video reinforces my belief that there is a streak of sexualized sadism on the US right that goes back to lynching imagery but began in its most recent form with the enthusiasm for torture during the Bush years.

Also 'trump lads' is a wild way to frame people with clearly fascist leanings. What is Manhire up to 😅😭

The way my eyes popped open—this needs to be shared widely:
bsky.app/profile/nikk...

New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole Black hole cosmology suggests our entire universe formed inside a black hole from another universe

Well that explains it.

Tomorrow, my bill repealing the ban on same sex marriage will be heard in House Judiciary at 8am.

The ban on same sex marriage has remained in our state constitution since the early 2000s, despite being deemed unconstitutional for the last decade. It's time to remove it.

Israel's air attacks have continued across Gaza for a third day. At least 110 Palestinians have been killed since dawn, our colleagues on the ground report and at least 200 children have been killed in the last three days.

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Today, I spoke in favor of my wife's, Rep Zooey Zephyr's, bill. HB798 would remove the ban on gay marriage in Montana, an outdated piece of code that hangs over all LGBTQ+ people's head.

We love like everyone else. We have families like everyone else.

Lets put this dark time in history behind us.