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Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"

U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028 As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.

U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028

As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.

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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.

New from me @theintercept.com: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s legacy will always be that of a tool of Israeli occupation and genocide, instrumental in the killings of 1000s of Palestinians and worsening a manufactured famine. Not whatever “success” GHF claims.

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"

Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:

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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

“By doing this, YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims,” said Basel al-Sourani, an international advocacy officer for PCHR, the oldest human rights organization in Gaza.
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

According to our analysis, YouTube's decision to delete the accounts amounts to the loss of more than 700 videos, many of which documented Israel's alleged war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. @theintercept.com
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov
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I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality” Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagreed.

After Israel's new wave of bombings in Gaza that killed 109+ Palestinians, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a writer/poet in Gaza, spoke to 60 residents in Gaza for @theintercept.com to ask whether they think the "ceasefire" is holding. Nearly all said "THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE."

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This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.

Netanyahu Is Blowing Up the Gaza Ceasefire — and Trump Is the One Losing Face Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, raising the question of whether the U.S. would hold him accountable for the ceasefire.

The new Israeli attacks prompted questions on whether the U.S. will actually hold Israel accountable for its ceasefire violations, "Or were they just there for decoration, and were they just going to allow the Israelis to get away with murder, as they always have?"

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Netanyahu Is Blowing Up the Gaza Ceasefire — and Trump Is the One Losing Face Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, raising the question of whether the U.S. would hold him accountable for the ceasefire.

Breaking: Days after Trump officials toured the new U.S. base in Israel, the Israeli military launched strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 20 Palestinians.

U.S. Vice President Vance downplayed the strikes as "little skirmishes here and there."

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This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed in Israel Mohammed Ibrahim is one of more than 300 Palestinian children being held indefinitely in Israeli custody.

Big credit to @binaricorn.bsky.social for creating this haunting portrait and collage of Mohammed, and for Rayan El Amine for translating an Israeli police interrogation video from Arabic to English. theintercept.com/2025/10/26/m...

Mohammed's family has been sensitive not to frame the case as an Israel-Palestine issue as they lobby a pro-Israel U.S. govt. But the lack of results from the U.S. illustrates limitations of the expected privileges U.S. citizenship affords, particularly if you are Palestinian @theintercept.com

Prisoner advocates I spoke to described Israel's policy of childhood detention as a way to collectively punish whole families and an entire generation of Palestinian children. This underscores the idea that Mohammed's case+his cousins' killing aren't coincidence but a result of intentional policy:

Also, Mohammed's family have yet to tell him about the killing of his cousin, Sayfollah Musallet, 20, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in July. The two were close and were planning to run their family's ice cream shop together in Tampa this summer:
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This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed in Israel Mohammed Ibrahim is one of more than 300 Palestinian children being held indefinitely in Israeli custody.

If you're catching up to Mohammed's story, the teen has been incarcerated in Israel's prisons for more than EIGHT MONTHS, charged with throwing a rock at an Israeli car. He says his confession came after soldiers beat him and an interrogator threatening more violence
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It's worth noting that the official figure for how many Palestinian children remain in Israeli custody (360, based on Israeli Prison Service reporting) likely does not reflect the reality of childhood detention, and is likely an undercount. I explain why here:
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This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed in Israel Mohammed Ibrahim is one of more than 300 Palestinian children being held indefinitely in Israeli custody.

Please READ/SHARE our story on Mohammed Ibrahim, 16 yr old Palestinian American and the 300+ Palestinian children who Israel has locked in conditions of abuse, torture and medical neglect. Most are held w/ NO CHARGES or haven't had a trial
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Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians James Zogby and Jonah Valdez on what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shares her hopes and fears.

James Zogby and @jonahmv.bsky.social spoke about what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shared her hopes and fears.

Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.

The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC

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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Israel’s Mounting Ceasefire Violations in Gaza “The matter is not a ceasefire — we are talking about a managed genocide, a managed forcible displacement.”

I write for @theintercept.com about Israel’s mounting CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS — withholding Gaza aid and killing Palestinians.

w/ brief commentary from @ramyabdu.bsky.social and @tksshawa.bsky.social who both say the GENOCIDE is continuing but through different means.

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ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

On Friday, ICE kicked off a scheme to offer thousands of dollars to unaccompanied children as young as 14 in exchange for agreeing to be deported.

ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

The government began to send out the memo to service providers Friday afternoon, directing children who accept to set up a meeting with ICE, where the kids must sign a voluntary removal document that waives their rights, in exchange for the cash payment.
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ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

BREAKING: We've obtained a government memo revealing the start of a new ICE operation that targets unaccompanied immigrant children 14 years or older, pressuring them to take $2,500 if they agree to be deported.
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Mario Guevara To Be Deported After Appeals Court Denies Stay | American Civil Liberties Union The government detained him for over 100 days in retaliation for his reporting on law enforcement

“I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism,” said Oscar Guevara...“My father should have never had to face over 100 days in detention. He is the center of our family. He is the reason our home feels like home.”

Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict” “The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

"The Trump Administration is waging a secret war against undisclosed enemies without the consent of Congress, according to a confidential notice that was sent to several congressional committees this week and obtained by The Intercept."

by @nickturse.bsky.social

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