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📌 Sudan: Fighting kills at least 114 in Darfur

At least 114 people were killed in western Darfur last week in clashes b/w the Sudanese Army & the paramilitary RSF, medical sources told Agence France-Presse (AFP). RSF attacks around Kernoi killed 63 people, while 51 were killed in army drone...

The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City Our 23rd most-read article of 2025. - - -I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestio...

Our 23rd most-read article of 2025.

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From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910

‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on…

READ: Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...

By Japanese artist Kobayakawa Kyoshi (1897-1948)

For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart For the AIDS Dead   The plague that you have thus far survived.  They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...

For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
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Absolutely shameful vote by most @eppgroup.bsky.social which apparently agrees that the only thing EU can do when #UnitedArabEmirates fueling conflict & violence in #Sudan with arms is to pay the humanitarian bill.

Lack of principles & bad politics.

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Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class More than 600,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have missed the past two years of school because of the war between Israel and the militant Hamas group.

Most of #Gaza’s schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class

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William Kennedy, Albany’s Bard, Reads a Story With Legs

I went up to Albany all of a rainy night and what mug do I find but William Kennedy, THE William Kennedy. Author of "Ironweed," "Roscoe," and so many other novels that endure. He's 97, he's still writing - and he'll drink you under the table. So here: Your "Great Read."

Alberto Giacometti, Still-Life with Bottles, 1958

Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...

What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."

Proud to be a small part of this effort with others who've volunteered in Gaza. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used ...

🚨 New from @hrw.org's @idasawyer.bsky.social: Disturbing Reports of #Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas

Chlorine's Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law

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/

Imagine being trapped in a city of 260,000 people, cut off from food, medicine, and safety — waiting for a massacre everyone sees coming.

This is the reality of people in El Fasher, Sudan, right now. Read this harrowing investigation from The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe t...

Read every word. A harrowing, ugly, disturbing account of the last few months of the 500+ day siege on El Fasher, North Darfur in Sudan.

‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El Fasher: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Will the US Continue to Aid, Abet, and Arm Genocide in Gaza? Every leader should move now to end our complicity.

“This is no longer a policy debate. This is now an urgent question of basic humanity. Will the United States continue to arm genocide in Gaza? Will legislators continue to support an unconscionable crime against humanity—or act to end it?”

In Gaza City, death seems easier than displacement An Israeli bomb killed my grandfather and destroyed his home where I was staying. Now I am homeless and grieving again.

Israel is forcing 1 million+ Palestinians out of Gaza City. Israel has made it clear that those who don’t leave will be killed.

“I have endured starvation, thirst, missiles, & unbearable loss. I may not survive my 15th displacement.”

EXCLUSIVE: 100+ Doctors Who Worked in Gaza Demand Global Action as 'Colleagues Are Starved and Shot by Israel' Many Palestinian health workers 'suffer from hunger, dizziness and fainting episodes while performing operations and triaging patients,' reads an open letter signed by the healthcare professionals.

In a historic letter, 123 doctors from around the world who've served in Gaza demand international action to stop the horrors their Palestinian colleagues & Palestinian people face.

“We reject the violence of silence and supposed neutrality while our colleagues are starved and shot at by Israel.”

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

“Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system are part of a broader strategy to render the territory unlivable for Palestinians”

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian-American physician who served in Gaza, writes about the systematic targeting of health workers in Palestine.

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After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.

East Village Icon Punjabi Deli Remains Bustling, Beloved, Perfect Thirty-two years in, the narrow storefront is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices.

Thirty-two years in, Punjabi Deli is still serving delicious vegetarian Indian food at shockingly reasonable prices from a narrow storefront in the East Village.

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

A devastating report on an appalling pattern. “It's a killing field," one soldier said. “They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Trump aid cuts deal a blow to HIV prevention in Africa Trump's cuts restrict the availability of drugs that millions of Africans have taken to prevent infection.

Gay and bisexual men in Nigeria who lost access to PEPFAR-funded PrEP because of the Trump administration's aid cuts are testing positive for HIV.

It's an example of how HIV prevention is under threat across the continent.

Latest for Reuters: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Never more proud of my incredible father-in-law, which is saying a lot!

What Israeli Officials Are Privately Saying About Starvation in Gaza And how the humanitarian response intersects with Netanyahu’s ability to continue waging war.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Israel’s New INGO Registration Measures Are a Grave Threat to Humanitarian Operations and International Law – 55 Organisations Say (6 May 2025) - occupied Palestinian territory News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights and Safety and Security; published on 6 May 2025 by ACPP, ActionAid and 36ount...

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