emily hawley

Sudan: Thousands resort to eating animal feed to survive in besieged Al Fashir Al Fashir, and its 900,000 inhabitants, have been held hostage by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for 14 months. Food and fuel is blocked from entering, and its people are suffering as a result.

900,000 people live in Al Fashir - it is one of the largest towns in Sudan. And they are starving because of the siege.

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Sudanese journalist Yousra El Bagir has managed to get some footage out of Al Fashir in Darfur, Sudan. The RSF siege of the city has cut it off from food supply and medical assistance for months. One reason you hear very little about Sudan is that the RSF kills anyone who tries to document the war.

BOLSONARO HAS BEEN ARRESTED.

UNBELIEVABLE

SUCH GOOD NEWS

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*Nods in just watching Black people in New Orleans denied entry into and hunted down within surrounding parishes during Katrina*

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

I knew it! DHS appears to have STAGED the removals of serious criminals to Africa, even though they could actually be sent back to their home countries to try to pressure courts to permit the practice for anyone. We can't trust anything they say because DHS LIES.

Love a long voice message on WhatsApp. They work on Signal.

But on imessage? Infernal.

This is skin-crawling bad and morally upsetting in service of a cause I'm broadly on board with, but it won't be that long until we get AI animations of the victims of crimes being asked to speak as the dead for all sorts of things, facsimile paraded as truth, machine output as divine seance. No, no

Constant surveillance makes everyone less safe.

The US is an authoritarianism. It's just that now, cut and dry. May this period be short.

UN expert criticizes US rollback of Myanmar sanctions as ‘unconscionable’ A UN expert criticized the US government on Wednesday for its rollback of sanctions against entities supplying weapons and other support to the Myanmar military junta, finding the move 'unconscionable...

UN SR on #Myanmar has criticised the Trump regime for withdrawing (successful) sanctions against entities & individuals facilitating the #Tatmadaw's arms trade. Such a blow to accountability for atrocity crimes. #intLaw www.jurist.org/news/2025/08...

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Angelita's Platform — Angelita for PDX

This is not accurate. You can see her campaign platform here, which is more focused on local issues.

www.angelitaforportland.com/platform

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

some of y’all need to stop taking your frustrations with ICE out on angelita, the only immigrant on council, who is also the one who has done the most in this space and generally goes the hardest against fascists of any kind. why aren’t you lashing out at me or literally anyone else?

"We will impeach and remove the president for his many crimes" seems like a good midterm election pitch to me idk

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

What happens next is basically an iron law of dictatorships.

Fearing the consequences of passing bad news to the dictator, bureaucrats pass entirely false but good news. His ego baloons.

Government announcements quickly become unreliable as the difference between fact and propaganda disappears.

Dude pushed an extortion deal to get minerals out of the Congo and wants a Nobel for it.

If I had to guess how many Americans even know that Israel systematically demolishes Palestinian houses I'd put it at somewhere around <5%. This seems like a good way to make it >20%.

people got taken to cecot without due process, were tortured then sent home, both governments involved are now throwing their hands up saying "we didnt do it"

Turkey’s Erdogan Fires Statistics Chief After Record Inflation The president of the Turkish statistical institute, Sait Dincer, was removed from office and replaced by Erhan Cetinkaya, who had been deputy president of Turkey’s Banking Regulation and Supervision A...

um. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

thank you for writing.

This is such an important thread and a nuance completely lost on most Americans.

I have to add: these sectarian sentiments have been stoked, in part, by colonial and imperial strategies of pitting communities against one another, to deadly effect.

A must read from Dannenbaum and de Waal.

"When social order breaks down in a famine, the last to starve are those holding the guns."

HOW IS THIS NOT OBVIOUS.

It is obvious. They know.

The aid provided by the G.H.F. is inadequate by several standards. The group’s ration boxes, according to nutritionists, are unbalanced and lack nutrients that are essential for starving populations, especially children. A malnourished child requires specialized food such as Plumpy’Nut, a peanut-based therapeutic formula — not pasta or lentils, which the G.H.F. offers instead. The most severely malnourished need intensive care in a hospital. To prepare food included in the ration boxes, people also often require fuel and clean water, both of which are in short supply in Gaza.

Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza

"It is a calamity that was foreseeable, and foreseen. Starvation takes time; authorities cannot starve a population by accident."

"It is a moment at which death rates grow exponentially and beyond which the fabric of society becomes far more difficult to repair."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...