@lorishridhare.bsky.social
Writer, poet (in training), & communications director. Failing the reading & comprehension tests of our current times. linktr.ee/lshridhare
The ongoing war in Sudan, which broke out in April 2023, has killed over 150,000 civilians and displaced 14 million people, according to the BBC.
Thanks to the work of Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Lab, there's evidence we can track.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
"The Italian People Made Us Smile in Gaza"
The world could do so much more. At least we have the people of Italy.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
This profound work brings us back to our humanity. "This is an under-appreciated form of state crime in Gaza. While most news networks and academic studies discuss crimes against the living, I document Israel’s invisible crimes against the dead and the unborn."
26.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Celebrating @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social who have helped raise more than $400,000 of its $737,000 goal to expand #Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
"As doctors, we care about protecting life. We never endorse violence or killing." @detroitfreepress.bsky.social
#endgenocide
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Gaza is dying slowly. And I am dying with it: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
02.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide:
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
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#booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #sff #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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"I ask who he hates. 'Believe it or not, I don’t hate anyone,' he says. 'It is not my nature, hating people.'
Lessons on how to live through a violent occupation from the Gaza Diary.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The genocide "is getting privatized."
-Arwa Mahdawi @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally, weeks and weeks after posting her experiences on social media and being interviewed by various international outlets Dr. Victoria Rose gets to share her story as a physician in #Gaza - via @nytimes.com. Let her voice be heard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...."
Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
“This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked...." Re: the big & beautiful..
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When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/w...
Jeffrey St. Clair
The New Dark Age open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The Chris Hedges Report
A photo of a pregnant woman and her 1-year-old baby, who died in an attack on a tent for displaced people, in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Nakba of the Children: How Israel is Targeting the Palestinian Future."
"Palestinians are now forced to live, give birth, and bury their children in the same space." theintercept.com/2025/05/15/i...
16.05.2025 19:40 — 👍 98 🔁 49 💬 6 📌 4What poetry is meant for - as Audre Lorde said, "Poetry is not a luxury." Thank you @mosababutoha.bsky.social for the gift of your words, for illuminating the devastation of your homeland and this genocide. May your future poems be full of joy.
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‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’
This week’s column
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Booker still at it. "I will yield for a question while retaining the floor." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQn...
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I wrote about ICE's student kidnappings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In this @thenation.com op-ed, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout outlines how the groundwork has been laid for a new Free Speech Movement under President Donald Trump's second term.
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We can't become numb to genocide - anywhere.
Nicholas Kristof: "I suspect that many Americans regard all this is sad but inevitable, viewing Sudan as a bottomless pit of pain that we can’t do anything about. Yet that’s not quite right."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.
Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.
Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column: You Cannot Run a Country This Way www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...
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Here is my latest op-ed. The GOP have betrayed Capitol Police yet again…all while claiming to be the party of law and order. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...
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