Katie Armstrong

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of southern Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah. Israel’s security cabinet convened today to assess the escalating situation in Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 12 reports. The outlet earlier said that Israeli officials are preparing for a potential new confrontation with Hezbollah, aimed at weakening the group and pushing both Hezbollah and the Lebanese government toward what they describe as a “stable agreement” with Israel. Lebanon’s Army, L’Orient Today reports, submitted its second monthly report today to the Cabinet outlining operations carried out south of the Litani River to locate and dismantle Hezbollah weapons depots and other military infrastructure in the border area. 📸 Israeli airstrike hits an iron workshop and a sawmill between the towns of Tura and Al-Abbasiyeh in south Lebanon. More details: ⬇️🧵

🔴 BREAKING: Israel Launches New Wave of Strikes Across Southern Lebanon

The Israeli military has unleashed heavy airstrikes across various parts of...Lebanon in what Al Jazeera described as the most serious escalation since the ceasefire that ended the 2024 war with Hezbollah...

More details: ⬇️ 🧵

Deja vu. bsky.app/profile/equa...

NYT headline about Trump targeting boats suspected of smuggling drugs

THREAD: There is no explanation for the New York Times continue this level of unethical reporting. I’ve talked to reporters and editors there and no one defends this: reporting the stated reasons of the government as its *actual* reasons.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

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Periodic reminder that teargas is an abortifacient. I've been documenting the effects of teargas for five years by speaking to people directly impacted and exposed in the US. 🧵

If you’re interested in any facet of Virginia Folklore please join this virtual meeting on Nov 19 @6pm and/or pass the invite to your friends! We’re trying to cast as wide a net as possible and get a ton of different voices statewide on the call.

People want to talk about supporting our Black, native Washingtonians. Then they strip the very laws that our people have benefited from for decades - and pay lip service in the process while stealing opportunity from straight under their feet. Shame.

First it was single family, then it was new builds, now 2-4 units. The single greatest tool we have for preserving affordable housing and building generation wealth. . All sales going forward will be to be venture capital firms and private equity. This major door to homeownership closed.

⚡️Mousa Abu Marzouk has spent decades building Hamas as a resistance and political movement. After being born a refugee in Rafah in 1951, he studied in the U.S., earning a Master’s in engineering at Colorado State and a PhD at Louisiana Tech in 1991 — the same year he became chairman of the Hamas...

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

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NEW — Freedom Flotilla Coalition says there may soon be an attempt by Israel to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. Say radars show roughly 12 unidentified vessels, just 5-15 miles away.

Some flotilla boats seem to be losing connection, possibly experiencing signal jamming.

Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia) at twilight

a single, beautiful tithonia and not where I planted it (them)

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? (hint: there have indeed been previous member votes in AAG, and some were even on "troubling world events"!). The graphic shows the AAG newsletter heading and describes following posts as "a look into the AAG archives"

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG?

Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

Yahya Barzaq, photographing a baby

Say his name: Yahya Barzaq, one of the 275+ journalists killed in Gaza. He was known as one of the most prominent photojournalists still alive in Gaza. Prior to the genocide, he was known for gently photographing newborn babies.

Footage shot by Enzo Pianetti from Sirius, where Drop Site’s Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social) is reporting. Mast lights from ships dot the horizon where all the boats are gathered...every so often an explosion can be seen and heard. Crews remain vigilant awaiting more...unpredictable attacks.

Highlight of the last week for me. Yasmin showing us how to do it. ❤️‍🔥

Remora House is the real deal supporting their community and they need your help. Anything helps and they're a great cause.

⛵️Global Sumud Flotilla update: The Sumud Flotilla’s fleet from both Barcelona and Tunisia is currently sailing west of the island of Malta.

I actually think that learning how to grow protein rich peanut crops that are delicious and also fix your soil is more important than computer glasses but what do I know…

This is horrifying & devastating.

Every single person that has said unhoused people are dangerous, that they are undeserving of support, that they need to just be cleared out & warehoused for forced treatment, contributed to this happening.

Hating homeless people is a bipartisan policy position.

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity.
These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane.
The silence of the international community is a disgrace.
Shame on this world.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

RIP Mercury, Hello Retrograde! How Administrators Failed to Stop the Presses at the University of Texas Dallas - UNICORN RIOT How student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas formed their own newspaper after being fired over their coverage of pro-Palestinian protests.

NEW: Student journalists at the University of Texas Dallas tell us the story of how they formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper for their coverage of the 2023 pro-Palestine protests on campus.
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Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millenia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.

This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.

a black and white photo of Texas Gladden holding one of her children standing next to another in an apple orchard outside of Salem Virginia, 192?. September 10, 2025, 12-1 PM

Join Aldona & myself with Virginia state folklorist Katy Clune for our presentation on the Virginia Folklore Society, one of the oldest folklore societies in the US, & home to the largest collection of ballad material in the country.

Heres the registration link 🪕❤️

virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Really excellent thread on Gabriel’s Rebellion.

"The admission is stunning coming from [former top State Department spokesperson Matthew] Miller, who was a key face of the U.S.'s backing of the genocide. ... But he absolved himself of any guilt, claiming that he was simply doing his job."

"Nazi Germany used deliberately deceptive & bureaucratic euphemisms to refer to the transportation of Jews for extermination. The most common terms, "resettlement to the east" & "evacuation," were designed to hide their true intentions from both the victims & the public"
— ‪@cvilletgr.bsky.social