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So angry for the people in Gaza, once again living in constant fear as Israel violates the ceasefire and resumes its massacres of families yet again.

I'm so heartbroken and angry that their "break" from constant bombardment was so short. Imagine surviving a genocide for two years, thinking you may finally be able to exhale and rebuild only for it to begin again just days later. Unimaginable trauma after trauma. Nobody deserves to live like this.

When I heard news of the latest so-called ceasefire, I watched celebrations with a pit in my stomach. How could Israel be trusted for a second? Of course, I'm not judging Palestinians. Even while knowing Israel better than anyone, any human in their situation would welcome a minute to breathe.

A real ceasefire won't come until Israeli impunity ends. Consequences for genocide must be severe or else. What does anyone think will happen in a world where genocide goes unchecked and unpunished?

More devastating news from Gaza. I'm so sorry for Dr. Abu Rukba's family, for the animals and people of Gaza, for this world. What a loss for us all. Such a horrible shame that the criminals responsible have been allowed to continue their heinous, cruel rampage for so long 💔💔💔

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

“Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as c...

“America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.”

This is so absurd. NOT standing against mass murder, cruelty, and gen0cide is what should be shamed but instead it's writing sweet books for kids and fighting for the safety and rights for all children that gets you in trouble in this country.

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

"Trump’s vision is yet another American-Israeli concoction cooked up without any input from Palestinians that would retain Israel’s perpetual control over Gaza’s future."
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ICE smashed a car window with a 1-month-old baby inside. Unreal. #ICE #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bill Maher and Van Jones are both absolute disgraces. The footage of them laughing at a joke Jones made involving dead babies in Gaza will go down in history as one of the most depraved examples of how deeply complicit Western media has been in the dehumanization and genocide of Palestinians.

Most Democrats favor sanctions on Israel, say Palestinians face genocide, poll says “Democratic voters are saying clearly the time has come for comprehensive accountability measures against Israel.”

“Democratic Party leadership must finally recognize this undeniable reality and listen to their voter base, or they risk repeating their disastrous loss in 2024.”

www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The Sumud flotilla may not have succeeded in breaking the siege but it did succeed in bringing hope to decent people everywhere, and most importantly, people in Gaza who were reminded that many people not only care but are willing to sacrifice their lives to help end the cruelty and injustice.

If babies blown to pieces won't move this world to act, is there any hope for this world?

If babies blown to pieces won't move this world to act, what will?

@virusesimmunity.bsky.social, who studies long COVID and other post-viral conditions, says, “If we don’t figure this out now with this pandemic, I’m afraid we will be much less prepared for future pandemics.”

These terminations have already hit @mclellanlab.bsky.social. More will come.

This is horrifying! Family members of some of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison by Trump confirm their loved ones weren't members of a gang.

One woman said her brother got a tattoo of a rose in Dallas, and because of that they accused him of being a gang member.

URGENT ACTION ALERT: Over 400 Palestinians murdered overnight as Israel and the US intensify their genocide in Gaza.

Read our full action alert: loom.ly/eyUy0qM

Trump administration loophole snags US research grants from Lyme to lung disease The Trump administration has for weeks been blocking the U.S. National Institutes of Health process for issuing new research grants for everything from Lyme disease to lung and heart disease, according to researchers, a departing NIH official and documents.

The NIH funding freeze has blocked 3 of our grant proposals (so far), which threatens to shut down our Lyme disease research program within a year.
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This morning, baby girl Sila Abdel Qader tragically passed away from the extreme cold in her family’s tent in Shujaiya, east of Gaza City.

This is so vile and disturbing

If everyone is too focused on just surviving, there's not much energy or time left for thinking critically, organizing, and executing a revolution.

It goes beyond "hating the poor." The billionaire class wants to maximize exploitation and minimize any chance of an uprising that would change the status quo/reduce their power.

Israel Used Elderly Gaza Couple as Human Shields, then Executed Them - Report The Israeli army killed an elderly Palestinian couple after using them as human shields during an invasion of Gaza City last May.

www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-used-...

Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings The Trump administration is shutting down all federal government buildings' EV chargers and expected to sell off the GSA's newly bought EVs.

Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage

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Or that so many don't care about other people. Even if bad things happen only to others, why don't you have a heart and not want humans to suffer?

"It's complicated" is often such a BS statement. A lot of the time, things that are portrayed as complicated are really simple. We're all connected. We're all human. Oppression is wrong. These
statements being perceived as controversial tells us how backward our society is.

I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning.
Without those grants, my lab must close within a year.
And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues
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