Ben Ehrenreich (find me on Bluesky)

Look how pretty! (Clementines not included.)

My friend @JenniferLoewe10 has asked me to post the letter below, which she recently received from Hidiyya, a friend of hers from Rafah who she has know for more than two decades: I feel like we live on another planet, far removed from Earth. No one here can provide even the…

Absolutely perverse

BREAKING: Haaretz Confirms Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Fire on Unarmed Starving Civilians at Aid Sites A major Haaretz investigation confirms Israeli soldiers in Gaza were ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites — even when they posed no…

The red-baiting and Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani by the Dem establishment and corporate media make it excessively clear that repressive, anti-democratic, fascistic tendencies are not just a Republican problem.

Perhaps most people are smart enough to see through this appallingly cynical smear by now.

Started reading this @BenEhrenreich piece a month ago & didn’t go on, probably because it was too harrowing. But today I finished it: a great & necessary piece of reporting on a huge crime in which all Americans are involved

The stink of death has enveloped him for years.

So the city with the largest Jewish population on the planet chose the least Israel-supporting candidate the Democratic primaries had on offer. Seems like kind of a big deal. Mazel tov, New Yorkers!

If this round is over, let it be remembered that even while under heavy missile fire from Iran, Israeli forces did not cease baiting the Palestinians they have been starving with food aid and then massacring them day after day after day.

There goes your Nobel peace prize, dipshit.

For those who have only a vague recollection of the 1990s and the more immediate run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, or were too young/not yet born during that period, take an hour or two to do some online research. You will quickly find that the loudest voices currently calling…

Another day another massacre. While under missile fire and fighting a supposedly existential war they continue to prioritize slaughtering the starving.

Israeli massacres of starving Palestinians lined up for food have become a daily occurrence, the ghoulish humanitarian face of genocide.

“Do I not have the right to exist?” shouts man as he slaughters his neighbors by the dozen.

update:

Great piece by @melissagira: “For Bass, it seemed, the problem was not that the LAPD was violently policing those protesting ICE raids; the problem was Trump’s calling in the National Guard to do the same thing..”