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law-abiding US-born citizen. comms director @imeupolicy. prev. @WeBuildProgress, @sam_rasoul, @berniesanders, @keithellison. [email protected]
The Orion Nebula, photo by me this morning vs in 1901 from Yerkes Observatory. My main thought is it looks like a portal
Don’t worry the @nytimes isn’t mortified that it published this genocide denial as Palestinians are dropping dead and being shredded into pieces because Israel starved and killed them. They’re proudly pushing out push notifications for it.
To everyone else in NY-15, @RepRitchie has made it very clear that your Votes and Opinions don't matter. Remember his words
Torres says he has “no plans to endorse” Mamdani: “I represent a substantial Jewish community in Riverdale, and there are real concerns about Mamdani — not among every Jewish New Yorker, but among many. “He has to address those concerns, not only with words but with deeds.”
These aid organizations are calling for the US to do the one thing that would actually pressure Israel to let in food: cut off weapons. Statements of concern from Members of Congress aren’t enough. We need action. Contact your Representative now at blockthebombs.org
Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam International were among the 115 international aid groups that signed a statement describing food shortages in Gaza as "mass starvation," as the "Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza." abcnews.link/IjBCpVy
The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.
The poll @imeupolicy is announcing soon must have gotten leaked 😔
Fascinating shift on Israel in the last few days from a very wide range of center-left politicians & voices that had previously defended the country’s conduct
Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…
Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…
Thing is, once you are willing to support genocide there's no bottom. It's a continuing downward spiral of delusion. Everyone is lying, antisemitic and secretly out to kill all the Jews. You have to rationalize it this way. Otherwise, you have to reckon with what you've done.
Imagine the delusion, mendacity, pure evil of saying the World Food Programme, UN, Amnesty International, kids in Gaza, doctors in hospitals — all lying. That the photos are fake. That there’s no starvation in Gaza and, even if there were, it’s definitely not Israel’s fault.
Chilling admission from Israeli soldier in YNet, a prominent Israeli newspaper, about forces shooting civilians near a hospital and abducting children: “We took teenagers and used them as human shields…they were blindfolded and handcuffed”
Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*
Remembering this little act of evil by the Biden administration on its way out when it definitionally had nothing to lose
New report on the controversy within the Biden administration over the retraction of a U.S.-funded report warning of famine in northern Gaza that was ordered to be deleted
Hoyer (86 years old) with his finger on the pulse of the nation as always
I am deeply disturbed by reports that a group of Jewish children returning to France after participating in summer camp, singing in Hebrew and wearing stars of David, were forcibly removed from their flight. The Jewish community has faced prejudice and discrimination for…
Giving the whole game away aren’t we, Corey? @archivegenocide
I really hope you understand the implications that has for the ICJ case. This isn't a cute game. It's playing with serious fire.
how crazy is it that JEWISH leaders "fear being labelled antisemitic" if they speak out against starvation
This would be a fantastic article if the “Israeli right” did not happen to be basically everyone in Israel
My latest: Trump opened the door to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He needs to close it and stop feeding the Israeli right's fantasies of conquest, or he will never achieve the peace he claims to want. Please read the whole thing. Gift link below.
I’ve personally never been in Bari’s predicament but it must be a little tough to have the sticker price of the media company you own and are trying to sell off to Paramount be directly tied with the median Americans’ tolerance for watching children die of hunger en masse.
The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…
Look at how much throat clearing federal officials in the world’s most powerful country feel compelled to do before they can say “Starving children to death is bad.” What a humiliated country we are in
I’ve always supported Israel’s right to exist and defend itself. That hasn’t changed. But supporting this government’s actions—allowing children to starve and firing on civilians seeking food—is something I can’t stand by. This isn’t self-defense. It must stop.
Genuinely four corners colliding in the last several weeks - Zohran’s win on the American left, Epstein conspiracy on the American right, Hague Group in the Global South, EU support for international structure re: Israel’s starvation escalation
Actually why is the dam breaking on Gaza so suddenly. This has been going on for nearly two years now.
This is getting close to the logic of holocaust deniers who often point to the existence of survivors, escapees, the existence of Jewish partisans, the sporadic use of Jewish labor, and the fact that not all camps were used for extermination to cast doubt on genocidal intent
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.