Jill Filipovic

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Being escorted by military PR isn’t transparent journalism. And lumping the UN with Hamas as those “blocking aid” is outrageous. If anything, the Israeli gov whose ministers brag about erasing population and starvation is closer to Hamas.

Israel is a signatory to the 4th Geneva Convention, which explicitly lays out that expectation

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Some people frankly need a lot LESS therapy.

The Christian speaker of the House can’t bring himself to publicly oppose a pardon for one of the worst child sex traffickers of our lifetime. That’s the story. That should be the headline. Astonishing.

Nope nope nope please don't do this to your child or anyone else's child, these people are psychopaths I'm sorry nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/…

Religious settlers violated Shabbat to drive a truck overnight to steal a sheep from Palestinians in A-Tuwani, south Hebron, assisted and secured by IDF soldiers. They assaulted and injured the village head. Another day in occupied West Bank that Israel is annexing under our nose

The thing about war and crisis zones is that delivering aid is actually fairly complex and there are several orgs that have figured out how to do it... and when you totally cut them out and start from scratch with contractors it turns out you're just gonna be worse at it.

"Why is the Republican base so fixated on the issue of child sex abuse? Historians have noticed a pattern across centuries of American life: When the role of women in society changes, a moral panic about children soon follows." nytimes.com/2025/07/25/mag…

He’s visiting his own golf course at taxpayer expense.

This is extraordinary. A GHF ex contractor, former US special forces lieutenant-colonel, tells @BowenBBC he never saw brutality against civilians like he did at the hands of the IDF and US contractors in Gaza - and he fought ISIS and the Taliban bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…

If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working internet connection to file the story. npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-…

NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit, two more whistleblowers have emerged, according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1

.@JillFilipovic wrote a solid post on the disaster of a crisis in the making in occupied Gaza, and Israel is to blame here, as they have starved Gazans due to their reckless decision to withhold food aid. jill.substack.com/p/gaza-is-star…

A third of babies in Gaza are born prematurely, underweight, or needing NICU care. Births are down 41%. Mothers can’t feed their skin-and-bones infants. This is an emergency and there’s no excuse not to act. jill.substack.com/p/gaza-is-star…

Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/doc…

Israel must allow international coverage of Gaza - immediately

I realize this is entirely beside the point but I am fascinated by the claim that someone is “born a man,” like a lil baby coming out covered in goo but he’s wearing a suit and tie

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.

Can we get a break down of blue state vs. red state disaster relief fund distributions under Trump? I'm curious because anecdotally it seems, well, skewed. All citizens are paying into the fund.