Jack Mirkinson
@jackmirkinson
Senior editor @thenation / eic @discourse_blog. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jackmirkinson jmirkinson @ thenation dot com / jack @ discourseblog dot com
this opens with a graf solely about what a ceasefire would mean for israel. palestinians who are suffering from genocide and starvation get no mention. they might as well not exist. a pretty good summation of how the nyt views this situation.
Breaking News: Israel and the U.S. are withdrawing from Gaza cease-fire talks with Hamas. nyti.ms/3UtQzKN
the free press hates palestinians so much that even a piece acknowledging the famine kicks off with a round of ghoulish denialism about how long the crisis has been taking place. a truly horrendous outfit
The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…
Please send us your best pics of pro-Palestinian public art! discourseblog.com/p/love-for-pal…
💔 My little brother goes hungry every day… He sleeps without food and wakes up weaker. In Gaza, flour now costs €80 per kilo, and we have nothing. No food, no income, no medicine… just a child suffering in silence. Please, help save my brother. 🔗 chuffed.org/project/137369……
💔 My little brother is dying of hunger… Yes, literally. A child — innocent and fragile — goes to sleep hungry and wakes up weaker. In Gaza, we search for crumbs… a piece of bread… anything. But flour — our lifeline — now costs €80 per kilo. We need several kilos a day just…
would be great if the elite US reporters who lose their minds if someone gets a paper cut in the WH briefing room trained even an iota of their wrath on the worst campaign against journalists in modern recorded history
Extraordinary. AFP says its journalists are in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has never happened since the agency was founded. Never has any of its journalists been starved to death
aaaand there it is
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. on.ft.com/4kSRPSu
Really important story from @salihabayrak_ about Israel's abuse of Freedom Flotilla coalition activists in detention.
Pro-Palestine activist Yasemin Acar was kept awake for 30 to 40 hours while in Israeli detention. If authorities noticed her dozing off, they would yell at her to wake up as she was “not allowed to sleep." thenation.com/article/world/…
at some point everyone will have to come to terms with what they did or didn't do during the genocide. i wouldn't want to have what these people have on their conscience.
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. theguardian.com/education/2025…
this has been changed to an even more deranged framing. now, israel deliberately slaughtering people it's also deliberately starving is down to its "failure to address gaza's power vacuum." wtaf
If you set a movie theater on fire and lock all the exits, that does not highlight the danger of going to the movies.
The Pope should go to Gaza, and bring aid in. He should dare the Israelis to block him. Words, no matter how heartfelt, will not save a single starving child.
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and…
Time to ban 61 year old supervisors from swimming.
Riley Gaines makes the swim from Alcatraz - ties for fifth place behind 61 year old former Supervisor Aaron Peskin.
I have only received two donations. Are we dying? I have been singing for four days and everyone is ignoring my posts. I will not forgive anyone if my child dies.🖐😓 chuffed.org/project/134011…
idk what the big deal is with the epstein thing. who hasn't written "we've all got secrets wink wink" to their notorious pedophile friend
ty to cros for this ode to blogging. every aspiring journalist should spend a year blogging if they can. you're set for life if you know how to blog. discourseblog.com/p/these-substa…
We can no longer bear this. It’s a trust upon your shoulders. Donate, share, help us before hope is extinguished. 💔 gofund.me/6b08dc92 @leschique @ayokhalil8 @jackmirkinson
No food, no medicine, no shelter… We haven’t received donations for a long time. Our children sleep hungry, and our sick suffer in silence. We’re not asking for much… just a life with dignity. Save us before hope fades away. link donate🔗gofund.me/6b08dc92 @Louis_Allday
My friend Asmaa's family is still trapped in Gaza. Famine has taken root, war profiteers are bleeding people dry, and Israel's bombs never stop. Asmaa's family desperately needs money to survive. Please give what you can to their fundraiser. chuffed.org/project/130895…
