the poet Dot Devota
@meadowasylum
Author of PMS: A Journal In Verse; The Division of Labor; And The Girls Worried Terribly; The Eternal Wall; Dept. of Posthumous Letters. My personal views.
The Pope should be on a flotilla headed to Gaza.
These so-called “humanitarian pauses” are not acts of mercy,they are quiet admissions of a calculated chokehold. For 21 weeks, aid was deliberately blocked. Now, slivers of access are granted, not out of compassion, but as part of a deeper, more cynical strategy. Each pause is a…
BREAKING: Axios’ Barak Ravid reports that the Israeli military will implement “humanitarian pauses” in certain areas of its attacks on Gaza’s population Sunday to allow UN aid trucks in—a clear admission that Israel had been blocking their movement for 21 weeks.
In my Al Jazeera report: Shocking scenes from Gaza reveal children ravaged by famine and malnutrition, with relentless hunger and thirst striking displaced families, as the Israeli blockade continues to crush what remains of life in the strip.
"Every aspect of it can be dangerous: providing it, seeking it, drinking it, swimming in it...workers trying to make repairs or operate water infrastructure have been directly targeted & killed." aje.io/8takcn
"Hundreds bang pots, pans in London in Gaza hunger crisis protest" as US-Israel continues starvation policy aje.io/5hltch via @AJEnglish
“When you witness the truth, you become a target.”
“In Gaza, a camera is a threat.” interc.pt/4lw8gWh
Al Jazeera condemns Israeli incitement against Gaza reporter Anas al-Sharif aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25…
She knew this in the 70s!
"The Japanese Red Army Faction in Lebanon, led by Shigenobu, deployed a theory of revolution in which the occupation of Palestine was viewed as the culmination of capitalist contradictions and its liberation would ignite global proletarian struggle." She Who Struggles @PlutoPress
They negotiate the dead on the conditions of his death.
The words are tired of repetition, and the heart is weary of complaining… How long must we keep explaining, shouting, and pleading?
🚨BREAKING | Kidnapped at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation @GHFUpdates death trap, 17-year-old Omar Nizar Asfour was released today from Israeli prisons, along with nine other Palestinian children who had been abducted at the same site in the Al-Shakhoush area, north of Rafah. All…
"Me and negotiations, we collapse"
انا و المفاوضات بننهار
In these dark moments, I’m reminded of these words by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish
"4 mos w/out a single full meal for my family...Now I handle flour w/ reverence, knead gently, cut the loaves carefully, roll them out & send them off to bake in the public clay oven w/ my husband, who lovingly balances the tray on his head." @MaramGaza aje.io/cswlnl
The only way to respond to this episode of muzzling academic speech is to do what the staff at Guernica did— resign from HER en masse in protest. Why would they want to continue being associated with an academic publication that will not uphold its own, stated values of academic…
“The level of repression that we’re seeing is related to the shift in the narrative, and the loss of control over that narrative.” theguardian.com/education/2025…
"O world, O unjust one.. We in Gaza, old and young, are dying of hunger, do you hear me?!"
يا عالم يا ظالم .. نحنُ فـ غزّة كبارًا وصغارًا نموت جُوعًا، هل تَسمعونني؟!
Our teams in Gaza have again run out of food to cook. We have finished all the stock in hand, and our trucks are stuck at the border. We are continuing to bake bread and deliver water. But the people of Gaza still need a hot meal. Yesterday, we served 80,000+ meals—and we are…
I’m curled up in a corner of the room, lying flat on the cold floor as the quadcopters circle above,erratic, relentless, spitting bullets in frenzied bursts. The sound is deafening, the terror suffocating. Each second stretches unbearably as I brace for what may come next. The…
In Deir al-Balah, unrelenting volleys of projectiles are unleashed at different parts of the eastern parts. Quadcopters are everywhere. Israeli tanks are shooting relentlessly as well, @a_abdulruhman reports as he is shivering with fear.
"And in the quiet, there’s a question that whispers louder than the bombs or silence"
Suspended in Silence There are days when the sky feels too heavy for a soul to carry. And I walk beneath it, barefoot in the ashes of dreams that once burned bright. The world, it no longer speaks to me, only watches with indifferent eyes as I fall through hours that…