If you’ve read my reporting from Palestine you’ve almost certainly read about the people of Umm al Khair. Last week the Israeli military issued demolition orders that would erase the entire village.
URGENT: Demolitions of 14 homes and community spaces in the West Bank community of Umm al-Khair could begin as early as THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, potentially leaving around 100 people (including children) homeless, with winter rapidly approaching.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If you’ve read my reporting from Palestine you’ve almost certainly read about the people of Umm al Khair. Last week the Israeli military issued demolition orders that would erase the entire village.
Italian dock workers have done more to stop the genocide that almost ANY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD.
🇮🇹🪧 NEW: Italian dockworkers have struck again. On Sept. 24, grassroots unions USB and Cobas blocked the Maltese-flagged, Greek-owned tanker Seasalvia from docking in Taranto, where it was set to load 30,000 tons of crude oil at ENI’s refinery for Israel’s military aviation fuel needs before…
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Italian dock workers have done more to stop the genocide that almost ANY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD.
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This is a brilliant (and very funny) piece of satire from @benehrenreich.bsky.social in the must-read @flaminghydra.com:
For now it counts as satire… My latest in @flaminghydra.com: “Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee”
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Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee
Yes, Mr. Congressman, I do recall the first time I met Mr. Soros. It was some years ago, on the first of May. I had reached out to a colleague whom I knew to be a high-ranking officer in the Antifa or...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is a brilliant (and very funny) piece of satire from @benehrenreich.bsky.social in the must-read @flaminghydra.com:
The United Nations employee who sabotaged the escalator and made our President pant and groan up the stairs like a dying badger should be severely chided!
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The United Nations employee who sabotaged the escalator and made our President pant and groan up the stairs like a dying badger should be severely chided!
For now it counts as satire… My latest in @flaminghydra.com: “Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee”
flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee
Yes, Mr. Congressman, I do recall the first time I met Mr. Soros. It was some years ago, on the first of May. I had reached out to a colleague whom I knew to be a high-ranking officer in the Antifa or...
flaminghydra.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For now it counts as satire… My latest in @flaminghydra.com: “Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee”
flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
Can’t help but remember interviews with many ICE detainees who told me that Tylenol was the only medicine prisoners were ever given, no matter the illness, no matter if they were dying.
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Can’t help but remember interviews with many ICE detainees who told me that Tylenol was the only medicine prisoners were ever given, no matter the illness, no matter if they were dying.
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TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social has the transcripts of a future Congressional hearing. “ That’s right, Mr. Congressman. It was a Cracker Barrel. Wherever you find Cracker Barrel you will find Antifa personnel. It’s because of the Country Boy Breakfast.” flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
Transcript of Official Testimony Before the House Anti-Anti-Fascist Committee
Yes, Mr. Congressman, I do recall the first time I met Mr. Soros. It was some years ago, on the first of May. I had reached out to a colleague whom I knew to be a high-ranking officer in the Antifa or...
flaminghydra.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social has the transcripts of a future Congressional hearing. “ That’s right, Mr. Congressman. It was a Cracker Barrel. Wherever you find Cracker Barrel you will find Antifa personnel. It’s because of the Country Boy Breakfast.” flaminghydra.com/anti-anti-fa...
Threatening to get someone fired because you don’t like something they said is actually sniveling, cowardly, and pathetic.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Threatening to get someone fired because you don’t like something they said is actually sniveling, cowardly, and pathetic.
No better way to honor a fallen free speech warrior than with an immediate crackdown on free speech.
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
No better way to honor a fallen free speech warrior than with an immediate crackdown on free speech.
I never hated myself enough to look at Charlie Kirk’s X feed but wow, it is 100 percent racist garbage to the very last minute.
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I never hated myself enough to look at Charlie Kirk’s X feed but wow, it is 100 percent racist garbage to the very last minute.
Imagine saying “political violence is antithetical to America” again and again and nonetheless believing that words have some relation to events in the world.
September 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Imagine saying “political violence is antithetical to America” again and again and nonetheless believing that words have some relation to events in the world.
Fellow Hydra @swordsjew.bsky.social is extremely good in today’s @flaminghydra.com
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Lustful solace / Faraway fellowship
Reading therapy with Talia Lavin, and Brian Hioe on obstacles to solidarity
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July 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Fellow Hydra @swordsjew.bsky.social is extremely good in today’s @flaminghydra.com
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TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social considers the pigeon. “I don’t mean to presume, but I am suggesting that what you fear and despise about pigeons does not belong to them but to you. To us. Please direct your revulsion towards its proper object.” flaminghydra.com/r/334fd657?m...
Feathered friends / Film fans
A city bird reconsidered by Ben Ehrenreich; the Hydra invites readers to choose some fun movies
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July 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
TODAY: @benehrenreich.bsky.social considers the pigeon. “I don’t mean to presume, but I am suggesting that what you fear and despise about pigeons does not belong to them but to you. To us. Please direct your revulsion towards its proper object.” flaminghydra.com/r/334fd657?m...
Awdah published this piece last week. He was killed yesterday. “Our children ask us why this is happening, but we have no answers.”
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In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma
I saw the first bulldozers arrive in my village 17 years ago. Now, after the most brutal weeks in our history, my son will carry similarly painful memories.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Awdah published this piece last week. He was killed yesterday. “Our children ask us why this is happening, but we have no answers.”
www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair...
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The settler in this video shot and killed Awdah Hathaleen today in the West Bank village of Umm al Khair. I last saw Awdah in November. He was a teacher and an activist who struggled courageously for his people. He should have lived a lot longer.
Yinon Levi, a settler sanctioned for severe violence against Palestinians, is shooting at residents in Masafer Yatta. Oudeh Hadalin
July 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The settler in this video shot and killed Awdah Hathaleen today in the West Bank village of Umm al Khair. I last saw Awdah in November. He was a teacher and an activist who struggled courageously for his people. He should have lived a lot longer.
When Rwandan politicians and propagandists were convicted and sentenced by an international tribunal for their roles in the genocide there I don’t remember anyone blathering about “big tents.” Just saying.
July 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When Rwandan politicians and propagandists were convicted and sentenced by an international tribunal for their roles in the genocide there I don’t remember anyone blathering about “big tents.” Just saying.
Great that more people are making noise but weird that so many who are not okay with famine were cool with mass slaughter.
July 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Great that more people are making noise but weird that so many who are not okay with famine were cool with mass slaughter.
Just finished Anne De Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over and cannot get over how excruciating and perfect a novel it was. Thank you @annedemarcken.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just finished Anne De Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over and cannot get over how excruciating and perfect a novel it was. Thank you @annedemarcken.com
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.
June 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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.
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.
June 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
Israeli massacres of starving Palestinians lined up for food have become a daily occurrence, the ghoulish humanitarian face of genocide.
🚨BREAKING: Associated Press reports at least 38 Palestinians have been shot dead on Monday near U.S.- and Israeli-controlled GHF food distribution centers, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
VIDEO: Gunfire rings out as civilians leave U.S. aid distribution centers in southern Gaza.
VIDEO: Gunfire rings out as civilians leave U.S. aid distribution centers in southern Gaza.
June 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
June 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Do I not have the right to exist?” shouts man as he slaughters his neighbors by the dozen.
Eid and Awdah al-Hathaleen, both from the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, flew into San Francisco yesterday at the invitation of a local synagogue. Both had valid visas but were told on arrival that their visas had been revoked and that they would be immediately deported. 1/
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Eid and Awdah al-Hathaleen, both from the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, flew into San Francisco yesterday at the invitation of a local synagogue. Both had valid visas but were told on arrival that their visas had been revoked and that they would be immediately deported. 1/
Great piece by @melissagiragrant.com: “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.”
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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Great piece by @melissagiragrant.com: “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.”
newrepublic.com/article/1963...
newrepublic.com/article/1963...