Dr. Danielle Widmann Abraham
@dwidmannabraham.bsky.social
Islamic Studies/Religious Studies prof, maker of pies, grower of jalapeños. I like birds. #firstgen
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The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...
Trey Reed’s Family Calls for an Independent Autopsy After Tree Hanging Death
Demartravion “Trey” Reed’s family is seeking an independent autopsy after the Delta State University student was found hanging in a tree.
www.mississippifreepress.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...
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A normal country would regulate guns.
August 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A normal country would regulate guns.
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My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.
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PHOTO ESSAY: Starvation attacks the bodies of these children in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In some tents and shelters in northern Gaza, emaciated children are held in their parents' arms. Their tiny arms and legs dangle limp.
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August 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My God. The images in this AP photo essay of starving children in Gaza are going to haunt me forever.
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Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
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Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation
@hrw.org
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Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation
@hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...
www.hrw.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation
@hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
Abandon US-Backed ‘Death Trap’ Scheme, Press Israel to End Mass Starvation
@hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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"At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view."
'DeSantis is the black hole': Florida hides records of college cooperation with ICE
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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'DeSantis is the black hole': Florida hides records of college cooperation with ICE
At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains ...
www.rawstory.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"At least 15 Florida universities have quietly signed agreements to voluntarily cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — but how those partnerships are being implemented remains largely hidden from view."
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NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
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Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."
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If there is a Hell, the people responsible for this will burn for eternity on fires stoked with biscuits.
How on earth is burning nearly a million dollars' worth of nutritious biscuits meant for starving children even remotely sensible. It doesn't save money, and children will go hungry. The GOP wants these kids to suffer. That seems to be the message.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If there is a Hell, the people responsible for this will burn for eternity on fires stoked with biscuits.
this EPI primer on loss of federal funding for school districts across the country includes a map, and if I'm reading it right, some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding.
Trump is putting crucial school funding at risk by dismantling the Department of Education: See how much federal funding your school district could lose
Last month, President Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to move forward with plans to close the Department of Education (ED). While this move is illegal and has been met with litigati...
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July 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
this EPI primer on loss of federal funding for school districts across the country includes a map, and if I'm reading it right, some of the largest Native reservations (Navajo, Hopi, Standing Rock/Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge) will lose most of their education funding.
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Great to hear
JUDGE ORDERS PROFESSOR JOHN CARAVELLO TO BE RELEASED! ✊🏾
CFA member John Caravello was assaulted and arrested while asserting his first amendment rights. #FreethemALL
CFA member John Caravello was assaulted and arrested while asserting his first amendment rights. #FreethemALL
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Great to hear
Jefferson enslaved his own children. Two of his sons were only freed, along with their mother, after his death.
was reading Jefferson today and it's hard to not get annoyed with a man who was clearly intelligent just absolutely bomb on the question of slavery towards the end of his life
July 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Jefferson enslaved his own children. Two of his sons were only freed, along with their mother, after his death.
Majdi Othman, a Palestinian father with a disability, bids farewell to his three children killed in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, Gaza.
July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Job Post: Executive Director of the West Virginia Council of Churches wvcc.org/2025/07/01/s...
Seeking Our Next Executive Director!
The West Virginia Council of Churches, one of the nation’s oldest and most revered state councils of churches, with roots going back to 1820, is embarking on a search for our next executive steward…
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July 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Job Post: Executive Director of the West Virginia Council of Churches wvcc.org/2025/07/01/s...
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Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya—these are not small cities at all
The mayors of three Turkish cities were arrested today morning, according to media reports, as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues his crackdown on the political opposition.
3 Turkish mayors reported arrested as Erdoğan continues crackdown on opposition
Saturday’s arrests come four months after the mayor of Istanbul, considered Erdoğan’s main political opponent, was jailed over corruption allegations.
www.politico.eu
July 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya—these are not small cities at all
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56m meals since May 19th for 2.3m people in Gaza.
One meal per person every two days for 44 days.
Starvation rations….
One meal per person every two days for 44 days.
Starvation rations….
This is the official position of the Israeli government.
That Amnesty International is “Hamas.”
That Amnesty International is “Hamas.”
July 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
56m meals since May 19th for 2.3m people in Gaza.
One meal per person every two days for 44 days.
Starvation rations….
One meal per person every two days for 44 days.
Starvation rations….
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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I wonder if anyone has ever looked into what happens when elected leaders with authoritarian tendencies create massive law enforcement divisions accountable only to them that are comparably funded to the military but specifically designed to be used domestically.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I wonder if anyone has ever looked into what happens when elected leaders with authoritarian tendencies create massive law enforcement divisions accountable only to them that are comparably funded to the military but specifically designed to be used domestically.
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Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI
Starting June 30th 2026 medical school student loans will be capped at $50k per year and $200k total. This is going to leave a lot of great applicants behind with only fairly wealthy kids able to attend even if less qualified.
July 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nobody has covered this, but this #GradPLUS cap is going to cause some #medicalschool to close, including some that just opened. I'm thinking schools in more rural areas, like satellite campuses of Michigan State and Medical College of Wisconsin in northern MI or central WI
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BIG: In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it "a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.” mondoweiss.net/2025/06/worl...
World Council of Churches denounces Israel’s apartheid and occupation, calls for divestment and sanctions
In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it “a turning point in the moral...
mondoweiss.net
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
BIG: In a landmark announcement, the WCC’s Central Committee calls for targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes on Israel. Palestinian Christians are calling it "a turning point in the moral and theological witness of the global church.” mondoweiss.net/2025/06/worl...
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Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-european-diplomat-josep-borrell-slams-eu-inaction-against-us-mercenaries-killing-starving
Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians
Former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell joins growing international outrage over the controversial US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
www.middleeasteye.net
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Top diplomat slams EU for inaction against 'US mercenaries' killing starving Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-european-diplomat-josep-borrell-slams-eu-inaction-against-us-mercenaries-killing-starving
The British brought these revolt-suppression techniques to mandate Palestine in the 1930s after first developing them in Ireland, the first British colony, around 1920.
Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.
Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.
British forces’ role in suppressing the Arab Revolt (1936-9) by training and brutalising Israeli forces to target civilians in Palestine is hardly known of in the UK:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The British brought these revolt-suppression techniques to mandate Palestine in the 1930s after first developing them in Ireland, the first British colony, around 1920.
Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.
Irish support for Palestine comes out of the direct links of a common experience of colonization.
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"he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat"
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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
www.bbc.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"he witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat"
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
billions and billions of our tax dollars are going to a regime that is shooting starving people waiting to get flour.
‘Even as Palestinians in Gaza starve, the discussion around the delivery of aid remains limited to the possible and pragmatic.’
Tareq Baconi on Israel’s systematic denial of food and aid to Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi on Israel’s systematic denial of food and aid to Gaza:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tareq Baconi · Short Cuts: Gaza under Siege
Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
billions and billions of our tax dollars are going to a regime that is shooting starving people waiting to get flour.
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Still time to get a last call in on this.
Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here:
Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here:
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Still time to get a last call in on this.
Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here:
Dial 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to be connected, or find scripts here: