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YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"

Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
The IDF in the ICE and CBP in occupied in Los Angeles,
West Bank, California
Palestine
🤝
assaulting children
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by jonah valdez
theintercept.com
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
interc.pt
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov
theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
After Israel's new wave of bombings in Gaza that killed 109+ Palestinians, Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a writer/poet in Gaza, spoke to 60 residents in Gaza for @theintercept.com to ask whether they think the "ceasefire" is holding. Nearly all said "THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE."

theintercept.com/2025/10/30/g...
We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality”
Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagreed.
theintercept.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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lauraflynn.bsky.social
This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
Breaking: Days after Trump officials toured the new U.S. base in Israel, the Israeli military launched strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 20 Palestinians.

U.S. Vice President Vance downplayed the strikes as "little skirmishes here and there."

theintercept.com/2025/10/28/c...
Netanyahu Is Blowing Up the Gaza Ceasefire — and Trump Is the One Losing Face
Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, raising the question of whether the U.S. would hold him accountable for the ceasefire.
theintercept.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
Please READ/SHARE our story on Mohammed Ibrahim, 16 yr old Palestinian American and the 300+ Palestinian children who Israel has locked in conditions of abuse, torture and medical neglect. Most are held w/ NO CHARGES or haven't had a trial
✍🏽 @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/10/26/m...
This 16-Year-Old American Is Among Hundreds of Palestinian Children Jailed in Israel
Mohammed Ibrahim is one of more than 300 Palestinian children being held indefinitely in Israeli custody.
theintercept.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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theintercept.com
James Zogby and @jonahmv.bsky.social spoke about what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shared her hopes and fears.
Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians
James Zogby and Jonah Valdez on what it will take for this ceasefire to succeed, and Palestinian writer Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shares her hopes and fears.
interc.pt
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
The Congressional Black Caucus’s silent partnership with AIPAC

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Yet to this day, the Congressional Black Caucus—the long-standing corps of lawmakers dedicated to safeguarding civil rights (and known as “the conscience of Congress”)—has not issued a formal declaration condemning Israel; it hasn’t even produced a statement calling for a ceasefire. The CBC’s silence isn’t accidental: More than half of its current 61 members have been endorsed or funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful US lobbying arm for Israel’s agenda. In the 2023–24 election cycle alone, AIPAC endorsed 26 of the caucus’s members, raising $4.6 million for them and another $3.5 million for Black Democratic candidates.
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
I write for @theintercept.com about Israel’s mounting CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS — withholding Gaza aid and killing Palestinians.

w/ brief commentary from @ramyabdu.bsky.social and @tksshawa.bsky.social who both say the GENOCIDE is continuing but through different means.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/i...
Israel’s Mounting Ceasefire Violations in Gaza
“The matter is not a ceasefire — we are talking about a managed genocide, a managed forcible displacement.”
theintercept.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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theintercept.com
On Friday, ICE kicked off a scheme to offer thousands of dollars to unaccompanied children as young as 14 in exchange for agreeing to be deported.
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.
interc.pt
October 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
BREAKING: We've obtained a government memo revealing the start of a new ICE operation that targets unaccompanied immigrant children 14 years or older, pressuring them to take $2,500 if they agree to be deported.
💻@theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/03/i...
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.
theintercept.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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lilianasegura.bsky.social
“I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism,” said Oscar Guevara...“My father should have never had to face over 100 days in detention. He is the center of our family. He is the reason our home feels like home.”
Mario Guevara To Be Deported After Appeals Court Denies Stay | American Civil Liberties Union
The government detained him for over 100 days in retaliation for his reporting on law enforcement
www.aclu.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
"The Trump Administration is waging a secret war against undisclosed enemies without the consent of Congress, according to a confidential notice that was sent to several congressional committees this week and obtained by The Intercept."

by @nickturse.bsky.social

theintercept.com/2025/10/02/v...
Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”
“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”
theintercept.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
ICE targeted Leqaa Kordia for protesting the war in Gaza. To keep her in detention for six months and counting, the Trump administration made her get sworn affidavits from family members in Palestine about money Leqaa sent them for food, fuel, and medical bills.
October 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
jonahmv.bsky.social
My latest digs into how Trump’s “peace plan” for Gaza joins a litany of U.S.-brokered deals in which Palestinian rights are sidelined for Israeli control. The deal allows Israel to indefinitely occupy Gaza and resume its genocidal campaign at any point, experts said.
theintercept.com/2025/10/01/t...
The Trump–Netanyahu Gaza Peace Deal Promises Indefinite Occupation
“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means.”
theintercept.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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theintercept.com
Some Dems are swearing off AIPAC and crypto money for the midterms. Others… not so much.

✍️ @jonahmv.bsky.social @akelalacy.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

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AIPAC and Crypto Money Is Rolling In For the Midterms #politics #democrats
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September 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
My latest: As the United Nations convened in NYC this week, 10 new countries recognized Palestine as a state. Despite this, these 5 nations still ship WEAPONS TO ISRAEL, funding the genocide in Gaza. Critics called this a "performance of justice."
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/09/25/p...
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
SCOOP: Another AIPAC Dem has pledged to refuse AIPAC money.

Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, following fellow NC Dem, Rep. Valerie Foushee. Ross previously took more than $100,000 from AIPAC.

theintercept.com/2025/08/29/a...
Facing Voter Pressure, Swing-State Democrat Swears Off AIPAC Cash
Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
I wrote about how more and more Democrats who took thousands from the conservative pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC are now supporting the “Block the Bombs to Israel Act”

The House bill’s supporters call it “the litmus test for 2026 midterms”

✍🏽 @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/08/27/b...
Even Former AIPAC Democrats Are Signing On to Block Arms Sales to Israel
The “Block the Bombs” bill’s supporters want it to become a crucial litmus test on Gaza for the 2026 midterms.
theintercept.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
jonahmv.bsky.social
BREAKING: I spoke with the parents of the two pro-Palestine protesters, including a 15-year-old teenage boy, who were dragged into an Egyptian government building in New York and allegedly beaten by Egyptian officials, and were then arrested by the NYPD:
theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...
Egyptian Officials in New York Beat Two Gaza Protesters on Video. The NYPD Arrested the Protesters.
The brothers were protesting to let food into Gaza at Egypt’s UN mission. The NYPD arrested them for assault.
theintercept.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Reposted by jonah valdez
motherjones.com
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM