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Nothing has changed. Not enough aid is getting in. No money for rebuilding has reached Palestinians. Please check out the fundraiser in the replies of the below post, donate or at least share. Thank you

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Oct 16

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

UNRWA @unrwa.org · Oct 16

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Sophie Sherry

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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM

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Puff the Magic Hater

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This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

istanbulshiite.bsky.social @istanbulshiite.bsky.social · Oct 2

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Oct 2

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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CUPW

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What We Are Fighting For

https://www.cupw.ca/en/what-we-are-fighting

#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

What We Are Fighting For

Last Thursday's announcement from the Minister responsible for Canada Post, Joël Lightbound, was just the latest in a series of attacks from the Federal Government and Canada Post since bargaining started almost two years ago. It's clear: our fight is f...

www.cupw.ca

September 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

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just “a small mob of extremists,” they said

@seantucker.bsky.social

September 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

August 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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Mohamad Bazzi

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“Israel is able to kill Palestinian journalists with impunity not just because of the unconditional military support it receives from the US, but also the failure of many western media organizations and journalists to stand up for their Palestinian colleagues” — my oped @theguardian.com

Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi

This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack

www.theguardian.com

August 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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Gregk Foley

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An excerpt from Omar El Akkad on the grotesque ideological poverty of contemporary liberalism:

Once again, the party's supporters react to these demonstrations by chanting
"Four more years, four more years," which by now can no longer be described as simply ghoulish. There is instead a kind of mechanical fear laced in it, a sense among these people, as there has been a sense among all people at all times on whom the judgment of future historians has started to dawn, that they have stepped too far into complicity with something evil.
Look up photographs of what we now consider this country's—any country's— most morally diseased moments. The dogs being let loose on men and women asking for basic dignity, the marching of undesirables through the streets, the wrath, the bloodlust. Ignore, for a moment, the people engaged most directly in the violence. Look instead at the faces of those who watch from the sidelines.
Often, what you'll find is not an expression of proud support or the shock and horror all these people will claim to have felt much later, after the verdict is in.
Rather, you'll see a childish little smirk. It's the smirk of someone who has come to realize the ugliness of the enterprise they have passively aligned with but cannot muster the courage to abandon now. The soul, what's left of it, buckles under the weight of contradiction, and all one can do is hide behind that pained little smirk, the half-stance of the spineless, the chanting, with not quite enough conviction, of four more years, four more years, as the bodies pile up outside one's door.
It's difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be. From this outcome, everything is reverse-engineered. Being seen as someone who believes in justice-not the messy, fraught work of achieving it—is the starting point of any conversation on justice. Saying the right slogans supersedes whatever it is those slogans are …

Beyond the stream of distractions, there is a much more existential vulnerability. Whatever derangement currently occupies conservative American politics is, at least, something of very real consequence: the minority groups they want to legislate out of every facet of society, the books they want to ban, the mechanisms of democracy they want to subvert—none of it is hypothetical. But if inoffensive centrism is seen to be concerned with these things only in as far as it reflects on the centrist's self-image, if the Hillary Clintons of the world can muster great outrage at the fortunes of the Barbie movie at the Oscars but nothing at population-wide military murder sprees, then every Republican will always be able to say, truthfully: At least there's no contradiction between what I am, what I claim concerns me, and what I plan to do.
This is the crux of it, the unavoidable reckoning. Every morning countless well-paid, well-educated foot soldiers in the employ of the Democratic Party wake up and decide on the day's talking points. Every morning a small army of spokespeople step to the lecterns and deliver statements about how much the president cares for innocent lives, or the immense effort the United States makes to minimize unnecessary suffering, or whatever it is that needs to be said that day so as to launder the evil done between the last press conference and this one. A growing number of people ask a different question; the world asks a different question. The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing.

It's a kind of thinking predicated on the implicit belief that, for certain people, the only choice is between negations of varying severity. The system does not work for you, was never intended to work for you, but as an act of magnanimity on our part, you may choose the degree to which it works against you.
While any liberal politician who succumbs to the lure of this framing may benefit in the short term, there is an inevitable and deeply unpleasant terminus waiting. Eventually, the calculus becomes, on pragmatic terms, clear. How much worse can some hypothetical oppression be compared to the current, very real one, which has the additional indignity of being propped up politically and financially by the same Free World whose leaders simultaneously give impassioned speeches about their support for democracy? If both outcomes entail injury, why should anyone opt for the one that adds insult too?

For some, even a hint of self-interest already produces these kinds of results— consider the gaggle of world-famous sports stars who've happily sided with murderous regimes such as that of Saudi Arabia, helping whitewash the government's image in exchange for not much more than money. For others, the bar is much, much higher. But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this. Countless otherwise pragmatic people who would in any other circumstance choose liberalism by default will instead decide none of this is worth the damage to one's soul. They will instead support no one, vote for no one, wash their hands of any ordering of the world that results in choices no better than this. And the obvious _centrist refrain—But do you want the deranged right wing to win?—should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

August 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM

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Mariam Elba

@mariamelba.bsky.social

There is a level of shame I feel at this that is difficult to express.

How long will it take for western journalism institutions to condemn this? How many more Palestinian journalists will be killed by Israel by the time this happens, if ever?

Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · Aug 10

Israel assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and his entire Al-Jazeera TV crew in Gaza today.

CPJ warned of Israeli smear campaign against him, but few Western media outlets or journalists spoke out in defense of their Palestinian colleagues. Their silence is cowardly and shameful.

August 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM

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Sean Tucker

@seantucker.bsky.social

Reasonable measures to prevent genocide in Gaza:
✅Arms embargo
✅Economic sanctions
✅Diplomatic sanctions
✅Sports boycotts
✅Suspend formal partnerships
❌More formal statements
❌Sustaining inaction

Robert S Mortensen CA @robsm1951.bsky.social · Aug 9

Gaza - Statement by Prime Minister Mark Carney

August 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM

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Drop Site

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July 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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Drop Site

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🎥 “Europe will never punish its favorite child,” Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, Mouin Rabbani, told Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous during this morning’s livestream.

July 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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The Guardian

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At least 60 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 At least 60 people have been arrested across the UK at events related to Palestine Action, in the third week of demonstrations since the group was banned as a terrorist organisation. Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

July 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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The Guardian

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Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them In Gaza, being a helpful, loving child can be a death sentence. Heba al-Ghussain’s nine-year-old son, Karam, was killed by an Israeli airstrike because he went to fetch water for the family, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lulu, was killed because she went to give Karam a hand. The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

July 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM

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الكسندرا ميراي

@lexialex.bsky.social

Please spend some money on the fundraisers I'm posting. We can't let them starve while our tax money bombs them. I'm in touch with all of them & I can tell they're not scammers because I speak Arabic like a 5-year-old & can only write in Arabizi, but they understand...just like my Palestinian family

July 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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United Farm Workers

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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.

We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.