Kate
katemontanaa.bsky.social
Kate
@katemontanaa.bsky.social
Freelance journalist in Egypt.
I arrived in Bogota today, where 32 states are convening to discuss how to salvage international law & hold Israel accountable for its constant flagrant violations. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says all states are legally obligated to sanction Israel and cut ties.
July 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Remember that guy who screamed he wants more dead Palestinian kids at the halal food truck vendor in NYC last year? He was just sent on a secret military mission to the Congo to extract American prisoners. It did not go well. We are living in the most insane timeline. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled
Three envoys went to Congo with a quid pro quo offer from Washington. The venture ended with them fleeing the country two days later.
www.reuters.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My view from Egypt this morning, as Iran retaliates against Israeli attacks.
June 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I was reading an article in the New Yorker about Chinese students at Harvard worried about the cancellation of their visas. But one student who was interviewed compared Trump to *Mao Zedong*, which is the most unhinged application of horseshoe theory I’ve ever seen.
June 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by Kate
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
Humanity is being buried in Gaza. We must rise up to save our collective future.
Gaza is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. A reflection of our world as it really is today. And for many, a preview of what is to come.
mondoweiss.net
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Check out my latest article 🙏
The footprint of most biologists’ AI work is negligible now, but that footprint could grow with new tech...

“We want to go beyond scaling and speeding up what people already do to something new, like generating testable hypotheses or extracting unseen patterns and combinations.” -Tanya Berger-Wolf
AI is reshaping wildlife conservation as we know it
Efforts to “save species” with deep learning are changing conservation, for better or worse.
www.theverge.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Can someone explain why the secretary of homeland security has $3,000 cash in her purse while at dinner
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, two sources familiar with the incident, includin...
www.cnn.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
How do I make this happen more often?
April 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Kate
Images of killed infants and burned refugee tents in Gaza have returned to my sight, and I realized the arrows that had struck and built up on my heart over the past 2 years had fallen away since the ceasefire started. It's all so horrible.
March 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now
March 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I visited the first ecovillage in the West Bank. Here, residents grow their own food, collect rainwater, and harness solar energy. But Israeli settlements are now swallowing the land.

My piece on Farkha's efforts to achieve food sovereignty under military occupation.

atmos.earth/planting-see...
Planting Seeds of Freedom in Palestine’s First Ecovillage | Atmos
In the occupied West Bank, the village of Farkha resists military rule by cultivating its own food and boycotting Israeli goods.
atmos.earth
February 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This Musk tweet made my head spin, so I wrote about it. Read my op-ed on the ties between Zionism and white nationalism.
Elon Musk joked about being a 'Zionist AND a Nazi,' but the punchline is history: Zionism and white supremacy have walked hand in hand. Read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/yes-elon-musk-you-can-be-both-a-zionist-and-a-nazi/"
January 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM