“We need this aid to enter now. It has to go to people who are desperate.”

In this video, our colleague Louise Wateridge speaks from a UNRWA warehouse in Amman, Jordan, where supplies have been held up due to the 11-week-long siege.

"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has depleted all its food stocks for families in Gaza.
Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days."

www.wfp.org/news/wfp-run...

A group of descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors gathered today in Union Square #nyc to lay flowers at the memorial grove to remember the martyrs and the continuing fight for justice & recognition of the genocide by Turkey & Azerbaijan, both of which still fund denial of the historical event.

"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"

"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse.

But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like.
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Musk’s staffers have entered an independent government agency by force. Employees from DOGE are now inside the Washington offices of the United States Institute of Peace. This comes just days after agency representatives were unable to gain access to the building on Friday being blocked by lawyers.

At approx 2 am local time, Israel started massive airstrikes throughout Gaza, killing at least 237 people and injuring at least 300. Body parts, corpses and the injured filling the floors of the (destroyed) hospitals. “The gates of hell will open in Gaza” said defense minister Katz.Horrific horrific

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere

The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

"Among those Mr. Trump lashed out at were Marc Elias, a Democratic lawyer who took the lead in fighting his attempts to challenge his loss in the 2020 election." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/u...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Breaking: DHS detains Palestinian student from Columbia.

I'm not sure people understand what's happening. Israel stopped all aid trucks from entering Gaza until Hamas agrees to sign a rewrite of the original ceasefire agreement, which will allow Israel to continue the war indefinitely...and the whole world is quiet about it www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/m...

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Cutting off all goods and supplies to Gaza after having completely destroyed the health sector, the agricultural sector, and a vast majority of residential buildings, is effectively mass killing. Genocide convention §2c in full view

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

A rehearsal excerpt of DEAR MOUNTAINS, co-composed with Karen Ouzounian and premiering 11/22 and 11/23 in nyc. Info: cantorinewyork.com.
#armenianmusic #cello #oud #choir #familyhistory #anatolia

Just so there is something on my timeline, an old animation of mine: #stopmotion #animation #stringquartet #elizabethcotten