Lori Shridhare
@lorishridhare.bsky.social
Writer, poet (in training), & communications director. Failing the reading & comprehension tests of our current times.
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The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter family dinner, but it’s not.
Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter family dinner, but it’s not.
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Mosab Abu Toha.
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Mosab Abu Toha.
The ongoing war in Sudan, which broke out in April 2023, has killed over 150,000 civilians and displaced 14 million people, according to the BBC.
Thanks to the work of Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Lab, there's evidence we can track.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
Thanks to the work of Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Lab, there's evidence we can track.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The ongoing war in Sudan, which broke out in April 2023, has killed over 150,000 civilians and displaced 14 million people, according to the BBC.
Thanks to the work of Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Lab, there's evidence we can track.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
Thanks to the work of Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Lab, there's evidence we can track.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
"The Italian People Made Us Smile in Gaza"
The world could do so much more. At least we have the people of Italy.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The world could do so much more. At least we have the people of Italy.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The Italian people made us smile in Gaza
The mass mobilisation for Palestine across Italy echoed in Gaza. We are truly grateful.
www.aljazeera.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"The Italian People Made Us Smile in Gaza"
The world could do so much more. At least we have the people of Italy.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
The world could do so much more. At least we have the people of Italy.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
This profound work brings us back to our humanity. "This is an under-appreciated form of state crime in Gaza. While most news networks and academic studies discuss crimes against the living, I document Israel’s invisible crimes against the dead and the unborn."
My research on Israel’s crimes against the dead and unborn in Gaza was published in Current Affairs. Read it here: www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-crimes-against-the-dead-and-unborn-in-gaza
September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This profound work brings us back to our humanity. "This is an under-appreciated form of state crime in Gaza. While most news networks and academic studies discuss crimes against the living, I document Israel’s invisible crimes against the dead and the unborn."
Celebrating @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social who have helped raise more than $400,000 of its $737,000 goal to expand #Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
"As doctors, we care about protecting life. We never endorse violence or killing." @detroitfreepress.bsky.social
#endgenocide
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"As doctors, we care about protecting life. We never endorse violence or killing." @detroitfreepress.bsky.social
#endgenocide
tinyurl.com/3a5y4z5x
Metro Detroit doctor leads multi-thousand dollar fundraiser to rebuild Gaza hospital
A metro Detroit doctor co-founded a group that's raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild a Gaza hospital.
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September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Celebrating @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social who have helped raise more than $400,000 of its $737,000 goal to expand #Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
"As doctors, we care about protecting life. We never endorse violence or killing." @detroitfreepress.bsky.social
#endgenocide
tinyurl.com/3a5y4z5x
"As doctors, we care about protecting life. We never endorse violence or killing." @detroitfreepress.bsky.social
#endgenocide
tinyurl.com/3a5y4z5x
Gaza is dying slowly. And I am dying with it: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Gaza is dying slowly. And I am dying with it
Dina al-Najjar, a pregnant mother of two, reflects on the toll of nearly two years of war and pleads for it to end.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
September 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Gaza is dying slowly. And I am dying with it: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide:
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genocidescholars.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The IAGS has declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide:
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
Between 2010 and 2013, I was on the ground capturing Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Few wanted to see it
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
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"I ask who he hates. 'Believe it or not, I don’t hate anyone,' he says. 'It is not my nature, hating people.'
Lessons on how to live through a violent occupation from the Gaza Diary.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Lessons on how to live through a violent occupation from the Gaza Diary.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘I had a home, apartment, career’ … the Guardian’s Gaza diarist on the life he lost – and his journey into exile
The anonymous writer has seen horror after horror in the 21 months since he was driven from his home in Gaza City. How has he kept going? And does he have any hope left?
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"I ask who he hates. 'Believe it or not, I don’t hate anyone,' he says. 'It is not my nature, hating people.'
Lessons on how to live through a violent occupation from the Gaza Diary.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Lessons on how to live through a violent occupation from the Gaza Diary.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The genocide "is getting privatized."
-Arwa Mahdawi @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
-Arwa Mahdawi @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi
The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the strip
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The genocide "is getting privatized."
-Arwa Mahdawi @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
-Arwa Mahdawi @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally, weeks and weeks after posting her experiences on social media and being interviewed by various international outlets Dr. Victoria Rose gets to share her story as a physician in #Gaza - via @nytimes.com. Let her voice be heard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
A Surgeon on the Desperation in Gaza: ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Finally, weeks and weeks after posting her experiences on social media and being interviewed by various international outlets Dr. Victoria Rose gets to share her story as a physician in #Gaza - via @nytimes.com. Let her voice be heard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...
"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...."
Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"This is a form of total war the modern world should never see, let alone condone. No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us...."
Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
Thank you @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social
“This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked...." Re: the big & beautiful..
Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.
July 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“This place feels to me, today, like a crime scene,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said on the floor of the Senate. “Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. This piece of legislation is corrupt. This piece of legislation is crooked...." Re: the big & beautiful..
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When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/w...
Jeffrey St. Clair
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May 31, 2025 at 4:56 AM
When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/w...
Jeffrey St. Clair
Jeffrey St. Clair
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"Palestinians are now forced to live, give birth, and bury their children in the same space." theintercept.com/2025/05/15/i...
May 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Palestinians are now forced to live, give birth, and bury their children in the same space." theintercept.com/2025/05/15/i...
What poetry is meant for - as Audre Lorde said, "Poetry is not a luxury." Thank you @mosababutoha.bsky.social for the gift of your words, for illuminating the devastation of your homeland and this genocide. May your future poems be full of joy.
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
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I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What poetry is meant for - as Audre Lorde said, "Poetry is not a luxury." Thank you @mosababutoha.bsky.social for the gift of your words, for illuminating the devastation of your homeland and this genocide. May your future poems be full of joy.
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‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’
This week’s column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week’s column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’
This week’s column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week’s column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
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Booker still at it. "I will yield for a question while retaining the floor." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQn...
WATCH LIVE: Sen. Cory Booker protests Trump’s agenda in marathon Senate speech
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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April 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Booker still at it. "I will yield for a question while retaining the floor." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQn...
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I wrote about ICE's student kidnappings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I wrote about ICE's student kidnappings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In this @thenation.com op-ed, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout outlines how the groundwork has been laid for a new Free Speech Movement under President Donald Trump's second term.
America Needs a New Free Speech Movement
Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.
www.thenation.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In this @thenation.com op-ed, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout outlines how the groundwork has been laid for a new Free Speech Movement under President Donald Trump's second term.
We can't become numb to genocide - anywhere.
Nicholas Kristof: "I suspect that many Americans regard all this is sad but inevitable, viewing Sudan as a bottomless pit of pain that we can’t do anything about. Yet that’s not quite right."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Nicholas Kristof: "I suspect that many Americans regard all this is sad but inevitable, viewing Sudan as a bottomless pit of pain that we can’t do anything about. Yet that’s not quite right."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Opinion | America Is Aggravating the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Our silence about Sudan and the cancellation of U.S. aid comes painfully close to complicity.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
We can't become numb to genocide - anywhere.
Nicholas Kristof: "I suspect that many Americans regard all this is sad but inevitable, viewing Sudan as a bottomless pit of pain that we can’t do anything about. Yet that’s not quite right."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...
Nicholas Kristof: "I suspect that many Americans regard all this is sad but inevitable, viewing Sudan as a bottomless pit of pain that we can’t do anything about. Yet that’s not quite right."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/o...