Robin
@robinv.bsky.social
Covid cautious, open border advocate, dog and cat lover, justice and peace , abolish police , against genocide
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"Beyond its material impacts, the settlement plays a symbolic and cultural role in the ongoing effort to entrench an exclusive Zionist narrative ... Israeli settler groups have repeatedly invoked biblical justifications for taking over the site, despite archaeological evidence refuting such claims."
"[R]esidents of Beit Sahour tell Mondoweiss that the encroaching settler presence threatens the existence of the largest remaining Palestinian Christian community."
"We are an unarmed people enduring extremely violent Israeli settler gangs."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Military #EthnicCleansing
"We are an unarmed people enduring extremely violent Israeli settler gangs."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Military #EthnicCleansing
New Israeli settlement in West Bank town near Bethlehem threatens the Christian presence in Palestine
Israeli settler groups have begun bulldozing Palestinian lands in the town of Beit Sahour to make way for a new settler outpost. The settlement threatens the existence of the largest remaining Christian community in the West Bank, residents say.
mondoweiss.net
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Beyond its material impacts, the settlement plays a symbolic and cultural role in the ongoing effort to entrench an exclusive Zionist narrative ... Israeli settler groups have repeatedly invoked biblical justifications for taking over the site, despite archaeological evidence refuting such claims."
Stop the genocide
READ: Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...
‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire
Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on…
mondoweiss.net
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Stop the genocide
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"Israel's occupation has shaped the West Bank's economy for nearly six decades, creating a structure in which Palestinians are largely prevented from building a self-sustaining economy and instead pushed into dependency on work in Israel ... or in its illegal settlements."
"Israeli police spotted him as he lay on the ground with a serious head injury and prevented an ambulance from reaching him."
"He bled out."
"When they were sure he was dead, they allowed paramedics to take his body."
#WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Labour #Incarceration #Policing #Healthcare
"He bled out."
"When they were sure he was dead, they allowed paramedics to take his body."
#WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Labour #Incarceration #Policing #Healthcare
Israel Revoked a Palestinian's Work Permit. When He Tried to Cross the Wall, They Shot Him and Left Him to Die.
Before October 7, Palestinian laborers would cross into Israel for jobs. Then Israel revoked work permits and unleashed a violent crackdown.
theintercept.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"Israel's occupation has shaped the West Bank's economy for nearly six decades, creating a structure in which Palestinians are largely prevented from building a self-sustaining economy and instead pushed into dependency on work in Israel ... or in its illegal settlements."
More crimes against humanity in Israel’s ongoing genocide
"[W]hat you will hear in the Israeli media is that suspects were shot in Gaza for crossing the yellow line... You won't hear that those suspects were 10- and 12-year-old boys who were collecting firewood, and that under international law, you can't shoot children [for] cross[ing] an invisible line."
Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
More crimes against humanity in Israel’s ongoing genocide
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Gaza Civil Defense teams recovered 98 bodies today during mass-grave exhumations at Al-Shifa Hospital, including 55 unidentified victims buried on hospital grounds during Israel’s assault, when formal burials were impossible. As these recovery efforts continue, a separate video now circulating...
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Gaza Civil Defense teams recovered 98 bodies today during mass-grave exhumations at Al-Shifa Hospital, including 55 unidentified victims buried on hospital grounds during Israel’s assault, when formal burials were impossible. As these recovery efforts continue, a separate video now circulating...
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"What pains me most is the world's insistence on describing this situation as a 'ceasefire' while the bombing, the killing, and the destruction continue ... What kind of ceasefire is this, when the fire never truly stops?"
What the world does not see is that, day after day, the Israeli military expands its control inside Gaza. It advances slowly, swallowing a street, a neighborhood, an entire area — quietly redrawing the map while the world celebrates a fabricated “ceasefire.”
Israel Is Quietly Expanding Its Occupation of Gaza Under Cover of “Ceasefire”
For us here in Gaza, this “ceasefire” is a fiction. The bombing has continued as Israel expands its Yellow Line.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
"What pains me most is the world's insistence on describing this situation as a 'ceasefire' while the bombing, the killing, and the destruction continue ... What kind of ceasefire is this, when the fire never truly stops?"
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🔴 Heavy Flooding Rains Forecast for Gaza as Winter Storm Hits the Region
Israel’s Meteorological Service warns that more than 100 millimeters of rain could fall across large parts of the region from Wed. through Thu., w/ most of it expected w/in just a few hours, according to Haaretz. Flood...
Israel’s Meteorological Service warns that more than 100 millimeters of rain could fall across large parts of the region from Wed. through Thu., w/ most of it expected w/in just a few hours, according to Haaretz. Flood...
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🔴 Heavy Flooding Rains Forecast for Gaza as Winter Storm Hits the Region
Israel’s Meteorological Service warns that more than 100 millimeters of rain could fall across large parts of the region from Wed. through Thu., w/ most of it expected w/in just a few hours, according to Haaretz. Flood...
Israel’s Meteorological Service warns that more than 100 millimeters of rain could fall across large parts of the region from Wed. through Thu., w/ most of it expected w/in just a few hours, according to Haaretz. Flood...
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"While it may seem that we are already at the bottom of a void, there is ... the abyss beyond the abyss — one that invites new atrocities, and toward which we are hurtling at full speed."
"30 new laws entrenching apartheid and Jewish supremacy — joining Adalah's existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens."
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Apartheid #Censorship #Education #Protest #Deportation #Incarceration #Genocide
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Apartheid #Censorship #Education #Protest #Deportation #Incarceration #Genocide
How Israel entrenched apartheid rule during Gaza war
In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.
www.972mag.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"While it may seem that we are already at the bottom of a void, there is ... the abyss beyond the abyss — one that invites new atrocities, and toward which we are hurtling at full speed."
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"It gets worse every year, and for every disaster, it is utterly enraging that we are counting hundreds of bodies, hundreds of missing people ... while the elite and the corporations are counting money from fossil fuels."
"More than 1,100 people across South Asia have died."
"The worst devastation has been seen in Indonesia, where Cyclone Senyar has claimed over 500 lives as of Sunday."
"A separate cyclone in Sri Lanka has left hundreds more dead."
#Indonesia #SriLanka #Thailand #Malaysia #Climate #Water #Housing
"The worst devastation has been seen in Indonesia, where Cyclone Senyar has claimed over 500 lives as of Sunday."
"A separate cyclone in Sri Lanka has left hundreds more dead."
#Indonesia #SriLanka #Thailand #Malaysia #Climate #Water #Housing
Flooding Kills 1,000+ Across South Asia as Climate Crisis Fuels More Extreme Rain
More than 1,000 people are dead across South Asia after Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other nations were battered with historic rainfall.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"It gets worse every year, and for every disaster, it is utterly enraging that we are counting hundreds of bodies, hundreds of missing people ... while the elite and the corporations are counting money from fossil fuels."
Buddha has put himself to bed
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Buddha has put himself to bed
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
Buddha and Dharma nap on the bed
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Buddha and Dharma nap on the bed
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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There was a significant volcanic eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia near the Erta Ale volcano today. METEOSAT-IODC weather satellite picked up imagery of the ash cloud moving east over the Red Sea and Yemen.
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There was a significant volcanic eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia near the Erta Ale volcano today. METEOSAT-IODC weather satellite picked up imagery of the ash cloud moving east over the Red Sea and Yemen.
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"Of the 15 largest individual tort claims paid out by the city in Fiscal Year 2024, 13 involved civil-rights claims tied to [DOC] and the NYPD ... The single biggest payout was $171.52 million for a DOC settlement stemming from the city's failure to promptly release people who had posted bail."
"Terrence told jail officials again and again that he'd been raped — five times."
"He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up."
"Now, New York City is paying the 32-year-old $4 million to settle."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Courts
"He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up."
"Now, New York City is paying the 32-year-old $4 million to settle."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Courts
City Pays $4M to Rikers Detainee After His Five Rape Claims Were Ignored
Despite multiple reports, surveillance footage and pleas for help, the Department of Correction brushed aside the allegations but has since settled lawsuits.
www.thecity.nyc
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Of the 15 largest individual tort claims paid out by the city in Fiscal Year 2024, 13 involved civil-rights claims tied to [DOC] and the NYPD ... The single biggest payout was $171.52 million for a DOC settlement stemming from the city's failure to promptly release people who had posted bail."
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza
The Security Council’s backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide.
mondoweiss.net
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
Our carceral state. It needs to stop
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Our carceral state. It needs to stop
Buddha surveys paradise
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Buddha surveys paradise
It’s been hard to know what’s happening in DC too
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It’s been hard to know what’s happening in DC too
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Something applicable across the country and I’m afraid hard to get across to people is to stop believing that the police are going to help. It’s really important to understand that the police are not your friend and will not protect the community
The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz
Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Something applicable across the country and I’m afraid hard to get across to people is to stop believing that the police are going to help. It’s really important to understand that the police are not your friend and will not protect the community
Um.. this is kind of scary. I don’t think it’s normal to grow up wanting to hunt people
"top border patrol official was so inspired by hunting magazines that he vowed to hunt immigrants" is really...something.
oh ok
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Um.. this is kind of scary. I don’t think it’s normal to grow up wanting to hunt people
A wonderful tribute.
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A wonderful tribute.