⭕️ New: Mental Health Program in Gaza Says Armed Group Stormed Its Last Operating Clinic
An unidentified armed group raided the sole remaining clinical facility in Gaza operating under The Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP)—an independent, non-profit Palestinian civil society...
BREAKING: I spoke with the parents of the two pro-Palestine protesters, including a 15-year-old teenage boy, who were dragged into an Egyptian government building in New York and allegedly beaten by Egyptian officials, and were then arrested by the NYPD:
theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...
we are so, SO far beyond the point of this being a question. we cannot be a decade behind these incredible dangerous politics like the opposition party currently is
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
What does gentrification have to do with authoritarianism? I talked with @xandrewleex.bsky.social about how displacement, surveillance, and “quality of life” policing function as tools of social control—and why housing struggles are class struggles.
People act as though the only option for unhoused people is jail or remaining on the streets.
They claim it’s “compassionate” to jail or institutionalize them because it means they have food & a roof over their head.
“Compassion” would be safe affordable housing. Not jail.
Across 25 US institutions, a study of over 1.2 million children and youths found that those who tested positive for COVID-19 faced small but statistically significant increases in neuropsychiatric risks like anxiety, ADHD, and depression.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.
Today someone asked how much I would pay in taxes to ensure everyone had housing & healthcare
I don’t know, whatever I could? This isn’t the “gotcha” folks think it is
If we taxed the rich properly, the rest of us wouldn’t need to pay exorbitant taxes to ensure every single person was provided for
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”
More than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a Salvadoran megaprison have returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Why would some top Dems call the Epstein situation a "distraction"? Probably because there are prominent Dems and Dem funders who wouldn't fare well if we knew everything. We all know Bill Clinton has ties to Epstein, for example. I'm sure plenty of walking bags of money do as well.
My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
Heartbreaking moment with the father of Sayfollah Musallet, the American killed by Israeli settlers:
“The last phone call that we had…he said ‘Dad, I think it’s time for me to try to find a spouse.’
…he’s looking for life. He’s loving life.
…But they took it away that day.”
That we seem to think our domestic categories are universally legible and applicable tells you a lot about the state of race thinking in this country. It points to an almost biological essentialism gets smuggled into to even critical, avowedly antiracist understandings.
"No one can say, years from now, that nobody knew about the camp, or that no one pushed back." - @melissagiragrant.com
oh dear... the old sleeper cell narrative. Brilliant tool to whip up fear because it is precisely the absence of evidence that can be taken to imply their existence. (And to further ramp up fear.)
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
E.g., the Spanish knew full well they were committing heinous genocide in the Americas.
The crown literally appointed what was essentially a human rights monitor, the Protector of the Indians, the first of whom was Fr. Bartolomeo de las Casas.
Not that they generally cared, but they knew!
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES
Arresting candidates for public office under false pretenses is a thing that routinely happens in authoritarian states.
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
