In national security circles, “smart” doesn’t mean what you think it means: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle…And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.”
kind of interesting that we aren’t seeing any protests rise up against this obvious big step toward absolute censorial repression of any and all political enemies, both real and perceived www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
This morning's reading.
Los Angeles’s Bridge of Sighs, the passageway between the jail and Hall of Justice. Photo from 1921.
I unceremoniously deactivated my account at the other place, rather unceremoniously. Felt like I had to tell somebody.
Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s sentence.
The incoming chair of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Rep. August Pfluger, not so subtly links counterterrorism to the new Cold War and immigration. Surprised he didn’t add drug cartels but I didn’t read the full statement.
Happy spring semester to those who celebrate. To the rest of you, bon courage.
Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation
The magic word “preemption” has done a lot, maybe as much as has “terrorism,” to usher in the transnational authoritarianism that is coming to define the contemporary era.
You read this and it’s clear, on a basic editorial level, NYT doesn’t consider Palestinians fully human. Every Palestinian is presumed a cartoon terrorist, every Israeli a smol civilian. If you’re Arab, show trials by occupying armies and “admin detention” magically turn a hostage into a “prisoner”
The ceasefire is not an excuse to stop speaking about Gaza and Palestine. Now, more than ever, we must demand accountability. Everyone who participated in the slaughter of so many thousands of Palestinians must be punished. Israel cannot be allowed to repeat this.
Khalida Jarrar: Who is the recently freed Palestinian prisoner? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/profiles/khalida-jarrar-palestine-freed-prisoner
Just here to let you all know there’s a ceasefire that may have hopefully ended that genocide that’s been ongoing.
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with Drop Site News, senior Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim said the group intends to uphold its side of the “ceasefire” deal—
Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinians waiting outside Ofer Prison ahead of the prisoner release under the ceasefire agreement, according to medical sources.
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Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.
Israel gets sixty more days of war? That’s not how ceasefires work.
"Just minutes after President Biden announced that a ceasefire agreement had been reached, an Israeli airstrike once again hit in the heart of Beirut," NYT reports.
"It appears the fighting is set to continue until it formally goes into effect at 4 a.m. local time in Israel and Lebanon."
“…moments after.”
The other place is a ghost town and it’s like detention here. Going back to basics.
Awesome! Thank you.
Maximum damage right up to the ceasefire seems to be the MO.
ISIS but not Palestine. Weird.
Revise and resubmit. By gar it’s been awhile.
Just checking in a noticing again that there’s nothing on my feeds about Palestine. Not much on international events generally.
