So @pressfreedom, if having “participated in combat” (your words) at any given point in time is grounds for revoking a journalist’s status, why doesn’t that apply to Israeli journalists who fought in the Israeli military or still serve in its reserves? What’s your excuse?
🚨NEWS: Republican Rep. Tom Kean repeatedly voted against legislation to give Americans paid family/medical leave, before Kean took 4 months of paid medical leave from Congress for depression - all while somehow finding the time to raise himself $160,000 worth of campaign cash.
The little girl, Amna Abu Awad..
His head was crushed by the rubble of the building that collapsed after Israeli planes bombed his house. Amna lost her life along with her family members.
I'm always for being open about mental health, but important context is that Kean, as a state rep, voted against the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act, which established 40 hours of sick leave for employees a year.
Kean just took *4 months* of paid sick leave.
Things my clients have done in police interviews:
- Ignored the cops to take a nap.
- Physically slammed their own head into a desk in an attempt to make it look like the police assaulted them.
- Told the cops that he was going to walk because the cop was a rookie and he was going to hire a good lawyer and just openly mocked them non-stop.
- Shrieked incoherently for 60+ minutes.
...and literally all of these things were better choices than answering any of the officers' questions.
The US has seized $5.49 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenue in 2026, then offers just $150 million in earthquake aid while the UN estimates $6.7 billion in losses. It’s not relief, it’s extortion. At the same time, US has $30 billion of frozen assets while people are under rubble.
The US and EU are sitting on over $30 billion of Venezuela’s own frozen assets while its people are buried under rubble. Sending aid is not enough. Lift every sanction now. Those same sanctions have for years blocked the heavy equipment needed to dig people out.
Palestinian journalist Mujahed Bani Mufleh has regained consciousness after months in a coma following release from Israeli prison, where he says he was abused in detention.
Al Jazeera’s @nida_journo reports from the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh was tortured to such an immense degree while held in Israeli captivity that he suffered a severe brain hemorrhage after months of abuse.
I've done my best to translate what he said below
He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.
This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.
Des has been sentenced to 30 years because he & his wife Mari stood up against the concentration camp in their city. He wasn't even at the protest. She got 70 years.
If you think you can stay safe from this by staying home, please take some time to study the history of fascism.
People doing above ground work might think that they’re safe from the sort of horrific government crackdowns on groups like the Prairieland 5, the ELF, the ALF, AIM, etc, but let me remind you that the net of what is considered “out of bounds” is expanding constantly and rapidly.
To note, the Prairieland sentences are more than several times higher than the ELF during the Green Scare.
They outrun essentially any other crime apart from pre-meditated murder.
Purely political. I don't see this as the end, the way this is going...
Training boys to have no theory of mind for women is a core part of being socialized into patriarchy. Every time a little boy is told that girls are mysterious, another creep gets his wings