cynthia fried a lady

managing director @jewishcurrents,
she/her

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

New York Democratic officials who've declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani so far:
- Gov. Kathy Hochul
- Sen. Chuck Schumer
- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
- Rep. Laura Gillen
- Rep. Tom Suozzi
- Rep. Dan Goldman
- Rep. George Latimer

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

Today, I lost my entire family,

My mother, my father, and my beloved sisters, Sarah, Saja, and Manar were all martyred.

I have no words to describe the pain, Please, keep them in your prayers.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

If you say you’re willing to work with Donald Trump but not the Democratically elected mayor of NYC you should not be a Democrat.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Huge turnout in the Everglades for a protest against Alligator Alcatraz, the Ron DeSantis tent prison for migrants. It’s ominous how fast they’re building it. Will cost $450 million and be ready very soon.

[Quinn @quinneverett]

UnitedHealthcare has dropped Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from its network, leaving 20,000 cancer patients (including me) without access to our doctors and life-saving treatment starting July 1.

Cancer patients cannot simply “go elsewhere.” Finding new specialists takes time many of us don’t have. This reckless decision will overload other hospitals, delay care, and endanger lives.

What kind of company knowingly disrupts cancer treatment for thousands of people? Shame on you, @UHC.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Please do not compare the slaughter of my ancestors to a rent freeze and free bus proposal.

[Eric Schmidt @TalkingSchmidt]

Bill Clinton endorsing Cuomo

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

the concept of an anti-lgbt person being the guest of honor at a pride parade in a state that does not perform gay marriages

[Moataz from Gaza @moatza35154]

The story of our beautiful cat has ended 💔💔😭

[Elai @elaifresh]

There’s still poetry on the internet

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There is no internet.
No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.

I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”

Not because anyone is listening,
but because to die unheard is the final death.

Gaza is silent now.
Not with peace, but with obliteration.
Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.

They severed the last cable.
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.

I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.
All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.

This is not a siege of bombs alone.
It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”

The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.
They shell the streets where children beg for food.
They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.
They shell hunger itself.

No food. No water. No exit.
And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.

People die here, and no one knows.
Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.

The internet was our final breath.
It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.

Now it is gone.
And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.

I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.
I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.

A single message.
A last resistance.

If you are reading this, remember:
we walked through fire to say it.
We were not silent.
We were silenced.

And when the cables are restored,
the truth will bleed through the wires,
and the world will know what it chose not to see.

[𝒥. @cielosiluminado]

it makes me sad & angry how much of my family’s indigenous culture has been erased over time. my parents speak spanish but sometimes they’ll say words that don’t sound spanish. so when i google the word/origin—it’s nahuatl. my parents had no idea that’s where the word came from.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

hey! don't fall into the good protester bad protester binary! to the state there are no good protesters! don't do their propaganda work for them!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Wait, does Israel control the border of Gaza? I thought the line was that “Israel is not an occupying power” — why does it control the Gaza’s access to the sea? Is it an occupying power or not — I am confused!

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Why on earth is Israel still in FIFA?

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

What's great about this answer is that Israel's defenders can't really say what they object to about it unless they admit Israel has a hierarchy of citizenship. If Israel has full equal rights then his answer should be perfectly satisfactory.

[millennials 4 progressives @millennials4pr]

Zohran does not “keep going around talking about Israel’s right to exist”

he’s disproportionately asked this question and gets it amplified BECAUSE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA AND HIS SUPPORT OF PALESTINE

how many Palestinians have to ask you to stop doing this before yall will listen

[Dystopian Times @DystopianTimes_]

Israel really spent forever saying UNRWA can't be trusted to deliver aid because it is a "terrorist organisation" and the moment the IDF became responsible for the aid, it started gunning down civilians in queues