Shuraifa Faruqi

My Pokemon brought a nerd to the yard

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Happy International Women's Day.

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING — “I’ll Die Without Him.”

When ICE Took His Dad, Wael Knew He'd Die because he had Nobody to Care for his Rare Sickness.

He Passed Away Yesterday.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

The same people who celebrated the extermination of the native Americans are those who support the genocide in Palestine🇵🇸

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.

He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.

His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Virtually everyone in power wants us to forget the people of Gaza. Those with a conscience cannot forgive or forget.

[Palestine Daily News✌️🇵🇸✌️ @Palestinedaily1]

By God, you will surely be questioned about these children...
#sudan

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

88 year old Palestinian grandmother was punched in the face by an Israeli soldier after she refused to leave her home.

(She was crying from humiliation ) " We've been building this house for 60 years , we save up all our money until we have this house built"...

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”

A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

"In Israeli schools, racism against Palestinians is taught, and students are indoctrinated about the state, blood, and soil, just as the Nazis taught me in Germany. Zionism is a nationalist, racist, and colonialist ideology..."

—An Auschwitz survivor Jew Hajo Meyer

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been warmly welcomed by Cape Town Pro-Palestinian activists and members of the public

Francesca Albanese: Feared by apartheid regimes, celebrated by the people. A welcome she truly deserves

[Adam @AdameMedia]

lsraeIis set fire to this young boy.

They. Set. Fire. To. A. Child.

This is life in the West Bank.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇨🇴JUST IN:

A child from Gaza who lost his hands as a result of Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza asked the Colombian President:

Are you afraid of threats from the United States?

The President replied:

I will never abandon you, and I am not afraid of either America or Trump.

He then met with the child and a number of children from Gaza in Doha

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

British activist:
“Israel didn’t defeat Muslims it exposed the West.”
Islam was never the enemy. It was the biggest victim of a decades-long smear campaign.
Now, the West is waking up:
The real threat isn’t those who pray it’s those who fund war and lie in the name of freedom.”

[Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸⚡️ @7MohammedKhaled]

3 replies — even dots — can break the algorithm 💔

[Malak @malakjalhoam2]

X has blocked my account. Please help me by commenting with three dots (...) to break the algorithm.
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[GHADA 🇵🇸 @ghadaa231]

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Cheney Should Have Died Alone In A Cage

Dick Cheney, arguably the single government official most responsible for the expansion of US warmongering and militarism in the 21st century, has died.

The worst worst war sluts of the US empire have issued statements expressing their condolences, including Democrats like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Because if there’s one thing that can bring Democrats and Republicans together, it’s war crimes and the slaughter millions of middle easterners.

Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.

In a truly sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any major harm in Washington, and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter. In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague.

But we do not live in a truly sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society. We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind.

Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm. New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire.

Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward. All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.

That said, the world actually does feel better without Dick Cheney in it. Feels a bit brighter. A bit lighter. Kinder. Gentler.

I don’t find comfort in the idea that Cheney is burning in hell now, because I do not believe in hell. I don’t find comfort in the idea that the empire will become less murderous and abusive in Cheney’s absence, because it won’t.

I find comfort in the fact that, after all these years, I am finally walking around on a planet that I do not have to share with Dick Cheney.

It’s a nice experience. Give it a try. Take a few steps and notice how you are at long last walking around on an earth that doesn’t have Dick Cheney on it. Look up at the sky and reflect on the fact that you and Dick Cheney are not living underneath that sky together anymore. Breathe deeply and think, “Today is the first day of life without Dick Cheney.”

It’s pretty sweet. I find that something in me relaxes a bit. Something subtle in my animal body is very relieved that he is gone now.

That’s good enough for me. I’ll take it.

Reading by Tim Foley:

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I'm excited to announce a forthcoming anthology, EVERY MOMENT IS A LIFE: GAZA IN THE TIME OF GENOCIDE, published by @OneSignalPub, and available for pre-order at any bookseller.

This book was born from a series of eight writing workshops that I held in Gaza with young people under the auspices of the Culture & Free Thought Association (CFTA) in 2024.

The collection comprises short stories from 18 talented individuals. Each is a small window into their lives as they struggle to survive a genocide.

You'll read about waiting in line to use a shared bathroom, or to buy bread; about letting go a precious bed frame to have firewood; about childbirth, friendship, a cup of coffee by the sea, and delirium born of chaotic thoughts; about losing an aunt, rescuing clothes, mending a shoe, going from tent to tent, finding transportation, buying diapers, hiding books, and the terror of getting detained when you're deaf; about raising someone else's toddler; about family and a prayer to have something left.

I'm grateful to my friend, renowned author Huzama Habayeb, who edited the Arabic originals once we compiled all the stories. I'm proud of each of the wonderful writers who contributed to the book. And I'm honored to play a part in ensuring that Palestinians in Gaza tell their own stories, in their own voices, with an understanding and intimacy that no one but they possess.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

During 23 years these 3 demons invaded 9 Islamic countries, murdered 11 million people and nobody called them terrorists.