Sparky Gene

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Think about what it means to order the killing of your own soldiers in order to prevent them from becoming part of a prisoner exchange.

It means that Israeli officials consider it a higher priority to keep detaining Palestinian men, women, and children without charge than to release some in exchange for those soldiers.

That logic is so obviously inhumane that Israel officially ended the Hannibal Directive policy on paper, yet obviously kept it in practice, because we now have many different reports of it being implemented on October 7. And we also know that the bombing campaign was organized through 2023 and 2024 in a way that many Israeli officials understood to be highly likely to kill captives Israelis in Gaza, as +972 has exposed.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Michigan - Senate Polling:

🔵 El-Sayed: 47%
🔴 Rogers: 42%

🔴 Rogers: 47%
🔵 McMorrow: 41%

🔴 Rogers: 45%
🔵 Stevens: 41%

Mitchell Research / June 13, 2026

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

This took my breath away: We didn't name the slaughtered children because Israel would go after their remaining family.
We can't even name the victims of the deplorable genocidaries.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

[Dre Guevara @skiidmarxx]

@DFWSupCommittee Bro got 30 years for being part of a book club and handing out pamphlets. Welcome to fascism everyone, don’t forget to look out for each other

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Stories like today's catastrophic Supreme Court ruling on pesticides go under the radar, but they shape our society and determine our lives. One of the most important things to see about our political system is this: there are concentric circles of undemocratic mechanisms that permit local officials to enact policies that benefit the ruling class but that prevent them from enacting policies that hurt the ruling class.

If a local city wants to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic state government can preempt it. If a state wanted to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic federal government can preempt it. This was actually the goal of a lot of the Obama-era corporate transnational trade agreements, which were trying to replicate this system globally to prevent countries from passing progressive economic, environmental, labor, and social policies. At each higher layer, the wealthiest interests typically have more power and control, and it is much harder for people to organize to effectively fight against that power.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

“He is a good progressive except he supports killing 20,000+ children in Gaza” is not an intellectually or morally credible position. There exists a party where most voters don’t think Israel is committing genocide. It’s called the Republican Party, Goldman is welcome to join it

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

people who showed up to a protest outside an ICE facility and left when things got chaotic are getting HALF CENTURY sentences in federal court right now, my god

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A new UN report says Israel is committing genocide by DELIBERATELY TARGETING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN and I can’t find anything about it from @nytimes @AP @washingtonpost @CNN @SkyNews…

How is this not the top headline at every major news outlet?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 BREAKING | Israel has carried out a double-tap strike in Gaza, killing Raghad Ashour, an 18-year-old student from Beit Hanoun who was on her way to take her general secondary education examination per @MosabAbuToha. At least 5 others were wounded, according to initial reports from journalists on the ground.

🎥 Anas Ayyad

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Honestly if I were in her shoes I don’t know what I’d do… at some point we need a different kind of politics.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates to @Timodc on Dems who won’t break with 🇮🇱 (like all Republicans) asking for the votes of folks who lost family in 🇵🇸

Full: https://t.co/sMAQRlVGbU

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Around 10 armed Israeli settlers — including children — are surrounding a house in the village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank.

The family inside is pleading for help. Locals cannot reach the house, and the family's fate remains unknown.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Al Mayadeen English @MayadeenEnglish]

Circulating footage online documents an Israeli settler demanding Israeli occupation soldier shoot Sara Aziz, a 15-year-old girl from the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, after alleging that "she's trying to attack the soldiers".

Sara, lying on the ground defenseless, was reportedly shot in the hand.

#Palestine #WestBank #AlMayadeen

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Mona Khalil in South Lebanon.

On June 6, they dropped a bomb on her home in Mansouri — flattening it.

Mona, an environmental activist, dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles along Lebanon’s coast.

She died of her injuries today.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

On June 5th Israel attacked the home of world famous Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. Mona was hospitalized with burns and injuries to over 70% of her body.

Yesterday, June 19th, Mona died from her injuries.

This wasn’t an accident. They didn’t make a mistake. Mona’s home was also where she ran her sea turtle conservatory- which she aptly named the Orange House Project- because, after all, her house was painted top to bottom in a deep, bright orange, the color of a late summer sunset.

The Orange House Project has been in operation for almost 30 years. You can find it on Facebook and Google Maps, along with dozens of reviews from visitors over the years.

So no, it wasn’t an accident or a mistake. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it bombed the Orange House Project on June 5th.

It’s exactly what they’ve been doing since the war with Iran started: ethnically cleansing all of Southern Lebanon so they can steal the land and occupy it for themselves.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a crime so dark it is difficult to comprehend

[AF Post @AFpost]

Israel dropped charges against 5 IDF soldiers who were caught on camera beating and raping a Palestinian prisoner.

Follow: @AFpost

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

How many LAPD officers does it take to kill a Golden Doodle?

Answer: 15. 1 to shoot the dog and 14 more to stand around with their thumbs up their ass as they try to come up with a story about how they feared for their safety.