Ben Jacobson

Appellate lit; dramaturg; analyst. Theatre, history, NatSec, food, parkour, “law,” gen’l nerdosity. @Lostandfindvtg stan account. He/Him. #FreePalestine

[Ben Jacobson @bfjacobson]

Grandma used to give Dad socks for Channukah, I always made fun of him. Just got new socks, it was the highlight of my week.

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

Yes, you are reading this right. Desantis used $1 BILLION of Florida tax payer money to build detention centers that were ultimately shut down.

Meanwhile, we are 50th in the nation for education funding, have an affordable housing crisis and kicking kids off of healthcare.

[Green Southerners الجنوبيون الخضر @GreenSoutherns]

Environmental activist and conservationist Mona Khalil was injured after her home in the town of Mansouri was hit by an Isaءli airstrike yesterday morning. Her assistant also sustained burn injuries. Khalil was rushed to Jabal Amel Hospital, where she underwent surgery,

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

The largest ICE detention center made over $250 million last year. 

Billionaires have quite literally turned human suffering into a business.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Detainees at Trump's notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in Florida said guards were denying them food and fresh water until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand. https://t.co/RgkMjpyNVP

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

We regret suggesting that international law is a matter of opinion

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Don’t forget to give @FIFAcom the most glorious middle finger possible…

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

This is unreal. The New School Student Senate voted to cut ties with their campus Hillel group because it literally sponsored students to materially participate in the BOMBING OF GAZA... and so The New School admin is investigating the student senators.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $16.3 billion in contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024.

Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party. https://t.co/47WT3tNfSF

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Never thought I'd see the day:

"A Pew survey taken last month found that a stunning 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents take an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 69% in 2025 and 53% in 2022." https://t.co/TpujFyV5Wb

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel’s war in Lebanon has killed 3,500+ civilians, 220+ children, 300+ women, 27 journalists and media workers, 130 health workers and paramedics, 7 UN peacekeepers, displaced over 1.2 million — and the United States is bankrolling this terror.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israeli forces are still shooting Palestinian babies. There was never a ceasefire.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli "soldier" posts shocking video of Palestinian children, cuffed, blindfolded, with the caption 'for sale: 2 for 100, 3 for 75 shekels'!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Families in Az-Zawayda, central Gaza, clear debris from homes destroyed in an overnight Israeli air strike that left entire buildings in ruins.

The latest attack comes as Israel's 'military operations' intensify and occupied Gaza records its highest death toll in six months.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Gaza hospital director put in solitary confinement without explanation, NGO says https://t.co/rBA1rsVHAf

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Seven-Month-Old Infant Killed After Israeli Forces Open Fire on Family Car in Hebron

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed seven-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal on Friday after opening live fire on his family’s vehicle in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to WAFA.

The infant was struck in the jaw by the same bullet that wounded his mother. His father, Bethlehem University lecturer Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, was shot in the hand. The family was traveling from Bethlehem to visit the mother’s family in Hebron when soldiers opened fire on their car in the Wadi al-Hariya neighborhood.

Sam died of his wounds Friday evening. His parents sustained moderate injuries.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts” https://t.co/cT8R7DS3C4

[Mark S. Zaid @MarkSZaidEsq]

This is why DOJ and Todd Blanche are trying to prevent state bar licensing authorities from disciplining their lawyers.

Because they keep crossing the wrong ethical line.

https://t.co/vtGIIdOh1a

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

Revealed: Israel’s curriculum for ‘influencing public consciousness’

A leaked Defense Ministry tender lays out the army’s training program for manipulating public opinion in Israel and abroad.

@ha_makom

https://t.co/5C1yc8quJj

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

At the 2024 DNC, Uncommitted delegates requested to have American doctors who served in Gaza address delegates at the convention about their experiences. The DNC and campaign officials said no. Now a doctor who served in Gaza is headed to Congress.