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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars. Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. All we want is clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled “Shelters” to Begin “Within A Matter of Weeks”

🔸Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced “humanitarian shelters” in areas outside Hamas’s control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza, according to the pro-Netanyahu paper Israel Hayom, which reported the plan approvingly.

🔸Under the plan, unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area Drop Site has documented Israel systematically razing.

🔸A “multinational force” - the ISF - operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace” would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military “continues to maintain and deepen its hold” beyond the Yellow Line.

🔸 The camp/base for the force “has already been built,” and the Board of Peace has “begun identifying sites” for logistics warehouses, with the groundwork underway now, and deployment in the coming weeks.

🔸The paper described the effort as a “pincer movement”: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left “without a population, territory or resources.”

🔸Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza.

◽️The plan matches what Drop Site has previously exposed through leaked documents: a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled “planned community” in Rafah designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon, tracked and screened as a condition of receiving aid.

🔸An Israeli political source told the paper the military would keep up “the pace of targeted killings while remaining below the threshold of international criticism… as long as Hamas is unwilling to disarm.”

📸 The buildup is already visible: the “Board of Peace” itself posted images of tactical vehicles arriving at a logistics base on June 30, matching the article’s account of preparations underway.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Students were arrested for protesting this.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

This is what I will forever remember when I think of Kier Starmer.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

We have so much more in common than racists and fascists would like you to think. We are one race.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Gaza has been completely forgotten.

More than 1.5 million people are living in tents, denied the most basic necessities, and forced to endure conditions no human being should ever face.

This is not over. Don't look away.

[Cedar Salvo 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @cedarsalvo]

Lebanon is the moment the people who told you Palestine was "complicated" finally go quiet. Not because they have nothing to say, but because acknowledging what Zionism is doing to Lebanon right now would force them to admit they've been lying all along.

[Josh Raby @JoshRaby]

Trump has ruined the last decade of our lives and I long for the psychic release of his eventual exit from this plane, but, goddamnit, “he’s making everyone around him wear shoes that don’t fit” is such an inspired character detail. Like I’m mad at how fucking good a bit that is.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Karoline Leavitt: "we had a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House for four years who gave away many of our best weapons for nothing, for free, to another country very far away by the name of Ukraine."

Honestly, the sheer heartlessness, ruthlessness, and cruelty of saying that while we are still under attack, trying to survive. While entire families are being killed in russian bombings due to a lack of air defense missiles, and when we barely survived last winter’s humanitarian catastrophe caused by russian strikes on our infrastructure. I don’t know... I’m just stunned.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

[Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai]

In Lebanon, Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah, yet it is striking offices, financial institutions, the offices of Hezbollah MPs, and homes long vacated by operatives, even when these sites are located inside multi-story residential buildings.

This pattern suggests the objective is no longer strictly military. It appears driven by retaliation rather than necessity, enabled by access to US jets, munitions, and funding that allow the continued use of overwhelming force without clear strategic gain.

Just raising the price of reconstruction.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

All they do is massacre our children while revolting politicians and media figures demand we stay silent lest anyone get any “antisemitic” ideas. Just an utterly insane and revolting status quo that is openly and unrepentantly evil

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

You can know everything there is to know about Israel's depravity and you will still discover new crimes every day.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.

His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.

I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks

And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.

Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonathanWiltsh7]

We're watching the normalization of something that should alarm every one of us: the fusion of political power, corporate profit, and permanent conflict.

The most dangerous part is that world leaders across Europe seem to be either on board, or silent in complicity.

We’re told that war is stability. That extraction is development. That deregulation is freedom. That climate breakdown is a price worth paying for “growth.” The language is polished, the branding is modern, but the logic is centuries old.

Empire. Resource control. Profit over people. You might as well just rebrand it as "rape and pillage."

This isn’t about left vs right. It’s not about flags or slogans. It’s about who benefits, and who pays the cost.

When reconstruction contracts are discussed before the bombs have stopped falling, when mineral rights are negotiated alongside ceasefire terms, when defence stocks surge as humanitarian crises deepen, we have to ask what kind of system we’re actually operating in. Because this trajectory doesn’t lead to security. It leads to permanent instability. Profitable instability.

And history tells us that systems built on exploitation eventually collapse under their own weight. The only question is how much damage is done before that point.

We are not powerless spectators. The normalization only continues if people disengage, accept the framing, or convince themselves it’s too complex to challenge.

It isn’t naive to demand diplomacy over destruction.
It isn’t radical to question who profits from endless crisis. And it isn’t extreme to believe that “progress” should mean shared prosperity, climate stability, and peace.

If we don’t challenge this direction now, we may look back at this moment as the turning point.

When short-term profit was chosen over long-term survival. And by then, it will be far harder to change course.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Turns out they weren't terrorists all along.

Who would have thought it 🤷

[LBC @LBC]

"We are living in a country where racism is back in fashion."

James O'Brien expects 'no consequences' for Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments.

[Rohan Connolly @rohan_connolly]

As always, @AmyRemeikis skewers the bullshit brilliantly and articulately.

‘Social cohesion'? No, it's just a net to trap us all https://t.co/vGPt7Hx3RJ