CaFeMotoX

Cuban-Spanish Humanist

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇮🇷🇪🇬 An Iranian father uses a handmade cardboard football pitch to help his visually impaired son experience the Iran–Egypt match through touch.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The extractive model that produces a genocide in Palestine; that resurrects the western economic engine of mass enslavement in the Congo; that engineers mass slaughter and famine in Sudan — this is not a world order in crisis. It is a world order working as it was designed.

The real crisis is that increasing numbers of people are noticing the design!

Gaza has pulled back the veil on everything and everyone. It is time to plan not merely an end to the violence, but to imagine a different order entirely.

The alternatives need not be invented from scratch. They already exist in the civilizational traditions that colonialism spent centuries trying to eliminate precisely because they offered different answers:

ISLAMIC PRINCIPLES.
• Zakat as structural redistribution, not charity.
• The prohibition on riba (usury) as a principle that finance must serve human life.
• Waqf — the communal endowment held in perpetual trust — built the infrastructure of Islamic cities for a thousand years without privatization.

AFRICAN COMMUNAL ETHOS.
• Ubuntu: “A person is a person through other persons.” • A direct refutation of neoliberal capitalism’s premise that the individual is the primary unit of social life.
• South Africa enshrined ubuntu in its constitution.

INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN HERITAGE.
• The olive tree as archive.
• Land as something you belong to, not something you own. No amount of military power can purchase this relationship or replicate it.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@mariondelgado @briebriejoy You could have Cynthia Nixon run for Chucky's seat. It should be easier and better for her now than when she ran against Cuomo for the governorship.

Cynthia is likely more beloved by the rest of NY State (outside NYC) whereas I doubt they have much or any love for Alexandria.

[Arwa Damon @IamArwaDamon]

She has the smile of an angel doesn’t she? The thing is, Jwan needs a surgery that cannot be performed in Gaza. She has a spinal defect from birth that has shortened her neck muscles. What that means is that she cannot properly turn her head, causing difficulties when she’s walking or playing. It also impacts her vision and her ability to react to what is around her.

When we talk about the targeting of children, we tend to think of targeting only with bullets and bombs. But the deliberate deprivation also kills and injures.

Jwan case is not among the most extreme.

My charity INARA’s clinic has also treated children with what’s called Guillan Barre Syndrome, basically rapid onset paralysis caused by a nerve infection. It mostly targets the young, whose bodies cannot fight without enough nutrients. Kids wake up unable to move their legs. The paralysis moves up through their body, impacting their arms. If it hits their diaphragm it can be deadly. It’s treatable, if medicine is administered within a month. That medicine was never available.

We’ve seen the spread of impetigo, that nasty blistering of skin, oozing wounds. I remember in August of 2024 being at one of the hospitals where an entire section was dedicated to children with severe cases. It can be lethal if it spreads to internal organs. Impetigo is normally easily treated. Wash with soap. Use a cream. Neither was available.

We have had to sneak in pediatric tracheostomy tubes for little ones on ventilators. PEG feeding tubes for a boy who was paralyzed not in this war but the one of 2021. Rats had chewed through his. He did not make it through the Israeli-made famine of last year.

The Lancet published a report all the way back in 2024 warning of “indirect deaths”, ie deaths not caused directly by a weapon of war. The report states that in recent conflicts, indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. They apply a conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths per one direct death for Gaza.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@briebriejoy @mariondelgado If Alexandria were to get the Senate seat, she would be extremely hard to challenge & beat. You would then be stuck with her for like 30-40 years, like we had with her "mama bear" (aka Nancy Pelosi).

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@briebriejoy @mariondelgado I wouldn't support her.

She's worked with Chucky and likely continues to do so. She worked with Genocide Joe during a genocide without a problem, advocated for him in 2024 and then did her "working tirelessly" lie.

I want Chucky gone, but she ain't the one to replace him with.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@anthonyzenkus @briebriejoy As well, how would these candidates have done under an open primary (Top 2 using RCV) instead of a closed primary. Which one is more representative of the district they ran in. So yeah, this closed primary helped them. But it represents the few, not the many.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@anthonyzenkus @briebriejoy The hubris I'm talking about is the false enthusiasm and belief that these 3 candidates amount to something huge that translates to other parts of the USA at the state and federal level.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@leylahamed AJ+ recently featured Suleiman Al-Obeid's son Naseemi on YT and IG (posted on June 18th, starting at the 2:53 mark).

https://t.co/ofZa5LN8pK

https://t.co/TygSZdbQl1

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@leylahamed @KenIzzB90 @ll4gaza_ofcl AJ+ recently featured Suleiman Al-Obeid's son Naseemi on YT and IG (posted on June 18th, starting at the 2:53 mark).

https://t.co/ofZa5LN8pK

https://t.co/TygSZdbQl1

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@briebriejoy Maybe, but the fact she's willing to be a team player and apologized for her post on Kamala means she's already transforming into another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Which is why I do not care about the 3 candidates who won, one of whom is still a liberal Zionist (Lander).

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@TheCradleMedia I guess Estaban's wet dream of $200 per barrel is gone now.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@TheCradleMedia A statement showing that Hamas is weak and no longer able to resist the occupation. It's now like the Lebanese gov't and begging for others to save it. Maybe they should give up their arms considering they're not using them anyway nor probably have enough soldiers either.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@briebriejoy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can only win if she is able to run against opponents who are despised or are god-awful terrible like those Mamdani ran against (in the primary & general).

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@katewillett You've lost me here. Where is her statement on the toxic waste site? This video is similar to what Mamdani is proposing on building more affordable housing.

R u saying Jo Anne Simon is the better choice?

This race had a total of 25K votes. Not exactly a barometer for anything.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@NathanJRobinson Also, Mamdani did NOT win those races, the candidates did with DSA support along with running against people that were already not liked by their own districts. I don't doubt his endorsement helped but I think they would have won nonetheless.

[CaFeMotoX @CaFeMotoX]

@NathanJRobinson What a terrible analysis. The 3 candidates winning showed Mamdani was WRONG in endorsing Jefferies and against having someone run against him. Chi Osse could have also won and it would have been an even better night. But even if Chi Osse lost, it would have been a worthy fight.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.

This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.