cleo advocate

this is an account about the sorrows of the contemporary world

[cleo advocate @costanzacore]

why do ppl drive so fast, like why are u trying to get to work so quickly. capitalist pig

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Lindsey Graham's entire career was dedicated to finding new ways to put his feet over the heads of the oppressed, to expedite the destruction of societies, and to annihilate the very idea of peace. His attempts to reshape the world were failures, and he will be forgotten.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Today marks the 12th anniversary of a crime that shook humanity, which claimed the life of a Palestinian child who was burned alive by colonial Israeli settlers.

The story began when Abu Khdeir left at dawn on July 2, 2014, heading to the mosque to perform the Fajr prayer on the fourth day of Ramadan.

On his way, he was stopped by a car carrying three settlers. They asked him for directions to “Tel Aviv,” then forced him into the vehicle at gunpoint and abducted him outside the town.

The abductors then headed to the Deir Yassin forested area, where they began torturing Abu Khdeir by beating and strangling him. The perpetrator, Yosef Ben-David, then poured gasoline on him, forced him to drink it, and set his body on fire, burning him alive until death.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

NEW: The Board of Directors at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets. Israeli, American, and Ukrainian journalists who work for state-funded outlets or are embedded with the military will remain recognized as journalists, of course.

The move was catalyzed to appease the right-wing Zionist rag The Free Beacon, which has repeatedly accused Palestinian and Lebanese journalists of being undercover militants or used their political opinions or affiliations as justification for their killing by the IOF.

This is a racist scandal of massive proportions for everyone involved, and it makes a mockery of the purported mission of the organization. It is absolutely abhorrent that the organization’s resources are wasted on this cowardly witch-hunt, at a moment in history that is the deadliest for journalists, especially in Palestine and Lebanon.

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

horrifying weaponization of the criminal legal system – nobody died, all guns owned legally & only 1 of the 9 defendants fired a weapon, 3 weren't involved in planning & left when guards told them to. One didn't even attend, got 30 years for moving zines.
https://t.co/SFV3Hfip3m

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

The Strait of Hormuz is now closed again, according to the Iranian military. Not just military strikes on Israel, but global economic consequences are now being threatened if Israel does not end its war in southern Lebanon, in accordance with the MOU.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 UPDATE | Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says the toll from Israeli strikes since midnight has risen to 47 killed and 97 wounded.

▪️ Harouf: 9 killed, including 3 women; 14 wounded, including 3 women.

▪️ Doueir: 6 killed, including a child and a woman; 6 wounded, including a child and a woman.

▪️ Sharqiyah: 3 killed, including 2 women; 2 wounded.

▪️ Kfarsir: 2 killed; 9 wounded, including a child and 2 women.

▪️ Haboush: 7 killed; 12 wounded, including 2 children.

▪️ Qatrani: 2 killed; 5 wounded.

▪️ Nabatieh: 2 killed; 11 wounded, including 3 children and a woman.

▪️ Deir al-Zahrani: 4 killed; 1 wounded.

▪️ Kfar Rumman: 2 killed; 2 wounded.

▪️ Kfar Jouz: 8 wounded, including a woman.

▪️ Jebchit: 2 killed, including a woman; 2 wounded.

▪️ Qaqaiyat al-Jisr: 6 wounded, including a child and a woman.

▪️ Adchit: 3 wounded.

▪️ Rayhan: 1 killed; 1 wounded.

▪️ Abba: 1 wounded.

▪️ Abbassiyah: 1 killed.

▪️ Arab Salim: 3 killed, including a child; 5 wounded, including a child and 3 women.

▪️ Tal Abyad (Baalbek): 3 killed.

▪️ Ain Bourday (Baalbek): 9 wounded, including 2 children and a woman.

⚠️ The ministry said the toll remains subject to change as rescue and recovery operations continue.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: At least 30 civilians have been killed since midnight in a wave of Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon, local journalist Hadi Hoteit reports.

The Press TV correspondent said more than 25 residential sites were hit by airstrikes, drone attacks, and artillery fire, with the Nabatieh area bearing the brunt of the attacks. He also reported new strikes on Zebdine and Doueir as fighting and Israeli military operations continue in the south.

📸 Photos of the people killed overnight.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A video of a Dutch policeman throwing a heavily pregnant woman to the ground has caused outrage. The woman says police attacked her at a migration centre where authorities had detained her Palestinian husband.

[cleo advocate @costanzacore]

While many of you are likely yelling "GO SPURS" or "GO THUNDER!" I'm yelling "GO ROBERT MUELLER and the rule of law!"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 NEW: UN report details rape, gang rape and genital violence against Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces

The UN Secretary-General’s report submitted to the Security Council verifies 31 victims of sexual violence linked to Israeli forces in 2025 — against 14 men, seven women, nine children and one girl — across detention facilities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to Haaretz, which said it had reviewed the report.

Key Details:

🔸“Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape,” the report said.

🔸 9 victims, most of them Gaza residents, were subjected to rape and gang rape — in some cases repeatedly. Men and boys were allegedly subjected to rape or attempted rape and violence to the genitals, “resulting in five male victims suffering severe rectal bleeding or swelling for multiple days or weeks and, in some cases, without receiving medical treatment.”

🔸 The report named the IDF, Israeli Prison Service and Border Police Counter Terrorism Unit as responsible. Facilities cited include Sde Teiman, Etzion, and prisons Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, HaSharon, Shatta, Nafha and Damon.

🔸 The UN said its findings likely reflect only part of a broader pattern, citing Israel’s continued denial of access to detention facilities and explicit threats against detainees to coerce them not to report abuse.

🔗 Full report below.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

People who haven't ever been to Israel cannot conceive of how rotten the entire society is, and how universal that rot is.

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

An Israeli analyst confirms accounts of Palestinians being raped and sexually assaulted using dogs at Israeli detention sites, citing two guards he spoke with at Sde Teiman torture prison.

“One had witnessed it and said it was too awful to describe. The other said he had heard about it from others and believed it was true.” Ben-Ephraim shares documented cases by various human rights groups below.

“This happened. This is still happening. The evidence is overwhelming,” he notes.

[Shaun Johnson @ShyBucketGetter]

Did you know in HEAT (1995) the iconic shoutout scene was entirely improvised?

After finishing their scene, Val Kilmer and Robert DeNiro decided to kill all the cops that had shutdown traffic, unaware director Micheal Mann was still filming.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

The body of one of the children killed after Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a Palestinian family inside their vehicle in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank.

The attack killed four members of the same family, two children and their parents.

According to local sources, all the victims sustained gunshot wounds to the head and face.

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

As I wrote last year: modern bombs and warfare is extremely toxic. The spectre of the nuke is always used to minimise the absolutely catastrophic impacts of war. Post-war Iraq saw the rate of cancer rise 2200%, almost four times as high as post-WWII Japan.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israeli forces disguised themselves as Lebanese soldiers and killed at least 41 people ... and all to search for the bones of an Israeli pilot who went missing in the 1980s.

They desecrated a graveyard. A local resident from the Lebanese town of Nabi Chit, pointed at the empty grave saying, “They thought he was there but there was nothing.”