Brendan 🇮🇪🕊️🇵🇸🇨🇺🇱🇧🇨🇩🇸🇩

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Claiming neutrality in the face of depravity is depravity.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this language is now indexed as a form of racial harassment. The mere mention of Palestinians and their ongoing mass killing, siege and starvation is treated as a form of bigotry. I don’t know what else to say other than this is completely dystopian and insane.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

for anyone curious about this dynamic, it's very much a quantitative phenomena. Post Oct 7, despite university and nonprofits finding roughly equal instances of antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism, the former was covered 9X-31X more in US media, depending on how it was measrured

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴Summary of Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory on 5/16/2026:

🟠 Airstrikes:
Ansar
Arzi
Deir Qanoun al-Nahr
Yanouh
Qalila
Siddiqin
Majdal Selm
Hadatha
Tayr Falsayh
Yahmar al-Shaqif
Kawthariyat al-Sayyad
Al-Ghassaniya
Al-Maashouq
Hanawiya
Battle of
Tibnin
Between Tayr Dibba and al-Abbasiya
Al-Housh
Tuffahta
Zawtar al-Sharqiya
Qaqiyat al-Sanoubar
Zibqin
Al-Samaiya
Al-Abbasiya
Tayr Dibba
Kafr Melki
Dabaal
Al-Mansouri
Haboush
Al-Shahabiya

🟠 Drones strikes:
Nabatieh al-Fouqa
Al-Bayyad
Al-Mansouri
Qana

🟠 Artillery shelling:
Al-Hannieh
Al-Qalilah
Kfar Tebnit
Mifdoun
Kfar
Al-Nabatiyyah al-Fawqa
Yahmar al-Shaqif (phosphorus)
Siddiqin
Srifa
Al-Ma'aliyah
Al-Ramadiyah
Frun
Qabrikha
Majdal Selm
Qana
Qaqiyat al-Jisr
Al-Qalilah
Sarbin
Al-Sha'itiyah
Jebshit
Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain
Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (artillery + phosphorus)
Ali al-Taher
🟠 Illegal civilian home and infrastructure demolition:
Al-Khiyam

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Can’t wait to see this important film by @sean_murray1: “Journacide: The War on Truth” which will premiere at the @belfastfilmfes1 next month

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Our legacy media, which covers for this depravity while excoriating anyone who sheds light on it, is a disgrace.

[adam mahoney (he/him) @AdamLMahoney]

NEW: Louisiana has the nation's highest share of residents living in poverty & the nation's highest incarceration rate

Now the state wants to subject unhoused people to fines, jail time, or unpaid labor if they are found sleeping outdoors.

FULL STORY: https://t.co/tpX5fjm8oT

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it.

May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Israel has killed more journalists than any other nation in history.

More than the total number of journalists killed during the U.S. Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.

[UNCLE Larry @unclelarry1952]

For 75 dollars a month I ride unlimited anywhere in the city . No car payment, no insurance premium, no gas expense. And today I got the bus to myself. Yes I TARC bus it peeps. Have a great day cardnation. L' S up and cards4eva ♥️💯🩸.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Brian 🍄 @Is_Not_Brian]

What's happening in the US is the most shameful thing I've ever lived through. The last 3 years have been a nightmare that keeps getting worse & worse. The lack of resistance, the complete apathy as this spirals, the complete failure of every institution & politician.

[Martin Asser @martasser]

Never forgot that day Fatima Ftouni held up her mic after an Israeli air strike in 2024 and called it the weapon she and colleagues were targeted for. Israel murdered her today.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

The judges wrote that Mariam Dagga’s work “stands as a powerful testament to the role of journalism in bearing witness to suffering and truth.”

“Dagga continued reporting under difficult conditions until she was killed in August in an Israeli strike.”

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

Journalists are not targets.

Wishing speedy recovery to Steve and his cameraman, they've been doing courageous on the ground reporting in Lebanon.

This is another Israeli war crime, in a long list of Israeli war crimes which include killing at least 261 Palestinian journalists in Gaza in the past two years alone, as well as previously killing Lebanese journalists and repeatedly bombing Iranian media.

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

Father Pierre al-Rahi of the Maronite Catholic Church has been killed by an Israeli attack against Qlayaa, Lebanon. Please pray.

[College Heights Herald @wkuherald]

‘A bubble of love’: Ilyasah Shabazz speaks at the Capitol Theater
https://t.co/0PZnEYe0a5