Sol

We must unite & RESIST authoritarianism by MAGA GOP, allied plutocrats, & the right-wing SCOTUS supermajority. Follow me BlueSky at: @forwardarc.bsky.social.

[Sol @forwardarc]

We need justice for all: not just men, but also women; not just white, but POC; not just Christians, but others & Atheists; not just Jews but Palestinians; not just the wealthy but the poor; not just citizens but aliens; not just straight but LGBTQ.

[Sol @forwardarc]

House approves Ukraine aid and Russian sanctions, defying Trump and GOP leaders https://t.co/SOXDsOD68S

[House Judiciary Dems @HouseJudiciary]

How did Donald Trump give himself, his family, and their businesses a Super Pardon for all their crimes, back taxes, fines, and other payments due to the federal government?

Meet Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer now assigned to the Department of Justice, who gave his boss and former client, Donald Trump, a family-sized stack of get-out-of-jail-free cards.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s picks share one thing, and it isn’t qualifications.

Bill Pulte, tapped to run national intelligence, has never worked a day in intelligence. Todd Blanche, nominated for Attorney General, was literally Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney. What they have in common is a proven willingness to use government power to punish Trump’s enemies and reward his friends.

This is how authoritarians operate.

[Sol @forwardarc]

Why the silence ? Because the victims are not white Christians or Jews?
@AriMelber @Lawrence @AymanM @andersoncooper
@jaketapper @AliciaMenendez @wolfblitzer @chrislhayes @AliVelshi @SRuhle @mitchellreports
@NicolleDWallace @DavidMuir @FareedZakaria @jaketapper @maddow @jrpsaki

[Sol @forwardarc]

Rubio Humiliated to His Face With Trump, 79, Sleeping Video

⁦@SecRubio⁩ (aka: little Marco) was confronted with footage showing America’s oldest president seemingly dozing off while Rubio was speaking.

- The Daily Beast https://t.co/O8gdnvSvXN.

[Sol @forwardarc]

Why the silence ? Because the victims are not white Christians or Jews?
@AriMelber @Lawrence @AymanM @andersoncooper
@jaketapper @AliciaMenendez @wolfblitzer @chrislhayes @AliVelshi @SRuhle @mitchellreports
@NicolleDWallace @DavidMuir @FareedZakaria @jaketapper @maddow @jrpsaki

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This should be the headline in every major news outlet.

It isn’t because the perpetrator is Israel and the victims are Palestinian.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.

Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul in 2024: "Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel. They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that kill the Palestinians"

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

“I nodded off and was woken by my daughter’s hysterical crying. When I picked her up, I discovered rats had gnawed at her foot while she slept. I was so afraid, I felt my soul leave my body. I started screaming and crying, grabbed her and ran together with my husband between medical service points to find medicine or disinfectants against infection and poisoning. But the military doesn’t even allow medicine and disinfectants into Gaza.”

Rana Qarmut, 22, describes the helplessness of parents in displacement camps trying to protect their children from the rodent infestation in Gaza.

Israel’s systematic destruction of the water and sewage infrastructure have turned these camps into a public health crisis: the extreme levels of garbage and open sewage flowing between the tents are an ideal breeding ground for rodents and pests.

According to Save the Children figures from April 2026, the tents in more than 80% of displacement camps have rats, fleas and ticks inside regularly. As summer temperatures rise, the combination of pollution, unhygienic conditions and a shattered healthcare system is leading to the spread of severe skin and intestinal diseases, and turning simple injuries into life-threatening conditions.

By blocking the entry of basic necessities for survival, including medicines and pesticides, Israel is perpetuating an environment in Gaza that is unfit for human habitation, deliberately leaving millions of displaced people exposed to epidemics.

The genocide in Gaza continues.

To read the full testimonies >> https://t.co/Uw8zS8TPqZ

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump just repeated his lie that China only builds windmills to export them to "stupid people from the United States, the suckers."

Reality: China has installed by far the most wind turbines of any country and is installing more of them far faster than any other country.

[Sol @forwardarc]

@Berlidge @AlanRMacLeod Exactly! That is a bigger travesty.

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

It is a travesty that Israel is permitted to play in international sport.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel yesterday kidnapped four women. Two are footballers in the Palestinian National Team.

Their names are: Natali Abu Dia and Rand Halwani.

Is it normal to kidnap footballers, @FIFAcom? Where are sports media organisations? This story should be the headline everywhere.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[ProPublica @propublica]

Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections.

Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.
https://t.co/OtJZwaFnKX

[Sol @forwardarc]

US taxpayer dollars at work 🥲😡

@SenSchumer @ChrisCoons @gillibrandny
@SenJackyRosen @SenFettermanPA @SenCortezMasto
@SenBlumenthal

[Sol @forwardarc]

US taxpayer dollars at work 🥲😡

@CoryBooker @SenBlumenthal @ChrisCoons
@RonWyden @CortezMasto @SenGillibrand
@AlexPadilla4CA @ossoff @SenWhitehouse
@SenAdamSchiff @ChrisVanHollen

[Sol @forwardarc]

US taxpayer dollars at work 🥲😡

@SenSchumer @ChrisCoons @gillibrandny
@SenJackyRosen @SenFettermanPA @SenCortezMasto
@SenBlumenthal

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis commit another horrific crime in Gaza, killing 9 civilians including children, bombing an apartment engulfing people in flames