Hillary Megan

Conflict, International Law and Human rights researcher, lawyer, and advocate for sport, women & children, refugees, immigrants & Palestine

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

For nearly 3 months, Sama Safi, a 20-year-old US citizen, has suffered in an Israeli military prison. She has a chronic health condition, and doctors warn she may experience irreversible organ damage.

My colleagues and I are demanding that Secretary Rubio secure her release immediately.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Sliman Mansour, the iconic Palestinian artist whose work became a symbol of resistance, has died at age 79. His art preserved Palestinian culture and heritage while documenting decades of struggle, displacement, and perseverance.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Joshua Aviles a sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln who’s finally coming home after 9 months at sea dealing with inhumane conditions found out his beloved father was detained by ICE agents. He has been here 19 years & has no criminal record,& has a valid work permit,SS card & DL.

[CantStopPoppin @CantStopPoppin]

ICE Claims They Are Targeting the Worst of the Worst. The Data Shows ICE Is the Worst of the Worst.

A recent investigation by Spectrum News, building on original research from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, exposes a documented pattern of sexual violence, child predation, and abuse of authority inside the agencies that claim to protect the public.

The August 2026 update of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance’s “Worst of the Worst” report identifies 152 current or former ICE and CBP agents charged with, convicted of, or sentenced for violent or sexual crimes.

Spectrum News independently verified that 39 of the newly added names were formally charged or sentenced. Of those 39, 35 involved crimes against children, including sexual exploitation and child pornography. Across the full dataset of 152:

131 (86.2%) involved sex offenses

85 (55.9%) targeted children

78 (51.3%) were sex offenses against children (the single largest category)

Roughly 90% of the crimes were forms of gender-based violence against women and children

69 cases (45.4%) were directly tied to the agents’ official duties or the access their badges provided

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

When the public made noise for Liam Ramos, the little boy in the bunny hat, ICE let him and his father go.

Now they’ve kidnapped another 5 year old named Liam.

They’re disappearing little kids.

Make noise for every one of them.

Shut Dilley down.

[Fare @farenet]

Palestine 🇵🇸

Palestine's football association has announced the return of club football from 4 September, naming its first tournament the 'Thousand Martyrs' Cup' in honour of 1,014 Palestinian athletes killed during Israel's war on Gaza.
https://t.co/Y5YRIzDJMv

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: The Israeli army has declared the Christian village of Taybeh—the last entirely Christian village in the occupied West Bank—a closed military zone, prohibiting Israelis, foreign nationals, and journalists from entering.

In practice, this means international activists, human rights observers, and journalists will no longer be able to enter the village to document or respond to the daily attacks by Israeli settler terrorists.

This is a deeply alarming new measure and another step by the Israeli government and army toward the ethnic cleansing of the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank. They want to do it in silence—without witnesses, without journalists, and without the world noticing.

Instead of arresting the settler terrorists responsible for these attacks, the authorities are banning the journalists and activists who document them from entering the village.

If this continues, the survival of the last entirely Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank is at serious risk.

Take action: https://t.co/tOCw1yfZE0

[Craig Foster @Craig_Foster]

‘A return to the pitch and proof that despite exile, separation from their families and years of uncertainty, Afghanistan's women footballers refused to disappear.’

Exactly.

Congratulations to them all. https://t.co/dc0byTjZGK

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Trump's Kennedy Center just canceled its free public tours for the first time in 50 years — because an 87-year-old volunteer told the truth about its Trump-era collapse.

An 87-year-old tour guide told the OBVIOUS truth about the Kennedy Center. Donald Trump's response was to punish everyone.

For the first time in five decades, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has paused its beloved free tour program — and the timing makes the reason unmistakable. The move came directly after longtime volunteer Sandy Weiswasser gave a candid interview to the New York Times describing exactly what Trump's takeover has done to America's national theater.

According to the NY Times article she was quoted in, “Once she was among 140 volunteer guides who gave tours in 10 languages to up to 400,000 people a year. Last week on her Monday shift, only five out of more than a dozen tour guides showed up, and only three people took a tour.”

"This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded," the 87-year-old Weiswasser told the Times. "Now it's a black hole."

That's it. That's the offense. An elderly volunteer, describing what she's personally witnessed after decades of service, told a reporter the honest truth. Days later, the Kennedy Center's director of the volunteer program quietly announced a "temporary pause" on tours — the exact outcome three separate volunteers had privately worried about before the memo announcing the pause was even circulated, anticipating retaliation.

Petty vindictiveness is who Trump is. Not content with seizing control of one of America's most beloved cultural institutions, purging its board, and driving away artists who refused to perform under his takeover, he's now apparently willing to punish an entire volunteer program, silencing public access to the building itself, because one honest 87-year-old described what everyone can already see.

And remember, this is the same Kennedy Center Trump previously tried to shut down entirely for two years under the guise of "renovations," after his own name change proposal drove away performers in protest. His name was eventually scraped off the building's wall — and now the facade remains hidden under a massive tarp, a fittingly literal metaphor for an institution being suffocated from within.

America's national theater used to belong to everyone. Now it's become a monument to one man's ego and his intolerance for even the gentlest criticism, even from an 87-year-old grandmother simply telling visitors what she's seen with her own eyes.

Please like and share.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Girls in Palestine find it hard to play football because Israeli soldiers tear gas them during training or arrest them.

You’re welcome.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

In 1918, a Georgia mob lynched a young Black woman for the crime of grieving out loud. Her name was Mary Turner. She was eight months pregnant.

Her husband had just been lynched in a rampage that killed multiple Black men — most with no connection to anything. Mary Turner said, publicly, that her husband was innocent, and that she would seek warrants against the men who murdered him.

For saying that, a mob of hundreds took her to a bridge.

What they did to her and to her unborn child is documented in the NAACP's investigation. We will not print the worst of it here. It stands among the most barbaric acts ever recorded on American soil.

No one was ever arrested. No one was ever charged. Officials knew names. Nothing happened.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! THE CREEPY GOP: A disgusting reminder.

Missouri Republican Mike Moon stood on the Senate floor and defended child marriage. His proof? A 12-year-old who "stayed married." Democrats called it disgusting. Republicans blocked the ban.

Child marriage is now illegal in Missouri—barely, by one vote.

Josh Hawley? Silent, as always. This is your "family values" party, Republicans.

Defending child rape and calling it "consent." Is this who you are?

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

The people of Sudan must not disappear from our conscience because their suffering is not dominating the headlines.

Families are facing hunger, displacement, disease, and the daily terror of war. Children are paying a price no child should ever have to pay.

Compassion must become action. I am praying for the people of Sudan and calling on the global community to protect civilians, expand humanitarian access, and pursue peace with urgency.

Every life is sacred. We cannot create the Beloved Community while looking away.

#Sudan #EveryLifeIsSacred #Nonviolence365 #BelovedCommunity

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

You killed 567 Palestinian football players in the past three years

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

⚽️As the world gears up for the football world cup final, Israel has just killed another Palestinian footballer: 17 year old Fadi al-Naasan was shot during an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in the West Bank. Israel spares no one in its genocidal war on Palestinians.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

🚨 BREAKING: local sources report that the IDF began constructing Kadim settlement near Jenin in the West Bank, and issued demolition orders to nearby Palestinian buildings.

Kadim is the second settlement I talk about in this video, the one on the hill. Just 20 days ago it was still only theoretical.

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Wadim Rosenstein @WadimRosenstein]

🇪🇺 Today, I was elected President of the European Federation of Mixed Martial Arts.

I would like to thank all our member federations for their trust and support. Having been involved in combat sports from a young age, I understand the discipline, commitment and opportunities they can provide. This makes the responsibility of helping to lead the development of MMA in Europe especially meaningful to me.

Our mission is clear: to unite and strengthen MMA across Europe while working tirelessly towards one goal - MMA becoming an Olympic sport.

Following the election, we held the first meeting of EFMMA with representatives from 🇫🇷 France, 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, 🇹🇷 Türkiye, 🇳🇱 the Netherlands and 🇺🇦 Ukraine. This was an important step in defining our priorities and beginning our work together.

We have already secured EUR 1 million in sponsorship dedicated to the development of MMA in Europe. These resources will be invested in strengthening our member federations, organizing premier European championships, supporting athletes and officials, and building one of the strongest continental MMA organisations in the world.

I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Stafford as CEO of EFMMA.

We warmly welcome national MMA federations from across Europe to join our movement and help shape the future of the sport together.

Our official website will be launched shortly, where we will present our vision, priorities, projects and upcoming events.

[Irish Sport for Palestine @Sport4Palestine]

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Israel's murder of the 4 Bakr boys, cousins Ahed (9), Zakaria (10), Mohammed (11) & Ismail Bakr (9) as they played football on a beach in Gaza City. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha. #stopthegame @FAIreland

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Thomas Massie on Trump’s speech to the nation tonight about election fraud:

“We control the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court, so I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the elections!”

This is all a distraction from the fact that our elections actually are rigged, but not in the way Trump or even Democrats ever claim.

Our elections are rigged by corporations and billionaires who buy off and bribe both parties to tilt the economy in their favor, creating an unbalanced society that’s rigged for the rich.

Elections under capitalism are a sham, as they don’t produce democracy for the people. They only produce democracy for the rich.

Elections under capitalism are simply a mechanism of control for the ruling class to keep the masses divided and trapped in the very system that’s rigged against us.