James Breton 🇵🇸✊🏾

6th Yr Chem PhD @YaleChem | Grants Manager @BlackInChem | B.S. & M.S. P-Chem @StonyBrookChem | 👨🏾‍🎨 IG: point6022e24ofinstances

[James Breton 🇵🇸✊🏾 @JamesBreton_]

New Science Goal 🔓:
Keep on Amplifying, Defending and Empowering the Voices of Palestinians and other Oppressed Groups; with the goal to either Shame or Motivate my western scientific colleagues to use their own Voice to fight for intersectional freedom and not just their own 😊

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The last few days have exposed just how much of the left still carries a colonial mindset.

A Palestine flag or a triangle in your bio means very little if your solidarity ends the moment Palestinians or other Indigenous peoples assert the right to define our own values, norms, and future.

Decolonization isn’t just opposition to mass killing. It means Indigenous people reclaiming the right to shape our own society on our own terms, not having Western political, cultural, or social standards imposed on us all over again.

[Yale Chemistry @YaleChem]

Craftsmanship from Chemistry’s Scientific Glassblowing Laboratory was incorporated in the making of a new ceremonial mace for the Yale School of Public Health. The blue globe symbolizes the wet lab work that is core to YSPH’s past and future. https://t.co/M55M3UNlaI

[Tomo @tomoki_chien]

NEW: USC professors voted to unionize, according to a tally last night. The university is appealing the election.

The ~3,000 person unit will be one of the larger unions on campus, and is the first to organize so many faculty.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The U.S. left really does not understand the damage it is doing to the Palestinian liberation struggle.

No serious Palestinian engaged in the struggle for liberation, whether in Palestine or in exile, would ever condemn or denounce the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, apartheid, and genocide by any means necessary.

Yet we are increasingly told that people who do exactly that are part of the movement, and that anyone who challenges them is divisive, unreasonable, or an “op.”

What this actually does is place Palestinians who remain committed to our political principles in the crosshairs of everyone: Zionists, the right wing, the state, and now even sectors of the left. It marginalizes Palestinians, portrays us as extremists for upholding positions that have always been central to our national liberation struggle, and pressures us to abandon our own political consensus in order to accommodate American political sensibilities.

The result is the isolation of Palestinians from our own movement.

And beyond being wrong, it simply does not work. Palestinians have always been told to mute criticism, soften demands, and overlook real political differences with elected officials because doing otherwise might hurt their chances of winning. We are told they secretly agree with us, that they just cannot say it publicly yet, and that once they gain power things will be different.

But the opposite keeps happening. Politicians benefit from the energy and legitimacy of the Palestine movement, then distance themselves from it once they are in office. Palestinians are expected to accept that distance, accept new compromises, and accept the constant narrowing of our politics, all in the name of pragmatism.

Meanwhile, Zionists are free to pressure those same politicians from the right without restraint, while Palestinians are told that applying pressure from our own political position is unacceptable.

If our support is always conditional on staying quiet, abandoning our principles, and never criticizing elected officials, then what is being asked of us is political obedience, and that has never advanced Palestinian liberation.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Love to see it. Death to data centers, long live the popular revolt

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

We can make the backlash worse if we try hard enough 🙏

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

🚨 POLICE HORSES & FLASH-BANGS 🚨

On Day 8 of the Delaney Hall hunger/labor strike, chaos erupts outside the Newark ICE prison as a police horse comes dangerously close to @JordanChariton and @JonFarinaPhoto -- then a flash bang is deployed right next to them moments later.

The hunger strike may be waning, but the labor strike inside is still going strong.

This is what ON-THE-GROUND reporting looks like.

WATCH LIVE ⬇️

[BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸🔻⛓️‍💥 @OGBlackRedGuard]

the Left needs to be louder about Black people being found lynched in the South as opposed to all the other dumb shit y’all be tripping off of tbh. like they finding mfs literally hanging from trees like back in the day.

[VPol @VocalPolitics1]

Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzedine used her Class Day speech to foreground the realities facing Lebanese and Palestinian medical students under the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza and war of aggression on Lebanon.

￭ She contrasted her own trajectory with peers in Lebanon and Palestine studying under bombardment, where universities and hospitals have been destroyed.

￭ “There are medical students in Lebanon and Palestine who also dare to imagine a future in medicine,” she said, noting they work amid Israeli attacks, the constant buzz of IOF drones, and collapsing infrastructure.

￭ Ezzedine criticized institutional silence in the US, stating that discussions on medical ethics and dehumanization were undermined as the Gaza genocide unfolded with financial and political backing from US institutions.

[zellie @zellieimani]

Tonight. Outside of Delaney Hall. Me and other protestors were tear gassed and shot at with rubber bullets by the state police. Not ICE.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Students from the Colin Powell School at City College of New York heckled Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the former US ambassador to the UN during the Biden administration, at their graduation ceremony on Thursday

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

My friend from Gaza has just posted this:

Nine years in Gaza.
Yesterday, as I scrolled through the names of the victims, one stopped me: “Sarah Rajab, 9 years old.”
Sarah was our neighbors' daughter. In the second month of the genocide, she survived an Israeli strike that killed her mother, her grandmother, and both of her siblings. Though injured, Sarah survived. She was left with only her father until he was killed a few months ago.
Today, that entire family is gone.
At just nine years old, Sarah had already been a survivor, a patient, and an orphan. Now, she is dead.

[CUNY Law SJP @cunylsjp]

three years ago, @CUNY removed our student commencement speakers after the profound words of @NerdeenKiswani and @fatima__m7md. its attempt to suppress our students’ unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people and the popular demand for divestment has failed

[CUNY Law SJP @cunylsjp]

WATCH: CUNY Law graduates disrupt commencement, calling out CUNY’s complicity in genocide and colonialism to demand divestment from Israel and solidarity with the Palestinian people

[انوس @anoosify]

I screamed this at Mamdani, and I’ll scream this at you, “ISRAEL DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST.” Any person who suggests that it does both spits on the faces of Gazans who lost everything and is not an ally to the Palestinian people.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This’s Cuba and there’s no electricity

The U.S is starving millions of people in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Such threats embody the colonial-era unequal treaties that the post-1945 legal order sought to rectify. To casually normalize this is to abandon the core principle that any agreement reached under the threat of force, and negotiation under duress, is void ab initio.

Under international law—even in its current, fragile/broken state—Iran cannot be bound by terms negotiated under duress and the threat of “full scale military assault.”

The United States has exited the post-1945 order. A new legal order is now being forged. Whether that new order rests on dignity of nations or on the genocidal violence depends entirely on which side prevails.

[Within Our Lifetime @WOLPalestine]

🇵🇸1 DAY LEFT: NAKBA 78 NYC PROTEST 🗝️
🚨 ALL OUT FOR GAZA & PALESTINE
🗓️ FRIDAY MAY 15TH
⏰ 4:30PM
📍 WASHINGTON SQ PARK NYC

78 years of Nakba.
78 years of genocide.
78 years of resistance.

On Nakba Day, we join Palestinians worldwide in honoring our people’s resistance to the zionist entity and its settler colonial project. From 1948 to today, the Nakba has never ended. It continues through genocide in Gaza, attacks in the West Bank, and repression across Palestine.

What we are witnessing is not new, it is the same settler colonial violence carried out by the zionist entity and backed by the US. As Nerdeen Kiswani said: “Palestine is not an anomaly, it is a litmus test, a moral compass, and what is allowed to happen in Gaza will not stop there.”

Tomorrow we flood NYC to demand an end to the siege, blockade, and genocide. No business as usual while our people are massacred.

We won’t stop until Palestine is free within our lifetime. 🇵🇸

For updates:
X: @wolpalestine
Telegram: https://t.co/EiiE4TgmxM

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

About the people on streets in Iran, I told @PLCROSSTALK of @RT_com that I reject the binary of "pro-regime" vs. "anti-regime". What we are witnessing is more complex. The overwhelming majority of those who gather every night are the working class of Iran—the revolution's original actors—whose bodies and households bear the most immediate weight of the imperial violence of hybrid warfare, sanctions, neoliberal reforms, and war.
Yet, and that is the point that escapes the Western observer entirely, they have not ceded the street to the binary. Instead, they have transformed the streets into a single, unified, and revolutionary site of two simultaneous acts: the defence of the national project of independence against external imperial annihilati; second is the demand that this same state advance, and realize, the original promise of 1979: an anti-imperialist foreign policy, and a domestic political economy oriented toward social justice, redistributive welfare, and the material dignity of the working class.

On negotiations, I argue that this is not a situation where negotiations are determining the dynamics on the ground. The relative containment we are seeing is not the product of a diplomatic breakthrough, but of deterrence. The reason the U.S., despite repeated violations of the ceasefire framework, has not escalated into another large-scale strike yet is because Iran has partially altered the cost–benefit analysis through its capacity to impose costs.

https://t.co/zz4TM2kQqf

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Nakba 78: We shall never forget.

We resist.
We remain.
We shall return.

Channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS pressure to support our struggle to end Israel’s ongoing Nakba, genocide and settler-colonial apartheid.

Read our full statement ➡️ https://t.co/YR1xkuTxzo