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spoonie trying her/their best

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal

They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he was arrested https://t.co/RYD9y6rp7h

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Gaza today, 2026.

[ellie @mayorburnout]

@politico this is a preposterous headline!!!

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

McCarthyism is back:

The US State Department just published an insane, McCarthyite report that maliciously portrays leading left-wing groups in the US as supposed "front groups" for Cuba.

This is part of an authoritarian attempt, led by Marco Rubio, to criminalize and persecute leftist groups that oppose the US empire's crimes at home and around the world.

Some of the organizations being targeted in this fascistic crackdown are CODEPINK, the People's Forum, DSA, Black Alliance for Peace, the National Lawyers Guild, and Pastors for Peace.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨We are deeply alarmed by the reports that there is an imminent threat to Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya’s life as a result of torture and other ill treatment he has been suffering while in Israeli custody. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya. Pending his release, we call on the Israeli Prison service to ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/vaPOQtMRC4

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya refused to abandon his patients in Gaza. He buried his own son in the hospital courtyard after he was killed by an Israeli drone that struck the entrance of Kamal Adwan Hospital. He kept the hospital running through Israel’s brutal 85-day siege, and didn’t stop fighting for his patients even when the Israeli military raided the hospital and kidnapped dozens of hospital workers. For that, the Israeli military kidnapped him a year and a half ago, and now he's been beaten, starved, thrown in solitary, and is in critical condition — all for trying to save Palestinian lives.

In his last meeting with his lawyer, Dr. Abu Safiya said “They brought me here to kill me.” Dr. Abu Safiya must be released immediately, along with the thousands of Palestinians the Israeli government is holding without charge or trial, who are now at risk after the Knesset passed a law that allows the death penalty for Palestinians.

Kidnapping one of Gaza's few remaining doctors while bombing its hospitals and killing over 1700 health care workers is yet another facet of Israel’s genocide — and it is being carried out with American weapons, paid for with our tax dollars. Palestinians have survived three years plus a century of ethnic cleansing, genocide and aparthied. Enough is enough.

In Congress, I will fight tooth and nail to cut off the endless flow of weapons and American taxpayer dollars to Israel as it violates countless international laws and indiscriminately bombs civilians across multiple countries at once.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

The people of Gaza deserve to return to their stolen homes inside what is now Israel. Because Israel won't allow that, UNRWA has helped keep Palestinians alive in Gaza, all while protecting their status as refugees. This declaration from the "Board of Peace" continues a joint US-Israeli campaign to strip Palestinians of their refugee status, and their right to live in peace and freedom.

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

As students worldwide celebrate their graduations, my cousin's son Qasem Nassar is still being held in Israeli torture dungeons. He was kidnapped at the beginning of the year while he was in grade 12. Qasem recently became 18 and was moved to an adult prison...

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

"The hardest part about being in prison during a heat wave is like any other time: We completely lack control of our surroundings. We can make no attempt at comfort and we have no outlet to voice concern."

What summer heat means for people behind bars:

https://t.co/z321ncUtqn

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

A new Palestinian Feminist Collective report concludes that sexualized violence, including rape and sexual enslavement, has been used by Zionist militias and later the Israeli state as a deliberate tool of displacement, domination, torture, and control—from the Nakba to the present. The report demonstrates that the sexual humiliation, torture, rape, blackmail, and targeting of Palestinians since October 2023 are not aberrations but the continuation of a longstanding, institutionalized architecture of settler colonial violence.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The CPJ decision to functionally change the definition of journalist - while our news industry in the U.S. is filled with former IDF soldiers covering the occupation & genocide they helped build and justify, including Barak Ravid who was in the IDF reserves until March 2023 - is not only indicative of the racism under which the entire western journalism order functions but also of the extent of the complicity of this industry in the slaughter of Palestinian journalists.

A dark, shameful day and proof that no, things are not getting “better” - the whole project is to erase and minimize these crimes until everyone forgets and moves on.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“It was clear that the Shiite villages along the contact line had to disappear”

Israeli officials openly talk about ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon while Israel’s defenders deny it.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴Lebanese Ministry of Public Health:
4,175 civilians killed and 12,164 wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

A reminder, this #Juneteenth: The criminal legal system controls more than 5.5 million people.

Incarceration is just one piece of the puzzle – there are millions of people who are left stripped of complete freedom even after release.

[Alice Rothchild, MD @AliceRothchild]

"Israeli minister confirms goal of large-scale expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza", Emma Graham-Harrison: Israel’s defense minister has said he is committed to Gaza's ethnic cleansing through large-scale migration of Palestinians, part of Israel’s plans. https://t.co/P9yTYRnS97

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says: "We're gonna label terrorists as terrorists, whether it's cartels, whether it's jihadis, or whether it's sadly the le — the Americans who are left wing, who are radical, and because they subscribe to some anarchic, anti-fascist, or radically pro-transgender ideology"

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

This photo from @ForensicArchi showing Israel building a new military base over the ruins of Khan Younis is like nothing I’ve ever seen