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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So too Mamdani strategist @katz_morris did a great job of dealing with Dana Bash’s awful and biased questions in CNN, and of course Morris is Jewish so hard for Bash to do the ‘Mamdani is antisemitic’ nonsense with him.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

I say this with no ill will and *some* animosity. I am a Democrat. I earned the nomination to be the person facing the Republican incumbent in Texas House District 132.

Over the last 18 months, I’ve built my own team using my OWN resources and collectively we have knocked on over 40,000 doors in that time.

Unless something crazy happens in the next 6 days, I will file a TEC report that shows that my campaign has ~$2,500 COH.

So when you say “Don't use our resources.” Literally what resources?

“Don't rely on our volunteers.” I’m sorry, WHOSE volunteers? Because you do not own volunteers.

“Don't use our infrastructure.” WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE? Because I am out here on an island in west Harris County and I may not even be able to afford yard signs ffs.

And last but not least: “Don't ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.”

Heard.

Loud and clear.

I won’t ask for anything.

I started this campaign knowing that this was a long shot. I had no money, no political experience or connections, and just a burning desire to just give something BETTER to my hometown than what they have now. And every part of my being is committed to achieving that goal.

And Jamie, I promise that I won’t use “your” resources to win.

God I hate politics.

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

If you sign up to watch the World Cup on the National Mall, your email and phone number are collected by Brad Parscale, who is carrying out a $46 million contract with the Israeli government

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Tell em Senator!

[Truthout @truthout]

Prairieland protesters received 30–100 year terrorism sentences, far exceeding penalties given to the 1,500 individuals charged in the January 6 riot, highlighting a stark disparity in how similar cases are punished.

https://t.co/Nhc1RSl6fm

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything he does, but he was literally handed a bipartisan housing bill that would lower costs on a silver platter. It was such an easy win for him at a time when he’s so unpopular because of his cover-up of the Epstein files and this illegal war he screwed up. He could’ve said, “I did this big housing bill,” and because he is so committed to rigging the election, he chose to blow it all up. Their party is a mess. Trump is a joke.

[Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilAU]

Overnight, the United Nations has released another report confirming that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza.

Read our full statement calling for Australia to impose country-level sanctions on Israel at:

https://t.co/saqtpFtwgD

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Mahmoud Khalil’s ICE detention became a defining issue in the NY-13 race after pro-Palestine challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier highlighted that Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Khalil’s congressmember, did not publicly defend him or meet with his family during his detention. Tonight, @ryangrim caught up with @mahmoudkhalel at Chevalier’s election night watch/victory party in New York City.

[NYC Water @NYCWater]

Apparently, it's the perfect day for a trip to #ConeyIsland for this pod of dolphins spotted by our Marine Unit. They must have heard that our harbor is the cleanest it's been in over 150 years!🐬

[M Joyce @MJoyce2625]

@MalloryMcMorrow https://t.co/c2jX13n0VM

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Does Donald Trump get to keep this Qatari jet after the presidency?

Raskin: No, he does not. You know why? Because the Constitution says he can’t do it.

Because the Constitution says that the president may not receive a present, an emolument—which means a payment, an office or title of any kind—from a king, a prince, or a foreign state without the consent of Congress.

And Congress has not consented to him keeping a $400 million jet. So it’s got to be turned over immediately to Congress for disposition.

We can either send it back to the people in Qatar, or we can keep it and do something different with it. But it doesn’t belong to the president.

You know, Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the Civil War, wanted to keep some elephant tusks he’d gotten from the King of Siam. He never kept a present before. He wrote a letter to Congress. He said, “Can I keep this?” And Congress said, you know, you’re doing a great job, Honest Abe, and we love you, but no, you can’t keep it. Turn it over to the Department of State. That’s the right way to do it.

Every other president has come to Congress to ask whether they can keep one of these foreign gifts from a government, king, or prince. President Trump should be no different. He’s got to come to us too. And if not, we’ll just have to requisition it and confiscate it.

[Eh, what’s up Doc  @rabbitSZN2]

Who saw this a while back and just KNEW this was not gonna end well?

Trump made his motorcade drive down the reflecting pool before it was sealed.

The contractor didn’t clean up the motor oil and tire dust, they just painted right over it.

The paint failed exactly as predicted.

By June, massive gashes of blue lining were peeling off in the exact shape of the motorcade’s path. The oil trapped underneath stopped the paint from sticking.

Surface prep 101.

Six innocent people arrested.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Completely fucking unreal. 30 years for engaging in protected 1st amendment activity. Ghislaine Maxwell got 20!

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el partido de esta noche entre Congo y Colombia en el Mundial, un hombre congoleño se quedó inmóvil durante los 90 minutos imitando el saludo del líder anticolonial congoleño, Patrice Lumumba.

Lumumba fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por EEUU y Bélgica en 1961 por conseguir la independencia del Congo ante el colonialismo y negarse a que los imperialistas siguieran saqueando los recursos de su pais.

Aunque los imperialistas disolvieron su cuerpo, no pudieron borrarlo de la historia, 65 años después, Lumumba sigue presente para millones de personas.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

“I have real bad nose bleeds, I’ve been throwing up blood. And they know about this. It’s a cover-up!”

Supporters rallied outside Michigan’s only women’s prison to demand the release of Krystal Clark, a 41-year-old Detroit woman who says exposure to black mold inside Woman’s Huron Valley is causing her severe health problems including breathing difficulties, facial swelling, and neurological complications.

Community groups, clergy members, activists and state lawmakers have called on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to grant Clark medical clemency, while human rights advocates are calling for Women’s Huron Valley to be closed and for its director to quit amidst widespread allegations of unchecked black mold growth, inadequate medical care, and multiple recent inmate deaths.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

More than 100 former judges have filed an ethics complaint against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging he has used the Justice Department to advance Donald Trump’s personal and political interests.

This is not a routine bar complaint.

Read more here: https://t.co/NaZ8Ga3N0F

[UAW @UAW]

Congratulations to our own UAW member and leader, @claireforny, on winning her campaign for Congress! When we run working-class champions, we win.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Adriano Espaillat tried to get Darializa Avila Chevalier removed from the ballot before the election, despite the fact that she turned in 5 times the number of signatures required. He lost to her anyway.

Democrats do this ALL THE TIME - resorting to dirty tricks to prevent leftists from running against establishment picks.
https://t.co/Au08HSyzWQ

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“The occupation is man made and we can end occupation and we can achieve peace.” Israeli and Palestinian peace activists @AlonLeeGreen and @DaoodRula tell me why they’ve chosen to step away from grassroots organizing and jump into the race for Knesset.