Imane Saliba

Daughter, sister, and mama to our dog Darwish for almost
5 years. A progressive and always Free Palestine
🇵🇸

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The quote of the century.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

What we call peace must be measured by what people experience, not by what leaders announce.

The deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza this weekend killed Palestinians, including children, even as efforts toward a ceasefire were being announced. Their lives cannot be reduced to collateral damage or treated as an acceptable cost of negotiations.

Nonviolence requires more than words. It requires the protection of human life, accountability for harm, adherence to ceasefire commitments, and the courage to stop the violence.

I am calling for an end to the strikes, protection for civilians, and a just peace rooted in the equal dignity and value of every human life.

We cannot create the Beloved Community while people continue to be killed.

#Gaza #CeasefireNow #Nonviolence365 #HumanDignity #BelovedCommunity

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day, August 4, 1882, Anna Murray Douglass, the beloved wife of Frederick Douglass, passed away after 44 years of marriage. While history has rightly celebrated Frederick Douglass as one of the greatest abolitionists and orators in American history, the remarkable woman who stood beside him is too often overlooked. Without Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick's story may have unfolded very differently.

Anna was born free in Maryland around 1813, despite living in a slave state. She worked as a domestic servant and laundress, saving every dollar she could. When Frederick Bailey, still enslaved at the time, decided to escape to freedom, it was Anna who made that dream possible. She provided him with money, helped him purchase a sailor's uniform, and supported the carefully planned escape that allowed him to travel north disguised as a free Black sailor.

Just days after Frederick reached New York in 1838, the two were married. Together they settled in Massachusetts, where Frederick adopted the surname Douglass. As he rose to national prominence as an abolitionist, writer, newspaper publisher, and statesman, Anna quietly managed the home and cared for their five children. She also welcomed countless freedom seekers, activists, and visitors into their household, turning their home into a place of refuge and organizing during one of the most important movements in American history.

Although Anna could not read or write because educational opportunities for Black women were severely limited during her youth, she deeply valued education and made sure her children received the opportunities she never had. Her intelligence, resourcefulness, and determination were evident in the way she managed the family's finances and kept their household running while Frederick often traveled across the United States and Europe speaking against slavery.

The Douglass home also became an important stop on the Underground Railroad, where Anna played a critical role in feeding, clothing, and sheltering people escaping slavery. Her contributions rarely appeared in newspapers or speeches, yet they were essential to the abolitionist movement's success.

Anna Murray Douglass passed away on August 4, 1882, after 44 years of marriage. Frederick was devastated by her death, later acknowledging the sacrifices she had made throughout their life together. Although she lived largely outside the public spotlight, her influence reached far beyond the walls of her home.

If you love our content and would like to support the page, you can buy us a coffee here: https://t.co/K1AhtZuOFs or tap Link in Bio

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.”

—James Baldwin

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Oligarchs are getting nervous.

AIPAC and other billionaire-funded super PACs have already spent almost $50 million in Michigan to try and defeat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

They have the money. We have the people.

Fight back. Let’s support Abdul.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Overnight, panels telling the stories of the nine people enslaved at Philadelphia's President's House were removed and replaced with exhibits focused on broader history. We cannot erase the truth. Every chapter of our history must be preserved and told to the public because a nation that hides its past will never fully confront the injustices that still shape its present.

[Khalil Sayegh @KhalilJeries]

The situation in Gaza is extremely dire. Israel continues to slaughter Palestinians despite the so-called “ceasefire,” today bombing a funeral and killing over eight people.

My mom, who survived the genocide and witnessed the killing of my dad and little sister, told me that while she was in Cairo, she couldn't sleep. She was consumed by fear and anxiety for my older sister and her children.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

This statement from Liam Cunningham depicts the real conditions in Gaza.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

July 4, 1776, and June 19, 1865, tell two very different stories about freedom in America.

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, announcing that the thirteen American colonies were separating from British rule. The document included powerful words about liberty and equality, but at the same time, hundreds of thousands of African people remained enslaved across the colonies. For enslaved Black people, independence did not mean freedom.

Many enslaved men, women, and children continued working on plantations, farms, and households while the new nation debated the meaning of the very freedom it had declared. Their labor helped build the economic foundation of the United States, yet their own rights were denied.

For generations, enslaved people resisted in many ways. Some escaped, some created secret networks of communication, some preserved African traditions, and others fought through legal challenges, writings, and activism. Free Black communities and abolitionists also pushed the nation to confront the contradiction between its ideals and the reality of slavery.

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863, declaring enslaved people in Confederate controlled areas to be free. However, freedom did not immediately reach everyone.

In Texas, one of the most remote Confederate states, many enslaved people remained unaware of their freedom or were prevented from exercising it.

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, informing the remaining enslaved people there that they were free.

That day became known as Juneteenth.

The journey from 1776 to 1865 represents nearly 90 years between the promise of independence and the legal end of slavery in the United States. Even after emancipation, Black Americans continued fighting through Reconstruction, segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement to secure the freedoms promised generations earlier.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The Presbyterian Church (USA) voted 454–15 to recognize Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, divest from Palantir and GE Aerospace, lobby Congress for an arms embargo, and boycott certain products. They also say that criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic.

They're the first major Christian denomination in the USA to formally label Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

This is a huge development and a critical escalation in how mainstream US religious institutions perceive Israel, so where's the news coverage? It happened last week, and I've barely seen anything about it in US mainstream media.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

There are many shocking provisions in the scandalous “agreement” signed by Lebanon and the Israeli regime, but none more shocking than point 13 whereby Lebanon purports to give up its international legal claims against the Israeli occupation. But a news flash for the US-Israel Axis: Article 47 of the 4th Geneva Convention explicitly states that protected persons in occupied territories cannot be deprived of the benefits of the Convention“by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power." The rights and protections guaranteed under IHL
cannot legally be signed away or contractually waived, not by Lebanese officials, not by the occupying Israeli regime, and not by its complicit US ally. Point 13 is null and void as a matter of law, and the other provisions of this absurd surrender deal will eventually follow it into the trash bin of history.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Some of my oldest friends—the people I grew up with here in the U.S.—traveled to Seattle to watch the Iran–Egypt World Cup match tonight. As they were walking with their families—their parents and their children, three generations of Iranian Americans—they were aggressively harassed by a group of Iranian monarchists, leaving my 10-year-old niece in tears. A child.

My other niece was spat at after attending the LA match on Father’s Day with her dad.

Every day, these people show their true faces. Scaring children and intimidating families has nothing to do with democracy, freedom or human rights, in fact, it is the opposite. It’s clear why they align with Israel so closely, no one else has more expertise in terrorizing children.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant

All children born in the penitentiary became property of the state

At 10 years they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white kids #BlackHistoryMonth

THREAD

[Najah Wakim @NajahWakim]

البيان الوسخ الصادر عن وزراء خارجية مجلس التعاون الخليجي.
للأخوة الإيرانيين ، الذين يسعون إلى أفضل العلاقات مع جيرانهم الخليجيين: لا تجربوهم.
هؤلاء سفلة.
راجعوا تاريخهم وما فعلوه بجمال عبد الناصر خدمة للإستعمار وإس��ائيل.
هؤلاء لا يمكن مخاطبتهم إلا بالجزمة.
نصيحة.

[Hasan illaik @Hasanillaik]

انتصار الدم على السيف هو انتصار الإنسان الحي على الإماتة، ولو كان رأسه مرفوعاً على أسنّة الرماح.
عاشوراء، هي انتصار فكرة النور على جيوش الظلام، ولو ملأت تلك الجيوش الأرض.
عاشوراء هي "مثلي لا يبايع مثله"،
وعاشوراء هي هي: "أوَلسنا على الحق؟ إذاً لا نبالي".
وماذا بعد؟ ليس بعدها سوى التي سئلت عن "فِعلِ الله" بأخيها، فأجابت بشموخ وإباء: "ما رأيتُ إلا جميلا".

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.

His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago.

He never minced words, and he knew which side he was on.

[Cesar Naim Maalouf @MaaloufCesar]

هل يُعقل أن وزارة التربية في لبنان وصلت إلى هذا المستوى اللامسؤول واللإنساني؟
اين مجلس الوزراء من تصرفات وزيرة التربية؟
كأنها تعيش في عالم آخر، ولا تدرك مدى المخاطر، التي مرّ ولا يزال طلاب لبنان بها.
لقد اقدمت فرنسا على الغاء الامتحانات الرسمية لشهادة البكالوريا الفرنسية في كل المنطقة، ومن ضمنها لبنان، بسبب الحروب ��تداعياتها.
لكن وزيرة التربية في لبنان مصرّة على مسارها، وتكبّرها، وفوقيتها..وتهدد بالاستقالة..
فلتستقل، افضل للبنان وطلابه وجسمه التربوي.
فلتستقل اليوم قبل الغد.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

I'm an antiwar socialist running for Congress.

My main opponent, 29-year incumbent Democrat Adam Smith, just voted NO on a resolution that would have forced U.S. troops out of Lebanon in seven days.

Smith was one of 117 Democrats who voted NO.

Adam Smith needs to be thrown out of office. Electing another Democrat is a failed strategy for the antiwar movement. Join my independent revolutionary socialist campaign.

https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7