Dr Jonathan Cohn

Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics & Astronomy at Dartmouth | any pronouns | queer, agender, genderfluid | anti-Zionist, atheist Jew | views my own

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

I returned to Turmus’ayya, the scene of the brutal olive harvest attack I documented in October, and found that the settlers now owned the fields and had pushed the battle lines into the village itself. Pt 1 of 5:

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

🚨Israeli occupation forces raided areas of Gaza City, Khan Younis and Jabalia tonight..
They moved the Yellow Line forward, squeezing 2.4 million Gazans into a more narrow strip.
In clear violation of the ceasefire, last week, Netanyahu’s aided declared the Israeli occupation forces would expand their occupation up to 70% of Gaza’s area..

[Taniel @Taniel]

.@syracusedotcom reports two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday to demand that she take down an Insta post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). https://t.co/WIB1hbqx5W

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

Released Palestinian detainees have shared alarming testimonies about the treatment of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya in Israeli custody

In the thread is part of what they described 🧵

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

The 1st Amendment prohibits the govt, including judges, from punishing - or, in this case, levying additional punishment on - people because of their ideological positions. Seems like obvious grounds for appealing the sentences.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

[Andrea R. Flores @Arosaflores]

This decision could impact 1.3 million people on TPS, some who have been here since the early 90s. This is a devastating loss for millions of American families, and countless employers will soon be losing workers. This is the biggest de-legalization moment in modern history.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria. https://t.co/Tp3zRU7h1O

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

A group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail on Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused them of being an "antifa terror cell."

The activists attended a protest and noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. All nine defendants were found guilty after being tried before a federal judge in Texas.

The maximum sentences prosecutors sought in the case stand in stark contrast to the treatment of January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrectionists, says Sufia Khalid, who represented one of the defendants, Maricela Rueda.

Rueda has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for attending the demonstration, while "the average sentence in the Capitol riots, which had far more serious conduct than the Prairieland Nine defendants, was 26 months."

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

horrifying weaponization of the criminal legal system – nobody died, all guns owned legally & only 1 of the 9 defendants fired a weapon, 3 weren't involved in planning & left when guards told them to. One didn't even attend, got 30 years for moving zines.
https://t.co/SFV3Hfip3m

[Dre Guevara @skiidmarxx]

@DFWSupCommittee Bro got 30 years for being part of a book club and handing out pamphlets. Welcome to fascism everyone, don’t forget to look out for each other

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, known as Lumumba Vea, gained fame during the Africa Cup of Nations for posing as a statue of Congo’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba for the entirety of games

Lumumba was an activist who helped to end Belgium’s colonial rule over Congo in 1960. He became the newly independent country’s first prime minister and was seen as one of Africa’s most promising leaders, but he was assassinated within a year during a struggle against a Belgian-backed secessionist movement in the mineral-rich Katanga region.

A Belgian court in March ordered a 93-year-old former diplomat to stand trial for the slaying. Etienne Davignon, who previously denied wrongdoing, is the last living among 10 Belgians suspected of involvement in the killing and has been charged with “participation in war crimes” for his role in the “unlawful detention and transfer” of Lumumba.

Find out about Lumumba Vea's appearance at the World Cup ⤵️
https://t.co/RcwIU6OcYV

[Zito @_Zeets]

Love to see people here reject the idea that we must hate and fear our neighbors and that the only way to prosper is separately while depriving others of that same possibility. It’s a bleak and weak vision of the world and a future that would only make things worse for everyone.

[Zito @_Zeets]

This is insane

https://t.co/4x1K4GZcZu

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children https://t.co/GFVOhORkzk

[Jim Mustian @JimMustian]

NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions

“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP

“We 100% got people killed”

w/ @APjoshgoodman

https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

An update: the motion of the Swarthmore 9 to have their case dismissed has failed. They are now moving to trial which could lead to upwards of a year in prison for each defendant for nothing more than refusing to leave their Palestine encampment at Swarthmore College.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed journalist and cameraman Ahmad Samir Washah in an airstrike on Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian media reports.

Washah worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher. His brother, journalist Mohammed Samir Washah, was killed by an Israeli drone strike on his car on April 8.

The two brothers were killed 73 days apart.

[Nada Maucourant Atallah @MaucourantNada]

Very sad to learn that Mona Khalil died after weeks in the ICU following an Israeli strike that levelled her home in Mansouri. She was a very well-known environmental activist and dedicated her life to saving endangered turtles. She stayed in the south despite Israeli strikes because of her love for the land.

She was a civilian, a renowned figure but Israel targeted her house.

CNN profiled her in 2017 here: https://t.co/ZaMRnuS4zf

“I live every day to the fullest and don’t worry about tomorrow,” she told the newspaper.