Will Parrish

Journalist living in Awaswas Ohlone land (Santa Cruz, CA). Bylines in @theintercept, @guardian, @natcounterpunch. History of Consciousness grad student @ucsc.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most horrific scenes in human history has been revealed.

A video shows people trying to rescue an injured person and carry him to the hospital; Israel bombed them all and killed them with a missile.

A video the world must never forget.

[Plant trees•destroy lawns•decommodify food @FoodForestNetwk]

Before the near-total eradication of the American Chestnut, some preachers in Appalachia railed against the tree as being uniquely "sinful" because it encouraged sloth; the free & easy abundance of the nuts meant that many chose to stop working for wages during chestnut season.

[db @dbessner]

@nikhil_palsingh @samuelmoyn Well Bush created the institutions. DHS, ICE, the militarization of the police got going under him in a serious way. Tough to judge “worst” rn but Bush was more transformative—Trump is basically making use of all of Bush’s innovations, not only institutional but ideological/legal

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest serving political prisoners in the U.S. https://t.co/PtYPXvGUA2

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

Partner organizations lost funding. We stepped in. Our translators show up wherever migrants need us, at the border, ICE raids, community clinics. Translation requests up 70% this year, all provided for free. Support this crucial justice work. #SupportRespond #LanguageJustice

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

It is night again.
That means the drones are back. The sound is not a sound anymore. It is a presence, like madness humming above your head.
I am writing by the glow of my phone. My hands stink of antiseptic, salt, and something I do not name.

There are no hospitals left in the north. No wards. No beds. Not even walls. Only this place we call a clinic: a half-body, half-ghost of medicine, clinging to life like those who enter it.
And they come. They walk, some for more than thirty minutes through rubble, silence, and smoke, just for a strip of gauze, a word, a chance.
They do not come seeking healing.
They come because there is nowhere else left to bleed.

Today, a woman came. Thirty-seven years old, though she moved like she had already died twice.
Her hands, God forgive me, looked like they had been through a furnace. Cracked. Bleeding.
Eczema? Yes, eczema, I said like a fool.
But what is eczema when the sea has become your kitchen sink?

She told me she washes her clothes and dishes with seawater. And toothpaste.
No, not metaphor. Not poetry. Toothpaste. Because soap costs more than life here.
Because she lives in a tent pitched between death and the next missile.

I told her I would give her cream. I said it softly, like a lie you whisper to a child.
I wanted to scream. I wanted to grab her shoulders and cry out,
"You deserve a home. You deserve a sink. You deserve clean hands."
But my own hands are not clean.
I did not scream.
I handed her the cream and looked away.

I am no longer a doctor. I am a witness.
To the slow murder of dignity.
To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.

How do you treat a body when the soul is the one bleeding?

The sea should cleanse. But here, it corrodes.
Even the sea is tired of mercy.

And God?
He must be weeping, like the rest of us.

Tonight, I will lie and imagine a world where I do not have to apologize to every patient for being human.
I will imagine a world where handing someone cream is not an act of humiliation.
But I will not sleep.
No one here really sleeps.

We only close our eyes and wait for the next scream.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

@IsraeliPM This is what you and your terror forces did to Indonesian Hospital in Gaza in 11/23

You set it on fire, tortured its staff, and left corpses everywhere

Then you proceeded to destroy most other hospitals in Gaza - with precision

[🌐geopolitics in the picture @geogeolite]

"Even the birds have had enough"

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Spot the difference.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

When he’s right, he’s right

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

Leonard Peltier is granted clemency! He’s out of prison and commuted to home confinement. This is a huge win for grassroots Indigenous movements who kept his campaign alive and a moral indictment on the system and people who kept him unjustly imprisoned for half a century.

[NDN Collective @ndncollective]

🚨BREAKING🚨 

Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency

After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🧵THREAD:

61-year-old Khalida Jarrar is the highest-profile Palestinian captive to be freed as part of the ceasefire deal on Sunday.

An activist and lawmaker in the Palestinian Legislative Council for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Jarrar has spent more than six years in prison over the course of five separate imprisonments in the past decade, most of which were under administrative detention without charge.

For the last six months, she endured solitary confinement in a 2-by-1.5-meter cell. ⤵️

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

Over 467 days Israel killed 16% of Gaza's population.

[Tamara Nassar @TamaraINassar]

No clearer image of Israel's defeat than Palestinians standing atop its destroyed armored vehicles in Gaza.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Electronic Intifada is the best platform that has covered the genocide.

No one comes close to them.

The work they have done is extraordinary. Everyone there must be acclaimed and eulogised.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

“The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.”

- Bertolt Brecht

[The BREAK–DOWN @break_downradio]

"Unlike a workplace, nature cannot simply be seized by its employees & run under democratic self-management ... it is not just another factor of production ... it is the condition & limit of our existence."

Read Jacob Blumenfeld on socialising nature 👇

https://t.co/p9b1qYRP1k

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

We're milliseconds from midnight...

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly