Budman

[Budman @wks4n]

@D_The_Husband Kids are starting so young these days that by the time they’re in high school, they have 9 or 10 yrs of training under their belts. And they learn FAST!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The United Nations has released the first global scientific assessment of artificial intelligence. Its message: that technology is moving faster than anyone's ability to control it.

Al Jazeera’s @elizondogabriel reports from UN headquarters in New York.

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their attack on al-Fashir city between 2024 and 2025, Amnesty International alleges.

https://t.co/UdXJGdrPyL

[Quincy Institute @QuincyInst]

The US is subsidizing Israel's arms industry and Israel is raking in billions from it.

Israel posted a record $19.2 billion in arms exports in 2025, making it one of the world's largest arms exporters. Thanks in large part to American military financing, co-development programs, and U.S. intellectual property that helped build that industry from the ground up.

And Israel's massive weapons footprint is doing more than printing cash. Countries that buy Israeli weapons get locked into long-term contracts that make them less likely to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank. Governments that might otherwise respond to public pressure for sanctions now face the prospect of degrading their own air defenses if they do.

This is precisely what's happening with America's proposed NDAA, which includes a provision that would further integrate Israeli companies into U.S. military supply chains. Netanyahu has personally endorsed it as his "personal plan."

Read the full article from @stavroulapabst at @RStatecraft

https://t.co/ZvsjSbiTnN

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

These are the locations where Israeli forces killed 54 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank in 2025. The geographic dispersal of cases throughout the West Bank makes it clear this these killings were not isolated exceptions, but a systemic matter.

As part of Israel’s onslaught on the Palestinians since October 2023, the killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, and especially children and teenagers, has risen to unprecedented levels. Since October 2023, Israel has killed 242 Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank. Fifteen of them were killed in the first half of 2026 alone, including seven-month-old baby Sam Abu al-Haikal.

This figure is higher than during any comparable period since the occupation began in 1967.

The extensive killing could not occur without the backing and support of Israeli policy makers and public officials.

In early 2025, Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened that if necessary, Israel would operate in the West Bank as it had in Gaza. In November 2023, Finance Minister and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich said there were "two million Nazis" in the West Bank. He later declared that "Funduq, Nablus, and Jenin should look like Jabalya."

Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military's Central Command, recently boasted that the military is killing Palestinians in the West Bank "like we haven't killed since 1967." This past March, after Border Police undercover forces killed four members of the same family – a father, mother, and their two children – in the village of Tammun, MK Yitzhak Kroizer declared from the Knesset podium: "There are no innocent civilians in Jenin. There are no innocent children in Jenin." He added: "I support IDF soldiers in every situation, even if the collateral damage is children or women."

The reality of killing in the West Bank cannot be separated from the killing of more than 21,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Under Israel's apartheid regime, Palestinians remaincompletely defenseless in the face of lethal violence.

For our new report, "Unshielded Childhood" >> https://t.co/9AtP0yrs47

[Budman @wks4n]

@CornelWest Very sorry for your loss.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

This much funk should come with a warning label.

[Budman @wks4n]

@AJewFromJudea @_ZachFoster What exactly is that supposed to prove?

[Budman @wks4n]

@joyjah79 @FoodPleaser That thing was still moo-ing!!

[Budman @wks4n]

@BernardoFariaJJ Probably when the round is done and I hear the person talking with someone else about how they couldn’t escape my side control. Not exactly exciting jiu jitsu, but it works!

[Budman @wks4n]

@joyjah79 Just tell him that people are complaining about the noise. This way it doesn’t make you look overly parental and you can live in your home sans hearing loss!! A win-win!

[Budman @wks4n]

@TrackAIPAC @DrHananAshrawi @Morning_Joe He’s wrong. Yes this is a particularly horrible administration, but they couldn’t get away with it if there was a sizable domestic opposition to these policies. Israeli society has become so radicalized that they support what their govt is doing. Poll after poll shows this.

[Budman @wks4n]

@NickKristof It probably didn’t help that we cut funding for containing infectious diseases overseas.

[Budman @wks4n]

@AssalRad @brucewilson @nytimes @AP @washingtonpost @CNN @SkyNews Major media has been complicit in the genocide. They aren’t going to report stories that confirm a genocide has taken place. It is nonetheless instructive of how little value we place on Palestinian life.

[Budman @wks4n]

@joyjah79 It’s very “groovy!!”

[Budman @wks4n]

@NickKristof He’ll save pigs but let Palestinians and Lebanese die in the hundreds of thousands. What a great leader.

[Dawn Clancy @dawnmclancy]

"The Commission's findings are that Israel targets children to weaken demographic vitality and deny the Palestinian people's right to self-determination," said Muralidhar chair of the COI on the oPt. #Israel #Hamas

He added, "Based on all the evidence gathered, the report makes legal findings and concludes that the Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children and destroyed their childhood. Israeli authorities and the Israeli security forces are responsible for crimes against humanity, including persecution and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Muralidhar also said that "Hamas has repeatedly committed grave abuses against Palestinians in Gaza, using the cover of Israeli military offensives and the broader collapse of law and order to carry out campaigns of repression, torture, and unlawful killings of Palestinians."

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry says.

[Budman @wks4n]

@joyjah79 A true classic!