Zara A

Political enthusiast. Makeup artist. Sightseer. Foodie. Cat lady. Amateur iphone photographer. Fashion police host reject. Suffragette.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Ronaldo Salgado & his beloved father was shot & killed by ICE in Houston after a traffic stop. His father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 year old Construction Worker who picking up his coworkers. He lived in the U.S for 30 years & was getting his work permit.

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

If she was a rich white businessman, sports star or media personality who died in the middle of our biggest city under suspicious circumstances, her death would be making waves across Australia. Sheila Chebii is a black woman who worked as a cleaner. And so her death almost passed us by.

STORY: https://t.co/W43BkwDLsW

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Asking the Royal Commission into Social Cohesion and Antisemitism if Muslim communities can't give evidence and false claims of antisemitism which conflate a bake sale or wearing a keffiyeh with antisemitism go unchallenged, what exactly is this royal commission for?

[stranger @strangerous10]

"Clearly linked to events in the Middle East."
Commissioner Virginia Bell has just told the Commission that the “sharp spike in antisemitism" is "clearly linked" to Israel’s wars in the Middle East.
“It’s important that people understand."
Do politicians understand?💥 #auspol

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A nun was assaulted in occupied East Jerusalem earlier this week amid growing concern over Israeli attacks against Christians.

The 48-year-old, a researcher at Jerusalem’s French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research, was attacked on Tuesday in front of the Cenacle, a site on Mount Zion regarded as holy by both Christians and Jews.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which is affiliated with the nun’s research centre, said the attack was “not an isolated incident, but part of a troubling pattern of rising hostility toward the Christian community and its symbols”.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$24 million in Pentagon contracts is going to a company whose Chief Strategy Advisor is the President's son.

Eric Trump isn't a defense contractor. He's not a military expert. He's the President's son. Every step this family takes in or around the government ends up with money flowing toward them.

They aren't even hiding the corruption at this point. The American people are entitled to a real answer for how this contract was awarded.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

'Action is now needed': Over 60 ex-U.K. ambassadors call to sanction Israel over West Bank
https://t.co/9WvtwtNoYv

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Australian foreign minister Penny Wong @SenatorWong refused to meet Francesca Albanese went she visited Australia because Albanese said that Israel is committing genocide.

Penny flew off to Isreal instead & broke bread with Isaac Herzog, the man committing genocide.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Yaroun in South Lebanon, right now.

One of the oldest villages on Earth.

Israel has annihilated everything.

Every home destroyed. Every sign of civilian life erased.

A village that stood for over 3,000 years — wiped off the map.

[Sherele Moody (Femicide Researcher) 🌈 @ShereleMoody]

Virginia Giuffre died on April 25, 2025. She was only 41.
When she spoke about Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and the other predators, Virginia opened the floodgates that would let us know of the many powerful and rich men abused, raped and in some circumstances, killed, children.
Virginia Giuffre matters!

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

71 year old woman ejected from prison door by deputy.

Aurinia Thimmhardy, a 71 year old grandmother with a history of mental illness was tossed out of the front door by Sacramento county Deputy Matthew Gurich upon her release.

Tension began during processing interaction where Thimmhardy was forcibly grabbed and ejected out the exit by Gurich, causing her to fall face-first onto the concrete.

As a result the fall resulted in a broken femur, which required surgery. Thimmhardy remained hospitalized for roughly three months.

While she was in the hospital recovering from her injuries, her husband—who was her primary caretaker—passed away. Because of her hospitalization and physical condition, she was unable to be by his side during his final days.

Sheriff Jim Cooper terminated Matthew Gurich, stating that such actions do not uphold the standards of the agency.

Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office charged Gurich with one felony count of unlawful assault by a public officer.

Thimmhardy’s family filed a civil rights lawsuit against Sacramento County and the deputies involved. They are seeking accountability and calling for improved mental health training for first responders.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE LEAKED THE MEMO THAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE IRAQ WAR.

In January 2003, Katharine Gun was a Mandarin translator at GCHQ, Britain's signals intelligence agency. She showed up to work one morning, opened her email, and found a memo that would destroy her career, threaten her marriage, and land her in court facing two years in prison.

The email was from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the NSA's regional targets division, asking GCHQ to help spy on the private communications of six UN Security Council nations whose votes would determine whether the world approved an invasion of Iraq.

The goal was to gather intelligence that would give US policymakers leverage over smaller nations.

Angola. Cameroon. Chile. Guinea. Pakistan. Bulgaria. Countries with no dog in this fight, being bugged so Washington and London could fix the result.

Gun printed the email, slipped it into her handbag, and eventually passed it to a journalist. In March 2003 the memo was published by The Observer, creating a media firestorm and raising serious questions about the legality of the Iraq War.

Then they came for her.

She was charged under Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act in November 2003. She refused to plead guilty. Her legal team decided the best defence was to prove that the war itself was illegal, and demanded the government hand over its own legal advice to Tony Blair.

And here is the part that tells you everything you need to know about how power actually works.

The case came to court on 25 February 2004. Within half an hour it was dropped. The prosecution offered no evidence.

In May 2019 The Guardian reported the case was dropped because the prosecution realised that evidence would emerge showing that even British government lawyers believed the invasion was unlawful.

The government could not prosecute the whistleblower without putting the war on trial. So they quietly walked out of court and hoped everyone would forget.

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, called Gun's action the most important and courageous leak he had ever seen.

Three UK inquiries into the Iraq War never once examined her case.

Sources: The Observer / The Guardian

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

You know what the Gallipoli landing was, Rubes?

It was a military folly where thousands of Australian &NZ lives were thrown away in stupid subservience to a misguided, incompetently led, fatally flawed, empire-ordered, doomed campaign.

Not unlike the US’s campaign to sucker Australia into your planned war against China.

Lest we forget.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

7 Jewish Israeli teenagers ambushed and lynched/murdered in cold blood a Black Ethiopian Israeli on Independence Day because he asked them not to vandalize the pizza place where he worked.
Racist Violent Jewish supremacy is a lethal threat to everyone.
Recall, Israel Admitted to Sterilizing Black Ethiopian Jewish women WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE.
https://t.co/YxgYmfIj1S

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Calls for urgent solidarity are rising as Ilyas Abu Safiya, the eldest son of Palestinian pediatrician Hussam Abu Safiya, appeals to the Italian people to mobilize before April 28.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained by Israeli forces since December 27, 2024, 485 days without charges, trial, or justice.

With the looming threat of Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners, the family fears Hussam could be among the first condemned.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain mother after victim of hit and run—that killed her 10 year old daughter.

Agents arrested her despite qualifying for a U Visa—as a victim of a crime who cooperates with police.

Locked up over 3 months now with 2 broken legs—denied medication prescribed after surgery.

Laura Ramirez immigrated legally from Colombia to Nashville, Tennessee—via the official CBP One mobile app for processing asylum claims.

She has been separated from her youngest daughter—who was also injured in the hit and run car crash but survived.

Now locked up 680 miles away from surviving 5 year old daughter at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. #DemsUnited

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Jennifer Welch with Emma Vigeland : "For me, and I've spoken about this with you both privately and on, on shows, um, there's been an awakening, uh, for me for what's happening in Gaza and now in Lebanon.

Let's pop up thisheadline from yesterday. Sky News breaking: the body of Lebanese journalist has been found under the rubble after an Israeli strike.
This shit is so disturbing. It's kids, it's medics, and they don't hit the medics once, they hit it 2, 3 times to make sure they killed him.

Or if there are people going to help give medical assistance, they double tap or triple tap. "

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

The company that’s training IDF dogs to maul, kill and in some cases sexually abuse Palestinians is a Dutch company called Four Winds K9.

Electronic Intifada reported on this in 2015.

I learned of the dogs through the attack on a man w/ Down syndrome I will never forget.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Please take a moment to listen to UNICEF Spox @1james_elder, speaking after Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon.

“The killing of children, attacks on hospitals, erasure of entire families is now met with justification or selective outrage or just silence…Children are not collateral…Challenge language and challenge people who normalized attacks on civilians.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Smotrich: West Bank Settlement Expansion Has “Full Backing” of Trump Administration

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told the Jerusalem Post that Israel’s accelerating settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is being carried out with full U.S. support, coordinated directly with President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

▪️ Since the current government took office in 2022, over 51,000 housing units have been approved for the West Bank, according to Smotrich’s office.

▪️ The Sa-Nur settlement in West Bank, evacuated 20 years ago under Israel’s Disengagement Plan, was reestablished Sunday, with over a dozen families already in residence. Smotrich said more settlements would follow “very soon.”

▪️ Smotrich called on Netanyahu to order the IDF to prepare for the “full conquest” of the Gaza Strip and the establishment of Israeli settlements there as well.

▪️ He said Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are “part of the Iranian axis of evil” and dismissed documented Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians as “one of the biggest false campaigns there is.”

▪️ On international condemnation: “In the past, even building 50 housing units would lead to condemnation. Today it is very different.”

Smotrich acknowledged Trump has not yet backed full West Bank annexation, but claimed “we will also succeed in that.”