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Wrote about 13 community food solutions amid the Eaton and Palisades fires for @civileats. Because it's through food and nourishment of our bodies and souls that we can rebuild.
civileats.com/2025/01/22/in-… – at Altadena, CA
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Senator Chuck Schumer just voted to advance the BAAJA bill, which would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act while harming Indigenous communities.
In case you wanted another reason why he should not be the Majority Senate Leader.
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you missed the vote to impeach him today
Pete Hegseth wants to turn an execution into a public spectacle for Americans and the world to watch.
He dishonors both our nation and the position he holds. He is beyond unfit to lead the brave men and women of our Armed Forces.
He must go.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Nancy Pelosi did not vote on the motion to table Hegseth's impeachment.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026317
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AWFUL. A family pleaded with ICE to deport their ill father so he could get out of detention. They even offered to pay for plane tickets. But ICE kept him jailed for two months after he accepted removal, his health deteriorating daily. He died hours after he was finally deported.
Ayaz Ahmed, 61, had no criminal record and had several diagnosed chronic health conditions when his children say he was detained, deported, and died mysteriously over the summer. abc7chicago.com/post/donald-…
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The IDF is announcing they murdered several Palestinian kids because the Palestinian kids were in an “area” where stones had previously been thrown from.
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Nothing to see, just Doctors Without Borders suspending services in the occupied West Bank due to Israeli restrictions, “that amount to the collective punishment and ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians.”
Why would anyone report it…
#Palestine: For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron, #WestBank have faced military raids, forced evictions and severe movement restrictions, making it harder for people to reach care.
The lockdown also forced our teams to suspend care. doctorswithoutborders.ca/pal…
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Major ideological confrontation underway in the Senate in the leadership fight between Van Hollen and Schumer. Here’s Van Hollen calling for stripping section 219 of the NDAA (the Israeli military fusion provision)
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In a first, L.A.'s three citywide elected offices will all be held by Asian Americans latimes.com/politics/story/2…
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Dear journalists
Palestine isn't simply “flooding” . Israel destroyed the water pumps, stormwater basins, homes, roads and hospitals, then trapped people on a strip of beach with nowhere to go. No tents, no prosthetics, no basic protection from the cold. Children are facing hypothermia with nowhere safe to seek treatment. And somehow the world is still looking the other way. This isn't a natural disaster. It's a Zionists-made catastrophe.
Do better
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Breaking: Mahmoud Abdelmalik, Gaza Sports Club goalkeeper who played the 1000 Martyrs Cup final last week, has been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza today.
Israel has now killed 574 footballers in Gaza.
Two spectacularly blistering finals brought down the curtain on The 1000 Martyrs Tournament in Gaza.
The black horse Rafah-based second-tier Al-Istiqla have won the Central and Southern Gaza final after holding on to a narrow 2-1 win against Khadamat Al-Buraij at the Ittihad Deir al-Balah five-a-side playground, whose striker Ahmed Al-Kranz won the golden boot with nine goals.
Meanwhile, Palestinian legend and Pele-nicknamed martyred Sulaimn Obeid's side Khadmat Al-Shati have lifted the Gaza and North trophy at the Palestine five-a-side pitch, beating Gaza Sports Club on penalties and nailing back-to-back penalty shootout wins.
41 years ago, the two sides played each other and Khadamat Al-Shati emerged victorious on penalties.
The Sea Blues (Istiqlal) and Blues (Khadamat Al-Shati) have taken home the trophies. The return of football in Gaza was mesmerising and remarkable despite the continued attacks and extremely intolerable challenges.
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In researching my new book, Requiem for Gaza, I discovered how Israel systematically targeted and killed the Palestinian professional class (such as doctors and journalists), an obvious genocidal tactic. This goal is symptomatic of Israel's larger vision for Gaza; to ethnically cleanse its population via genocide.
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Oh look, it’s Francesca Hong, the DSAer the establishment went all out to defeat in the primary for Wisconsin governor, working her ass off for Dems and using her platform to attack the Republican candidate for governor (not her former Dem opponent). Quite the contrast with Haley Stevens next door in MI.
Because—say it with me—corporate centrist Dems are the real traitors to the Democratic Party.
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Israel has practically confirmed this by referring to the population as being around 1.2 million when before the beginning of the holocaust Gaza was estimated to have around 2.3 million children, women and men. The media still keeps using that 70,000 number from over 2 years ago.
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Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor.
Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys.
It grossed $17m
Here's a bit of David's acting:
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
dropsitenews.com/p/minab-sch…
Please share this story with as many people as you can.
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Macklemore says Ed Sheeran and his team decided to remove him from tour due to his comments in support of Palestine, after Kraft Group rallied stadium owners and gave Ed an ultimatum:
“[Ed] told me that the words ‘Free Palestine’ and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, ‘I don't take sides.’”
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The genocide is still happening. There was never a ceasefire. Children are being killed with American made bombs, and those that live are traumatized forever.
The U.S. government must end its complicity in these atrocious acts of ethnic cleansing.
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For likely the 1st time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court.
These “shadow docket” decisions have let the Trump admin. bypass lower courts on ICE stops, abortion access & more: youtube.com/watch?v=MzyxHW5O…
