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Gaza is DROWNING. And this should make us angry, furious and outraged!
🚨Urgent support needed 🚨 chuffed.org/project/113222-t…
Overnight, thousands of tents collapsed under the storm, with dozens of displacement camps now completely underwater. The rain is expected to continue until Monday.
This is the FOURTH winter that Palestinians in Gaza have faced under genocide. After years of bombardment, displacement and destruction, families who have already lost their homes are now watching their only remaining shelter collapse under the rain.
Think about what that means: parents trying to keep their children dry, families desperately trying to salvage their belongings from floodwater, people who have already been displaced repeatedly being left with nowhere safe to go.
There is something profoundly wrong with a world in which people are forced to fight this hard for the basic right to shelter. They should never have been put in this position.
The Sameer Project is already replacing dozens of destroyed tents and arranging truckloads of sand to help absorb water in flooded camps. But the need is far greater than our current resources.
We urgently need funding to provide higher-quality, more durable tents. These cost $700, compared to $200 for lower-quality alternatives. Many families are refusing the cheaper tents because they know they will likely break again. We are also looking to buy hundreds of tarps and blankets. They cannot keep starting from nothing every time a storm hits.
We are asking you to help us do something tangible. We can’t sink into helplessness. Help us get families out of the floodwater and into shelter that can actually protect them.
We cannot stop the storm, but we can refuse to stand by while families face it without protection.
Please urgently donate whatever you can and share this appeal. Every contribution brings another family closer to having somewhere safe and dry to sleep: chuffed.org/project/113222-t…
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Nothing to see here, just @Giannoulias posing w/ Alder Jim Gardiner, a man who attacked his own constituents/had his supporters do the same, had a restraining order put out against them by a former partner, etc. 🙃
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I don’t know. It feels obscenely stupid to start posting videos of my loved ones in Gaza right now, as their tents flood with rainwater in the middle of the night, as they sleep in damp clothes on soaked mattresses, and to think for a f*cking second that these images might move someone to save their babies, to protect what little dignity they have left.
As if this time could be any different from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
As if people around the world, especially those with the power to do something, might suddenly be moved by a family’s tent flooding with rainwater when the sight of hundreds of babies whose bodies were shredded by Israeli bombs was not enough to put an end to this.
How many more times must we expose the suffering of the people we love, strip them of their privacy in their most vulnerable moments, in the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, might finally care enough to act?
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“Hakeem Jeffries will lead the House of Representatives. Chuck Schumer will run the Senate. Both are my friends; both voted with Israel this year even when the majority of their party caucus voted otherwise”
השינויים בקונגרס - עובדות, ואז תוכנית
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הדמוקרטים לקחו הלילה את שני הבתים. מה זה אומר? זה אומר שיש צורך דחוף במנהיגות ותוכנית עבודה במקום פאניקה של פוליטיקאים. הכי קל לצעוק ש"אמריקה אבודה", כי אם היא אבודה לא צריך לעבוד. זה רק לא נכון. ממש לא.
את בית הנבחרים יוביל חכים ג'פריס. את הסנאט ינהל צ'אק שומר. שניהם ידידים שלי, שניהם הצביעו השנה עם ישראל גם כשרוב הסיעה שלהם הצביע אחרת. הם בדיוק סוג המנהיגים שישראל אמורה לדעת לעבוד איתם, גם אם לא נסכים על כל דבר.
אין שאלה שהגרעין האנטי-ישראלי בבית הנבחרים גדל. יהיו שם קולות קיצוניים יותר, אבל גם אחרי הבחירות מדובר בכעשרים וחמישה חברי קונגרס מתוך 435.
גם בסנאט נוספו כמה קולות מאוד עוינים לישראל אבל גם אחרי הלילה האחרון הגרעין הקשה והקיצוני שפועל נגדנו לא מגיע ל-10% מחברי הסנאט.
הבעיה האמיתית היא לא הקיצונים.
לפני שנתיים 11 סנטורים הצביעו להגביל את משלוחי הנשק לישראל. לפני שנה המספר עלה ל-27, באפריל היו כבר 40. זה נורא, אבל רובם לא באמת שונאים אותנו. חלק מהם ישבו כאן בחורף של 2023 עם סרט צהוב על הדש. ישראל חשובה להם, והם מבינים את החשיבות האסטרטגית שלנו. פגשתי כמעט את כולם ואני אומר לכם, אפשר לדבר איתם, אפשר להסביר, אפשר לשנות את המגמה.
האנשים האלה לא נגד ישראל. הם נגד שרים קיצוניים שאומרים דברים מטורפים. הם נגד אלימות מתנחלים, הם נגד ממשלה שהם לא מבינים, הם בעיקר נגד נתניהו, מבחינתם כל דבר שקשור אליו הוא רעיל.
אז מה עושים?
חוזרים לכלל שעבד בשבילנו שבעים שנה ונשבר ב-2015, כשנתניהו נסע לנאום בקונגרס נגד אובמה. אמרתי את זה אז, אני אומר את זה היום: ישראל לא בוחרת צד באמריקה. עובדים עם כולם.
יש אתגרים גדולים. יש כוחות חזקים שרוצים שניכשל. יש הרבה כסף קטארי ואיראני שמממן את הקמפיין נגדנו. אבל כמו שאנחנו מטפלים באתגרים ביטחוניים, אנחנו צריכים לטפל גם באתגרים מדיניים.
הביקור הראשון בוושינגטון של נציגי הממשלה הבאה חייב להיות גם בבית הלבן, אבל גם בקונגרס, אצל שתי המפלגות. לא רק לנאום אלא גם להקשיב, לדבר, לספוג בקורת, להסביר את העובדות, לבנות אמון מחדש.
אחרי וושינגטון צריך לצאת למסע בארה"ב, לדבר עם מושלים, נציגים מקומיים, תקשורת בכל רחבי היבשת. להגיע לאמריקה שמעבר לפוליטיקה. לדבר עם קהילות יהודיות, הן רעבות לזה, אבל לא רק איתן.
גם עם מנהיגים היספנים, עם כנסיות של אפרו-אמריקניות, עם האוונגליסטים הצעירים שנטשו אותנו. הם צריכים להכיר ישראל אחרת, לא של נתניהו ובן גביר.
את החברים שעדיין יש לנו צריך לחזק. את הגרעין הקשה צריך לבודד. כדי לבודד עשרה צריך מאה שיהיו בצד שלנו. את המאה האלה איבדנו. אותם אנחנו צריכים להחזיר.
להחזיר אותם לא מביא לנו רק אהדה. זה גם נשק לצה"ל, שיתוף פעולה מודיעיני, חיזוק הביטחון הלאומי שלנו (ולא, לא הרמנו ידיים לגבי הסכם הסיוע הבא).
עשינו את זה כבר בעבר.
ב-2022 חתמתי עם הנשיא ביידן על "הצהרת ירושלים" בלי לאבד רפובליקני אחד. זה לא קסם, זו עבודה. אמריקה לא אבדה ולא אבודה. היא מחכה שמישהו יחזור לדבר איתה.
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i've spent my entire adult life covering greg abbott and ken paxton's crusade on women's bodies and lives, i don't even have words for what it means to see this, for how many lives it could save to have these monsters expelled in shame
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24
📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg
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New: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. propub.li/47FL1Uh
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Her name was Refeef Lubbad. She was 17, an 11th-grade student, shot and killed as she returned home from school.
You did not, and will not, see a breaking news alert about her killing. The New York Times and other complicit media outlets will not put her face on their front pages. But here, you will see her face and know her name.
May the day come when those who killed Refeef and our families are brought to justice, and when the names of journalists who justified, condoned, or dismissed their deaths as insignificant are displayed on every street, so their complicity is never forgotten.
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Please, I urge the world to take this tweet seriously.
A new famine is literally being created in Gaza. Free food distribution has almost completely stopped, major aid organizations have suspended their services, and now the World Food Programme, a key source of flour and canned food for hundreds of thousands of people here, has announced the suspension of its assistance.
For over a week, trucks carrying vegetables, fruit, and frozen food have also been prevented from entering Gaza.
Food supplies are shrinking, everything entering Gaza is being tightly controlled, and food queues are growing frighteningly long.
We are already witnessing the signs of another hunger catastrophe. Families are losing their food sources one by one. Please, don't wait until people are dying of hunger again before you act. The world must act now.
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New statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s office on Trump admin’s efforts to deport her: “the truth is that Trump’s push to strip her of her citizenship and deport her has no basis in the law and has no precedent.”
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Many on the left suspected this was the case, but it’s still wild to see the WSJ confirm it.
Needless to say, stripping the citizenship of opposition elected officials is really, really far down the road to fascism.
New: The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha… via @McCormickJohn @MHackman @sgurman
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Same vague piffle Biden officials gave for 15 months. What are her specific commitments to stop said “horrific conduct”? No one knows, the point is to look Deeply Concerned while committing to nothing, much less the actual demands from Palestinians for a full arm embargo
Kamala Harris on Israel:
It is in our interest to hold our allies accountable for their share of global defense, to ensure trade benefits American workers and consumers, and to uphold our moral obligation to human rights and international law.
To be sure, America has at times fallen short on that one.
Most recently, the failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government's horrific conduct in the war in Gaza, both under the current administration, which offers Netanyahu a blank check, and our administration before, where we should have acted sooner and more forcefully.
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An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years over the network's embrace of sports betting: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” cjr.org/the-interview/nicole…
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I asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand if it bothers her that her staff trades crypto while she works on legislation that benefits the industry. “This is not a nanny state,” she said.
Profiled crypto’s favorite Democrat for @NYMag:
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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🚨 Reem Asaad Awad, a 33-year-old mother, was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her family's apartment in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood around 4am Wednesday, setting the building on fire. Videos circulating online show her young daughter being pulled out of the burning apartment.
Footage from inside the apartment shows the girl sitting alone on a bed as smoke fills the room and fire burns the wall above her. In another shot she presses her hand to her mouth, eyes wide with terror.
Israel said it was targeting a Hamas member but has provided no evidence.
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The CIA man running the Nazi ratline to Canada: “A career CIA officer, McManus worked with the organization from its creation in 1947 until 1970, when he retired and moved to apartheid South Africa for three years.
In the early 1960s, McManus was involved in Operation Mongoose”
NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
readthemaple.com/declassifie…
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Journalist Hind Khoudary has sent the Gaza Municipality appeal (fundraising link) to several celebrities with millions of followers.
They ignored her. This is what Gaza actually means to many "celebrities": a hunt for fame and money.
I am calling on you, alongside her, to share this appeal: gaza-city.org/campaign/6
اسمعوا، بعتت لناس عندهم ملايين المتابعين يشاركوا حملة بلدية غزة «ما قبل الشتاء»، حملة تمويل عشان البلدية تقدر تفتح المجاري وتسلّكها، ونحاول نمنع ميّة المطر من إنها تغرق خيام الناس.. طنشوني 😬
يمكن عشان الحملة تطوعية، وما في مصاري مقابل نشر ستوري، مع إنه كل دولار فيها حق للناس اللي بدنا نحميهم من الغرق والشتا.
بتعرفوا حد ممكن يساعد في النشر بدون مقابل؟
رابط الحملة:
gaza-city.org/campaign/6
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NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
readthemaple.com/declassifie…