reposting this excellent piece on the labor movement's place (and dilemma) in the current struggles in LA nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

What really happened inside 45 E 45th st? The real story—of how alt conservative media, a corruption administration, Trump, and global financial firms conspired against the city's public servants and the poorest people in America—will fill you with rage. slate.com/news-and-polit…

Below is a message from Anas Alshariff Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza. He, along with nearly two million Gazans, including women and children, are being starved under the draconian siege and ongoing bombardment by Israeli occupying forces. We call for immediate humanitarian aid

"Instead of often telling my kids “I love you,” I have been repeating for the past two weeks: “Kids, eat less. Kids, drink less.” And I imagine this being my last thing I say to them and it is devastating." - Refaat Alareer, October 2023

Journalists, politicians, university presidents and writers have debated what "intifada" means for almost two years. But from the beginning, Israel was saying "human animals," was promising starvation. If it has been a question of language, it meant what it sounded like it meant.

Wrote for The New York Review of Books abt the LA immigration raids, unions' vexed relationship to immigrant workers & how worker centers emerged from that vacuum, how they are mobilizing now & the possibility that more expansive solidarities might emerge out of this crisis: nybooks.com/online/2025/07…

More than 100 Palestinian deaths by Israeli-engineered starvation logged to date — about 10% of them occurring in the last 24 hours. ft.com/content/acb611…

🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations” “In a video filmed Tuesday inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, families fretted over babies with distended bellies and tiny fists that they clenched as they cried.”

An Israeli security source monitored the aftermath of an airstrike in which children were burned alive: "Her daughter was still alive, she was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter."

funniest things that happened to me in paris: getting spit at by a diabolic french toddler, watching a bobo 6 yr old lean out of her Marais apt window to spit down on some tourists, realizing every other customer at the gare bistrot was an iron maiden fan in town for a concert

A number of premiere international news organizations - BBC, AP, AFP, Reuters - have issued a statement warning that their reporters are facing starvation. All news orgs should be standing in solidarity with these reporters. bbc.com/mediacentre/st…

I am so grateful for The Sameer Project please support them they are doing what so many of us wish we could do with them, they are getting urgent aid directly to the people in need. when you feel overwhelmed by the scale of devastation look to them and donate. you can help today

Bari is scrambling to get ahead of the fact that she denied starvation in Gaza—something the photos and footage now make undeniable. Israel’s most fervent defenders have all abruptly shifted their message from denial to acknowledgement + blaming someone else in the past few days.

This is a verified fundraiser that a trusted friend shared with me. Support food aid that will be getting into Gaza here. launchgood.com/v4/campaign/ga…

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*

I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.

Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, who left after he saw American and Israeli colleagues killing Palestinian civilians, "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds,

This is correct and obviously so. At no point since Oct 7 has Israel offered any kind of principle that would limit the number of Palestinians they’re going to starve and slaughter—a total rejection of any kind of proportionality and an embrace of an infinite right to kill

During this difficult time and our support for Palestinians in Gaza, it is crucial that you do your due diligence on the groups you’re donating to. We are seeing Zionist “aid groups” entering Gaza who in the past have collected data from people in exchange for aid. In addition,

Horrifying report of the long-term environmental damage done by Israeli genocidaires in Gaza: Nearly all trees destroyed; All coastal waters polluted; Debris with asbestos and other pollutants everywhere; Pollutants leeching into groundwater sources. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…