Rom and every hostage should be set free immediately. And food should flow freely to starving Palestinians. There is too much suffering. It will only end when we see our humanity in each other…..

Presumably, there’s an exhibit on the human spine at the Smithsonian.

"We've got to get in #Gaza so that we can support [the 10,000 local Palestinian staff who work with UNRWA]. And we've got to get those trucks that are stranded in Jordan and Egypt in Gaza, so that together we can distribute to starving people in Gaza," our Juliette Touma tells

Extremely grim report from Physicians for Human Rights exposing the massive extent of rape in the Tigray conflict, including with an intent to destroy communities and the Tigrayan ethnicity: phr.org/our-work/resou…

Airdrops are at least 100 times more costly than trucks Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes. If there is political will to allow airdrops - which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings. As the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting calls it a day after US Senate appropriators include no CPB funding for next fiscal year - will all but close on Sept 30 Official statement: mailchi.mp/cpb/corporatio…

“On July 30, as people approached trucks distributing aid near Zikim, in north #Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on them,” says Caroline Willemen, MSF Project Coordinator in Gaza. “People were wounded in the gunfire and in the crush as crowds panicked and ran.”

The aid system didn’t fail. It was knee-capped. Humanitarian organizations have been blocked at every turn from doing their jobs. Gaza's now at the tipping point for mass death. I spoke with Pema Levy at Mother Jones👇

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague heidi levine.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

My fear is that ordinary Americans are not experiencing the firing of an experienced, non-partisan, leader of a statistical agency as the major earthquake for the United States that it is.

Alex de Waal “Starvation takes time; authorities cannot starve a population by accident.” Moreover, distinctively in Gaza, if “Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel decided tonight that every Palestinian child in Gaza should have breakfast tomorrow, it could undoubtedly be done.” Link👇

Fred Lynn practices batting beneath the bleachers during a rain delay at Fenway Park in Boston on Oct. 20, 1975. (George Rizer/Globe photo) Fred Lynn

The level of destruction in parts of northern Gaza is near-total, heidi levine’ aerial pictures show. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

“Starvation takes time; authorities cannot starve a population by accident. To end starvation in Gaza, Israel must allow humanitarian-aid professionals to do their job” Tremendously powerful piece from Alex de Waal nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opi…

Food systems can collapse—or become lifelines. In places like Gambella, Ethiopia, building resilience is the only way we’re going to end hunger. But to make it happen, we need bold investments in solutions that foster self-reliance & transform lives.

This whole mini-controversy also reveals an absurd ignorance of famine dynamics. People with other health complications will usually among the first to starve in famine. Rather than an outlier, cases like Youssef’s are a sign of what is coming.

Over the past six months, Ethiopian federal forces are reported to have closed several key asphalt roads connecting the capital of Amhara region—Bahir Dar—to other areas, notably Bahir Dar → Mekane Selam (Gojam) → Kombolcha (Wollo) and Addis Ababa → Mota → Bahir Dar. 1/3

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have handed over control of the massive Zamzam camp for displaced people to Colombian mercenaries, a camp spokesman alleged on Sunday, months after the RSF seized the area. sudantribune.com/article303519/

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