first good bluesky post

Day 603 of the war on Gaza and journalists are still struggling with the basic five W’s of reporting. Who? What? When? Why? How? For a reason I cant quite put my finger on, they keep burying the lead: Who is doing this? How did the guns fire? And why were they waiting for food?

Hijacking an aid boat is obviously a war crime. So is besieging 2.2 million civilians and manufacturing famine. So is firing 300 bullets into a child. So is bombing refugee camps. Every second of the past 600+ days, Israel has committed unimaginable crimes, every second.

“Boarded” You misspelled ILLEGALLY SEIZED IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS.

I honestly don’t know how I keep doing this every day. I’ve never felt this emotionally drained—not even at the beginning of the war. I’m dehydrated, barely sleeping, and my heart feels shattered into pieces. But you still hear me, no?

Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Never limit your sense of morality to America's legal system.

Rima, French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament and refugee from 1948, now stands before an Israeli court in al-Ramleh. She joined the Madleen flotilla carrying symbolic aid to Gaza—her second attempt to return to her homeland. Israel offered her deportation and a

Not only is Britain complicit in genocide, it’s now trying to criminalize one of the only groups taking direct action against the weapons sellers fueling it. Palestine Action is being targeted for daring to confront these merchants of death. They must be defended.

To the newcomers: yes, the question to ask is "why are there US military bases in the Gulf?"

libbbg out: I think its awesome that in a world dominated by AI slop and brainrot digital content, Zohran won by running an amazing campaign centered on human interaction and *physically* being in spaces with other New Yorkers. A campaign that was truly present and tangible.

“This is a cultural weakness in the ABC. Its editorial leadership seems not to understand that the first duty of an editor is to create a safe space in which their staff can do good journalism.” from ⁦⁦The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand⁩ re ⁦Antoinette Lattouf⁩ theconversation.com/antoinette-lat…

While celebrating Antoinette's vindication, I'm also thinking of others who've lost jobs/funding/opportunities after being targeted by media + malicious lobbyists (myself included). Not everyone will receive justice, but all have paid the price for speaking up for Palestine.

In headline after headline, NYT refuses to say ISRAEL is killing starving Palestinians trying to get food. It’s not an accident and it’s not journalism.

A lot of people who dismiss these truths when Palestinian victims tell them, will only believe them when the the perpetrators themselves confess. This is because of deep, pervasive anti-Palestinian racism. We always told you what “Israel” is.

Reading this article in full gave me a panic attack; my heart is pounding, my lungs feel crushed... I've been documenting atrocities my entire adult life; this cruelty is in a league of its own Starving children, luring them with crumbs, then gunning them down with machine

THIS is the story. NOT the irrelevant feelings of Zionists, but the burned, charred bodies of Palestinians. NOT the confected claims that there is a "crisis" of antisemitism but the ACTUAL crisis of 641 days of live-streamed genocide.

Where are these headlines in Western media?

We have never seen anything like this in modern human history and what is being allowed to be done to the Palestinians, with the complicity and permission of the entire world, ensures that the near future is filled with more of this.