Feminist, anti-war campaigning at @MADREspeaks | Thinking about feminist political movements, inclusive peace processes & how the US obstructs both
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For sustainable peace and security, Yemen needs a community-driven peace process - not another US-driven political process focused on security primacy and corrupt military officials.
Read more via @CIPolicy:
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My daughter was sexually assaulted. We got the fellow to confess in writing and they still dropped the charges.
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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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Jake Sullivan can burn in hell.
ALT Ahmed’s portrayals of Blinken and Sullivan are similarly unsparing. Throughout the war, the influential duo consistently held back attempts to reach formal conclusions about alleged Israeli war crimes. Alongside McGurk, Sullivan privately cast doubt about whether images of starving children in Gaza were real even as numerous international monitors indicated that famine was spreading, Ahmed reports. (A Sullivan spokesperson denied this to Ahmed.) And Blinken consistently empowered officials who were willing to accept Israeli claims that Tel Aviv was doing its best to avoid civilian casualties.
“Drop the Genocide 20,” urges Washington institutions and any future admins to box out the 20 officials “most responsible" for Biden's disastrous Israel-Gaza policy. Everyone highlighted in @AkbarSAhmed's new book is on that list.
responsiblestatecraft.org/bi…
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1st event of its kind, I believe: Senators Van Hollen and Welch intro'd, and 30+ staffers (some who will have a role in appointee confirmations) came to hear testimony from fmr officials and @AkbarSAhmed on the malfeasance of the Biden officials now angling for 2028 gigs.
This week, Win Without War Education Fund, @anewpolicyorg, and @CIPolicy cohosted a panel for staff from 27 congressional offices on accountability for US officials implicated in the Gaza genocide. Hear what our panelists had to say ⬇️
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Emma Sulkowicz protested against Columbia University handling of her sexual–assault allegations of Paul Nungesser by hauling a mattress around campus.
He was never convicted or charged. But he did file a discrimination lawsuit against the college and they settled.
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Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest:
— Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher
— Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon
— Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone
— Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker
— Chelsea Manning
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Yes, it’s a big deal that Coons, in line to be SFRC chair/ranking member, is leading this.
Yes, these sanctions should’ve been imposed long ago.
Yes, sanctions should be imposed on all settlements in occupied territory, not just E1. They’re all illegal.
Nineteen Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Coons, introduced a bill that would impose sanctions on companies, individuals and others involved in the construction and development of Israeli settlements in the E1 area of the West Bank.
@marcrod97 reports: ji.news/5jjri
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beast mode senator!!!!
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
wsj.com/politics/policy/trum…
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“I wish we would have done more”
Nonsense. Jake Sullivan & everyone in Biden Admin was hounded everyday to stop sending arms to Israel but Jake chose Yoav Gallant. Non-stop protests failed to stop the genocide, but did do this: Made it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to claim ignorance.
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TSA's use of facial recognition at our airports is not only a violation of our privacy, it's not even secured. An Inspector General report just found that a private vendor was able to extract sensitive passenger data without TSA's knowledge, and passengers were never informed.
Enough. These mass surveillance technologies do not make us safe.
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Hasan Piker’s problem isn’t that he’s wrong. Hasan Piker’s problem is that he’s a) Muslim and b) talking about American foreign policy in such a way that it would force every talking head and pundit in America to realize what they’re likely culpable for.
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*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession:
FINNEAS
Lukas Graham
Beoga
Aaron Rowe
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The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father Michael Massaroli to the attacks.
"You do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate," he said. "I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them."
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Nah. You totally waited. Waited until there were no functional hospitals, until the death toll rose in the thousands, waited until they were dropping white phosphorus on civil population, you just waited....did NOTHING to stop the genocide.
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Finer says (I think truthfully) that the military-industrial complex hasn't influenced his government work, but neglects to mention he now works as an advisor for weapons manufacturer Anduril. A job he probably wouldn't have got if he'd rocked the boat too much in Bidenworld.
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Top officials from the Biden Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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To all who have attacked Hasan Piker, I’m going to check to see if you said anything about Laura Loomer calling a Black woman running for Senate in Florida, Representative Angie Nixon, a ghetto b**** and said that she should tug on her leash.
I STAND WITH @AngieNixon