Israel used white phosphorus to scorch earth in south Lebanon, researcher says Human Rights Watch and others say they have documented use of weapon in civilian areas during war on Gaza

"39% of uses were in residential areas, 17% in agricultural lands and 44% in forested or open terrain."

Over half of Israel's uses of white phosphorus in Southern Lebanon is a war crime. And the South is Lebanon's bread basket- Israel is once again preparing to use starvation as a weapon of war.

If you’re a parent, one of the most radical things you can do is teach your kids about real history. Teach them about liberation movements, protests, and supplement what they’re learning in school with a less whitewashed version of history

ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know Dylan Lopez Contreras, a student at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams

"I worry that my other friends could be arrested, too. It’s a constant fear... & I’m always worried when they go out...I don’t want anything bad to happen to them."

ICE detained Dylan Lopez Contreras, a freshman at Ellis, for 10 months. His friends now live in constant fear & grief. bit.ly/4rddbNN

There was no answer.

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Pyramid of skulls

Pyramid of skulls, 1900
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

The Unfortunate Land of Tyrol by Franz Marc, 1913
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I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers represented the federal government’s overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died, her family announced on Saturday.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

#OtD 15 Feb 2003 huge protests occurred around the world against war on Iraq, including 1.5 million on the streets of London: the biggest demonstration in UK history. But the war began regardless, teaching many that passive protest alone is not enough stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8665...

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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

The table in this still life of flowers and fruit appears in several of Paul Cézanne’s other paintings, although scholars do not agree about which of the artist’s residences housed this piece of furniture. As is typical of his work, the painting is carefully considered and hard-won, especially in the tense spatial relationships between objects. The traces of at least three other pieces of fruit (presumably oranges) at lower left bear witness to Cézanne’s changing opinion as he struggled to make the composition work. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection

The Vase of Tulips, 1885
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"One of the last things I heard on that cell floor was my cellmate begging for medical care."

Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.

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“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year!

Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary.

His health is declining.

Public outrage might save his life.

Say his name:

Shirley Raines, Beauty 2 The Streetz founder who cared for Skid Row's homeless, dies at 58 Shirley Raines, the beloved nonprofit founder and CEO who helped care for the homeless on L.A.'s Skid Row, has died, her organization said.

Shirley Raines, the beloved nonprofit founder and CEO who helped care for the homeless on L.A.'s Skid Row, has died. The mother of six worked a full-time job, but somehow, she managed to find the time to cook for 400-600 people every week in her one-bedroom apartment. Story via ABC7.

Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar was attacked at a town hall in Minneapolis Tuesday night.

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed