The worst thing I have ever seen

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Friday February 02, 2024 · 11:03 AM PST

2024/02/02 · 11:03

Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️

Know their names: https://t.co/l9T4EJlRKT pic.twitter.com/vaLsXK7r6P
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 2, 2024

This is a scrolling video of the names of the eleven thousand, five hundred children that have died in Gaza as a result of this war.

Each name is written in very small font, crammed on to the screen, and the video scrolls through their names very quickly. Nonetheless, the video is seven minutes long. You don’t even get out of the dead children aged ZERO for the first thirty seconds.

I encourage folks to watch it, and spread the word about it.

Take your pick of how you think this conflict should end, Whether it’s a ceasefire, or humanitarian pause, we need a cessation of hostilities now. Israel and COGAT have not been letting through enough aid. Here is a message from Matt Hollingworth of WFP:

In #Gaza, where @WFP has been working hard everyday to deliver food to over a million people who are hungry, desperate, just surviving.
For the third time this week, convoys meant for northern Gaza haven’t been able to reach.
We need faster & sustained access to prevent famine. pic.twitter.com/iIDuMl88So
— Matthew Hollingworth (@mfjhollingworth) February 2, 2024

Our leaders (Biden included) MUST do a better job getting aid to these folks. Netanyahu, Gallant, and the IDF must do a better job protecting civilians as they hunt Hamas. No more dead kids, please.

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

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Sunday January 14, 2024 · 7:00 PM PST

2024/01/14 · 19:00

Snapinsta.app_418911621_18411213925034727_2257252876621839107_n_1080.jpg — A Gazan mother weeps for her dead child.

A devastating read from Israeli publication +972mag

The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals.

Current and former Israeli intelligence officers have begun to leak about the cruel, and counterproductive nature of their orders.

I encourage all of you to read the entire article. The folks at 972 did an excellent, thorough job.

“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us.

“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added.

If you, like I do, support safety and peace between Israel and her neighbors: How could bombing "power targets", and (as the article documents) deliberately murdering members of Palestinian civil society make Israel safer? We need Biden to do a better job at reining in Netanyahu and his war cabinet. They are proving that they are incapable of prosecuting this war.

What should we do? What can I do?

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Tuesday November 25, 2014 · 7:34 AM PST

2014/11/25 · 07:34

Like many of you, I have been horrified by the constant wave of police violence against marginalized people, particularly black, brown, and poor people.

I also notice the trajectory of the reactions to these atrocities usually make their way from outrage and motivation to cynicism and helplessness.

I want to ask the group, what do you all recommend as the best tools / organizations to build power for poor people, people of color, and marginalized people in the United States?

I ask the community, do you have recommendations for organizations / causes that I ( and others ) should get behind?

Thanks!

hint: obama's not the problem

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Thursday November 11, 2010 · 3:58 PM PST

2010/11/11 · 15:58

or "you get the leadership you deserve"

from the front page poll jed links to.

53% say they want to continue the Bush tax cuts for all income levels; 12% would allow them all to expire and 32% would allow tax cuts on income above $250,000 to expire. This 53-44 split is the mirror image of August polling by AP-GfK, which showed a 52-45 split.

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Friday January 09, 2009 · 1:18 PM PST

2009/01/09 · 13:18

Many of you have heard about last week's police shooting of Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22 year old in Oakland. ( if you haven't please see LatinoDem's excellent diary on the subject here ).

While i've seen lots of reaction to the story, i've seen very little info on constructive things to actually do about it. So here are five things (compiled by Makani Themba-Nixon) that you should do right now to respond to the senseless death of this 22 year old Black man.

( many thanks to Jonathan Adams at the Colorlines Blog )

(I apologize if these actions have been posted already on the site.)

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Wednesday April 18, 2007 · 10:52 AM PDT

2007/04/18 · 10:52

from SaveNetRadio.org

April 17th 2007 -
The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for webcasters and left unchanged they will kill Internet radio. These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!).

"The CRB's ill informed decision to increase royalty fees to this unjustifiable level will quite simply bankrupt most webcasters and destroy Internet radio," says the Net radio stations' newly formed coalition, SaveNetRadio.org .

do you like listening to online public radio stations like NPR while you work?

Not Anymore.

do you ever get sick of the homogenous , vertically integrated crap forced down your throat by mainstream radio, and try to seek out new music?

Too bad.

do you like the idea of low cost, non-corporate community radio stations ( WBAI, KPFA ) being allowed to exist?

Sorry, They're through.

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Thursday September 16, 2004 · 11:32 PM PDT

2004/09/16 · 23:32

#1) First of all , the key thing always is volunteer and donate

#2) But, secondly, it's always nice to give feedback. Here's an example of a letter I recently submitted to Gallup's Customer Service Area. Rework the letter below, and submit your own! Read More

Here it goes: Jeb stealing Florida exposed!

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Saturday July 24, 2004 · 3:21 PM PDT

2004/07/24 · 15:21

Here's a very , very disturbing interview with Broward County election supervisor Miriam Oliphant.

Oliphant was elected by 70% of the vote in 2000 becoming the first Black constitutional Supervisor of Elections in Broward County. In an unprecedented display of micromanaging, she's been removed by Gov. Jeb Bush just in time for 2004's elections, for firing two specific poll workers and for opposing the use of a specific voting system: E S & S voting machines.

Check out the full interview; here are some key quotes:

"People have responsibilities, you know, over the poll workers' department, missing ballots. These people were fired by me and rehired by [Bush]."

"Everything was fine with [Oliphant] until she fired two particular employees. It was over poll workers and absentee ballots. This is a crucial area, because these were the two people that caused her the greatest problems. When she fired these two people, one with a high school education the other one didn't finish college, but had been there for a while, that's when she was fired. They brought these two individuals back, and I can't understand that for the life of me."

"[The Broward county commission & Secretary of State] should be on the stand today to tell their thoughts. Why did they interfere with my operations? Why would they micromanage my office? Why would they overrule me on a voting system that was never used? You know, already the Governor of the state of Florida has claimed Broward. There goes Broward. It goes for Bush."

The fix is in for Florida, we know, but is this it? Corrupt poll workers in Florida steal the ( more and more likely looking ) Kerry win?

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Here it goes: Jeb stealing Florida exposed!