Will Eichler

For a guy who studies english there are a lot of typos in my tweets. I'd be more upset about it if i wasn't always worrying about my future

impossible to say or think anything beyond "how can we stop this?"

>8K people in the US dead from Covid in the first month of 2024 alone

If you support “ceasefire” but not the right-of-return, you do not support actual peace or justice. You support the status-quo in which the bloody colonization of Palestine is less televised and disruptive to your daily Western life.

"Until the very moment when catastrophe overtook everything and everybody, it was covered up not by realities but by the highly efficient talk and double-talk of nearly all official representatives who...explained away unpleasant facts and justified concerns." — Hannah Arendt

Breaking News! Well humanity, we did it, even if just for one day. Yesterday, Nov. 18, was the first time in recorded history that the global 2m surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. The long-term average remains below 1.5°C. But not for long.

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO, accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground, conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options for further missions. The team included public health experts, logistics officers, and security staff from @UNOCHA, @UNDSS, @UNMAS /@UNOPS, @UNRWA and WHO. The mission was deconflicted with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ensure safe passage along the agreed route. However, this was a high-risk operation in an active conflict zone, with heavy fighting ongoing in close proximity to the hospital. Earlier in the day, the IDF had issued evacuation orders to the remaining 2,500 internally displaced people who had been seeking refuge on the hospital grounds. They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival. Due to time limits associated with the security situation, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone" and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and was told more than 80 people were buried there. Lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food and other essential aid over the last six weeks have caused Al-Shifa Hospital—once the largest, most advanced, and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza—to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility. The team observed that, due to the security situation, it has been impossible for the staff to carry out effective waste management in the hospital. Corridors and the hospital grounds were filled with medical and solid waste, increasing the risk of infection. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health and pleaded for evacuation. Al-Shifa Hospital can no longer admit patients, with the injured and sick now being directed to the seriously overwhelmed and barely functioning Indonesian Hospital. There are 25 health workers and 291 patients remaining in Al-Shifa, with several patient deaths having occurred over the previous 2 to 3 days due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without ventilation, and 22 dialysis patients whose access to life-saving treatment has been severely compromised. The vast majority of patients are victims of war trauma, including many with complex fractures and amputations, head injuries, burns, chest and abdominal trauma, and 29 patients with serious spinal injuries who are unable to move without medical assistance. Many trauma patients have severely infected wounds due to lack of infection control measures in the hospital and unavailability of antibiotics. Given the current state of the hospital, which is no longer operational or admitting new patients, the team was requested to evacuate health workers and patients to other facilities. WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families. Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza. However, these hospitals are already working beyond capacity, and new referrals from Al-Shifa Hospital will further strain overburdened health staff and resources. WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and health needs of patients, health workers and internally displaced people sheltering at the few remaining partially functional hospitals in the north, which are facing the risk of closure due to a lack of fuel, water, medical supplies, food, and the intense hostilities. Immediate efforts must be made to restore the functionality of Al-Shifa and all other hospitals to provide urgently needed health care services in Gaza. WHO reiterates its plea for collective efforts to bring an end to the hostilities and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the sustained flow of humanitarian assistance at scale, unhindered humanitarian access to all of those in need, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the cessation of attacks on health care and other vital infrastructure. The extreme suffering of the people of Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

i have a new poem in @NarrativeMag. “i’m sorry, i’m sorry”—this one means a lot to me. i’ve been sharing it at pretty much every reading lately. it’s based on a conversation i had with my mother during last year’s holiday season narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-w…

Something that I’m starting to realize is that the Democratic Party platform boils down to “we’ll treat you better than republicans but you have be okay with us abusing those other people” and I’m just not cool with that shit.

Hi, I’m a librarian. Here’s why this is really, really bad.

this fuckin sucks closing on sundays - actually any weekly closure - is the first step in a slippery slope of funding loss for libraries please use your public library!!!! libraries are an invaluable public good and they only work if people SHOW UP

“Look, it is true that Gazans did at one point elect Hamas. But if you think that makes them all complicit in war crimes their government commits, then boy, do I have bad news for you about decades of U.S. foreign policy.” - ⁦@iamjohnoliver⁩ huffpost.com/entry/john-oli…

At this point they are effectively trying to get Tlaib killed.

In a moment when most of the world—including Holocaust survivors, many thousands of Jews & the Pope—have called for a ceasefire & sense of humanity, the USA sides with genocide & apartheid.

As I did during Trump’s reign of terror, I will continually warn about the dangers of normalizing things that shouldn’t be normalized. And right now apparently we’re normalizing genocide???

Voters keep doing their part— often volunteering a 2nd job’s worth of free labor—to elect people who do next to nothing to defend the rights of those voters or the concept of democracy itself. Where is there ever accountability for elected officials?

You can’t keep asking voters to “save democracy” again by electing people who do nothing to safeguard democracy once they’re elected. Again, the Biden-Trump 2024 rematch reflects the failings of the US govt & legal system post-Jan 6, NOT the voters.