Abomba Zachar

We spoke to reporter Zaynab Faraj, who survived a triple-tap attack that killed her colleague, Amal Khalil. She described how an Israeli strike first hit a car ahead of them, killing two civilians, before a second strike targeted their own vehicle, severely injuring Amal. Ms Faraj said she helped her into an empty house, where they lay wounded and terrified, waiting for help. A third Israeli strike then hit the building where they were hiding, collapsing it on top of them. “Amal was gone,” Ms Faraj said. “And I was left alone.” Throughout the ordeal, the journalists made repeated calls for help. But Israel prevented the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Red Cross from reaching them, informed sources told us.

Here is Ala Stanford this week, getting asked about my reporting from 2024 that showed AIPAC has used 314 Action in the past as a secret pass through. She acknowledges that but says in her case it’s not true. We now know this is a flat out lie:

Did you know? There is a well known audio recording in which J.R.R. Tolkien personally narrates “The Ride of the Rohirrim.” This recording was made in 1952 at a friend’s house using a then new technologya tape recorder. During a period when Tolkien had not yet found a publisher for The Lord of the Rings and had begun to lose confidence in himself as a writer. When Tolkien listened to the recording, he rediscovered the power of his own prose, which encouraged him to continue writing. 📚

A cat trying to save its baby stuck under the rubble after an Israeli bombing in Lebanon. These are the scenes that make you cry.

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue. She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

Just imagine the aesthetics of a US house of representatives with 11,000 representatives.

In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many “understand” Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of “social murder”

Giant health insurance companies, like UnitedHealth, are under investigation for corporate fraud through their Medicare Advantage plans. We cannot give these companies one more taxpayer dollar, let alone the $13 billion HHS Secretary Kennedy just approved.