Dan Hoge

Stop sending weapons to Israel.

For anyone who thinks this can’t happen here there’s a bill in Congress led by Rep. Lawler and Rep. Gottheimer that carries a 20 year prison sentence for people who boycott Israel with 24 Members of Congress cosponsoring

They’re observing Holocaust remembrance while blowing up an injured, defenseless man to pieces.. He covered his face when he realized he was being struck by their killer drones… Wut can I say??

Susana Trimarco disguised herself as madam and walked into brothels across northern Argentina, searching for her missing daughter among women trapped in sexual slavery and in the process, she sparked a movement that would free over 3,000 sex trafficking victims. It began in April 2002, when her 23-year-old daughter, María de los Ángeles Verón, left for a doctor's appointment in their city of San Miguel de Tucumán and never returned home. Frustrated by a police investigation she believed was deliberately sabotaged by corruption, Trimarco obtained the names of known pimps and sex traffickers from police files and launched her own search. She posed as a buyer interested in purchasing the captive women and girls - some as young as 14, who could be traded for about $800. One rape victim told her she had seen María drugged, with swollen eyes, in a trafficker's home that doubled as a holding place for newly abducted women. But by the time Trimarco could follow the lead, her daughter had been moved. Though María was never found, Trimarco's relentless pursuit transformed her into one of Argentina's most powerful human rights activists and forced sex trafficking onto national agenda. "The desperation of a mother blinds you," she says. "It makes you fearless." Through this dangerous work, Trimarco discovered the full scope of sex trafficking and corruption within the police and judiciary that kept women trapped in forced prostitution. "The police would hand [the trafficked women] back to the criminals," she recalls. "They used to say: 'Don't leave me. Take me with you.'" Trimarco ended up becoming the personal guardian to 129 survivors of sex trafficking, sheltering them in her home and helping them reunite with their families. Trimarco's relentless advocacy forced change at highest levels. Her work helped lead to first law, passed in 2008, making human trafficking a federal crime; the subsequent reforms have led to thousands of people being rescued from sex traffickers. These successes, however, have come with high personal cost to Trimarco: she has suffered many reprisals over the years including countless death threats, having her house set on fire, and several attempts to run her over in street. As more trafficking survivors and families of trafficking victims reached out to her for help, Trimarco says, "It came to a point where I just did not have capacity to help them all. That is when I decided to open a foundation." In 2007, she founded Fundación María de los Ángeles, a non-governmental organization focused on helping people escape from trafficking and lobbying for legislation to prevent it. Her efforts focused on her daughter's disappearance eventually resulted in trials for 13 people, including several police officers, in 2012; all 13 were acquitted, a ruling that prompted outrage by many and led to impeachment proceedings against three judges. In December 2013, Tucumán Supreme Court reversed acquittals and convicted ten of defendants, who received sentences ranging from 10 to 22 years in April 2014. But despite it all, Trimarco still hasn't found out what she wants to know most: what happened to her daughter. Some witnesses say she was murdered - although her body has never been found and others say she was taken overseas. Twenty-three years later, Trimarco's work continues in her daughter's name and for all survivors. Her foundation remains at the forefront of the country's fight against human trafficking, recently helping to dismantle trafficking rings in 2024 and 2025. In recent years, the foundation has expanded its role as a legal plaintiff in trafficking cases, ensuring survivors have representation throughout the judicial process. Now in her seventies, Trimarco remains internationally recognized for her work, though her search for answers about María's fate has never ceased. "Every woman I help somehow helps María," she reflects. "They represent hope in this new life of mine." © A Mighty Girl #drthehistories

Today, israeli troops launch a large-scale abduction campaign in Bal’a, near Tulkarm, snatching dozens of young men | @WAFANewsEnglish

#NH01 candidate @maurasullivan was asked at a campaign event if she believed Israel’s actions in Gaza constituted genocide, and with all the discussion around the lack of affordability for average Americans, if elected, would she vote to continue U.S. military aid to Israel? "She made clear her stance that Israel is a key democratic ally in the region, one that provides the U.S. with critical intelligence, and their right to exist is under extreme threat by Iran, which she described as a terrorist state that poses security risks to America." "While she addressed broader themes around foreign policy and the region, neither of my questions was directly addressed nor answered." "I followed up with the campaign via email to give them the opportunity to clarify or expand on the response. While the campaign did respond, the reply did not address the questions I included." "Sullivan is endorsed by the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC, an organization that exists to elect pro-Israel Democrats up and down the ballot, though the endorsement is not highlighted on the candidate’s website." - via @StephenRDenis

Dozens of people arrested at New York protest against US weapon sales to Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/nw6pe1

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Michael Wolff wasn’t using his 100 hours of Epstein tapes to help survivors, he was using them as leverage against people like Steve Bannon, so he could gain more information about Donald Trump. #EpsteinFiles

We are proud to endorse Tennessee State Rep. @Justinjpearson for Congress in #TN09! Rep. Steve Cohen has spent decades in Washington doing the bidding of the Israel lobby instead of the people of Memphis. He backs unconditional military aid to Israel and refuses to call the slaughter in Gaza a genocide. He even voted to block the State Department from citing Palestinian death tolls, effectively trying to erase the human cost of the war. He also voted to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism, a cynical maneuver to silence campus speech and crush solidarity with Palestine. His record serves foreign interests, not his own district.

The 2028 litmus test isn't just going to be blocking all aid to Israel. It's going to be hauling Benjamin Netanyahu to the Hague.

“States must bring Israel’s unlawful occupation to an end.” UN experts have reiterated calls for an end to Israeli attacks on displaced Palestinians in Gaza as well as forced displacement measures in the occupied West Bank aje.news/3dvrkx

Hey Aussies, $13 million of your taxes is being used to kill Palestinians and Lebanese… this shit needs to be investigated and stopped

Voter asks Scott Wiener, who's running to fill Pelosi's seat, about AIPAC money. He denies taking any: “There are people who are going to list out all my Jewish donors and say that." Per filings he's taken $47K from AIPAC donors, including people who've been in AIPAC leadership.

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Indigenous people in Mexico protest the U.S. blasting a sacred ceremonial site with dynamite to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The Kumeyaay people consider Cerro Cuchumá a sacred site where they hold rituals and shamans hold initiations. It also functions as a cemetery.

Police in New York have arrested around 100 anti-war protesters who were staging a sit-in outside the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, demanding an end to US weapons sales to Israel.

Ted Maxwell, son of Kevin Maxwell, nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell, grandson of Israeli super-spy Robert Maxwell is running as an independent candidate for a borough councilor seat in London, where he is campaigning on a pledge to make streets safer. 🤣You cannot make up this stuff.