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མི་ནག་ཚེས་སྲོག་རྩ་ཆེན། this was my attempt at trying to translate “Black Lives Matter” in Tibetan. it actually says “Black lives are precious.” tried to strike that balance between being accurate in translation but also achieving resonance in Tibetan (in my view).

Takes 10 paragraphs to get to this: "police had arrested a man named Ori Solomon, a 55-year-old Israeli citizen...investigators found a cache of weapons and arrested Solomon on federal weapons charges"

IDF police beat up a Palestinian father and his child for standing “too close” to a jewish area. This is exactly what apartheid looks like.

Going with the word “pogrom” at a time when Jewish settlers in the West Bank are launching dozens of actual violent pogroms a day seems like a deliberate choice to declare that Jewish feelings matter more than physical Palestinian safety

The child who was subjected to torture (including having cigarettes extinguished on his body and a metal rod inserted into his feet in front of his father)— In a delayed video released by the occupation, the moment of his handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross is documented in the “Yellow Line” area east of Gaza, days after he was detained along with his father. During his detention, he was subjected to severe abuses, while his father remains imprisoned by the occupation to this moment.

An American woman: "I watched a little girl from Gaza, the same age as my daughter, take her last breath on a dirty hospital floor." "She tried to lift her small head to blow a kiss to her mother." "I am ready to spend every moment of my life for the freedom of Palestine."

A Jewish man was arrested for arson against his synagogue, the Toronto Police Service said on Sunday. Avrom Bobrowsky, 67, is alleged to have used his key to enter the synagogue that he was a congregant of and deliberately set a fire last Thursday. Bobrowsky then reportedly fled the scene.

Ontario government NOW coming back from CHRISTMAS break is absolutely insane. Ford is absolutely useless bro

Two weeks ago in Abbey Wood a driver deliberately swerved at & ran over a hijabi woman in broad daylight. (CW: the CCTV footage is terrifying.) Mainstream UK media haven’t mentioned it once.

I actually had a conversation about the Jay Z / billionaire thing years ago in London, and why he resists understanding the idea that billionaires are bad. It comes from a reality that you learn growing up poor, when you have no money. You learn that, here, money is selfhood.

jesse just had a piece published in the atlantic, just appeared on cbs news and has a moderately successful national podcast. he is being silenced!

A group of teachers in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood are rallying in support of tenants on rent strikes, citing concerns about the impact of potential above-guideline rent increases on students. #Parkdale #Toronto nowtoronto.com/news/parkdale-…

Israel kidnapped a one year old child and, for ten hours, burned the child with cigarettes right in front of the father, and drove nails into the child's feet. Osama Abu Nassar was near the border east of Al-Maghazi when Israeli soldiers opened fire. A quadcopter drone forced him to leave his 18-month-old son Karim on the ground and walk toward the checkpoint, where he was stripped and detained. Soldiers then brought the child. According to witnesses and the medical report, they burned Karim's leg with cigarettes and drove a metal nail into his foot. Karim was released after 10 hours through the Red Cross. His father is still detained. The family is calling on international institutions to intervene for his release so he can continue his psychological treatment, which he was already receiving before any of this happened. This is not an accusation. It is a medical report and eyewitness testimony about a toddler. Via- Mohammed Aabed.

“They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to end of the bed and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head. While I was blindfolded, I felt a man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera, so I believe they were filming me. I cannot describe what I felt. I wished for death. Every moment." — UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese reads Palestinian survivor accounts of rape, torture, and killings in Israeli detention. 18,500+ have been detained since October 7. At least around a hundred, including a child, have died in custody. And some 4,000 are forcibly disappeared. “What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all.” — @FranceskAlbs told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

In 2019, Canadian Jewish family Alexander and Oxana Berent and their son, Maxim, were charged with public mischief for faking 4 antisemitic attacks on their restaurant. After a court date was set, they skipped the country to California and never returned. winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2…

Jewish-US orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter, who worked in Gaza, recounted that Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, & buried them alive at Nasir hospital... their cries muffled by the dirt poured over them.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

Always money for a convention centre or an airport runway, never a dime for health care, education, or affordable housing. #ONPoli

Feels like you should never hold a journalism job again or ever know peace in this world if you helped spread a lie that justified the murder of tens of thousands of people. What the fuck does “fog of war” even mean except that you were thirsty for death?

Canadian doctor Ben Thompson tells the story of a doctor in Gaza who was forced to strip naked and stand for two days by Israeli occupation forces, urinating, and deficating where he stood. He was only allowed then to treat his patients while naked.

Israeli settlers are putting massive rocks so that ambulances cannot aid the Palestinians in tonight's pogrom. This is what the Zionist government protects.