Patty Wong 🍉

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. Read our new cover story now: trib.al/14EyFWS

This is an open letter addressed to @POTUS, @VP , and @FLOTUS signed by 45 American physicians and nurses, about what we saw while working in Gaza. Please feel free to distribute. A PDF can be downloaded from the link and/or QR code on page 1.

@DavidKlion Not just his presidency but democracy itself as he and his supporters repeatedly warn is at risk we don’t vote for him.

I know more than one liberal whose line is that Israel hasn't done a genocide, but it has done war crimes, and Netanyahu specifically has, and so has Hamas. The ICC took that precise position and Biden said it was outrageous. He's tanking his presidency to protect a war criminal.

It's just baffling why Biden & Sunak can't see these monsters & war criminals for what they are, and are not only prepared to arm them, but to bring down the whole international system of justice to protect them from prosecution for War Crimes

I have not seen anyone else noting this: The weapons Biden paused (aircraft delivered bombs) are not ones used by a ground invasion, while the ones he's now approving (tank ammo, vehicles) are. He doesn't oppose a Rafah ground invasion. He's supplying it. truthout.org/articles/biden…

My latest with @ForeignPolicy It's past time for a fundamental reevaluation of the US-Israel relationship. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/22/isr…

So… we now have confirmation of an Israeli special ops vet running an infiltration operation into the UCLA encampment in coordination with the LA Sheriffs dept. (And just to make it extremely embarrassing for everyone involved, a Dr Phil debrief immediately thereafter.)

This country has more force for student protesters than they did for Jan. 6 or white supremacists marching through campuses with Tiki torches.

Every.single.word. bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees. bit.ly/3TSs8WH

Before the Joe Lieberman tributes come in

Sec 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act:

“No assistance shall be furnished … to any country when it is made known to the President that the govt of such country prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assistance.”

It is hard to believe that this massive destruction of Gaza was needed to fight Hamas. It seems more likely an effort to collectively punish the people of Gaza, if not to render the area unlivable to force out 2.3 million Palestinians -- another Nakba. x.com/UNRWA/status/1…

New Interview: I talked to Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks working at a hospital in Gaza, about her experiences, and what Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient medicine into the territory has meant for Gaza’s children. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a…

“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

Ronald (left) and Carl McNair (right) were born 10 months apart in the Segregated South. The two were inseparable as toddlers and well into adulthood. In 1959, 9-year-old Ronald McNair went to a public library in Lake City, South Carolina because he was looking for more advanced books on science. Carl accompanied his younger brother and described what happened next: "So, as he was walking in there, all these folks were staring at him - because they were white folk only, and they were looking at him and saying, you know, 'Who is this Negro?' So, he politely positioned himself in line to check out his books. Well, this old librarian, she says, 'This library is not for coloreds.' He said, 'Well, I would like to check out these books.' She says, 'Young man, if you don't leave this library right now, I'm gonna call the police.' So he just propped himself up on the counter, and sat there, and said, 'I'll wait.'" The police and their mother were called to the library. Despite the librarian's protest, the police officer allowed Ronald to borrow the books. Ronald went on to get a PhD in Physics from MIT in 1976 and then soon after applied to join NASA. Carl supported his brother all the way, often in disbelief: "So how was a colored boy from South Carolina-wearing glasses, never flew a plane-how was he gonna become an astronaut?" Carl went on to say that "Ron was one who didn't accept societal norms as being his norm... That was for other people... he got to be aboard his own Starship Enterprise.” Ronald became the second Black astronaut when he flew as a mission specialist from February 3rd to 11th, 1984. Ronald was then chosen to be one of the 7 astronauts onboard the space shuttle Challenger. He died along with six other crew members on January 28, 1986, at the age of 35. Today, the library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence. My new column inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Fun fact I had to go to a gas station in Brooklyn NY to get air in this blow up suit & the suit blew up so big I couldn’t fit in the car so I had to walk back to set down the street in this outfit in BROOKLYN😳 dem ppl was riding pass like she must be high😩🤣😂

Sabrina!!! 25 of 27, 20 in a row, almost all net. Wow wow wow.

Is it confirmation that you're ancient when a tweet reads like hieroglyphics and you don't even care to know what it means? #popculturemenopause