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A strong functioning UN would sanction Germany and send its leaders to The Hague for materially and morally supporting a genocide.

Does @jonstewart not do any research into his guests? For two weeks he’s hosted unrepentant enablers of the genocide in Gaza and didn’t ask a single question about their roles. @al_baerbock rushed weapons to Israel and gave a speech justifying the bombing of schools & children.

@mattyglesias @mattduss He called it a genocide in 2025. Try again.

@mattduss Stewart probably doesn't accept the premise that there was a genocide.

Apparently it’s Stewart’s policy to not ask obvious questions of any former officials who backed the Gaza genocide.

New: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. propub.li/4tbaEoo

Rats, fleas and endless queues: Inside the daily misery of Gaza's tent camps haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

“This Gaza playbook will repeat itself, constituting a new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war” — my latest @guardian

starting to run in your 30’s is a great way to meet new people. today i met two paramedics, one nurse and almost God.

Former advisor to the Israeli government Daniel Levy on the “Greater Israel” plan: “Israel wants to be surrounded by failed, fragmenting, or co-opted states. Its goal in Iran is regime and state collapse, not regime change.” He then says Israel wants to weaken the Gulf States to make them dependent on Israel.

'Zionism led to genocide. It must disappear': Omer Bartov's new book explores where, exactly, Israel went wrong haaretz.com/jewish/2026-04…

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

Tucker Carlson is not our friend. He should not be welcome into civilized society as if he did nothing wrong. We can happily watch the MAGA movement self-destruct without mistaking Tucker as a good person. In 2021, while still at Fox News, Tucker Carlson privately texted about how much he hated Trump. Private texts also revealed that he knew the 2020 election was not stolen from Trump. Tucker would then go on air and say the exact opposite to 10s of millions of Americans: that Trump was the best president ever and that Dominion voting machines were totally rigged. He intentionally told destructive lies to Americans en masse for career gain & profit. He would do the exact same today, just from a different angle. Tucker Carlson helped mainstream the Great Replacement Theory by planting the seeds into millions of Americans heads on primetime Fox News. Tucker Carlson doesn't genuinely care about human rights, or the 'sanctity of Islam'. Remember, the enemy of your enemy is not ALWAYS your friend...

What a truly evil way to treat people who risked their lives for the United States

They love to act like backing a genocide is some niche side issue and not the defining characteristic of someone’s politics that makes or breaks their ethical credibility on every other issue

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

See key takeaways, including that the chief justice was the driving force in the shadow docket’s creation. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…

Chuck Schumer : "Of course we say it's our land, the Torah says it. But [the Palestinians] don't believe in the Torah. So, that's the reason there is not peace." The fact that this monstrous genocidal maniac is the minority leader in the senate is a disgrace and an embarrassment

Some have said that claims that Israel uses dogs to sexually abuse prisoners are antisemitic blood libels. Unfortunately, there is a good deal of evidence. The organizations that confirmed this include B’Tselem, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Council on American-Islamic Relations. Here is the testimony of survivors: 1) "Nihad" (50-year-old father, Ofer Prison): In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Nihad testified that during a pre-dawn raid on January 14, 2024, Israeli soldiers ordered a police dog to sexually assault him. He described it as "the most painful moments of my life" and noted that the assault left him with deep physical wounds and long-term trauma. 2) "A.A." (35-year-old father, Sde Teiman): Arrested from Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024, A.A. told the PCHR that soldiers took him to a corridor away from cameras, stripped him naked, and unleashed dogs that urinated on him before one dog raped him anally for approximately three minutes. He emphasized that the dog appeared "trained" and "knew exactly what it was doing". 3) "Halim Salem" (Pseudonym, West Bank Detainee): Testified to Middle East Eye that while he was forced to kneel with his head in a toilet, guards brought in a dog that "mounted and raped" him. He recalled that when he screamed, the guards beat him for "disturbing the dog". 4) "Wajdi" (43-year-old, Gaza Detainee): Recounted to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor that during interrogation, he was tied naked to a metal bed and raped by both a soldier and a dog while other soldiers filmed and mocked him. 5) Mohammed Arab (Al Araby TV Correspondent): While detained at Sde Teiman, he told his lawyer he witnessed soldiers forcing dogs to rape prisoners. He stated, "They teach their dogs to have sex with prisoners. Can you imagine?". 6) 18-year-old Gazan Detainee (Sde Teiman): Testified to PCHR that while he and other captives were being raped with bottles by soldiers, there was "also a dog behind us, as if the dog was raping us," serving as a form of extreme psychological and physical humiliation. 7) 48-year-old Detainee (Al-Shifa/Military Outpost): Reported witnessing a dog maul another man’s genitals until the victim bled to death in his arms. 8) The Committee to Protect Journalists and Middle East Monitor have collected dozens of testimonies from journalists who reported being subjected to "dog attacks" and sexualized torture during their detention. I talked to two guards in Sde Teiman, on more than one occasion. One had seen this happen and said it was too awful to talk about. The other said that he had heard about it from others and believed it was true. This happened. This is happening still. The evidence is too overwhelming.

'I felt I was a monster': IDF soldiers talk about the 'moral injury' – and the silence haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

Gaza's war amputees are short of prostheses because of Israeli restrictions. The need is so great that two medical centers said they were trying to reuse prosthetic limbs recovered from people killed in the war. trib.al/BskPqKL