Journalist/writer on science, lit, this ruined world. ON OPIUM is my 2nd book, on pain/pleasure + capitalism/solidarity/consolations of art. See website 4 more.

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Joined March 2009
UN report accuses Israel of willfully destroying Gaza’s health care infrastructure | Salon.com This is part 1 of the longest article I’ve ever written, & the most devastating. Part 2 tomorrow or Friday. Pls read & share as widely as you can. salon.com/2024/10/30/un-repo…
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While healthcare workers in Gaza struggle to perform even basic procedures, essential items including medical supplies sit waiting at crossings and warehouses, unused. Dr Hasan Al-Shaer, Medical Director of Al Shifa Hospital, highlights the reality of healthcare in Gaza👇 (1/5)
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According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Occupied Palestine, between 7 October 2023 and 20 October 2025, “1,001 Palestinians, including 213 children (206 boys and seven girls), 20 women, and at least seven persons with disabilities, have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
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Palestinians are not considered fully human in the West If 240 Israelis had died, the BBC report would be very different
"Now it's almost a month since the ceasefire in Gaza came into effect. And, despite claims of violations, the truce is till holding" - BBC 10 O'Clock News. ??? The Israelis have killed 240 people.
I am going to say something CRAZY. I realize I am just a random guy with no real power. But, if I ever have the privilege to hold some political power in this province, I promise to BLACKLIST every private company or individual involved in this 401 tunnel sham from future government contracts. Dramatic? Over the top? I don’t care. This is graft, pure and simple. To root our corrupt behavior, those involved with this charade seem to be an easy and obvious place to start. And @WSPCanada should be absolutely ashamed to be going along with it. It demonstrates total lack of ethics. And I hope there are consequences for them. The 401 tunnel is an obviously stupid idea to anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together. And at a cost of at least $50B but likely over $100B, it would amount to a massive opportunity cost. This is a project that resembles those concocted by third world dictators to embezzle public money. We could literally build high speed rail connecting Toronto to the rest of southern Ontario for less. We could double the size of the GO and TTC rapid transit network for the same price, moving 30x+ the amount of people. Hell, not adding to our debt would be worth it alone given the negative return this would earn us. All these investments would serve orders of magnitude more people, and economic activity. So yes, any entity willing to sign their name in this deserves the public shame and scorn. And I do not think the public should pull their punches. And I am personally willing to hold a vendetta about it. And I encourage @OntLiberal @OntarioNDP to do the same.
NEW - The Ford government has awarded the feasibility study for its 401 tunnel proposal to Canadian company WSP Canada Inc., for $9.1 million dollars.
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The truth must be told — share it. 💔 **Israel is killing us with our own empty pockets** Prices in Gaza didn’t rise by chance — every truck entering pays *astronomical coordination fees* to Israel: 800,000 shekels for meat, 450,000 for shoes, 150,000 for vegetables! Add to that the corruption of international organizations, traders’ profits, and internal taxes — a shipment that once cost $6,000 now costs $65,000. The result? Insane prices, displaced families unable to buy food, while Israel collects billions daily from our hunger and suffering. The price of an egg carton before the war was 10 shekels — now it’s 120 shekels. **Israel funds its war on us — with our own money.**
It doesn't stop it doesn't stop. We want it to stop so badly that it's easy to turn away and believe that this ceasefire really involves Israel not firing and killing Palestinian civilian genocide survivors on what seems to be a daily basis.
A massive explosion shakes Deir al-Balah. What’s happening in the eastern part of Gaza City is truly terrifying — continuous explosions and the destruction of what remains there using the most powerful and dangerous types of weapons. This is absolutely horrifying.
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Amazing result for our client, @BobbyVylan. All he ever did was raise alert to the genocide in Gaza given that so many were deaf to the crimes of the IDF! 🇵🇸👊🏽
BREAKING NEWS: Rahman Lowe Solicitors successfully secure apology and substantial damages for musician Pascal Robinson of Bob Vylan (@BobbyVylan) following a defamatory article by Reach plc #BobVylan #Defamation #PascalRobinson rllaw.co.uk/rahman-lowe-soli…
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💥We are currently hearing massive explosions along the entire eastern line of the Gaza Strip — large-scale detonations taking place inside the yellow line. The sound is terrifying.
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The Nexus Project is deeply concerned by the divisive, hyperbolic and aggressive response that we are seeing from some corners of the Jewish community to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City. Our full statement:
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In July 2025, the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that Germany’s ban on British-Palestinian surgeon and academic Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah was unlawful. The court found that the Berlin Immigration Office had wrongly barred him from entering the country to speak at the 2024 Palestine Congress. It noted that Abu Sittah’s firsthand experience of Israeli air strikes in Gaza and his testimony before the International Criminal Court should have been considered. The conference, organized by pro-Palestinian activists to discuss Germany’s role in the war, was shut down by police shortly after it began.
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The Biden admin knew all along that Israel was committing war crimes. Biden and Blinken especially are unrepentant war criminals. Their legacy is genocide.
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📍Toronto, Canada A previous video circulated from a Zionist perspective painted IOF soldier Jonathan Karten as a helpless victim “attacked” by pro-Palestinian students. This new footage exposes what really happened, Karten, the IOF soldier, is clearly seen physically attacking peaceful protestors. For context, the protest took place during the “Combat on Campus” tour, where Israeli soldiers were invited to Canadian universities to discuss their battlefield “experiences”, an event many saw as an attempt to whitewash ongoing war crimes. And here’s the double standard, in the United States, the government has revoked visas and even deported international students simply for peacefully protesting for Palestine. That policy is still being enforced on campuses today. If that’s the precedent, then shouldn’t Canada apply the same consistency? If students can be punished for speaking out, those promoting or defending an occupying army on Canadian campuses should face equal scrutiny. Consistency isn’t optional. It’s only fair. @MarkJCarney, you're Candian, eh? 🇨🇦
The “Combat on College Tour” is going around the country, giving Israeli soldiers who committed genocide a platform. Students who protest genocide are silenced and “investigated.” Soldiers who carried it out are invited to “share their harrowing stories.”
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Incredible reporting by @Reuters. Meta makes more money from ad fraud - as much as $16 billion - than all the NFL TV partners put together make on NFL ad sales. Theft on an epic scale.
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH
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"Fight Fascism" Poster seen in Gainesville, Florida
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22 authors in a new open access peer-reviewed article in Sociology of Sport Journal: Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the United States."
for the history books.
EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen told a crowd of protestors that they should be grateful for being free in the EU unlike in Russia where you are arrested for protesting At that very moment a man was arrested for protesting You couldn't make it up
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
Resistance ceases, Israel fires* (Fires US weapons with parts & $ from all over the western world, whose media insist it’s a ‘fragile but holding’ ceasefire no matter how many children are blown up by the IDF—till Hamas breaks it)
There is no ceasefire.
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We have forgotten the siege. We have forgotten the 60% of our land that is being destroyed before our eyes as I write these words. We have forgotten the water that no longer reaches our homes, and the medicine we must divide between one patient and another. We have forgotten the coming winter, while we still shelter beneath tents that protect us from neither the cold nor the wind. We have forgotten the bodies still trapped beneath the rubble, waiting for a hand to lift them out. And we have forgotten the wounded, fighting for their lives with broken tools and exhausted bodies. We have forgotten everything… We have forgotten to scream, and we have forgotten that the world only listens to those who scream the loudest. Please, speak about us more. Speak about our pain, our endurance, our humanity that still struggles to survive amid all this destruction. Do not let us disappear into another silence.
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