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My out of office message: The past two years have been marked by an accumulation of losses. Loved ones. Colleagues. Friends. People deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli army. I learned that grief does not arrive as a sequence of discrete events; it accrues. It settles into my body until I start to wonder not only what has been lost, but what remains. There are moments when I suspect I have lost some part of my own humanity simply by witnessing so much death. I have watched people die in front of me in ways that resist description. I have lived inside a genocide as it unfolded, and I have watched another continue in Gaza, mediated through the relentless images on a tiny screen in my pocket that refuses to yield. The 24 hour image has dissolved the boundary between proximity and spectatorship. We can leave the scene, but the scene does not leave us. Some images insist on permanence. On more than one occasion, I have watched paramedics carry bags containing the dismembered remains of children. There are sights that do not become memories because they never cease to be present. They have reorganized my inner life. How much grief can a human being contain before it alters the architecture of the self? I have been chased by a Merkava tank. A grenade has been thrown at me. Israeli quadcopters have circled overhead as instruments of intimidation. Sound bombs have become part of the atmosphere. Israeli snipers have opened fire on me eight times, most recently last Monday, while a group of us filmed the demolition of homes in Haddatha. Survival, repeated often enough stops feeling like triumph and just, almost mundanely, becomes another condition of witnessing. This week brought another loss, one I had neither anticipated nor prepared myself to absorb. Its force has surprised me. Maybe grief does not become easier through repetition. Maybe each loss discovers a new vulnerability. For the next few days, I will step away from the field. Not because the work has become less necessary, but because mourning, too, demands its own uncompromising attention. My heart is in pieces. آخر سنتين من حياتي كانوا تراكم مستمر للخسارات. أحبّة. زملاء. أصحاب. ناس انقصفوا وانقتلوا عن قصد على إيد الجيش الإسرائيلي. تعلّمت إنو الحزن ما بيجي كحادثة وحدة بتنتهي. بيتراكم. بيسكن بالجسد، لدرجة إنك بتبلّش تتساءل مش بس شو اللي خسرته، بل شو اللي بعده باقي منك. في لحظات بحسّ إنّي خسرت جزء من إنسانيتي، بس لأنّي شهدت كل هالقدر من الموت. شفت ناس يموتوا قدّامي بطرق ما بتوصفها الكلمات. عشت على مقربة من إبادة جماعية وهي عم تصير، وشفت إبادة تانية مستمرّة بغزة، منقولة إليّ عبر شاشة ما بتطفي، شاشة ما بتترك مجال لوهم إنو في مسافة بتحميك. الصورة المستمرة على مدار أربع وعشرين ساعة ألغت الفرق بين إنك تكون قريب من الحدث أو مجرد متفرّج عليه. فيك تترك المكان، بس المكان ما بيتركك. في صور بتفرض حالها إلى الأبد. أكتر من مرة شفت مسعفين حاملين أكياس فيها أشلاء أطفال. في مشاهد ما بتتحوّل إلى ذكريات، لأنّها ما بتغيب أصلًا. بتضلّ حاضرة، وبتعيد ترتيب العالم اللي جوّاتك. قدّيش في إنسان يتحمّل حزن قبل ما يغيّر الحزن شكل روحه؟ ركضت قدّام دبابة ميركافا وهي عم تلاحقني. انرمت عليّ قنبلة. طائرات الكوادكوبتر الإسرائيلية ظلّت تحوم فوق راسي كوسيلة ترهيب. القنابل الصوتية صارت جزء من الهواء اللي منتنفّسه. والقنّاصة الإسرائيليون أطلقوا النار عليّ ثماني مرات، آخرها الاثنين الماضي، بينما كنّا مجموعة منّا عم نصوّر هدم البيوت بحَدّاثا. لما البقاء على قيد الحياة بيتكرّر مرارًا، ما بعود يُشبه الانتصار. بيصير مجرد شرط إضافي من شروط الشهادة على ما يجري. وهالأسبوع حمل خسارة جديدة، خسارة ما كنت متوقّعها، ولا كنت مهيّأ استوعبها. وقعها عليّ كان أقسى ممّا تصوّرت. يمكن الحزن ما بيصير أخفّ مع التكرار. ويمكن كل خسارة بتكتشف نقطة ضعف جديدة فينا. لهيك رح ابتعد عن الميدان كم يوم، مش لأنّ الشغل صار أقلّ ضرورة، بل لأنّ الحداد، هو كمان، بيطالب بحقه الكامل، ومن دون أي مساومة.

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I wonder when committing genocide in Gaza, invading Lebanon, bombing Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq-killing tens of thousands of people, violating the Geneva and Vienna conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, and committing acts of piracy in international waters will be considered terrorism by the international community…

This is why Amazon workers are joining @amazonteamsters Amazon has a moral and legal obligation to recognize that their employees are organizing their workplaces. Enough is enough!

Seven Senate Democrats voted against blocking a bombs sale to Israel. Primary them all. Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jacky Rosen (NV) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Chuck Schumer (NY) John Fetterman (PA)

The man who spent years whining that the government illegally spied on his campaign is now demanding Congress let him spy on every American—without a warrant. FISA 702 is the real threat to Americans’ privacy: warrantless surveillance of U.S. persons under the guise of targeting foreigners. Far bigger than the Title I abuse Trump complains about. Stop electing hypocrites who trash the Constitution. Tell Congress: Vote NO on FISA 702.

Fuck you @NPR for perpetuating the lie that Israel is striking ‘Hezbollah targets.’ They are committing daily massacres off the battlefield of civilians and your correspondent in Beirut knows it.

Pay us enough to live!

Jared Kushner says he's still only "technically" serving in a "volunteer" capacity, but at the same time he's administering the governance of Gaza, organizing Article 5-style "security guarantees" for Ukraine, and handling the Iran war. What an incredible "volunteer" portfolio!

Meanwhile more than 2 years later in Baltimore . . .

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First train crosses rebuilt Yahyaabad railway bridge in Kashan, central Iran, after it was damaged in a US-Israeli attack on April 7. Follow: T.me/presstv

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A 38-year-old man was found dead April 6 in the attic of a home in the 800 block of Birch Court in Redlands, the city said. Cause of death was apparent electrocution. The homeowner had hired him to perform electrical work. But the electricity was not turned off before the work.

29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim TORCHES 1.2 MILLION-SQUARE-FOOT WAREHOUSE ‘All you had to do was PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE’ Compares himself to Luigi Mangione

The three most remarkable papal tweets — ever?

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KNOXVILLE: “2 nights sleeping in her car… a 200 mile drive… a window on the health insurance crisis.” 💔 60 MINUTES re-visits @ramusaorg, who we cover often— they pop up to give free health/dental care to Americans suffering in the richest country on earth. #MedicareForAllNOW

Journalist Courtney Bonneau reporting from Lebanon: “Americans, your taxes are being used to kill unarmed men, women and children.”

Did you hear about the latest war crime?

“A toddler in Gaza released from Israeli custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds.” Read that again.

the opposition party had more to say about Robert Mueller than the Iran War this weekend