How is it possible that this man can be the president of the United States…again?! My God!!!

“The experience of each new age requires a new confession.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buckle up. To be sure, the verdict yesterday holds Trump accountable. And that’s a good thing. But a desperate man is willing to do anything. 2024 is about to get even crazier.

Listen toe Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on madang hosted by the theChristianCentury

“We saw many patients who'd had surgery for war injuries... they were all disintegrating, falling to pieces… the effects of malnutrition now are going to cause far more excess deaths”. Surgeon Nick Maynard gives me his harrowing account of what he saw as a doctor in Gaza:

We have to become better people.

The Biden administration made clear in public and in private on Tuesday that the Israeli strike at the Rafah tent camp, while devastating, would not trigger any serious reprimand from Washington politico.com/news/2024/05/2…

I keep thinking about this hypothetical: a criminal goes on a killing spree and is finally cornered by the police. He grabs an innocent child to serve as a human shield. The police unload. Killing him and the child. What would we think about the police?

Amidst a war whose victims are mostly women, children + the elderly, a war that is starving an entire population, destroying all of Gaza's universities + most of its hospitals, the phrase 'finish them' can have only one meaning. Keep this photo in case she reenters government. It

'Every bombed village is my hometown.”

—James Baldwin

A timely window into Gaza and its desperate civilians

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation on #WITH with Chris Hayes. He let me be so nerdy. Take a listen and let me know what you think. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why…

“What we saw yesterday was the asphyxiation and the burning to death of civilians by the plastic tents that are meant to shelter them…even in their death, they are put through indescribable pain and suffering.” - Noura Erakat

pbs.org/newshour/show/…

“There are no safe havens across the entirety of the Gaza strip… People go to sleep scared; they wake up scared.” Matthew Hollingworth from the World Food Programme tells me what people in Gaza are facing right now.

🚨 SHAME ON PRINCETON UNIVERSITY WHICH HAS WITHHELD DEGREES FROM TWO GRADUATING SENIORS (BOTH BLACK MEN) JUST A DAY AWAY FROM COMMENCEMENT FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE WALKOUT DURING REUNIONS WEEKEND CAPTURED BELOW 🚨

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So RR, former Secretary of Labor, said what I wanted to say, but only smarter. To clarify, the price of everything has gone up, especially for restauranteurs and franchise owners. But the media continuing to ignore the greed aspect of explaining rising prices is doing a huge

'No longer justifiable': Israel faces international condemnation for strike in Rafah | The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com/no-longer-just…

Israeli strikes on Rafah safe zone kill at least 35, Gazan officials say washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/live/2024/05/2…