@jgarren.bsky.social
Over-educated old potter. Cares: (1) growing US fascism; (2) what isn’t told in western media re Palestine. Posts from non-west sources & anti-musrump matters=FB suspension. Elephant’s Child: politics/science/art/history/theatre/kitties/books/garden/etc.
• >39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents
• 17,000-19,000 are orphans or unaccompanied/separated from their families
• >64,000 have been killed or wounded
• ≥21,000 have been disabled
• Gaza has highest # of child amputees per capita in the world
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
• 17,000-19,000 are orphans or unaccompanied/separated from their families
• >64,000 have been killed or wounded
• ≥21,000 have been disabled
• Gaza has highest # of child amputees per capita in the world
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Virtual reality offers escape to Gaza children wounded in Israel’s war
VR headsets are offering injured, traumatised Palestinian children respite from hardships in war-torn Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
• >39,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents
• 17,000-19,000 are orphans or unaccompanied/separated from their families
• >64,000 have been killed or wounded
• ≥21,000 have been disabled
• Gaza has highest # of child amputees per capita in the world
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
• 17,000-19,000 are orphans or unaccompanied/separated from their families
• >64,000 have been killed or wounded
• ≥21,000 have been disabled
• Gaza has highest # of child amputees per capita in the world
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING, RIGHT?
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Trump says he's pardoning Mesa CO county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines. Tina Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 U.S. election and sentenced to nine years in prison. [Reuters 12/11/25]
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Trump says he's pardoning Mesa CO county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines. Tina Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 U.S. election and sentenced to nine years in prison. [Reuters 12/11/25]
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING, RIGHT?
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Trump says he's pardoning Mesa CO county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines. Tina Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 U.S. election and sentenced to nine years in prison. [Reuters 12/11/25]
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Trump says he's pardoning Mesa CO county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines. Tina Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 U.S. election and sentenced to nine years in prison. [Reuters 12/11/25]
fyi: LINK FROM United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 11 December 2025
www.alhaq.org/publications...
www.alhaq.org/publications...
Al-Haq Trump Trilogy Part II: The Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust
 
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December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
fyi: LINK FROM United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 11 December 2025
www.alhaq.org/publications...
www.alhaq.org/publications...
HEADLINES THIS AM:
AJ: LIVE: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm...• houses, walls, tents have collapsed; 3 children died from hypothermia (13:00 GMT) UN: Entry of essential materials needed during storm blocked by Israel
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AJ: LIVE: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm...• houses, walls, tents have collapsed; 3 children died from hypothermia (13:00 GMT) UN: Entry of essential materials needed during storm blocked by Israel
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12 dead and 27,000 tents destroyed in Gaza storms; Report finds $1 billion in revenue from Gaza aid extortion; Trump signs order blocking state laws on AI
Drop Site Daily: December 12, 2025
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
HEADLINES THIS AM:
AJ: LIVE: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm...• houses, walls, tents have collapsed; 3 children died from hypothermia (13:00 GMT) UN: Entry of essential materials needed during storm blocked by Israel
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
AJ: LIVE: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm...• houses, walls, tents have collapsed; 3 children died from hypothermia (13:00 GMT) UN: Entry of essential materials needed during storm blocked by Israel
open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year
Measles Outbreaks Accelerate as U.S. Inches Closer to a Disease Tipping Point
More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year
www.scientificamerican.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year
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(18:00 GMT) FAR-RIGHT SETTLERS PUSHING TO RE-ESTABLISH ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS IN GAZA. Israeli media: dozens of Israelis “infiltrated” N Gaza Wed evening, setting up tents & planting an olive tree where so-called Nisanit settlement previously stood.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
(18:00 GMT) FAR-RIGHT SETTLERS PUSHING TO RE-ESTABLISH ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS IN GAZA. Israeli media: dozens of Israelis “infiltrated” N Gaza Wed evening, setting up tents & planting an olive tree where so-called Nisanit settlement previously stood.
(AJ@ 20:45 GMT) Photos: Palestinians clear floodwaters, mud in Gaza City tent camps December 11. 2025
[Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters and AFP]
[Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters and AFP]
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
(AJ@ 20:45 GMT) Photos: Palestinians clear floodwaters, mud in Gaza City tent camps December 11. 2025
[Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters and AFP]
[Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters and AFP]
‘Nightmare’ as storm lashes displacement camp in Gaza
- Baby girl died overnight in a flooded tent ...
(13:45 GMT) CD says three buildings collapsed due to stormhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/11/live-heavy-rains-flooding-as-storm-byron-batters-war-torn-gaza
- Baby girl died overnight in a flooded tent ...
(13:45 GMT) CD says three buildings collapsed due to stormhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/11/live-heavy-rains-flooding-as-storm-byron-batters-war-torn-gaza
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
‘Nightmare’ as storm lashes displacement camp in Gaza
- Baby girl died overnight in a flooded tent ...
(13:45 GMT) CD says three buildings collapsed due to stormhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/11/live-heavy-rains-flooding-as-storm-byron-batters-war-torn-gaza
- Baby girl died overnight in a flooded tent ...
(13:45 GMT) CD says three buildings collapsed due to stormhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/11/live-heavy-rains-flooding-as-storm-byron-batters-war-torn-gaza
What my doctor told me, and what I said back
Friends,
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY:
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service’s annual threat assessment described the US as a potential security risk...“The US uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies” [JS]
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service’s annual threat assessment described the US as a potential security risk...“The US uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies” [JS]
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
PROBABLY NOT THE ONLY:
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service’s annual threat assessment described the US as a potential security risk...“The US uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies” [JS]
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service’s annual threat assessment described the US as a potential security risk...“The US uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies” [JS]
IDF uprooted hundreds of olive trees in WB village of Qaryut. Order authorized uprooting of trees on ±20 acres, but trees removed from ±37 of which only ±3 defined as state-owned. Ordered to relocate trees; footage shows roots destroyed making replanting impossible. [Haaretz]
youtu.be/tN8FtvnbaS0
youtu.be/tN8FtvnbaS0
Olive trees destroyed: Israeli 'land grab' tears up Palestinians' livelihoods
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
IDF uprooted hundreds of olive trees in WB village of Qaryut. Order authorized uprooting of trees on ±20 acres, but trees removed from ±37 of which only ±3 defined as state-owned. Ordered to relocate trees; footage shows roots destroyed making replanting impossible. [Haaretz]
youtu.be/tN8FtvnbaS0
youtu.be/tN8FtvnbaS0
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO LIVE IN GAZA...
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
What life is like in Gaza’s crowded tents
No privacy, security, hygiene, or protection from Israel’s bombs. That’s what life has been like for two years in Gaza’s shelters.
www.aljazeera.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO LIVE IN GAZA...
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
REMINDER: ISRAEL HAS DENIED ENTRY INTO GAZA OF TENTS, BUILDING MATERIALS, MOBILE HOMES, HEAVY EQPT ETC. SINCE THE WAR BEGAN.
(08:15 GMT) Storm Byron advances w/heavy rainfall and winds
Palestinians struggle with flooding [Abu Marhil camp, Zeitoun N'hood, Gaza City 12-10-25 Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu]
(08:15 GMT) Storm Byron advances w/heavy rainfall and winds
Palestinians struggle with flooding [Abu Marhil camp, Zeitoun N'hood, Gaza City 12-10-25 Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu]
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
REMINDER: ISRAEL HAS DENIED ENTRY INTO GAZA OF TENTS, BUILDING MATERIALS, MOBILE HOMES, HEAVY EQPT ETC. SINCE THE WAR BEGAN.
(08:15 GMT) Storm Byron advances w/heavy rainfall and winds
Palestinians struggle with flooding [Abu Marhil camp, Zeitoun N'hood, Gaza City 12-10-25 Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu]
(08:15 GMT) Storm Byron advances w/heavy rainfall and winds
Palestinians struggle with flooding [Abu Marhil camp, Zeitoun N'hood, Gaza City 12-10-25 Hamza ZH Qraiqea/Anadolu]
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The Ellison family’s desire to take over Warner Bros should alarm anyone concerned with U.S. propaganda & media consolidation—
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Ellison family’s desire to take over Warner Bros should alarm anyone concerned with U.S. propaganda & media consolidation—
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
They would own Paramount, Warner Bros, CNN, CBS, HBO, TikTok & a host of major cable channels
HEAR! HEAR!
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
HEAR! HEAR!
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UNSC Resolution 2803 and the International Stabilization Force that it establishes rest on shaky legal grounds, write Samiksha Mukherjee and Sanmay Moitra.
It also fails to effectively advance either Israeli security or Palestinian self-determination.
www.justsecurity.org/125993/resol...
It also fails to effectively advance either Israeli security or Palestinian self-determination.
www.justsecurity.org/125993/resol...
Analysis: Resolution 2803 and the International Stabilization Force
The UNSC's Resolution 2803 authorizes a Gaza stabilization force, but its legality, impartiality, and strategic viability remain in doubt.
www.justsecurity.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
UNSC Resolution 2803 and the International Stabilization Force that it establishes rest on shaky legal grounds, write Samiksha Mukherjee and Sanmay Moitra.
It also fails to effectively advance either Israeli security or Palestinian self-determination.
www.justsecurity.org/125993/resol...
It also fails to effectively advance either Israeli security or Palestinian self-determination.
www.justsecurity.org/125993/resol...