If you're a student or early career journalist or writer in the region, please pitch! Would love to help support your work. There's info in the pitch guide & pitching via the form is the best way to go. (If you let me know you've pitched, I can flag it to the team. Happy to brainstorm ideas, too!)

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Over 45 days, then-21 year old Alaqad moved from one temporary shelter to another, unable to process the horrors she documented on her phone.

“Every time I read [my diaries], I just feel disbelief, like, is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

i keep repromoting this because Plestia really struggled to get her book published in the US, and it feels like this site is both really interested in talking about Palestine and also not really interested in reading Palestinian perspectives on their own experience

do i experience toxicity on here? well let's just say i have thirty thousand followers and yet all of my posts have fewer than thirty thousand favs. have you ever heard of gang stalking

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

the replies have been limited sorry yall 🫶

I have strongly considered doing so and honestly your encouragement may enable me lol

between this and all the people like wishing death on her my replies are a nightmare

to everyone saying she wasn’t deported she was kidnapped: I literally say in the piece that she was taken and allegedly beaten, please stop making it sound like I softened the circumstances around this story

A message from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza, whose daughter was hurt in an attack: "Alma has wounds on her forehead and front teeth. She can't eat because of the severe pain."

The civilians rely on our direct donations to survive. Please give to Tasneem and to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

A lawyer representing the Global Sumud Flotilla activists said 150 were still being held by Israel, and 40 were on hunger strike to push for “medical treatment [for] all detainees,” reported the Associated Press. @teenvogue.com

Thunberg and other detainees were allegedly mistreated while detained by Israel. Thunberg reportedly told Swedish officials she was “in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.” Other activists told the press that Thunberg was “paraded around” in an Israeli flag and beaten.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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I realize this is either a terribly bad time to post about this or an increasingly relevant one, but if you're having a tough time caring about work tasks with so much else happening, I'd love to hear about how that's showing up for you, and what (if anything) has helped:

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

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Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

it was a good second week of my new newsletter. here's what i did there this week.

on monday, i wrote about why conservatives have already overrun the possible compromise positions on trans rights. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

"“The US and China are racing to see who can destroy the environment most quickly." www.theguardian.com/environment/...