The killing of 7 World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza is both tragic and unsurprising, given the Israeli military's extensive use of explosive weapons in populated areas in Gaza - a practice discredited globally - and its failure to facilitate and protect relief operations. A thread.

🧵Probation and parole set people up to fail – especially those with disabilities. NEW ACLU guide shows how defense attorneys can play a critical role in ensuring clients with disabilities can complete supervision. aclu.org/press-releases…

Frightening how much traction these false narratives about immigration produced by social media influencers get.

Narratives shamefully exploit desperate people fleeing violence and persecution for political aims.

Good reporting by Ken Bensinger & Rios nytimes.com/2024/03/20/us/…

Global migration will continue to increase due to ongoing conflicts, economic conditions, changing demographics, climate and environmental factors, and the need for family reunification. The US cannot enforce its way out of this reality. #StartWithDignity tucson.com/opinion/column…

Scoop: The U.S. has quietly approved more than 100 foreign military sales to Israel since Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of PGMs, small diameter bombs, bunker busters & other lethal aid despite stated concerns about Israel's conduct in the war 🧵washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Absolute rage today, hearing U.S. govt attys complain abt op-tempo of litigation on torture-acquired evidence, & call it 'dead time', when--
-USG chose to torture Baluchi Guantanamo
-USG chose milcomms to hide CIA torture
-USG chose notoriously difficult GTMO as venue
Unbelievable.

It's been 100 years since the Indian Citizenship Act but, despite some recent wins, U.S. Native citizens still face discrimination and major barriers to voting. US states and Congress need to more. See Human Rights Watch: hrw.org/news/2024/03/0…. Abbey Koenning-Rutherford

News outlets express solidarity with journalists in Gaza - Committee to Protect Journalists cpj.org/2024/02/news-o…

How much worse can this get? ⁦⁦

Desperation and death surround an aid delivery in northern Gaza washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…

We Human Rights Watch just released a 118pp report on rights abuses at one of the world’s largest REDD+ projects. We documented a flawed consultation process, forced evictions, and arbitrary arrests. Verra - Standards for a Sustainable Future should ensure accountability and remedies for victims. hrw.org/news/2024/02/2…

With the deadline for relocation just a week away, the Panamanian government has still not provided water, sanitation + health care for the Guna Indigenous community to relocate from their flood-prone island to a safer site: Human Rights Watch’s ⁦Erica Bower⁩ hrw.org/news/2024/02/2…

Haitians in Port-au-Prince describe life as a living hell.

'People trying to go out and eke out a living, people who are trying to send their children to school, get caught in the crossfire.' ~ Tirana Hassan at the Munich Security Conference

The battle of a lifetime, literally, continues! Thank goodness.

Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed.

His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by Roher

Candidates running for POTUS, Congress, and state and local offices must uphold + protect our human rights in their policy agendas. We should insist on it before and after the election.

TODAY Human Rights Watch released a guide with our key recommendations.

And, in addition to everything else, this continues… “Since October 7 … planning committees have advanced 17 master plans involving 8,434 housing units for Jews in areas of Jerusalem beyond the 1967 border.” haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The 4 biggest banks returned $630 BILLION in stock buybacks & dividends to shareholders in the last decade. And their CEOs made an average $28 MILLION last year.

Big banks want to push millions to investors while the banks take on more risks.

We need stronger capital standards.

Right now, the Senate is considering giving Netanyahu's right-wing government $14B to continue its indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.

How can we, with a straight face, rightly criticize Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, while ignoring the killing of 27,000 Palestinians?

' ... as long as the [Biden] administration sidesteps the reality of Israeli abuses in Gaza and applies the rules of military assistance selectively, the moral authority claimed by the US will slip further away.'

Sarah H Yager on US hypocrisy on Gaza:
foreignaffairs.com/how-end-americ…

A landmark decision — the ICJ’s speedy ruling issued today is recognition of the dire situation in Gaza, where civilians face starvation and are being killed daily at levels unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and Palestine.