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Texas will require public hospitals to collect patients’ immigration status, a great way to ensure that immigrants don’t receive emergency care even when their lives depend on it. tpr.org/news/2024-08-0…

Meanwhile, the US just released $3.5 billion to Israel to spend on US weapons and military equipment.

NEW: @cnn confirms a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials (h/t) to @easybakeovensz for helping identify the weapon

Scenes of a deportation, 728 BC, southern Iraq

Harris appears to be at odds with majority of Democrats on this

The Israeli military blew up an aid truck in Gaza just a day after a clearly-marked UN WFP vehicle came under direct fire as it approached an IDF checkpoint. Humanitarian sources tell me this has deeply shaken aid agencies’ remaining faith in IDF ROE and deconfliction protocols.

From Ted Chiang's recent New Yorker essay about AI. I totally agree with this:

Joe Kloc's amazing poem, "82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984," is a cento + documentary form + archival history that feels like a poem of witness. A docu-cento? A must-read. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

There's a striking contrast between the Israeli and U.S. response to the killing of the hostages. Israeli press contains significant condemnations of Netanyahu for not taking the hostage deal when it could've saved their lives 🧵:

On Nov 19 2005, a group of Marines killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children. For the first time ever, images from the aftermath of the massacre have been made public. They are harrowing, and they are essential to see.

“Between 2014 and 2023, nearly 60% of the migrant deaths in the Americas occurred in the U.S.-Mexico border region — far surpassing the toll in the waters of the Caribbean and the jungles of the Darien Gap.”

This is the position many critics of current US policy on Gaza are urging: follow the US’s own directives on arms exports. Biden’s own policy says weapons can’t be sent if it is “more likely than not” they will be used to commit serious violations of international law + his own..

Reminded that in Dec 2001, the Taliban offered a surrender and Rumsfeld rejected it. The US stayed in Afghanistan for 20 years

The The New Yorker has produced a remarkable database that lists investigations into potential war crimes committed by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, during its War on Terror newyorker.com/podcast/in-the…

Another round of blasts in different areas around south Lebanon and Beirut southern suburb. Devices in cars, motorcycles, and people’s hand are exploding.

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.

Meanwhile, Haitians in Springfield, OH are considering leaving the town in face of threats and abuse. "They are afraid to go out, they are afraid to call Uber, they are afraid to send children to school." npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-…

Our investigation into the migrant detention facility at Guantanamo found: -DHS inspectors imploring DHS to stop holding kids at Gitmo -Migrants reporting that they were forced to wear blackout goggles -A migrant was once held there for nearly 4 years nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/…