Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/12/202512 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️ 8670341406
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 14/12/2025How cruel and monstrous is this confluence of things?theguardian.com‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the leadExclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal 001
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/12/2025BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r 9148118
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Enough of thistheguardian.comTenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissalSang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests 011
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/12/2025The moment an Israeli missile hit a tent in Gaza was caught on camera when a Palestinian girl filmed herself showing her hair clips. 21518342
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 01/12/2025onslaughttheguardian.comIt's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine MalikBroken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 000
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/11/2025For our fourth and final centenary special issue, the artist Malika Favre created “Taking Flight,” the latest adaptation of The New Yorker’s classic Eustace Tilley cover. Read the issue here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nWkC-7 #NewYorker100 0568
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter. 11696131311055
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 05/11/2025 CNN commentators are commenting on Mamdani with such disrespect starting with Van Jones. bought and sold 240
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 13/10/2025From the Guardian 2 A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere” and threatening that if they supported “terrorist organisations” they could be arrested." 010
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 13/10/2025From the Guardian: "Israel also forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison, in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. 001
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 21/09/2025what did he do actually? create unity? find a cure for a life threatening disease? develop a system for a better world? Come up with a solution for disparities? i mean what did he do? anything worthwhile? people doing those things have been cancelled. this is insultingtheguardian.comCharlie Kirk memorial latest updates: Trump and Vance to join tens of thousands of people at service for rightwing activistFuneral expected to start at 11am local time; Erika Kirk, US president and vice-president among the expected speakers 010
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/09/2025Senator Jeff Merkely leads the First-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state This is long overdue and a critical step forward. www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-lead...merkley.senate.govMerkley Leads Historic Call for U.S. Recognition of Palestinian Statehood - MerkleyFirst-ever resolution in the U.S. Senate to formally recognize a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a historic resoluti... 737083
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/09/2025One underreported fact is Brendan Carr—the FCC chairman who got Kimmel suspended—spent the last four years warning that government censorship of critics leads to authoritarianism. Carr co-authored P2025. He know he's advancing authoritarianism. That's the point. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...qasimrashid.comThe Cancellation of Jimmy KimmelBy indefinitely suspending him, ABC is reminding us that trust in corporate media is dead for a reason—but there's something even more sinister afoot we cannot ignore 9261109
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 18/09/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention centerCritics condemn reopening of ‘Camp J’ unit at Angola in service of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, noting its history of brutality and violence 010
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Every time journalists are killed, we are all robbed of the stories. Sending pieces of my heart to their families.aljazeera.comIsrael murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-SharifAl-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City. 011
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/08/2025every call all the time. You need to read how Microsoft is big brother and how genocide is the result. Whether you believe that they knew it or not.theguardian.com‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of PalestiniansRevealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe 000
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 06/07/2025everything he doged is already costing lives. from healthcare to aviation safety to climate and weather safety. while death camps are built. Taking aim from every possible direction.open.substack.comTrump regime officials must be prosecuted for the deaths of the children in Texas flood!Trump gutted the National Weather Service 021
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2025You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025. 964308109522
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 05/07/2025You may be funding this incipient toxic culture that spectacularizes violence. Remember who to boycott. "The UFC is even sponsoring the United States Semiquincentennial dubbed America 250, joining the likes of Amazon, the Coca-Cola Company, Oracle and Walmart."theguardian.comDonald Trump’s UFC stunt is more than a circus. It’s authoritarian theatre | Karim ZidanThe planned fight on White House grounds isn’t just macho spectacle – it’s a chilling marker of where the US is headed 120
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact. 629243745546
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/06/2025A hideous and indefensible crime. Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. Both Biden and Trump are complicit. So too are those who excuse and defend it. 16458158
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Do people need to hide in a closet and start a diary cause this shit is starktheguardian.comIranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardeningMadonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans 000
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/06/2025GoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers.bit.lyAs Gaza starves, GoFundMe accused of blocking ‘millions of dollars’ raisedGoFundMe is accused of unfair restrictions and financial freezes on Palestinian aid fundraisers. 112898
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing? 34674372495
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025What the fuuuuuuuuuck www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn... 681471639
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The right to disappear people?theguardian.comUS supreme court clears way for Trump to deport migrants to countries not their ownJustices lift judicial order, handing victory to US president in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations 000
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025My response to the councilwoman on twitter: "This is false @VickieforNYC, I'm a private sector entrepreneur with a thriving small business in the heart of Manhattan. Please delete this incorrect tweet. Take out a paid subscription to support entrepreneurialism" www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup 712615
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025abc7.com/post/dodgers...abc7.comDodgers commit $1M to families impacted by immigration raids after pushback from community groupsThe Dodgers announced that the organization will donate $1 million to immigrant families impacted by recent raids. 1829
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 19/06/2025So. Israel does think that striking hospitals is a bad thing? hmmm i couldn’t tellwho.intHealth system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in Gaza, WHO warnsIsrael’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fue... 000
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 16/06/2025He needs to be stoppedtheguardian.com‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veteransTrump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status 101
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialIlanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings 8875508111205
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/06/2025We’ve truly lost our way in this country. An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs. 57672693037
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening 722994748
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialNo Longer HR Lady Not Named Linda @shi-arm33chandilar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025My president. 011
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Live look at Detroit, Michigan. Let's go, Motor City! Even Fox's streaming channel is calling the No Kings Day rallies "massive." 🍿 166112082650
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialErin Leiserson @erinleiserson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I am thrilled to see the huge turnouts in major cities! But you know what? I'm equally thrilled to see the proportional turnouts in smaller towns, especially the ones where people know they'll be recognized by their MAGA neighbors. Thank you all -- you can be proud of your communities today! 14010
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialsherryjustice.bsky.social @sherryjustice.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I had tears as I drove to my little town court house seeing every overpass, lined with people waving flags and holding signs. Then I find out, it was that way all the way down to Sacramento! People came out today and it was beautiful! 1768
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks. 148160893676
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Show up to the NO KINGS rallies. Be vigilant and peaceful and organized. Don't give in to terror and fear. They want you to be cowed into silence. Speak louder. 472717398
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/06/2025Video shows a young man carrying his dead father on a bicycle after he was shot while trying to secure food parcels at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site in Gaza. Israeli forces have killed more than 220 Palestinians at GHF aid distribution sites since they opened. 45688413
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...wagingnonviolence.orgAmerican Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is acceleratingContrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful. 10911373
elmazessentially.bsky.social @elmazessentially.bsky.social · 12/06/2025theguardian.comUS immigration officials raid California farms as Trump ramps up conflictStepped-up ‘enforcement activity’ to fulfill arrest quotas leads to reports of agents chasing workers across farmland 000
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialManel Márquez 🍉 [Memòria Històrica] @manelmarquez.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Israel es un Estado criminal, que ha asesinado a 231 periodistas palestinos en Gaza, desde el 7 de octubre de 2023. Al Jazeera ha publicado sus nombres para que el mundo no los olvide. #Israel no quiere que se informe del genocidio que está cometiendo. #NotATarget #FreePalestine 188101
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialVote Blue 🌵🗳️💙🦋🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @lflorepolitics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Gavin Newsom for the win🏆 27469161720
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialJohnnyMangu @johnnybarbu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB 82694045259
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/06/2025About 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations.bit.lyOne in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR reportAbout 123 million remain forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, persecution and human rights violations. 110044
Reposted by @elmazessentially.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...truthout.orgICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President“We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid. 11147991334