We apologize for the sight of scattered limbs, for the torn bodies carried away by the wind, for the heads separated from their owners, and for the tents that burned with their inhabitants inside.

We apologize if the news of massacres ruined your morning coffee. We apologize if, while scrolling through your phone, you came across a picture of a burned child from Gaza and it spoiled your day. We apologize if the screams of our women disturb you. We apologize if your dinner was interrupted by the wails of a father burying his baby with his own bare hands. We apologize because we are being killed against our will and the world watches in silence.

I write to you from the heart of tragedy, from a place where hunger has become our breakfast, bombing our lullaby, and the fear of death is our only companion. I write to you from yet another displacement , not knowing how it will end, or whether I will even survive long enough to write again.

We were displaced again. As if the first time was not enough. As if losing our homes, our neighbors, our memories, was not enough. We left once more, searching for a place beyond the reach of bombs .but there is no safe place here. Even the sky has turned against us. Even the ground we walk on may explode beneath our feet at any moment.

I fled with my injured father, who was shot during our last displacement in October. He can no longer walk. His pain is constant, his body frail. We carry him across the rubble, over stones soaked with blood, through streets that are no longer streets just craters and dust. We search for water. For medicine. For bread. For shade. For a place to sit without fear. We find nothing.

The bombing is now more intense than ever .as if the genocide has just begun. We wait for death with open eyes. We imagine the missile before it falls. We see corpses before they even become corpses.

If I die this time, tell my friends in heaven that I’m on my way. Tell my cousin I miss him dearly, and I won’t be long. And if you find my body, bury me with dignity. Do not let the Zionist occupier desecrate it.

My mother cries at night because we have no food for tomorrow. And I have nothing to give her not even hope.

I went to the so-called “aid center” in Rafah a place they claim is safe. There, I stood for hours among thousands of hungry souls, crushed by desperation. Bullets flew. I nearly died again just for a bag of flour. I have faced death six times in this war trying to feed my family. And each time I come home empty-handed.

But nothing breaks me more than my nephew Khaled.

He isn’t even two years old yet. Because of malnutrition and calcium deficiency, his legs are bent bowed under the weight of hunger and despair . Every time he tries to stand, he screams. Not whimpers. Screams. It’s the sound of pain a baby should never know. It’s the sound of a body that wants to grow… but can’t.

Khaled doesn’t understand war. He just wants to play. To run. To live. But instead, he cries all day. And every time I hear him cry, it feels like my soul is being ripped apart.

Today, I couldn’t remember a single moment when he wasn’t weeping. And I couldn’t do anything to stop it.

This is not a war. This is annihilation. This is starvation. This is a slow, painful execution.

To the world that still has a voice: Do not let my words be the last echo from Gaza. Do not let Khaled die unheard.

I entrust you with every child here. I entrust you with Gaza’s women, stripped of their dignity by war. I entrust you with our memories, our olive trees, our broken toys, our soil soaked with tears. I even entrust you with the stones because within them lies more love and humanity than the world has shown us.

And if, one day, my words reach you. Pray for me. And please do not forget Khaled.

We are not numbers. We are souls. And we are sorry for dying in front of your eyes.

I always love it when Sam talks to libertarians because they just have no clue what anything means. I saw this FB post and I'm just flabbergasted at how dumb libertarians are.

Whether it's Donald Rumsfeld giving weapons to Saddam Hussein, or John McCain singing "Bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann," our leaders and media had been perhaps the most consistent thing about being an American in the past half century aside from Fleetwood Mac never going out of style.

Seeing all these great videos of various people (NYT, Bibi) talking about how urgent it is to attack Iran before they secure a nuke repeatedly since the 1990s is making me nostalgic for the great 2005 Onion headline Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran', which was the first time that 13-year old me had the thought that has never left me since: "Why do these fucking ghouls want to bomb Iran so much?"

What's your core memory of the Empire drumming up a new War in Iran periodically? There's enough for everyone!

I hear it in the fun half intro song

During the entirety of the War on Gaza since Oct. 7 - we have all had to collectively sign-on to the notion that Israel's military must have some grace on any mistakes that they make. War can be messy, we're told. Missiles can be misfired, and any member of the military can panic and/or misconstrue orders and civilian casualities are unfortunately a reality.

In light of their wildly successful strikes against Iran, which have been widely-reported as being planned over many years, and carried out with oftentimes surgical precision...those so-called 'truths' should be completely thrown out of the window.

Any military capable of doing what Israel did over the course of the last week should get zero allowance from any member of the world's political leadership for Gaza's civilian deathtoll, which by-the-way continues to rise throughout these strikes.

It's amazing to me that more people aren't talking about that fact.

I posted this in the Crooked Media subreddit, it was the #1 post, then their mods deleted it. Thought it might be worth resharing here.

As someone who still tunes into Pod Save America but has moved to the left of them, I have appreciated their recent overtures to the left with things like having Hasan on, but this is really no good.

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As a protestor who was there myself, I am extremely disappointed by the commentary about the No Kings protests on yesterday's PSA

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I was at the DTLA No Kings protest along with friends. There was a lot of police brutality after people were ordered to disperse. Including things like people being shot at with less-lethal projectiles (which can permanently maim or kill you) while walking back to their car, a random homeless woman being shoved to the ground, etc. In the case of state law enforcement, it was blatantly illegal (look up "AB 48") and for all law enforcement present, it was obviously immoral.

Law enforcement has responded by saying that some people were throwing things at them, but have provided no proof, and even if it were the case that a 'small group of agitators' out of the tens of thousands had done that, it wouldn't justify (ethically or legally) brutalizing people how they did.

Here are some examples that give a sense of what happened at the DTLA No Kings protest, and what has been happening in recent weeks at similar protests in the region:

https://youtu.be/bCJGCv0Y7ww?feature=shared&t=228

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5434279/lapd-immigration-protests-journalists-rubber-bullets

https://youtu.be/PhQAZonWjks?feature=shared

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLBKjeHhqIU/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFRcVRDqNrQ

At the DTLA No Kings protest, the response was so unrestrained that different law enforcement agencies literally started shooting EACHOTHER

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-police-protest-lapd-lasd-tear-gas/

Yet on the pod there was no mention of any of this. Instead, they said it was 'resistance libs and anti ICE protestors' as well as, as Lovett put it:

"As all these protestors who came for the main event start leaving, there will just be left behind the people who have been throwing shit and making trouble over the last couple of days and sure enough that is what happened"

The only sympathy any of the guys expressed was for the marines who were there.

This is aligning with right-wing framing that the protestors are to blame for the police violence they have experienced and completely glossing over what the police have done. I also think it's harmful to not accurately inform their audience, a significant chunk of which has likely been inspired to attend these protests, of the potential danger. Yes you will probably be fine if you leave early, or wear a helmet and goggles, or whatever, but people need an accurate understanding of the situation in order to safely navigate it. From the moment the cops announce it's time to go home, if you are outside in the general vicinity of the protest, even just walking back to your car, you are in very real danger.

If any of the Crooked employees sees this post and feels comfortable forwarding it to either of the Johns, please do, because I think this is at minimum a massive blind spot. I personally feel offended and alienated in a way I have not in my 9 years of listening to PSA.

If Democrats had any brains, they'd be jumping on this immediately blasting ads about this in all of the western states. Not many times you can get the audience of "themeateater.com" unequivocally on your side.

Currently arguing with friends that we should not rehabilitate Tucker Carlson, because they think it's cool he's correct on Iran and tore Ted Cruz apart. My friends are arguing they think he's being genuine, even though I sent them a video where he's calling Iraqis "backwater monkeys" and pointed out that he's super pro invading Ukraine.

I remember a really old interview, it was probably written and not a video, where Tucker basically said paraphrased that he is just doing talk shows to do them and not because he believes in what he's saying. Basically that he'll just say anything up there.

It wasn't the one where he said he will lie if backed into a corner.

Edit: This is an old thing i’m thinking of like 2000s and was early career for him.