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04/23/2025

Human Blockaders Shut Down Air Force Base to ‘Put Our Bodies Between the Drones and the Children of Gaza’ - 1 Arrested
Photos and Video at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-9uyLrz7Edyuk4rioE8gudIKT1-YmQpF

Veterans for Peace

Monday, April 21, 2025 - We joined anti-drone activists from across the U.S. to shut down the West Gate entrance here at Holloman AFB early Wednesday morning – with one arrest - for nearly an hour in the 3rd annual "week of resistance" to the covert U.S. Drone Warfare Program.

Activists donned signs with names and ages of young Gazan children's killed, and blocked traffic while chanting “15 thousand children killed in Gaza. No drones for genocide.”

One protester, Toby Blomé, was arrested after lying down on pavement in front of a stalled car when military police threatened to arrest her. She was ultimately handcuffed, detained and cited with a federal trespassing charge and released.

Holloman AFB, in southern New Mexico, is the largest drone training program in the U.S., where over 700+ drone pilots and operators graduate annually. Coming from as far away as Montana, Massachusetts, and California, the activists are holding am and pm vigils daily, April 21-25, during commuter traffic (6:30-8:30am & 3:30-5:30pm).

The convergence highlighted U.S. complicity in Israel's ongoing illegal genocide, that has now killed over 50,000 Palestinians. U.S. drones are being used, at the minimum, to help Israel identify targets.

04/23/2025

Not Taking A Position On Gaza IS Taking A Position On Gaza
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/not-taking-a-position-on-gaza-is?utm_medium=ios

Caitlin Johnstone / Caitlin’s Newsletter/Substack

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - It’s not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what’s happening in Gaza in 2025. You’re an adult. You have internet access. If you don’t know, learn. You can’t just go “it too compwicated, me no understandy, googoo gaga.” It’s not cute and it’s not okay. Grow the f**k up.

Related: The Pope Has Died, And The Palestinian People Have Lost An Important Advocate
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-pope-has-died-and-the-palestinian?utm_medium=ios

Caitlin Johnstone / Caitlin’s Newsletter/Substack

Monday, April 31, 2025 - I hope another compassionate human being is announced as the next leader of the Church, but there are definitely forces pushing for a different outcome right now. There is no shortage of terrible men who could be chosen for the position.

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

04/23/2025

‘A Beacon of Hope’: Leaders React to the Death of Pope Francis
https://sojo.net/articles/news/beacon-hope-leaders-react-death-pope-francis

Mitchell Atencio / Sojourners

Monday, April 21, 2025 - In his 12 years as pontiff, Pope Francis forged a legacy of compassion, humanity, and joy.

Related: What Francis meant
https://the.ink/p/what-francis-meant?utm_medium=ios

The Ink

Monday, April 21, 2025 - The pope's death and America's far-right Catholic movement

Leaders around the world received news of of Pope Francis' death with mourning, gratitude, and the occasional critique.

04/23/2025

04/21/2025

Morris: Can we talk about George Floyd?
https://www.startribune.com/can-we-talk-about-george-floyd/601332804

Phil Morris / Minnesota (MN) Star Tribune

Saturday, April 19, 2025 - It’s five years after his death. We invite you to be part of the continuing conversation.

As the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder approaches, Opinion Editor Phil Morris invites you to be part of the continuing conversation.

04/21/2025

Political news is making me miserable. Is it wrong to tune out?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/409257/politics-news-consumption-attention-empathy-compassion

Signal Samuel / Vox

Sunday, April 20, 2025 - Lately, in order to help with my mental health, I’ve been avoiding news about the current political situation, and it’s been really helping. I haven’t totally buried my head in the sand; I still get some info from others and the stuff that leaks into my social media (which I’ve also been using less) and stuff like John Oliver, but overall, I haven’t been giving it all much thought, and focusing on my hobbies and the people around me have seriously helped.

Related: How to Stop Hating Trump Supporters
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-christianity-pope-stephen-loving-neighbor

Stephen J. Pope / Commonweal

March 3, 2025 - And why it doesn’t require you to suspend your moral judgments

It feels very tempting to cocoon myself in relaxing hobbies to spare my mental health.

04/21/2025

Live updates: Pope Francis dies at 88
https://apnews.com/live/pope-francis-dies-catholic-church-updates

Associated Press (AP)

Monday, April 21, 2025 - Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor, has died, as announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo. He was 88

Related: Francis’s Church?
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-francis-catholic-church-legacy

Massimo Faggioli / Commonweal

Sunday, April 20, 2025 - Assessing a papacy and its legacy

From an emphasis on the global church to synodality, Pope Francis brought an outsider's perspective to his twelve-year papacy.

04/19/2025

Carter’s quiet bombshell: the war we’re losing isn’t to China. It’s to our own addiction to dominance.

John Saunders / The Progressive Project

Spting, 2025 - In a moment that should’ve stopped time, Jimmy Carter—quiet as a monk, sharp as a scalpel—offered a truth so unassuming, most missed the incision. He was speaking to Trump, but really, he was speaking to all of us.

Carter’s point was this: While China has spent decades laying tracks for the future, we’ve been digging graves in the past. They’ve built cities, schools, trains that move faster than thought. We’ve built military bases, debt, and an empire of rust.

It wasn’t a boast. It was an autopsy.

China chose infrastructure. We chose interference. They built railways across continents. We bombed bridges across borders. They invested in AI, medicine, and education. We invested in overthrowing oil-rich governments, branding it freedom.

We spent $300 billion trying to bend the world to our will. They spent it making their own nation unshakable.

We don’t have high-speed trains. We don’t have roads that last. We don’t have universal healthcare, or education systems that top the charts. But we do have the most advanced weapons on Earth, pointed at every direction but inward.

If we’d used even a fraction of that money on ourselves, our cities would hum like circuits. Our schools would shine. Our hospitals would heal. Our people might feel something we haven’t felt in a long time—progress.

That was Carter’s quiet bombshell: the war we’re losing isn’t to China. It’s to our own addiction to dominance. And our refusal to invest in anything we can’t control.

04/19/2025

The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kucinichreport/p/the-cross-and-the-pieta-the-passion?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Dennis Kucinich / The Kucinich Report/Substack

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - In every parent cradling a lifeless child, we see the Pieta. In every bombed home, a new Golgotha. Gaza suffers an unending Good Friday.

Related: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Wasn’t Always Celebrated
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-gaza-genocide/

Joseph Mogul / Jacobin

Saturday, April 19, 2025 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now universally hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the N***s. But at the time, many Poles watched — or cheered — as the ghetto burned. The parallels with Gaza are hard to ignore.

In every parent cradling a lifeless child, we see the Pieta. In every bombed home, a new Golgotha. Gaza suffers an unending Good Friday.

04/19/2025

Gwen Walz Skewers RFK Jr. Over 'Deeply Upsetting' Autism Comments — And She Doesn't Hold Back
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gwen-walz-rfk-jr-autism_n_68026917e4b058dd5962e4e3

Kimberley Richards / HuffPost

Friday, April 18, 2025 - The health secretary was widely condemned this week for remarks he made about autism. One expert shares what's most concerning.

Related: RFK Jr.'s Obsession With Autism Is A 'Dangerous' Form Of Ableism. Here's Why.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-autism-statements-ableist_l_680034d4e4b0b55f47db6cc0

Brittany Wong / Huff Post

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - News that autistic people can't pay taxes is news to autistic people who paid taxes Tuesday.

The health secretary was widely condemned this week for remarks he made about autism. One expert shares what's most concerning.

04/19/2025