RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
McCarthyism Redux against Muslims and pro-Palestinian people: www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/m...
Writer, living close to the wild, politics, religion, arts, sciences, hiking, wilderness, climate change, cultures outside the West, Free Palestine! Free Syria! Black Lives Matter! Indigenous people’s power; power & freedom for Women. Overthrow Trump!
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McCarthyism Redux against Muslims and pro-Palestinian people: www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/m...
Michael (@therightarticle.bsky.social) reposted
Declassified UK (@declassifieduk.org) reposted
👉NEW -- British veteran joins flotilla to break Gaza siege by John McEvoy Exclusive: Former fighter pilot Malcolm Ducker told Declassified he’s “absolutely appalled” at UK spy flights in support of Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/british-vete...
Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) reposted
"I was told to preapprove the reccs of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric. That panel’s next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 18-19. It is imperative that the panel’s recommendations aren’t rubber-stamped." www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
We Are Saners (@wearesaners.bsky.social) reposted
This Congressperson has chosen to make the protection of pedophiles his legacy. Some “Christian.”
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Fire the fool.
Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) reposted
RFK, Jr. must be charged with manslaughter for killing Americans. We need Dem AG's to make it clear they will prosecute RFK JR die because of his rejection of science. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-mus...
Humanity Must Win (@humanitymustwin.bsky.social) reposted
The entire system must be shutdown, dismantled, redesigned and rebuilt. The concentration of wealth and power went too far.
Middle East Eye (Unofficial) (@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social) reposted
Prominent Palestinian academic dies from Israeli-imposed Gaza famine - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-palestinian-academic-dies-israeli-famine
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Sumud Flotilla of many ships and boats making its way across the Mediterranean to confront Zionists with aid for Gaza.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Shujayeh, a Gaza neighborhood has been destroyed. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Druze-Bedu conflict in southern Syria is far more ecological, economic, and political than ethnic or religious sectarianism: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
October 18 will be massive anti-Trump protest across the U.S.: Let’s make sure Gaza genocide is part of our protest too. www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Ann Wright on the Sumud Flotilla: www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Bernie and Mamdani in New York City: www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Gaza City’s Night of Hell: www.commondreams.org/news/gideon-...
sascha benjamin cohen (@saschaben.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If this is at all correct, this is seriously messed up. And from the reporting it is hard to see this not having some real accuracy. Also, here is a link to the original report by Stateline: stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Jeffrey Epstein’s (and G. Maxwell’s) sexual assault victims courageously and assertively press Trump and the U.S. Congress to release the Epstein files and bring their perpetrators to justice. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Protesting Trump is important, as often as possible to keep up our momentum. Protesting Israel and the U.S. genocide in Gaza is essential, no matter what.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Standing up against genocide and getting punished for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Support the Sumud Flotilla for aid to Gaza. They are taking risks no one else will take: to face down Israeli fascists on the seas.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
The courts stand up to Trump again. Will anyone else? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Should have happened long ago: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Gaza: 63.000 dead, 322 starved to death by Israel. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Force the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the leadership body of the Democratic Party, to have a floor vote on military aid to Israel. Lets see how everyone votes! which side are you on? Which side are you on? Free Gaza! Free Palestine! www.commondreams.org/news/dnc-gaz...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Americans want an end to military aid to Genocidal Israelis: www.commondreams.org/news/majorit...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Fascists on parade: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
ICE attacks immigrants on frontlines of fighting fire in WA state: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Israel attacks Gaza City: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Joe Noonan (@joenoonan.bsky.social) reposted
True three months ago. True today.
Joe Noonan (@joenoonan.bsky.social) reposted
Of the people by the people for the people seems so far away.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Israelis getting hostile greetings abroad: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/w...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Who needs scientific research? Who needs medical science? Who needs vaccines? Not Americans, we have RFK, Jr. !
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Israeli Government endorses Laura Loomer’s call to just end Islam. www.commondreams.org/news/muslims...
Raimo Kangasniemi (@rk70534.bsky.social) reposted
2:59 out of 14:57 minute video. "Mark Seddon urges member states at the UN General Assembly to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish an international protective force to defend Palestinians in #Gaza." www.instagram.com/reel/DN3TyQD... #GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
DC Occupation by National Guard costs more than housing entire population that now lives in the streets: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Gaza starvation planned by Israel says UN Security Council, except for U.S. , which supports starvation: www.commondreams.org/news/un-secu...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Jewish Voice for Peace occupies CA Senator Alex Padilla’s office to demand cutoff of U.S. military aid and equipment to Israel www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Eastern Europe has moved decisively toward support for Ukraine and into NATO membership and concerted opposition to Russia: newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Dozens of Israelis land at Syrian base 6 miles from Damsacus, and killed six Syrian soldiers who were dismantling Israeli surveillance equipment there. Syria must respond to violations of its sovereignty! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Ice does Immigration bust among firefighters at Lake Cushman, in Washington State. Did they vote for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Israel kills Syrian soldiers near Damascus in air strike after surveillance equipment discovered. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Fascist Putin slaughters people in Ukraine, attacks apartment buildings with almost 600 drones. European government buildings damaged. Trump shrugs while his friend Putin laughs. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Modest Proposal: to French President Macron, UK Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz: Please send warships and food, water and medicine by sea to Gaza. Israel would not dare stop you. Trump and the U.S. would be humiliated. The Palestinian people will praise you. Hamas will cooperate.
X - Short Queen Dew 🇵🇸 🇨🇦 (@shortqueendewie.bsky.social) reposted
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RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Since Trump says “he couldn’t care less” about whether the Epstein files are released and he obviously “couldn’t care less” about the hundreds of women and girls assaulted and raped (or 1000+), Make the Epstein Files Public!
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Look at this crater of Israeli bomb blast. Americans paid for it and built it: www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Palestinian journalists murdered in Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
U.S. Democratic Party not finished fighting over Gaza and proposals to stop aid to Israel. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/27/al...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
We must defeat fascism: www.democracynow.org/2025/8/26/by...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
American Palestinian teenager wasting away in Israeli detention for throwing rocks at occupiers: www.middleeasteye.net/news/wheres-...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Turkey must stand up to Israel in Syria: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Racist American official scolds Lebanese on being uncivilized and animalistic: www.middleeasteye.net/trending/us-...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Egyptian political prisoners lost to their families and friends while Western aid continues to this repressive dictatorship, as long as it colludes with Israel. www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-p...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Even the Zionist Ny Times admits that Israel kills the truth tellers: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi, the son of legendary Al-Azhar trained scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi disappears into limbo in the UAE after celebrating the Syrian Revolution and condemning the Arab states’ collusion with Israeli genocide. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Trump signs Presidential order for Brownshirt Fascist force: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-v...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
It is time to cut ties with Israel, while the DNC merely asks for a ceasefire: www.democracynow.org/2025/8/26/is...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Israelis kill journalists to destroy the truth: www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/26/t...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
47% of those who voted for Trump disapprove of his handling of the Epstein scandal. 28% of them disapprove of Trump’s presidency. The Epstein scandal may blow him away. Let’s make sure it does. www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/26/t...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
The U.S. invasion of Iraq, Assad’s slaughter of Syrians and now Gaza genocide. It’s all in a straight line from the War on Terror, after decades of U.S. and Israeli imperialism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (@msf.ca) reposted
Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in #Gaza. The amount of water available for Palestinians is incredibly insufficient. This is unacceptable: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Trump continues to praise dictators and disses democratic allies. Now he’s done it to South Korean President Lee. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Fascist Netanyahu is the Tragic Mishap he bemoans in Gaza hospital attack. No one believes anything the genocidal maniac says. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
U.S. Senator Shaheen (of New Hampshire) in Syria argues for end of all sanctions against new revolutionary government of Syria. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Trump is not just authoritarian, Trump is a FASCIST.
Talk With Saul (@talkwithsaul.bsky.social) reposted
Jeff Halpern, a Jewish American, Israeli anthropologist
Charles Keener (@charleskeener.bsky.social) reposted
jacobin.com/2025/08/gaza...
Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump’s friends leave their car trunks open and their doors unlocked. That is an invitation to go and see what you can find.
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
How many holocaust deniers are in the administration trying to starve our finest research universities under the guise of fighting antisemitism?
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Fascism is on full display in Washington, DC with heavily armed soldiers and armored vehicles in the streets, while Israeli fascists slaughter Gaza Palestinians every day with US tax dollars. It’s time to fight back to stop this fascism before there is no opportunity left to do so.
mosababutoha (@mosababutoha.bsky.social) reposted
This is Gaza in 1994 when Israel soldiers were wandering in the streets in Gaza assaulting and bullying men, women, and children. No accountability ever.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The Trump fascist is insane.
gspinell (@gspinell.bsky.social) reposted
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RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
In the UK you can’t put the words genocide and action on the same t shirt without being arrested. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-poli...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Bloodthirsty Israelis attack Nasser Hospital twice to kill those who went to rescue victims of first attack and the five reporters who were there to document it. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
fairshare.help (@fairshare.help) reposted
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
LeAnne, who is not high in this photo (@ennael.bsky.social) reposted
Please help however you can
mleroi.bsky.social (@mleroi.bsky.social) reposted
www.instagram.com/reel/DNvavLu...
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted
This is brilliant. Civic engagement should be fun, even when the stakes are high.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
They demand Israel stop lying about starving and shooting Palestinians in Gaza: www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Middle East Monitor (@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social) reposted
Israel deliberately depriving Gaza of clean water: Doctors Without Borders
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
This is what Trump does to immigrants freed from unlawful detention, only to face absurd charges and threats: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
Watch the film Ghost Trail about Syrian refugees seeking justice against their Assadist torturers. Not gory, just brilliant, thoughtful cinematic drama about the madness that resulted from Assad’s slaughter and the determination to seek justice.
Virginia Scharff (@vscharff.bsky.social) reposted
The Big Squander.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
But protecting pedophiles like Ghislaine Maxwell and pardoning insurrectionists? Is this why people enlist in the National Guard? To terrorize fellow Americans? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
RiseUp (@riseup.wiki) reposted
The pain, starvation, and destruction continue, supported by the USA and its allies.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
The past two night, protesters have rallied outside the Residence Inn Downtown Long Beach (California), where they say upward of 40 federal agents are staying while they conduct immigration raids in the region.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social) reply parent
I have heard Trump supporters’ perspective so much that I am sick of it. Who wants to hear from fascists and their apologists? I do appreciate your work to provide an alternative to Big Pharma though.
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social)
I don’t agree with this author’s support for Israel after Oct 7, but his analysis of what is happening in the West Bank is good: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
massimovl.bsky.social (@massimovl.bsky.social) reposted
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Grumpy Old Lefty Git 🏴Ⓐ #Ubuntu (@grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social) reposted
You can donate to the flotilla (and/or volunteer, either as a crew member or worldwide support) at globalsumudflotilla.org And if you can get your own boat to Barcelona by the 31st of August* - or to Tunis by the 4th of September - contact them NOW! * Better by the 28th, for important workshops!
unlawful whatever 🐝 (@inlovewthemooon.bsky.social) reposted
Y'all The ICE building in Portland is painting a line in front of their building But they don't even know how to spell government
RichWood (@richwood.bsky.social) reply parent
The Egyptian regime of el-Sisi also killed over 1000 Muslims in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square on Aug. 14, 2013, as part of the military coup against elected President Mohamed Morsi.