I'm humbled to be writing a book on the Biden administration & Gaza — a chronicle of the choices, missteps and complicity after Oct. 7 that led to massacres, a historic protest movement & a more dangerous world for us all Thanks to all who've backed my work. Let's keep talking.

Stepping away from this app — and the news cycle — to recharge after a very intense period of book revisions. See you on October 6! 🙏🏽

I'm very sorry to report that Dr. Omar Selik, cited in our earlier story about the siege of El Fasher, was killed alongside dozens of others in a strike on a crowded mosque this morning.

New @BW feature: On a budget of $1 per American, NIOSH conducts or funds most US research on how to keep workers alive & well. The Trump Administration decided to blow it up. https://t.co/SI3abrQrHD Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH, & dozens more

Clarity from @UNICEF on the theft of aid intended for ~2700 starving Palestinian kids: "A sustainable ceasefire [in Gaza] is essential to create an environment where such incidents no longer occur, and aid can reach those who need it most – safely, quickly, and effectively.”

..political penalties. Biden+Trump admins have both treated international law as largely irrelevant for Gaza policy. But that understanding boosts the impetus for critics of the policy to seek other redress, through, for instance, challenging future jobs/power for those involved

..committed to int'l law & have courts that treat it with more reverence – so allied officials could face their own risks due to going along with DC & have their own greater, lasting skepticism of aligning with America on contentious international matters All this links too to..

US gov lawyers assumed (probably rightly) US judges will defer to the exec branch on foreign policy. But other govs do exercise universal jurisdiction + the ICC is battered but still around. Also key to look at this in the context of US endangering allies: many countries remain..

In enabling Israel's pummeling of Gaza, US officials (particularly Biden aides) increasingly worried about being personally liable for war crimes. Today's UN finding of genocide is a major signal they could be held responsible for, among other matters, failing to prevent that.

It was a pleasure to be interviewed together with Akbar Shahid Ahmed (@AkbarSAhmed) for KALW's Your Call about the ramifications of Israel's bombing of Qatar. Thanks to Malihe Razazan (@maliherazazan) for putting this together. https://t.co/uI1YDs959O

“Some cited personal interactions with Biden’s inner circle as being so distasteful they believed it would be a barrier to ever raising significant funds for the 46th president of the United States.”

From 10am PT / 1 pm ET on, I’ll be live on @KALW @yourcallradio discussing the latest around Gaza & US foreign policy. Tune in if you can — and let me know if there are questions or topics you’d like covered! 🙏🏽

"Signature Aviation [in which Bill Gates holds a key share is] popping up across Trump’s mass deportation pipeline...HuffPost scoured govt records, plane location data, spotting reports + matched photographs to planes [linked] to ICE" @mattshuham @G_nobes: https://t.co/vMmozxLfVW

This is not just a gesture -- have never seen so high powered a #UAE delegation travel at such short notice.

"Absent much stronger & immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely .. [that] would stain not only Netanyahu + his cabinet but also a generation of world leaders" https://t.co/KvPqE1IDU1

Big line for Bernie’s Labor Day rally tonight in Portland, Maine w/ Graham Platner

..officials knew their approach was not making Netanyahu more open to a deal; in a call after Hersh's murder, Biden, Jake Sullivan +Brett McGurk agreed there was no need to course-correct A week later, flaws in US policy helped drive the killing of another American: Aysenur Eygi

Two I think of a lot are Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American who got unique attention from the Biden White House & Carmel Gat, whose sister-in-law Yarden was freed in the first Gaza truce. That even they were failed by the policy underscores its comprehensive rot–even as...

In arming Israel under Biden & Trump — regardless of its battlefield conduct or sincerity about a ceasefire deal — the US has said it's prioritizing Hamas hostages in Gaza. It's now exactly a year since 6 were executed amid the war, 3 of whom could have been freed under a deal.

Settlers celebrate "the first kindergarten to be opened in one of the former settlements evacuated in 2005... 'We will also open new kindergartens in Gush Katif,' he said, referring to the [former Jewish] settlement in Gaza" https://t.co/x4c4RQ8sh7

Completely false tweet. This incident happened in Port Talbot in April, and two local teenagers were arrested for setting fire to the church. But never mind the facts, here's 25,000 retweets, 83,000 likes, and over 3 million views for a totally false post.