📹 Palestinian children formed long queues outside a charity kitchen in Gaza, waiting for lentil soup.

Despite the entry of a small number of aid trucks into Gaza last week, Palestinians have said the entire strip remains hungry and thirsty, with some "passing out while walking" due to hunger.

On Tuesday, the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, billed to take over aid distribution in the strip, released the first pictures of employees handing out aid to Palestinians.

The pictures come amid controversy over the foundation's transparency. Its chief Jake Woods resigned over the weekend, saying Israel's aid plan could not be implemented in accordance with humanitarian principles.

The foundation is also being investigated by a Swiss NGO amid concerns over its lack of transparency; suspicions have grown that it is intended to function as a shell company for Israeli and American governments in Gaza.

"The 11-year-old was Gaza’s youngest influencer, whose bright smile reached tens of thousands, including other children, while she offered practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gazas-youngest-influencer-aged-11-among-children-killed-by-israeli-strikes

'Sex, the concept of "biological sex" itself rather than the fact of reproduction, functions on the presumption that there are two reproductive types of human body and that one is inferior to the other.'

https://sexabolition.blog/why-do-i-say-abolish-sex/

"UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to reduce hospital transfers for frail residents—tactics that saved the company millions of dollars but may have endangered patient lives, according to a Guardian investigation supported by whistleblower testimony, leaked documents, and internal recordings.

The incentives were part of a UnitedHealth program that embeds its own medical teams in nearly 2,000 nursing homes nationwide. These teams were reportedly tasked with lowering healthcare spending for patients enrolled in UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage plans, in part by minimizing costly hospital admissions—even when emergency care was urgently needed."

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/unitedhealth-secretly-paid-nursing-homes-to-cut-hospital-care-guardian-reports-052125.html

"Obviously, the more people are involved, the better, and there's a reason to keep track of how many people are involved, but we really need to focus in on what we're getting people involved to do. And it's got to be something better, deeper, and more compelling than just telling people to express displeasure with how things are going."

– Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

https://truthout.org/audio/awareness-protests-wont-threaten-the-richest-most-well-armed-people-on-earth/

"The disaster that has befallen Blatten is the worst nightmare for communities across the Alps.

The village's 300 inhabitants had to leave their homes on 19 May after geologists monitoring the area warned that the glacier appeared unstable. Now many of them may never be able to return."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv1evn2p2vo

"The spike has been rapid in just few days, on May 22, there were only 257 active cases. By May 26, that number had jumped to 1,010, and now it’s more than tripled. In the last 24 hours alone, 685 new infections have been reported. Four people — one each in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh — have died during the same period.

The last time India reported over 3,000 active cases was back on April 1, 2023."

https://www.illustrateddailynews.com/india/covid-in-india-active-cases-rise-above-3000-kerala-and-maharashtra-report-highest-numbers-836302

"In Guwahati, a 67-year-old record for the highest rain in a single day was broken after 111 mm of rainfall was recorded. The water level in many rivers in the northeast, including the Brahmaputra, has risen."

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/9-killed-in-arunachal-after-landslide-5-killed-in-assam-in-flash-floods-8555940

Weeks after attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, it decides to sail again on June 1st to attempt break siege imposed by the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip. Last month, the Flotilla sailed to Gaza but was soon halted by drone attack, forcing the internationals on board to return. Famous names expected to be on board: Greta Thunberg, actor Liam Cunningham and EU lawmaker Rima Hassan; according to Ynet.

'Following October 7, Microsoft signed $10 million in new contracts with the Israeli military. Through a secretive program called “Project Azure,” the company provided infrastructure for Israeli intelligence and air force units, including Unit 8200 and Unit 81. These are the same units compiling “kill lists” in Gaza.

The company stayed quiet until recently, when it admitted to providing “emergency support” to Israel. But insisted that there was “no evidence” its tech harmed civilians.

That’s not all. Microsoft previously poured $78 million into the Israeli surveillance firm AnyVision, whose facial recognition tech was deployed across the West Bank. It also powered an app developed by the Israeli military—“Al Munaseq”—which spies on Palestinian permit-holders. Its cloud systems processed their private phone data.

Worse still, Microsoft has been stacking its upper ranks with veterans of Israel’s Unit 8200, effectively embedding a foreign intelligence agency into the core of one of America’s most powerful corporations and building its next data centers in Israel.'

https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-gaza-war-icc/289838/

'More than a riot, “the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack on Greenwood,” according to a news release that accompanied a Justice Department report issued in January.

“The Tulsa Race Massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter annihilation of a thriving Black community,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in the news release.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/03/tulsa-mayor-reparations-race-massacre/

"Instead of just shaking their heads and muttering about the damn traffic, locals got busy."

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/06/small-underpasses-give-migrating-amphibians-a-chance-to-escape-death/

'Contrary to what you were taught in school, communism doesn’t mean “totalitarian dictatorship where everyone is poor.” At its core, communism is an idea about how to organise society without exploitation.'

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/what-do-anarchists-mean-by-communism-an-easy-to-understand-guide/

🎥 “Israel is now a complete copy of what happened in Germany and the atrocity and the genocide that Israel is doing in Gaza.”

Amram Zahavi, an Israeli protester who joined protests calling for an immediate ceasefire and release of remaining captives on 31 May in Tel Aviv, said he wants to “apologise to the world” for being an Israeli “in a country that behaves like Germany, the Nazis [in] 1940”.

🎥 Activist @gretathunberg hits back at critics who want her to only talk about climate change, telling @el.sayyed there’s no way to separate it from social justice.

Thunberg and 11 other activists are currently on board the Madleen, a small ship carrying humanitarian aid, aim to breach Israel’s siege of Gaza in six days and to bring international attention to the ongoing starvation of Palestinians.

The ship is carrying urgently needed supplies including baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, women’s sanitary products, water desalination kits, medical supplies, crutches, and children’s prosthetics.
It’s organised as part of the @gazafreedomflotilla, an international group of activists who have been attempting to breach the 18 year siege on Gaza for more than since 2010.
In 2010, a large Turkish ship called the Mavi Marmara was intercepted by Israeli commandos, who boarded the vessel using helicopters and speedboats while still in international waters and killed 10 activists.