One of Hamas's key motivations to launch the attacks on Oct. 7 was to capture Israeli soldiers in order to free Palestinian prisoners via a swap. Israel is still imprisoning ~9,000-10,000 Palestinians. 5,000 of them are administrative detainees, i.e., hostages, held without charge or trial, and their detention is renewable indefinitely. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pales… Israel starves, tortures & rapes Palestinian prisoners to death as matters of standard operating procedure. Israel has killed at least 75 Palestinians in Israeli detention since 7 October 2023. un.org/unispal/document/ohch… You wonder how Israel thinks it's in its interest to sadistically torture so many Palestinian prisoners knowing what led to Oct. 7 in the first place. They are creating conditions for their own destruction.

Shadi Abu Sido, a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza, was arrested at Shifa hospital in March 2024 and never charged. While held at the Sde Teiman torture facility, guards told him his wife and two children had been killed in the war. He described the moment as the lowest point of his life, a psychological blow intended to break him. “I got hysterical,” he told reporters. “I was astonished, it cannot be explained, they were alive. Imagine amid death – life.” Abu Sido was also physically tortured. He described being severely beaten, shackled so tightly his wrists were left raw, blindfolded, and forced to kneel for long periods. These kinds of abuses have been reported by other Palestinian detainees, especially since the war in Gaza intensified in late 2023. When he was released in a ceasefire prisoner exchange, Abu Sido returned to Gaza and found his family alive—a moment he described as his soul returning to his body. This is the sort of mental and physical torture innocent Gazan hostages were subjected to.

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Under Biden, inflation was at 9.1%, highest in 40 years gas at $5.02 and and food prices up 20% Every liberal says the Biden economy was the best. Zero liberals say high prices under Biden were bad. Many, like Krugman and Yellen even suggested the high prices were a sign of a “hot economy.” So which is it? Was Biden’s economy awesome or are high prices and inflation bad? You can’t have both.

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

"Oh, you've never read The Odyssey???" Your timing is perfect. Emily Wilson's translation is the best one in literally ages, has that sweet iambic pentameter to give it a "bouncy" feel, & makes dudebros cry that the classic has "gone woke". 😁

As a doctor whose wife experienced 4 miscarriages amongst the 3, now healthy adult children we have raised, I can’t stop thinking about @JDVance’s answers on abortion during the VP debate. Here is the problem with his and Trump’s “leave it to the states” approach. 1/13

Usually I don’t talk about stuff like this because frankly it happens way too often. But not today… As I pulled into the same faculty parking lot that I park in all the time @msstate, a white woman was coming out of my office building. Her car was parked next to the space I pulled into.

It is always great when you learn a new “fun fact” about yourself. Today I realized that I am absolutely here for shit talking birds. The more specific, the better.

After 12 wks spending our weekends hosting big family events, managing family affairs out of town, holding down for emergencies, traveling for work, and furiously working through the weekend we had our first down weekend. We used it to demo a bathroom. Make better choices.

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Will never cease to amaze me that academics have accepted that they are not due cost-of-living raises as workers. They must “merit” raises based on scholarship, produced largely w/o material support, at least in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.

I am still falling asleep against my will between 4 and 5 each evening. But at least I am in much less pain and no longer have to check I’d it is actually hot or cold.

Apropos Pavel Durov’s arrest, I wrote a short post about whether Telegram is an “encrypted messaging app”. blog.cryptographyengineering…

Now that Bean’s party is done, our extremely stressful, action-packed summer which included only one scheduled 48 hour break (cancelled) is over. We are back to regularly scheduled social, work, and household engagements.

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