My picks are in! I sat down to talk about them with @CraigMalRob and @UKCoachCalipari on their podcast Ways To Win from @HGMedia. Check out our conversation wherever you get your podcasts. And please don’t rub it in when my bracket gets busted. https://t.co/pVLfuHjYmo pic.twitter.com/la2NTDh1z7
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 19, 2024
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Readout of White House Convening with Mothers Affected by Gun Violence
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/26/readout-of-white-house-convening-with-mothers-affected-by-gun-violence/)
These 9 House Republicans voted against a resolution condemning the Russian abduction of Ukrainian children
The House passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning the Russian abduction of Ukrainian children.
Nine Republicans voted against it.
Bryan Metzger: (https://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-vote-against-condemning-russian-abduction-ukrainian-children-2024-3)
= the insurrectionist putin lapdogs.
Liz Cheney: ‘We can’t survive a president willing to torch the constitution.’
Liz Cheney says despite disagreeing on policy with the President Biden administration sometimes, “the nation can survive bad policy. We can’t survive a president who is willing to torch the Constitution.”
First Vice President to go to an abortion clinic.
PAULO RAMOS
‘Post-Roe underground’ helps women in abortion ban states access abortion pills
The use of abortion pills has grown as a percentage of abortions in the United States since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, particularly in states that have enacted extreme restrictions on abortion access. Increasingly those pills are being obtained outside of the medical system, including through a network that delivers supplies over the border from Mexico. Paulo Ramos reports.
Paulo Ramos w/ Alex Wagner
Sexual violence increasing as criminal gangs prey on women trapped at the border
Migrants waiting in Mexico to be processed to come across the border to the United States are subject to kidnapping and robbery by Mexican gangs. For an increasing number of women, that abuse also includes sexual violence.
No One Is Above the Law, Except, Apparently, Donald Trump
….”Almost any other defendant would have to face the consequences of coming to court empty-handed. It was in a criminal case, yes, but Kalief Browder — arrested at 16 for an alleged robbery — spent three years at Rikers, without trial, because his family could not afford a $3,000 bond. Not Trump. On Monday, the day the money was due, a New York appeals court said that it would accept a far smaller bond of $175 million, a significant and unexpected victory for the former president. He has 10 days to pay.
Consequences for Trump? Ah! Well. Nevertheless.”
Jamelle Bouie:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/opinion/trump-trials-bond-invincibility.html)
Cheney urges court to hold Jan. 6 trial before election: ‘He knows how damaging that will be
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said it was critical that former President Trump’s federal election interference case goes to trial before voters select their next president in November as she called on the Supreme Court to recognize Trump’s appeal as a delay tactic.
“It cannot be the case that a president of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and seize power and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial, of holding him to account, before the next election,” Cheney said at a Wednesday event at Drake University in Iowa. “That cannot be the case.”
Sarah Fortinsky: (https://thehill.com/elections/4562000-cheney-urges-court-to-hold-jan-6-trial-before-election-he-knows-how-)
POD SAVE AMERICA
https://twittercom/PodSaveAmerica/status/1772972589905760598?s=20
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A Proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility, 2024
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/)
Massive defeat for anti-trans & anti-LGBTQ+ riders in spending bill
More than 40 were defeated
By Erin Reed | On Thursday, Congress unveiled the much-anticipated spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The bill, which includes funding for major government departments such as Health and Human Services and Education, featured fierce negotiations over conservative “policy riders.”
These policy riders included bans on coverage for gender-affirming care, DEI bans, sports bans, and more. Despite some indications that Democrats might compromise due to the sheer number of conservative policy riders, it appears those fears did not come to fruition. Democrats held firm in negotiations, and the most impactful anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ riders were nowhere to be found.
One policy rider proposed for the Food and Drug Administration would have defunded any hospital that “distributes, sells, or otherwise uses drugs that disrupt the onset of puberty or sexual development for those under 18,” a measure targeting not only transgender youth but also those experiencing precocious puberty.
(https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/03/21/massive-defeat-for-anti-trans-anti-lgbtq-riders-in-spending-bill/
Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down Voting Laws Intended to Disenfranchise Native Voters
Native Vote 2024. The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down four state laws that were passed by the Republican-controlled legislature to restrict voters. Two of the laws would have suppressed Native American votes.(
(https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/montana-supreme-court-strikes-down-voting-laws-intended-to-disenfranchise-native-voters)
Inside with Jen Psaki
Trump is the beneficiary of a two-tiered system
with Cassie Hutchinson
with Michael Cohen
‘A fool’: Michael Cohen sounds alarm on national security threat of Trump’s cash
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen joins Jen Psaki to discuss Trump’s New York civil fraud case. Cohen shares whether he believes Trump’s claim that he will post $175 million dollar bond “very quickly” after an appeals court ruled he can pay a smaller bond. Cohen also tells Psaki, “There are plenty of really wealthy autocrats out there that would be more than happy to loan Donald money, especially if they know they can own him if he becomes the president.”
btw: Judge overseeing Donald Trump’s “hush money” case rejected his bid to delay the trial and ruled that proceedings will begin on April 15.
Mr. Cohen on trump: “If his mouth is moving you know he is lying.”
Readout of Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force Meeting
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/28/readout-of-supply-chain-disruptions-task-force-meeting/)
SEN. BOB CASEY ON GREEDFLATION.
Greedflation: How Corporations are Making Record Profits on the Backs of American Families
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT:(https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/greedflation1.pdf)
—-Senator Casey: We need legislation against price gouging.
How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk
Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.
The email went out to members of Justice Clarence Thomas’s law clerk network late last month celebrating his newest addition to an exclusive club. The justice’s selection needed no introduction.
“Crystal Clanton’s clerkship for OT ’24 was announced by Scalia Law today!” wrote an assistant to Virginia Thomas, the justice’s wife, who is known as Ginni. The email referred to the 2024 October term of the court, and the tone was jubilant: “Please take a look at these posts of congratulations and support. Consider reposting, replying or adding your own!”
The Thomases and Ms. Clanton, a 29-year-old conservative organizer turned lawyer, have built such a close relationship that the couple informally refer to her as their “nearly adopted daughter.” Ms. Clanton, who was previously accused of sending racist text messages, including one that read “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE,” has lived in the Thomas home, assisted Ms. Thomas in her political consulting business and joined her in a “girls trip” to New York.
In 2019, at the Thomases’ urging, Ms. Clanton enrolled at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Virginia, where Justice Thomas has taught. She received a full merit scholarship, according to another judge who later hired her.
Steve Eder and Abbie VanSickle:
(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/clarence-thomas-crystal-clanton-clerk.html#)
DAHLIA LITHWICK
‘This was a dumb case’: Supreme Court hears argument on widely popular, commonly used abortion pill
Dahlia Lithwick, Dr. Kavita Patel, Claire McCaskil, join Nicolle Wallace on with reaction to today’s supreme court arguments over the commonly used abortion pill Mifepristone, and how early on in the case conservative and liberal justices alike pointed to the fact that the anti-abortion activists who brought the case lacked standing to do so.
Brazen power grab: Right-wing Supreme Court ‘dripping contempt for federal regulation’
From environmental regulations to pharmaceutical approvals, the Supreme Court’s right-wing activist justices can be seen this term trying to usurp to itself the federal government’s regulatory abilities. Dahlia Lithwick and Carrie N. Baker talk with Alex Wagner about Supreme Court conservatives’ next big target.
“Dripping contempt for federal regulation.”
“Does the Supreme Court know more about (e.g.) ulcer medication than the FDA?”
“The idea that judges that have no research medical background are better at assessing the science, is ridiculous.”
James Singer
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Wrongful Detention of Evan Gershkovich
Today we mark a painful anniversary: one year of American journalist Evan Gershkovich’s wrongful detention in Russia.
Journalism is not a crime, and Evan went to Russia to do his job as a reporter —risking his safety to shine the light of truth on Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine. Shortly after his wholly unjust and illegal detention, he drafted a letter to his family from prison, writing: “I am not losing hope.”
As I have told Evan’s parents, I will never give up hope either. We will continue working every day to secure his release. We will continue to denounce and impose costs for Russia’s appalling attempts to use Americans as bargaining chips. And we will continue to stand strong against all those who seek to attack the press or target journalists—the pillars of free society.
To Evan, to Paul Whelan, and to all Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad: We are with you. And we will never stop working to bring you home.
(wh.gov)
President Zelenskyy
‘The Ukrainian Night’
Just Who Are Trump’s January 6th Heroes?
A look at some of the ‘unbelievable patriots’ whom the GOP standard-bearer has praised and promised to free
Bill Lueders: (https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/just-who-are-trump-january-6th-heroes)
The former president issued another social media barrage against the daughter of the judge in his upcoming hush money trial
Jeremy Childs: (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-judge-daughter-third-attack-hush-money-case-1234996206/)
Testimony Fleshes Out Account of Trump’s Demand to Go to Capitol on Jan. 6
But a newly released transcript of an interview of the Secret Service agent who drove Donald Trump’s vehicle that day disputes that he tried to grab the steering wheel or lunged at another agent.
Luke Broadwater: (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/jan-6-trump-motorcade-secret-service.html)
The Supreme Court Is Shaming Itself
No good legal reason exists to delay Donald Trump’s January 6 trial any further.
By Andrew Weissmann and Ryan Goodman
(https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/dc-trump-trial-speed/677862/)
“Donald Trump is determined to avoid accountability before the general election, and, so far, the U.S. Supreme Court is helping him.Trump has no legal ground whatsoever to delay a ruling in his plea for presidential immunity. The reason Trump has nevertheless sought to slow down the immunity appeals process is obvious: to postpone the trial date, hopefully pushing it into a time when, as president, he would control the Department of Justice and thus could quash the prosecution altogether. The Supreme Court has shamed itself by being a party to this, when the sole issue before the Court is presidential immunity. By contrast, Special Counsel Jack Smith has both law and policy on his side in seeking a prompt determination on immunity and a speedy trial soon thereafter. Yet the Court has ignored all that.”
(Andrew Weissman and Ryan Goodman)
Marc Elias
Six presumed dead in bridge collapse were immigrants, soccer fans, family menMaynor Suazo Sandoval, from Honduras, was about to turn 39. Miguel Luna, from El Salvador, was a father of three.
By Teo Armus, Emily Davies and Jasmine Hilton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/27/bridge-victims-ship-crash/
Judge recommends disbarment for architect of Trump’s election plot
Those hoping for accountability for the architects of Donald Trump’s anti-election scheme have reason to applaud the disbarment case against John Eastman.
Steven Benen: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-recommends-disbarment-architect-trumps-election-plot-rcna145432)
Lily Gladstone goes home
The award-winning Siksikaitsitapii and Nimíipuu actress celebrated by the Blackfoot Confederacy during Lily Gladstone Day on the Blackfeet Reservation, honored by being given a stand-up headdress
by Kolby Kickingwoman
BROWNING, Mont. — “It really is a full circle moment, it feels amazing,” said Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone.
The pride of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Gladstone, who is Siksikaitsitapii and Nimíipuu, returned home to the Blackfeet Reservation March 26 for a day of celebration in her name.
The Blackfoot Confederacy consists of the Kainai-Blood Tribe, Siksika, Peigan-Piikani and Aamskapi Pikuni, and the territory stretches from half of Saskatchewan and Alberta to the northern part of Montana.
More than a thousand people from around the country and even from Canada showed up to the newly remodeled All Event Center in Browning, Montana, to celebrate and see Piiṫǎak̇ii (Eagle Woman), be honored and receive a stand-up headdress.
The day was filled with honor songs, speeches, lilis, and warhoops for the actress and her historic Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award wins, as well as being the first Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her role as Mollie Burkhart in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
There was a palpable buzz in the air as tribal leaders, North American Indian Days powwow royalty, school board members, students, community members, and more joined Gladstone for a grand entry to kick off the event.
Blackfeet tribal business council member Everett Armstrong welcomed Gladstone home, thanking her for her representation of the tribe and for being an inspiration to Native youth.
“Thank you for showcasing our precious gift of our language on the world stage, in front of millions and millions people across the world. Thank you for everything that you’re doing, for following your dreams,” Armstrong said. “Because of you, rez kids on every reservation in the United States and Canada, are now inspired. They’re inspired to chase their dreams, inspired that dreams come true. They’re inspired that everything and anything is possible.”
(ict news)
Headdresses are earned:
The headdress transfer was done by elder Charlene Plume Prairie Chicken, Kainai-Blood Tribe, a member of the Women’s Stand-Up Headdress Society who also made the headdress for Gladstone.“Lily, it’s such an honor for me to make your headdress and also to transfer it to you,”
Plume said. “Due to you being from the Blackfoot Confederacy, it’s such an honor.”Noting the significance and honor of receiving a headdress, Siksika Chief Ouray Crowfoot said headdresses are not just given away but are earned.The Women’s Stand-Up Headdress Society has been around for centuries, said Theda New Breast, Blackfeet, who is a member of the society. The society is a group of Blackfoot women who have been transferred the rights to wear and own headdresses. She added Plume Prairie Chicken is the only Blackfoot woman who makes stand-up headdresses because it’s supposed to be a woman that makes it for women.
More: (https://ictnews.org/news/lily-gladstone-goes-home)
—-fab nasa flight news.
The Hardships and Dreams of Asian Americans Living in Poverty
Neil G. Ruiz, Ziyao Tian and Shannon Greenwood
Illustrations by Jing Lee
Of the 24 million Asians living in the United States, about 2.3 million live in poverty. Many are working to overcome the economic hardships they encounter and achieve their American dream. But they face challenges along the way, from Asian immigrants grappling with language barriers to U.S.-born Asians navigating pathways to success.
(https://www.pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity/2024/03/27/the-hardships-and-dreams-of-asian-americans-living-in-poverty/)
In a Step Forward for Asian American Studies, Amherst Adds a Major
Karen Lee spent a recent Friday afternoon hanging around, on pins and needles, outside of the red-carpeted assembly room in Amherst College’s stately Converse Hall. Inside, the faculty was voting on whether to approve an Asian American and Pacific Islander studies major, for which generations of student activists like Lee had advocated.
When Lee heard the cheer go up behind the double doors, she knew the major had passed.
Francie Diep: ((https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-a-step-forward-for-asian-american-studies-amherst-adds-a-major)
JOE BIDEN
Presidents Biden, Obama And Clinton To Appear On ‘SmartLess’ Podcast
Will Arnett, Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman recorded an episode of their hit show with an unprecedented trio of guests.
Sara Boboltz: (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-obama-clinton-smartless-podcast_n_6605c6ebe4b05f4de3283733)
Happy Good Friday !! 🌺🦋❤️
—thought you might like this wun…
Justin Jones
@brother jones
Rep Raskin
Pope Francis
Remarks by President Biden, President Obama, and President Clinton in a Moderated Conversation with Stephen Colbert at a Campaign Reception | New York, NY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/28/remarks-by-president-biden-president-obama-and-president-clinton-in-a-moderated-conversation-with-stephen-colbert-at-a-campaign-reception-new-york-ny/
President Zelenskyy
Hope you have a Blessed and Happy Easter!
you too sjterrid…happy easter to your family.
Thank you, Bridgeriverpass!
Nancy Pelosi
Second Load of Aid by Sea Bound for Gaza Departs Cyprus
World Central Kitchen, the charity founded by the chef José Andrés, said barges were carrying almost 400 tons of rice, pasta, flour, canned vegetables and proteins.
Gaya Gupta: (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-ship-famine.htm)
🌺🌺⭐️
—Happy Easter everyone pulling out all the stops to deliver food and medicine to Gaza.
—May the whole world be fed and have peace for at least one day. 🌎
Secretary Blinken
Statement from President Joe Biden on Easter
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/31/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-easter-2/)
Barack Obama
The White House
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1774421387471429984?s=20
Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
Barack Obama
The White House
The WH Easter Eggucation roll !!
James Singer
c/o Axios
History of the White House
Easter Egg Roll
The original site of the Easter Monday Egg Roll was the grounds of the United States Capitol. By the mid 1870s, the egg rolling activities on the West Terraces had gained notoriety as the children turned the Capitol grounds into their Easter Monday playground. The first egg rolls, largely family affairs, seem to have been held during the administration of President Andrew Johnson. Youngsters of the President’s family dyed eggs on Sunday for the Monday rolling, which the First Lady would watch from the South Portico. A family member has attested to hearing the stories of such activity from Andrew Johnson Patterson, the President’s grandson, who lived at the White House while his mother served as White House hostess on behalf of her invalid mother, First Lady Eliza Johnson. Although small groups of egg rollers were reported on the White House grounds under the presidency of General Ulysses S. Grant, the majority of egg rolling activity and all day picnics took place at the Capitol. The workers and tourists watched in fascination as the children rolled both their hard boiled eggs and themselves down the lush green hills.
MORE: (https://clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov/WH/glimpse/Easter/index.html)
Q: Does the right wing ever stop grisling?
California fast-food workers are now making $20 an hour. Other businesses might have to catch up
…Starting Monday, fast-food workers in California at chains with more than 60 national locations earn $20 an hour, higher than the state’s broader minimum wage of $16 per hour. The new pay floor stems from a state law passed in September, which also establishes a nine-person council that will determine future wage hikes and suggest other guidelines for labor conditions for the industry. There are more than half a million fast-food workers in the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom said when signing the bill into law.
Kate Rogers: (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/california-fast-food-minimum-wage-other-business-may-raise-pay.html#)
Gary Grumbach
Brandon M. Scott
‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Spoofs Donald Trump’s Sales Pitch For $60 Bibles: “Sounds Like A Joke … But It’s Also Very Real”
Video: (https://deadline.com/2024/03/saturday-night-live-trump-bibles-1235872496/)
imo puleeez…trump playing messy-siah….give him a toffee apple if he can quote a couple of sentences.
Francis Fukuyama
TRUMP IS NO SAVIOR
Judge has enough of Trump’s attacks on family members; extends gag order on ‘defendant’s vitriol’
Donald Trump attacks NY judge’s daughter, Manhattan DA Bragg requests court intervene
Republican-appointed judges warn that Trump’s posts threaten the rule of law.
Aysha Bagchi:
(https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/01/trump-gag-order-new-york-hush-money/73167688007/)
Kamala Harris
Donald Trump overturned Roe.
Florida Court Allows 6-Week Abortion Ban, but Voters Will Get to Weigh In
The Florida Supreme Court found that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion. But it also allowed a ballot question on whether to expand abortion access.
…But in a separate decision released at the same time, the justices allowed Florida voters to decide this fall whether to expand abortion access. The court ruled 4 to 3 that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to abortion “before viability,” usually around 24 weeks, could go on the November ballot.
Patricia Mazzei: (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/florida-abortion-law-supreme-court.html#)
Hakeem Jeffries
The Inside…w/Michael Steele
Black female GW professors talk navigating professional, academic spaces
Three GW professors discussed self-advocacy as Black women in professional and academic spaces at the University Student Center on Monday.
Professors Renee’ Roberts-Turner, Shana Mashego and Jameta Nicole Barlow shared personal stories about their experiences as Black women navigating the professional world. The Black Student Union hosted the conversation moderated by BSU Director of Advocacy Clarke Gilmore.
Sophia Clarke: (https://gwhatchet.com/2024/03/28/black-female-gw-professors-talk-navigating-professional-academic-spaces/)
“They’re pulling funding or getting rid of these roles,” Barlow said. “I know so many faculty that got into these DEI roles, and now they’re being eliminated. That was intentional.”
Barlow said audience members should study Black history to understand and address the issues Black people face today.
“Get all the Black history books you can, hold on to them, read them, learn them because this is our instruction for how to move forward,” Barlow said.
Maddow Blog
U.S. foes exploit Trump’s divisiveness with fake MAGA accounts; China adopts Russian tactics
Rachel Maddow looks at how China has learned to take advantage of Donald Trump’s divisiveness within American society by mimicking his supporters online using techniques that were successful for Russia in the 2016 election. Tiffany Hsu, technology reporter for NYT joins to discuss how China is stepping up its disinformation game.
Ms. Hsu said the techniques have evolved by “leaps and bounds”.
FDD: Much Ado About ‘Somethings’
China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns
…Lamonica Trout is likely an invention of the group behind Spamouflage, an ongoing, multi-year influence operation that promotes Beijing’s interests. Last year, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, took down 7,704 accounts and 954 pages it identified as part of the Spamouflage operation, which it described as the “largest known cross-platform influence operation [Meta had] disrupted to date.”2 Facebook’s terms of service prohibit a range of deceptive and inauthentic behaviors, including efforts to conceal the purpose of social media activity or the identity of those behind it.
Max Lesser: (https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/27/much-ado-about-somethings/)
Joe Biden
GOP Rep. Tim Walberg suggests Gaza should be handled ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’
The Michigan congressman said his comments were intended to convey his desire for Israel and Ukraine to “swiftly” end their wars “without putting American troops in harm’s way.”
Rebecca Cohen: (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rep-tim-walberg-suggests-gaza-handled-nagasaki-hiroshima-rcna145752)
Andrew WeIssman
Trump’s weaknesses with GOP voters go beyond the suburbs
The battle for Trump-skeptical Republican voters isn’t just about the suburbs
Jessica Piper and Zach Montellaro: (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/trump-gop-primary-voters-exurbs-00149822#)
Meredith McGraw
https://twiitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1774798978111926343?s=20
Trump posts 175M bond to keep N.Y. authorities from seizing property
Shayna Jacobs: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/01/trump-new-york-bond-175-million/
Trump posts 175M bond to keep N.Y. authorities from seizing property
Shayna Jacobs: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/01/trump-new-york-bond-175-million/)
Chef José Andrés – early this morning.
But now…
“Unforgivable”: José Andrés’ NGO says 7 aid workers killed in Gaza strike
Seven aid workers from chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the NGO said in a statement.
The big picture: Andrés’ organization has been leading the efforts to get food to Gaza by sea, and has delivered tons of supplies to the enclave via a ship from Cyprus over the past few weeks.
World Central Kitchen said it was pausing its operations in the area after the attack, and the Israeli military said it has “been reviewing the incident at the highest levels.”
Andrés’ group said the seven killed were from Australia, Poland, the U.K. and Palestine. One was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron confirmed in a post on X Tuesday that three British citizens were among those killed, calling their deaths “completely unacceptable.”
Barak Ravid: (https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/gaza-aid-workers-killed-strike-world-central-kitchen)
Dear José and World Central Kitchen family,
the shock is palpable,
such a catastrophe.
imho you cannot ‘thread the needle’ with this kind of leader
who can rationalize the killing of thousands and all of the horror.
And with no end in sight.
He has extracted his several tons of flesh
and now Netanyahu must use finally his words = just words.
Aid workers do what they do on trust.
Trust is everything, everything,
and the time for denial is long over.
Stop the pretense!
Stop the bombing – two wrongs don’t make a right.
SAMANTHA POWER
@PowerUSAID
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Death of World Central Kitchen Workers in Gaza
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/02/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-death-of-world-central-kitchen-workers-in-gaza/
After nearly six months of war, hostages’ families join with anti-government rallies
‘We will not meet here again,’ says father of abductee at Tel Aviv’s Hostages’ Square rally; tens of thousands at protests across Israel; over a dozen arrested in clashes with police
Tens of thousands of people turned out for mass protests across Israel on Saturday night, and the weekly demonstrations in Tel Aviv by the hostages’ families took a dramatic turn after speakers called on attendees to “take to the streets” and join the anti-government protesters in the heart of the city, announcing an apparent discontinuation of the separate gathering.
Eli Albag, father of Hamas-held hostage Liri Albag, said there would be no more separate protests at Hostages Square in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
“This is the last Shabbat that we will be here,” he said. “We won’t meet here anymore, we will be in the streets… this is the moment where we turn off the lights.”
Charlie Summers, Iddo Schejter, Jessica Steinberg and Canaan Lidor:
(https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-nearly-six-months-of-war-hostage-families-join-with-anti-government-rallies/#)
REP. RASKIN STATEMENT ON WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN AID WORKERS KILLED IN GAZA
April 2, 2024
Washington, DC – Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) today released the following statement.
(https://raskin.house.gov/2024/4/rep-raskin-statement-on-world-central-kitchen-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza)
BERNIE SANDERS
imo – after gracing Earth for a short time we’re not at “the pinnacle” of human civilization (right?). What about profits that come from war, poverty, rules of war, torture and famine? Do you believe genocide can be explained away as a form of self-defense? Just how brainwashed are we, how onboard are we, with the suffering forced upon ourselves and others?
José Andrés: Let People Eat
In the worst conditions you can imagine — after hurricanes, earthquakes, bombs and gunfire — the best of humanity shows up. Not once or twice but always.
The seven people killed on a World Central Kitchen mission in Gaza on Monday were the best of humanity. They are not faceless or nameless. They are not generic aid workers or collateral damage in war.
Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, John Chapman, Jacob Flickinger, Zomi Frankcom, James Henderson, James Kirby and Damian Sobol risked everything for the most fundamentally human activity: to share our food with others.
These are people I Moreserved alongside in Ukraine, Turkey, Morocco, the Bahamas, Indonesia, Mexico, Gaza and Israel. They were far more than heroes.
Their work was based on the simple belief that food is a universal human right. It is not conditional on being good or bad, rich or poor, left or right. We do not ask what religion you belong to. We just ask how many meals you need.
From Day 1, we have fed Israelis as well as Palestinians. Across Israel, we have served more than 1.75 million hot meals. We have fed families displaced by Hezbollah rockets in the north. We have fed grieving families from the south. We delivered meals to the hospitals where hostages were reunited with their families. We have called consistently, repeatedly and passionately for the release of all the hostages.
More: (https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/brackets-are-in/#comments)
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