Members of the Israeli security cabinet voted to expand Israel’s brutal invasion of Rafah on Thursday, a report finds, amid warnings that a larger scale operation would escalate the genocide that is already characterized by atrocities unprecedented in modern times. Axios reported on Friday that the officials approved an “expansion of the area of operation” of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)... Source ..read more

On Thursday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a bill into law that effectively cuts off Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds in the state, making Missouri the fourth state in the country to ban Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood. The bill, HB 2634, is expected to go into effect later this year, and makes it illegal to allocate public funds to any abortion facility or... Source ..read more

A freshman member of Congress has drafted articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden, alleging that Biden has abused his executive branch powers by conditioning the transfer of some U.S. weapons to Israel. Earlier this week, Biden announced that he wouldn’t send certain types of bombs to Israel if the country began a “major” invasion of Rafah in Gaza. (Notably, at the time of Biden’s... Source ..read more

Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands. The hunger strikers are also calling for all charges to be dropped against a number of students arrested on campus in... Source ..read more

As two U.S. philosophers, we feel compelled to bring our experience and perspective to bear on the current crisis in academia and the pressing need for solidarity with those suffering from Israeli brutality in Gaza and campus protesters who seek justice and freedom for Palestinians. In the piece that follows, we each sequentially offer reflections on the nationwide campus protests against the... Source ..read more

Ahead of Mother’s Day, grieving moms who lost their children to drug overdose are warning that the wave of punitive anti-drug legislation sweeping the country would not have prevented the deaths of their loved ones. In fact, they say, adopting harsh new laws like these only makes the spiraling public health crisis worse by further criminalizing people living with substance abuse disorders. Source ..read more

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that it was forced to shutter its headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem after a mob of Israeli extremists set fire to the perimeter of the facility, causing significant damage and endangering staffers inside the building. Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near... Source ..read more

After public health officials confirmed H5N1, the virus also known as bird flu, jumped from poultry to cows and recently infected an American, they’ve warned that if the virus strain made its way to pigs, it could be time to press the panic button. That’s because swine are closer to humans in genetic terms, acting as a prime reservoir for viruses to mutate into something that could turn into a far... Source ..read more

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio wrote a letter to the Biden administration this week demanding that international students who have taken part in pro-Palestine protests in the U.S. be deported immediately. The action Rubio is calling for would deprive these students, who are in the country on education visas, of their rights to free speech, assembly, and due process — rights that are afforded... Source ..read more

When I registered to attend last month’s United Nations conference in Canada, organizers insisted it would be a “plastic free meeting.” I wouldn’t even get a see-through sleeve for my name tag, they warned; I’d have to reuse an old lanyard. After all, representatives from roughly 170 countries were gathering to tackle a crisis: The world churns out 400 million metric tons of plastic a year. Source ..read more