The fact that most of Western media is defending Israel is proof that these outlets don't function as independent arbiters of truth but as a public relations wing for U.S. foreign policy. If you look at the coverage, it's not just a slight bias; we're seeing journalists actively defending Israel, even going as far as to deny that Israel is pursuing a policy of genocide. We must not only speak truth to power but also not let Western media sanitize mass murder without a cost.

Too many narcist leaders playing with the toys today!

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I learned how to tell incoming shelling apart by sound before I started sleeping normally again. Pretty useful skill. Really improves your résumé. Schools just forgot to teach that one. Instead we got sines, cosines, and other elegant nonsense that doesn’t explain how to figure out, from a whistle in the sky, whether you’re about to keep your legs. An interesting gap in the education system, honestly.

The worst part of war isn’t even the blood. The brain gets used to blood at an embarrassing speed. Humans are ridiculously adaptable creatures. Within a month you’re casually finishing canned stew five meters from a burned-out armored vehicle because your nervous system has decided: adapt or panic yourself into an early grave. Evolution, beautiful engineering work. Took an ape and turned it into something that can cry over a stray kitten in the morning and casually discuss artillery calibers over breakfast.

And politicians… god, politicians. Those walking tumors on the body of civilization. You see them on TV: smooth faces, ties, confident voices. They say the word “losses” like they’re talking about spilled rice.

“Acceptable losses.”

Of course they’re acceptable. Especially when you’re not the one losing anything. It’s always some nineteen-year-old kid named Alex, still breaking out, who wanted to fix motorcycles, not reassemble his friend into a black plastic bag.

The funniest part is both sides call each other animals. And both are right. Just different animals with different flags. If aliens existed and saw us, they wouldn’t invade. They’d quietly leave a note: “patient is aggressive, treatment is pointless.”

I remember the first time I threw up after a strike. Not because of the bodies. Because a kiosk nearby was still selling ice cream. Half the city in smoke, wounded screaming somewhere, and some exhausted cashier .is still calmly scanning ice cream like nothing happened. And you’re standing there holding this sticky absurdity in your hands realizing the world doesn’t care about your personal apocalypse. Earth keeps spinning. Buses keep running. Someone posts selfies. Someone jerks off. Someone picks new curtains. And you’re trying to remember the color of the eyes of the person they just zipped into a black bag.

Sometimes at night I think the walls are breathing. PTSD is a very creative director. Free horror studio in your head. Door slams? Brain screams “DOWN, FUCKING DOWN.” Fireworks? Heart decides it’s a marathon. And the best part is people later tell you to “just let it go.” Sure. I’ll just let it go. Like a balloon. Except it’s not a balloon, it’s a memory of someone with no lower jaw trying to say something while drowning in their own blood. Turns out that doesn’t let go very easily.

Dark humor helps. Not because it’s funny. Because if you don’t laugh, you start screaming. And screaming gets annoying for the neighbors.

We had one guy who said after every strike:

“Well, minus one more reason to pay the mortgage.”

And everyone laughed like maniacs. Because everyone was one. War doesn’t make people stronger. It breaks them so deeply the cracks start glowing.

And the disgusting part? After a while, you start missing the hell. Normal life feels fake. People talk about coffee, TV shows, discounts, and you look at them like a plague veteran watching kids in a water park. You want to grab them by the shoulders and scream:

“Do you even understand how thin this civilization is?!”

Your entire comfort is basically resting on a couple of old men with nuclear briefcases not waking up in a bad mood today.

And then some armchair patriot shows up online and writes:

“We must fight to the end.”

To whose end, you greasy slab of strategic mayonnaise? To the end of someone else’s children? Someone else’s lives? Someone else’s minds? People love war until it shows up at their door and starts eating them along with the cat.

But the scariest thing isn’t death. Death is at least honest. The scariest thing is adaptation. When a person stops flinching at the word “corpse.” When photos of ruins get scrolled past between memes and dumpling recipes. When human tragedy competes for attention with a dancing raccoon.

That’s when civilization is actually rotting. Not when killing starts. Humans have always killed. But when they start yawning at someone else’s pain. That’s when you can turn off the lights and shut this primate circus down for good.

Stephanie Savell, director of the Costs of War project at Brown University, says much of the United States’ massive defense budget could be better spent on education, health care and green energy

E-mail your Representative at the link (letter pre-written) and urge them to cosponsor H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act.

As of 5/14/2026, H.R.3565 now has 70 cosponsors.

Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has entered its third year — and the United States is still arming it.

Since the start of Israel's genocide in October 2023, American taxpayers have footed the bill for more than $30 billion in weapons sent to Israel.

Those weapons have been used to kill more than 72,000 Palestinians, flatten hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches, and drive more than 90% of Gazans from their homes. Now Israel is starving an entire population by blocking humanitarian aid.

It's time to Block the Bombs.

On June 5, Representatives Delia Ramirez, Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan, along with 18 of their colleagues, introduced H.R.3565 to block U.S. weapons from reaching Israel.

If enacted, H.R.3565 would stop the Trump administration from shipping the exact munitions Israel has used in its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

These include: BLU-109 bunker busting bombs, MK80 series bombs, GBU-39 small diameter bomb variants, Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), SPICE gliding bomb assemblies, 120mm tank ammunition, and 155mm artillery ammunition, including white phosphorus munitions.

The overwhelming majority of Americans want this flow of weapons stopped. Your Representative needs to hear that from you today.

>Multiple days of negotiations in Washington D.C. have ended with Israel and Lebanon extending their ceasefire for an additional 45 days. Underscoring that Lebanese officials failed to get any assurances about the ceasefire working any better than it was before, Israel immediately attacked a medical center in southern Lebanon.

Here is my letter I e-mailed to my U.S. congressional reps for my state, the Chairmans of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator James Risch) and House Committee on Foreign Affairs (Rep Brian Mast), & the Chair of the Senate State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Senator Lindsey Graham). Please take as is or make adjustments as you see fit to send to members of Congress.

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On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the death toll in the Gaza genocide has surpassed 72,700, with at least 854 Palestinians killed since a US-mediated ceasefire was announced seven months ago. Prime Minister Netanyahu now claims the Israeli military controls 60% of the territory. Because Israel continues to block the entry of excavators and heavy equipment, families are forced to dig through the rubble with their bare hands to retrieve an estimated 8,500 to 10,000 missing bodies. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza persists under a tight Israeli siege that has restricted the entry of agreed-upon aid trucks and essential recovery equipment. (Sources: Drop Site News, Middle East Eye)

The West Bank is currently facing an unprecedented pace of Israeli settlement expansion, highlighted by the secret approval of a record 34 new settlements in late March 2026, which represents a nearly 80% increase in official sites under the current government. This growth is coupled with a dramatic rise in settler violence, including attacks on the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh and a recent incident where settlers forced a family to exhume their father’s body near Jenin. To facilitate further construction and "destroy the idea of a Palestinian state," authorities have uprooted thousands of Palestinian olive trees and moved to demolish dozens of commercial facilities to secure "territorial continuity" for Israeli outposts. Since October 2023, these escalations have led to the displacement of 40,000 Palestinians and a death toll exceeding 1,000 individuals killed by soldiers and settlers. (Sources: The Tablet International Catholic News, Drop Site News, The New Arab)

In response to the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and the Israeli settlement expansion and violence in the West Bank, I urge you to:

·         Support H.R.3565 Block the Bombs Act to provide for a limitation on the transfer of defense articles and defense services to Israel.

·         Support S.3634 AWARE Act to impose sanctions on Israeli officials to discourage the government from obstructing humanitarian assistance

·         Support H.R. 3045 West Bank Violence Prevention Act of 2025

·         Support H.R.7545 Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation

As American support for Israel plummets, it is our moral responsibility to question the continuation of U.S. financial assistance to their government. Israel continues to violate the rights of Palestinians, international law, and U.S. laws. The U.S. Members of Congress must push to end our military support of Israel.