How NOT to Start Your Day

Honestly, you’d think I’d know by now that I shouldn’t open the news first thing in the AM. I should ease into my day – preferably with carrot cake and a nice piping hot cup of tea. Right? 

Maybe scroll through some cute cat pics. Enjoy a few videos of elephant families and then a few more. Maybe check into Facebook – which is mostly ads now but I still see occasional posts from friends. I scroll Threads for some fun tales – get some grins. Read a chapter of my new Murderbot book. THEN, only then, I might be ready to face the horrors of the what’s happening in the world.

Did I do this morning? Fuck no. First thing I read was a front-page article in Al Jazeera about the sexual abuse, rape and torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The report comes with a warning – This story contains descriptions of sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. “Disturbing” is a profound understatement. I won’t quote any of the descriptions of the horrifying, brutal, dehumanizing, absolutely demonic abuses performed by the Israeli soldiers. They make the reports of the US military’s savage torture, rape, and murders of prisoners at Abu Ghraib seem almost tame. 

Eyad Baba

Allegations of the sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons are not new – they date back decades. But launching its genocidal war on Gaza following the Hamas-led attack of October 2023, Israel appears to have increased the use of rape as a weapon of war, according to the Al Jazeera investigation and various reports by the UN and leading rights groups.
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“Surviving sexual violence and torture in general, and rape is brutal,” Albanese (UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories) said. “Imagine when it’s done on a large-scale systemically to a population. It means to destroy the people as such. (source) 

And piss drunk, brain fried, always posturing, mysogynistic, micro dicked, white supremacist, Christofascist Pete wants to further integrate our military with Israel’s. Mind you, it’s not just this deranged nazi clownfuck who’s promoting this. 

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.

Buried in the House's version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948. (source) 

The House is set to vote on this horror show, this marriage to another ruthless genocidal power before the summer recess. When’s that? Saturday, June 27 through Sunday, July 12, 2026. Call your rep – demand they vote NO on the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). As a nation we need to be divorced from and no-fucking-contact with genocidal rapists. From within and without.

We have to purge the bastards in our own country and NOT hook up with nations who think *gee willikers* training my guard dog to rape prisoners is really, really fun! (yes, they did and are doing exactly this – read the article). 

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.
~ Primo Levi 

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. 
~ Ambrose Bierce 

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world. 
~ Munia Khan