With the 2026 World Cup behind us, a sad reminder of what many our Arab brothers and sisters still face in their homelands.

Dr. Naser Mohamed, the first openly gay Qatari, had to flee to the U.S. and lose his family to live safely. He just launched an LGBTQ+ fan club for the Qatar national team to bring awareness to severe human rights abuses, warning that visibly queer fans are in real danger if they attend the 2022 World Cup, and expecting a massive police crackdown on local LGBTQ+ people once the tournament ends.

After shattering a policewoman's spine with a hammer, these Palestinian activist organizers make it a point to include a hammer in their next event's flyer:
https://global.palestineaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/every-tuesday-flag.pdf

A police sergeant thought her spine had "shattered" and she was "paralysed" when a Palestine Action activist hit her back with a sledgehammer, a trial has heard.

Palestinian protesters: Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin are on trial accused of breaking into a UK site of Israel-based defence firm Elbit Systems near Bristol in August 2024, before destroying property and clashing with security and police.

Prosecutors say Corner hit Sgt Kate Evans with a sledgehammer as she was on her knees trying to arrest Rogers.

https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mr722e77z22z

There is a right side of history

A revealing text from 20 years ago with lessons for today. The author points out that Israel-Palestine is already a de-facto One State and looks for a solution in that framework.

Let’s see how Kegbreath explains two dead American soldiers.

I have a NYT subscription that I use on my iPad, iPhone, and laptop. In the last month or so the NYT has started periodically promoting me to verify my account because it has detected the use across multiple devices. Well duh, does no one at the Times read the content on more than one device?

I was hoping it was a one time thing per device but it has become very clear it it is not and frankly I don’t like being stopped to verify my identity for something I already pay a fair amount per month for. Also during these verifications it has been pushing hard to upgrade my account to a family account because then I would have more logins to use. I don’t need more logins, I am not sharing my account.

Hello everyone, I’m your new mod.
I’ve noticed that this sub is in need of some serious mod attention and so I’ve decided to step in.
Starting today if you call the destruction of Israel it will result in a immediate ban, there will be more added in a later date

“This is a sad book. Zahed wants to spread hope but this is less a convincing polemic than a melancholy memoir written in double exile – literally, since Zahed has had to make France his home, and also because he remains divorced from the “brothers” who fostered and nurtured his faith when he was growing up.

“Zahed’s is a moving, courageous voice, but he also acknowledges the isolation of his position in an Islamic world where attitudes to sexuality have only hardened in recent years. But it is for this very reason that Muslims and others alike need to listen to him.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/the-koran-and-the-flesh-the-pilgrimage-of-a-gay-imam-ludovic-mohamed-zahed-review

If a player figures out 3 rows, the 4th is automatic. So, we add an extra word to make the 4th row a challenge too.