Coexistence VI | another day on the job (animals)

DSCF6242: photo by Maksim Tsekhanovich, 7 May 2018

Coexistence [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 4 May 2018

Crete, 2016 / 9226: photo by dirtyharrry, 17 May 2018

Speaking at the White House press briefing on Thursday afternoon, Sarah Sanders said: “I don’t think the term the president used is strong enough. Frankly I think the term animal doesn’t go far enough and I think the president should continue to use his platform and everything he can do under the law to stop these types of horrible, horrible, disgusting people.” At the meeting about sanctuary cities on Wednesday, Trump had said of members of the gang: “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals. And we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.”: photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters, 17 May 2018

When a member of the press corps suddenly rose and hurled a dark projectile about the size and shape of a cigar
In the direction of the podium, it was intercepted by the rotating blades of a concealed ceiling fan, and exploded like a water balloon
Causing a stinky brown liquid imbedded with multiple shredded chunky bits to spray down upon the front rows of the briefing room
Where it quickly coagulated into a thick mist which hung upon the air much as if this were the actual 33rd Circle of USA-Hell.
Just another day on the job, one reporter, daubing with a tissue at a fragment of foul lapel spatter, was heard to sigh
As security rushed into the room and preparations for the impromptu beheading began.
As a free human being, I thought then, I could turn and live with animals. In fact I do turn and live with animals.
Well, make that among. The hood was placed over the head of the confused and disheveled offender.
At this point the live feed was interrupted by breaking news from Honolulu warning of missiles incoming from NK. Unless they weren't.

Lachlan MarkayVerified account @lachlan

"Actually, MS-13 gangbangers are still human beings" is not the hill to die on imho
Respectable Lawyer Retweeted Lachlan Markay
Respectable Lawyer added,

Actually, it’s the single most important hill to die on in all of human morality.

tweet via Respectable Lawyer @RespectableLaw, 18 May 2017

Darkest fucking timeline: image via Gabriela Paiella @GMPaiella, 17 May 2018

A tweet from the US Air Force linking the conflict in Afghanistan with the ‘Yanny or Laurel’ internet debate.: photo by US Air Force/Twitter, 17 May 2018

Tweet (Adam H. Johnson): "amazing how the David Frum and Anne Applebaum and Evan McMullins of the world have a definition of 'authoritarianism' that excludes every non-Trump specific transgression the US does, ignores Israel, exempts wars of aggression, overlooks CIA/FBI and only applies to enemy states."

We're in the tail end of the era where the US could use terms from human rights and political and democratic morality to describe itself and its enemies, without everybody laughing.

XYMPHORA, 17 May 2018

5:03

Hamas is responsible for “human sacrifice” in Gaza, says @TomFriedman. “I am sorry, when you throw thousands… of the flower of your youth against an Israeli fence … it was inevitable that a lot of people were going to get killed … and Hamas knew that”: image via Anderson Cooper 360 @AC360, 17 May 2018

An injured Palestinian man is evacuated on a horse-drawn cart along the Gaza-Israel border on May 14, 2018.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

A man hides behind an embankment during the protest along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Paramedics assist a man who was injured in the chest and arms by Israeli troops along the Gaza border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Palestinians, including a group of women, near the border fence with Israel during the demonstration.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

A wounded woman is evacuated by other women after she was injured in the head during the protest along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

A wounded demonstrator is carried away during the protest along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Palestinian men pray along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Palestinian boys observe the protest along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

An injured man is assisted by medics in a field hospital set up along the Gaza-Israel border.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

An injured man rests in a bed at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Palestinians sit along the Gaza-Israel border as smoke wafts in the distance.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Ibrahim Dahir, 32, whose left leg was injured by Israeli troops during the protest, lies in a bed at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.: photo by Emanuele Satolli for TIME, 14 May 2018

Emanuele Satolli is an Italian photographer based in Istanbul.

As U.S. embassy opens in Jerusalem, dozens killed in Gaza: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 14 May 2018

You read a headline like this and you think, #MichelleWolf really had an impact.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 15 May 2018

Crete, 2015 / 8731: photo by dirtyharrry, 17 May 2018

1981_1008 | Moucharabieh - 1999: photo by Pierre Wayser, sometime in 2018

As U.S. embassy opens in Jerusalem, dozens killed in Gaza: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 14 May 2018

Fifth dispatch: A baby girl dies in the haze of Gaza. Pictured here is Ammar – the child's 12-yr-old uncle, who was carrying her when "suddenly he was surrounded by clouds of acrid white smoke.": image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 16 May 2018

It's incredibly difficult to see the faces of disbelief, shock and loss – as the family mourns the death of 10-month-old Layla Ghandour.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 16 May 2018

It's incredibly difficult to see the faces of disbelief, shock and loss – as the family mourns the death of 10-month-old Layla Ghandour.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 16 May 2018

It's incredibly difficult to see the faces of disbelief, shock and loss – as the family mourns the death of 10-month-old Layla Ghandour.: image via Marcus Yam @yamphoto, 16 May 2018

Family members carry the body of Layla Ghandour, 10 months, to her burial site in Gaza City.: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2018

Layla Ghandour's burial

Family members carry the body of Layla Ghandour, 10 months, to her burial site in Gaza City.: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2018

Layla’s mother, Mariam Ghandour, 18, said she often argued with her husband because he could not afford to rent a home for them or provide food and diapers for his children. Around the time her son died, she moved back with her mother and grandmother.

The grandmother supported them from a stipend provided by the Palestinian Authority to the families of those killed in the wars with Israelis. Two of her sons died in previous hostilities. Fourteen people lived off this money, she said.

The power was out in the father’s apartment when he brought Layla’s body home from the hospital. Neighbors brought the family two buckets of water to wash her because the pipes had run dry. The women in the family placed the baby in a pink, plastic basin and gently scooped water over her head by the light of a cellphone.

The mother then wrapped Layla in a white shroud and a red, green, white and black Palestinian flag.

“Oh my beautiful daughter, I lost you,” she sobbed, holding the tiny bundle tightly to her chest. “She is all I have.”

Shortly before the call to prayers sounded, the father took Layla to mosque to pray over her body. He and other family members took turns carrying her on the march from the mosque to a nearby cemetery, past shops shuttered because Hamas had called for a general strike.

As mourners lowered the body into the sandy ground, a wail echoed across ancient tombstones.

“I want to see her one last time,” her mother pleaded.

“It’s God’s will,” the men told her as they shooed her away.

“Have faith in God.”

from A baby dies in the heart of Gaza, Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2018

GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian man points towards the moon in its Crescent form in Khan YunisPhoto @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 May 2018

GAZA STRIP - A youth waves a sparkler at the site of a tent protest on the Israel-Gaza border as the faithful prepare to start the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 May 2018

GAZA CITY - The sun prepares to set over Gaza City Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 May 2018

#Indonesia Indonesian Muslim people pray during the first night of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta Photo @BerryAdek #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 16 May 2018

Muslim students offer noon prayers in Indonesia as the month of Ramadan begins: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 18 May 2018

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#Somalia A man piles up bananas at Hamarweyne market during the first day of the month of Ramadan in Mogadishu Photo @Moh_Abdiwahab #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 May 2018