Some days I don’t know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly, or just throw up.

This, however, is definitely a throw-up day. That’s because our US Secretary of State (a once-honorable position that advocated humanitarian values) has just decreed that war-torn Palestinian children from Gaza will be denied medical visas that would let them come here for life-saving surgeries. Yes, innocent children horribly maimed by the US bombs, bullets, and billions of our tax dollars that our government sends to prop up the corrupt Israeli regime of Netanyahu, have now had America’s door slammed in their faces by Trump’s nutball extremists.

How extreme? Even bulldog right-winger Marjorie Taylor Greene is appalled that top USA officials have turned so cold as to reject common decency for “Palestinian kids who had their limbs and bodies blown apart.” But Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who reportedly once had a smidgeon of political integrity, immediately snapped to attention when someone named Laura Loomer – one of Trump’s loopy “influencers” – proclaimed that these Palestinian medical seekers were “pro-Hamas.”

Hello… they’re children! To which the Loomer lady summoned this piece of ignorance from deep within her dark soul: “They are not that sick if they can sit on a plane for 22 hours to get to America.”

Okay, she’s just a doofus, but Rubio? He’s a practicing Catholic, so he surely knows Jesus’ biblical admonition: “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Yet, he has officially banned them from the compassionate arms of the American people, darkly warning: “It’s not just kids… a bunch of adults are accompanying them.”

Yeah – their parents, guardians, good Samaritans. Gotta watch out for those types.

To stay on top of everything happening to Gaza, and to find solid actions you can take to fight and end the genocide, we recommend following Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American organizer and strategist who was also a surrogate for Bernie Sanders during his 2016 campaign.

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