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hopefully the Big One will happen while they're in town so they can make themselves useful rescuing people from collapsed bridges or something 😒🙄😑

ridiculous & unforgiveable that at least *200* democrats in congress didn't sign this 😡 i have sons; don't they?? this makes me furious

gratuitous cruelty 😡💔

"The few remaining humans on Earth who are still able to imagine are also the ones cursed with the superpower of being able to feel other people’s pain, understand the climate crisis, and grieve for the disappearance of nature." @tsakraklides.bsky.social tsakraklides.com/2025/10/19/h...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Basma. Basma was a makeup artist and did eyelash extensions before the war. She lost her home and the tower she worked in was recently destroyed. She has 4 children Tulin, 9, Malak, 7, Kamal, 5 and baby Maryam who is just 9 months old.

I have written a small, critical obit of Jane Goodall. Will soon be out in The Continent, a good newspaper for Africa affairs. Check it out in the meantime www.thecontinent.org

help my arabic teacher who made it last year from gaza to cairo with his wife & 3 small kids bring his mom from gaza through the rafah crossing to cairo (fundraiser created by one of my classmates) - every bit helps & makes a difference chuffed.org/project/1542...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

"Make no mistake: imprisoning and blackmailing people behind fences has always been a huge moneymaker for the capitalist amoeboid. Sometimes the fence is invisible but trust me, it’s there. We are all shoved into concentration camps whether they are real or virtual..."

Amid Israel’s man-made famine in Gaza, a young Palestinian boy scours the streets for fallen pasta from an aid truck, a stark reminder of the severe hunger and suffering that is still gripping the strip.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Source: www.msf.org/msf-condemns...

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration' River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment. share.google/H0AKSWKmBQNl...

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Innumerable articles, studies, and books have been published detailing how humanity has run out of time, and again and again the deadline is farcically pushed ahead so we still have decades, or at least, now, a few years, to turn the tide."

"Assuming that deaths from deprivation were 4 times the violent deaths... the total Gazan death toll would accordingly be 136,000 violent deaths plus 544,000 from imposed deprivation, leading to a staggering total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025." arena.org.au/politics-of-...

"The parasite’s biggest strength, the efficient exploitation of its host, is in fact its greatest weakness: it will die once its host becomes sick. For a civ sustained by ecocide,.the realisation of parasitism is an existential threat it must protect itself against, through.. supremacy narratives"

End the Genocide now End the Occupation now Isolate Israel

Genocide apologia does not just dehumanise the victims. The perpetrators and their apologists also dehumanise themselves. There’s no other way to commit or support genocide.

“The occupation might stop them and that’s expected, but it breaks the siege morally and sends a message to the entire world that Gaza has not been forgotten” says a Gaza resident after an international flotilla departed for Gaza, carrying aid and more than 300 activists

[quote] "As a lawyer from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, during my visits to those held in military custody and prisons, I have witnessed unimaginable pain. Two moments in particular have stayed with me: the first was when a prisoner quietly asked, 'Does Gaza still exist?'"

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests flip.it/FeVoNI

Israel claims Gaza has “safe zones” for displaced families. On the ground, these areas are garbage dumps, destroyed neighborhoods, and active military sites. qudsnen.co/unmasking-is...

"Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth..The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course,will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies" chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-as...

The paint on the Mexico side of the wall is so much prettier

"Climate scientists have little clue right now of where this planet is heading. All they know is that things are “worse than predicted”... Forecasts from now will at best be merely speculative. We know we are entering hell, we just don’t know at what speed & whether there will be wi-fi and snacks.."

"Here in Gaza, there is no border between life & death. We dwell in their intersection, where joy & grief are served in the same cup, where coffee is sipped beside the still-warm ruins of a home, where hope itself is a crime against the despair the heavens have decreed for us." x.com/ezzingaza/st...

Israel is starving Palestinians to death. Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza with impunity. Israel openly plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel is openly planning concentration camps in Gaza. Israel kidnaps and targets doctors in Gaza.

my entire timeline on twitter is in mourning over this. here on bsky it's mostly crickets. no wonder i come here less & less often.

as shocking as biden's abysmal record on gaza is the disdain many who voted for him/kamala demonstrated for those of us who (because of his record) voted 3rd party

"I want only one night. To breathe without flinching. To fall asleep without rehearsing my end. To cry like a child, and not apologize for being broken." ~ ibrahim massri, gaza x.com/IamIbrahim21...

"Join mental health clinician Linda Thai and writer Jungwon Kim for an in-depth conversation on intergenerational trauma, historical grief, and healing in community." (1 hr) scienceandnonduality.com/event/wars-l...

"...“We are struggling, mourning, surviving, and working, all at once,” Akhras told me. “There’s no space for my emotions. They sit in my chest like a stone.” When he’s not with patients, he’s searching for water, or trying to calm his own parents..." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"I want only one night. To breathe without flinching. To fall asleep without rehearsing my end. To cry like a child, and not apologize for being broken." ~ ibrahim massri, gaza x.com/IamIbrahim21...

"We are not the living. We are not the dead. We are the in-between, smoke clinging to rubble, souls stripped of longing, walking corpses still pretending to be fathers, daughters, doctors, lovers." ~ dr. ezzideen, gaza x.com/ezzingaza/st...

"Peripeteia...describes a sudden reversal of fortune for a main character. It’s often accompanied by a kind of existential crisis. The character learns that most, maybe everything, they ever believed was a lie." ~ @jessicawildfire.bsky.social www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/how-much-wil...

This is Gaza

It's taboo to say this, but I'm afraid he's right.

"As it evolved, our brain continued to optimize itself as a killing machine to maximize its chances of survival. The dark take-home lesson is that both genocide and ecocide run in our DNA, not only in our culture."

from @natebear1.bsky.social www.donotpanic.news/p/jewish-com...

"Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People. The corporate media ignores the scale of the horror. It's the rough equivalent of 70 million people in the USA. Official data grossly underestimates the death toll." jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-isr...

Israeli special forces have abducted Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital in the southern part of the enclave.

excellent brief synopsis of israel's ethnic cleansing of the palestinians since 10/7/23 by zach foster phD palestinenexus.com/articles/eth...

🧵🥀I want you to read this last thread slowly… Not with your eyes, but with your body. Feel it. Live it. Just for a moment. We haven’t had real food in days. There is no bread in the markets, No rice, no oil, no baby milk. Even lentils and canned food, gone. We wake up with burning headaches. ⬇️

exactly! what's up with MTG being on the right side of history here, while AOC is on the wrong (stupid, cowardly, amoral, unethical, weak-kneed) side?

such gratuitous cruelty 😡

"There's suffering, there's catastrophe, there's dystopia... & then there's Gaza." x.com/_ZachFoster/...

100%. Many of the stories of ICE detaining people with green cards could have happened under any admin. That’s not true for the pro-Palestinian stuff, of course, and the Trump admin is doing a lot of new stuff too… but a lot of this just isn’t novel. It’s the system operation as intended.