Hassan didn’t really know how to promote a link and had raised only $10 before today

Gavin Newsom saying he doesn't take AIPAC money is deeply funny when he's one of the most reactionary and pro-Israel members of the Democratic party. Dude, you literally codified prohibitions on criticizing Israel in schools over the wishes of the teachers unions. Shut up.

Literal years of disabled people BEGGING senators and MPs to listen to them that death would be offered before the necessary care, and they brushed us off. Only for the obvious inevitable to happen. We fucking told you. Multiple times. What now?!

I tried to be very professional and accommodating when dealing with Bluesky’s behavior around accounts from Gaza- and what I was met with was incredibly unprofessional behavior and active bad faith targeting. I read an email from Aaron once and thought “how am *I* the one not getting paid here?”

god they fucking hate that trans people and Black people and disabled people and progressive people and communists and and and and showed up on their platform. They were clearly so hungry for the right leaning mean spirited tech bros that stayed on Twitter.

What. The fuck. This technically doesn't violate ToS. Okay. Fine. Who. THE FUCK. Being the head of something called trust and safety. Does something. Like this. We've got the best community I've ever seen come from a platform, and the most tone deaf arrogant bigot ghouls running it. Disgraceful.

There is nothing funny about this. Just like there’s nothing funny when the men violently smash cake in their bride’s face. It’s designed to humiliate and degrade It’s designed to show dominance It’s a big red flag about what’s to come If a man does this to you on your wedding day, divorce him

This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.

ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia. They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab. She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab” She was held for 24 hours. A US citizen. No one is safe.

After flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money to create a flood warning system. But other communities did the same, arguing the funds didn’t go far enough. With @texastribune.org: https://propub.li/4rFcHkH

ICE ran over an immigrant’s legs with their SUV while attempting to detain him. His family can’t locate him. This is eerily reminiscent of the LA car wash raids where a man broke his leg and then disappeared for over a month. ICE had him chained to a hospital bed under an assumed name

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Bilal. Bilal was a software developer before this who worked on sites like Upwork. He is living in tents with his family of 19 including many nieces and nephews and his children Muhammad, 6, Hour, 2 and little Fares who is just 40 days old.

Many of us have to choose between having our basic needs met by a toxic person, or going without critical things like shelter, food and medications. A disability payment that was enough to survive on coupled with better more robust social supports would preserve our dignity and our safety.

Did you know that disabled people are far more likely to experience domestic abuse or be trapped in violent relationships? There’s an imbalance of power when you’re depending on others for activities of daily living. Disability also keeps you below the poverty line.

Hey @safety.bsky.app, Ruaa is a real person who doesn’t spam other users. She should be reinstated, especially in light of her being targeted by a Nazi. Speaking of Nazis, it’s been over 48 hours since I reported this account. Am I to assume Islamophobia is within Bluesky’s Community Guidelines?

Mercedes Wells was kicked out of an ER in active labour. She gave birth roadside in her husband’s truck. Her water had broken before they kicked her out. The nurse told her “I have to follow the rules. Once the doctor discharges you, you must leave”. This is misogynoir in medicine

Just a gentle reminder that Josh Shapiro signed Israeli bombs and wrote a whole racist paper arguing racistly that peace with Palestinians isn't possible because they aren't capable of it and only understand war. This is who he's always been.

Very much underlines the point I was making yesterday about standing up to this shit regardless of the cost. When you capitulate, it doesn't make them happy, it doesn't even make them stop: they just ask why you didn't do it sooner, why you aren't being more full-throated in your cowardice.

it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

At a time when voters are demanding antiestablishment leaders, the Democratic Party is pushing a candidate for a key Senate race who’s spent 6 years as governor vetoing collective bargaining rights for workers, tax increases on the wealthy, renter protections, and tribal sovereignty protections.

Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.

Repeatedly, charities have chosen to cooperate with the ongoing exclusion of trans people from public life rather than take a serious risk to defend us. They will survive this shit. We fucking won't. Girl guiding or the People's History Museum or whatever get to do on. We die alone.

Whilst it is absolutely true that the lawfare deployed against charities in particular, but also many other businesses, is an existential threat to them, I think it is also fair for us to be furious that the choice is always "fuck them trannies" and continued existence.

“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the ‘war on terror.’”

So many people who imagine themselves to be Marxists have a deeply liberal and idealist understanding of transphobia. It's not a debate, it's a power struggle and if you aren't willing to clearly take trans people's side, you are a scab.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

Interesting I had the opposite reaction. And the feedback seems to suggest TA made explicit it was about rubric not politics. we’re going to have more students doing this stuff in bad faith and so profs won’t be able to give good faith feedback. Instead it will just be grades with minimal feedback

This is bananas. But also faculty please now more than ever make your rubric on memos/ writing super explicit. This would fail in my class because it doesn’t “meaningfully engage readings.” Protect yourself as much as possible from engaging on politics. Hope this prof sues the shit out of them.

I continue to believe that it is both possible and necessary to center Palestinians in opposing Israel. But this...this is not okay. This isn't antizionism. And frankly it's not opposing Israel at all.

As someone who actually has ancestors granted manumission, this always infuriates me. You know how folks contest wills they *knew* were accurate because they wanted more? Guess what was a common occurrence with posthumous manumission? Yup! All the sin-free good intentions for none of the freedom.

I just want to remind people that Louis CK masturbated in front of multiple colleagues over the course of many years many of whom because of it chose to leave the profession.

New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes. buff.ly/SpOXhBC

If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:

Real "What views?? WHAT WERE THE VIEWS, ACTUALLY???" moment

I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?

Say the line!!

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

In case you needed one more reason not to use AI … The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service: Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

The UK again shows they've lost touch with decency and humanity when it comes to trans women as a judge declared Graham Linehan not guilty of harrassment after he harrassed a trans minor and broke her phone. Apparently the victim didn't seem distressed enough. More here from @alyssaur.bsky.social:

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kawthar. Kawthar has a chronic illness she needs medicine for and her husband has progressive hearing loss. They are trying care for their 5 children, 3 of whom were injured in a bombing Essa, 15, Sahar, 13, Naghma, 11, Dima, 8 and Mohammed, 5

Three babies in Kentucky have died of whooping cough. They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers. This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance. They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.

this is so deeply awful

Instead he was horribly neglected to the point where he couldn't imagine going back to the hospital, and his bed sores were too severe to be treated at home. This is what happens. They deny and delay care, and then they will kill you. Three months to get MAiD. A year for most speclialists.

This is why disabled people are shouting about the eugenicist undertones of Assisted Dying policies. All he needed was a specialized mattress, which all hospitals should have, and proper infection control. He just wanted to be treated with dignity.

The coroner's inquest was concluded today, and it turns out he contracted Covid during his hospital stay as well. A man with disabilities goes into a hospital for care, and comes out four days later so sick he feels like a 'burden' and opts for Assisted Dying.

Normand Meunier is a Canadian man with quadriplegia who accessed MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being left for 96 hours on a stretcher in the ER. His requests for a specialized mattress were denied. He wasn't turned regularly. He developed bed sores so bad, he opted to end his life.