alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

The ADL’s response to Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute two times: x.com/adl/status/1...

Materials of Solidarity: posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets of the 🇵🇸 solidarity movement — curated by Nadine Fattaleh at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute. So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!

I wrote a blog post about this exhibition and a few other recent art + literary projects that deploy the *postcard* as a diasporic medium in 🇵🇸 wordsinspace.net/2025/01/18/p...

Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*

Isn't it a shame that so few people in the US know about the path Turkey has gone through over the last decade when so much of it playing out in the same way there?

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde akademisyenler, 1000’inci kez “Kabul etmiyoruz, Vazgeçmiyoruz” diyerek sırtlarını rektörlüğe döndü www.birgun.net/haber/bogazi...

When well-meaning journalists describe this as “heckling” we contribute to an ideological mischaracterization. Instead, we should be more precise: “a reporter repeatedly asked questions about ..ICJ etc. Blinken refused to answer, reporter was forcefully removed by police”

“Academic at Boğaziçi (Bosporus) University turn their back on the Rectorate building for the 1000th day” “we don’t accept it, we aren’t giving up” — Today marks the 1000th day of consecutive struggle for academic autonomy and freedom at one of Turkey’s most elite institutions of higher education

speakingoutofplace.com. The true cost of the war on Gaza is much higher than 50,000.

destroying Gaia to satiate the ego of a billionaire

this is the only path forward: white-knuckled, shaking, refusing to back down, naming the violence as it is being inflicted, shaming those committing it

Interesting webinar ahead: "From political assassination to assassination of politics in Syria" by the Syrian poet and former prisoner Faraj Bayrakdar organized by the Lokman Slim Foundation and MENA prison forum lokmanslimfoundation.org/outreach_det...

Crimes, kayyıms and buy-ins. In this week's news: 1. CHP mayor of Beşiktaş detained 2. Peace process gets mixed signals 3. Three center-right parties merge 4. Syrian delegation visits Ankara 5. Domestic and diplomatic wraps 6. EU bans ‘Turkaegean’ slogan

Does it feel like everyone around you is sick right now? The most recent respiratory data following the holidays gives a bit of insight. Via @healthbeat.org

and yours is..?

Israel killed 80 Palestinians in Gaza today, 30 of whom killed after the ceasefire deal was announced. Israel always accelerates its massacres in the lead-up to ceasefire deadlines. Gaza also remains a besieged concentration camp reduced to rubble. The crisis is far from over.

🚨 PSA: If you have evidence of unreported or underreported war crimes or other atrocities committed in Sudan or South Sudan, find a news outlet that uses SecureDrop and send it an anonymous, encrypted tip. Audio, video, and documents all accepted.

The year before Oct 7 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children. We will not accept that as normal. The 75 years of apartheid was the reason why Gaza existed as an open air prison. We will not accept that as normal. Free Palestine.

Please sign and share this petition in support of students facing suspension for standing firm against NYU's complicity in genocide. There are call and email templates on the site to use to contact the university directly too! nyusolidarity.nationbuilder.com/nyustudentpe...

Really in your face for the ceasefire to take effect on January 19th, Biden's last full day in office. His administration will have maintained its commitment to Israel's genocidal war on Palestine until the very end.

#OtD 14 Jan 1914 Selahattin Ülkümen, Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the holocaust was born. While consul general of Rhodes he saved the lives of 42 Jewish families. Later the Nazis bombed his home, killing his wife. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

#OtD 14 Jan 1921 Murray Bookchin, theoretician of social ecology and libertarian municipalism, was born. His ideas have come to prominence more recently as they have been embraced by Kurdish communities in Rojava, Syria. Learn about his life and ideas: stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya now

more or less yep

Today the Turkish government removed (and arrested) co-mayors in a Mersin district. This is 8th municipality targeted since March 2024. Over 150 elected mayors, almost all pro-Kurdish, removed since 2016. My co-authored article on local authoritarianism explains www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The targeting of ASL is not ignorant. It's a test of whether the mainstream will shift a generally "acceptable" category of disabled person into the "disposable"/abject field, an outbranching of the renewed use of r-word + the long apprenticeship to disposability of vulnerable ppl that covid is

“Yet there are limits to using this legal term alone to explain and express the immorality of what is going on in Gaza. It is more than genocide – it’s gleeful killing without restraint.” novaramedia.com/2025/01/02/n...

Despite repression, the campus movement for Palestine remains strong mondoweiss.net/2025/01/desp... It is absolutely essential to recognize this!

Please sign and share this petition in support of students facing suspension for standing firm against NYU's complicity in genocide. There are call and email templates on the site to use to contact the university directly too! nyusolidarity.nationbuilder.com/nyustudentpe...

The world is burning. Meanwhile, 15 men have been held at Guantánamo Bay for *23 years*. A lifetime. 3 are cleared for transfer if somewhere can be found to take them. 7 face charges with no trial date on the horizon. And three "forever prisoners" will be held, without being charged, until they die.

Here's an anon Proton version of the doc, created and shared with permission: drive.proton.me/urls/RD5RJNP...

Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Drop Site News is calling on the US State Dept. to demand immediate information about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s whereabouts and to take action for his release. Please sign the petition urging the U.S. government to secure Dr. Abu Safiya’s safe return. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

LAPD and LA Sanitation found the time today to destroy several tents belonging to our unhoused neighbors in LA's CD15 district. Many of these residents are elderly, disabled, and suffer from chronic disease including cancer and Stage D congestive heart failure. Please help us replace their tents.

So… it appears that the alert system that keeps glitching in LA is actually the same company that makes LRADs, the sonic weapon preferred by hundreds of police departments around the country and world 🙃 genasys.com/press-releas...

Please sign and share this petition in support of NYU students facing backlash for holding firm in demanding divestment! To NYU admin we say: Revoke the suspensions! Come to the table! Only one party has refused to negotiate in good faith, and it sure as hell isn’t these students.

NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…

They evacuated Santa Monica which is not some nestled-away-in-the-mountains richie rich enclave. It's a regular ass neighborhood with regular ass people and businesses etc. It's insane. And there's no end in sight.

Happy Birthday Dionne Brand! Grateful always!!!💜💜💜💜

📣Sign the Petition: Revoke the suspensions, come to the table! Sign/share petition in support of students facing suspension at NYU bc of their Palestine advocacy.They are facing petty retribution for standing firm against NYU's complicity in genocide. nyusolidarity.nationbuilder.com/nyustudentpe...

SHIT

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us

Ironically, NYU’s University Student Conduct Policy states that “a critically engaged, activist student body contributes to NYU’s academic mission,” and emphasizes that the policy is not intended to hinder “organized, nonviolent, peaceful protest. www.nyu.edu/about/polici...

The extreme sanctions placed on all of the students charged w/ participating in the protest can only be explained as a complete collapse in any kind of due process and instead the arbitrary meting out of collective punishment – regardless of the actions of any individual student.

I’m learning that once again NYU has gone off the rails and suspended a group of students for a year for nonviolent protest on Dec 11th. We see this is as part of the same oppressive apparatus that supports genocide, suppresses resistance, and destroys institutions of critical knowledge production

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

Over 200 cars were abandoned in the Pacific Palisades fire as people fled for their lives, many taking their keys with them. A bulldozer had to clear the vehicles so that fire trucks could get to where they needed to go.