🚨 ISRAEL REIMPOSES TOTAL SIEGE ON GAZA Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, including Rafah, “until further notice.” COGAT says humanitarian staff rotations are postponed, meaning no aid personnel can enter or leave. Israel falsely claimed: “The substantial quantities of food that have...

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

i dunno man when they use my money to bomb people in other countries, and kidnap my neighbors into concentration camps, and i cant pay to see doctors or for groceries and it goes on for decades and then you wonder why three generations of young people have given up

Joe Biden refused to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, and he backed Israel's strikes on Iran in 2024 with full military and intelligence support

Just like oct. 7 and its immediate aftermath wasn’t the time to stay silent or allow liberal zionists to get away with condemning the resistance this is also when speaking up and against those who manufacture consent for imperialism matters.Social media is also war infrastructure and we’re all here.

Another reason living in this timeline is so shit - billionaires continue to get shitty fascists to be faces and puppets of controlling storytelling in our modern moment. I’ll probably die before there’s a liberated media-scape.

scalawagmagazine.org/2026/02/we-a... Read this on the work strike initiated by incarcerated folks in Alabama Dept. Of Corrections facilities on Feb. 8 and amplify their demands. Send funds to author and incarcerated writer of the piece, Michael Kimble: www.givesendgo.com/freemichaelk...

Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada reflects on Israel’s plan, announced yesterday at the Board of Peace, to turn Gaza into an IDF-controlled “cashless society,” where digital wallets could be suspended at will, cutting off access to food & goods. He warns it would enable blackmail & collective...

🧵TL;DR the biggest AI companies and the New York Times are destroying history and accountability at the same time. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...

Police departments across the U.S are tapping into school district security cameras & sharing the information with DHS. Surveillance equipment in schools was never a project to keep children safe; this tech is used to regulate, control, seperate and intimidate immigrant families.

The capitalist world order that enables, condones, justifies, and profits from everything described here needs to be destroyed. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

Credit to The Nation for its ‘A Day for Gaza’ Have to point out that PalCast, thanks to the work of Yousef Aljamal, has platformed dozens and dozens of people from Gaza, many of whom are contributors to the Nation now. No gimmicks, just Palestinians speaking for Palestine from on the ground in Gaza.

A small study found that exposure to lead—a dangerous heavy metal—has fallen by a factor of more than 100 since the 1960s. However, the researchers warn that all the gains in lead exposure could be reversed if pollution policies change. bit.ly/4ryhLH2 📊: @unamandita.bsky.social

‼️The Sameer Project has had to reduce water distributions by 50%, pause grocery vouchers for 110 families, and has had to stop music classes due to a large decline in donations. They may have to stop food distributions too. We cannot let this happen. Donate today! chuffed.org/project/1132...

Excellent piece from my colleague Tracy!

I’m genuinely curious: What would ICE need to do for these Democrats to not vote for its unprecedented 300% budget increase? Also interesting: will Ezra Klein say anything publicly after celebrating several of these people despite their authoritarian records?

From our policy director: WA must stop funneling money into extreme sentences with little public benefit. By passing HB 1125, #WaLeg can strengthen communities and stop using taxpayer money to punish an aging & sick population. @esidewalkitout.bsky.social washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/21/w...

ICE was reported Seattle Public Schools today, and seen making arrests in Tacoma. Do you have this page bookmarked yet? iceout.org/en/

“When researchers at the Center for AI Safety tested AI agents’ ability to complete remote work tasks, not a single model was able to complete more than three percent of their assignments.”

Key WA homeless student program could lose third of funding Programs that markedly help Washington’s homeless students may become collateral damage under state budget cuts and turmoil in the federal government, advocates say.

Al Jazeera is reporting that a Palestinian baby, Mohammed Abu Harbid, froze to death as torrential rains and freezing winds worsened the dire humanitarian situation faced by displaced families across the Gaza Strip. Since last November, four Palestinian children have frozen to death.

Grassroots efforts to divest local U.S. taxpayer dollars from Israel over its ongoing genocide of Palestinians are gaining steam. Read my reporting on campaigns in Ohio, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New York. ✊

The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds

Air pollution kills over 100,000 people every year in the U.S., about 5 times all homicide combined. But you won't see wall-to-wall coverage of Trump's deadly announcement. The *volume* of news coverage affects who and what we are afraid of, and which larger threats we ignore.

As I explain with many examples in Copaganda, these systems are functioning exactly as they are designed. This is what they are trained to do. This is what they keep doing. The reasons police policies and behavior are the same in hundreds of cities is that it is intentional.

Our 2026 legislative agenda calls on #WaLeg to enact much-needed progressive revenue, reject cuts to programs that serve us all, and center the needs of everyone most impacted by the affordability crisis. Read more: budgetandpolicy.org/resources-to...

As well as individual support campaigns that you can find on @lifeline4gaza.bsky.social lifeline4gaza.com

Or support other mutual aid projects like the one that @divyampersaud.com organizes: chuffed.org/project/hope...

look... the entity has banned 37 intl aid orgs from operating in Gaza. as the post explains, since these orgs distribute a lot of food, the population will remain at severe food insecurity. it's all the more important to support mutual aid orgs like Sameer now, as they do their own food distros.

everything of this empire actually has to go for the peoples and the earth and the birds to live, and the going is not going to happen by appealing to its keepers

WA continues to provide driver data to federal officials for immigration enforcement, despite saying they shut down access

“ICE just needs to be traine–“ ICE needs to be abolished. Hope this helps.

"Texas...and Louisiana make up the densest regional cluster of large refineries on the planet. And those facilities were originally designed for processing dense, sulfur-rich crude from countries like Venezuela." capitalbnews.org/trump-venezu...

We're hosting "Writing and Resistance" a workshop and conversation with KIESE LAYMON, ROBERT JONES, JR. and DEESHA PHILYAW on Dec. 14! All proceeds will go to the Sameer Project. Join us! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

Join us for Budget Matters 2025, Nov. 12 at Northwest African American Museum, a policy summit focused on Keeping a steadfast vision for a just economic future. Learn more & register now: budgetmatters.org Más información sobre y registrarse ahora!: budgetmatters.org/inicio/

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

We’ve raised over $50K in the last ten days for the Sameer Project 🙏🙏🙏 We are not and never will be a “501c3” We have no fiscal sponsor This has all been done by a small group of friends and comrades Don't underestimate what you can do with the people around you

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So there’s a lot to say on the EO, but there are so many vestiges of slavery in US society that are so central to the national project and I think we need to be even more clear about the stakes and being intolerable to these horrific and harmful policies.

Fun news: Evan Walker is re-joining our team as senior policy analyst! Evan helped build B&PC's policy work on legal financial obligations, and they're returning to our team to grow our criminal legal reform work - to support people impacted by the carceral system. Welcome back Evan 💙

i don't think we are giving enough smoke to george w bush, who created DHS, CBP and ICE

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

We're so happy to be hosting this workshop with our friends at @refaatlibrary.bsky.social on December 15, 7-9pm EST, where they'll teach people how to start their own mobile liberation library! Proceeds to the @sameerproject / sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...

All proceeds will go the Sameer Project's Refaat Alareer Camp, which you can read more about and donate to here: tinyurl.com/sameerproject-central

I also want to be clear that it’s anti-capitalist, anti-imperial, anti-fascist, end US and all settler colonialism/imperialism, end genocide(s), and fuck Israel and Zionism over here too. And I’m a student of “beyond abolition” and Afropessimism. And fuck the Empire!! ✌🏽✌🏽🧡🧡

“America’s liberal democracy has always harbored fascism as its whip, noose, truncheon taser, rifle—wielded to motivate the South to embrace its liberalism, even as it maintains Blackness as capital.” ✍🏾: Yours Truly Read more at scalawagmagazine.org/2024/11/elec...

I’m not abandoning the Twitter hell flames, but I also don’t think this platform is store-bought.