Today is the birthday of the late great Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet and teacher killed in Gaza on December 6, 2023, at the age of 44. Honor his memory by donating to the link. It will be matched up to $5,000 for The Sameer Project's Mass Displacement Response Campaign! bit.ly/match4gaza

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to shingles to sepsis” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

I keep thinking of all the soft boiled liberal defenses of this genocide from 2 years ago, how many smart people i saw on here defend it, the lies, the rationalizations, all of it. It was obvious within days and I wish this humility would actually leave a mark upon those who dutifully defended it.

This is an incredibly well-done and agonizing piece, so know that going in, but I think it's an important read. An excellent one, and one with some very good points.

I’m sharing this every time another powerful person gets accused of rape or childhood sexual abuse. Because the legacy of it never fades for us survivors, even if the headlines do.

Oh look it’s yet another powerful white man who is a predatory sicko and not a trans person! Almost like it’s a pattern or something!

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

It’s after midnight, so Happy Rapture/Happy Divorce Day for me. I celebrated this weekend, but here are my two top lessons: 1) I made the best decisions of my life once I stopped listening to men. 2) A lot of ppl are married only so they don’t have to be alone. You don’t have to be one of them.

I am so fucking tired of watching ppl constantly jump to the defense of powerful ppl. They are FINE. And they don’t give a shit about you! Plz stop stanning these classist neoliberal assholes and go help your elderly neighbor or something my god

girl why in the fuck would you think that lol

everyone be quiet, this rapist has reproductive health advice for us

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Disney: over the last 72 hours we were shocked to discover that censorship isn’t cool.

Something I realized since posting this is that the original has exactly the same mindset that brings us AI. If our reason for being here is to fuck around and have fun, why would we work at anything? Why not let AI just do all the hard stuff?

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

THEY WROTE NUMBERS ON THEIR WRISTS I can’t see straight. Obviously there is so much wrong happening here, but this detail is fucking chilling. These are human beings.

keep aggressively reposting this because I think ~in these times~ what actually matters is *listening to trans kids* about their experiences given the opportunity, they're perfectly able to speak for themselves, despite the fact that they're being objectified into a political football by adults.

They would also talk about cutting aid to Israel. Last year we sent at least 17.9 billion dollars to them. I don’t ever want to hear again that we can’t afford to help ppl in need in the U.S. It’s a lie.

Y’all know exactly what this means. Ppl are quitting, and they’re having a hard time recruiting new agents. If they were “winning,” they would be mocking us and making dumb little memes. They’re losing, and they’re scared of us. Make those jobs absolutely intolerable. Keep it up 🫶🏻

I’m gonna say this as gently as I can, but the same mindset in the Democratic Party that allowed them to justify abandoning vulnerable ppl to the pandemic and Palestinians to genocide is bringing us pro-life candidates and abandonment of trans ppl. None of it is acceptable. We don’t abandon ppl.

Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah. His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

I disagree with this strongly but I don’t want to shame OP. This mindset is what built the hyperindividualism that’s killing us. We’re here to discover and learn, to make art, to help and love one another, to find meaning. Joy is an essential part of that but it’s not the reason for our lives.

Tomorrow is going to be a shitty day for many autistic people. The report on itself is bad, but so is the language we're going to see officials use to describe autism.

As to the Rapture on Tuesday, I will not be attending. Have already sent my regrets. Very pleased to be skipping. I didn’t have a suitable dress anyway

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

All this outpouring for Jimmy Kimmel is performed by the same group who disregarded ppl’s right to publicly oppose a genocide. I didn’t see this much support for the students protesting genocide

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

BREAKING: At least 36 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 19 people in Gaza City, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qv3q3f

And again. This is also why arguing with most MAGA, which many liberals continue to do, is a waste of your time. Their ideology isn’t logical. Your time is far better spent helping vulnerable ppl whose lives MAGAs are destroying than it ever will be trying to convince MAGA to change their minds

Only seven Senate Democrats are signed onto a resolution put forward by Jeff Merkley for the United States recognize the State of Palestine. They are: Sen. Jeff Merkley Chris Van Hollen Tim Kaine Bernie Sanders Peter Welch Tina Smith Tammy Baldwin Mazie Huron

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

The founders of this country sucked ass in a lot of ways but one of the things they nailed out of the park was guaranteeing that anyone could say “this president fucking sucks” without the full weight of the federal government coming down on that person

Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to elect a thin-skinned crybaby who never felt loved as a child.

The only thing that threatens the 1%? Not buying their shit.

Mood

This is who was responsible for Melissa Hortman's murder, sir. And when we can point to direct parallels--Goebbels censoring and expelling entertainers, building concentration camps such as the one in Florida--then it's hard to argue against the Nazi comparison. apnews.com/article/minn...

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them

Lmfao love how our entire world is being destroyed by the biggest cry baby clowns in history.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Oh yeah hi Bluesky friends, so besides sharing my writing journey here on Bluesky, I am also on TikTok and am a menace to my Republican politician dad lol

It's 30°C in Gaza today, set to rise to 33°C in a few days, and tents do nothing to protect against the heat. Poor Talia is suffering. Please donate to help her parents buy more milk and water, plus other essentials. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉🍼

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Rewatching The Horse Whisperer, which is a little overly sentimental but still beautifully rendered. What made me burst into tears was the gentle tenderness Redford shows the traumatized horse. Imagine if we treated human trauma survivors with a fraction of that tenderness

For the past week during my suspension, Sama'a has been without my platform to boost the fundraising she relies on to keep herself and her family alive. Please dig deep and give what you can as they flee displacement and bombing at the hands of Israel. gofund.me/db56c7ce3

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

This is a country that recently decided that it’s fine if we kill vulnerable people and infect children over and over with covid, so the road didn’t appear from nowhere. We have fallen into the trap of our own convenience.

Yep. And there are celebrities who have the capital to actually do this. They could choose to fund a left-leaning media empire, if they wanted to. We should start asking ourselves why we revere wealthy ppl who speak to progress and make money off of the symbols of revolution but never fund one