If you don’t remember the flour massacre this is a story about it- Anwar’s husband was killed while waiting on aid www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.

I did not think when I wrote this in 2020 it would remain so relevant. I get no kickback from resharing my work. I share it because it explains shit

I was only allowed to teach my “Theater of Protest” class once, but it taught me that a) ppl love doing theater, b) they love doing theater w a purpose in community w others and c) those performances help ppl dream into being a reality of hope and dignity

ICE and Border Patrol are making their presence normalized in downtown and along Michigan Avenue in chicago right now militarized occupation always threatens access to food and collection of resources

If any journos or researchers want a big story, see if you can dig out any information on the increases in power bills for large institutions (hospitals, universities, etc). What you find may shock you. This scale of profit extraction combined with govt austerity is directly eroding our economy.

there is not a small number of people who can no longer go to the grocery store or the food pantry, there are many who are taking risks we have a small wishlist and i will keep sharing it, we keep hearing from families who trust us or trust their networks to trust us bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

I've recently been reminded that at least some of the immigrants that Abbot sent the Texas national guard to kidnap, are the same immigrants Abbott flew to Chicago in the dead of winter in flip flops and a t shirt to overwhelm the city. Instead Chicago residents clothed, fed and resettled them

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Awesome public health news: Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of 1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV, 2. Syphilis and 3. Hepatitis B www.who.int/news/item/13...

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes. bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

Woke up last night over and over thinking about this. Remembering the first time as a baby social worker that a middle schooler told me about watching his cousin get arrested by ICE and how his world broke. These kids will never forget the feel of those ties, or trust freely, or feel half as safe.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.

I feel like I could deal with Their shenanigans better if it were cool enough to wear tights and boots

Purposely built bridges lower to keep Black folks from bussing places.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Helpful thread, and I love the metaphor of different groups having different “ranges of motion”

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

went for a little walk for my mental health but my brain decided to catch a “Margin Walker” earworm, thanks Fugazi 🙁

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

Where is anyone getting this idea that he can't and he won't? We have masked secret police disappearing people right now. There's no can't or won't at this point. There's only what we as a society are willing to stand up and stop.

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

She was active in her communities and vocal against police violence. Defund was never enough. It can only be abolish. Say her name. SANDRA BLAND.

Skarsgård is great in this role but Kevin R. Free’s voice is MB to me

The enemy, for all their wealth and power, is not invincible. The time to resist them is now while they're still weak. It will take a full decade for the funding to kick in, years to set up the detention centers and we can fucking stop them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Every deportation stayed, every person who can go home to their family, is a victory. Today, JFREJers (incl @bradlander.bsky.social on his birthday!) other electeds, attorneys with The Door & clergy accompanied new NYers like Yasir to their hearings. Join us: jfrej.org/deportation-defense

Appalachian folks literally helped build the labor movement in America. They fought police and died for their unions. And since then they have been cheated, scammed, stereotyped, lied to, and killed. I’ve repeatedly said that we should be looking towards Appalachian history for inspiration.

I called it: attacks on public sector workers (esp in the federal gov't) are attacks on Black workers- especially Black women.

one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory" it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day

In a just world transition medicine would be considered a miracle because of its extremely high rate of success for those who need it, but even outside of that context it should be fucking astounding in what it reveals about how much the body can evolve at a physical & biological level.

If anyone wants to apologize for calling Gazans fake via donation here’s the links for the three people featured (and verified) in this article: Saeed: www.gofundme.com/f/help-adam-... Sahar: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-... Hany: chuffed.org/project/save...

I spoke with people in Gaza who've been accused of being scammers or even AI.

since eyes are on Philadelphia right now: Cherise, Ennis’s wife, was a DC33 member for over 30 years when she was wrongfully terminated. #DC33 employees have been on strike since 7/1. sanitation workers, clerical workers (including library), airport employees, and others are on strike.

I’m finally starting to get a handle on playing “Bella Ciao” on the ukulele (not a moment too soon)

it is going to take so much love and kindness to deal with the amount of hate and violence we are going to experience. we need to be as sweet with each other as we are brutal with them. we need to have as much love for each other as we have hate for the fascists. together is the only way.

That was quick.

Might I suggest what you want to remember you were doing the day after an American concentration camp opened in your lifetime is not arguing online about the camp’s name, but directly asking one person you trust what you could do together to help close the camp.

Something I think about a lot: I 100% believe there is good teaching and bad teaching and we should always try to be better teachers. But also, learning hurts sometimes. It just does. You’re changing a mental model. You can’t just slip it into a classroom Jeopardy quiz like veggies in pizza sauce.

We will not be ground into dust!!

There's a kernel of a joke about NYT reporters trying to tell an offensive joke about the IDF, the NYPD, and the GOP; and never getting past "a bar was walked into"

They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades

"The past is whatever we cannot change. This isn’t that. There is still time to move us away from a future that insists upon annihilating humanity to accommodate the annihilation of humans."

Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery. They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩