Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers. www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

A very young woman who did nothing wrong and showed uncommon self-respect in refusing to let Andrew Cuomo sexually harass her. He made her life hell for it. I hope she feels vindicated by the sound and unambiguous electoral rejection of that scumbag.

"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."

-Darfur Women Journalists Forum: 3 female journalists raped by RSF in latest attacks. - State Minister of Social Welfare on Elfashir: 300 women killed, subjected to mutilation & sexual violence 223 women killed yesterday alone RSF raped & killed entire families #KeepEyesOnSudan

"Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there."

All the footage included in this video has been taken by RSF forces themselves. I am raising funds on behalf of Ghaima Initiative to support the relief effort. All links in my bio. #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

"UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities shot dead because they were unable to flee" this keeps getting worse www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

remember when you hear trump called a peacemaker that his government created a group whose sole purpose was to murder starving palestinians

"Humans are products to be bought, eaten alive, and discarded in an antisocial libidinal frenzy of self-loathing, insatiable emotional need, and if they refuse to behave that way, we'll make fake people" is the only thing any of these freaks believe

Jews, you do not need to read these replies on Yom Kippur. But leftist Gentiles who still insist there is not a problem with antisemitism on the left, you really do need to read these replies.

What's interesting is that the "feeling" of nostalgia is itself a social construct that has changed over the course of human history, and we are now 200 years into nostalgia being specifically constructed as a cultural and political tool for rearranging social feelings about non-memories.

"It is horrifying and depressing to be ruled by pedophiles, rapists, and murderers; more horrifying still is the pressure not to be horrified by it..."

3 years ago the killing of the Kurdish woman Jina Amini sparked the uprising Women, Life, Freedom. An uprising that spread all over the world. We remember with respect and gratitude Jina Amini and all the women who raised and raise the banner of resistance: Jin Jiyan Azadî

In these days, when ISIS is regaining strength and YPJ and all other forces in NES are fighting tirelessly against it, we remember Şervîn Serdar, who was a vanguard in the fight against ISIS. On September 15, 2023, she and two of her comrades were murdered by the Turkish state.

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets. Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵 www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

another reason Dems can't build an antifascist coalition is because they're already part of the fascist coalition. This is an incredibly common pattern for the second party in a late capitalist two-party system, which always seem to simply become a racheting engine of fascism with two factions

Lots of men really think that being punished or even embarrassed for sexually exploiting teenage girls is a great injustice, and that actually sexually exploiting them is somewhere on the spectrum between “okay” and “pretty cool.”

I keep thinking about this essay, and this conclusion. "In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This one is fairly light on speculation about what actually did or didn’t happen—which we don’t know—but goes a lot deeper into how conspiracy theories help people to process their moral horror at violence that is rendered banal and acceptable, and is largely unconcealed.

really tired of being nice about this we need to talk about how absolutely illiterate, unread, fantasist and frankly stupid Western diaspora are about their homeland societies

This week I wrote about the unstoppable tide of "Slopaganda." Traditional propaganda was not meant to convince, but to assure the public that prior beliefs were popular and accepted. What happens when you allow anyone to create propaganda at the stroke of a keyboard? A supercharged feedback loop.

Yet another unattainable beauty standard for women (8ft tall, concave crotch area, an extra knee)

Throughout the past two years, images of massacres in Gaza have permeated public consciousness. In a new photo collection, Sakir Khader shows a life in proximity to more insidious forms of violence in the West Bank that have recently intensified.

Pasolini was right, he was right, he was right. The end goal of Fascism is a locked room where the threat of torture and death makes authority absolute and consequences for those who wield it nonexistent.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

"i am the hunter" what, pray-tell, actual fucking hunting have you done

The Israeli army refers to the practice of murdering aid-seekers as “Operation Salted Fish,” the Israeli version of the game ‘red light, green light.’ archive.ph/9CyTK

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Based on videos taken in Jordan, @slair.bsky.social was able to identify all of Israel's missile defense sites, determine the interceptor type based on their burn-time and then estimate the number of interceptors fired. A tour-de-force. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220...

BREAKING: Israel's defense minister Israel Katz said he had instructed the Israeli military to 'respond forcefully to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire with high-intensity strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.' Follow Reuters live coverage: reut.rs/4ehxCEo

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

CNN’s immediate guest is a General who says he’s “fascinated” and “impressed” with the strike

Contrary to whatever propaganda he may spout, Netanyahu does not want the Islamic Republic to be replaced with a strong democratic Iran. He doesn't believe that's possible, and he would fear it if it emerged. He wants a balkanised struggling, unstable Iran.

Too exhausted to make any comments about the unraveling situation in #Iran other than: Evacuating even 80% of the population of Tehran can take months and he knows that. Callous cruelty isn’t the point here—so what’s the play?

There is no such thing as a pre-emptive strike. There is just the opening shot. But Israel cannot claim to be on the offensive, even though it has been on the offensive for its entire existence. Zionists were on the offensive since at least 1936. Backed by the biggest imperialists of the day.

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

Or he know exactly what he is doing and understands he needs widespread violence to maintain his grasp on power.

People keep telling me that my view of the aesthetics of #AIslop is too bleak and one-sided, that generative AI can't just be used for fascist propaganda, but is a form of caricature, hyper-hallucinatory surrealism, or absurdist vernacular culture that can also be used for emancipatory purposes 1/

Update from Freedom Flotilla Coalition Press Officer, Hay Sha Wiya: "The Madleen is currently under assault in international waters. Quadcopters are surrounding the ship, spraying it with a white paint-like substance. Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio."

Gotta wonder about the value and wisdom of "there is a shopping cart on fire" news updates in the paper of record

Sounds like Trump is about to declare martial law and deploy troops to all blue state cities. Also sounds like he is actively thinking about sending in active duty military. If that’s the case, he will get the war he wants.

I’ve received so many messages from friends around the world, people who once wanted to come here, now concerned about our safety here.

Yep. The part that worries me is people equate the salving of grievance with justice, which means we get to give the cycle another turn. Privilege can be a useful concept, but in very limited ways (it is, after all, how we tether the individual to the systemic.) Not like this, though.