When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. This is a danger to the free press.

For #GivingTuesday -- or any day: A mutual aid fund for friends in Gaza: chuffed.org/project/hand... For more context, we just released an updated 2025 interview with Dr. Dirk Moses on the genocide in Gaza: www.alieward.com/ologies/geno... CC: @mercedesdigsit.bsky.social

Boy oh boy our PM has turned out to be quite a disappointment hasn't he? 😓

Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.

Canada is addicted to selling weapons to regimes that commit atrocities and then when questioned saying "we're looking into it"

psst reminder to book your appointments for flu and covid shots if you haven't already. just do it right now it takes two seconds ok xoxo

Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒 Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...

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“We’re not fighting against the individual man under the uniform,” Olivia Ikey said. “We’re fighting against the system behind this man with the uniform and how we can improve the reality of this person that will come to serve and protect our community.” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Posting a new link b/c GoFundMe has suspended our transfers. For an undisclosed reason, they take issue with the one & only money transfer service we’ve found that can be used in both 🇨🇦&🇵🇸 (open to suggestions🙏) Bonus: Meta also suspended their accounts today. Why? Who knows! New fundraiser here:

1. Despite Pierre Poilievre’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party 2. Despite the Liberal Party’s partisan rhetoric, Conservative MPs feel ideologically at home in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party

Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

No no no Doug, it’s BREAD and circuses, not beer and circuses! smh.

Gaza officials say Israel has allowed in only 14 percent of the aid required by the ceasefire agreement, averaging 89 trucks a day instead of the 600 that were promised to help alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Re-posting because it feels like a good time. This is a particularly good read if you feel any kind of way about the discourse around the No Kings protests happening online — or just if you go to protests, period. Read it, listen to the audiobook while you do dishes, whatever. It's worth your time.

Tasneem & Nidal have helped so many people get food & clean water thanks to >100 donors so far 🤩 But as a family, they’re still struggling & have asked us to help them out. They’re doing SUCH amazing work for the families around them & deserve some help in return. Please consider doing so! 🔗below

BREAKING: Gaza's Media Office says the Israeli army has committed 47 violations after the truce deal entered into force in early October, killing 38 Palestinians and wounding another 143 people. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nuq6mi

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Hey archaeology mutuals! Skype a Scientist is always in need of archaeologists to talk to school groups, clubs, etc. Help Sarah out!!

So at the university football game I sat next to a cheerful student from Japan who was telling me how much she liked the "colorful traditional costumes" and the "old folk music" and asking about the "dances," and I realized she was talking about the marching band and that she was, well, spot-on.

It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others. I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.

Killing journalists is killing the truth. If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of war, by @abellanger.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @ifjglobal.bsky.social #journalism

Almost everyone I’m speaking with in North Gaza wants to leave and can’t because they are injured, sick or can’t afford it- those are the people Israel is calling terrorists now

Feeling vindicated about my lifelong full moon insomnia 🌝 Thanks Science Vs!

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Jane Goodall was probably my 1st childhood hero. We lost my beloved kid’s book about her when I was 5 & the whole family was on the case until it was found. I’m glad to have gotten the chance to hear her speak live a few years ago — right after wrapping up an undergrad course on primate behaviour.

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

Hell yeah! 🎉

I had a little too much fun working on this one ;)

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

#BREAKING | Today, Italy and Spain have deployed warships to protect and provide rescue efforts if needed to the Global Sumud flotilla which is heading to break the Israeli siege on Gaza

Check out the comments if you need a shot of optimism today 👇

🇮🇹 orders naval vessel to join Sumud flotilla after drone attack. This is why flotillas are important This is also why large scale protests, like the one on Monday in 🇮🇹, are important. The 🇮🇹 ppl just made smth huge happen. 🇮🇹 is the first western country to take meaningful action against this bully

You could also keep boycotting Disney because they donate money to Israel

Reports are coming in that Israel is currently attacking the Freedom Flotilla boats that are transporting baby formula and prosthetic limbs for children to break the famine in Gaza

I just want to share something, I was talking to Ahmed last night, the relief when you see a message has been read is immeasurable, & he told something that made me happy, but also broke my heart a little. Noor, sweet Noor as I'll always think of her, was secretly praying for me. shorturl.at/zDYNy

If they walk it back, and your wallets follow, you will have taught them exactly how cheaply you can be bought, and confirm that you'll tolerate sacrificing human rights for everyone except those who are already unspeakably privileged.

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt. Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

this moment of western powers recognizing palestine is precisely the moment we must not let them normalize the hypocritical status quo where they speciously nod to palestine and simultaneously criminalize advocacy against the genocide of palestine. we must see this as an opportunity to keep pressing

In the weeks before the siege, settlers had killed Palestinians in four places. None were prosecuted; three of the shootings were filmed. “There is a logic behind it,” said Dror Etkes. “If you don’t enforce the law, you get more land” There and here: #landback observer.co.uk/news/interna...

This politician is remaining silent on Bluesky about this but he just posted a video explaining how he's banning the Irish band Kneecap from entering Canada. If you're an IDF soldier and you've killed a Palestinian child you can vacation in the country but if you say genocide is bad you can't.

The U.S. has once again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire and captive release in Gaza, just days after a UN human rights inquiry concluded that Israel is committing genocide and the official death toll tops 65,000 people.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

*intense sarcasm* Oh wow, who could have ever foreseen this?

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.