Pretty brutal quotes when put side by side

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024) By @lisalsong.bsky.social

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Nora. Nora’s husband Mohammed was killed and both her daughters Warda, 5 and Fida, 3 were injured in a bombing on the third day of the war. Since then they have been displaced in a tent with her mother and niece, and are struggling to survive.

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To the famous Bluesky, the least you can do for Gaza and its people is to make their voices heard and louder and help them rebuild their lives.

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

I've been on team "fuck Bernie" and "fuck Jacobin" for years and am, unfortunately, regularly vindicated.

Gaza has no electricity, is dark, its roads are destroyed, there is no transportation, there are no homes, there is no water, everything is at an astronomical price, and the crossings are closed.

Kinda tells you all you need to know about rabbis/organized religion in general, eh?

4yo: "Remember, mama, you can't yuck Barbie, because that's my yum."

Our 10yo last night when spouse was helping her with her math homework: I HATE MATH AND WOULD RATHER DIE THAN EVER DO MATH AGAIN! My 10yo within two minutes of waking up this morning: Mama, give me any two fractions you want and I'll add them together.

Please for a moment think about if there was a Jewish candidate for NYC Mayor, how much time would a debate spend on questions on whether or not they will keep Muslims safe?

“they are extremely frustrated and they’re really trying to bend every single rule possible … to fight against the really well organized resistance that Chicago, and the Chicago area, has put up" blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/22/i...

The newspaper that mainstreamed Chris Rufo, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Charlie Kirk renews its calls to meet fascists halfway:

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

It's actually really funny how often a landlord lawyer asks if I'd want to live in a building with my clients as some kind of gotcha. Dude, many of my clients end up as my irl friends afterwards. Are you kidding? That would be the best apartment building EVER.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

look, it'd been a while since we could use the phrase "jewel heist" www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Good god, everything about this story! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

One of my middle school students is doing her first book project of the year on Nubia!! Going to show her this ♥️

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

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As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or trial. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-... #Palestine #Israel

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

“Cease” fire www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

They take genuine pleasure in torturing people and a political culture that has long ago normalised this will not stop unless forced to

The feeling of the Gazan citizen now is that he survived and will not die from the missiles, and also his feeling that he literally lost everything.

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔 On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.” truthout.org/articles/a-m...

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

I had the honor of once organizing a dialogue between Miss Major and Tourmaline for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, hosted by the NYPL. Major was a people’s hero, a tremendous force of revolutionary commitment and love.

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

"In the images of the area, even the sunlight looks different and otherworldly. I couldn’t figure out why, until I realised it was because there were no structures to filter it. No shade, no shadows. A home returned to is just a plot on which to pitch another tent and wait for aid."

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Don't let Zionists gaslight you into believing that the goal was a ceasefire A ceasefire is a necessary step. But Israeli occupation, apartheid, land theft, ethnic cleansing, mass jailing & killing of Palestinians continues The goal has always been & will always be liberation

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Let’s disrupt the global chain of complicity that enables Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The BDS movement is calling on you to join the Week of Action against F-35s from 13-18 October. Send an email to your elected officials now ➡️ loom.ly/qypYlvM #DisruptComplicity

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues. This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

And now I can helpfully add fresh grief to the mix.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

“It often feels like it's a dystopian world that we live in, and the only thing that is real is Gaza and what's happening there.” Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com speaks with 23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad about her book, leaving Gaza and the impact all of it has on young people.