New organization "Broadway Voices for Palestine," announces that tomorrow, they will be performing a virtual reading of plays written by Palestinian children. Proceeds will go to The Hands Up Project charity. Allie Trimm, who plays Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, explains more:

The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.

The additional context is that Valve is still killing a beloved games studio, still tried to weasel out of making a press statement, still didn't allow a second review, and still did not communicate with the developer beyond vague references to their terms. www.eurogamer.net/valve-respon...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board. “Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.” With @veritenews.org

“Sex must be civilized and civilizing” The Christian right is *really* aching to get into your bedroom. They’ve flooded the zone with pseudoscience and moral panics around porn, but their real missionary position is to control sexuality like the old Catholic Church. ifstudies.org/blog/the-pro...

This is an extremely cool time to be a teacher. When students aren't using ChatGPT to do their homework for them, they're asserting they have a First Amendment right to get an A and your administration fires you if you don't give them an A. I'm so tired.

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended. I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.

This is why you NEVER EVER use a company provided anything for doing anything personal. I have a SCAD laptop and i wont even check my emails on it let alone pay stuff. Thats just common sense

Hi all, I'm going to need some help making sure I can make rent next month. My progress is still going slowly and my ability to work is still not great, so I'm concerned about making ends meet as winter approaches. We appreciate any and all help! Thank you all! #helpsky gofund.me/a0978348

i’ll never understand why public transit haters discourage use of public transit and want to defund it. if less people use cars the roads will have less traffic and you’ll get to where you want faster with your own car. stupid people

It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be. The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.

"We get to invade you and you're being hateful if you get mad"

BREAKING: Protesters have gathered outside of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s house in Tel Aviv, demanding that he reject PM Netanyahu’s request for a pardon in the three corruption cases against him. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/iv17v7

It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill. He would become the first known COVID case. Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling. Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters. Public health is a social justice issue.

“Anite Guillaume, working for one of Amazon’s favorite anti-union consultancies, Road Warrior Productions (RWP), reported earning $9,000 a day.” It would take an Amazon driver 45 days to earn what a union buster can make in an 8 hour shift. This is why you should boycott Amazon

Four dead and at least ten wounded in a mass shooting in Stockton, California. It’s long past time to seriously address gun violence in America. There’s nowhere else on earth with this volume of mass shootings and school shootings. It’s time for gun control: abc45.com/news/nation-...

The Republicans and Democrats who allowed this to happen are death panel supporters

Tangential but the fact that Anjali had to add this explanation for her original post is a great case in point about why learning to *read* isn’t just about being being able to sound out words but also contextualize and the diminishment of this skill is part of the literacy crisis

Anti-landlord graffiti seen in St. Louis, MO, USA

Enshittification is depressing Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself And it’s everywhere. Ugh

mute that guy you don't know who popped up in your mentions and is in the most bad faith way trying to start a fight with you sometimes people do know how to read but they want to fight somebody more than they want to be careful mute him!!

This was a garbage suit designed to have a chilling effect on labor organizers and it did not work!

Social justice campaigner Bishop William Barber says ICE raids tearing families apart and the shredding of healthcare and food support are all part of the same "policy violence."

Today and tomorrow need as many calls as you can muster! Keep calling visa and mastercard!

“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.” By @keribla.bsky.social

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Normal and great 🫩 > Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

celestial veils 💫🌙

science experiment

Rise and Shine. 🏵️

Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021. Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.

Not sure how to plug in or wanting some language and resources to do so? Get the toolkit here 👇https://docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8a61-42aa-82fe-1b847e113ebb

You shouldn’t have to present your ID, credit card info, or face to be scanned just to access your favorite sites, news, or games yet this is the growing reality for Internet users globally. We need a firestorm to take down online ID checks for good-- so we planned one. Join us for a week of action!

Love when Bluesky deletes my share of the day before the day is up 🫠

Malak has many unique photos, social media that predates the war and sent me a photo holding her Palestinian ID. She runs this account with her mother, Nour. Being the oldest daughter of a large family has meant that she’s put her dreams of going back to school aside to help- help her if you can❤️

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Malak. Malak is 22 and was studying business administration before this. She is trying to take care of her family of 9 including her parents and siblings Beirut, 20, Samdana, 18, Malek, 18, Jannat, 16, Solange, 12, Basma, 10 and Kareem, 5

SUNDAY MAKE IT COUNT CALL MC! CALL VISA! IF THEY REDIRECT YOU TO YOUR BANK, TELL THEM YOUR BANK DIRECTED YOU TO MC / VISA

As part of the campaign to justify more expansive aggression and occupation of Syrian territory, the Israeli Defense Minister is now claiming that Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, are planning a "ground invasion" of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.” This happened *at a university* in Gaza. And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.

“During days of torture and abuse, an Israeli soldier carved a Star of David into Ahmad’s back with a knife. Another soldier carved a smiley face into Nadia’s father’s neck.” This happened *at a university* in Gaza. And yet our institutions still collaborate with Israeli schools.

Incredible project. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...

At this year's U.N. climate talks in Brazil, negotiators avoided the total collapse of the framework established in the Paris Agreement 10 years earlier. But the result still disappointed many, including nations in the Global South bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.

A key message from Trump's recent meeting with MBS was "to shut up and not ask embarrassing questions," says Sarah Leah Whitson. She is executive director of DAWN, the pro-democracy organization founded by Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, just months before he was murdered on orders of the Saudi ruler.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has said the only solution to Israel-Palestine must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican’s position. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kaiji6

BREAKING: An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi

The administration’s preemptive assault on history is a desperate attempt to stop new social movements from starting.