Two things can be true at once. It’s true that it’s never too late to say “I change my mind” politically & start making changes. It’s also true that you don’t get to expect insulation from criticism by people hurt by your political choices, especially if you won’t own your complicity in the harm.

Global Sumud Flotilla braces for escalating dangers as it approaches Gaza amid drone attacks, Israeli threats.

“The US should be protesting and stopping commerce like all these other countries! Why aren’t we?” Baby girl, you’re mad that people can buy Pepsi with food stamps. Maybe deal with that first? Kinda hard to build the community necessary for that sorta thing when you actively hate poor people.

BREAKING: At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 69 people in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/i4tlc9

Genocide is committed by genociders. "Israel" has been committing the genocide of Palestinians with the full willful material and political support of the "United States" and others. We already knew this. But more importantly, they already knew this.

"What artists say nothing! Bobby Vylan in Barcelona for Flotilla sendoff" (via Yusuf Omar) #GlobalSumudFlotilla #Gaza

Many of those who would mindlessly sacrifice the most vulnerable to maintain privilege are the same who ask how fascism got here without ever realizing they’d answered their own question.

I will be taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla departing next week. Our governments remain complicit in Israel’s genocide & refuse to act. Join the movement to break the siege, stand with Gaza, & support the Palestinian struggle for liberation. #SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalSumudFlotilla

For anyone who still thinks history began on 7 October 2023, why were we sailing to end the siege of Gaza 14 years ago? End the genocide, break the siege, free Palestine! #GlobalSumudFlotilla #SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege

Vessels expected to reach Gaza in mid-September in third attempt by sea to end war that has killed 63,000 Palestinians.

No conversation about crime is useful unless we talk about what causes most city crime: exploitation and poverty. Any intervention that isn't aimed at reducing the working class oppression that leads to poverty (wage slavery, for-profit housing, over-policing etc) will simply not work

Fatalism is voting for the opposite of what you want every 4 years. Dems don't have a vision for the future and only see the world in election cycles. The people insisting that we must support genocide, transphobia, the police state, and capitalism are the greatest enemy of positive social change.

Mohammed Ahmed Ghanem, his wife Zuheira Sukkar, and their children Omar, Raneem, Reem, and Farah were killed by Israeli forces while they slept.

Footage captures Israel deliberately striking a young Palestinian girl as she carried water in Jabalia, north Gaza.

Israel killed his daughter in an airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.

White moderates who have never had a challenge to their status quo are already becoming increasingly radicalized and dangerous as this goes on and they attempt to grasp to any kind of “normal” they can. Many would back an open authoritarian if they thought it meant they would maintain “normal”

Without naming names, there is a member of my community, that has held high public office that is willing to throw members of HIS OWN community under the bus. If he is willing to do that… then he won’t stand for you either. He is not the one. It’s Pete. It’s @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

This is why we say “two wings, same bird.” Trump wants to evict the homeless in DC AND The Democrats before him pushed to criminalize homelessness. Trump wants to level Gaza AND Josh Shapiro signed bombs. The Democrats and Republicans both serve the same donors. The fascism is bipartisan.

18 months ago, we talked about Cop City. We said there were 69 of them in the US. We said it was based on IOF occupation of Gaza and that they cross trained with US cops. And now the National Guard is about to occupy DC. But it’s the “single issue” people who were the problem, right?

Trump’s Wash DC actions explained by a local activist: Dems are complicit in causing this massive disruption. They don’t want to fight for us. When will DEM leadership actually stop the BS and side with THE people? @factsandfire.bsky.social

BREAKING: The death toll from extreme flooding in Texas has risen to 70 people – with 11 still missing. This eclipses the death toll associated with Hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017, which dropped up to 60 inches of rain near the greater Houston area.

A reminder that more Black and queer people live in the south than in any other part of the United States. None of these people got what they voted for. But even if it were, I really wanna know why some of y’all are delighted at the idea of other people experiencing harm.

Eight months ago, it was “Gaza isn’t our problem” while their children died. And now it’s “you got what you voted for” to gerrymandered Texans while their children die. “Vote Blue no matter who” is meaningless if you’re just gonna be a right winger with a pride flag in your front lawn.

This is our country too and I will celebrate the resistance today. I will celebrate the activists that put everything on the line to fight for our freedom and fight fascism time and time again. We will fight ICE. We will fight for autonomy. No war but class war. We will not let these fuckers win.

Israeli settlers assaulted local residents and vandalized a vehicle near the town of Sinjil, located north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

The moment an Israeli airstrike struck a residential building earlier today in the Bureij refugee camp, located in central Gaza.

BREAKING: UN says about 100 trucks approved to enter Gaza today. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p881mb

An Israeli air strike on the Musa bin Nusair School in Gaza City has killed at least a dozen Palestinians, including children and a pregnant woman. The school had been sheltering forcibly displaced families.

Everyone keeps talking about the magic 3.5% number. There are 14.3 million wage and salary workers belonging to unions in the US, and 334 million people total in the US. That’s 4.2% of the US population already organized. 3.5% has been achieved. We don’t need more people. We need people to act.

There's no such thing as a "centrist Dem." They're all just Democrats. It's a right wing party that's designed to contain the left. Even the best the Dems have to offer have repeatedly folded, violated their principles, and gone along with the neoliberal agenda that has led us to fascism.

Psssst….come closer…I don’t care that the President is playing golf. I care that HE’S ERASING TRANS PEOPLE AND DISAPPEARING BROWN PEOPLE.

The most telling thing happening right now politically is all the people saying “I voted for Trump thinking only people with darker skin would be hurt, not me!” Collective liberation means collective safety. If you’d not yet considered that, there’s no time like the present.

Watching Blue Maga taking a ‘victory lap’ off of Trump’s pronouncement reveals a deep well of liberal guilt and profound cognitive dissonance. People that were never concerned about actions against Palestinians, and avidly supported the party that genocided them, now feigning concern about words.

Think about it: when was the last time either party put people over profits? I’ll wait… The two-party system keeps us trapped in a cycle of blame while the wealthy and powerful rob us blind, of our lives, wages, rights, our future. It’s not liberals v. conservatives-it’s the people v. the powerful.

Trump saying we are gonna ‘take over’ and ‘own’ Gaza is obviously reprehensible. Is it more reprehensible than Biden, Harris, and AOC saying ‘we are working tirelessly for a ceasefire,’ while sending billions in weapons to Zios and sending hundreds of thousands of Gazans to their graves? Idk.

Don’t stop talking about Luigi Mangione. He’s entitled to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the Democratic Party is not an opposition party and it won’t be. The people are the opposition party. If collective liberation is gonna happen, it’s gonna be because we make it happen.

The meltdown on X by American techno-feudalists has to do with the Chinese AI model “Deepseek” being far more efficient and cheaper than anything coming out of Silicon Valley. Technical leadership v.s the American business-led model designed to absorb the maximum amount of capital.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

The Democratic Party has thrown in the towel and will now flounder along as a feeble opposition party. The liberal elite corporatists will continue to make money then toe the line with fascist oligarchic power when the time comes. Tis the natural cycle of things…

What we need to understand about rappers from the 90s & 2000’s performing at Trump’s inauguration is what we need to understand about rich people in general…they have no party. They’re on the side of capitalism. They go where the dollars are. So, why are they doing it? “Hey…must be the money.”

Wondering what it’s gonna take for people to realize that humanity is facing an entirely avoidable extinction-level event. Fire, Famine, Flood, Pestilence. Y’all really need rivers of blood don’t you? Take a second look at Gaza. If you can’t get organized to resist under conditions like this…

Maybe it’s me but I probably wouldn’t be having a laugh for any reason with a person I called the biggest threat to democracy. When people say both parties are two wings of the same bird, this is why.

Ten years ago, when fielding questions I would get in discussing homelessness, many would question the effort and work ethic of the unhoused. I said the same thing every time: “No one who asks that truly understands how close they are to homelessness. You can’t outwork a house fire.”

It’s disingenuous to say tragedy isn’t the right time to be political when everything is political. Greed has destroyed things to such extent that even the natural disasters are man made. People are running for their lives because someone wanted to make money so bad, even earth was expendable.

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Not only do the Resnicks own a significant amount of California water, they also fund hawkish think tanks like the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, pushing for a war with Iran… their main pistachio competitor. Check out the new Colonial Outcasts episode at: youtu.be/qTn_tE_fF8c?...

Luigi got them shook.