seeking UK-based lawyer (defam./libel/IP) for a Black woman whose identity & lived experience were exploited in an upcoming performance the work has institutional funding + backing & is still going ahead — even after the artist & institution were contacted pls DM if u know of legal / media support

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Nobody’s building shit. They’re just swiping money from whatever company will offer them the most at any given moment

totally different story in the global south and third world of course

Pro Palestinian organizers in the Anglosphere had to fight tooth and nail for basic acknowledgement of our plight even on the socialist left for basically half a century

Michael Harrington thought that the Palestinians were basically identical to all other Arabs and that they should just all live in Jordan and let Israel have the WB and Gaza

It is kind of amusing that today in the Anglosphere it's just assumer that if you're on the political left then you're pro Palestine. Anyone with an iota of historical awareness would know even 30 years ago this would be an insane thing to tell someone.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

please support my "Jared Leto for Snape" fan petition

Obada has worked so hard to make sure his kids get an education during all this

it’s bigotry all the way down

it's wild how confusing it is to watch a politician who thinks we should like, all get human rights and be able to afford to live, but also is inviting us (generic, not me sob) to do joyful things with each other too

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

There are so many ways to remember D’Angelo. So I wrote about him from the grief living in our home state. No person has ever embodied the phrase “Virginia Is Lovers” more. andscape.com/features/dan...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

If you appease and befriend Nazis, you’re a Nazi. What makes you think it’s different when it comes down to Znsts?

Black and brown boys are routinely seen and treated like adults and Black girls are sexualized as promiscuous. Meanwhile, grown-ass white men are forever infantilized.

Maybe I’m being weird but I feel like it’s more like in a way that offends white liberals The other racism didn’t offend them or they agreed with it so they didn’t care.

I am going to solve the "have young Republicans always been like this" discourse in one sentence: While it has long been possible to correctly identify their racism, either because you were politically educated or racially minoritized, they are now racist in a way that even white liberals can tell.

Reading the excerpts you kind of get the desperation from the powerful to make this story go away.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I missed the Palme d’Or winner this year because of a power outage. But I’ve now seen it and it is indeed one of the movies of the year. boxd.it/bnLZNx

This is such weird sportsball fan bullshit These are both disgusting horrible people neither of whom deserves a drop of credit for any hostages released but if you wanted to go by that BS metric trump’s is into the thousands because Israel just released about a fifth of the hostages they had

NBC Out has had some of the best coverage of LGBTQ+ news in the last few years. In a time when the Trump administration takes historic assaults on transgender people's rights, this feels short-sighted. Good journalism is good business. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Also

Researchers build robot to quantify pain.

Facial expressions common to all humans! 🙃

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

I wish I loved anything as much as these dumb bubbas love slurs

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

I will never, for as long as I live, forgive those who defended the Assad regime. I don't care what they say about Palestine.

Others include Van Hollen; who says Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, he wants to suspend all trade with settlements, recognize Palestine, suspend offensive military assistance AOC, who says Israel is committing a genocide and wants to suspend offensive aid, unclear on "defensive aid".

Both of them are likely to run in /2028 and so is Harris and Pete Buttigieg. So far we have Harris: says it's an open question whether Israel committed genocide Pete: Says would recognize Palestine, limit arms to Israel Booker: Asking me questions about Netanyahu is racist and bad Newsom: ????

Honestly this one is just odd. In the Booker interview on I've Had It you can at least appreciate that Booker is a bad faith, disgusting pro-Israel stalwart who just tries to whatabout his way through a simple question instead of answering yes or no. Newsom on the other hand looks uncomfortable.

Just watched this clip where Gavin Newsom was asked about AIPAC by podcaster Van Lathan Jrand he says it's an interesting question no less than 10 times in 60 seconds

What a great turnout. It lasted three hours drinks included but the folks just wanted to ask one final question to the prof! Happy days in academia are rare and today is one of them. Late eve cocktails for us, eh @profdanhicks.bsky.social

Happening today. Paris 5 pm. Please do make time to listen to @profdanhicks.bsky.social tear apart legacy monumentality. So looking forward to the event. All info in post below. In-person event.

No doubt MPs across most parties will attempt on Monday to ingratiate themselves with these people by lining up to exaggerate, denigrate or otherwise misrepresent the impact asylum seekers, and migrants in general, have on our society

This was the front page of today's Sun. I can't imagine where the misguided fury these people feel about asylum seekers comes from

As it happens, a petition calling on the government not to introduce Digital ID cards has so far been signed 2.8 million times (2nd highest, the first 'Call a General Election' was also under this government)

A third petition, which is still live, calls for "offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants". As of now it has received 485,598 signatures, the fifth most signed petition since the online system was introduced a decade ago

A petition entitled "shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there" gained 257,445 signatures and will also be debated.

On Monday MPs will discuss two anti-asylum seeker petitions after both passed the threshold to be considered for a parliamentary date. 427,449 people signed a petition calling for the UK government to "stop financial and other support for asylum seekers" (6th most popular petition since 2015)

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

Mr Nicholson said another signatory for GMFP’s account, which had been open for almost 40 years with various organisations later incorporated into Virgin Money, had also had their personal account closed but did not wish to be named.

“This kind of behaviour has just never happened in our lifetime of activism before, and is suddenly happening to activists and to organisations and to people. If it isn’t Palestine, then why doesn’t YBS say what reason it is?” No comment, say the financial institutions.