Jutta Topp

‘It's only a matter of days': Palestinians bid farewell as Israel rains bombs on Gaza Palestinians posting on social media say they don't think they will survive Israel's bloody bombardment across the strip

‘It's only a matter of days': Palestinians bid farewell as Israel rains bombs on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-wont-make-it-time-people-gaza-post-farewell-messages-online

I have to say the quality of the posters who are now entering my mentions to defend Tom Nichols’ perspective is not changing my opinion of Tom Nichols, nor are the arguments they are making.

At the very basic level that even a school child can understand, the history’s lesson of fascism is not that fascism is abetted by too many people warning too early about it, but by silence, complacency, and ignorance. The lesson is to speak up early, not late.

There’s even a little poem about it.

The left wasn’t calling everybody a fascist, we were calling Republicans fascist, and sure enough and Boy Howdy Republicans have proven themselves fascist. Conservatives meanwhile spent the same decades calling the left fascist and Nazi, if you want to talk about boys crying wolf.

Amazing how many people, while being eaten by a wolf, continue to insist that the wolf is proof that they are in the story of the boy who cried wolf.

Moderate Dems message to progressives: We’re not backing down A string of special elections and some polling show the party might be getting pulled to the middle.

“We’re backing down to Republicans and we’re not backing down on that.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

The party that has never done anything but seek the center continues to insist that they need to stop catering to the extreme left—something they have never ever done—and continue doing what they have always done, which is continue to seek a center that will always track us further into a nightmare.

The thing about the center is, it isn’t anywhere in particular. It’s just the point between two other points. if your purpose is only to find the center, then you stand for nothing and you have no vision. It’s a total loser; not even a moral victory, because it’s a fundamentally amoral perspective.

With any republican or a conservative christian dude, I’m going to play the odds and begin with the assumption that this sort of thing is true.

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

The Anti-Defamation League applauds the shadowy and unilateral detention & attempted green card revocation of Mahmoud Khalil:

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

Sometimes the most powerful truths are in the simplest answers. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇

Don’t think “they can’t do that.” Think of what they would need to do in order to do that, and realize that’s what they intend to do.

There is no meaning to that salute beyond "I want to murder millions of people." I see it as a direct threat and an unforgivable depravity. No scrim of purported irony is gonna lessen that. It is a gesture solely for sick, murderous fucks

There are 28 centrists in America and all of them work 16 hours a day churning out bullshit opinion pieces.

AOC: And he is running around because he thinks he got a bank account with a lot of zeros in it that it makes him some kind of super citizen. I don't think so.

What did you expect? Trump didn't hide his intentions. Merrick Garland was more concerned about protecting Americans from Ticketmaster than from insurrectionists, so here we are. We get to spend our time reaping what our pathetic justice system has sown.

Experts and exterminators agree: SF’s rat population is growing fast Widely available food and a lack of natural predators are allowing rodents to flourish.

San Francisco Faces Exploding Rat Population: A climate-driven surge has SF's rat numbers soaring, second only to D.C. Experts blame ecosystem loss, urban density & poison bans for rodentation of the city.🌆🐀

tinyurl.com/yc5jcnkv #ClimateCrisis #ClimateRisks #SanFrancisco

Birds-of-Paradise Can Emit Light Through Their Feathers Scientists have found that many of the species known for their spectacular plumage are biofluorescent, meaning they absorb and release light through their bodies.

Birds-of-Paradise Glow Under UV Light ✨🦜 Scientists discover 37 of 45 birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, absorbing UV/blue light & emitting dazzling colors. This enhances courtship displays in males & may aid camouflage in females.

tinyurl.com/bdcndcsv #Nature #Wildlife

They still don't get it. Not even after he fucks them over.🤔

He called Pete Hegseth ‘Secretary gin-for-breakfast’ lol

Trees might need our help to survive climate change A new Colorado State University study of the interior U.S. West has found that tree ranges are generally contracting in response to climate change but not

Climate change, wildfires & disease are shrinking forests faster than they can regenerate. Trees aren’t expanding into cooler areas, meaning they may need human help to survive. Assisted migration could be key to preserving forests.

tinyurl.com/3hbewda2 #ClimateAction #Trees

World's sea-ice falls to record low The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before.

Sea-ice at both poles has hit record lows, weakening the planet’s natural cooling system. Warmer oceans & air, plus extreme weather, are driving rapid declines, threatening ecosystems & global climate stability.

tinyurl.com/2etkk69a #ClimateChange #SeaIce #GlobalWarming

It never was about reducing the debt. Trump and Elon Musk are firing working class Americans from their jobs to give tax cuts to billionaires — which is exactly what my song "New Religion" is about. These motherfuckers are plundering and pillaging America to line their pockets.

Another oldie from his first term…