Joseph A Marchal

"The Iranian #RedCrescent is literally listing the sites being hit: Khatam al-Anbiya, Motahari Hospital, and their own Tehran HQ.

201 dead and 747 injured in 24 hours. You don't "pave a path to peace" by bombing the people who treat the wounded. This is a war on survival.

#Iran #WarOfAggression

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

The "Board of Peace" started its first war within a week

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

political interference makes education worse for everyone, not just teachers, but students and the broader community we’re all called to serve.
Or, as this student sums it:
“To put it bluntly, we’re not getting our money’s worth,”

www.ballstatedailynews.com/article/worr...

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

One year to the day after Pam Bondi promised the full Epstein files, we got war with Iran instead

Me: "I don't want my sisters to be stripped of their legal documentation, healthcare, and freedom of movement"

Cisgender centrist "allies": "WELL WE CAN'T ALL HAVE OUR FAVORITE UNICORNS!"

Look I don’t care if I’m the last person on earth not using ChatGPT. I’m simply just not quite broke enough yet to be using ChatGPT! I’m not that broke in spirit!

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

...& for the "but fairness in sports" crowd, this is where things currently stand in the US with regards to trans rights. either you think we have rights or you don't. you're allowed to think we don't (your choice). but you are *not* entitled to our votes
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Mainstream reporters are desperate not to cover what's happening to trans ppl in the US.

The narrative was activists got a little too uppity and some mild hand smacking was needed to put them in their place.

The reality of a genocidal campaign of terror against a vulnerable 1% makes them look bad.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

“…the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

Dishonesty is at the center of the anti-trans hate campaign. Though much bigotry is blatant, an astonishing amount is laundered by the nyt, which routinely manipulates and falsifies information to foist on unsuspecting readers

Take its small but important role in legitimizing this extremist group🧵

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

They’re scared of children with crayons.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Breaking: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

BREAKING: Trans inmate's lawyers claim "egregious retaliation" in violation of court order.

Trans woman involved in a lawsuit challenging anti-trans policies says federal prison official told her on Feb. 22: “I don’t give a fuck what that judge says, I do what I want.”

May you never experience finding out you lost your basic human rights on a social media app.

It has been a JOY to email back and forth with @theradr.bsky.social (thank you, @brownsmith.bsky.social!), and Rabbi included a little snippet of my forthcoming book in her recent House of Study!

Why the fuck does a driver's license need a sex marker on it in the first place

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

This is a very common switcheroo, which comes from (some) logic: split tuition dollars for a course between the unit providing instruction (the class) & the unit providing advising (the major).

By enrollments my dept is among the top $$$ so they shifted to majors (& only 1st major) to “correct.”

Kansas is doing Nazi stuff to transgender people. This is not about minors having surgery. This is about adults having the most basic civil rights.