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Today Columbia University literally allowed an Israeli vigil with flags on its campus but not a Palestinian one.

And we caught so much flack for organizing a boycott of that institution. Imagine.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Tweet: All scholars who've even once used the term 'decolonisation' for the advancement of their careers, please note that now is the time to show solidarity with Palestine. Stand with Palestine. End all occupations

History won’t be kind to us. We’ve forfeited our humanity. Two years on and the tweet below remains valid. ‘Shame’ is a meagre consolation.

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

This is pretty grossly misleading. 90-95% of this footprint is associated w/life cycle emissions of manufacturing - and almost nothing from the use of the inhalers (see the Supp Info linked below). Should manufacturing in general reduce it's emissions? Sure, but that isn't specific to asthmatics.

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

remember it's only fascism if it comes from the fascist region of Europe. Otherwise it's just sparkling conservatism.

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

I just learned about the hyrax. An animal that looks like they're just done with everyone's bullshit

the thing about the “official antifa” citation is that it is just definitive evidence that she’s a stone cold dumbass

A child literally cannot be BRUSHED by a 2000+lb hunk of steel. That's not the way cars or adjectives work.

i should've done this a while ago but better late than never

the downwardly mobile millennial insurance plan used to be grad school and i feel like now it’s just suicide?

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Tbf European nations came up with the idea deporting immigrants to third countries before Trump, and he’s just copying that.

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity.

And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Zareen’s near Sunnyvale has great Pakistani food

Denver pedestrian deaths jump 50% from last year, city officials say As of Sept. 30, 25 pedestrians had been killed in Denver crashes, according city transportation officials. By that date last year, 16 pedestrians had died.

Pedestrian deaths account for nearly half of all Denver road deaths reported in 2025 and have jumped more than 50% this year compared to this time last year, according to city transportation officials.

They like Trump and want to help him

My favorite excerpt of this is Bill Burr apparently not knowing that Saudi Arabia is a major American ally.

How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.

„In this story of cultural repression, we can also see the reorganization of society and the rise of a new far right. But we would do well to remember how it started: enforced by the liberal center and acceded to by the very people in a position to push back…“ www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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If you defend the indefensible from terrible people for expediency, you have neither integrity nor respect from the terrible people you defended. They were terrible, see?

Reading this, I'm seeing something I call the swerve

there are people, usually with a high level of in-born privilege, who *will not see certain things.* They just *won't.* And if you put it in front of their faces they will do ANYTHING to insist it's not there.

Klein keeps swerving.

The only reason I have relatives in Philly is 100% b/c my grandaddy’s brother whistled @ a white woman. He fled Alabama hopping a train & didnt get off until Philly for fear of getting lynched. And instead the Klan nearly lynched our family in retaliation for *that!*

I am (1) generation from that.

Carole Vo, a Tesla driver from Brampton, contested a $182 fine after she says her car's autopilot registered the limit as 60 km/h instead of 40 km/h.

Wonder if this woman was successful