Christa Blackmon

One of the Jewish traditions I like most is on Passover, when Jews mourn the suffering of Egyptians even amid our liberation.

When reciting the 10 plagues during the Seder, we dip a finger into our wine and remove a drop each time.

The message is clear: you don’t rejoice in your enemy’s suffering.

The people sliding down holding their children 💔

@bariweiss “the price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @amitsegel in @FP”

In case you’re wondering what part of the (it’s self defense/I was always against it/I was just following orders) genocide timeline we are at.

Every time I yell at my toddler for touching gum she’s found on the ground she becomes so angry with me like I am trying to kill her spirit of curiousity but also yes I am very much trying to kill her spirit of curiousity stop touching trash damnit

‘They all looked the same, they all dressed the same’: has Hollywood distorted the Smurfs’ communist roots? In Chris Miller’s new film, a Smurf is told to ‘believe you were born great’. But does this approach contradict what Peyo’s original Smurfs stood for?

The maximum amount of time anyone should spend being disappointed that the new Smurf’s movie doesn’t represent Marxism is 3 seconds. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Definitely Washington and the cherry tree as it’s the earliest one I remember hearing.

The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel It no longer has a military justification

‘The inadequate provision of aid to civilians on terrain that is, in effect, under occupation is a war crime. A plan by hardliners in Israel’s government to corral Gazans into a permanent “humanitarian city” would amount to ethnic cleansing.’

Today is Friday, July 25.
Good morning ❤️

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other
and fight like hell.

as a music major turned English major who couldn't think of anything to do but go to law school, that's hilarious

Europeans

I’m not a heavy metal fan and I have no feelings toward #OzzyOsbourne the musician, but I love the story that a rock and roll star suffering from Parkinson’s gave one of the best performances of his career and then shuffled off this mortal coil.

Love to his family and fans.

The elites were actually weak all along. Who knew…

If elute US educational institutions are going to fall on their swords for Trump, I hope that leads to opportunities for lesser renowned universities to pick up the mantle.

So sorry to all the upcoming high school seniors who had dreams of Columbia.

This tiny body, wrapped in a burial shroud no bigger than a pillow case, was killed by both my govts. The Israeli one chose to starve him, his mother, father, siblings, cousins, grandparents, neighbors, & the morgue worker who wrapped him in the shroud. My US govt enabled it.

His name was Youssef.

Protect trans kids, protect immigrant kids.

If the Romans had Excel, would Carthage have survived?

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

🧵

We passed that line a while ago; it seems like it doesn’t actually happen until huge numbers of people are feeling personal pain.

I know people are up in arms about “platforming” these “people” and I absolutely see where those folks are coming from, but I also think stuff like this can be a useful thing to show normies who aren’t as chronically online and in the weeds as we all are and who may not know it’s gotten this bad.

Thanks to #MAHA and the further erosion of the healthcare system, I am taking a closer look at what I’m consuming and how my body reacts to it.

Staying healthy in a country that profits from your suffering is a lot of work I am not used to.

Congrats on having a kid with a fantastic palette and also my condolences for having a kid with a fantastic palette.

I will be happy to be wrong, but I would like it if some folks stopped acting like the Epstein story is going to be the thing that brings down Trump.

He will never be “brought down”, but his hold on power might very well fracture because he only employs the most incompetent people.

Everything is so, so stupid.

I am getting the impression that mmmmaaayyybeeee all the talk about #EpsteinFiles isn’t about safeguarding women and young girls from sex traffickers. Hmmm

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

(Aaaaaccchhh, I hasnae a wee chance)

Wow. Finally just saying it out loud — if you help Israel enough militarily, people like this don’t care about how much you’re antisemitic

Really, we’re looking at a system of antisemitism credits or “indulgences” people.

In the post 2020 world, some neocons are out here living the values I expected from my 2010 counter culture heroes.

Getting older is so weird.

The Bill Kristol plot line is the only good thing about 2025

Also she napped today, and after months of NO NAPS, that is also worth celebrating.