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“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” - Omar El Akkad

Institutionalizing people doesn’t make them “better”.

It doesn’t help them and it’s not compassionate.

It simply disappears them. Hides them away so the general public don’t have to face disability and mental illness.

People think it’s better because they don’t have to see it.

It is a desecration of the martyr doctors who gave their lives studying "hunger disease" in the Warsaw Ghetto to pretend not to understand that mass starvation is a drawn out process that must be instituted as a genocidal goal to reach the point where people en mas drop dead from it. Remember them

And I said “what about Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” and she said “I remember that film; and, as I recall, it was racist as hell.”

Funny article. But FYI the link to the author’s website in the byline is broken. It should be saragibbs.com not www.saragibbs.com, which does not work.

If it was “obvious” as they say, then it wasn’t actually difficult to parse, was it. I think if someone genuinely is confused about what something means they’ll ask a question rather than give a correction.

Hot dog!

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

it's like.... not even controversial to observe that Israel is using food aid as bait to mass murder a starving population? Even in this AP story, there is barely even a counter-narrative beyond "Uh, well, you know, Hamas? ah, fuck it."

no accidents

Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

The logic is pretty obvious here. Presidents can’t declare war so anything the president does without Congress can’t be a war. It’s not an assessment of what’s happening; it’s an excuse.

There’s No Evidence Iran Is Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of Americans The assertions being repeated today seem based on apparently groundless claims from twelve years ago to justify the war in Iraq.

Trump's claim that Iran was responsible for 1000 American deaths in Iraq is a lie. Here's an article I wrote a few years ago challenging that myth: progressive.org/latest/-no-e...

if not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at immigration court Lander, also the city’s comptroller, was ‘arrested for assaulting law enforcement’, says DHS

NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested at immigration court by masked federal agents while accompanying an immigrant out of the courtroom whose case was dismissed. This is “more evidence that ICE agents are flagrantly breaking the law."

I have City Code 20.12.140 bookmarked on my phone because of the number of times I’ve had people (mostly boomers) tell me that it’s legal to have their dog off leash in a park as long as it comes when called etc - they never believe me that that doesn’t apply to parks and insist I “read the law.”

"It must be clear to everyone—even the most milquetoast centrists—that the outcome of the conflict that is ramping up now will determine the prospects for every other target Trump has lined up in his sights, from Harvard University to those who simply wish to be able to afford groceries."

Iranian woman on TV just snapped back when asked about support for 'the regime'.

'Israel did not attack the Islamic Republic, Israel attacked Iran', as in the country, not the government.

You are fucking with 90 million people and 7000 years of history. They survived the Mongols and the British.

If Israel’s playbook is any prediction: they will soon be denying the death toll from their unprovoked strikes on Iran. That death toll is in the hundreds, including dozens of women and children. (And by the way Iranian *men* deserve life and grief and mourning too.)

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

Israel deployed chemicals on these beautiful people desperately trying to deliver aid to starving Palestinians right before kidnapping them.

...people know protesters are burning Waymos bc those cars are used to surveil protesters right? right??

Last night, the Israeli military surrounded the Madleen, @freedomflotilla.bsky.social the ship, sprayed it with a white irritant substance, jammed communications, boarded the vessel, and kidnapped the 12 volunteers who were about to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Community organizer Ron Gochez says there has been "no due process" for many of those arrested in this weekend's anti-ICE protests. Some people, he says, have been flown out of the country and dumped in Mexico and Guatemala within 24 hours of arrest.

I’ve got two out of three! And I’ve _been_ to Philadelphia at least.

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....