Dr Kate (she/her)

From the popculturechat community on Reddit: ‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margoyles says her current Big Issue is Gaza: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish…I think the terrible thing I have to... Explore this post and more from the popculturechat community

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Devastatingly resonant

I hope the ghost of her murdered dog barks in her ear for eternity

High key awful vibes for the fourth this year

Netanyahu: Gaza Aid Scheme Offers Israel Symbolic Cover to Finish the Genocide In order to conquer and seize Gaza, “We need to do it in a way” where the world “won’t stop us," Netanyahu says.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-...

How about, you know, paid maternity and paternity leave or gov support for moms and families? God forbid

But doesn’t the first part explain the third? Anyone who can do what JD does is incapable of the kind of reflection you describe

غزة: مقبرة جماعية في قلب الصمت الدولي غزة، التي أصبحت جرحًا مفتوحًا في الجسد العربي والإنساني، لا تزال تقاوم الموت بكل ما تبقّى فيها من نبض

Doctors Without Borders has said Gaza is now a "mass grave".

Gaza, which has become an open wound in the Arab and humanitarian body, is still resisting death with every remaining pulse - but for how much longer, wonders our Palestinian journalist Alaa Shamali
www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Ah, with this dictator and his henchmen, isn’t it always?

this is Seattle at its best 🩵✊🏼

My five year old has been protesting (and helping to make the signs) since she was one, most recently for #handsoffseattle. Some of her handiwork:

Hands Off! Seattle Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Seattle is fighting back.** They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our healthcare, our data, our jobs, and our services...

Who’s coming? #handsoffseattle mobilize.us/s/RLz45P

Speakers will be at the stage on the International Fountain Mall

Women can’t have birth control or get an abortion?

Criminalizing fertility while Viagra is so readily available tells you much of what you need to know about this country today

#mahmoudkhalil #rumeysaozturk

@pattymurray.bsky.social
@murray.senate.gov
@cantwell.senate.gov

Are you voting no alongside @sanders.senate.gov? How many chances do you need to step up?

I’m shocked there aren’t more. This doesn’t feel like a safe place to live.

Nearly $5 million in Washington emergency food assistance is canceled by USDA, including over $400K for Spokane The Trump Administration on Tuesday canceled nearly $5 million in emergency food assistance for the state of Washington.

www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Less food for the people who need it most. Our government is failing them and all of us.

The photo itself tells the story. Grace and courage; petulance and cowardice

Self Care During Turmoil How to care for yourself in turbulent times—practical strategies for staying grounded amid political chaos.

centraldesi.beehiiv.com/p/dr-kani-s-...

Self-care isn’t trite but can be an act of resistance in and of itself while making other resistance possible.

With each read I’m reminded of Letter from Birmingham Jail. #mlk

“I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear.”

- #MahmoudKhalil

inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

Great combo. Just had three of those eggs myself - arguably better than the pumpkin, tree, etc etc

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

I found this piece of yours from February to be deeply resonant:

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

Would you have any interest in writing something together that helps to connect this line of thought with US & Israeli violence in Palestine?

Seattle Emergency Protest STOP THE GENOCIDE Tuesday March 18 at 5:30 pm UW Station ARMS EMBARGO NOW

#seattle #protestforgaza #stopthegenocide #armsembargonow see you there

Reporter Said Arikat asks State Department Spox whether the U.S. is concerned about Israel’s blockade on Gaza, now in its 16th day: “Starvation [being] used as a method to pressure people. Isn’t that a war crime?”

you know it’s a bad with when you have to specify “physically”

How the right hijacked Jewish resistance to squash dissent Mahmoud Khalil and the Purim story

A second piece I wrote on #mahmoudkhalil out on @salonnewsroom.bsky.social:

www.salon.com/2025/03/15/h...

Inspired by the works of
@amplifypalestine.bsky.social
@palyouthmvmt.bsky.social
@jvp.bsky.social @ifnotnowmovement.org
and so many others

Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

Has anyone in the @bsky.app universe heard of #handsoff events planned for Seattle?

www.mobilize.us/handsoff/ great to see Bainbridge and other WA cities on the list already

The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil suggests that we are living in a new America | Opinion “One does not have to condone Khalil’s rhetoric to be troubled that he could be targeted for exercising his First Amendment rights.”

A piece I co-authored on free speech and the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil now available via @sacbee.com www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

ICC Crime against humanity: using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions

About ten years ago I was visiting an elephant sanctuary in Thailand and helping to feed a few female elephants when one suddenly scooped me up and rocked me like a baby in her trunk before putting me down. She was so gentle and I swear smiling like the elephant in this video!

Worry Time: 10-15 minutes, every day or as often as possible devoted to worry. Journal or don’t.

This may sound counterintuitive, but the idea is that when we devote specific time to our worries, they become more manageable and less likely to interfere with our work, relationships, and well-being.