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This Wednesday marks the *10 YEAR* anniversary of First Draft Book Club at @changinghands.bsky.social. The only thing I've ever stayed committed to for 10 years before is a cat. It's one of the great joys of my life to read and discuss books with my community
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US vetoes resolution for unconditional Gaza ceasefire at UN security council Russia, China, France and the UK all voted in favour of ‘immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’

A world historical obscenity. Like the Biden administration before them—which vetoed numerous resolutions to stop the genocide—the Trump administration is the lone vote against. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Hey, thanks! It was time we headed over.

So has Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a UN Special Committee, the International Criminal Court at The Hague ("plausible genocide"), numerous genocide scholars, and other international bodies.

Does @democrats.org's "ironclad support" for this government still hold? Even as major international bodies redouble their efforts to warn the world?

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
@gallego.senate.gov

More book purges—many more—coming from our neofascist government, this time under the supervision of a temporary “Academic Libraries Committee.”

❝What was the reason for your silence?❞

—Zeeshan Jaanam

Does @democrats.org's "ironclad support" for this government still hold? Even as major international bodies redouble their efforts to warn the world?

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
@gallego.senate.gov

UN Special Committee on Israeli practices in occupied territories warns of a second Nakba AMMAN – “Israel continues to inflict unimaginable suffering on the people living under its occupation, whilst rapidly expanding confiscation of land as part of its wider colonial aspirations. What we ...

❝It is hard to imagine a world in which a government would implement such depraved policies to starve a population to death, while trucks of food are sitting only a few kilometres away.❞ —UN Special Committee

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
@gallego.senate.gov

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Anyone at all?

@gallego.senate.gov
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social

Anyone at all?

@gallego.senate.gov
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social

It's worth saying she's one of only three people in this role to have actually been a librarian, not to mention that this is not in the executive branch's purview.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

Will anyone with access to power and a shred of decency do anything to stop this?

Famine in Sudan and Gaza…completely human made. The US has its hands in both.

My parents survived a famine in northern Viet Nam that killed a million people in 1945. That was induced by Japanese occupiers and French colonizers.

I can’t believe this history is being repeated.

❝Two million Palestinians in Gaza, nearly half of them children, are now surviving on a single meal every two or three days. . . . In the past 10 days, our lab technicians began detecting ketones, an indicator of starvation, in one-third of urine samples tested.❞

Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza

❝Every hour is a race against time—but without the access and political will needed to deliver aid, save lives, and end the unimaginable suffering, our hands are tied.❞

—Sean Carroll, President and CEO of @aneraorg.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/o...

I feel like we've been saying this forever but it's worth saying again.
Book bans do not exist in a vacuum. They're not one off events. Book bans are the canary in the coal mine.
They usher in an era of censorship, fascism, violent scapegoating.
Authors, join the fight:
@authorsabb.bsky.social!!

You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.

Changing Hands Bookstore created a Banned Bookstore pop-up in Tempe, AZ, inspiring multi-generational conversations & resource-sharing. Check it out through May 31! A portion of proceeds will go to #UniteAgainstBookBans. Thanks for your support, @changinghands.bsky.social! More info ➡️ bit.ly/3RLuhTD

The shock for Europeans is not that American betrayal is new, it’s that American betrayal is aimed this time at historically white countries.

In this piece, published first in Italian and then in English in Zeteo, I put this betrayal into the context of a longer history of the United States betraying its allies and its own people—usually nonwhite.

Italy’s LA STAMPA asked me to write about the European sense of being betrayed by the Trump administration.

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Thank you, Melissa!

The Spooklight It is better to be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent.

"I would rather be sincerely stupid than artificially intelligent." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-spookl...