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A short history of the UN’s complicity in Israel’s mass rape propaganda since October 7 Why the UN Secretary-General’s recent decision to blacklist Hamas, and not Israel, as perpetrators of sexual violence flies in the face of the UN’s own evidence.

"In light of the UN's own findings, the Secretary-General's decision to list Hamas and not Israel as 'committing or being responsible for patterns of [..] sexual violence in [..] armed conflict' is patently absurd."

"We refuse this complicity."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide

Israel was committing a genocide prior to 10/7/2023. What’s it been, over 70 years since the Nakba? And the colonization of Palestine began prior to that.

listening to this playlist right now and it's great because I love most of these songs already and now I can listen to them and think about Niko and her brilliant book as well!

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

British prosecutors will appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. Read here why the British state is so desperate to silence @kneecapceol.bsky.social:

Remember to forget October 7 Two years on, the memory of October 7 returns as both catastrophe and possibility, reminding us that both resistance and surrender are choices haunted by loss. But two years on, we also learned someth...

READ: Israel uses October 7 as justification to inflict pain on Palestinians because the date exposes what terrifies them most: they are defeatable. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/reme...

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

today in class we read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ‘s Defector essay and then talked about whether we should spend the next few weeks on Hawthorne’s short stories or on The Scarlet Letter—students agreed on trying the longer, more difficult thing in light of the essay defector.com/close-readin...

"how to use the plagiarism machine ethically" a workshop by poynter institute

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I sometimes get the sense that reporters & even pundits don't understand that they are participating in the shaping of reality. Or they do but take some comfort in a "I am only a watcher/passive/my words carry no weight," when that thought becomes uncomfortable.

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Quiet as it’s kept, there are leftist versions of positive thinking. Sometimes it’s called theory.

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Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

everything is so deeply stupid now

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer: working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now" "I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

This but for news

the poynter institute's embrace of AI in journalism is absolutely wild and so deeply unethical

the feeling of pride is extremely mutual <3

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

I am so proud to call @nicolefroio.bsky.social a comrade, friend, and colleague; her reporting and cultural criticism on the harms of colonialism and how they're deeply woven into Western society is incredible. Go read this on the suppression of pro-Palestine speech in music @theflytrapmedia.com!

The always on point @nicolefroio.bsky.social.

writing this was a dream come true.

The Women the Dictatorship Left Behind On the history we see—and the history we don’t—in “I’m Still Here.”

The Oscar-winning film “I’m Still Here” is based on a true story: Both in the movie and in reality, the Brazilian government wouldn’t admit to killing a man until 25 years after the fact. @nicolefroio.bsky.social on the political histories behind the film in this previously published story.

thank you <3

"I don't know the details, I just saw a headline" should be understood as the motto of this administration

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Parents, teachers upset after school district removes dystopian book from curriculum Parents and teachers voiced concerns at Monday's school board meeting about the removal of "Ponies," a 2010 Nebula Award-winning story about authoritarianism.

Administration pulled "Ponies" by Kij Johnson from curriculum at Otsego Public Schools (MI). They gave no reason why the story that's been used for years and years was suddenly pulled...but given it's a story about authoritarianism, we know damn well why.

www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...

it's really not a coincidence that culture writing is out and right-wing shilling is in. We are trying to change that at The Flytrap. Check us out:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

Looks like B*ri W*iss will be shilling right-wing propaganda on CBS News. You know who doesn't do that and needs your support? The Flytrap! Here's our latest on @kneecapceol.bsky.social and their solidarity with Palestine:

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y'all better read this investigation I am writing up now, I've spent months scrapping social media for it and months chasing experts who are scared of talking against the Trump admin.

Can someone help me get this to Kneecap? I would love to have them read it and also ask them what's so great about Belfast's goodfellas pizza.