Alice Hewitt

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government.

FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesn’t conform to their expectations.

"I'm being as racist as I can" tearful Starmer tells voters

Sally Rooney understands exactly what is required from someone of her profession and social standing in this moment. We've seen so much cowardice from so many quarters in recent times that it's almost a shock to be reminded what a person of conscience acting with true integrity looks like.

By the same token, SB1 does not exclude any individual from medi- cal treatments on the basis of transgender status. Rather, it removes one set of diagnoses-gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence-from the range of treatable conditions. SB1 di- vides minors into two groups: those seeking puberty blockers or hor- mones to treat the excluded diagnoses, and those seeking puberty blockers or hormones to treat other conditions. While the first group includes only transgender individuals, the second encompasses both transgender and nontransgender individuals. Thus, although only transgender individuals seek treatment for gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, and gender incongruence-just as only biological women can become pregnant-there is a "lack of identity" between transgender status and the excluded diagnoses. Absent a showing that SB1's prohibitions are pretexts designed to effect invidious discrimina- tion against transgender individuals, the law does not classify on the basis of transgender status. Pp. 16-18.

Skirmetti just came back. 6-3 against healthcare for trans minors.

This is nauseating.

Israel is still needlessly and mercilessly killing Palestinians. Daily. Hourly. For no good reason except ethnic cleansing and displacement.

Rare Non-Shit Thing Klaxon

The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.

This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

People love to call everything about Israel and the genocide in Gaza complicated. Stop doing that. It's actually extremely straightforward: Israel is committing genocide, the US is funding it and supplying the weapons. The companies on the BDS target list are financially and materially enabling it.

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous.

Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family.

To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

It is a confected outrage that ignores the actual sources of problems for women and tries to distor every conversation about women's rights and safety into targeting and demonising trans women. It's all lies and it's galling how much of the conversation has been captured by it 4/

It was literally a non issue. The very idea that the central fight for sexual violence against women is about strangers in public bathrooms is absurd and a seemingly almost deliverate distraction from the main source of sexual violence: the family, churches and schools. 3/

I spent a large portion of my childhood in service stations on the side of roads with large public toilets. Men were consistently employed as cleaners in these spaces. It was normal and accepted that there would be a dude with a mop in there sometimes. Women would bring their sons in with them. 2/

This is hardly the most important thing in the absolute terrorising of trans women in Britain but every time I hear about how "men legally aren't allowed in women's toilets" I'm just like??? They are though. 1/

how faculty and students were treated during resistance of the genocide on Palestine was an indicator of how university admins would act now

one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"

fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.

A ceasefire is a relief but it’s no justice for Gaza. Israel has murdered tens of thousands of people and left even more traumatised, disabled, and homeless. I can barely imagine what life will be like for Palestinians in the coming months and years. It’s more than any people should endure.

An old tabby cat sits inside a paizo product delivery box, looking over one of the flaps.

My dearly departed old girl Lucy liked to think she was what I was so excited about in the boxes!!

I'm reading news of an imminent ceasefire deal. I'm praying that the violence truly stops, that we don't see drawn-out death by another name. I pray that we all stay alert and awake regardless of what comes next.

None of us are free until Palestine is free and a ceasefire is not freedom.

All my mutuals here are picking different horrific quotes from this article. I think it's the headline that gets me. How have we reached a point where a government can use slang from heroin use to discuss a plan they have for schools and health and it just gets reported like nothing is wrong

Foreign Affairs Committee launches inquiry into Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Committees - UK Parliament Today the Foreign Affairs Committee launches an inquiry into the UK’s role in finding a resolution to the long-standing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

As the genocide goes on in plain sight, our govt launches an ‘inquiry.’ Will it inquire why we’re still arming Israel, assisting with RAF reconnaissance flights and still refusing to allow a single child - no matter how injured - into the UK for treatment? committees.parliament.uk/committee/78...

Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs.

A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

As Carla Denyer MP said in the HoC the other day: the Convention imposes a duty on signatories like the UK to prevent genocide. So they can't just sit around waiting for a retrospective verdict that it was genocide. The UK and other states are in breach of their obligations

I don’t care if you’re dunking on the worst people in the world, please just stop using AI to do it, holy fuck, come ON.

The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.

The BBC is in civil war over Israel and Palestine.

BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.

My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...

Israeli forces have issued new 'evacuation' orders vs areas of Al Remal and Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City, encompassing the Patients' Friends Benevolent Society and Public Aid hospitals.

Israel continues to chase Palestinians around its Gaza death map like a sick boardgame.