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. @codepink.bsky.social needs to answer for the number one face of your organization posting a smiley selfie with MTG saying she’s going to miss her. This is what 99% of MTG’s career looked like. Just b/c she had a good opinion one time does not mean she gets absolved of the horrors she’s inflicted.

IT'S A VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE NOT A "TEST" OF THE CEASEFIRE! Why is American media pathologically incapable of making the simple statement that Israel is breaking the ceasefire when it kills people?

A screenshot of a section of an article from Al Jazeera: “The UN says Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect last month, as Palestinians across the enclave continue to suffer from a lack of food, shelter and other supplies”.

Since the ceasefire announcement the UN has said that Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

It’s not a ceasefire if one country is still firing. Over 300 Palestinians killed by Israel since the supposed “ceasefire.”

Pay attention to double standards: Hamas executed their own people and it was all over the news. Israel violates the ceasefire hundreds of times and there’s crickets.

Israel has killed over 300 Palestinians since the beginning of the “ceasefire” — more people than Hamas even took hostage — and the @apnews.com still won’t even call a single one of those killings a ceasefire violation. AP continues to justify and pave the way for genocide.

Bizarre amount of anti-strike propaganda in this season of Ghosts 🫠

We are up to 688 LoCITT participants!

If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.

We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
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Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.

(Yes, you can technically get a Medicare Advantage Plan with a lower monthly premium, but those plans are often restrictive, and they can literally just stop paying for your hospitalization if they decide you’ve been there too long)

- 2.8% Social Security cost of living increase

- 9.7% Medicare cost increase (the health insurance all Social Security recipients are required to have, and gets withdrawn from your Social Security check)

If that isn’t a summary of US late-capitalist economics, I don’t know what is 🤪

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why was it a good idea to challenge the party leadership when AOC herself ran but isn't a good idea now?

Yesterday in the NYT: Regime change propaganda from Bret Stephens

Today in the NYT: Softening the crimes of a horrific dictator

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There Have to Be Consequences For Advocating Illegal Wars Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?

It says a lot about the state of discourse in the United States that in a liberal newspaper, the “Paper of Record,” a columnist does not feel the need to provide any legal justification for waging war against another country.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...

How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians Imposing international forces on Gaza is latest colonial chapter in Palestine’s history, analysts say

How the UN Gaza resolution creates new foreign ‘mandate’ over Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-un-resolution-creates-new-foreign-mandate-over-palestinians

> But because Israel bombed a Palestinian school, in a “safe” zone, during a “ceasefire” today, it’s not even in Western headlines. You’re likely learning it happened from this post. 5/5

> There would be vigils, hashtags, handwringing about antisemitism, and renewed calls for the importance of a Jewish religious ethnostate, no matter the cost of its enforcement to any other group of people, least of all the Palestinians whose families have lived there for millennia. 4/5

> Just like has happened since Oct 7, anyone trying to say anything in defense of Palestinian human rights would be told “Well it’s Hamas’s fault that this is happening; they only have their govt to blame.” (Ignoring that Hamas is barely a govt because Israel has controlled Gaza for decades.) 3/5

> Mainstream media would fully justify Israel going back to openly imprisoning, starving and bombing every single Palestinian person in full force (not that they ever stopped; Israel has killed 242 Palestinians since the “ceasefire” began, and have let in less than half of promised aid.) 2/5

Israel bombed yet another school in Gaza today. In a “safe” zone. During a “ceasefire.”

I’m thinking about how if Hamas had bombed a school in Israel today, there would be countless headlines saying “Hamas shatters ceasefire by bombing innocent people sheltering in school.” 1/5

> But because Israel bombed a Palestinian school in a safe zone today, it’s not even in Western headlines. You’re likely learning that happened from this post. 5/5

> Just like has happened since Oct 7, anyone trying to say anything in defense of Palestinian human rights would be told “Well it’s Hamas’s fault that this is happening; they only have their govt to blame.” (Ignoring that Hamas is barely a govt because Israel has controlled Gaza for decades.) 3/5

> Mainstream media would fully justify Israel going back to openly imprisoning, starving and bombing every single Palestinian person in full force (not that they ever stopped; Israel has killed 242 Palestinians since the “ceasefire” began, and have let in less than half of promised aid.) 2/5

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

brain fog moment of the day: saying Margaret Thatcher instead of Margaret Atwood

Daniel Thrasher, Zac and Erika! I worked with Daniel for several years; not only is he great at ~noises~ and improv, but he’s wonderful to work with and a delightful human, and I really think he’d get along well with Dropout folks.

A long excerpt from this 1987 interview with Beth Bighley, a patient with chronic EBV, now known as #MECFS

This could’ve been written by someone last year with #LongCovid and/or ME.

“My parents' reaction was one of relief that I did have something physically. But also frustration, 1/

Trans people, feminists and a bunch of Jewish researchers pointed out the thinly veiled repackaging of antisemitic tropes by the Heritage Foundation back 6-7 years ago but because they were deploying it in anti trans rhetoric ("trans people are well poisoning child sacrificers) noone paid attention.

Saying that supporting human rights for Palestinians is “antisemitic” encourages ACTUAL antisemitic behavior, because it tells people that Judaism is incompatible with human rights for non-Jews, WHICH IS UNTRUE.