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Starbucks workers AND Amazon workers are on nationwide strikes during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. I truly hope their bosses are sweating bullets :)

Oh dear lord I have come on here after a few weeks and happened upon the "asymmetrics" discourse

Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.”

In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in.

This is where we are.

Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say Content Warning: while I will not be describing any actual instances of sexual violence or child sexual abuse, these issues (and false…

this essay is full of actual research showing trans women pose no threat to cis women in restrooms & other sex-segregated spaces. if you encounter any cis ppl discussing/debating the Mace/McBride/congressional restroom fuckery, pls share this link with them:
juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-...

In 1998-99 I was part of a group independent study project at my university (Brown University) where we designed our own trans studies class and put together a syllabus and required reading. Amazingly, the website and syllabus for the class are still online:

www.angelfire.com/on/transtudi...

What he said still applies today, and the Israelis assassinated him for it in Beirut.

Navigating the immediate future is going to require a lot of folks to adjust the way they view social media behaviors. The function of "following", the content people choose to prioritize. You will no longer get much mileage out of trying to glean a person's investment from shallow activity.

Periodic reminder that not all activism takes place online in casual and exposed places where you can observe and judge it. Before you decide someone isn't loud enough about a Thing, consider whether they've gone to ground to get the work done. Consider doing the same.

$358 left to hit 40k !
Please
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Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...

Fucking get them www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

I beseech you to take inspo from folks like Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and others instead www.liberationschool.org/our-armies-a...

Love a liberal zionist

@HossamShabat Tonight, I was deliberately targeted by Israeli forces. After receiving word of a nearby bombing, I jumped into my car to report. Upon arriving at the house packed with terrified people, I could hear their desperate screams for help from the second floor. The moment I stepped inside, the house was bombed again, and dismembered body parts of the wounded flew around me. Rubble crashed down on me and my colleagues; One first responder was killed, and while my colleague and I were injured, many others did not survive. 6:40 PM • 11/19/24 • 55K Views

One of the journalists I follow in northern Gaza reports he was targeted by an Israeli strike tonight.

He was injured but lived. Others did not.

#FreePalestine

The people of Gaza love life 🇵🇸
#FreeGaza 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

We cannot girlboss and "representation" our way into people in power giving a fuck about you. These people across the aisle abhor out existence, Sarah. Why are you capitulating to these people??

On #TDoR, no less.

If BlueSky has already been bought by Zionists then this platform is already useless

Criticism of Israel and demands for accountability are not ‘intolerance’ and BlueSky must explain this madness or risk destroying its burgeoning credibility

@moderation.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app

Hello not many Pro Palestinian voices in here. Have made a starter pack of accounts I found. Let's amplify accounts talking about Palestine.

#freepalestine

go.bsky.app/Ttsqoq8

Book with dark green text on pale yellow background, Gaza Writes Back edited by Rehfaat Aleer

"Gaza narrates so that people might not forget. Gaza writes back because the power of imagination is a creative way to construct a new reality. Gaza writes back because writing is a nationalist obligation, a duty to humanity, and a moral responsibility."

- Rehfaat Aleer

#FreePalestine

If anyone's looking to prove to me that they're "Safe," wearing an N95 when you're out in public is a real start w/ material rather than performative benefits. Bonus: the fash have already proved they're unlikely to try to false-flag co-opt it, but if they do then at least they'll be fucking masking

Burn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion) Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

As a writing studies person & academic (😬), I’ve honestly felt embarrassed & disappointed at how some teacher-scholars seem inclined to make peace w/ AI, trying to teach it rather than calling it out as fundamentally unethical.

But here’s an article arguing for resistance & not giving an inch.

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.

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Opinion | What We Can Learn From How Kamala Harris Lost Her loss is a sign that the age of identity politics is not over.

Tressie McMillan Cottom: "it is time for us to accept that American politics is identity politics"

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/o...

YouTube video by The Daily Show Tressie McMillan Cottom - Identity Politics and the 2024 Election | The Daily Show

man i miss tressie mcmillan cottom

it's so fucking bleak that she came so early and got driven off before the better controls kicked in

anyway, this is extremely worth watching

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Lazy writing (and yes, it IS lazy) really creates a dent in the whole nostalgia experience of a beloved universe, come on Russell don't be a Moffat. Did you forget there are trans people in the fandom?

Why is it when cis people write trans characters they have to make it a point to acknowledge their transness in a really harmful way (deadnaming, for instance) FFS just hire trans writers. #DoctorWho6othAnniversary

My stolen land holiday celebration will be staying in my house and not talking to anyone, my social battery is nonexistent and I need a day of not masking.

I sent the below email to my senators (I tried to call yesterday, but couldn’t get through). I dashed it off quickly before going to pick up the toddler, so it’s no great rhetorical feat, but if any of the language is useful feel free to take it and make it your own.