Elizabeth Elliott

It’s Sept 11, 2001. You’re watching George W. Bush recite the 23 Psalm from the Oval like a dear in headlights on CNN. Imagine I then tell you that one day Donald Trump will spray a former Al Qaeda general here with Trump perfume—just two weeks after leveling the East Wing like the Twin Towers

Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty

Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem

🧵 1. I saw some high-profile pro-Palestine accounts condemning Mamdani for saying "I'm going to have ppl in my admin who are Zionists" & for allegedly putting a "softer spin on his anti-Israel past"

So [coughs, puts on ye ol' media analysis professor hat] I looked into the source and HOOO BOY...

Got to address the gathering. Now I’ve been translated into Zulu

But’s is not, and there’s a whole world out there, with a lot more room to think and breathe and do politics and read history and learn and unlearn and BE.

Actually for those of us who lost our livelihoods for saying what was happening—a small price to pay compared to the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, journalists, moms, dads and kids who lost their lives—an “I told you so” from us is getting off easy for people like you who made it happen

The New York Times' Tom Friedman has warned readers that the current Israeli government "is not an ally," but on the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, we must recognize that all Israeli governments have participated in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Note to Thomas Friedman: It is not only ‘this’ Israeli government that has carried out ethnic cleansing The New York Times’ Tom Friedman has warned readers that the current Israeli government “is not an ally,” but on the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, we must recognize that all Israeli governments have ...

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Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...

MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide:

“War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social

www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...

FIVE ALARM FIRE

Barack Obama or Oprah or Beyoncé and Jay-Z or Rihanna could easily solve all of these problems for every single Black museum in the country. When they don’t, that’s a choice.

That’s all I’m gonna say

NASA is threatened with a 50% cut to earth science.

Meanwhile, the Europeans celebrate their space agency with flower rockets in parades.

They are removing the bravest amongst us from society

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

One by one
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“By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months.” If only all of us could fulfill our duty like this young man

This is the Vice President of the United States saying "excellent" to collapsing an apartment building full of civilians and *maybe* one person who wasn't a civilian.

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi Columbia’s long been run more like the vast business empire, than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? by Rashid Khalidi
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some of us begged the space science community to stop normalizing Musk

to stop saying “but the SpaceX engineers do really good work and it’s not all about him”

I hope the people who said we were histrionic do some introspection

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

We are pausing donations to my legal defense fund bc in less than 24 hours, you all raised $10,000. I am OVERWHELMED by your generosity. Thank you for making me feel cared for ❤️🙏🏾You can still circulate, sign & join the 1,000 people who signed this petition forms.gle/Rn9Rmq5fQUhq...

The Feminist Path of Margaret Prescod: Black Women's Fight Against Unpaid Labor Margaret Prescod, co-founder of Black Women for Wages for Housework, knew that raising children is hard work and that women on welfare are among society’s hardest workers. In a newsletter printed up b...

An essay about my mom in @msmagazine.com — excerpted from a new book that is in part a history of her work. #BlackSky #BookSky

msmagazine.com/2025/03/19/m...

This strikes at the heart of my own punishment. I will never stop speaking out, no matter how much Northwestern & Biden & Trump & Congress try to illegally punish me. But they’re hoping that in seeing what they do to ME, it will make YOU self-censor. Please, don’t let them!!!

Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...

They say this is “unheard of” but it’s not. This is Viktor Orbán of Hungary’s playbook to the T—take control of the press, and universities, and strangle opposition through control of federal funding. Better shut this down now.

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Harvard alum here to say that what happens to Univ of Maine and other public universities like it is way more important than anything financial that is happening to Columbia right now because Columbia can withstand the financial storm. and our public unis serve people Columbia wouldn’t sniff at.

A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom "We write to affirm our commitment to supporting and exercising First Amendment rights for students, faculty, and staff on our campus."

A few days ago, I asked: Where was the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social school on Mahmoud Khalil & the attacks on political speech? Well, their faculty came out SWINGING in defense of students, journalists and political dissidence journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

Say his name: Mahmoud Sleem. He was among 8 people killed today in an Israeli ceasefire violation, and was the 205th journalist killed in Gaza

Everyone blaming the people who didn’t vote/for Harris because of the genocide should absolutely shut the fuck up after reading this because the Harris campaign actively refused to campaign for their votes and that’s a campaign problem not a voter problem

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye.
#Gaza
#Genocide