being a parent to a 9 month old is like being a surgeon: wash your hands. yes, again. do it now

My son asked me if the stretch marks on my belly were demon marks.

the U.S. military has been undermanned for years, we are absolutely unready for any kind of meaningful conflict. i imagine the regime will back out before they try to force a draft. it would not go well for them.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

In Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Congo — mothers are mourning their babies.

Resharing this piece I wrote over two years ago because we’re still watching a genocide happen, watching even more parents mourn.

Women’s day includes these women too.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Samah and all mothers trying to survive a genocidal occupation are true heroes.

Please help if you can.

Donate to Fund for Samah Al Nakhala and her 4 children in Gaza., organized by Freya Greenhill Hello, my name is Freya and along with my friend Youssra, we ar… Freya Greenhill needs your support for Fund for Samah Al Nakhala and her 4 children in Gaza.

Mothers like Samah who is not on Bluesky or twitter, but is raised her four children on her own in a destroyed Gaza without possibilities for income. Please help if you can.

www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-s...

"Follmann... conveyls] a necessary message: We survive together or not at all." -Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin SCAPEGOAT WHAT THE INVASIVE SPECIES STORY GETS WRONG CLARE FOLLMANN

Exciting new science book alert!! First chapter is an amazing think piece about metaphor and the power of language 📚💙🧪

Oh they might bring back the draft?

*laughs in tranny*

Outside the Chicago area ICE facility in Broadview this afternoon, people are gathered for what should have been a relatively uneventful press conference explaining what happened with US citizens detained by CBP on Friday.

Folks are now running down the street bc their vehicles were just towed.

This is horrifying. Praying for the people in Tehran.

Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran

- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact

- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures

- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems

NYPD confirms IEDs thrown at white supremacist rally and counterprotest contained explosives.

Incompetent assembly ensured it did not become a mass casualty event.

anti-vaxxers fainted at the idea of free covid tests and vaccine cards, but for some reason brought us chromosome tests and women cards.

i hate this stupid fucking system more than anything in the world. a system that benefits nobody, actively harms everybody, could be changed at literally any point in time, YET WE STILL KEEP DOING THIS MADNESS ANYWAY. YEAR AFTER YEAR WE DO THIS STUPID SONG AND DANCE FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON

W/alt

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more.
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A picture of different medicines Ahmad's father needs

Ahmad's father sitting on a rug using a nebulizer

My father is sick and needs treatment, and I’m afraid of losing him.
I feel helpless because I can’t provide the medicine and care he needs.
Please, if anyone can help or even share this post, it might help save my father’s life.
I don’t want to lose him. 🙏💔
chuffed.org/project/161883

BREAKING: Violent airstrikes on Abdenan in Iran

Stay mad but I'm still supporting trans women.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Smoke rises after a strike on oil storage facilities in Tehran. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Fire burns at the Aghdasieh oil depot in Tehran, Iran. [Screengrab/Social Media via Reuters]

Saturday’s strikes triggered large fires after hitting four oil storage facilities and an oil transfer and production centre. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

At least four tanker drivers were killed in the attacks in Tehran and Alborz, according to Fars news agency. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Dark haze over Tehran as US-Israeli forces bomb oil storage facilities https://aje.news/zzw4i0

Whenever I say we should return to 1940-1980 tax levels for the super wealthy (billionaires) of 91%+ marginal tax I hear, "If you do that, billionaires will leave the USA."

To which I say:
1. Promise? Because it didn't happen last time.
2. Don't threaten me with a good time.
#AbolishBillionaires

We don’t need talkers right now. We need fighters.

And no matter how many times they knock me down, I’ll get back up and fight with you. Every. Single. Time.

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line.

An autistic man called police for a wellness check. He was fatally shot. Alex LaMorie, 25, had recently moved to a community in Maryland for people with disabilities, and was shot after police say he approached officers while holding a knife.

Alex LaMorie, a 25-year-old autistic man, was fatally shot by police in Maryland after authorities say he approached officers while holding a knife.

LaMorie’s family and advocates say they want answers and accountability.

The attacks from both sides on oil infrastructure are expanding.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

The ones who can enter Black-majority spaces on their own terms, without having their hands held or their space guarded by the Black person they’ve hired for that purpose…they don’t need help courting Black voters. The Clintons had it (esp. Hillary); Biden had it; Mamdani has it.