Niamh Smith (she/they)

His name was Alex Pretti, he was 37. He was recording ICE, directing traffic, and helping up someone agents had shoved to the ground. They murdered him for it.

You: It can’t happen to me.

The state: we looked into this white guy we killed and we do feel a need to bring up these parking tickets

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

not sure what the administration is thinking, but if they're getting this kind of pushback in minus twenty weather in January, I don't imagine the spring and summer of 2026 are going to be any *easier* for them.

Government repression causing the chaos and violence that's then used as the reason to bring in government repression, where have I seen that before?

If I Must Starve a poem Nour Abdel Latif July 22, 2025 If I must starve, let it be with dignity in my children's eyes, not with my hands tied by silence. Let the world witness that I did not bow to the hunger but stood, even as the sky emptied and the earth closed her mouth. If I must starve, let it be while I still cradle my child's hope, not as a number lost in footnotes. Let the sea carry my name to shores that forgot my people, and let the wind whisper: she fed love when bread was gone.

From "Refaat Writes Back" newsletter, here: refaatwritesback.beehiiv.com/p/if-i-must-...

It’s a genocide, possibly the greatest moral catastrophe of our time, and the flippant unwillingness to grapple with it is an egregious failure of intellect in addition to a chilling abdication of honor.

A Tupperware print ad from 1960 featuring Tupperware on top of a wooden ballot box and the tagline “best thing to happen to women since they got the vote.”

There are times when I actually can’t believe we’re still here.

perhaps we can also have them wear armbands or even get tattoos so theyre easily identifiable

Buddy, your grandfather had your aunt lobotomized. I’m going out on a limb here and saying what you learned as a kid about neurodivergence isn’t worth very much.

Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

This is the "stock prices can be manipulated" part.

A metal utility pole with a tall sticker on it that has a portrait of Mahmoud Khalil in the foreground and in the background the repeated phrase "Free Mahmoud Khalil."

Spotted at Columbia

Watching Severance has not been the soothing diversion that I had hoped.

Also worth contacting the governor and asking him to publicly reaffirm his commitment to this extremely vulnerable group.

governor.wa.gov/contacting-g...

360-902-4111

Hi, this fucking sucks and it's part of the reason liberal messaging is bad. People were responding to THE ACTIVE GENOCIDE that Democrats were allowing to take place, unquestioned. We are in this place in large part because Democrats WERE ON BOARD WITH A GENOCIDE.

Fix your hearts or die.

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Ginger is the spice of the sky and if you don’t believe me you’ve never felt your body crave a ginger ale the moment the drinks cart appears on your flight

*SNIFF SNIFF*

#Wolf #Wolves #Animals

Latest Kendrick drop accuses Drake of providing low-quality copper.

The General at the Met Gala.

Stunning.

In the Spring of 1864 Twain, while working as a beat reporter for the SF Morning Call, Twain witnessed the murder of a Chinese laborer by a mob that included cops.

It radicalized him. He wrote it up, one of the first things he ever authored which he thought deserved to be called “literature”…

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to celebrate this May the 4th, my most fundamental and deeply held Star Wars opinion:

an enormous amount of the success of Star Wars can be explained by the fact that lightsabers are the single coolest science fiction weapon ever designed

You can tell Noonan hasn’t done any reporting in years because this is what it’s like reporting on any group or institution in America. Try calling up the ACLU and getting quotes from a rank and file staffer without going through their media team.

directing a reporter to your organization’s media team is standard practice at every company on earth, but when protestors do it it’s held out as a sign of something nefarious

was just talking to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social about this. these people are such frauds that they get hit with “no comment” a few times and write about it like it’s a conspiracy instead of a totally standard part of journalism

Famous "if you don't buy this magazine we'll kill this dog" cover from the National Lampoon photoshopped to say "if you don't buy this magazine Kristi Noem will kill this dog"

I probably should have better things to do.

At least 25% of being an adult is trying not to get ripped off. It is constant. In the mail. On the phone. On your TV, On your computer. At stores. At work. Keeping that watch. Trusting almost nobody. And then we wonder why people get conspiratorial.

Me and our sweet new black kitten Beelzebub.

Me and my partner adopted a lil guy!!! Welcome to your home Bee (short for Beelzebub).