Mind you. We just had a pandemic where the government “could not” and would not build hospitals and care centers rapidly to keep up with the overcrowded hospitals and understaffing at our hospitals but they can build a concentration camp in 8 days if they follow regulations
Waving at babies is an art. Some of you aren’t real baby-wavers. Light and cheer doesn’t radiate from you. When you wave, the babies don’t laugh or smile, they keep a straight face like they don’t see you.
i am just so disgusted by the notion that we have to indulge any negative attitudes toward immigration. these are people. they aren't chaos, they aren't violence. they are people. you could have been them, they could have been you. there's no morally defensible compromise.
if you're a PhD applicant with acceptances to programs in the US, you should ask your potential advisor what is happening at the university, in the department, or at least in their own heads in response to Mahmoud Khalil's abduction and deportation.
These lithium powered easily discarded vapes use cobalt obtained from Congolege mines where people work in incredibley dangerous conditions for slave wages, and are experiencing a genocide in the #DRC because American, European and Chinese conglomerates want to possess the land.
I don't think people realize how incredible it is that a movie rendered in nearly real-time in free software on a single computer just won the Oscar for best animated film. If there was ever any proof you don't need AI, this is it.
It's important to remember that they don't want public clean water to exist because Americans having to privately buy all their clean water is an incredible profit opportunity for evil shitheads.
All these beauty products that ppl are obsessed with. Ppl have gone to lengths to ensure products aren't testing on animals but don't bat an eyelash at the history of these being tested on and damaging Black folks. Thank you for this important report.
Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.
For my course on academic ableism I JUST taught how physicians came up with this whole "work and exercise are cure-alls for disability" in the 19th century. This is at the heart of almshouse (workhouse) and asylum building. 1/3
I will not stop talking about the Super Bowl. It destroyed New Orleans and cost my partner and I everything we have. The sport, the NFL, the war on homeless and trafficking victims, the absurd white supremacist police presence are a stain that cannot be removed all for what?
Let’s talk about some of the real victims of property theft. 70 years ago, on this day, Sophiatown’s destruction commenced. At dawn, 4000 police and soldiers cordoned off the suburb and houses were demolished. Trucks moved families to Meadowlands.
Me, while my family’s watching the Super Bowl: “man, it’s so fucked up that New Orleans spent $17M disappearing homeless people into a warehouse to clean up for this.”
My family:
Here’s the end of the quote “…We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with black capitalism like some of these punks in the city of Chicago want to do, we’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism.”