Calaine Schafer

Elaine of @betheseries, actress, writer, singer-in-my-room, lovable porcupine

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here's the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:

"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."

[Calaine Schafer @Lainy007]

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[Calaine Schafer @Lainy007]

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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Madam Vice President, if you lose the race, don't you or the Democrats blame 'the Muslims for that. No, you can blame yourself: for not changing course, for not heeding the polls [on Gaza], for not using the power you have to stop a genocide."

My take:
https://t.co/uA0bACTmeb

[roshan abraham @roshantone]

"Ceasefire" has become the new "two state solution," a mythical end goal that Israel has strategically removed from the drawing board but which staggers on in zombie form as a symbolic gesture of empathy in American politics

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

israelis get to share their suffering at the dnc, and they get to speak about the suffering of palestinians, but palestinians don't get to speak for themselves. only one group of people is deemed worthy of being heard.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

A reminder that Mary Oliver also wrote this:

[Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas]

WELCOME VIRGO SEASON. VERY MINDFUL. VERY CORRECT. VERY THOUGHTFUL. VERY CONSCIENTIOUS. VERY THOROUGH. VERY SPECIFIC. VERY WITCHY. VERY EXACTING. VERY HARDWORKING. VERY DETAILED. VERY AHEAD OF THE GAME. VERY DEMURE. VERY IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT CEASEFIRE AND ARMS EMBARGO NOW.

[Calaine Schafer @Lainy007]

Raise your voice for Gaza. Demand that Members of Congress call for a ceasefire in Gaza to stop genocide. #StopGenocide #CeasefireNow https://t.co/dDJ4ktGK7T

[ashley hufford @ashleyhufford]

i will be thinking about rachel chavkin’s closing lempicka speech for a very very very long time.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Calaine Schafer @Lainy007]

@POTUS

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

buried alive

[John Cusack @johncusack]

And this is why blinkin and congress want to ban tick tock
The raw truth doesn’t fit the propaganda narratives they want to spin

[Calaine Schafer @Lainy007]

@POTUS @SecBlinken it’s not emotional. It’s not over reactive or devoid of history and context. It’s over 34,000 killed. It’s the breaking of international laws. It’s the many humanitarian agencies coming out and declaring an emergency and widespread famine.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?… some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok.”

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

All these kids want is for their schools to not invest in mass death, and the response to that has been pretty thoroughly psychotic.

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children.

You will not distract us from this immoral war.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

In all seriousness, I don’t think Americans understand what’s happening, or how bad it is. Our politicians on every level (presidents, mayors, governors) universities, businesses, and police forces are ignoring their own citizens in favor of another country (Israel).

[The People's Forum @PeoplesForumNYC]

🇵🇸❤️✊🏛️🚨 It has been over 24 hours since the start of the historic encampment by Columbia students who stand with Palestine. Last night, hundreds of New Yorkers supported the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and rallied outside the gates of Columbia. There’s an ongoing picket happening outside the gates of Columbia and support happening inside. ➡️ If you’re in NYC, head to Columbia NOW to show up and support this historic student action!

Student organizing has a long and powerful history—and this moment is no exception! We must continue to show our support to the students who will not move until their university divests from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine. 

Students, workers, and people from all walks of life say STOP THE GENOCIDE!

#ShutItDown4Palestine