@SketchesbyBoze “People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Each case, obviously, is its own. But in each, contradictions of who is human, questions of who merits sympathy, and inquiries of what sort of society we tolerate, ring loud and clear." https://t.co/cEmFv6dmqq
annual reminder that a major subplot in A Christmas Carol involves Scrooge denying healthcare to his employees, and that Tiny Tim would have died had Scrooge not been shamed by ghosts into giving him coverage.
Just so we are clear, according to AP reporting, the cat Trump wants to put in charge of our military has a white nationalist tattoo and was flagged as a possible insider threat by the military, but yeah, sure it's about economic anxiety
Imagine you know a girl getting beat up by her man & you say "that's not right. You deserve better" then you go sign her abuser up at a gym for kickboxing classes. That's the Dems articulated stance on Palestine given exception to a few brave leaders like Cori Bush. Tlaib. Omar
i fear that when we stop hearing news of these atrocities, it will not be because they have stopped, but because all the journalists have been murdered
israeli occupation forces have withdrawn from Kamal Odwan Hospital and its vicinity after:
👉🏼kidnapping of 240 patients and paramedics
👉🏼destroying oxygen plant
👉🏼destroying electricity’s solar system
👉🏼killing and wounding several patients and paramedics
👉🏼turning the hospital’s yards into mass graves
🚨 @WFP is deeply concerned about worsening food security in #Syria.
Syrians, who are struggling themselves, are hosting families escaping violence in #Lebanon, worsening an already difficult situation.
WFP's @CarlSkau calls on the international community to step up & support.
Israel cuts communications to Northern Gaza after killing over 400 Palestinians, besieging the 3 remaining hospitals, and preventing aid from entering for 15 days.
This is Shaban, a young man burned alive by Israel yesterday alongside his mother, Alaa Al-Dalou. He cried out to the world, pleading for help, but no one answered.
Keep him in your prayers. Never forget him.
I understand the impulse to view Helene as Appalachia’s “Katrina”— please keep in mind it has only been 2 days since Helene.
Black New Orleanians were abandoned, stranded, criminalized,
and HUNTED for a WEEK+ after Katrina passed. Flood waters sat for months.
There's a story to be told about how major US cities and their governments have turned themselves into partners for foreign governments/business interests to develop real estate and make billions in profits that don't benefit anyone who actually lives and works in those cities.
Each one of these iron dome missiles costs the United States 150,000.
Watch your children’s future go up in smoke so that American Jews can play out the biblical fantasy of living in the Middle East.
"There are folks who, if they could go back in time and give their younger selves advice, would tell them to buy Apple stock. And there are others who would tell their younger self to burn down Silicon Valley before it burns down the world."