Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Kyle Kulinski: “We’re the terrorists. Benjamin Netanyahu is a terrorist. Donald J. Trump is a terrorist. When we double tapped an elementary school full of 7 to 12-year-old girls, that was terrorism. We’re the terrorists. I don’t give a fuck that you have a finely pressed uniform. That is terrorism. That is ISIS shit. That is Al-Qaeda shit”
I have seen this picture cross my feed many times, and every single time it pulls me up short. His little blue lunchbox, the sneakers that are probably a tad too big because he would grow into them, the straps for his glasses so that he didn’t lose them, his checkered shirt that his little hands might have stumbled over in trying to make sure he got every button right, or perhaps his mother bent down to help him with; his mother who he waves goodbye to, who he loved and who loved him so deeply.
Every problem we’re currently facing as a country can be traced back to the fact we didn’t hang every Confederate leader and politician after the civil war
So this is what's going to track and chase me through the woods as I try to find an advantageous position to turn around and as a last ditech effort, mag dump in it's general direction. Thank you so much for bringing us this wonderful hellworld, techbros.
moving to a walkable city won’t solve all your problems but it will allow you to get drunk and just walk around and that is peak activity you can’t get just any where
Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.
Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion.
This is not democracy. It is oligarchy.
Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
imagine you're a Ukrainian artilleryman and you're getting like eight shells a day to fight off the entire army of a major land power and you pick up the newspaper and see that the Israelis have been given the whole US back catalog to vaporize a bunch of residential neighborhoods