Alma was a healthcare worker for over 25 years. She had insurance. And when her oncologist recommended MD Anderson for a second opinion, they told her it would be $16,000 upfront just to be seen.
She couldn't afford it. She didn't get the care.
Alma passed away.
I stood up to honor her today because she deserves to be remembered. And because her words are still doing something — still making people uncomfortable in the right way.
"If they treat me like that, can you imagine how they treat someone that doesn't know anything?"
No. We shouldn't have to imagine it. We should be outraged by it.
Alma's name means soul. And I felt her soul in that room today.
Rest in power, Alma. We're still listening. 🤍
Last week, I was sitting in an arbitration hearing in which Washington Post leadership labeled me as a threat.
And excused away the purging of Black writers, questioning our merit.
Today, I’m getting a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
much of the anti AI discourse feels incredibly shallow when the debate gets stuck on the arts, plagiarism and repeating misinformed rhetoric. AI is already having far more extensive consequences on education, surveillance, wealth inequality, gender relations and global power; refusing to engage with it will not stop it, instead it risks leaving its development and deployment entirely in the hands of the potentially corrupt corporations and tyrannical governments.
you don’t have to support AI to understand it, but understanding it may be the only way to meaningfully oppose it. the greatest beneficiaries of total rejection are the companies operating behind closed doors, counting on the majority being divided and preoccupied with surface details.
Israel has put out an “evacuation”— destruction notice for the ENTIRE city of Tyre. The occupation is leveling our South and our people to the ground. I repeat, in what world is this a ceasefire?
"The word ceasefire has lost its meaning."
Beirut-based journalist @lyllayounes describes the human toll of Israel's attacks and mass displacement in Lebanon. She has been writing about the war for @DropSiteNews.
“the BILLIONAIRES will never find happiness from their money. the COLONIZERS will never find fullfilment from the land and lives they steal. the FACISTS will never find meaning from their conformity not in this lifetime and eternity..”
"This is crazy. I’m witnessing this with my own two eyes right now. I’m back in Michigan and I’m north of a bunch of data centers, and the water here, all those are miles north — There’s brown water in the toilets, brown water in the sinks, brown data center water. It blew my mind.
It blew my mind. It is no myth. And these people have to just deal with that. With their water just being brown? Once again, crimes against humanity. These are basic human rights. Because you best believe I’m gonna say stay stinky today because I can’t shower in that. No way.”
Access to clean, reliable water is a basic necessity. Communities deserve answers, transparency, and accountability when concerns like these arise.
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The Zionist Entity has killed 14 people in gaza today. and in response to being bombed by Iran, Israel has closed all crossing into Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid, again. All this whilst, renewed Gaza “ceasefire” talks are happening in Egypt.
I ask again, WHAT CEASEFIRE?!
In a remotely just world, the ICC would have issued arrest warrants for both Biden and Trump for complicity with war crimes perpetrated by Israel in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, etc. Both should be unable to leave US territory without being arrested.
BEWARE!
#Israelis want to make your life a living hell via technology/internet if you speak against them!
This is Sick.
People are waking up.
Take care.
Remember nobody is free until #Palestine is free.
The American people should know that, in recent months alone, Israel has killed more Lebanese civilians than the number of Americans who lost their lives on 9/11. The scale of this human tragedy constitutes a humanitarian crisis that demands urgent international intervention.
Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.
Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.
Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.
Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.
At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.
This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.
What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.
Imagine surviving two and a half years of genocide, starvation and forced displacement only to be slaughtered in Israel’s ongoing terror campaign anyway. Israel is continuing to terrorize everyone in Gaza with complete impunity.