For context, when Winona Ryder eventually started doing interviews again after being out of spotlight, she was still being asked about, and having to explain nicking a few items from a department store. This utter scumbag is getting fluff piece softball interviews.
Today is two months since the Armed Forces of the Philippines killed two American leftist activists, alongside 17 other comrades. The fact that their murders were barely talked about here is a massive indictment of the chauvinist US Left
i don't know how you're not supposed to feel sick to your stomach over the fact that the police rammed his van twice, shot at it 27 times, and watched as he burned and bled to death because they thought two black men were inside.
they killed a white navy vet and lied about it.
Call me too woke but if you surround yourself with people that regularly make misogynistic or racist jokes then the line will blur between jokes and reality and the next think you know you’re a racist misogynist too
“What’s my approval rating?”
- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.
“Could it get lower?”
- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-
“Kill the ponies.”
- Wha-
“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”
- Sir, they’re endangered
“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”
Anyway if any of the so called sex trade abolitionists in my mentions the past few days want to do something materially useful for once, you can support a disabled trans woman sex worker so I don't have to sell sex tonight. My CF is at 100/200. please share.
Hantavirus, leptospirosis, fleas, other viruses and pests are spreading in Gaza because there's no longer a functioning sanitation system. Children are being bitten and falling sick and there's not enough medication and materials for treatment: this is also part of genocide.
Flannery O'Connor on the teaching of literature in school:
"And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed."
While U.S.-backed (and born) dictator Noboa used our working-class tax dollars to buy luxury seats to the World Cup, this is how his citizens in Ecuador —the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere amid Narco wars and Pentagon bombs— watched it. Under bullets and terror.
The general issue of this stance is the presupposition that it’s even possible to approach knowledge without theory. Everyone *already has* a theoretical outlook, it’s just usually implicit and self-contradictory. This massively influences how one interprets *current* politics
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
“We’re used to people saying ‘f*ck no!’, and then doing it anyway” perfectly sums up how center-left and center-right parties everywhere operate. Which is why we’re in a populist moment