Jon Royal

Director, Teaching Artist, Commmunity building facilitator, and Laker Fan 4 Life

[Jon Royal @jonroyal]

I've said this before, and I still believe it. A person's necessity for change around an issue, is directly proportional to the amount of privilege they enjoy around that issue. Necessity and desire are two different things. You may "want" change, while others "need" it.

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

Ngl there isn’t a single leftist strategy that will be successful unless we address our extreme individualism. Fascism feeds on loneliness and isolation, it will continue to have power unless we radically change the structural and social barriers keeping us apart.

[MK 🩵 @maiyahhhh]

It should be illegal for airlines to price gauge for cities trying to evacuate a hurricane. 1100$ for a one way ticket out? corporate rich people are the worst people on earth idc what anybody says, evil asf

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

🚨This will be the last post we share here.

We believe there is no point in telling our human stories anymore; everyone has grown accustomed to seeing us killed. It's no longer worth the risk to send our voice out to a world that is content with mere solidarity. Even many of our human stories no longer interest people (even our voice is being ignored).

It's time to stop waiting for a savior and to help ourselves survive.

Please try to keep us in your prayers.

[NYCLU (Find us on Bluesky) @NYCLU]

BREAKING: Nassau County's mask ban has been signed. It takes effect immediately.

Officials should be supporting New Yorkers’ right to voice their views and protect their health, not fueling widespread doxxing and threatening arrests.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

What’s clear is Covid-19 behaves like HIV more than the flu. It passes person to person as a respiratory infection, but it attacks the body’s entire immune system & organs.

People will be sickened, killed & disabled by repeat infection & govt negligence. So 😷 for your safety 💕

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Yeah this all has to be dismantled. Support the resistance. Support revolution. Topple the 1%.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

So many people doubted Cassie’s story when it took unbelievable courage for her to come forward. God bless that woman. Wishing her every good thing. Diddy is a POS.

[Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline]

And he is right.

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

AIPAC helped pro-NRA anti-choice Henry Cuellar barely beat pro-choice & pro-Palestinian Jessica Cisneros. As Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries & 4 of top 5 Dem campaigned for Cuellar. They do what AIPAC tells them, even taking other right-wing positions they are allegedly against.

[Malaika Jabali @MalaikaJabali]

it’s wild to think that since the civil rights and Black power and anti war movements the US never really got better, it just invested more money in surveillance and policing and violence to stop them the next go round

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

Biden is having his own Summer 2024 uprisings and he’s responding in the exact same way Trump did, when in all of 2020 he was blaming Trump, saying things would be different if he were president. Now there are student protesters getting beat up by police along with a genocide.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

This is what I mean. Can we please stop playing into the dynamic described below?

Maybe instead discuss how & why college students are demonstrating more wisdom, forethought, democratic decision-making & journalistic integrity than people who are paid career professionals? 🥴

[Katherine @supressedvoic]

@spectatorindex 🇮🇱🇺🇲The fake "we are not friends" drama between Netanyahu and Biden exposed.

The Washington Post reports that the Biden Administration 'in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel'

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that the US has recently authorized the transfer of over 1,800 of the MK84 2,000-pound bombs to Israel

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

The more folks try to make this mess normal, the more urgent it is to disrupt the performance of normalcy

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Folks— the only way to “save democracy” or anything else is to resist. Fascism is here & it’s “bipartisan”

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Update: 150 got killed.

Breaking, breaking, breaking:

Around 4AM, more than 70 people got killed and more 500 got wounded after Israeli tanks opened fire at them while getting aid from the arriving aid trucks on the Rashid Road in Gaza city.
Thousands of starving people slept in the street and woke up only when the trucks arrived. When they started to get wheat flout and other aid boxes, the tanks opened fire.

This is one of the most tragic days since October 7.

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

As a reminder, here is how Barack Obama talked about self immolation and Mohamed Bouazizi. He compared him to the founding fathers and Rosa Parks.

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

If Aaron Bushnell had destroyed his life fighting a war, on behalf of the empire, he’d be unquestionably celebrated as a hero. Instead he destroyed his life exposing the moral rot at the heart of empire, and our complicity in its cruelties. That’s why his memory will be attacked.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

There are no words.