Mae

Overthinker/underachiever 🦝🦝🦝 she/her

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Genuinely do not understand how this is not a bigger story in the US.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

🚨1/ This New York Times piece is wild. Let's go through it.

Firstly, the lede is an emphasis that attacks in Amsterdam were based on antisemitism, yet it cites no evidence of this, but DOES cite evidence of anti-Arab chants.

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn���t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[I was warning about this back in 2005. @brucewilson]

The Sound of Freedom depicts evangelicals (who might be Mormon, or born-again Christian) as heroes who rescue kidnapped, trafficked, & abused children.

In the early 2000s in Thailand, Czech anthropologist Tomáš Ryška uncovered a disturbing truth: the predators were missionaries

[Democratic Seoulcialist @tonykchoi]

I think a lot about this piece when it comes to discussing migrants and immigration. And I’m out of answers.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Republicans who attack wokeness now insist that you are a racist for criticizing a judge for accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire while the judge supports rulings that help that billionaire

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

A woman in rural Oklahoma developed a nonviable, molar pregnancy that became cancerous. She went to the hospital for an emergency D&C, and they told her she had to wait in the parking lot until her condition became worse before they could treat her: https://t.co/XfHTyo7ySO

[Chris @Crfxm]

I can’t even explain to you how incredibly on brand this reaction is for my neighborhood. It all comes back to market basket.

[Kat Tenbarge is on Bluesky @kattenbarge]

NEW: Gloria Steinem, NOW, Women’s March, Know Your IX, National Women’s Law Center, and 140 organizations and experts in the field of women’s rights, domestic violence, and sexual assault have signed an open letter in support of Amber Heard https://t.co/j7pSkggEzT

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Good god the Onion is ruthless

[GL @gldivittorio]

What John Fetterman is facing isn't comprehension issues and not quite hearing loss but ~a different third thing~ called an Auditory Processing Disorder and I have one too.
Like most stroke survivors, Fetterman will likely recover, but I won't—so I thought I'd explain APDs a bit:

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

A domestic abuse survivor who won a landmark Supreme Court case this summer saying she didn't have to return her son to his allegedly abusive father was found dead in her home this week.

@kylietcheung reports:
https://t.co/vViqouYh6g

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

Kansas City police called reports of a serial killer targeting Black women "completely unfounded rumors." Then a Black woman escaped his basement, wearing a dog collar with a padlock, begging for help and saying he'd killed two of her friends https://t.co/YYDalw1rRr

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Still can't believe that this wasn't a headline from The Onion.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

"In my freshman year of college at USC, a man at a fraternity party groped my breasts and crotch while I vomited into a trash can...Maybe men like Walker, Trump, and Kavanaugh are flat-out lying; or maybe what happened was just another Thursday for them." https://t.co/dA7T4OWCZ6

[Mae @mcdrucks]

Umm sexism aside: mens hockey notoriously has the least attractive athletes?? (I say this as a hockey fan!) Like what players is this man talking about???

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Opinion | Idaho has made it a felony for university employees to speak out in favor of abortion. Here's why our next 30 campus free speech articles will be about kids at Oberlin and Brown giving their pronouns too much.

by Conor Friedersdorf and Michael Powell

[giuliana @familygiuls]

It’s cool that we almost never hear from Andrew Luck but when he’s on TV he goes out of his way to say this