A small but horrifying detail from the NYT's story on the Israeli military using Palestinians as human shields, how they're referred to insects. This is how Hutus referred to Tutsis. How slave owners referred to slaves. How the Nazis referred to Jews https://t.co/9RaL3E0c6Z
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed the Israeli government commit war crimes in Gaza. We don't need 30 days. We don’t need more empty words. We need action. We need an arms embargo.
A year ago Israel bombed a hospital, there was an international outcry so a bunch of media and political figures ran cover for them. now they're just burning people alive in hospitals with zero pretext or effort to cover it up at all
every child you see with mangled legs being hopelessly carried, every person you see lit on fire, all the dust covered faces, they were a whole universe. to themselves and everybody they knew. lives as complex, joyful and difficult as yours. it kills me. i’ll never get numb to it
This is not inevitable, just the course of things, or the product of some ancient feud. This is something we’ve always allowed to happen from the foundation. To be American is to be fine with slaughtering & terrorizing people in other places to facilitate our own upward mobility
Absolutely despicable but also refreshingly honest: On Yom Kippur, a rabbi LAMENTS from the pulpit “When we taught you Jewish ethics we had no idea it would make you oppose genocide.”
I don't know how anyone could see even a glimpse of the intolerable horrors in Gaza and reject the legitimacy of armed resistance. Armed resistance is our right and our duty in this liberation struggle against imperialism and the mercenaries of empire.
Luddites were A) Badass and B) Right. Most of what you've heard about them is a lie, designed to discredit a very effective labor movement that saw how the march of progress would run over them and theirs and fought back
We must learn from them in the fight against Generative AI
As the media focuses on stories of homeowners refusing to evacuate, Florida has quietly abandoned thousands upon thousands of incarcerated people to the mercy of a catastrophic hurricane.
This thread is already horrifying, and Milton just made landfall ten minutes ago…
The Israeli military fired 355 bullets at this child, and then fired on the rescue workers who came to save her.
But you'd never know this from this Sky News headline.
Outrageous and ominous. First, his supposed goal was to push Hezbollah away from border so Israelis could return home. Now goal is for the Lebanese to "free themselves from Hezbollah" or face "abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.”
he gave that “fucking liar” $8 billion in arms a week ago. if this animates you, I could convince you the world will end in 5 minutes unless you blow me on the spot, right now