sachapie

Drummer @ the terror dome getting wicked, I tweet about COVID 😷, WWII, the rising threat of fascism, harm reduction and sometimes dogs. she/her 🖕🏻 you

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

Well we still have the option if we didn’t have leaders and public health intent on killing people

[Eric Levitz @EricLevitz]

U.S. politicians who affirm Israel’s “right to defend itself” — without any qualification — are now affirming its right to collectively punish 2 million people

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

Also just to add a note of humility to what I've been writing for the past few days: I don't know what the fuck is going on, no one does, we're all trying to figure this out in real time. Covered this region for a decade and a half, cannot remember a time everyone was so confused

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

Memories of pogroms and the Holocaust. That feeling of helplessness, of vulnerability, was what Israel was supposed to eradicate. But when it does not, when it fails at so many levels and Jews are left cowering in their homes, Jews are left reeling.
https://t.co/0jxoBk5BKK

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

Neither the suffering of Israelis nor that of Palestinians is cause for celebration.

Civilians are paying the price of acts of terror, war & mass displacement wherever they happen.

Signed:
Shaken, disgusted, heartbroken & angry
🕊️

https://t.co/oQJIoLsdZq

[sachapie @sachapie]

JFC.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Haaretz reports that Blinken has now twice deleted tweets calling for a cease-fire and urging Israel to exercise restraint.

Whatever Israel does now to 2 million civilians in Gaza - almost half of them children - is then with the apparent blessing of Biden...

[sachapie @sachapie]

I cannot with the comparisons of Isreal/Hamas to the Holocaust.

I get the urge. Maybe it can just be CHECKED.

Maybe we can compare other atrocities during wars? There are so many.

Maybe we can let this be it’s own thing.

[sachapie @sachapie]

@BGrueskin @gtconway3d If you've ever read an account of someone who, surrounded by corpses, managed to survive My Lai -- this will resonate with you.

[ellie middleton 🌻 @elliemidds]

i really hate this culture we’ve created with the idea that people with a platform “HAVE to speak on all issues” bcos now influencers and celebrities just rush to share any infographic with no understanding or context, when really it would be better for them to just say nothing

[sachapie @sachapie]

@Dagaz499 It’s all so bad.

[sachapie @sachapie]

This 🧵is why I’m struggling with ppl blindly supporting the Israeli government.

It seems folly to create circumstances that will result in uprisings. Yet that is what has been done.

What if we end up with troops there. In a war. All because Bibi pushed until things broke?

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

For those asking “But why don’t Palestinians protest peacefully” may I remind you that for me—who is not even Palestinian!!!—merely calling for *peaceful boycott* cost me the German translation of my book, made my PhD advisor shun me forever & almost cost me my entire career.

[sachapie @sachapie]

This is fucking complicated and a time when we need to hold more than one truth.

[sachapie @sachapie]

None of this is right. It’s horrific. There are people who just want to live their lives, who will be shattered, in both Israel and Gaza. But g-d it, why are we lighting building with blue and white when the Israeli govt contributed to conditions that lit this fire.

[sachapie @sachapie]

I was in the hospital right now and a nurse asked me my pain number I‘d prob say 3 or 4 and they would prob leave it at that.

If they asked me how my pain is, I‘d say “I’m pretty uncomfortable” and what works, I’d say “I’d kill for a hot pack.

THAT is pain mgmt.

[sachapie @sachapie]

I actually refuse to use the pain scale. When I worked bedside, I just talked to ppl.

How’s your pain?

What helps?

When I’ve been a pt, I tell the nurses to just chart what they want. If I need more pain control, I‘ll just ask.

Plus pain is all kinds of different.

[Virginia Brasch @Virginia_Brasch]

An autistic woman on TikTok just said "Do I have a high pain threshold bc I'm AA or am I perceived to have a high pain threshold bc I take the pain scale literally?"

And WOW! After my C-section I told a nurse I was at a 2 and she slow turned around. "No one has ever told me that

[sachapie @sachapie]

I‘m in pain right now. It’s really annoying. While it doesn’t hurt that badly, it’s this kind of persistent low hum that’s making my body struggle to settle. It’s not bad but in some ways it’s worse than times my pain levels have been higher.

I can‘t put a number in that.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

Americans are hypocrites. They lost their minds during Covid about lack of mobility. How many Americans would put up with staying inside a 4 mile by 25 mile wall w millions of ppl for decades??? Without fighting back? Only begging peacefully even as peace got them killed? GTFOH.

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

For those asking “But why don’t Palestinians protest peacefully” may I remind you that for me—who is not even Palestinian!!!—merely calling for *peaceful boycott* cost me the German translation of my book, made my PhD advisor shun me forever & almost cost me my entire career.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress, comes out with the best statement, and is now being targeted by far right conservative cretins as well as liberals for simply daring to state the truth about Israel's genocidal occupation of Palestine

[sachapie @sachapie]

This is very good and informative.