I think a reason Americans look at this and think it’s cringe is because we’ve been conditioned to be embarrassed by by honest displays of passion outside of romance and gun-based violence.
We were funding abortion access last week, and we'll be funding it this week, and the week after that. That doesn't change.
What does change in this moment, is how you choose to support the organizations around you who work to meet people's direct and immediate needs each day.
The horror of the US criminal punishment system isn’t only that it wrongfully imprisons and kills innocent people. It is that it imprisons and kills regardless of guilt or innocence. It is designed to uphold power, not morality.
no one should have to "prove" their "value to society." you are here. that is already the most precious fact. any society that demands such "proof" before deeming you worthy of a life is not worthy of you, of the people
Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants abducting pets and wildlife, spreading STIs, and killing children do not just demean Haitian immigrants. These racist ideas demean Black immigrants *and* Black Americans.
Racist ideas are like a contagion. They don’t just latch onto the target. They spread and latch onto everyone associated racially with the target. Racist ideas of Haitian immigrants as dangerous reinforce racist ideas about Black Americans as dangerous. Racist ideas about Black Americans as dangerous incite the everyday police brutality of Black Americans.
I know it seems outlandish cause he said it, but this is just a reminder the US has a long history of spreading xenophobic rhetoric via the “pet eating” claims, specifically anti-Asian hate
Displaced Palestinians in the outskirts of Khan Younis face extreme difficulty accessing water, exacerbated by the area's lack of basic services and infrastructure.
This challenge is compounded by Israel's inhumane blockade and its attacks on all water distribution stations in the Strip.