Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.
literally just let people be wrong about you. it does not matter. it’s not your job to make sure everyone’s perceptions of you are accurate. just be a good person and let them be wrong
5:30pm in Harlem ICE abducts someone and a man intervenes
Be like this man. Intervene. Resist. Yell and make a scene. Record. Whatever you can do that slows them down, inspires others, and makes them hesitate to escalate. Esp if you're a white citizen
I'm standing with Karam, Hamdan's 7 year old son, near the blood of Hamdan's in his house, after settlers lynched him. Hamdan, co-director of our film No Other Land, is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. This is how they erase Masafer Yatta.
People will get mad at having their taxes fund public benefits because “they don’t use them” but are perfectly fine paying for private insurance which ya know… banks on most people not using it to its full extent
Horrific images already circulating from inside Gaza. The aftermath of Israeli airstrikes. One shows a small baby, wearing a jumpsuit with rainbows on it, who was killed. The death toll continues to rise.
This morning, one day after i came back from the Oscar’s a masked group of Israeli settlers stormed my neighbours home, assaulted the family members, sprayed pepper spray in their eyes, and smashed activists’ phones.another group of settlers attacked another family in the area.
adhd is such a stupid disability. "sorry i know my body is perfectly fine but i have debilitating stupid fucking incompetent idiot disease. yes the one cartoons one from tumblr. yes really"
So it didn’t even take 2 months before Trump had to declare his first National Emergency, all due to a trade war that he started because he’s not happy with the trade agreement that he signed.
That’s as dumb as it gets folks.
it should be fairly clear that the new executive orders re: pslf and policing speech is an attempt to destroy pro bono immigration lawyers’ careers bc it will be easier to expedite deportation of unrepresented defendants
"No Other Land" director Basel Adra: "We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people." | #Oscars
There are places in this country that serve as tactial testing grounds, places where you can see the future before it arrives. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before
Today, men without badges detained a woman for speaking during a town hall