Holy shit... Wired reports that back in May, the U.S. Military was testing an experimental GPS jammer and and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
What antiblack stereotypes do is free up non-black people to act in genuinely immoral ways while the world fixates on imagined black immorality. Yancy calls it “an ontology with edges” - a reality wherein nonblack freedom & immunity DEPENDS on antiblackness
the distance americans manufacture between their soldiers and the idf is entirely imaginary. occupation produces the same rituals of humiliation, cruelty and domination because that is what occupation requires.
this is the precise ideological function of “where do u want me to go?” btw. it relocates attention from indigenous sovereignty to settler anxiety and then makes reassuring the settler the prerequisite for continuing the conversation
Canada abstained. Abstaining countries argued against “ranking historical atrocities” when it comes to recognizing crimes against Black people. Yet the IHRA definition on anti Semitism accepted by Canada calls anti Semitism the “world’s oldest hatred”/“canary in the coal mine.”
i’ve made a list of every Black queer film i can find so i can begin an archive with links and files to make our films more accessible. 400 films and counting! we will have a comprehensive list of Black film history soon. please respond with films i should add!
The complacency to let, and I would argue encourage, immunocompromised and otherwise vulnerable people to die can be called nothing else but eugenics.
Especially when it's so preventable, with cheap, simple measures.
Alice Wong had a breathing tube and could not mask.
She also couldn't skip in-person visits due to her conditions.
She would ask doctors to mask, and was told "We don't do that anymore."
She ultimately died of "an infection" while at the hospital while COVID is surging again.
Please, read books. Not just captions, or carousel posts, or what made it to the top of your feed. Read books. Long ones. Complex ones. You cannot build a mind with weight on the back of social media ephemerals. Intellectual depth demands patience.
Transgender Jamaicans are often left out of relief efforts and are discriminated against when seeking access to care. If you can, pls consider donating to local relief efforts that prioritises the trans population: https://t.co/SaOZS3uxGc
these people went from “please submit your diversity statement with your application” to “if your syllabus does not affirm white supremacist christian nationalism, you will be fired” in record time.
They say the operation is expanding.
Expanding! But into what? Into which abyss? Into the last trembling corners of the soul? Into the bellies that have already collapsed in on themselves like dying stars? What is left to conquer when the living no longer eat, and the dead no longer rot because there is no one left to bury them?
They speak of strategies, always strategies. Tactics. Ceasefires. Advancements. Like this is a game of chess and not the slow gnawing disintegration of human flesh in real time. They speak. They decide. But who suffers? Not they.
No, not they.
Those who hold the power, who speak on behalf of justice, who claim to resist, they live in comfort. Yes, comfort! Their teeth are white, their cheeks full. They know nothing of hunger. They sleep well. They speak from hotel balconies and conference rooms and call it revolution. From Qatar, from Turkey, from soft beds and polished stages, they broadcast our pain with the detachment of spectators. They do not weep for us. They do not fast with us. They only use us, our deaths their currency, our starvation their theatre.
And the world? The world is a corpse. No, worse, it is a corpse pretending to live. Diplomats clink glasses, speak in passive voice, delay, delay, delay. They count bodies like coin. They discuss us in numbers, in margins of error, in acceptable losses. They are calm. Reasonable. Civilized. And all the while, we are sinking deeper into the filth, the hunger, the grotesque obscenity of slow death.
There is no righteousness left.
We have no protector. The bombers crush us. The so-called saviors betray us. The leaders abandon us. And God? God is silent, or perhaps He has turned His face from us in shame.
Today they marched, not for nation, not for politics, not even for hope. No. They cried for food. “We want to eat!” Can you imagine such a thing? A whole people reduced not to rebellion, but to begging.
And tomorrow, tomorrow they will beg not for bread, but for escape. For absence. For the erasure of all memory. “Let us leave,” they will say. “Let us vanish. Let us be forgotten.”
But where shall we go? And who will take us? The sea? The grave?
#GazaGenocide
🟢At least 43 people have been killed in a wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza since early Friday morning, according to medical sources who spoke with Al Jazeera.
➤ In central Gaza, an Israeli warplane leveled a home in Bureij refugee camp, killing nine members of one family.
➤ In the north, six people from the Al-Masri family were killed when their home in Beit Lahia was bombed.
➤ In Gaza City, a strike on a community kitchen killed six more as they prepared food in a territory facing mass starvation.
➤ The enclave has been sealed off
under a total Israeli aid blockade for more than two months. The Government Media Office in Gaza announced that the Strip has entered an "advanced stage of famine.”
Civil Defense official Mohammed al-Mughayyir confirmed the different incidents detailed above to AFP