@MattInOC1 According to bystanders, there was supposedly someone barricaded in the Vons with a gun, and I heard gunshots when getting in my car to drive away as quickly as possible, so I'd bet that's not too far off from what was happening.
The images of Palestinians being burned alive, children carrying dead children & the unimaginable human suffering in Gaza are unbearable. Our country is funding this genocide. It's disgusting. The inaction of @POTUS & his administration will be remembered in the world.
You know black people love a LINE DANCE 😂✊🏾 this the most LA one I’ve ever seen , we had to hit it
DC 🧠 : @iDanceBZ & @LAYBADAZZZ
Song : Dodger Blue - Kendrick Lamar
12. Black. Men. Self. Immolated. In. Prison. And there is no media reporting on it.
"Kevin Rashid Johnson reports that Econ and his cellmate Trayvon Brown set themselves on fire hoping to escape the intolerable racism, abuse, and inhumane conditions they were subjected to."
Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion.
To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals.
Fortunately, science is not confined to institutions. It lives in my mind and heart, and I can enjoy it fully—even from the solitude of my imagination; even if I were to become homeless. Home, however, is precisely what I am fighting for. I only wish I had the privilege to contemplate nature, without the existential threat of Zionism.
From my perspective at the margins here at MIT, I have come to see academia for what it truly is: a stronghold of racism, classism, and spiritual rot masquerading as enlightenment.
Apologies in advance if I don’t respond to comments on this post—this is a deeply personal reflection, shared primarily for myself.
In the wake of immense loss, I have gathered some of Selamawit D. Terrefe’s articles in one place. It is my hope that you will engage them deeply and repetitively 🕊️
https://t.co/9bJDCzgUD8