Thinking about the mothers of Gaza today

I’m probably more flippant on these matters than most, because grown adults should be able to learn from their mistakes, but has everyone already forgotten the FBI informant who infiltrated the Dakota Pipeline protests, dated an activist, and got her imprisoned for 5 years

Need a visual reminder that paint is NOT infrastructure?

HT MGM

The same Atlantic columnist who advocated for the murder of Palestinian journalists is on the board of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, in case anyone wonders how serious the committee’s commitment is to real journalism

Shenzhen's Zhongshuge bookstore has a geometry-celebrating architectural design. It features a massive spiraling staircase, laid sideways.

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Brilliant. As ever.

Some extremisms are required for a decent society, and at the least sometimes disrupting the law abiding majority is a very good thing indeed. This is conservatism (small c; the proposals are from a former Labour MP!) as a smug assuredness of the status quo's basic righteousness.

Eurovision is removing booing and adding fake cheers for israel. They're warping reality in favour of propaganda. Really dystopian shit #eurovision

Published in 2019.

Democrats are going to ensure this guy defeats any challenges from the left and then stick him on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, because they need to replace Manchin with a new excuse for all the horrible things they plan to do

This thread is kind of amazing. If Israelis feel good about behaving this way over a bloody song contest, then they should be banned from any activity outside their 'borders,' for the sake of public safety. And authorities let this slide? 🤔

At my Buddhist retreat this morning I brought up the “koan” of how we can protect foreign civilians as we speed-rush the bombs and shells used to attack them.
The rest of the group beat me savagely with broomsticks & mop handles. Some pacifists they turned out to be! Not helpful

Your Western values at work

It’s been 2 years since my aunt #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed by an Israeli soldier and life has not been the same since. No one has been held accountable & the U.S. has failed our family in holding the killer responsible.
#JusticeforShireen .

Tablet now publishing stuff by actual Nazis to own the pro-Palestine student protests

Guys

when your response to population-scale slaughter and systematic war crimes is 'the people protesting against it are the problem', it suggests not merely flawed logic but a moral vacuum

Grateful for these protestors. How absolutely revolting that he is doing a fundraiser amidst a Genocide enabled by him & his cabal of soulless cretins.

I thought they cancelled graduation out of fear of violence and disruption.

In fact this is what they feared.