If you wish for a Palestinian Mandela, you must logically wish for all the factors that made his role possible, from Cuban fighter jets destroying South African tanks in Angola to IRA members helping the ANC to blow up oil refineries. I don't see many takers for that in the West.

Completely disgraceful imo for the administration to start bombing a country and the opposition party response to be a contrived tabloid scandal about the administration not being secret enough about it.

one thing the concern trolls who weren’t there and aren’t in nyc don’t know is the columbia encampments gave express consent to a documentary film crew, & some videojournalists & photogs, to embed with them and document them at the time throughout the encampments.

This is by far one of the most useful, interesting, historically grounded short pieces on the Pentagon’s vast, ever-expanding and completely impossible-to-calculate budget (which of course DOGE won’t touch): phenomenalworld.org/analysis/anato…

Can't get over the IDF killing 15 paramedics in Rafah, attempting to bury them and their ambulance, claiming they were "terrorists" and then shooting to kill the rescue team sent in to find their missing friends. Not surprised, just stuck. Can't seem to move on from here.

If your university absolutely has to become a fascist collaborator in order to keep financially afloat, then it should sink. In fact, you should actively sink it.

It's the oldest thing, and it works: mis-framing a demand for due process as a defense of criminality and a lack of sympathy for crime victims.

It's not complicated: billionaires are backing Andrew Cuomo because they know he'll work for them, not you.

Most Americans consider it impolite to discuss, but secret police are actively disappearing people in this country right now with little resistance or pushback.

This has been Hamas’s publicly stated position every day for the last 18 months. They said it again right before Israel blew up the ceasefire too.

HANDS OFF ZIMBABWE 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe is being pressured to pay $3,500,000,000 in reverse reparations to white settlers for lands originally stolen from African farmers by British colonialism.

What do you do when neoliberal ghouls are set on privatizing services you love and rely on? For Mexico City’s trolleybus workers, the answer was building a coalition of public transit riders, climate activists and labor allies prepared to fight back.

The thing about breaking political-economic taboos is that it does—however briefly, however destructively—remind people of the mutability of the capitalist organization of society, that it’s not natural law actually. Covid, any good rebellion, a natural disaster—they all do this.

If you want to defend your human right to a $5 dress, you have to explain in detail why the human being who hand-made it does not deserve safe working conditions and fair pay.

They’re coming home! Now we fight to bring everyone home. They are kidnapping more people off the street than ever before.

the cruelty is the point

I hope we can take this seriously. We’re still at 195/450 to get a handful of families nutrtious vegetables which are hard to get. Please share if you can see this. chuffed.org/project/save-d…

And here’s her GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-brianna…