"A great irony is that the modern Olympics, first envisioned as an alternative to war, have themselves become a form of low-intensity warfare." — Mike Davis Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boykoff is free to download until tomorrow!

i think it’s actually really normal to care about an ongoing genocide funded by your tax dollars more than anything else rn. kinda feels like the most normal thing you can do as a human being

on Imane Khelif, 'trans bans', hijab bans, Michael Waters's The Other Olympians, and how 'women's sport' has worked to discipline and abuse those who compete under its banner dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

NEW: @cnn confirms a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials (h/t) to @easybakeovensz for helping identify the weapon

The mainstream press should be slamming the White House on Gaza every day

got to talk to the great Ina Fried about how the gender anxieties at the Olympics this year evoked the 1930s and 1960s: axios.com/2024/08/11/ima…

I'm so happy I got to chat with Adam M. Rhodes for their fantastic piece in The Appeal on anti-queer bias in death penalty cases - required reading for anyone interested in the intersections of queerness and the carceral system theappeal.org/lgbtq-bias-dea…

we need to bring this energy back (from the book YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE by Luke Messac)

Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble. The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Utterly devastating for CA journalists. This bill was supposed to make big tech pay its fair share after usurping advertising from news publishers and profiting from their work—instead it’s *rewarding* their market dominance by turning journos into content trainers for AI systems

whoever is programming the NY Public Library homepage has really excellent taste imo!!!

transition care at A&M saved my life and gave me easy and affirming care at affordable cost. the staff at beutel were some of the first people that made me feel normal about being trans. it's deeply unfair that other students won't have that anymore

Plz contribute to help a displaced Palestinian (our friend Asad) attend dental school in Egypt. After surviving kidnapping & torture by Israeli military, Asad made it to Egypt. We only need another $2,000 to make his dreams of becoming a dentist a reality: chuffed.org/project/112914…

Under the lights of Kamala Harris & Tim Walz, Uncommitted Movement officially announces that the DNC has said *No* to welcoming a Palestinian voice to the stage.

New: This is the previously unpublished speech Georgia Rep. Ruwa Romman wants to give at the DNC. The DNC has told uncommitted organizers that neither a Palestinian American or doctor who has volunteered in Gaza will get to speak. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

For those unfamiliar with that moment 60 years ago. Fannie Lou Hamer's Testimony | American Experience | Official Site | PBS pbs.org/wgbh/americane…

A few months ago, The Nation published an unforgettable piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza. Today, Lujayn has another extraordinary dispatch—this time about a bloody night she endured with her mother. Please, please read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

Axon, the company behind Tasers and body cameras, is selling an AI tool that writes police reports for cops apnews.com/article/ai-wri…

love this julia carmel (beefy baby) piece on the makings of an unlikely queer beach in Michigan — with a queer past that traces back to the 1890s washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/08…

imagine this happens to you and your school makes new rules specifically to shut you up