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The last functional hospital in Gaza city has been bombed and patients are strewn on the streets.

That would be the best thing since sliced bread!

fundraise.tcfglobal.org/fundraiser/9... My dear friend Mehvesh Mumtaz Ahmed lost her younger sister recently. This fundraiser has been started in Feeza's memory. The Citizens Foundation has an impeccable record of fantastic work in education. Please donate.

Many ask whether we should be celebrating this Eid. My answer in all hard times: We always celebrate Eid. No matter how grim things are, there's much to be thankful for and taking the time to celebrate helps us keep up the struggle to make them less grim. Eid Mubarak to all!

A day when I want to smash things.

democrats always say they are going to fight like hell but we don’t even see them fighting like heck

Thinking of those fasting for Ramzan in Gaza or Khartoum. What a painful world we live in.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Practical science!

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

roses are red violets are blue singular they predates singular you

This might be the coolest website I've seen in a while

"Three Tenors" A trio of wood storks at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, FL

I never realised Philly sports were like Pakistan cricket.

I personally think "trans people exist, are good, and have rights" can, if you try, be more popular than "let's release insurrectionists to pursue their passions of child porn and crime" or "what if high school interns spent 17 hours a day destroying everything you depend on"

Now more than ever.

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Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

Join us at the AAG preconference hosted by Geographers for Justice in Palestine in Detroit!

RIP to the legendary Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

God, yes.

Yesterday, in protest of Harvard University's response to the genocide in Gaza and deepening repression of campus activism against it, I submitted a letter of resignation from my job there. Here is that letter.

Fantastic thread

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Don’t know if the other Gen-Xers have been following this saga to its completion but yes, brontosaurus is a dinosaur again. There was a mixup with apatosaurus and that’s why we thought no brontosaurus but turns out that yes there really were thunder lizards after all!

My last read of the year - a perfectly chosen Christmas gift! - deserves adding to this list. Untethered by Ayesha Inoon. It echoes many of the struggles and accounts of real migrant experiences recounted in research, but here presented in a beautiful novel www.harpercollins.com.au/978186726706...