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trying to imagine how loud the calls for my firing would be if i didn’t know who FDR was

submitted 5 days ago • 700 comments

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

Alternative WSJ headline: "Cherokees Relocated, Why Can't Gazans?"

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

The growing consensus amongst "respectable" pundits and politicians seems to be that all the worst atrocities of the 20th century are sort of fine to do, actually, and they're not sure why all that international law stuff is so pissy about them

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Okay, so joy as resistance has been completely removed from its original context, and that’s why what you know of now doesn’t really work. In the Roaring 20s, during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston found herself at odds not only with conservative whites but also neo-abolitionists

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Today, Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday. He should be surrounded by friends and family. Trayvon deserved to see 30. Happy heavenly birthday 🕊️

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

“Segregationists are dismantling the last 60 years of gains achieved by the civil rights movement” is clearer and rejects their framing though

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

i was pleasantly surprised to see this clear-eyed comment was the most liked comment on the “Dems Have No Coherent Messaging” NYT article. now is the time to put the wing of the Democratic Party who has an actual message in charge: the progressives who have cut their teeth as organizers

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

May this be the stock image for a bunch of the articles covering the scandal that is the destruction of UK Higher Education, rather than the pretty-looking admin buildings or teens-jumping-in-the-air-holding-a-certificate.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"Sorry, your game sold millions of copies but our projections said it should have sold at least fifteen trillion for shareholders to be satisfied, so we're going to have to fire all of you. Now watch the news unquestioningly report that your game was a commercial failure. Probably because of woke."

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

The opposite of diversity, equity, and inclusion is not "anti-DEI." It's state-enforced uniformity, injustice, and segregation.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

This got buried in the news yesterday but union density falling into single digits is one of the most ominous milestones of the past 50 years, which have been defined by the inequality crisis. Imperative for this to be a big, big wake up call. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confirmed-...

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif reunited with his sister and her family upon their return to the northern Gaza Strip for the first time since Israel’s war began.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

AP says the M23 are only in Goma's outskirts so far. Residents are panicking. I expect that the fall of the city is imminent if it hasn't happened already.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Teen Vogue on African fashion:

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

we might be in a better place re protests if Dems hadn't just spent the last year and a half joining with Republicans in a paranoid fascist effort to crush and terrorize campus protestors.

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

Jasper right now. Rally against the province’s decision to withdraw funding for interim housing.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

submitted 30 days ago • 732 comments

Wrote for African Identities about how city diplomacy works in the Global South, using examples from Lagos and Freetown! Despite unique challenges, African cities use creative strategies to attract global capital. Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

submitted 33 days ago • 41 comments

NEW: Emma Paling looks at how free trade agreements and pressure through military alliances have allowed the U.S. to undermine Canadian sovereignty for decades. www.readthemaple.com/the-u-s-has-...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

submitted 36 days ago • 382 comments

Guns fell silent in Gaza today for the first time in over a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into force. But a three-hour delay proved deadly for at least 19 Palestinians, who were killed by Israeli strikes after last-minute issues over a list of captives.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

This stuff is not complicated, the distance this kind of money creates between you and the stakes of being a human, the incredible drugs and subsequent medical care you gain access to, the legions of people who cannot tell you No — It’s like Earth has been conquered by aliens but we grew them here.

submitted 36 days ago • 51 comments

Any analysis concerned with potential downsides of social media needs something more sophisticated than “adversary-owned” to be credible. People just saw every US tech CEO grovel before a president-elect Dems themselves repeatedly called a literal fascist. This cheesy Cold War framing is unserious.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Happy UK mass market paperback release day to my first novel that just keeps on keeping on. -9 major award nominations -Thousands of readers and ratings -And so much FUN brought to so many readers. Out in the world today, with a new, lovely cover. Thank you @gollancz.bsky.social! #booksky

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

"In the summer of 2021, the State Department reached out to the Israeli government and asked about the 15-year-old who said he was raped...The next day, the Israeli government raided the nonprofit that had originally documented the allegation, and then designated the group a terrorist organization."

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Whyyyyyy

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I shouldn't need to make an account with every website just to buy something.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

With everything that is going on, I didn't feel like writing a satirical post today, so I wrote this instead x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/glimmers-o...

submitted 40 days ago • 16 comments

Blinken said the same thing behind closed doors almost exactly a year ago. Everyone knows this. It’s been clear since Oct 8 2023. The point was collective punishment, the point was genocide. Blinken and Biden both know this and backed it without conditions anyway www.columnblog.com/p/sec-blinke...

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

"National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir admitted in a post on X/Twitter on Tuesday that his party had prevented a hostage deal from being achieved on numerous occasions." m.jpost.com/breaking-new...

submitted 40 days ago • 21 comments

free story pitch (i'm lazy, for whoever wants to run with it): go back and revisit all the media hype articles (including university admin and related quotes) about MOOCs

submitted 41 days ago • 18 comments

All of these would-be "community leaders" go on about wanting to defend games but then I never see them actually playing these games they want to defend. They show more hatred towards groups of people they hate seeing than they show any kind of love for the medium.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Guys, the thinly veiled tool of mass deportation fueled by a racist moral panic is not sufficiently funded!

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Part of the reason the Biden admin took so long - it appears - to make the genocide designation in Darfur is because it would have exacerbated pressure on Biden to apply the same rubric to Gaza. This goes to show that impunity anywhere generates impunity everywhere.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

submitted 47 days ago • 2503 comments