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🚨 44 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza today, including children and infants. Israeli forces launched heavy attacks across Gaza on May 3, with intense bombardment hitting Gaza City, Khan Younis, Rafah, and the north. Strikes hit residential homes, tents, and other civilian areas, killing 44 people.

Trump policy: be nice to nazis www.dw.com/en/us-critic...

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 49 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Here's a short essay about what it means to be caring and careful amid the turn to fascism in the United States:

As part of the Jewish contingent at this week's spectacular 25-hour Columbia University Speakout, I got to address the question of what it means to speak "as a Jew" in these perilous times: open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

This letter from the MA congressional delegation demanding answers about NEH grant termination contains direct quotations from constituents who wrote to their offices. Keep writing to your congresspeople about all that is being destroyed by this administration.

This is Embassytown by China Mieville

If you're a non white US citizen, this is what awaits you on return www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/u...

Last December, Chris Van Hollen wrote an op ed entitled "History will judge Biden harshly on Gaza" in which he -Called for Smotrich and Ben Gvir to be sanctioned -For US and international law to be enforced and for an arms embargo -For a total embargo on settler goods -For recognition of Palestine

Statistically improbable numbers of non-white and/or non-male experts fired by Trump www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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🇧🇩 NEWS: Hundreds of thousands marched in Dhaka today in one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies in the world. The crowd, organized by the Palestine Solidarity Movement Bangladesh, filled Suhrawardy Udyan with Palestinian flags, symbolic coffins, and chants condemning Israeli aggression in Gaza.

⭕️ New forced displacement orders have been issued for the northern and western areas of Nuseirat camp.

NEW: British lawyers representing Hamas just filed a legal case challenging its UK designation as a terror group. They charge the UK is aiding the Gaza genocide, undermining the right to armed resistance & stifling debate in the UK about Hamas’s aims and actions. www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-terr...

REPORT: Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has carried out a “systematic campaign” to destroy all alternative energy sources in the Strip, with more than 4,000 facilities and homes with solar systems wiped out.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Delighted to see the new exhibition as part of the project 'Natural History in the Age of Revolutions' in the Library and Archives at @rbgkew.bsky.social ! Thank you to all those who made this happen, especially my Co-I Staffan MĂĽller-Wille and Fiona Ainsworth. Free and open 1 April-19th June

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Calling and canvassing today

Wow: this looks to me like an absolute goldmine of critical thought about the past & future of our current polit-economic crisis đź’¸

More fashion using stationery for inspiration. This time Issey Miyake for S/S 2025. Bulldog clip trouser/skirt fastener.

People who work at the NYT: resign. It’s not worth it. x.com/ryangrim/sta...

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all this so jeff bezos can have a tax cut and buy clothes that show his nipple

Science, folks. Science. This is wonderful news.

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.