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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Palestinian prisoners who are released are made to wear this jumper by the Israeli prison service. The writing says: "I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed." Psalms 18:37-42 In other words: we will chase you and kill you Subtle

New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives. Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...

The many sleeps of BumbleTus. This adorable jumble of legs and beans could be taking over your lap if you apply to adopt him and his pals over at crits4cats.petfinder.com

For people wondering when the right began falling in love with Putin: It was after the passage of the first anti-gay law in Russia in 2013. That was the moment GOP elected officials and rightwing Christian grifters started showing up on Fox to heap praise Putin. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/j...

Adorno got it right in 1945

‏הפעיל אנדרי מדווח על המתרחש במחנה ג׳נין: כ20,000 תושבים אולצו לעזוב

"For us it is a call to shut down their fascist deportation machine," @natashalennard.bsky.social writes of the disgusting video.

Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs. Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.” Don't look away. This is happening. Read ⬇️. And, this is why a free press is essential.

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| It benefits the far-right if Nazi Germany is viewed as an anomalous outlier rather than an ethno-nationalist model |___________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ #HistorianSignBunny

20 minutes apart. On top of being a fascist this is door knob IQ shit.

Sexual predator solidarity

Just wanted to share this insane real-time video of the aurora Maia sent me last night during her tour. She drove guests to around Salcha, Alaska to escape a cloudy Fairbanks. Check out the real-time motion here, just crazy! High speed streams do wonders for high-latitudes. :)

Israel continues to break the ceasefire by continuing to bomb Lebanon.

I think one reason it may have been hard for the outgoing administration to back a "democracy is in peril, defend it with all your might" campaign last year is that it was simultaneously providing arms to and diplomatic cover for this campaign of extermination. www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo: employees threatened with firing if they talk to media about how aid shutdown is hurting millions around the world newrepublic.com/article/1915... via @newrepublic.com

Absolutely horrifying report on an 80 year old man who was used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers. After eight hours, he and his wife were sent off by the soldiers only to be shot dead by other soldiers. www.ha-makom.co.il/1057919-2/

The New York Times is complicit in this and Pamela Paul is partly responsible for this.

Israel sure killed a lot of journalists

IDF soldiers reenact the wedding scene from Fiddler on the Roof in the city of Taybeh, Palestine

NEW: Zelenskyy shares video of the Chernobyl nuclear shelter being attacked by a Russian drone last night. The shelter protects all nations from radiation. The attack came mins after Trump told reporters he trusts Putin’s commitment to peace. Zelenskyy: “Putin is preparing to deceive the world.”

“He visited Dachau and offered a few canned remarks about how inspired he was by the stories of the ‘unspeakable evil’ he witnessed… Then, when his trip to Europe concludes next week, he’ll return to the United States to continue overseeing the construction of internment camps to house migrants.”

The Israeli government is using US tax dollars to carry out a mass ethnic cleansing campaign across the occupied West Bank. Since signing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Israeli forces have displaced almost 40,000 Palestinians from their homes.

glad someone is finally saying it lol

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

They're already sending low-risk migrants w/no criminal background to Guantanamo's Migrant Operations Center, where no NGOs are allowed to visit & which has a history of inhumane treatment. Being undocumented in the US is a *civil* violation, not a criminal one, remember. 1/

www.npr.org/2024/12/16/n...

I love how no one is happy in capitalism and we keep doing it. Rich people chase empty fulfillment and still end up deeply depressed. Like no one likes this and everyone is in a perpetual state of anxiety and yet

Her story has shaken up metro Detroit. It's very cold up here and she didn't get the help she needed even after calling the city and multiple agencies. She, her mom, and her kids slept in a van. Ran out of gas. Her 9 year old & 2 year old died from hypothermia. I can't stop thinking about her. 💔

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's family inform that he suffered torture and isolation in Israeli prisons. He is not fed properly (one meal per day) and is in bad health. He has yet to be charged with anything.

I know Mahmoud. Like all of these attacks, this is so heartbreaking and wrong. "Israeli police raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict. The police claimed the books incited violence."

"The Israelis shot and killed an innocent young woman and then caused the death of her unborn baby, too. Shocking, right? Depraved? Murderous? And yet, as of Monday morning, there was no mention of Sundus Shalabi on...the New York Times or the BBC" - me, for Zeteo:

Qatar 2022 was a human catastrophe, and Saudi Arabia 2034 will be worse. Yet it is so far away that attention fatigue will set in. Suffering will be trivialised, brutality normalised. This is what those inflicting it are hoping for. Thus why they must be fought all of the way.

Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners

The protestor who waved the Palestinian and Sudanese flag at the Super Bowl half time show has been detained #AllEyesOnSudan 🇸🇩🇵🇸

Leavitt says they’ve begun flying deportees to Guantanamo Bay. This is functionally disappearing human beings. There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments. There is virtually no media access, either.

Someone is jealous.. 😅

This is how the world views the US. Australia calling out fascism, then adding that "Trump is a disaster for humanity and he belongs behind bars, not the oval office."