Rather than imagining Palestinians as salvific, may we recognize they are like everyone else—complex, varied, wonderful, flawed. When Pals wish for freedom from the river to the 🌊, it is to do things like go to school, fall in love, plant trees…get their braces off. open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
Here’s my family fundraiser link:
www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
I’m co-leading with Bruce so my costs are covered, but send some buck toward my spouse and toddler who are joining as well! www.zeffy.com/en-US/fundra...
This weekend, Columbia University allowed ICE agents on campus to arrest Mahmoud Khalil–a Palestinian graduate student and lawful permanent resident–for standing for Palestinian freedom.
This is an egregious attack on free speech and student activism.
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
One of my animal crossing neighbors just said “I haven’t seen you in…four years and 1 month” and nothing could have been a harsher critique on this fine morning.
“No one knows how to protest for their own bodily autonomy like a two year old! Why are we sending them to a separate room instead of taking notes?” This week on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
Three Columbia University students filed a lawsuit against the school, citing dozens of instances where the school targeted the plaintiffs over their pro-Palestine activism, including suspension and housing eviction.
https://buff.ly/41d4VU1
#Palestine #Israel
I just realized I’ve already read this story before, but Elon was named Voldemort and Trump was named Fudge.
This is making me with this ep had a release in B&W. Beautiful.
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
THREAD: 4 Things We Learned from Trump’s Meeting with Netanyahu
I just wrote a @xians4palestine.bsky.social letter to my reps to tell Congress: Vote “No” on Huckabee.
Join me! You can write yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Internet Archive really is the people's website these days, isn't it?
This week on Substack: "Showing up to the protest when you're depressed." open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
Federal agents are racially profiling Navajo Nation tribal members, detaining them on suspicion of being undocumented.
“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Jackson said. “People have to understand that this is not the way to live or to be honorable and neighborly with each other.”
They have to come through me before they get to you! We keep us safe! 💚
If the rich/elite aren’t following the rules, should we?
My latest on Substack this week: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
Chevron is profiting off of the months long Palestinian genocide by supplying Israel with light and power via gas fields on occupied land.
Join the #BoycottChevron campaign and send a letter to CEO Mike Wirth right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/boyc...
“We will not resist in silos, but instead, like a patchwork quilt, we will thread ourselves together until we overwhelm systems of injustice.”
My latest on Substack last week: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...
Yesssss.*Finally* ended my unhealthy dependency on GoodReads (by participating in Palestine-related boycott of Amazon; more here: open.substack.com/pub/addiedom...)
*And* just finished first StoryGraph-suggested book and it was a total win. It very much got my vibe.
Hope to see you there, Laura!!
Really grateful for this insight, and changing my (doomscrolling) behavior right now so I listen to this advice.
Me to my spouse: “[Spouse’s name] we gotta resist. We gotta for [kid’s name.]
Spouse, a la Bluey’s dad: “It’s gotta be done.”
My kid keeps saying our cat is their "big kid sister." Will investigate.
URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD
h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social
Happy to see how you weaved all this together @revsheseesfar.bsky.social! 🙏
Israel has massacred more than 200 Palestinians in the past 72 hours in Gaza.
US-Israeli holocaust is entering its 15 month.
This week on my Substack: "I haven't forgotten about Lebanon" open.substack.com/pub/addiedom... #freepalestine #freelebanon #BDS
