It is official, 39 out of 47 Democratic senators have voted to block weapons to Israel, specifically $300 million in armed bulldozers

That’s the dream

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

If my tl was flooded with a trans pride flag I wish at least it was cooler looking version of it

One of my big editing projects this year. One by me, one I helped with and three more incredible stories of revolution and human flourishing

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The Risks and Protections of the ‘Gay Dorm’ — Assigned Segregated prison housing offers both protection and increased stigma to incarcerated members of the LGBTQ+ community.

In Georgia prisons gender-nonconforming inmates are specially vulnerable. This has led to unofficial segregation of queer prisoners in "gay dorms" which offer protections, but carry stigma and risks of their own.

Incarcerated journalist B Speaks has more here:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I am on the younger end of Gen X so just in high school when SA apartheid fell, but all my immediate political mentors came up in that struggle

We shut down the WTO! Protested both Gulf Wars! Marched for Amadou Diallo! And meanwhile our peers were hating on every progressive gain for the last century

My generation, the leading edge of fascism

“ESTROGEN IS YOUR ONLY HOPE”

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Guardian's reporting, where the screenshot is from:

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Serves no purpose, convinces no one, lied anyway

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes. “So that’s where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn’t coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass."

Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

My first book event is tomorrow! Girls, im nervous!

You can order it thru Firestorm tho, and that would be really nice! firestorm.coop/products/230...

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live!

This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more.

Read here: hammerandhope.org

Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of Amina's dispatch: I would guess that a couple hundred Somali families have been sheltering at home since November. Everyone’s taking a financial hit from all these people — translators, drivers, shopkeepers — staying home. Because it’s Ramadan right now, we’ve seen a dwindling attendance at our mosque, including at our Friday prayers, which is sad. But our mosque broadcasts live on social media, so people can get their faith and engagement at home. Our culture is so private but also deeply connected, even before this chaos. We’ve always been a community that responded to one another, so every time there’s a need, it brings us back to rejecting individualism and using our cultural connections. The first care question is always Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food. Neighbors, family, and friends have been able to donate food or funding to help. We have rental assistance, mental support, and health care support, too. Somali medical providers are able to go to people's houses.

"The first care question is always, Do you have enough food in the fridge? We do a weekly check-in with many families who haven’t left their homes since the beginning of November. We make sure every week that they have food."

Read the rest of Amina Adan's dispatch here: tinyurl.com/y866b5sd

People really just need to grapple with the fact that the vast majority of "two-staters" are, literally, lying.

💢 Iran told mediators its participation in U.S. talks in Islamabad is conditional on a ceasefire in Lebanon and warned it could reverse plans to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to The Wall Street Journal. Officials also warned Iran would continue attacks on regional targets, including Israel, if Israeli strikes persist in Lebanon and Iran.

💢 Iran told mediators its participation in US talks in Islamabad is conditional on a ceasefire in Lebanon & warned it could reverse plans to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Officials also warned Iran would continue attacks on regional targets, including Israel...

That matches what I’ve heard thank you

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Presenting a paper coming up in NYC

I heard that Palestinians specifically are banned from citizenship through conversion. Is that true?

clavicular (the nihilism of thanatos) vs sabrina carpenter (the paranoia of eros)

i love how both male sexuality and female sexuality are currently in the midst of two related but ultimately distinct existential crises and civil wars over their futures

so, he should still be removed from office as soon as humanly possible

I think maybe there is no need to argue with this person. Though very well done making Trump back down