The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000.
Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.
The US must end its complicity.
Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.
Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."
The point of Senator Booker's filibuster is to be INSPIRED by this man to go find YOUR ROLE, not to wait for them to go save us now.
That is not this assignment.
Thread of places to go to get started. More coming out of LiST this Thursday.
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
Amid debate within the Jewish community over the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, Rachel Laforest of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a progressive Jewish group, criticized "far-right Christians" and the ADL yesterday at a rally in NY calling for Khalil's release. (Footage via Bend the Arc)
Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.
Greg: Because we're against it.
A large banner held by protesters reads, “FIRST THEY CAME FOR MAHMOUD”
A handheld sign reads, “JEWS AGAINST DEPORTATION”
Big crowd of Jewish New Yorkers gathering to demand freedom and justice for Mahmoud Khalil.
Yiddish "Do Not Obey In Advance" sticker with a fist punching through "MAGA." Quarter coin for scale.
Parody of the Gadsden flag, with a black cat and a rattlesnake in its jaws, with "Back off, fascist creeps" below it. Quarter coin for scale.
Round sticker featuring a shiba inu with a fierce expression holding a crown in her jaws. Around her is the text "Sic Semper Tyrannis," and the same phrase in Japanese. Quarter coin for scale.
Sailor Moon punching Elon Musk in a sticker. It says "In the name of the moon, I'll punish fascists!" Quarter coin for scale.
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Not in my name. This is horrifying.
I can’t even … dammit … not in my name!
Any and all - but the cat and the fist are my favorites. And I’d pay whatever is fair.
Fetterman seems to have forgotten his centrist/labor-based populist origins … I fear we will need strong opposition if Trump and Elon come for public sector unions. #apscuf
Such a step backwards… heaping more horror on horror
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
Thank you!!!
Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashes in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day; 38 dead, including the pilots, and 29 survivors… While I rarely comment on airplane crashes, I am doing so here due to some unusual circumstances. ⤵️
Thanks for your post. The pax, pilots and purser didn’t deserve to be put at this kind of risk (well, no one does) … when you board a flight to get from point A to point B you accept that it might be a bumpy ride, or uncomfortable… whatever- not that your plane might be targeted by weaponry.
Rabbit tracks on snow.
A piece of rabbit poop inside a rabbit track, right under the bunny’s butt :-).
POV: person sitting inside gazebo looking out at frozen pond framed by snowy trees (cypress, oak, pine).
It’s Watership Down here on the farm. Seen in these tracks: bunnies, deer (of course), feral cat. I’ve seen the resident muskrat and mink on the pond, but didn’t get a pic. Also: the starlings who live in the wall of my cottage have been extra talkative the last couple of nights.
Thank you. I am not in their shoes, their grief, but I understand it.
Agree. IMO the State shouldn’t have authority to murder - that hasn’t gone well for many people in the last few centuries. I’m curious to hear the views of the Pgh community re: Bowers on this point, though. I expect very mixed?
Just ordered a few pieces. Also want … stickers (crass?) but new guitar case is naked …
@jennybeatty.bsky.social always knows such interesting things. Often from lived experience as a pilot. Warning: rabbit hole ahead!
Shabbat shalom (into the void)!!
Image shows drifted snow on my porch blocking me from exiting my home.
Omg let me OUT. Following no bending/lifting/twisting post op restrictions means new feels in the face of 50” of snow over 4 days … Rant over.
Also just ordered a copy!
Thumbling!!!!
Gunpowder?!?
A lot of snow and a pond beginning to ice over
A lot of snow
Snow belt rural life … grateful for furnace, gas well on the property, the man who plowed my drive after 3 days of “forgetting?” I’m on his list, landlord who reminded him, and elec co-op. 1-2 more feet of snow predicted beginning this evening.
Daily. Very odd given I have no real presence here yet.
I can absolutely walk like a 🐧. On it.
