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A catastrophic failure of US journalism and politics is that something like Biden's 10-year, $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill is not called a $350 billion annual bill...but the Pentagon's budget, which will exceed $7.5 trillion over a decade, is called a $750 billion annual bill
Go Fund Me went from “Help me build my funky art project” to “Keep me from being homeless while I undergo stage 4 cancer without insurance” and “help pay for cousin’s funeral costs, his parents didn’t budget for his kindergarten shooting”
AirBnB built nothing. They figured out how to steal rental housing stock & make it into hotels, priced ppl who work in cities from being able to rent in them, and forced longer commutes & higher rents onto poor ppl. Spare us.
“We spent 12 years building Airbnb's business and lost almost all of it in the matter of 4-6 weeks," says Airbnb CEO
@BChesky
.
“Travel as we knew it is over. It doesn't mean travel is over, just the travel we knew is over, and it's never coming back."
People in the "never say anything mean about the recently dead!" crowd have clearly never seen a single news story about a Black person killed by police.
When I hear a call to protect women and children but not the men in Gaza, as if they are inherently guilty or violent or hardened, I think of how many vidoes I’ve seen of men tending to their patients, digging people out of buildings, holding babies, caring for children
Anyone written or read about why it seems as if former soldiers often get radicalized but former cops rarely do?? I've known so many current and and former soldiers who get so political and devote their lives to radical action—bur I have almost never seen this happen with cops.
A moving act of solidarity as veterans burn their uniforms at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell hosted by veterans against war. This was after some extremely moving speeches, including a Vietnam War veteran who was a part of the SDS and did a lot of anti-war organizing.
palestinian journalists are giving us completely new ways to think about journalism, with totally new ethics and methods—including demonstrating journalism as a communal act, rooted in communal care and love. not scoops. not competition. teamwork and love in the public interest.
Today, we got our lunch late, but together. A group of brave journalists decided to stay in Khan Yunis and cover what's happening here despite the intense shelling. All of us, hand in hand.
A very smart friend of mine is buying their first home and they just found about the mortgage tax deduction and they couldn’t believe it, they thought it was a joke and I was like no lol renters subsidizing your future mortgage is like the biggest expenditure of the US govt
i will never get over how you can go to a protest for peace once in college and have your entire journalism career ruined forever, but you can serve in (and even kill people for) the u.s. or israeli military and have a journalism career where no one questions your "objectivity"
my dad worked until the second he dropped dead, in the middle of teaching a class, in front of students. fuck that. i want a retirement. life is not defined by work and capitalist production.
One of the saddest things was watching young ppl get yelled at "YOU HAVE TO ORGANIZE YOU HAVE TO VOTE YOU LOSERS" and they phonebanked and canvassed their asses off for months...only to lose, in some states, to a candidate who never opened a single office in that state.
It's worth saying again: It doesn't change the bombs or the imperial power structure. But SNL allowing (or not cutting via 7-second delay) the words "Free the people of Palestine," and the SNL audience bursting into applause, is a sea change in the popular American discourse.
i've said it before and i'll say it again: palestinians treat journalism as an act of love and a community good, and they have upped the game for the whole world, forever
Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with
@twu100
who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests.
Biden's fucking airdrop stunt killed this beautiful little boy. It's not a matter of dropping food or bombs—the food they (we) drop ARE ALSO BOMBS!!!!!
I actually can't quite get my head around how the US bombed the shit out of Afghanistan for two decades, left it in a smoldering state of starvation—then froze all assets it could there and...gave half that money to just 3,000 families whose loved ones had been killed by Saudis?
Thankfully Ali’s family entered Rafah crossing abd they are on their way to Egypt, but we are staying. Pray for us. We need to head back to my house in Dir Al-Balah
Today we're going to see Columbia University's first Arab president work with New York City's black cop mayor work with the nypd's first Latino Chief to arrest as many diverse students as possible. Only in America™️
An ableist culture that glorifies "beating" and "getting over" sickness has ushered in the grotesque carnival we are going to be subjected to in the coming days.
The Palestinian press, soaked in blood and pride and an existential level of commitment, is offering the world completely new ways to conceive of journalism as an act of love
So something really touching and heartbreaking just happened. I had my sign of some journalists martyred in January, and a person came up to me and gently took my sign in his hands. English wasn't his first language but he made his point clearly...
today's journalism assassination updates from palestine are too much. first, say his name: hamza dahdouh (also spelled in english hamza al-dahdouh). If his sweet young face looks familar to you, there's a tragic reason...
1/3 They killed his entire family. They shot him. They even killed his cameraman. But a day later, none of that stopped Wael Dahdouh from reporting on the funeral procession of his fallen colleague, Samir Abu Daqqa,
Two students made a parody newspaper skewering Northwestern University's stance on the war in Gaza. Now, they're facing criminal charges under a little-known law first proposed to fight the KKK.
My latest in
@RStatecraft
, co-published with
@theintercept
Yale students are being loaded into Yale buses to be carted off to jail. 36 degrees in New Haven this morning but several hundred peers and professors have gathered to cheer on those willing to be arrested.
This is really disturbing, but extremely clear: People go to the dropped aid & it looks like individual men carry a bag of flour or such each, and then they're shot by snipers. No stampedes. No "stopping gangs" from "stealing" the food - just individuals shot by snipers.
Watch | Exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows Israeli occupation forces shooting dead starving Palestinians who rushed to collect aid dropped in Gaza.
These schools have lost their God damn minds! They will seal off their SOLE public plaza, move ALL classes online and cancel EVERY graduation speaker rather than let students pray, gather and express themselves freely!
In its most lethal year, 1996, AIDS took about 1,100 lives in the United States each week.
Last week, COVID took at least 4,100 lives….and this is considered so unremarkable by news media, institutions and politicians that this pandemic is over?
Tonight!
— Ferguson elects Ella Jones, a Black woman, as mayor
—Minneapolis school board votes to kick out police
—White supremacist Steve King gets primaried into oblivion
—Protests in all 50 states, DC & PR
Direct action gets the goods, friends.
right now, there is a child whose intestines are spilling out of their body because of you. another child has no head. because of you. so no, i will not "pitch in" or be voting for you.
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Unreal CNN panel. Nina Turner brings up suffering in Gaza, gets interrupted, and Anderson Cooper says ‘we don’t need to debate the issue’ and tries to pivot. How tf to you discuss the Michigan uncommitted vote without discussing THE REASON ITS HAPPENING??
There is a video of an Israeli drone that is so disturbing, it is worse than the most horrifying, torture porn scene Hollywood could ever imagine. I can't fathom the terror of the last man killed, hunted after seeing his friends blown up, knowing the end is coming. But selfishly—
this is sanaa, the capital of yemen, yesterday. reports the united states is bombing its international airport right now. i don't think you can't destroy a nation's international airport and say you're acting in defense of shipping routes.
Absolutely massive protest in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa today, in support of Palestine and in condemnation of the US-UK aggression against the country.
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because cvs only wants to pay for 1
employee to work in any store at any given time, the government has to subsidize cvs store security. the state of new york transferring wealth from poor taxpayers and school children to cvs shareholders.
I have watched this video of Palestinian football star Mohammed Barakat's final words 5 times. He is calm despite the bombs that get ever closer until they kill him. One of the most haunting things I've ever seen. "This is where I end." Loving to the end.
Today I learned the estate of a woman who lived on Park Avenue who I helped with computer stuff when I was an underhand for $10 an hour—and who I stopped working for when she refused to pay for $300 of work I’d done—sold a Warhol portrait (of her) for $2,144,000 after her death
If you read nothing else today, read this: House Resolution 888, codifying the deranged notion that being critical of Israel is antisemitic.
Only ONE member of Congress (a Republican) voted No.
Congress is a wholly illegitimate institution.
So many people, me included, feel beaten down and depressed. This is bc as we start year 3, we are yet again tasked w the impossible: Carry out difficult, alienating, individual tasks which are doomed to never be enough bc they require a state response that isn’t happening.
This is fucking unacceptable in the wealthiest city in the nation, in the heart of fucking global capital. The Black cop mayor is stealing money from libraries to give to cops, so they can arrest Black kids who have nowhere to go, so he can go on TV and complain about "crime."
Never been arrested before, somehow always slipped out, but ready today. No one will touch our students without going through us at NU EJP. Hurting our students is my red line.
Academic researchers in Israel say they are being “affected dramatically” by negative international reactions to Israel’s military actions against Hamas in Gaza, a recent survey finds.
576 officers lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021.
We passed a Senate resolution designating this week as National Police Week to honor the officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities. One small way to recognize their courage.
There is enough food for everyone on the planet. Pretending like America’s
budget is busting because starving people are getting too much free food, and not because of America’s bloated war budget, is obscene.
I’m not the first to raise this question, but what is a Black homosexual congressman representing the poorest district in the country doing spending 101% of his time on cheerleading Israel?
When flights are cancelled and schools can't open bc too many workers are out w COVID, remember that your government has abandoned the idea of managing community viral load or even knowing what it is. They've made COVID a YOU problem when it is, by definition, a community matter.
So it must be said aloud: most people speaking out against the genocide are people of color (many are Black, Muslim, and/or Arab)—and so are those being punished by liberals and liberals insitutions. It’s not just McCarthyism; it’s racism.
gabriella karefa-johnson (vogue editor and the mastermind behind all of these issues and more for those who don’t know her) no longer works at vogue magazine following her vocal support for palestine. this just can’t keep happening
For those asking “But why don’t Palestinians protest peacefully” may I remind you that for me—who is not even Palestinian!!!—merely calling for *peaceful boycott* cost me the German translation of my book, made my PhD advisor shun me forever & almost cost me my entire career.
NO, not Ahmed Fatima!!! He was the gentlest man! The bravest of the brave journalists, tending to his community and the world in the worst times! He was at LEAST the 51st journalist killed by US-backed Israel. Why isn’t the western journalism establishment SCREAMING!!?
The martyr journalist Ahmed Fatima.
He worked as a correspondent for the Cairo News Channel. He used to embrace children at Al-Shifa Hospital to reassure them and try to ease their fear due to the Israeli bombardment. He was kind-hearted and gentle, loved by all his colleagues.…
It is embarrassing how often the NYT, with its vast resources, fails to deliver important news working people need to know about but instead chooses to be a free charcater launduering PR firm for the ruling class
48 hours since I was sprayed: have washed my hair over 9 times (with multiple shampoos) and the skunk will not come out. Still nauseous, fatigued, and my endometriosis symptoms are awful. Dealing with severe chronic pain.
As night falls and waking up at 5 AM, flying to New York and 8 hours of street reporting non-stop catches up with me, I am about to leave this party and let these young ppl who welcomed me into their space carry on. But first, some final thoughts…
The University of Minnesota just ordered janitors to shut off water supply, lock bathrooms and lock doors to Coffman Union where pro-Palestine protests have set up an encamptment.
Forming a faculty defense line with faculty to try to stop arrests. Might be my last tweet for a while. Free Palestine and bless our courageous students!
1. So today I want to write a thread I've been nervous to write.
In January and February, according to CDC data, 42% of ppl who died of Covid were vaccinated.
It's possible that in the near future, a MAJORITY of people dying of Covid may be vaccinated.
Palestinian men are as deserving of our sympathy and love as the women and children are. They are not guilty of anything. No deserves to suffer like this.
As the sheriff evicted an elderly couple and was removing a handicapped woman with Parkinson's disease from their home, her partner doused himself with gas and set himself on fire. "This," Aaron Bushnell so presciently said, "is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."
A Christian priest makes a promise to the Muslims in
#Gaza
🇵🇸 that if there is no muazzin present in Gaza to call the Adhaan (call to prayer) he promises that if he is still alive, that he will make the call for the 5 daily prayers at their appointed time 😢
I love witnessing…
who gives a fuck when no one can afford rent, childcare, college or to see a doctor and the man is spending our fucking money to blow the the lungs out of infants so they die gurgling in their own blood
These medical students have been doing the work of MDs with decades of war operating experience. It is shameful they are likely being tortured right now when they should be praised and celebrated for stepping up, unpaid, and doing life-saving work for half a year.
Just “attended” my first Zoom funeral and let me just say
Fuck all of this.
Fuck COVID-19.
Fuck Trump letting it rip thru our most vulnerable.
Fuck the alienation of a crisis that forbids gathering & touch.
& fuck the racism, transphobia & xenophobia that lead us here.
i suspect that for many of us, the experience of watching a genocide unfurl in real time on our phones all day long, for months—then watching people in power dismiss what we can see—has broken a lot of the social contract for us. no more business as usual, no going back.
this is sexual violation of children, plain as day, israel is showing off to the world they can strip children down to their underwear in december on camera, humiliate them, kill them if they please *on christmas day* & the u.s./u.n./u.k. will do nothing to stop them. shame!
It hurts my heart how many US universities tell students to "prove to us that you will be an ethical, moral hero who will stand for what's right above and beyond all others" in their admissions essays just to get in, then will punish them when they do just that on campus.
I'll break it down: We told Biden 'Do not kill those ppl or we will not vote for you.' He went ahead & killed those ppl & still is. So we will not vote for him. His eventual loss to Trump will be his fault, and the fault of Democrats who refuse to nominate someone else, not ours.
I just don’t think anyone is buying this shit anymore. You can’t keep telling people “vote or you’ll die,” letting 80,000+ die monthly just from one thing alone, then say “vote or you’ll die” again to them.
Former first lady Michelle Obama has a message for Americans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections: "We've got to vote like the future of our democracy depends on it."
Sorry
@andersoncooper
but I am tired
of being lectured by rich people who fucked up the world in general, and specifically by a Vanderbilt who stayed in the closet until he was famous & who lives in a privately designed “silo” (remember when I was your architect’s secretary?)
Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
Lorena Borjas was a true Jackson Heights, Queens original—a trans Latina who bailed ppl out of jail, saved sex workers from policing & fought racism & transphobia. COVID took a real one. My heart goes out to all who knew her (& to all she didn’t know who she worked for anyway).
Lorena saved more people than almost anyone I have ever known. She was relentless in her fight for her community. I am so sorry we couldn’t protect you from this.
LMAO, what did I say the other day?! That they’d say NO ONE could speak at ALL. And here we are! This is the liberal American university, folks! They will not let ANYONE speak if they can’t GUARANTEE they can control everything they say!! They’ll burn it all to the ground!
NSC’s John Kirby: "Israel isn’t trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel isn’t trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we’re going to start using that word, Fine. Let’s use it appropriately.”
You know, I’m not a big fan of “hate speech” laws or the police state in general. But sometimes, despite my abolitionist heart, there’s just something about seeing a former Obama Natl Security Advisor being led away in handcuffs for bullying a kind Halal cart guy…
Stuart Seldowitz being taken away in handcuffs for “hate crime/stalking, second-degree aggravated harassment, stalking causing fear, and stalking at employment”
At 42, I must finally admit that the primary purpose of the Democratic and Republican Parties both is to protect the interests of the ruling class, and whether governance is run by Democrats or Republicans makes very little difference in the lives of poor or working class people.
I don’t think I’ve witnessed a single more reckless, irresponsible act of domestic policy by a U.S. president in my lifetime than Biden declaring the pandemic as thousands die weekly and hundreds of thousands are infected monthly.
For every person who died of Covid during the Trump administration, more than 2 have died on Biden’s watch—even tho the former had no vaccine and was a cartoon of Covid mismanagement, while the latter had vaccines and believed “in the science” and the “soul of the nation”
i can't take it! they get unrwa defunded. settlers block the aid trucks. israel holds aid trucks in inspections. if a truck gets through, they shoot the people trying to get to the trucks. they bomb the sites the trucks are delivering aid to. they shoot the trucks from the sea!
There is enough for everyone - enough houses, enough food, enough resources for everyone to enjoy dignified work, rest, care and recreation. The resources are hoarded by the greedy and the perception of scarcity is entirely manufactured.
When I spoke up for Palestine & criticized Israel at my graduation, there was an international, coordinated effort to get me fired from my academic job. It failed, but my PhD adviser never spoke to me again. A Black, gay dean on my committee publicly tried to destroy my career.
“The only reliable way to get into a school like Stanford is to be really good at looking really good,”
@tab_delete
writes. “Students know that one easy way to keep looking good is to side with the majority of protesters, and condemn Israel.”
i would like to point out that this happened under a latin police chief, a black dem mayor, two dem senators, a dem governor, and a dem president. (nypd) blue, from city hall to albany to washington.
"Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on Palestinians who had gathered to receive flour brought by UN trucks. Fifty Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured" I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT THIS IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE!
Bayan, a fearless feminist journalist almost entirely ignored by the white imperial feminist west, hasn't posted anything for two days. While witnessing the murder of her brother is a good reason to be silent, I pray this isn't the last message from her bc she faced the same fate
If current trends hold, more than twice as many ppl in the U.S. will die of Covid (120,000) in the next year than died of AIDS in its deadliest year (55,000 in 1995).
Why is there so little anger about this? So little urgency? Are those dying of Covid acceptably "disposable"?
BREAKING: The USA represents 35% of all monkeypox cases globally after the CDC added 480 new confirmed monkeypox cases in the USA 🇺🇸 increasing its total case count to 14,595.