I've been too busy raising hell on Twitter to be over here. But hi!
I've really not been good at posting on Bluesky, I've been too busy posting on the other site as we watch our government enable and fund genocide and scream at our politicians who aren't listening.
So incredibly disappointed and disturbed by what elLife has done here x.com/mbeisen/stat... And yes this is my brother who they fired for posting a link and a comment about an Onion article. But I can say without any bias what they did was idiotic and wrong.
The past few weeks have changed me and I'm not sure how to process it yet
Itās becoming impossible to report from Gaza. ā© Journalists are trying to report the news while fleeing for their lives.
In Gaza, electrical and internet outages are making it hard for journalists to do their job ā while many are also struggling to evacuate their own families.
Bless this beautiful man. Wallace Shawn at the If Not Now protest at the White House this afternoon
I guess I just donātā¦see anyone applauding the killing of children or people of any age? I do see people arguing that committing war crimes is bad and that an illegal occupation should not be allowed to continue. Iām finding these claims of āsomeone somewhereā really disengenuous.
I agree, and also ā *no one* can evacuate. For 16 years Palestinians have been effectively confined in Gaza. Itās not so much an evacuation order as much as mockery. www.hrw.org/news/2022/06...
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli governmentās closure of the Gaza Strip, which effectively confines more than 2 million people into a 40-by-11-kilometer (25-mile by 7-mile) strip...
Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself, and lessen the impacts of it longer term. No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.