good guys always say stuff like this

I do not know how to comprehend those who justify this. A Palestinian child carries bottles to collect water in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 22, 2024. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

It’s maddening that I can see the decapitated body of a Palestinian child in one tweet and in another read an excerpt from an article in The Atlantic arguing that it’s legal to kill children in war.

Edward Said, “Representations of the Intellectual”

I'll be doing Amnesty International's book club virtual event on June 20th. Come by if you're free. amnesty.ca/book-club-even…

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This is a very, very good book.

This is important - more than that, vital - journalism. Watch it and then share it in your networks. It deserves to be seen.

i genuinely feel like i’m losing my mind

I can’t overstate how profoundly alienating it is for so many people to discover that there is zero evident limit to the scale of genocidal mass murder that Biden, the Democratic Party, and really the entire American political system will accept and continue to arm and fund.

Horrific

trump gets shot and biden blames the kids protesting genocide, then no one votes for biden and the DNC blames the kids, repeat every election as the billionaires get richer and the planet burns

I cannot imagine what it must take to face the architect of your people’s genocide AND be the lone dissenter. My god.

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." —Omar El Akkad, October 25, 2023 📖 Learn More: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485/o…

If you can make it in the room but your morals and beliefs cannot, you have not gained power, power has gained you.

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.