Everyone keeps leaving out 1985 when students took over Hamilton Hall, renamed it Mandela Hall, demanded the school divest from South Africa over apartheid. It was the longest siege--nearly three weeks-- of the university in its history. No riot police then, either.…

Today is one of those moments where we have to remember that the cops were not actually defunded in 2020. The ruling class actually doubled down on funding them, to repress us in moments like this.

“We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth. I want you to feel what that means.”

―Audre Lorde

We are being asked to be horrified and disgusted that people in this country are protesting this.

We are being told - by organizations, institutions, the news media, the Biden administration - that the real threat are those who stand & resist against this depravity.

Despite the popular image of the Holocaust as bureaucratic, executed through tight chains of command etc the truth is that all genocides rely on people performing atrocities they aren't explicitly ordered to carry out and the creation of anarchic spaces in which they can do so

Either the IDF is extremely bad at identifying targets, to the point that it’s dangerous for aid workers and civilians, and the U.S. should stop sending them weapons.

OR

Netanyahu is lying and the U.S. should stop sending them weapons.

Either way—STOP. SENDING. THEM. WEAPONS.

No amount of platitudes about loss of civilian life or stories about losing patience with Netanyahu can erase the fact that this is the enduring and most consequential US policy:

So the way this seems to work is:
-Israel commits horrifying atrocity
-international outrage
-Israel denies atrocity
-a day or two of western handwringing
-nothing happens
-Israel continues committing similar atrocities with total impunity

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/BUjT0b5

This is Joe Biden's legacy: A generation of amputees and orphans, traumatized for life.

'I saw things at Al-Aqsa hospital which I still wake up at night thinking about. Appalling injuries in particularly women and children. The most devastating burns in small children. One child that I'll never forget had burns so bad you could see her facial bones. We knew there…

Just a reminder that this exists. There’s now over 450 verified! Early on, everyone was asking for ways to help Palestinians materially but donating wasn’t an option back then, now it is! Please help if you can!

Horrible. The Trump-stacked Supreme Court just gave Greg Abbott its blessing to arrest, detain, and remove anyone in Texas suspected of being undocumented.

This dangerous and blatantly unconstitutional law puts a target on backs of all Texans of colors.

It must be stopped.

Since the Flour Massacre was a great success in testing the U.S. and discovering that—once again—there are truly 'no red lines,' Israel has furthered pried open the gates of hell and is doing flour massacres every cursed day

They’ve been talking about banning TikTok for years but they only actually got the support together for a ban once people started using it to talk about what’s happening in Gaza. Even if you don’t care about TikTok it’s an enormous assault on free speech using Red Scare logic

Child deaths in wars:

Iraq: 3,100 in 14 years
Syria: 12,000 in 11 years
Yemen: 3,700 in 7 years
Ukraine: 520 in 21 months

Palestine: ~15,000 in 5 months.

Does the world condemn the killing of children or is it complicated when it is Middle Eastern children?