“Let me stop you right there…”

Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President President Dr Irfaan Ali; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.

Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!

Somehow people got it in their heads that Dune is supposed to be a foreign, unrelatable story

They only gave her two minutes to speak so she ate them up in 1 minute 🇵🇸

📍Raliegh North Carolina City Council

#Thread Within hours of us sending a questionnaire to the Prime Minister's Office, a publicly available video was shut off.

Yesterday a transcript of the video was purged too.

Why? To know more, read on

PS: the reporters' collective has made the transcript publicly available. Link at end.

“In the shadow of the empire, they turn the colonizer into the victim and the colonized into the aggressor.”

- Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, from Bethlehem Lutheran Church 12/23/23 (Sermon: “Christ in the Rubble”)

This is good news and long overdue - it won’t make up for the pain suffered by Muslim girls in the last couple of years but at least no more young people will be forced to choose between their faith and their eduction in Karnataka.

I am once again at a loss for words.

From Democracy Now!

the more you grow older the anger towards your mother slowly transforms into grief and guilt when her sufferings becomes clearer and it the worst feeling in the world to know u were a part of causing it too

Breaking| The death toll in #Gaza so far is 26612 including 10305 children, 5475 women, and 52390 injured. According to our Euro-Med Monitor’s statistics.

Notes 📝
-More than 92% of the dead are civilians.
-The proportion of casualties in Gaza is comparable to the impact of:
12…

Government is bringing in two laws which would let it have COMPLETE CONTROL over all forms of communication.

Broadcast Bill:
- Allows the government to control & punish everyone who is communicating on the internet (termed 'broadcasters').
- It is bringing literally everyone…

The martyr journalist Samer Abu Daqqa,

He a journalist at Al Jazeera. Samer hadn't seen his family for four years. He was waiting for a family reunification visa to join them in Belgium, but the Israeli occupation deprived them of seeing him again.

Samer was martyred after…

I’m a Jew and I feel pretty safe.

Two things make me feel unsafe:

1. The sadistic unending murder of Palestinian civilians by Israel, supported by US,UK, Canada etc.

2. The attacks from other Jews, meant to silence me (and everyone).

Those 2 things stop, I feel 100% safer.

Make no mistake about it.  In order to stifle dissent from Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, the Jewish billionaire class has launched the most concerted assault on academic freedom in the history of our country.

I am watching this right and Refaat says the following: 'Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature...

“If the [apartheid] state decided to use peaceful methods, the ANC would also use peaceful methods. ‘It is up to you,’ I said, ‘not us, to renounce violence.’”

— Nelson Mandela

Macklemore : “The system of oppression desperately wants us to go back to normal life as the killing continues. They want us to see Palestinian life as separate from our own. I will not.”

As a scholar of settler-colonialism, I’ve read 1000s of pages on the violent means through which European settlers engaged in dispossessing Natives in the Americas. I was flabbergasted by so much evil with each page turn, until Gaza’s live-streamed genocide gave those acts a face