foggy sunset

horrible. folks in lebanon must feel totally abandoned.

"The world turns, doesn't it? Collapse over here—if you remember COVID-19—is just a timing difference. It'll get there soon enough. There are no margins in a globalized economy, and margin calls come for us all." ~ indrajit samarajiva indi.ca/the-greatest...

checking in to these bland blue skies to make sure at least one or two people are reposting prof marandi....

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

I pray I live long enough to see these people brought to some kind of justice. I need there to be a hell. Something.

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

Someone please tell the New York Times, which today listed one of Trump's major 'accomplishments' as a 'fragile ceasefire' in Gaza. What a travesty. There is no ceasefire, as much as American media pretends otherwise.

People keep mistaking genuine horror for politicking. The people who supported the DOJ under Biden/Trump condone child rape. They defended officials who protected child rapists. Other people saw this as a clear moral horror and condemned the DOJ. That's the actual divide. It's not between parties.

israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-croplan...

We live in hell

“This place is being touted as the epicenter of the energy revolution, the data revolution, the tech revolution,” said Kyle Roerink, the executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, which works to protect water resources in the region. “But they’re never going to be making water.”

The silence of the nurses No nurses have been included in the health ministry’s primary care advisory group. Multiple nurse leaders have written to the minister expressing concern, but have received no reply. Why is the experience of nurses so rarely acknowledged? #nzpol

"Some neighbourhoods are completely buried under mud, and each one brings more despair" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

these blue milquetoast skies suspended sarah kendzior?? talk about lame 🙄

"Capitalism is a system of economic natural selection whereby specific human psychoses responsible for manipulation, exploitation and genocide are supported, promoted, and rewarded... Only the insane thrive."

hopefully the Big One will happen while they're in town so they can make themselves useful rescuing people from collapsed bridges or something 😒🙄😑

gratuitous cruelty 😡💔

"The few remaining humans on Earth who are still able to imagine are also the ones cursed with the superpower of being able to feel other people’s pain, understand the climate crisis, and grieve for the disappearance of nature." @tsakraklides.bsky.social tsakraklides.com/2025/10/19/h...

help my arabic teacher who made it last year from gaza to cairo with his wife & 3 small kids bring his mom from gaza through the rafah crossing to cairo (fundraiser created by one of my classmates) - every bit helps & makes a difference chuffed.org/project/1542...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

"Make no mistake: imprisoning and blackmailing people behind fences has always been a huge moneymaker for the capitalist amoeboid. Sometimes the fence is invisible but trust me, it’s there. We are all shoved into concentration camps whether they are real or virtual..."

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Source: www.msf.org/msf-condemns...

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration' River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment. share.google/H0AKSWKmBQNl...

The 21st Century has a before and after Gaza: Brazilian Author Frei Betto,

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Innumerable articles, studies, and books have been published detailing how humanity has run out of time, and again and again the deadline is farcically pushed ahead so we still have decades, or at least, now, a few years, to turn the tide."

"Assuming that deaths from deprivation were 4 times the violent deaths... the total Gazan death toll would accordingly be 136,000 violent deaths plus 544,000 from imposed deprivation, leading to a staggering total of 680,000 deaths by 25 April 2025." arena.org.au/politics-of-...

"The parasite’s biggest strength, the efficient exploitation of its host, is in fact its greatest weakness: it will die once its host becomes sick. For a civ sustained by ecocide,.the realisation of parasitism is an existential threat it must protect itself against, through.. supremacy narratives"

End the Genocide now End the Occupation now Isolate Israel

Genocide apologia does not just dehumanise the victims. The perpetrators and their apologists also dehumanise themselves. There’s no other way to commit or support genocide.

[quote] "As a lawyer from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, during my visits to those held in military custody and prisons, I have witnessed unimaginable pain. Two moments in particular have stayed with me: the first was when a prisoner quietly asked, 'Does Gaza still exist?'"

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests flip.it/FeVoNI

"Israel speaks of occupying Gaza City. But this is a subterfuge. Gaza is not to be occupied. It is to be destroyed. Erased. Wiped off the face of the earth..The moonscape, devoid of Palestinians of course,will provide the foundation for new Jewish colonies" chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-as...