We’re at Stage 5 of Malnutrition in Gaza. This is irreversible. I can’t believe I’m writing these words.

Another matching campaign has gone up! This one sponsored by dear Maura Finkelstein and our friends at zines for falastin and an additional anonymous donor. If we can get this matched today we’ll be able to send in another $5K to The Sameer Project

Just remember: Not a single European, much less any Italian, had eaten a tomato until the 16th century.

500 words takes 40 minutes if you do the reading and you care even just a tiny bit

I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely reinvented over a period of 50-100 years in the wake of the Colombian exchange--chilis coming to India and China, tomatoes to Italy, etc. etc.

Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, Mohammad Abu Selmia: ⭕ All medical supplies, food, and fuel in the Gaza Strip have completely run out, and hospitals have shut down. ⭕ We feel deeply abandoned by the entire world, especially by the Arab and Islamic nations. ⭕

We did this to him. This government. This country. We condemned him to this torture because he dared to follow our own laws and seek refuge here. Utterly sick.

Israel is killing them all. They’re starving Gaza. I just saw a little four year old boy eating sand. There’s nothing else we should be talking about. There’s nothing else to talk about.

It’s being digitized and made free for access to the public by Internet Archives. What a treasure!

Sometimes feel like these are the last real people.

Jon really said land back and fuck fascists, billionaires, imperialists, occupiers, and abusers lol (no but really Jon, please come back, the world went to absolute shit without you)

Immigrants and their children become Irish when they get there, and they help your economy. Migration is a biological fact in every single human being’s past and future. Now if your issue is that they don’t look, sound, or act Irish, your problem isn’t immigration. It’s racism.

Fantasy as fascist pipeline and apologia is why fantasy criticism is the most needed form of media criticism today.

THIS IS INSANE. Under pressure from Trump, The Smithsonian has REMOVED reference to Trump’s impeachment in their display on impeachment (which includes Clinton, Nixon, Johnson). Just erasing history to appease an authoritarian. Another institution caves.