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Just learned that Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining conglomerates, starts quarterly earnings calls with a land acknowledgement

Watching his gentleness with this beautiful baby reminds me of the tragedy that has been the pathologising of Arab men. They made you believe we were inhumane, so you would be silent in our murders. And they succeeded.

“‘The fact of the matter is,’ he said, ‘that kid up at Columbia, whatever dumb shit they’re saying, whatever slogan I would not say that they would use, they are more morally correct than some motherfuckers that have won Pulitzer Prizes…’” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The Israeli gov't knowingly starved Palestinian civilians, USA gov't knew they were doing it, the Biden administration deliberately covered up this fact & lied about it. This is as big a scandal as imaginable. Yet it is likely to receive little traction in the mainstream media.

Something rather permanent in me has been stuck exactly here. I understand that the world appeared to keep moving, but I'm not sure that I did.

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“Ask any Arab what the most painful realization of the last year has been and it is this: that we have discovered the extent of our dehumanization to such a degree that it’s impossible to function in the world in the same way” ⁦⁦⁦by ⁦Lina Mounzer themarkaz.org/a-year-of-war-…

the columnists who lied, said “israel would never bomb a hospital” who retweeted genocidal apologia and victim blamed — every single one of them has a job, and they all continue to write as though this never happened. and their main concern is still “these protests are scary”

Palestinians are so thoroughly dehumanized that *this* is the only content warning on this story

Biden’s unwavering sponsorship of the most documented genocide in history—one which has killed 20,000 children and created the largest contingent of child amputees in modern history—is what dishonors the office. The pardon is just an undignified coda to a reprehensible tenure.

I’ve seen people on this site justifying shooting Palestinian babies in the head and heart for over a year now

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Look man I get the tendency to skepticism bred by the internet but these guys are fucking live overthrowing one of the worst totalitarian police states to ever be conceived by humanity and that’s a fantastic fucking thing regardless of what comes next so it’s okay to be happy

Biden's legacy:

Actually, I think we have seen it before when a right-wing Germany combines with a right-wing Italy to unite Europe.

I feel utterly sick. There are no words.