Bobsky

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

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No, ‘playing dead’ is the last thing Democrats should be doing | Megan Romer Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistake

“So what does this mean for the working class? We have to build that credible opposition ourselves. There is no one coming to save us – we are the cavalry.”

Wrote a little something for the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gregory Manning said it best: we're tired of having to fight for everything, but we're gonna show up and fight like hell because we must

OK so tomorrow I'm gonna talk about the chapter of this book that discusses how progressives flipped Colorado's legislature from red to blue. Here's a hint:

The progressives ignored the advice of the state's moderate DEMs and the party's consultants lol

In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."

"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"

NEW 🚨 Research from the Guardian has identified 760 rooms being advertised in hotels, apartments and other holiday rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Booking.com and Airbnb.

I love this city

I use the Kendrick Lamar voice when I play peekaboo

My AIM screenname

In addition to other sinister motives, attacks on USPS are because it’s a pillar of the black middle class and black labor. As of 2020 postal workers have the highest avg annual wage ($52K) and the highest hourly wage ($25) among the 10 occupations with the heaviest representation of Black workers.

Feeling despair? So did this guy in 1875, who couldn't believe there were STILL anti-vaxxers:

"One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this time, considering that it has been practiced for nearly a century"

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

U.S. Defied Spanish Embargo on Arms Bound of Israel by Making Enforcement More Difficult As the diplomatic row over the embargo escalates, the U.S. sent Israel millions of pounds of ammunition through Spanish territory.

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇪🇸 A new investigation by the Progressive International and the Palestinian Youth Movement reveals that the US Defense Department defied Spanish law to smuggle ammunition to Israel through its ports — and now threatens to sanction Spain for redressing its own violation of int'l law.

Looks like a spy balloon

mysterious drones are everywhere you just have to look

Two street signs at an intersection that are completely unreadable because they're corroded and maybe covered with moss or something.

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pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people

Solidarity has been beaten out of us because if we fight each other we will never turn our sights to the people controlling everything and making life harder. If there is one lesson you learn going into 2025, make it solidarity.

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

My wife made a small turkey today just for the gumbo bc we ate all the leftovers

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948

New evidence reveals oil shipments from Turkey to Israel continue despite embargo Shipping data and satellite imagery indicates that a tanker onboarded oil at a Turkish port and shipped it to a terminal in Israel

REVEALED 🇵🇸🇹🇷 Türkiye is still exporting oil to Israel despite its own embargo, following research by the Stop Fuelling Genocide campaign, supported by the PI. Read more via Middle East Eye: https://bit.ly/4i9ehGU

This participation of both parties and the upper classes expose how the US's entire project post-Nixon has been the privatization of public goods and services, in both sides of the aisle. Post-K New Orleans was a group project, including the Obama administration.

There's a baby at our church named Goku. Never met a baby named Santa

Mayor McCheese wasn't available for the parade, was at an environmental summit in Brazil