The genocide in Gaza hasn’t stopped—it’s just slowed. Internet access remains life-saving, but funding for eSIMs has taken a hit. With costs rising and donations dropping, Crips for eSIMs for Gaza needs to raise at least $42K CAD to keep folks connected. Help if you can!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Some intel: I've talked to journalists and folks on the Hill about this. Last night after OMB's action, some Senate Dems tried to unify the caucus to vote against Duffy. Schumer, among others, opposed it, and it flopped.

The current Dem leadership strategy is to use strong language but not do shit.

sister said she was playing some opera the other day and my nephew said "like [my name] sing" absolutely sobbing

The union representing thousands of janitors said ICE went to multiple downtown San Francisco offices but that building security kept them from entering, KTVU reports.

“Union president Olga Miranda said the janitors were relieved that someone spoke up for them.”

www.ktvu.com/news/ice-age...

Four months today without our @tinu.bsky.social.
We were hoping to get this done for her wonderful family before Christmas.
Please help them during this impossible time.
If you can't help, please share!
💖#ForTinu

Being open about disability at work (for those with invisible disabilities) can be very stigmatized. I'm afraid the snitch line for federal workers on "DEI hires" will set any progress on this so much.

Allowing ICE in hospitals when H5N1 surveillance is a public health priority (one that must center migrant workers in agriculture) will only hamper pandemic prevention efforts

the undiagnosed diseases program operates at the NIH. this is deadly for rare disease patients, even for those who'll never step foot in the NIH

It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.

are airlines allowed to change the airport you arrive into now ?? i haven't flown since 2019 and booked a ticket to a smaller regional airport to lower infection risk, and they just. changed it to a larger airport

something ive tried to be very clear and consistent on is that the 20M deported promise in a country with only ~12M undocumented residents was not a mistake, it was a promise of ethnic cleansing. especially paired with ending birthright citizenship and "unshackling" law enforcement or whatever

I wrote about how neighbors can play a role in helping disabled and aging people plan for and evacuate when wildfires hit at @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

a feminist theorist argued something that resonates especially here: horseshoe theory isn't real, but political whiteness is. his tweet reads as peak political whiteness.

[The Aristocrats voice] The Democrats!

idk I feel like the government shutting down a very popular app due to how widely we were able to access information concerning a hushed genocide should be alarming to everybody regardless of your interest in using the app yourself

me when i love to post completely decontextualized statistics at someone who works in policy

i love that there are certain medical conditions where literally anything and everything is a trigger. it's like roulette but only one chamber is empty

a comrade made a run to LA with inhalers, insulin, Omni-pods, dexcoms, other meds & hella things for displaced peoples & kids. another shipment is getting loaded into a box truck today. @vancouverma.bsky.social is helping by getting another load together to assist. check their bio for Cashapp/venmo