Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Netflix era kids will never know the high stakes adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/bedroom in a single ad break, with your sibling screaming, "It's ONNNNNNN" sending you hurtling over furniture to get back in time.

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

i’m trying to figure out what is going on but a handful of european and russian friends living in the US with US sim cards say they still can’t access tiktok on their phones and are getting this message when they open the app

The cycle of abuse: we are currently headed back to the tension building phase. The longer abuse goes on, the less time is spent in "calm". When victims start to anticipate the cycle, the abuse increases in intensity and rapidity. We are there.