"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing" -- Malcolm X

Excellent precedent. Democracy absolutely dies in darkness. Over on the journalism subreddit, this move is (rightfully) being celebrated.

If you don’t see the light, you may be blinded by it. #freedom #democracy #freepress #FOIA

freedom.press/issues/wired...

2024 #ReadPalestineWeek is over; we encourage you to continue to read and take action to end genocide year-round.

You can find a list of books that remain free here:
publishersforpalestine.org/2024/12/06/a...

Asma Barakat reports on the International Criminal Court's decision: Israel's Netanyahu & Gallant can now be arrested in 124 countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute as obliged for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

Hey there, Bluesky friends. Last year few were on here but I shared I was writing about a religious sexabuse cult. Dramatic? Yep. Truth is always stranger than fiction.

This all happened. It still is. Those folks are migrating to Bluesky. So you’re going to hear more about that. Because (a list):

Welcome to the *other* app, everyone. We’ve been waiting for you! 🥱🤷🏽‍♀️

I mean, there’s really only one Dixie Chicken, right? #gigem

It will be my birthday in minutes and I’m not celebrating. If I had to summarize the reason virtually all my socials are still gone and I have little to say until at least 11/29, it could be reduced to one name: a dead dude named John Nelson Darby.

I’ve got so much more to say one day.

CRIME ROOMBA

On #NaNoWriMo day 21, I am not yet counting the thousands of words
crafted through this short, bizarre nonfiction meld of cultish religious behavior, with its current event verisimilitude. All I know is that drafting continuously without reading said draft for weeks is its own social experiment.

My #NaNoWrMo lives, with fewer words than hoped, but a skeleton of the religious cult-like abuse tale as it meets the genocidal hypocrisy that today labeled my entire race as the “beast” of Revelation. That’s right: We’re all Satan. Truth is still stranger than any novel I could conjure.

Very late after day 4 of #NaNoWriMo. Nonfiction for me. A story of cultish behavior, abuse, control, and religion—a story in lots of parts but I was there. Truth stranger that fiction and all that. And it’s all true.

The UN votes for ceasefire. We will not forget.

10 Stages of Genocide written by Dr. Gregory Stanton (Genocide Watch)

operationbrokensilence.org/blog/the-10-...

What sort of “leader” chooses this period of human history to eliminate a degree in climate change science, as one example. I propose eliminating the eliminator and finding a new leader.

"The heat has taxed power grids and agriculture the world over and led to deadly heat waves. Higher temperatures fueled extreme weather events, including a spate of hurricanes and typhoons that ravaged China and the US in recent weeks."