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Gimme one more reason to hate you.

Photo of tweet by Abubaker Abed that reads:

Sad story at midnight here:

"Mamma, I want to eat"

My neighbour's child is now crying for his mom to feed him. He is still crying.

I hear that every single day. Where are the humans around the world?

His screams are utterly heartbreaking.💔

Who else makes a point of cursing Joe Biden every single day? Been over a year now.

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First is a quote tweet by Jeet Heer says: This will be Joe Biden’s legacy.

Second is a the post Jeet quoted by Palestinian journalist, Motasem A Dalloul says: In the dark and very cold weather!
Ethnic cleansing in #NorthernGaza is still continuous!

Photo of a number of blindfolded Palestinian men in their underwear being forced into the cackle of an army truck by Israeli soldiers in combat gear with machine guns and eye goggles.

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From Writers Against the War on Gaza (Twitter) @wawog.bsky.social AUTHORS PICKET THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE While Giller organizers & corporate sponsors have cocktails inside, writers have formed a picket line outside the Prize's ceremony. They are amongst the 200+ authors and bookworkers boycotting…

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Text reads:
From Writers Against the War on Gaza

AUTHORS PICKET THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE

While Giller organizers and corporate sponsors have cocktails inside, writers have formed a picket line outside the Prize's ceremony. They are amongst the 200+ authors and bookworkers boycotting the Giller Prize until they drop Scotiabank, Indigo and the Azrieli Foundation as sponsors.

More to come.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My timeline says Democrats are, too.

Photo of a news report about a famous Palestinian doctor being tortured to death by Israeli prison guards.

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Still get a chuckle out of this introduction passing peer review 😅

Text from a journal that reads:

To Be Seen I
1. Suppose: we see ourselves. Though unusual in white, colonial culture, there have been instances.
2. To see oneself in whitefella culture is to navel-gaze; it’s narcissistic, it’s unsightly. Better, instead, to be an academic, to speak as an all-knowing God: this makes sense; this is acceptable.

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On RFK and Trump and the humiliation rituals of white people and believing what we are told to about colonialism.

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With or without baking powder?
Point 54: A friend once told me Succession wasn’t believable: ‘No one is as bad as that,’ he said. And I thought about how irrational the coloniser mindset is for it to think white people hazing each other in a corporate landscape is unbelievable, but brown people beheading and baking babies en masse is believable enough to put on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.

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When “progressive democrats” are so committed to a shockingly brutal colonial genocide that might be part of why they seems a little irrelevant, no? This is what neoliberalism incubates.

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Cried while doing a reading at a Palestine fundraiser last night. So as someone with recent experience of public tears, these two observations from the article resonate: —as we grow older we cry more for others than ourselves… 💔 —we cry out of a sense of hopelessness… 💔

BTW 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸—THEY RAISED $4k—🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 And shout out to the many who, now that I think of it, also encouraged me to finish. Bit if a blur.

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I love a cry, but I was annoyed with myself in this case in those circumstances because it distracts from the point. But as people came to talk to me after, I realised we have been shedding many private tears & my public tears were received by some almost as a relief.

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Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I knew crying was a risk for that piece, knew my high-risk spots, got through them then faulted later. So, as a recent highly public crier, these two observations from the article resonate today: —as we grow older we cry more for others than ourselves… 💔 —we cry out of a sense of hopelessness… 💔

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What two things are the same? Denying vaccines work and denying that Israel is committing USA-sponsored genocide. The evidence for both is overwhelming & there is clear consensus. Thank you to Nimer Sultany (who I don’t think is in bsky) for this research summary. x.com/nimersultany...

Libby King @libbyking.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

If your favourite news outlet didn’t report this, then your “news” might actually be propaganda.

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Any nation committing genocide and apartheid has to really nurture sadism. If anyone wants to know what the colonisers of the USA and Australian and Canada sounded like, listen to Israelis today. The whole “they didn’t know better” line is a manufactured story to get them off the hook.

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The part unethical Dems will focus on: “See what voting for him will do for Gaza!” Everyone with half an ethic: “Biden has no restriction on weapons.” Public servants literally resigned over this, people!

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For obvious reasons, journalists in Gaza aren’t coming over, but their work and to witness is important to me ….#Gaza

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When your ethics are about <who> is doing the war crimes not <what> war crimes are being committed…

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The UN vote on Palestine and how on neoliberalism apartheid and genocide are “meh” when it’s Biden and “boo” when it’s Trump. It is all who is doing it and not what is being done. All these countries suddenly voting yes on sovereignty now that Trump is in and Biden is out.

Neoliberalism is when apartheid and genocide are “meh” when it’s Biden and “boo” when it’s Trump. It’s all about who is doing it, not what they’re doing.

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For me, these two posts represent the reason for Trump 2.0.

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