Tremendously depressing all around, but I can't get over how incredible this sentence is. www.huffpost.com/entry/mar-a-...

I will not allow PepsiCo to spend $2 trillion on 30 seconds of Fred Armisen and the last surviving honeybee on earth selling me Cool Ranch Doritos until everyone on my television looks and sounds like the cast of Yellowstone. I own seven car dealerships and an under-investigation charter school.

Doing politics by performatively announcing you will not watch the Super Bowl Halftime show, the most concentrated machine for spectacular capitalism ever devised, but only because a guy who speaks Spanish is performing during it, is such a cartoonish evil endpoint for a crumbling empire to land on.

'They speak of ceasefires, yet the bombs keep falling.
With every explosion, my children shake, clinging to me and whispering, “Is this the end for us?”
I’m not asking for miracles—only safety, food. Your support can protect a childhood that war is trying to steal.'
– Waseem 🤍
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In Gaza, hunger invades homes, leaving children to sleep hungry, louder than the bombs. We need food, safety, and the world’s attention. Please don’t look away from our pain. 💔
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Your help can save a life!💔
I beg you… don’t pass by in silence🙏💔
My three daughters are without medicine 💊, warmth 🧣, or food 🍲…
My husband is at risk of losing his life ⚠️ or his leg 🦵 due to his injury,
and his mother is fighting cancer🎗️and could be lost at any moment😭🙏
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They talk about a ceasefire but the bombing doesn't stop.

My girls tremble with fear with every explosion, hiding in my arms and asking “are we going to die?”

I'm not asking for the impossible just safety and food. Your support could save a stolen childhood.

- Sama’a 🤍

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Sometimes on the fly I have trouble coming up with examples and succinct ways to explain how media works but "When Iran came in during the Olympic opening ceremonies they mentioned the violence in the streets. When the US and Israel entered, they didn't say anything like that." might end up useful.

Going to be reupping this periodically over the next month. Have thoughts about traditional craft work? A project on where traditional and platform economies collide? Analog/digital relationship in craft and creative work? Send me an abstract.

In Sanad's features, the world's sorrow is etched, and in Mayar's eyes, a prayer breaks the silence. Behind every tent, a childhood story is stolen, and a silent cry needs no translation... Look at us with your hearts.😭🙏🏻
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again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this

Ramadan is approaching and we've only received£329but we still have a significant shortfallAnydonationeven a small onewill helpus provide for our family's Ramadan needsIf you can'tdonateplease share this postmayGod reward youLook at our situation before the destruction 😭🙏🏻
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Reminder that if you're a BDS boycotter, Blizzard is part of Microsoft, and Overwatch is very much a Microsoft product.

My grandmother was hit in the face by a stray bullet two days agoThank God she's out of dangerbut she needs $200 worth of medication and antisepticWe haven't received any donations in twodaysAny support makes a difference
😭🙏🏻
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My friend Sama'a lives in fear of Israeli bombs. In the shadow of genocide she has two little girls to feed and raise. Please give what you can.

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For the past decade (at least), journalism has been a game of musical chairs where every year, the music stops, a quarter of the seats are pulled to never return.

For The IX Soccer, @catabush.com wrote about the importance of access to analytics and why FBref losing Opta data is a huge blow for women's soccer coverage.

zakiya bywaters publicly exposed rory dames’ abuse of players in 2016, six years before the yates report. six. years. think of how much suffering players could’ve been spared if the league had simply listened to and believed her.