The Jelani
@jelanithunderstone.bsky.social
Below the courageous, there is nothing.
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Under both U.S. military law and international law, as well as the Geneva Convention, troops would not only have been within their rights to refuse such an order, but would also arguably have had a legal duty to do so.
Hegseth gave orders to 'kill survivors.'
Will he be prosecuted? Thrown under the bus? Given the Peace Prize?
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again
Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again
Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+
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This is a textbook definition of coercive control . This is describing straight up dominance
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is a textbook definition of coercive control . This is describing straight up dominance
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READ: Palestinian journalists in Gaza aren't reporting on something neutral. They're reporting on their own reality.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Letter: Ignoring your pain, narrating your pain
Palestinian journalists in Gaza aren’t reporting on something neutral. They’re reporting on their own reality.
mondoweiss.net
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
READ: Palestinian journalists in Gaza aren't reporting on something neutral. They're reporting on their own reality.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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NEW: Amid the pop and wail of fireworks, the family of Jamar Clark unveiled a marble stone bench at the place he took his last breath. The bench unveiling came after an event commemorating ten years to the day that the 24-year-old was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police on Nov. 15, 2015.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
NEW: Amid the pop and wail of fireworks, the family of Jamar Clark unveiled a marble stone bench at the place he took his last breath. The bench unveiling came after an event commemorating ten years to the day that the 24-year-old was fatally shot by Minneapolis Police on Nov. 15, 2015.
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People fleeing climate change are as legitimate refugees as those fleeing war & persecution.
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
People fleeing climate change are as legitimate refugees as those fleeing war & persecution.
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
The rich countries are mostly responsible for climate change, so we have a responsibility to take climate refugees.
Their homes will never to be safe to return to.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
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Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Such a beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social about the luminous treasure we've lost, Alice Wong.
lithub.com/remembering-...
lithub.com/remembering-...
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Sweeping changes are coming to the Philadelphia School District, with officials promising large-scale school closings, co-locations, grade reconfigurations, and new construction over the next several years.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
School closings are coming to Philly. Here are four themes that are emerging as leaders come closer to decisions.
A survey is going out this week that school district officials hope will get thousands of responses as they plan school closings, co-locations, reconfigurations, and new construction.
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sweeping changes are coming to the Philadelphia School District, with officials promising large-scale school closings, co-locations, grade reconfigurations, and new construction over the next several years.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/education/ph...
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A shift in mifepristone regulation could dramatically change abortion access throughout the country, and health advocates and litigators are closely watching how the FDA justifies any changes.
By @sofiaresnick.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fdas...
By @sofiaresnick.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fdas...
FDA’s abortion-pill safety review under growing scrutiny
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing increasing pressure from abortion opponents and advocates over how it regulates a drug that has become central to abortion access since Roe v. Wade was ...
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A shift in mifepristone regulation could dramatically change abortion access throughout the country, and health advocates and litigators are closely watching how the FDA justifies any changes.
By @sofiaresnick.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fdas...
By @sofiaresnick.bsky.social / @statesnewsroom.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fdas...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
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Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be.
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
‘This is survival’: Jamaica leads calls from vulnerable nations at Cop30
Countries including Mauritius and Cuba reiterate life-or-death nature of cutting emissions, calling it ‘a moral duty’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be.
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
"Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."
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Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
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this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
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Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
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While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...
If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.
apnews.com/article/pets...