Just saw people arguing that the shooting in Sydney wasn’t antisemitic because Chabad is a Zionist movement, and killing Zionists is fine.

Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.

These people can't be civilly reckoned with. The sooner we understand the connotations of that, the better.

RIP to a real one

A right wing car maker who bought a media outlet in order to amplify antisemitic conspiracy theories is advocating for a far right German party that promises to expel a disfavored minority? You don’t say.

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state. 🧵

wrote about the media frenzy following Daniel Penny's acquittal for murdering Jordan Neely, and the disparity in the NYPD's reaction to finding Luigi Mangione, vs the stabbing of 17-year-old Yeremi Colino—about a country making some lives more valuable than others. @teenvogue.bsky.social

Assad's control over Syria is crumbling.

Four days ago, we presented perspectives on the situation from two different vantage points—exiles from Western Syria and volunteers in Rojava.

Today, we offer an update from anarchists located in Northeastern Syria:

crimethinc.com/2024/12/02/t...

To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you.

Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.

After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism.

Read: tinyurl.com/59kzm98k

Hot take, I think the party deeply invested in gender-conservative ideology and the legal enforcement of cissexism and male-supremacy is actually for-real invested in enshrining patriarchy.

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Gender politics is not a "sideshow" to conservative, especially fascist politics. It's the core.

Whenever any place is even slightly pleasant to be in, someone will accuse it of being a leftist echo chamber.

HASTINGS: I say, Poirot, this vial’s labeled “hyaluronic acid”! Is it a poison?
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: Non, mon ami. This acid, it replenishes the skin’s barrier naturale
HASTINGS: So this is a gal who takes care of her skin.
SKINCARE HERCULE POIROT: *irritated* The gentleman may use it as well

Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens

since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share!
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...

The testimony of Eleanor Rykener - the earliest surviving record of a trans person in the English language. She began living as a woman in the 1390s, working as a seamstress & sex worker, until her arrest and imprisonment by the Mayor of London. She may have later escaped prison in 1399.

"Att man skulle samla nog många människor i denna jättekonspiration för att kunna ta över regionstyret är fullständigt världsfrånvänt.
Om inte annat så sett till den galet låga payoffen i att härska över Örebro län. Jag menar. Har hon ens varit i Örebro?"

Ebba Busch har pratat om invandrare igen

No thoughts just Edo period depiction of hammerhead sharks