Millions of people will die horrible deaths globally, likely for many years to come, because Elon Musk, a single individual, wanted to punish USAID for investigating Starlink.

This is why we cannot allow people to become billionaires if we want our species to survive.

@sarahgailey.bsky.social I have @postupak.bsky.social to thank for sending me the link! 💜 😊

So, on one hand we have liberals willing to “dissociate,” as El Akkad names it, and accept revenge as a useful virtue, and on the other, we have conservatives preaching revenge as a moral imperative. It’s the same belief. Just different stages of the same rotting fruit. 5/5

Coming from a conservative, calvinist household, pro-war thanks to my military Vet father, I grew up steeped in the Us vs. Them dogma. After 9/11, our anti-Arab indoctrination boiled over into naked genocidal rhetoric with phrases like “turn it all to glass” offered as righteous foreign policy. 4/5

This quote from Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” highlights for me how little daylight actually exists between centrist liberals and the right. 3/5

“When it’s a herder on the other side of the planet burning an American flag after a drone operator in an Idaho strip mall, mistook his children for terrorist, revenge becomes grotesque, the irredeemable realm of savages.” 2/5

Be safe and make good trouble!

The Ignyte Awards and speculative fiction in general do not exist in a vacuum. While we are here in the spirit of celebration, we are also here in the dual spirits of community and solidarity. Thank you to everyone putting their bodies on the line for the preservation of our collective humanity.

Salute also to those aboard the Madleen attempting to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to starving Gazans when they were intercepted and kidnapped by the IOF yesterday. Please visit freedomflotilla.org to keep up on calls to action to support their release.

Before we begin, some housekeeping:
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...