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i know this is old news but its not because the genocide of palestinians is old news and current news. today, april 2025, israel ordered the evacuation of the partially-functioning al ahli baptist hospital and bombed it, the same hospital that it bombed in october 2023 and killed nearly 500 people and then denied it, smeared everyone who would "dare to accuse israel of bombing a hospital," released false voice notes with fake actors pretending it was hamas operatives who accidentally bombed it so that news outlets could no longer report on israel bombing hospitals without having to add "hamas-run health ministry says..." to provide doubt on accounts of palestinian suffering, and then eventually just bombed every single hospital in gaza anyway

right now they're still bombing the hospital, but they did order the evacuation first. the thing about ordering a hospital to be evacuated before bombing it is that it proves you are destroying hospitals for the sake of destroying hospitals. the other thing about ordering a hospital to be evacuated is that it still kills all the critical patients and all the patients who need it anyway in an area where a hundred people are being killed daily. already a child has reportedly died while being evacuated.

that's kind of the point of targeting hospitals. its the point of targeting so many and so frequently that you can keep palestinians suspended in a state of genocide, while everyone else who reads about is suspended in a state of helplessness and confusion. they bombed a hospital? didn't they already bomb that hospital? was it really them who bombed it? i didn't know those people were still alive and those hospitals were still functioning. patients died wheeled out in a hospital bed while the ER was lit on fire? ah, didn't that already happen before?

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every single discussion about the fucking signal groupchat makes me feel so insane. "what a display of incompetence! what a failure! let's all make accidental groupchat mistake jokes now" what the fuck are you talking about. it worked. the fact that THIS is the conversation now is literally the point. jeffrey goldberg literally did it again. selling the bombing of the middle east to the public is the entire purpose of his career as a "journalist"

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And I know many of you might not be seeing much news updates coming from the occupied West Bank and that is because Palestinian journalists are being hunted down, their cameras confiscated, their footage erased, they are imprisoned, disappeared and killed at unprecedented rates. Israel is working very hard to suppress the truth. It is exactly why you should amplify the reporting coming from Palestine, from Gaza to Jenin, whenever you see it. These journalists are literally sacrificing their lives to keep you informed on Israel's crimes. Don't ever forget that. Everything that you know today about the genocide is due to their relentless commitment to the truth.

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Kelela live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York | ph. Dervon Dixon (2024)

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Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated people in Philadelphia as part of a long-running program led by dermatologist Albert Kligman. Between 1951 and 1974, Dr. Kligman and his team experimented on scores of vulnerable people, a majority of whom were Black and being held in the now-closed Holmesburg Prison. The goal was to produce pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and also chemical warfare agents. The male test subjects endured “patch tests,” in which untested creams and toxic chemicals were smeared on their backs, faces, and arms, as well as biopsies of their flesh and organs, mysterious injections, and a host of other medical procedures. “I got a needle in my spine for $7,” one former participant later told author Allen M. Hornblum for his landmark book Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, and an unknown chemical was then injected. In 2024 currency, he’d have made about $54, enough to cover one tube of tretinoin from GoodRX.

Many were left with wounds, unsightly scars, and skin discolorations that marked them as participants even years after they’d left prison, Hornblum details in the book. While most of Dr. Kligman’s “volunteers” were men, incarcerated women were also involved in testing menstrual products. As Prism reported, survivors of the so-called “tampon tests” noted the same lack of informed consent and experienced medical and psychological issues as a result. Dr. Kligman and his team enticed incarcerated people to sign up for the medical trials by offering financial incentives and seldom told them exactly what medications or substances they were being exposed to or what kinds of negative effects they might experience. “Everything was done as cheaply as they could,” Al Butler, a former Holmesburg prisoner, told Hornblum. “They were just preying on people. Using an inmate was cheaper than buying a chimpanzee and the results were better.”

Prison jobs were scarce and extremely low-paying, and many prisoners needed money for bail or legal help. The majority of people held in Philadelphia’s prison system in the late 1960s and 1970s were waiting to be sentenced and had not yet been convicted of a crime. Many were also illiterate, as NPR noted. They did not always understand what they were signing but saw the trials as a means to an end. A lack of informed consent led to people signing up for dangerous medical trials that benefitted Dr. Kligman financially and professionally but left many of his “volunteers” in discomfort, pain, or saddled with lifelong medical and psychological problems.

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The doctor started by using extremely high doses. Currently, the most common dosage of Retin-A has a 0.025% concentration of retinoic acid and, according to the Mayo Clinic, it’s known for causing side effects like burning, stinging, peeling, redness, and irritation. Compare that with Dr. Kligman’s early studies, which used a 1% concentration on incarcerated subjects. “I damn near killed people [before] I could see a real benefit,” he told Philadelphia Magazine. “Every one of them got sick.” This lack of regard for his subjects’ pain and well-being was a constant fixture of Dr. Kligman’s time at Holmesburg, and he seemed to take pride in his drive to push the boundaries of medical ethics. “It was years before the authorities knew that I was conducting various studies on prisoner volunteers,” he once said. “Things were simpler then. Informed consent was unheard of. No one asked me what I was doing. It was a wonderful time.”

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💥#Breaking: Israel halts entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza as Phase I concludes. The IDF has been ordered to close all entries to Gaza.

Further evidence that the genocide in Gaza is still ongoing: Israel's deliberate suspension of humanitarian aid to Gaza is a genocidal act that violates the ICJ provisional measures & a prosecution of the war crime of starvation, for which the ICC has issued arrest warrants.

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The US-backed terrorist state of Israel has blocked the entry of aid into Gaza.

Netanyahu is the great Satan. May Israel be wiped off the world map. Fucking terrorists. Death to Israel.

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The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and the stars were the kiss you gave to the dark and endless sky, my love

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nina simone singing 'trouble in mind' live, lyrics by richard jones.

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Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman's whole family was so obviously an enterprise – it functioned on the exploitation of vulnerable people, young isolated women hired as nannies and babysitters, a tenant family who would manage land and properties. The whole timeline and the way they did damage control was so much like any major company – Palmer identifying the vulnerable and "hiring" them, Gaiman providing the money and feeling entitled to abuse. Palmer functioning as HR to mediate "abuse" by further isolating the worker. The reproduction of ideology in teaching your child to call his nanny a slave. The final straw for HR only coming when the beloved, innocent child was exposed to the abuse. All for preserving the value of their family, the ideology it represented (Palmer and Gaiman's long documented history of taking advantage of fans) and the media enterprise where they both made and sold "Art" about it. Family abolition now and so on.

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Olivia Cooke as Emma in Little Fish (2020)

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Acting as if the majority of Marxist criticisms of modern China come from the west and not from India, Nepal and the Philippines is always an interesting omission Marxist-Leninists make when it’s the semi-regular period of pretending only westerners are critical of China’s role in the global capitalist economy again, or that it’s necessarily a “America and China are the same” criticism which again is a very interesting omission of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Communist Party of the Philippines’s written critiques.

At least engage with what criticisms actually exist like a real materialist instead of this really pathetic avoidance of third world Maoist criticisms of China (while presenting the majority of critics as westerners!) so you can more easily make your half-informed dunks on the internet. You know, Marx and Lenin actually would tear apart essays line by line. That’s respectable, what y’all are doing is not. It’s intellectually lazy.

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I have been wondering if the reason the violence in the West Bank has not received much attention even from advocates who were rightfully vocal about Gaza is due to a lack of understanding of what and where Jenin is in relation to the West Bank. So here is a very, very quick run through that barely scratches the surface:

All of Palestine has been divided by Israel into three main parts.

Historic Palestine, referred to by the Zionist entity as Israel, where Palestinians (referred to as Arabs) live as second class citizens.

The West Bank, occupied by Israel and where Palestinians live in an ever shrinking landmass, continuously being chipped away at by violent Israeli settler mobs. This area is theatrically governed by Israel’s puppet, the Palestinian Authority (the PA), with an apartheid wall running through 80% of it and settler-only roads that render the territory into tiny, isolated bantustans. This is where Palestinians fight two fronts: the PA and Israel.

Gaza, where Palestinians are cornered into a small area and placed under an 18 year total siege by Israel, where even calorie intake is controlled by Israel. This area, likened to a concentration camp, is periodically used as a testing ground for weapons and is where Palestine's worst episode of the ongoing genocide took place between October 2023 and January 2025.

The West Bank and Gaza are not connected geographically. People in the West Bank can’t drive to Gaza and vice versa.

Now, the West Bank itself is also divided into three parts. For a visual representation of this, check out The Palestinian Archipelago but the three areas are:

Area A: comprised of 18% of the land of the West Bank, where administration and security matters are lead by the Palestinian Authority.

Area B: comprised of 22% of the land of the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority leads administratively, but share security with Israel. Riddled with Israeli checkpoints, this area sees the most dangerous examples of restriction of movement.

Area C: comprised of 60% of the land of the West Bank, where most of Israel’s illegal settlements are, and where Israel has full control, both administratively and security.

Understand this deliberate fragmentation; understand it from a settler colonial mindset of divide and conquer. Understand it as a way for Israel to fragment the Palestinian identity, to make it an almost impossibility for a Palestinian body to act as a sovereign. Understand it as Israel manipulates laws, including occupation law (!) to cast Palestinians and their situation as sui generis; a unique situation due to this fragmentation, which permits Israel to create new, unfounded laws to "control" the native population.

Jenin is in Area A of the West Bank; it has been under a brutal Israeli military assault that has intensified over the past few weeks, with dozens being killed, including children. Definitely not the first assault against Jenin in recent history (watch the documentary Jenin, Jenin for that), but extremely daunting as it emerges in the aftermath of Israel’s accelerated genocide in Gaza where a minimum of 180,000 Palestinians were brutally murdered in the span of 15 months.

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Mahmoud by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat tr. by Fady Joudah

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[ID: A screenshot of text reading, "'May she wake in torment!' he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. 'Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there — not in heaven — not perished — where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer — I repeat it till my tongue stiffens — Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you — haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe — I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'" /end ID]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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UTADA HIKARU, First Love. 1999.

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Kelela - In the Blue Light