the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

Occupation forces have released 150 kidnapped Palestinians from the Gaza Strip after they were subjected to several months of detention and torture

AHEAD OF THE United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state. The diplomatic cables detail pressure being applied to members of the Security Council, including Malta, the rotating president of the council this month. Ecuador in particular is being asked to lobby Malta and other nations, including France, to oppose U.N. recognition. The State Department’s justification is that normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states is the fastest and most effective way to achieve an enduring and productive statehood. While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18. “It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.” “We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of ‘Palestine’ as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks.”

In 1988, ACT UP protested the FDA withholding HIV treatment due to requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

In 2024, trans activists protested promoters of an NHS-funded report requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

the world is a better place with trans women in it

personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

Me: Your fandom opinions shouldn’t affect how you interact w real-life people. No matter how much you might love a tv show, it’s ridiculous to cast moral judgment on people who disagree w you on something so inherently trivial in the grand scheme of things. Touch grass.

Someone: Skyler White was such a bitch lol

Me: Kys

Warrior cats fandom are we ever going to talk ab Snowfur and Bluestar growing up with an absent father and a mother who remained steadfastly devoted to him even though he was a self-obsessed, warmongering jerk and her own sibling kept warning her against him and then! Snowfur immediately following Moonflower’s death latches onto the most self-obsessed, warmongering jerk she can find and remains steadfastly loyal to him even though Bluefur warns her against him… Bluefur never ever being first priority for the people she loves the most, Bluefur looking for love outside of the clan, Bluefur giving up that love because she didn’t feel like she deserved it while her sister settled for the love she felt she deserved, Bluefur giving up her kits and eventually buckling under the guilt because she knows, she knows how much it hurts to not be put first by the people you love

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

God I fucking hate how normalized it is for parents to openly express contempt for their child’s interests esp w preteens and teenagers… like, do you know what your kid thinks when you make a point of telling them you don’t like their music you don’t like the way they dress you don’t like them experimenting with their own identity in the formative years of their life you don’t like anything about the things that make them, them? They think you don’t like them!

People in northern Gaza have been forced to survive on an average of 245 calories a day - less than a can of fava beans - since January, as Israeli forces continue their military onslaught. Over 300,000 people are believed to still be trapped there, unable to leave. The miniscule amount of food represents less than 12 per cent of the recommended daily 2,100 calorie intake needed per person, calculated using demographic data considering variations by age and gender. Last week, the Israeli government told UNRWA, by far the largest aid provider in Gaza, that its convoys would no longer be allowed into the north. Oxfam’s analysis is based on the latest available data used in the recent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for the Gaza Strip. Oxfam also found that the total food deliveries allowed into Gaza for the entire 2.2 million population - since last October - amounted to an average of just 41 per cent of the daily calories needed per person.