Stephanie Gal

This is just our reality now. Our reality is offensive. It shouldn't be considered impolite or uncivil to say that out loud!

Pakistan schools closed amid fuel shortage, universities move online: How students’ classes and schedules will be affected | - The Times of India News News: Pakistan has temporarily closed schools and moved universities to online classes as part of emergency measures to conserve fuel amid fears of a loomin.

This.

India's MRPL shuts refining units due to oil shortage, sources say India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals ​has shut a crude unit and ‌some secondary units at its 300,000-barrel-per-day refinery due to oil shortage, three sources with ​knowledge of the matter s...

I'm talking to friends with family in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India, and they are dealing with fuel shortages that are shutting down businesses and schools. But I haven't heard anything about it.

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

U.S. voters oppose war in Iran, strongly against Trump sending ground troops: Quinnipiac poll Nearly half of those polled are concerned gas prices will rise due to the conflict, while another 25% said they are somewhat concerned.

1. Again, it’s the president’s war, not America’s.

Poll after poll after poll show a majority, sometimes a vast majority, does not want the US to be entangled in a Middle East war.

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Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

Abortion bans appear to result in lower rents and higher vacancy rates, showing that people are choosing not to live in states w/ restrictive laws

"Policies around abortion matter to some people — to enough people to move the needle significantly," one economist said

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This is actually one of the most shocking things I have learned in my grad school education - that the bulk of PM2.5 comes from tires and electrification will actually accomplish next to *nothing* in improving air quality in that sense

Americans hate this war. It's the politicians who aren't listening to us. Our democracy is broken :(

Yeah. I have long wondered if when people had more time off (or a wife at home) they just went somewhere out of state for a month or so, and that was their vacation, instead of blowing a ton of money going somewhere super expensive for a week. The latter is more resource intensive in many ways.

I also wonder if what passes for a "vacation" is much more extravagant than what used to pass for a vacation.

White text on black If YOU THINK PEDESTRIANS + CYCLISTS DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE SHARING THE ROAD WITH DRIVERS, WAIT TIL YOU MEET OTHER DRIVERS. DRIVERS ARE PROBABLY THE MOST ANTI-DRIVER PEOPLE OUT THERE.

It’s brutal out there.

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow

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Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

The oil depots in Sohanak, northeast of Tehran, Iran, are severely struck. Videos are showing massive fires all over the place.

Voting is not enough, we need boycotts against the corporations enabling this. Get off Facebook, cancel Prime, leave OpenAI. We can’t keep funding the erosion of our rights.

One hundred years ago it was hard to imagine Oklahoma City without streetcars. ...

how it feels taking public transit rn

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

I propose a new law:

Anyone who expresses support for an offensive war shall immediately be drafted to fight in it. No exceptions and no exemptions for any reason, including disability or service as a government official in any office. Presidents and congressmen shall fight in any war they start.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

“No stupid rules of engagement”

‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut The normally vibrant southern suburbs are a ghost town, their throngs of people replaced by rubble and fires

"‘The memories stay behind’: hundreds of thousands flee the Israeli bombs in Beirut" -- www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor

We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms.

This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.

This is dumb and cruel and awful.