@aparajito
🪐he/they | space twitter refugee. looking for a phd program | msc (astro)physics, kolkata '21 | i mostly like/repost shitposts, leftist hot takes, & astronomy/academia content | views expressed are yours, not mine 🚀
“This is what Israel & its American patron cannot tolerate: Palestinians who remember. Palestinians who will not perform gratitude for the small mercies such as aid corridors & fragile ceasefires…We are the living refutation of their narrative. Our very existence, loud & unapologetic, is the crime.”
Note the "under-18s" framing here, as an attempt to make it sound like it's not just 16 and 17 year olds, who are old enough to make their own medical decisions based on the Gillick Competence test.
“Looking to combat vaccine skepticism and mistrust of officials among migrant residents — especially those who are undocumented — organizers enlisted trans women to bridge the communication gap.“
www.them.us/story/trans-...
public media is a democratic good
a necessity
It deserves so much better than a BBC EIC who was the marketing veep for Pepsi. Excellent media reporting from @revealnews.org
the american empire is dying, & india is more powerful than ever before. one of the main demands in the recent indian labour strikes was that india pull out of the disastrous trade deal with the US - there is anti-american sentiment in the working class. yet, the neoliberal fascist govt does nothing
reminder that the indian govt has still not condemned this crime in their own naval backyard. no condolences, no promise of independent investigation. a global south power with millennia of shared history with iran, courting a violent america. rarely has a global south nation fallen this far
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
I have to close out this short matching drive, but I’m trusting us to not forget these six families & a camp of fifteen more.
Famine looms. The needs continue. Medicine, food, water. Clicking “weekly” on spare change is the best way to help: chuffed.org/project/hope...
An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around
Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.
175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.
The My Lai massacre for our generation.
The Hague - and Hell - awaits.
So many shares, zero donations
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
Every day is a new chance to help.
Alleviate the burden & pressure on Wolf & their kid. They've been enduring escalating emergencies. I hope we can pay forward all they've done for the MA community on here.
Anything helps, especially clicking “weekly” or “monthly”:
Bringing this skeet back up because the THREE $90M each ($270M total) F-15s shot down today by friendly fire in Kuwait could pay for FOUR Chandra X-ray Observatories at full operations. Let's remember that when the 2027 president's budget request comes out soon. 🔭
Everyone that has struggled to get donations are now terrified that there'll be no food available and those that have money have to spent far more to get much less.
When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day
anyone choosing this moment to be all "here's what you get with republicans: bombs in the middle east" needs to grow up rapidly, considering what the last dem admin did in gaza & their current support for trump's actions right now. this is what you get with (wholly bipartisan) american imperialism
80 kids killed in the first day of a violent, pointless war, there will be more to come, and so many people in both parties *wanted this to happen*. America is a rabid, violent dog that needs to be put down. what more can you say.
Yay we got our first donation of the day - who's next? We only have ONE MONTH to fund this yall
A banner featuring a logo on the side with a painted anemone poppy and the handwriting-style text that says "Heal Minds Gaza" in a green circle. Next to it reads: "Heal Minds Gaza is a new initiative that will support children’s healing through therapeutic activities for self-esteem, social skills, and community-building. Support the first project for children who were detained in occupation prisons." The text is written on notebook paper cut in a circle. The banner is decorated with crayon sketches of hearts, stars, and squiggles in different colors.
NEW project for the KIDS! We only have a month to f-und it, but I believe in us!
Heal Minds Gaza will run workshops for children who were detained in occupation prisons: building back their self-esteem, identity, & sense of community.
Let's get to it: chuffed.org/project/hmg
NYU poised to strike over AI
Latest needs for these six families & a camp are food, medicine, baby supplies & children’s clothes, and other provisions for Ramadan.
Hit "weekly" on spare change to join almost three hundred folks sustaining support for their survival needs:
the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought
I received over 90% of the votes at the department and college levels, yet the provost denied me tenure. I met and exceeded the promotion and tenure guidelines and expectations as well as my annual and mid-tenure reviews.
Daily reminder about this amazing initiative: the Spark volunteers are STILL serving the community with shelter, electricity, internet—meaning freelancers can connect to remote jobs to feed their families, and students can continue studying!
Keep it open: chuffed.org/project/spar...
A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
Today we highlight H, his wife, and their two toddlers: the kids have been battling recurring illnesses for months now. You can help with medicine, nutrition, and ongoing shelter. You've kept them housed for over a year!
Click "weekly,” then act. chuffed.org/project/hope...
The Al Jazeera report from five days ago that reported a figure of 2,842
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
They’re intentionally tearing our life apart. We haven’t seen a single cent besides the $64 in a month 1/2.
And you know what that was from? It was from the last day I worked after they took all the taxes, etc., etc. My labor was worth $64 🫥
We NEED HELP!!!! I’m doing all I can possibly do alone!
Akram has been ao overwhelmed, between his sister’s severe lupus and working hard to get repairs done on his family's home. This family of seven still needs our support with basics to survive.
Anything helps! Give/find the Abdelwahed’s link here: chuffed.org/project/hope... #lupus
