Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: spiritually, scholarly, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed. Nothing keeps my heart beating like my Arab and Muslim comrades speaking out against this barabarism every day. All while facing the harshest consequences of anyone! This ugliness would quite literally drive me to kill myself if I didn't know so many people who are so brave.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed by Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.
#BestBuy is caving to threats by #christofascist#Republican investors, and will stop contributing to #LGBTQ non-profit organizations — including blocking their employee resource groups from making donations to those groups.
Unless my ISP somehow authorizes email to be sent from my IP, Gmail will now bounce it.
Unless I am hooked up with an email service that somehow has clout with Google, Gmail will bounce it.
Since the "ISP" through whom I am attempting to send mail is #DigitalOcean, I find item #1 to be dubious. They are not blocking my outgoing mail port, and I have no problems sending to most recipients (Google and Microsoft being the only exceptions I'm aware of).
DigitalOcean seems to encouraging its users to use a 3rd-party service -- but I'm already paying them for hosting, and managing my own email service; I don't want to pay yet another service just for the privilege of being allowed to send messages to Gmail's increasingly walled garden.
With #democracy in the balance, the people must #boycott the billionaire captured press, and devise means of communicating important information unfiltered through billionaire interests.
Adblockers and alternative frontend will only get you so far in this. It's literally just a matter of time until step it to yet another level. Want some real change? Stop giving them power. #Boycott these fuckers.
"Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox" -> https://archive.is/yAdak (link to avoid direct #reddit)
Bring down closed data silos like #YouTube. Empower #foss federated platforms like #peertube.
"Lists of such businesses are being circulated on social media, mostly on TikTok, urging people to #boycott restaurants and other establishments that are owned by #Jews or that are deemed to be supportive of the #Israeli government in its war against #Hamas in #Gaza. But protesters are not simply boycotting businesses; some are visiting them and vandalizing company property.
The owner of a chain of local coffee shops told the Montreal Gazette that “last weekend, they put #swastikas on the … menus downtown and they wrote F— THE JEWS.”
Today in Labor History December 5, 1955: E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama and Montgomery bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.
Simple truth: When you say "nazis welcome," more of them show up. Sooner or later, that's all your platform is known for. And when you're allowing nazis to raise funding via your platform, with you joining in the profits, that reality will come even more quickly.
@patrickokeefe
The true test is how the "FREE SPEECH!" platforms respond to #porn. Substack bans it. So as #trans ppl pointed out years ago when Substack was revealed to be paying anti-trans bigots huge piles of $, McKenzie & other Substack apologists are full of shit. if you #boycott#birdchan for funding rape apologists & Nazis you should also shun #Substack.
@grivettcarnac yes it really is about food insecurity. The founders of the #boycottloblaws movement this May over on Reddit were very sensitive to the needs of people who find it difficult to boycott because of economic situation and lack of local competition that limits choice. They have published a whole range of #boycott options including buying only loss leaders, letter writing campaign, petitions and social sharing. I do feel privileged to join in solidarity https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/comments/1ck0sl6/boycott_updates/
To celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, #Tesla and #ElonMusk had a black, #smallBusiness owner make $16k worth of pies, and then canceled the order over text just as they were heading out the door, leaving this small-business holding the bag. Yeah, they didn't pay a dime for this massive order. I'm not normally a #boycott guy, but #Musk and Musk companies are totally worth boycotting. Don't give that dickbag your money.
Now's as good a time as any to dump that #YouTubeMusic subscription...
Clear union busting antics here by another corp refusing to take care of its employees.
"More than 100 music acts and individual musicians dropped out of the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival this year in Austin, Texas to protest the event’s sponsorship by the US Army and major defense contractors."
TIL "#boycott - to refuse to do business with, as a sign of disapproval. The #eponym inspiration was Captain Charles Boycott (1832-97), an Irish land agent so treated in 1880, in an attempt by the Irish Land League to get a break on #rent." https://www.visualthesaurus.com/?word=boycott
Truckers threaten Florida boycott over immigration law (www.tampabay.com)
Calls for suspension of deliveries to and from the state on July 1 spread on social media.
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