Laura

US and Israel attack Iran and other news of the depravity of power and how to resist

The US and Israel attack Iran, Lebanon...
here's a summary of the news
open.substack.com/pub/petergel...

Brazil’s President Lula is a hero to the Left but he recently privatized entire rivers in the Amazon. He *gave* the Tapajós river to the Cargill Corp. so they could dredge (destroy) it to increase the volume of their soy shipments, a major driver of deforestation.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

So excited that Becky Chambers has a new book coming out this fall!!

www.otherscribbles.com/as-you-wake-...

Whenever something is described as “no nonsense” I’m skeptical. NO nonsense? What do you do during lunchtime?

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.

Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit.

We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

I just think fandom communities look fun and bring people together in really cool ways, especially when they use their fandom to fundraise/organize...and I wish I could be part of that, but I just don't seem to be wired that way.

Like I was obsessed with the first season of Our Flag Means Death, watched it like 5 or 6 times...and then didn't really like the second season, and now I still have positive feelings toward the show but no desire to rewatch it or make art about it or look at art about it.

I wish I were more of a fandom person, but I get really into a show/movie for a few weeks or maybe months and then fall out of it completely.

No matter how much I love a piece of media, I just can't stay into it for that long.

These are so pretty!

Let's see what happens...

Fuck ICE Protest Flag (Purple & Yellow) Auction item 'Fuck ICE Protest Flag (Purple & Yellow)' hosted online at 32auctions.

2. www.32auctions.com/organization...

2026 Cache Pride Center Online Auction Donor Form Thank you for your interest in supporting the Cache Pride Center's mission to foster an inclusive and supportive community for our LGBTQ+ youth! We are organizing an online auction to raise funds th...

Psst crafters! If you were making stuff for the #FandomMarket that didn’t get done in time, and you still want to donate them to a craft auction for a good cause, my local queer youth center is having another craft auction fundraiser launching at the end of May!

Sign up to donate crafts here! 👇

Pride Stitch Keychain Auction item 'Pride Stitch Keychain' hosted online at 32auctions.

It's my birthday, it's my fundraiser (+team!), and my daughter is SO excited to have contributed... so i'm dropping hers early!

My 9 year old learned to cross stitch for last year's auction, and she made this progress pride keychain for this one!!

www.32auctions.com/organization...

#fandommarket

dr.cbs_1d Identity politics is when your identity—or more accurately, what I call your structural location-informs you politics. Identity reduction is when your identity is your only politics-your politics are reduced to identity. I reject the latter and find value in the former.

Really good and succinct explanation of identity politics vs. identity reductionism from Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly

Iran Resources This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-c...

Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history.

www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

For some reason this reminded me of a nurse telling me about the weirdest/funniest thing she saw during a colonoscopy: a Fuji apple label stuck to the inside of someone's innards.

Protip: remove sticker, THEN bite.

singer from brass solidarity band shatters a sheet of ice as the band plays “lovely day” at the abolish ICE benefit festival in minneapolis held across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in january

For what it's worth, I mostly read non-fiction - I find it takes more mental energy to suspend disbelief and get into a fictional world, whereas non-fiction is much easier for me to get into.

I do love fiction when I'm in the right mood for it, but that's not super often.

Boston-area folks, here is a great campaign to plug into if you want to work for a free Palestine locally:

Literally any Jew should know better than to try to help someone with even vaguely Nazi-adjacent views gain access to power!! This never ends well for us!

Personally, as a Jewish person and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, the amount of benefit of the doubt I would extend to anyone with a Nazi tattoo is zero!

That seems to be the same author - it's interesting that she writes about such different topics! This one looks good, will definitely check it out.

Ooh!

it’s never felt more stark to me, the way direct action, community defense, and a whole host of forms of refusal are being blunted by those see (and/or who want others to see) such actions as “disagreement with a policy” or “seeking policy change”

@blackamazon.bsky.social and I are available for consulting on this topic. We could prevent so much harm and bullshit in return for housing security and no more student loans!!!

Right-wing white supremacist Jews like Stephen Miller are bad enough, but left-liberal Jews who claim to be against oppressive systems but then support an actual Nazi are even worse.

Literally any Jew should know better than to try to help someone with even vaguely Nazi-adjacent views gain access to power!! This never ends well for us!

It drives me absolutely batty when other Jews, like Bernie Sanders and Naomi Klein, support Platner - their desire to win the game of electoralism has clearly won out over their own integrity and self-preservation instincts.

Personally, as a Jewish person and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, the amount of benefit of the doubt I would extend to anyone with a Nazi tattoo is zero!