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Queer Muslim, Arab-Turkish Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr
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Beverly Baker from the Older Women's Network said that some pensioners and part-pensioners would go without basic care because their weekly income was so low. "A shower is essential hygienic care," she said. "To ask people to choose between that and food is really an obscenity."
Demonstration against amnesty for convicted ex-President Bolsonaro. Avenida Paulista in São Paulo 🇧🇷
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Democrats are the source of all that is evil in the U.S. The Republicans just stretch their foot out and score the goal, the Democrats are the ones dribbling across the field, through the defense then serve the perfect pass. Too many Americans are not smart enough to get that
Don’t just act to disrupt on the streets. Put in complaints at every level - in writing - of government. To every board of every institution. Boost every legal pursuit. Clog the courts. You need to be well past the point of alarm and into the Act to Save Your Fucking Life part of this.
Take every vital word you see online and start printing it because this space is compromised. Start putting posters up around your neighbourhood. Organise on signal. Talk to your colleagues, talk to your unions. Work collectively. Share resources and knowledge.
They’re putting every resource possible into enshrining a white supremacist as a martyr and national hero while the state’s armed thugs round up people on the streets and brutalise them, and punish anyone - even the most privileged, like Kimmel - who dares to voice even the mildest criticism.
Politicians are owned by lobbyists and corporate interests. We all know this. Past time to target those corporations and their bosses. Name them. Disrupt their work. Shame everyone who works for them. Mass civil disobedience is an absolute necessity right now.
Time to stop marching by historic landmarks for the vibes and start aiming your marches and pickets at the office buildings of billionaires and their corporations. Name the fascist assholes behind this mess. Watch them panic.
The fatal problem facing America and the West is that most people still seem to think they can op-ed their way out of this white supremacist fascist hell. You cannot commentate your way out of structural oppression. For the billionth time: organise, strike, and take action. Now
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
Fastest way to get government to act is not to target politicians but to target capital - this is one of many reasons there are so many anti-BDS laws in the US and continued attempts by Zionists to institute them everywhere.
Time to stop marching by historic landmarks for the vibes and start aiming your marches and pickets at the office buildings of billionaires and their corporations. Name the fascist assholes behind this mess. Watch them panic.
You *especially* can’t commentate your way out of structural oppression when the vast majority of the media ecosystem is owned by psychopathic billionaires who have spent the past few years tightening control, rigging algorithms, and openly punishing dissent.
The fatal problem facing America and the West is that most people still seem to think they can op-ed their way out of this white supremacist fascist hell. You cannot commentate your way out of structural oppression. For the billionth time: organise, strike, and take action. Now
You can still buy all their work. Being a rude, abrasive loudmouth while trans is the only unforgivable sin to these people.
were to be around him at any time for any reason due to his habitual sexual harassment and assaults. Frank Miller released one of the most savagely Islamophobic comics of all time, HOLY TERROR, and still works with DC. There are pedophiles, war criminals, confessed sexual predators on staff.
One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women
While I got my knuckles rapped by corporate America for being rude and tasteless about a guy who dreamed of the stoning of me and everyone I love, Fox's Brian Kilmeade advocated explicitly for the state murder of all homeless people -- on live TV, no less -- to virtually no response.
Hey all! I'd like to thank the world's media institutions, and of course the Bluesky mods, for being totally normal and proportional about a barely famous trans woman cracking wise about a Nazi's death.
One of the dumbest things I’ve had the misfortune of reading.
The Nightmare Sequence is out now in the US through Nightboat Books. Here’s an excerpt of Safdar’s art - one of his sequences is called “genocide culture”. NB: All artist royalties will be donated to Palestinian aid nightboat.org/book/the-nig...
The privilege of being Palestinian on the internet. Whatever happened to that new platform everybody was talking about a week ago?
Not something the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital management will allow to be discussed:
At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.
The middle management creeps who sit on boards, the shitty CEOs who read a letter or an email and then decide they must censor an event are engaging in profoundly damaging, entirely racist actions on the basis of nothing. All of you need to grow up already.
Invariably, in the wake of any cancellation, we find Zionists have complained. This hysterical campaign of privileged racists defending their genocidal apartheid state is obscene, and frankly evil. But I reserve the most contempt for the cowards who read these letters and shit their pants.
The police actually stopped them this time. And the camp was as full, so they chickened out. But Mob is concerned they’ll come back when the crowd is gone. If anybody feels like being legends and showing some solidarity, head down there tonight to add some numbers.
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Capitol DC Police arrest and charge Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, with "impeding" after she asked Congressman Darrell Issa a question about Israel bombing Qatar. The police released Medea after charging her.
Political violence has had its global center in the United States. Saying it has no place here is just fucking stupid and ahistorical. A lie. It just usually happens to one class around the globe.
Another Father’s Day in the genocide. 700 days of relentless massacres, bombings, and torture. There has never been a weaker or more evil human population on this earth. We have earned for ourselves that distinction, to have allowed everything we have seen to continue for two goddamn years.
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
The right didn’t build an entire alternative media ecosystem just to call it even. Taking over all media has always been the goal.
No. If I say "I want to build a Mars base!" That's "Wanting to build stuff?" But if I say, "I want to end all fossil fuel cars by 2030!" That's holding back progress? 🙂🙃 "I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder? "I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist? 🙂🙃
The Lost Arabs by @omarsakr.bsky.social @andrewsmcmeel.bsky.social #poetry
"Regional Victoria is the canary in the coalmine here. As soon as it becomes unprofitable gas companies cut and run...this will keep happening" During a death spiral, people get hurt - and gas companies want to make sure it isn't them. Great piece by @envirovic.bsky.social -->>>
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
Wow. Lush, ahlan wasahalan
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
"normally that would be an insane claim but ..." 🤷♀️
A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.
NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!
#FreePalestine BRI: 10-50K MEL: 100K SYD: ? ['tens of thousands'] CAN: 2K HOB: 'thousands' PER: 25K ADE: 15K plus numerous other towns & regional centres www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
We spent decades fearing artificial intelligence, thinking it would take over & destroy us. Turns out it’s just another tool by which we can waste huge amounts of energy & resources producing meaningless nonsense as we accelerate ever faster along the path to destroy ourselves.
There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a news release from the state health department. More than 3,500 babies in Mississippi have died before the age of 1 since 2014.
Jesus Christ. We're living in a fascist nation, y'all. Please adjust all your settings accordingly and get with the groups in your local are that are fighting it.
Extremely rare non-tennis W for Djokovic. www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis...
A injured young man in Gaza drags himself across the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, without the aid of a wheelchair or crutches.
London friends: This Queer Arab Family is coming your way! Editor Elias Jahshan will be doing a series of events across the city in September, leading up to launch night at Gay’s the Word on 18 Sept. Full details for each event at our website. Come through and celebrate with us!
Come on man. This is a boomer post. We can start today and next Thursday it will be bigger and it will continue to grow every week thereafter. I'm side-eyeing some of you when you post nonsense like this
Thanks everybody who alerted me of Ruaa getting on this fascist's blocklist. Let's donate to her fundraiser or share the post
We’re already living in AI hell (Video credit goes to @cassandra.klepac on Instagram)
This quote would mean a whole lot more if we weren’t the sole supplier of the F-35 jet mechanism which enables Israel to drop the catastrophic bombs that blow those people up.
This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
"Australia has the second-lowest public expenditure on tertiary education institutions in the OECD…This has resulted in an endless chase for dollars (international students & “the next big thing”) rather than thinking about what an educated Australia should look like” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
On Sunday, The Age commissioned an opinion piece from Palestinian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah - only to decline publishing it after it was submitted. Thanks to Randa for letting us publish it here. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
On the way to Stella Day Out. At 11:30 I will be speaking to Sarah L’Estrange about Terra Nullius but for now I’m reading this:
Here’s his fundraiser chuffed.org/project/1389...
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Jamal has never done anything to anyone. The only thing he is guilty of is from being from Gaza. Bluesky is committing digital apartheid.
The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
Oh yeah I forgot about how they removed Majd literally in the middle of him getting an operation to save his leg from amputation
So Bluesky has decided to remove @jamalzuhir.bsky.social who has been on here for well over a year, doesn’t spam and has only ever had one account so he was never removed before.
Meanwhile in Australia; good trans news. Our Supreme Court told the director of our transphobe organisation, Binary Australia, that what she claims is 'advocacy work' against a trans woman is 'cyber bullying and harassment.' This transphobe just lost her appeal against an apprehended violence order.
"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...
in Australia principled writers have pulled out of Bendigo Writers Festival after concerns of being censored about the genocide occurring in Palestine, while in the UK we have heroic authors withdrawing from the LGBTQIA+ focused Polari prize after it shortlisted a proud anti-trans "terf" author
If you haven't already, stop buying & letting others you care about buy industrially-farmed, regularly sick & diseased Tasmanian salmon
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Then you can apologise for lying when you said "codes of conduct" are common at writers festivals. I have been to most writers festivals in the country more than once and I have never seen such a code of conduct for speakers.
You can start by apologising for the "Code of Conduct" and for sending it to us 2 days before the festival started. You can then apologise for the response you sent to the press when you discovered how deeply you had fucked up.
I imagine if Bendigo writers festival manages to pull their shit together and organise a festival for next year it will not be supported by the majority of writers unless they and La Trobe apologise for their fuck up and their mealy-mouthed, condescending statement in response to their fuck up.
The Bendigenocide Festival. It seems Australian arts and cultural institutions haven’t had their fill yet of humiliating themselves, trashing their reputation, and harming their relationships with staff, authors, and audiences all to satisfy Zionists who are mass murdering kids every day.
BRO WTF IS THIS??????
🧔🏿♂️I can't believe that Trump would deploy over 1,000 national guard troops to NYC to harass Black people, despite historically low and dropping crime! This is just fascism and a show of force designed to intimidate! 👩🏼Um... don't you mean DC? And it's only 800 soldiers? 🧔🏿♂️No, it was 1,000 and NYC.🤡
“there are and have always been two states-one for the living, one for the dead” what a verse
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
“There are and have always been two states—one for the living, one for the dead….” 🖤
Recognition in the genocide.
Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif’s final message before assassination by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharifs-final-message-assassination-israel
Obviously, no mainstream outlet is going to let Palestinians have a voice about our own recognition, and many "progressive" publications are not much better. We should be hearing from Palestinians right now. If you're in a position to commission something, please contact me.
It doesn't make profits, and possibly never will, but it makes billionaires. But don't you dare call it a bubble.
BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
No secret that the reason companies like OpenAI intentionally hide their energy and environment metrics is because they look very, very, very, very bad and the company is more valuable if the damage they do is kept secret
🚨Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal's "husband" claims are a lie – the couple have been donating together for decades, investigations reveal. The couple’s donations were even overseen and applauded by a sitting NSW Premier... Explosive 👇 theklaxon.com.au/lztu
i think we have under-theorized and under-prepared for this moment, because people think fascism is still RISING fascism is HERE. it is ASCENDANT. and now it is wondering how much you, personally, would cost to get onboard
Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
![@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibrddxw227e4ldwrtdrf4nfz4riyb3yfyluczrelklrnnnp7e7l6m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibsutqtdx2tbxfm64xbjp4nspzgvdg6xvxewm244dbplmeuoznnvy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
