#current events cw

[ivanaskye]

why is this the picture npr is using for their article abt the fbi raid on trump's mar-a-lago house,

#current events cw

[coulsonlives]

This just in, watching a movie about a bomb is the same as wanting to see news of real life bombings. This is the funniest thing I've read all night, everyone else can go home

#for context some asshole working for some 'jewish org' posted a bunch of current events stuff in the oscars tag #a mutual asked them if people go into the oscars tag expecting to see posts about (implied real life) bombings #and they ducked the question like 3 times lol before answering with this gem #i can't stop laughing this is so far off the mark it's officially off the map #current events cw

[tr4umaborn]

listen y'all i'm never here but i've seen two posts on the topic today and i can't just not say anything so:

being zionist does not equal being racist or islamaphobic

as a person who attends a seminary and is training with rabbis-to-be who identify across the spectrum of zionism and anti-zionism and who has been deeply DEEPLY struggling since oct 7 with a lot of learning and unlearning it makes me sad and angry to see posts from people who "don't want to interact with people who identify as zionist".

every zionist I know does not condone the actions of the government of israel. at the same time -- millenials and gen z with a relationship to israel palestine have ONLY know netenyahu as a leader except for like...a year. before oct 7, almost all of my friends in israel were constantly attending anti-government rallies. and after? even though they'd all finished their service months or years before, many of them got sent right back in. they didn't have a choice.

many zionists I know have attended ceasefire rallys and care deeply for the humans who are affected by this war on all sides. you can be anti-occupation and still be zionist. none of these things exist separately from each other.

i'm not out here to try to change your mind, but i will ask you to consider the implications when using a term that has long LONG been associated with judaism (many israelis still today use zionism to describe their relationship to either their home or to judaism in general) as a term you're calling racist. it's antisemitic.

my school friends hear me say a lot that i wish we focused on "ahavat amo yisrael" or "love of the people of israel palestine". my heart broke october 7 for a lot of reasons, and all of them have to do with the people who's lives have been lost of who have lost friends and family on both sides.

this war didn't start in 2023, and it certainly isn't ending in 2024. this is a decades long struggle that started when the allied forces decided to give the land that was palestine to the jewish people as a state. it isn't ok that a group of people was given land that belonged to another group of people. but that fact has nothing to do with the actual people involved.

i am more than happy to have a conversation where we listen to each other about our views. i will not engage in a conversation where the purpose is to try to convince me to change my mind. it's really ok if you see this and you need to hardblock or softblock me. this is all coming from a place of love for me because i know so many people who are in pain when people reblog things or say things that equate zionism to being a bad or evil person. we're all tired.

#current events cw #your jewish friends are tired lol #i have hemmed and hawed over a post like this for a WHILE #its time #feel free to reblog #unless you want to reblog with hateful things #i truly have so much love in my heart for anyone in pain rn

[grimfey]

actually makes me extremely uncomfortable that workplaces are coming out and offering to cover the costs of travel in order for their employees to get abortions and they're getting praise. I've seen a few get called out for hypocrisy but I've seen no one call this out for what it is: a major major fucking privacy concern.

I understand that maybe it's trying to help but all it does is endanger women's jobs. no matter what some corporate hack says, that kind of request has to go through managers and bosses who are more likely to be men. just b/c one person in the company says it's safe to request funds and aid doesn't mean that their boss won't just straight up fire them for asking because he's a bigoted freak. there's no world that I want to be in where my job has to approve health procedures. I need people to understand that labor issues are critical in this.

your healthcare should not be tied to your employment. we need more mandatory sick time. we need single-payer. we need maternity leave. we need better pay, better conditions.

we need a general strike now.

#abortion cw #current events cw

[dutyworn]

i'm not in the habit of posting a lot of current events stuff on my roleplay blogs, but i was informed haymarket books is giving away ebook copies of palestine: a socialist introduction for free, if anyone would like to learn more about the topic.

"Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be won.

Through an internationalist, anti-imperialist lens, this book explores the links between the struggle for freedom in the United States and that in Palestine, and beyond. It examines both the historical and contemporary trajectory of the Palestine solidarity movement in order to glean lessons for today's organizers, and compellingly lays out the argument that, in order to achieve justice in Palestine, the movement has to take up the question of socialism regionally and internationally.

Contributors include: Jehad Abusalim, Shireen Akram-Boshar, Omar Barghouti, Nada Elia, Toufic Haddad, Omar Hassan, Remi Kanazi, Annie Levin, Mostafa Omar, Khury Petersen-Smith, and Daphna Thier."

#; outofarmour #current events cw #in case anyone had cause to question it: i am obviously of the opinion of freeing palestine.

[hegrowth]

reminder that getting a ceasefire has nothing to do with antisemitism ♡ and many of the Jewish community don't see it that way anyway, since they want the attacks on Gaza to stop too. i.e. choosing to support Palestine doesn't mean you hate Jewish people ! stop acting like it's about that, because it's not !

#《 ° selkie.exe 》 oh im trash just not approved trash #° mobile post ! #° personal ! #current events cw #idk i just keep seeing antisemitism being mentioned as a reason not to support palestine and im ???? #like if its antisemitism i think jewish people would like. say so. and i think we should trust their perceptions more than anyone elses. #also im gonna be honest and say im not really sure how to refer to parties here #i dont wanna generalize or be disrespectful so pls pls pls correct me if i refer to something incorrrectly

[emmatriarchy]

Hi hi

so a lot of you know my mother tongue is french. And I want to make it clear that I'm not in france. with the situation there I could understand if some get concerned about my safety, but we don't have riots in belgium at this point. Not like france does. What we have are strikes. No looters, no rioters.

people ARE rather unhinged tho, so I keep safe as much as I can. I only go to work and to get groceries. The rest of the time I stay home with my kid.

I just want that effin' war to end, for cost of living to go down, and to feel safe living my life.

#current events cw #tldr: i am safe #ooc

[ofprevioustimes]

jfc a.rgentina............

#ooc #dl #current events cw

[idiopath-fic-smile]

untitled pro-choice Good Omens ficbit

A friend signed onto my ongoing "donate at least $25 to an abortion-related cause and I'll write at least 250 words in any fandom I've already written in, prompt of your choice" scheme. The prompt in question is kind of a spoiler but this is lightly Aziraphale/Crowley.

In June of 1959, Aziraphale and Crowley met at a small bar in Amsterdam to sample the local licorice candies (Aziraphale), check in on some seeds of oncoming social upheaval in the works for the 1960’s (Crowley), nurse a glass of two of Jenever (Aziraphale and Crowley), and to generally savor one another’s company along with the rather strong liquor (both again, also of course, neither would outright admit it for another six decades). 

What they were doing instead, ostensibly, was comparing notes, making sure that their miracles and demonic interference were continuing to cancel each other out. 

“Typical stuff, really,” said Crowley, knocking back his glass in one gulp if only to enjoy the mildly scandalized look on his companion’s face. (Could he take the opportunity to fleetingly pretend that Aziraphale’s wide eyes lingered for a moment on his lips, his throat? Surely longing for a celestial being was a kind of sin, at least the way Crowley did it.)

“Met a girl,” Crowley continued, “took the guise of another girl to urge her towards a road that will lead her to a life at constant odds with law, order, and the general institution of the family. Even helped her along with a few guilders, to really jump-start the depravity.”

(What he’d done, was give an unmarried nineteen-year-old named Anika enough money to make a short airplane trip to Sweden, where she would find sympathetic healthcare workers willing to provide a safe and locally legal end to the fetus inside her that she desperately did not want. It had taken a while, to get the message across, that all was paid for. She had been sobbing hard at first, requiring Crowley to really twist the definition of evil in order to justify the materialization and transfer of a clean black handkerchief.)

Aziraphale chewed his stroopwafel carefully. (It was far too late in the day for such things but surely adjusting the hours of the cafe across the street barely counted as divine intervention at all. He’d thought of explaining this little spot of mischief to Crowley, in the hopes of inspiring what might’ve been a glint of appreciation in the golden eyes behind those shades, but no, that was going too far, Aziraphale couldn’t possibly.)

“You know,” Aziraphale said, “funny you should mention ah, corrupting a young woman. My miracle involved a young lady as well.”

“Did it?” said Crowley, discreetly gesturing for the waiter to bring another round of Jenever.

“She had a bright life planned out for herself,” Aziraphale went on, “but had wound up in a spot of trouble. I cleared it up for her, of course, and now she’ll spend the next forty years studying law, and then crusading for justice as a barrister. She’ll improve the lives of countless others. I’m afraid I might’ve outdone you a bit, in this case, terribly sorry.”

(Many, many years later, they would discover that not only had Aziraphale also funded a Dutch teenager’s trip to Sweden for an abortion—her name was Marit—but they had somehow managed to put their respective projects in the same airplane. The same row, even.)

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” Crowley said. “I even arranged it so that she would bring down another girl with her, tempt her to a lifetime of, what-do-you-call-it, forbidden vice.”

“That’s nice,” said Aziraphale beatifically. “I set mine up with the love of her life.”

(Anika and Marit married in June of 2001, in their early sixties.)

(Aziraphale and Crowley nearly dropped their respective champagne glasses when they saw each other at the reception. It was extremely embarrassing.)

prompt: Hey, I'd like to request 250 words of Azirphale and Crowley both helping people seek abortions, and justifying it in their own ways.

(Want to prompt your own fic bit? Here is the original post. My fandoms include Captain America, Les Mis, Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, and Zombies Run. I have plenty of spots still open and keeping busy is good for my brain in hard times.)

#abortion cw #current events cw #good omens fic #aziracrow #politics cw

[bereft-of-frogs]

Ngl the main reason I finally deleted TikTok wasn’t just because of the time suck and how it was ruining my attention span or making me feel shitty about myself/everything

But because I saw possibly the worst take to date on Ukraine and that was just the straw of stupidity that broke the camels back

It has been haunting me for two days

#I just hate how social media has convinced everyone they’re experts #god this guy was so stupid #I also hate these ‘intellectuals’ who know absolutely nothing about Eastern European history #or geopolitics in general #being like wow im so right about everything #I’m being so ~anti imperial~ by saying that ukraine should have instantly surrendered to russia #because imperialism good when russia do it? #I mean it was really just a new iteration of the ‘ukraine only hates russia because the us made them’ russian propaganda #because….they’d have no other reason to hate russia??? #maybe like…skim the Wikipedia article first #like 5 minutes bare minimum before commenting #better yet just don’t comment #anyway hopefully this has exorcised the post from my brain #current events cw

[pirateborn-a]

Lil heads up might not be active on the blogs ( ic or ooc ) for a few days!

#[ ooc ] ✧〖 bid farewell to weaver’s town 〗 #current events cw #current events tw #negative cw #[ kind of gjskgk #[ will likely be lurking/might try and send some stuff- like my inbox call or something- but Might not do much else #[ vibes are. Off #[ on the off chance any other koreans following this blog hope you and your loved ones are safe as well #[ take care #[ meant to make this post earlier but i passed out and now its 3 gjdjg #[ i am safe and i Will be fine/am fine!! Just takin a sec to make sure the vibes be fine <3 yall take care heart

[iamdarcylewis]

Piiiiiinche país homofóbico

#death cw #violence cw #homophobia cw #current events cw #{ out of tasers }

[wolffyluna]

About the submarine situation, but about my reaction to it

I have just put together why I'm finding the news more "AAAAAAAAA" inducing than expected.

I have worked at an underground mine in the past. I will likely work in an underground mine in the future. "Trapped in a small building with limited air supplies awaiting a rescue that might not come in time" is a plausible problem I could encounter. (Not a *likely* one, but to use a bad analogy, your house burning down isn't *likely* but it is *plausible* and you should plan for it, you know?)

#personal #submarine cw #current events cw

[shouta-edits]

It so awful how people on YouTube are being in the comments of the Colorado Spring shooting yesterday. I just love the blatant homophobia in the comments and people calling being gay an "agenda" these people are so out of fucking touch omfg

#Vent #Do not reblog #shooting tw #current events cw