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This is some beautifully-executed satire.

Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss (whose reign lasted a mere 45 days) appeared at an event to promote her new book Ten Years to Save the West. As she was blathering on, activist group Led by Donkeys lowered a remote-controlled banner reading "I crashed the economy," with a picture of the famous head of lettuce that outlasted her time in office.

Truss, like most conservative politicians, had no sense of humor about the event, and marched off the stage.

Yanked from the Blue Site, a cyberpunk bear offers his insights on the weirdness going on around bears lately.

While it's very important for progressives to monitor their own antisemitism when speaking for Palestinian rights, it's also very true that a lot of the discussion about antisemitism that shows up in the mainstream press is calculated to erase the fact that a lot of American Jews have been standing up in opposition to Israel's wholesale massacre of the Gaza Palestinians — and in some cases, Zionism as a whole.

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In a statement responding to those recent antisemitic incidents, Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, the student group coalition behind the campus encampments, condemned any form of hate or bigotry and “stand[s] vigilant against non-students attempting to disrupt the solidarity being forged among students — Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, Black, and pro-Palestinian classmates and colleagues who represent the full diversity of our country.”

Shabbat for Ceasefire organizers like Sabrina Ellis, a junior at the University of Los Angeles, say they feel like they’ve found that solidarity with their fellow anti-Zionist Jewish peers. She and the other Jewish young people that spoke to Teen Vogue for this story say that, even in instances when there was no explicit hostility, anti-Zionist students feel alienated in mainstream Jewish spaces, which they say are mostly Zionist. “You can't agree to disagree on genocide,” Ellis says. 33-ee62b9db7d06.webp)___

A nice, concise overview of the reasons to move away from social media, and how to do it, including the Fediverse and POSSE.