Also woof!

Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesperson Abu Obeida in with a strong call for hope and resilience in the face of Israeli genocide:

We want to convey to our enemy that we are impatiently awaiting the opportunity to introduce [its forces] to new forms of demise.

We tell the world today that the olive trees in Gaza were deeply enrooted in this land way before the ancestors of these newcomers from all over the globe were even born.

We witnessed the exceptional courage of one of our fighters, armed with victory provided by Allah, as he destroyed three enemy vehicles, killing and injuring [Israeli sodliers] inside. The enemy retreated hastily, almost as if fleeing from a full-fledged army.

Abu Obeida underscored that the Resistance in Gaza does not appeal to Arab leaders to mobilize their forces in defense of Gaza's children or sacred sites, affirming that the Resistance already took the responsibility of ending this occupation entity upon itself.

The myth of the invincible I"D"F is gone. Palestine will not wait to be liberated. She will liberate herself!

[Edit If you don't want to read the whole thing - you can read just the first two paragraphs.]

archive.today • On Race, House Speaker Mike Johnson Says His Views Were Shaped By Raising a Black Child - The New York Times

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Before this week, Mr. Johnson was an obscure southern Republican, with little known about his background beyond his home state; the story of Michael, who was 14 when he joined the Johnson family, was even less known.

In his public remarks over the years, Mr. Johnson describes Michael as his son and did not correct an interviewer who described Michael as "adopted." Ms. Day said in an interview that the Johnsons did not formally adopt Michael because of the "lengthy adoption process." Ms. Day declined to say whether Michael was using "Johnson" as his surname.

[...]

When Mike Johnson, the new House speaker, talks about race in America, he often draws a striking personal connection, telling the story of how he and his wife, Kelly, "took custody" of a Black teenager 24 years ago and raised him as a son.

"I have walked with him through discrimination that he has had to endure over the years and the hurdles he sometimes faced," he told a House committee in 2019, while testifying against reparations for slavery. "I know all this because I was with him."

When Mr. Johnson was named House speaker this week, his relationship with his son, like much of Mr. Johnson's personal and political life, faced new scrutiny. There is no mention of the man, who is now an adult, raising his own family in California, in Mr. Johnson's official biography. And he does not appear in the family photos posted on the congressman's website. Mr. Johnson has four biological children: two daughters and two sons.

On Friday, Mr. Johnson sought to explain the absence, saying it was in deference to his son Michael's request for privacy. [...] Michael could not be reached for comment.

[...]

Mr. Johnson has spoken publicly about Michael largely when he has talked about race. He has described Michael as a "success story" and likened the experience of being a white couple adopting a Black teenager to the movie "The Blind Side," the 2009 film that depicts a wealthy white family taking in an impoverished Black teenager who becomes a football star.

In his testimony on racial reparations before a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Johnson said that Michael, too, opposed reparations because it defied an "important tradition of self-reliance." Mr. Johnson's comments drews boos from supporters of reparations in the hearing.

[...]

Mr. Johnson's remarks on race have also drawn criticism from the right. In a 2020 interview on PBS, he spoke with the journalist Walter Isaacson about racial tensions in America in the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer. Mr. Johnson described the killing of Mr. Floyd as "an act of murder," and said he had learned about racial disparities in America firsthand from raising a Black son.

At the time, Mr. Johnson noted that his oldest biological son, Jack, was now the same age as Michael was when he came into the house. "And I've thought often through all these ordeals over the last couple of weeks about the difference in the experiences between my two 14-year-old sons," he said in the PBS interview. "Michael being a Black American and Jack being white Caucasian. They have different challenges. My son Jack has an easier path. He just does."

beloved /r/Stupidpol neoliberal eugenicist Freddie Deboer: crying to his PMC class of proto-Jeffrey Epstein high school teachers about "(((those ghetto kids))) must have bad genes to not be educated by me, an epic redditor"

woke leftoids: "uhh actually I'm not a settler because our genocide is over, the book Settlers is stupid and outdated and doesn't apply to an epic decolonization radlib like me. By the way free markets for individual consumers are superior to Stalinism, we must work with Reaganites to smash the state like our anarchist comrades did to Ukraine!"

Wanted to get a thread together to highlight aid groups that can be donated to to help Palestinian aid

• https://www.palestinercs.org/en
• https://www.pcrf.net/
• https://upaconnect.org/
• https://www.mecaforpeace.org/
• https://www.palestiniansocialfund.com/support
• Hasan fundraiser (https://x.com/hasanthehun/status/1713286510127219114?s=20) (https://donate.tiltify.com/@hasanabi/palestinian-medical-assistance)

~~That's the only one I know of but leaning on y'all for help to spread the word. Lots of medical aid needed so let's direct our energy toward those helping in Gaza~~

Keep em coming and I'll try to continue to add them here

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/72043

2/4/2021 Update: In light of chucklefuck TERF shit with Giggle, I am once again demanding the rest of you liberals educate yourselves on trans issues with Trans Liberation as a starting point. And you better believe more literature on minority struggle is in the pipelines. We're doing some reading this month, libs. Get ready.

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AUDIOBOOKS HAVE BEEN RECORDED FOR ALL 8 CHAPTERS. YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR LIBERALISM.

https://hexbear.net/post/48476

Follow that link and you'll find a free download of the book in pdf and comrade @EugeneDebs's epub, comrade @futomes' audiobooks for all eight chapters, and notes and discussions from the book (and don't you dare just read the fucking notes you god damn liberals, read the fucking book or listen to the audiobook).

I spent an entire weekend night scanning the whole damn book so y'all could educate yourselves on the fucking struggles we've been screaming about for the past six months and hardly any of you damn cissie libs participated. Had you participated you'd probably have a better understanding of the struggles we face and we probably wouldn't be in this situation where trans people are heading for this damn hills because you're all shit libs driving us away.

Fucking read it or listen to the audiobooks and I won't ask again. It's all free. The book is only 147 pages - that's 7 pages per night for exactly 3 weeks. I wipe my fucking ass with 7 pages, that's nothing. People put genuine effort into this to ensure you could educate yourselves and you have no reason not to outside of fucking liberalism.

It reads quick. Drop whatever the fuck you're reading and read this. Now. :leslie-shining:

~~Edit: I'll be throwing up a discussion thread at some point in the next week or so for you damn shitlibs to comment on with things you find meaningful so I'll know if you actually gave a shit. I swear to God I better see y'all in the comments.~~

If you're having trouble downloading, there are links in this comment by u/hexaflexagonbear that seem to work.

Hexbear has been getting a lot more attention and activity as of late, and while it is very fun to dunk on the new people posting on the site in bad faith, a post to appreciate the new good faith users contributing to the site seems like a great idea.

So, what new users do you appreciate, and what should other potential new users do to get the same reception?

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