Usdi Crittenden
@lilusdi.bsky.social
Same doofus as on twitter. Ndn anarcho-judaism. Non-dirtbag leftist. Unemployed cell/molecular biologist with a powerful rage for health misinfo. Wants to see pictures of your pets. Wondering how long I can make a descri
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Usdi Crittenden
@lilusdi.bsky.social
· May 20
In-progress thread of my own Palestinian-made gift sources!
I definitely am seconding the recommendation of Canaan brand and Handmade Palestine (which is run by a delightful couple in Ramallah), but would also like to recommend the Al-Ard brand (run by the Anabtawi family) for their oils and foods. You can shop at alardproducts.com or look in your local
My policy on sharing campaigns:
I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of
I will automatically consider gfm campaigns to be legitimate. @mommunism.bsky.social has touched on this before, and I've seen it firsthand with a friend who is trying to help his fiance escape Russia: gfm heavily vets all campaigns. They often err on the side of
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Capital as capital simply pursues profit in the cycle of endless accumulation. But *capitalists* need to balance the pursuit of profit with preserving the stability of the social system within which capital exists, on the one hand, and their own privileged position within that system, on the other.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Capital as capital simply pursues profit in the cycle of endless accumulation. But *capitalists* need to balance the pursuit of profit with preserving the stability of the social system within which capital exists, on the one hand, and their own privileged position within that system, on the other.
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For 27 hours straight, a team of four scammers posing as Oakland police kept her on the phone and isolated, manipulating the John Muir elementary teacher into delivering nearly $70,000.
Bogus cops and crypto ATMs: Berkeley teacher scammed of her life savings
For 27 hours straight, a team of four scammers posing as Oakland police kept her on the phone and isolated as they worked their con.
oaklandside.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For 27 hours straight, a team of four scammers posing as Oakland police kept her on the phone and isolated, manipulating the John Muir elementary teacher into delivering nearly $70,000.
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Eleven THOUSAND disappeared
Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers.
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
The search for Gaza's missing
Over 11,000 Palestinians have disappeared since Oct. 7. Relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, under rubble or in prison.
www.972mag.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Eleven THOUSAND disappeared
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"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I was really underselling what was about to happen with the word "weird"
Multiple jews: our safety cannot come at the expense of Palestinian lives
Weird gentiles: no, you just don't understand
Weird gentiles: no, you just don't understand
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I was really underselling what was about to happen with the word "weird"
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Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
They keep deleting @taqwaaa.bsky.social but I'm going to keep sharing her campaign and her story.
gofund.me/b4901a75
gofund.me/b4901a75
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
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woah plot twist
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
woah plot twist
Is "my bad" a lemma of "mea culpa"?
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Is "my bad" a lemma of "mea culpa"?
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“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).”
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!
BE NORMAL ABOUT JEWS AND BLACK PEOPLE
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
BE NORMAL ABOUT JEWS AND BLACK PEOPLE
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THE WHITE HOUSE IS LITERALLY A GAPING HOLE AND THEY STILL CAN'T STOP LOSING TO THIS MAN
WHY
ARE
YOU
WAITING
FOR
ELECTIONS
WHY
ARE
YOU
WAITING
FOR
ELECTIONS
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 AM
THE WHITE HOUSE IS LITERALLY A GAPING HOLE AND THEY STILL CAN'T STOP LOSING TO THIS MAN
WHY
ARE
YOU
WAITING
FOR
ELECTIONS
WHY
ARE
YOU
WAITING
FOR
ELECTIONS
I mostly get run-of-the-mill shitty arguments in my replies but every so often someone decides to be an incredibly racist weirdo
I do not believe a single Black American is advocating for returning to chattel slavery, and to act like such a thing would be comparable to Jews saying "hey please stop murdering children" is BUCKWILD
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I mostly get run-of-the-mill shitty arguments in my replies but every so often someone decides to be an incredibly racist weirdo
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- Babanusa ERR: city now a 'ghost town'; 100% of residents have fled.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF collected hundreds of bodies in Elfashir & buried them in mass graves, or burned them to get rid of evidence of their crimes.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF collected hundreds of bodies in Elfashir & buried them in mass graves, or burned them to get rid of evidence of their crimes.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
- Babanusa ERR: city now a 'ghost town'; 100% of residents have fled.
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF collected hundreds of bodies in Elfashir & buried them in mass graves, or burned them to get rid of evidence of their crimes.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF collected hundreds of bodies in Elfashir & buried them in mass graves, or burned them to get rid of evidence of their crimes.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Glad they're protecting themselves and not, yknow, the people they're paid with taxpayer money to supposedly represent
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Glad they're protecting themselves and not, yknow, the people they're paid with taxpayer money to supposedly represent
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The patronizing is sickening.
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The patronizing is sickening.
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The problem with "we have no choice but to do this thing Trump and the GOP want because otherwise the government stays shut down" is that there's no limiting principle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The problem with "we have no choice but to do this thing Trump and the GOP want because otherwise the government stays shut down" is that there's no limiting principle.
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It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption.
But that would require believing in things.
But that would require believing in things.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption.
But that would require believing in things.
But that would require believing in things.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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Hi friends
I have absolutely no dollars and need foods and weeds, so I can eat the foods (I have gastroparesis)
I hate asking especially with everyone struggling, but I’m desperate 💜
$LaurenMcKenziest ca,v,pp -thank you so so much.
I have absolutely no dollars and need foods and weeds, so I can eat the foods (I have gastroparesis)
I hate asking especially with everyone struggling, but I’m desperate 💜
$LaurenMcKenziest ca,v,pp -thank you so so much.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Hi friends
I have absolutely no dollars and need foods and weeds, so I can eat the foods (I have gastroparesis)
I hate asking especially with everyone struggling, but I’m desperate 💜
$LaurenMcKenziest ca,v,pp -thank you so so much.
I have absolutely no dollars and need foods and weeds, so I can eat the foods (I have gastroparesis)
I hate asking especially with everyone struggling, but I’m desperate 💜
$LaurenMcKenziest ca,v,pp -thank you so so much.
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they're just looking for assurances that Thune was lying and there will be no vote.
Rick Scott, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson have not voted. They appear to be negotiating something with Thune in the back of the Senate chamber.
We are at 56-40
Also waiting on Cornyn
We are at 56-40
Also waiting on Cornyn
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
they're just looking for assurances that Thune was lying and there will be no vote.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”