sharon zhang
@sharonzhang.bsky.social
union chair and newswriter on international affairs, climate, labor, politics, etc @truthout.bsky.social
happy holiday y’all 🤎
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 AM
happy holiday y’all 🤎
Biden officials keep patting themselves on the back saying "at least we prevented famine!"
But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.
But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.
August 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Biden officials keep patting themselves on the back saying "at least we prevented famine!"
But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.
But famine is just a regulated word. You need huge swaths of starvation, built up over a long period of time, to reach famine. And starvation preceding famine isn't magically better.
Cuomo’s campaign has clearly been trying to Mamdani-fy his social media presence and literally every single tweet is incredible. They all sound like robots trying to emulate Elon Musk’s sense of humor
August 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Cuomo’s campaign has clearly been trying to Mamdani-fy his social media presence and literally every single tweet is incredible. They all sound like robots trying to emulate Elon Musk’s sense of humor
I am in no way handing it to Huckabee. This statement is bullshit.
But I'm just noting this post treats Saif with more humanity than anyone in the Biden admin ever showed to any Palestinian or Palestinian American killed by Israel. And that says a *lot* about the Biden administration.
But I'm just noting this post treats Saif with more humanity than anyone in the Biden admin ever showed to any Palestinian or Palestinian American killed by Israel. And that says a *lot* about the Biden administration.
July 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am in no way handing it to Huckabee. This statement is bullshit.
But I'm just noting this post treats Saif with more humanity than anyone in the Biden admin ever showed to any Palestinian or Palestinian American killed by Israel. And that says a *lot* about the Biden administration.
But I'm just noting this post treats Saif with more humanity than anyone in the Biden admin ever showed to any Palestinian or Palestinian American killed by Israel. And that says a *lot* about the Biden administration.
pregame; shot; chaser
June 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
pregame; shot; chaser
Incredible community note
June 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Incredible community note
Everyone else in Congress is tweeting about Iran. Nancy Mace...is still tweeting about bathrooms.
June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Everyone else in Congress is tweeting about Iran. Nancy Mace...is still tweeting about bathrooms.
The statement Yale signed yesterday:
April 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The statement Yale signed yesterday:
Perhaps beside the point but there’s… something… about people saying “hey dipshit just do the diplomatic thing and have a conversation”
and his response being “oh you mean you want me to VIOLENTLY INVADE this country???”
and his response being “oh you mean you want me to VIOLENTLY INVADE this country???”
April 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Perhaps beside the point but there’s… something… about people saying “hey dipshit just do the diplomatic thing and have a conversation”
and his response being “oh you mean you want me to VIOLENTLY INVADE this country???”
and his response being “oh you mean you want me to VIOLENTLY INVADE this country???”
The New Yorker talked to survivors of the strike that "roasted" the body of a 5 year old boy, to which National Security Adviser Waltz said 👊🇺🇸🔥
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The New Yorker talked to survivors of the strike that "roasted" the body of a 5 year old boy, to which National Security Adviser Waltz said 👊🇺🇸🔥
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Second vote, to block tens of thousands of other bombs and JDAMs, also fails, 15-83.
Looking at the votes for the first resolution, looks like Warnock and Shaheen flipped their votes, while Ossoff also declined to vote "yes" (he voted for only 2 of 3 resolutions last time.)
Looking at the votes for the first resolution, looks like Warnock and Shaheen flipped their votes, while Ossoff also declined to vote "yes" (he voted for only 2 of 3 resolutions last time.)
April 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Second vote, to block tens of thousands of other bombs and JDAMs, also fails, 15-83.
Looking at the votes for the first resolution, looks like Warnock and Shaheen flipped their votes, while Ossoff also declined to vote "yes" (he voted for only 2 of 3 resolutions last time.)
Looking at the votes for the first resolution, looks like Warnock and Shaheen flipped their votes, while Ossoff also declined to vote "yes" (he voted for only 2 of 3 resolutions last time.)
incredible to be like “aren’t these people clowns” and then in the next paragraph be like “so anyway i started putting on the clown makeup”
![Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.” (The Leavitt statement did not address which elements of the texts the White House considered sensitive, or how, more than a week after the initial air strikes, their publication could have bearing on national security.)
A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ryv6cgbbesmbv6iqu7fwbfvd/bafkreif3v3vdrcga6rigtabb3ejlmad54fyuineahw3w6r5unbdzvyhjiq@jpeg)
March 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
incredible to be like “aren’t these people clowns” and then in the next paragraph be like “so anyway i started putting on the clown makeup”
On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a hospital in Gaza where US doctors Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa were working -- just hours after they gave a CNN interview in which Perlmutter laid this *scathing* critique of US media and politicians' complicity in Israeli massacres.
![“The carnage induced by our last five presidents, our largely Republican legislature, and the previous legislatures, and the whitewashing performed by the American and Western European legacy media is directly responsible for 100 percent of the 100,000 kids” believed to be killed in the genocide by some estimates, Perlmutter said.
“And if the media cannot acknowledge, for example, that [the 1948 Nakba] even happened … then you’re not either going to investigate or report on the babies that were buried alive in the mass grave that’s not even 100 yards from me,” he said. “The issue is that, when it’s a thunderstorm in Palestine since 1948, and Israel says it’s sunny outside, the American and Western media … says it’s an absolutely beautiful day.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ryv6cgbbesmbv6iqu7fwbfvd/bafkreidzlyqq26bcbuvwag27k7jzro34aqdooedoconpgr4hygf4johjri@jpeg)
March 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a hospital in Gaza where US doctors Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa were working -- just hours after they gave a CNN interview in which Perlmutter laid this *scathing* critique of US media and politicians' complicity in Israeli massacres.
This was Hossam's last post on Instagram. Demanding accountability for Israel's attacks.
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This was Hossam's last post on Instagram. Demanding accountability for Israel's attacks.
Something to keep in mind when you think about what is and isn’t included in those “antisemitism reports” by ADL
January 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Something to keep in mind when you think about what is and isn’t included in those “antisemitism reports” by ADL
how the first week of trying to work from home with a puppy id going
December 5, 2024 at 9:36 PM
how the first week of trying to work from home with a puppy id going
I posted this on Twitter a couple months ago, just reposting again for no reason at all
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I posted this on Twitter a couple months ago, just reposting again for no reason at all
We got a puppy, welcome little Marigold to the world 🥰
November 28, 2024 at 4:16 PM
We got a puppy, welcome little Marigold to the world 🥰
Sanders, speaking on the floor ahead of the vote on his resolutions to block arms to Israel:
"You cannot condemn human rights around the world and then turn a blind eye to what the United States government is now funding in Israel."
"You cannot condemn human rights around the world and then turn a blind eye to what the United States government is now funding in Israel."
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Sanders, speaking on the floor ahead of the vote on his resolutions to block arms to Israel:
"You cannot condemn human rights around the world and then turn a blind eye to what the United States government is now funding in Israel."
"You cannot condemn human rights around the world and then turn a blind eye to what the United States government is now funding in Israel."
The ultimate sign that Rubio will be a disaster
November 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
The ultimate sign that Rubio will be a disaster
Israel mass arrested civilians before the pause in order to have more "prisoners" -- arresting people for social media posts -- to swap in the prisoner exchange, Mondoweiss reports.
December 7, 2023 at 2:45 PM
Israel mass arrested civilians before the pause in order to have more "prisoners" -- arresting people for social media posts -- to swap in the prisoner exchange, Mondoweiss reports.
decorations may or may not have been made to cover up the janky crust
November 25, 2023 at 4:32 AM
decorations may or may not have been made to cover up the janky crust
jesus christ, this line in the pro-israel resolution the house passed yesterday. basically saying israel's blockade of humanitarian assistance/creation of prison-like conditions is necessary.
October 26, 2023 at 2:14 PM
jesus christ, this line in the pro-israel resolution the house passed yesterday. basically saying israel's blockade of humanitarian assistance/creation of prison-like conditions is necessary.
this post inspired by the jerf poster 🫡
October 25, 2023 at 10:38 PM
this post inspired by the jerf poster 🫡