Tanista
@tanista.bsky.social
Hope and positivity comes from resistance. From resistance to fake ceasefire deals that enable genocide, from resistance to the imperialist narratives that promote such lies.
Hope and positivity comes from dismantling the neoliberal story of progress and seeing the world for what it is.
Hope and positivity comes from dismantling the neoliberal story of progress and seeing the world for what it is.
You're Not A Doomer: The Radical Logic Against Positive News
A friend asked me the other day if I’ve considered writing a positive article as a one-off for Christmas.
www.donotpanic.news
December 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hope and positivity comes from resistance. From resistance to fake ceasefire deals that enable genocide, from resistance to the imperialist narratives that promote such lies.
Hope and positivity comes from dismantling the neoliberal story of progress and seeing the world for what it is.
Hope and positivity comes from dismantling the neoliberal story of progress and seeing the world for what it is.
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Israel has announced the suspension of more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in its latest action taken against NGOs that operate in Palestine.
jrnl.ie/6915094
jrnl.ie/6915094
Israel bans Doctors Without Borders and around 25 other NGOs from working in Gaza
NGOs and UN agencies have consistently disputed Israeli claims about how much aid is entering the devastated territory.
jrnl.ie
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Israel has announced the suspension of more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in its latest action taken against NGOs that operate in Palestine.
jrnl.ie/6915094
jrnl.ie/6915094
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Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
December 31, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Al Jazeera asked displaced Palestinian children about their hopes for the new year. I wanted to share their responses here:
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🇧🇷🗣️ MANIFESTAÇÃO DE DOMINGO | A Pública acompanhou em São Paulo as manifestações contra o PL da Dosimetria, neste domingo (14). Na ocasião, perguntamos aos manifestantes quais temas eles gostariam de ver sendo votados pelo Congresso.
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🇧🇷🗣️ MANIFESTAÇÃO DE DOMINGO | A Pública acompanhou em São Paulo as manifestações contra o PL da Dosimetria, neste domingo (14). Na ocasião, perguntamos aos manifestantes quais temas eles gostariam de ver sendo votados pelo Congresso.
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🇧🇷 Manifestantes de esquerda vão às ruas em algumas capitais contra o Congresso Nacional e em apoio ao governo Lula.
Críticas ao PL da Dosimetria e à condução da Câmara dos Deputados pelo presidente Hugo Motta foram registradas nos atos.
Críticas ao PL da Dosimetria e à condução da Câmara dos Deputados pelo presidente Hugo Motta foram registradas nos atos.
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🇧🇷 Manifestantes de esquerda vão às ruas em algumas capitais contra o Congresso Nacional e em apoio ao governo Lula.
Críticas ao PL da Dosimetria e à condução da Câmara dos Deputados pelo presidente Hugo Motta foram registradas nos atos.
Críticas ao PL da Dosimetria e à condução da Câmara dos Deputados pelo presidente Hugo Motta foram registradas nos atos.
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O Congresso, que deveria ser a voz do povo, virou palco de um espetáculo deprimente em defesa de quem atacou a democracia. Na calada da noite, aprovaram o PL da Dosimetria para aliviar a barra de golpistas.
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
O Congresso, que deveria ser a voz do povo, virou palco de um espetáculo deprimente em defesa de quem atacou a democracia. Na calada da noite, aprovaram o PL da Dosimetria para aliviar a barra de golpistas.
Democracia? Há em 2025 prisioneiros políticos pró-Palestina no sistema prisional britânico em greve de fome!
There are now 7 pro-Palestine political prisoners in the British prison system who are on hunger strikes, some for 1 month+. Their health is deteriorating rapidly, but there has been no state response or major media coverage.
We have to ⬆️ the pressure now!!!
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
We have to ⬆️ the pressure now!!!
electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
British hunger strikers learn prison lessons from Palestine
"People out here have to be their voices," says sister.
electronicintifada.net
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Democracia? Há em 2025 prisioneiros políticos pró-Palestina no sistema prisional britânico em greve de fome!
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By the end of October 2025, Israel destroyed 98% of Gaza’s tree cropland and 75% of its greenhouses.
This destruction will have horrific long-term environmental impacts on Gaza.
This destruction will have horrific long-term environmental impacts on Gaza.
98% of Gaza’s Tree Cropland Destroyed by Israel - Eos
Maps based on remote sensing analysis could inform remediation efforts by identifying whether agricultural lands were damaged by bombs, debris, or forced displacement of its caretakers.
eos.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
By the end of October 2025, Israel destroyed 98% of Gaza’s tree cropland and 75% of its greenhouses.
This destruction will have horrific long-term environmental impacts on Gaza.
This destruction will have horrific long-term environmental impacts on Gaza.
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“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. [...] the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”
Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire
More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by c...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. [...] the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.”
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Israel’s genocide has destroyed nearly 90% of Gaza’s economy, causing the worst economic collapse ever recorded. In 2024 alone, Israel caused Gaza’s GDP to decline by 83%, according to data reported by the UN Trade and Development agency. Now, Gaza’s economy stands at just 13% of its 2022 levels.
Gaza Economy at 13 Percent of Pre-Genocide Level, With Worst Collapse on Record
“Multidimensional poverty now engulfs all Gazans,” one UN official said.
truthout.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Israel’s genocide has destroyed nearly 90% of Gaza’s economy, causing the worst economic collapse ever recorded. In 2024 alone, Israel caused Gaza’s GDP to decline by 83%, according to data reported by the UN Trade and Development agency. Now, Gaza’s economy stands at just 13% of its 2022 levels.
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, & struggle: solidarity. Here, we hear from Hannah Lillith Assadi.
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, & struggle: solidarity. Here, we hear from Hannah Lillith Assadi.
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Every coffee you click “weekly” on is a true lifeline for for six families & a camp (of fifteen more!) to survive ongoing genocide.
Read that back. Hope, not hopelessness.
Urgent needs right now are emergency healthcare for three women, food, shelter.
Read that back. Hope, not hopelessness.
Urgent needs right now are emergency healthcare for three women, food, shelter.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Every coffee you click “weekly” on is a true lifeline for for six families & a camp (of fifteen more!) to survive ongoing genocide.
Read that back. Hope, not hopelessness.
Urgent needs right now are emergency healthcare for three women, food, shelter.
Read that back. Hope, not hopelessness.
Urgent needs right now are emergency healthcare for three women, food, shelter.
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Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday and held at police headquarters in Brasilia, two months after he was convicted of attempting a coup by the country’s Supreme Court.
Read more: bloom.bg/3XLKriE
📷️: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg
Read more: bloom.bg/3XLKriE
📷️: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg
November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was taken into custody on Saturday and held at police headquarters in Brasilia, two months after he was convicted of attempting a coup by the country’s Supreme Court.
Read more: bloom.bg/3XLKriE
📷️: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg
Read more: bloom.bg/3XLKriE
📷️: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg
A ceasefire?
READ: Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/pale...
Palestine Letter: Did the ‘war’ in Gaza even happen?
Now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinians have disappeared from the headlines, leaving us to wonder: to the world, did the genocide even happen?
mondoweiss.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A ceasefire?
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"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-...
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 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"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-...
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For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on.
This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline.
www.972mag.com/the-genocide...
This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline.
www.972mag.com/the-genocide...
The genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline - +972 Magazine
For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on. This is what they saw.
www.972mag.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
For two years, our team of journalists in Gaza illuminated what Israel sought to keep hidden, while enduring the very displacement, starvation, and loss that they reported on.
This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline.
www.972mag.com/the-genocide...
This is the genocide through their eyes: An illustrated timeline.
www.972mag.com/the-genocide...
Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy.
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life
Self-Help Gets Philosophical
www.thedriftmag.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
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A imprensa encampa sem pensar todo discurso de desumanização e depois de choca com a barbárie.
Os mortos em Gaza são terroristas.
Os barcos bombardeados no Caribe são de traficantes.
Os massacrados no RJ são todos bandidos.
Crimes de guerra, execução extrajudicial. Tudo torna-se normal assim.
Os mortos em Gaza são terroristas.
Os barcos bombardeados no Caribe são de traficantes.
Os massacrados no RJ são todos bandidos.
Crimes de guerra, execução extrajudicial. Tudo torna-se normal assim.
October 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A imprensa encampa sem pensar todo discurso de desumanização e depois de choca com a barbárie.
Os mortos em Gaza são terroristas.
Os barcos bombardeados no Caribe são de traficantes.
Os massacrados no RJ são todos bandidos.
Crimes de guerra, execução extrajudicial. Tudo torna-se normal assim.
Os mortos em Gaza são terroristas.
Os barcos bombardeados no Caribe são de traficantes.
Os massacrados no RJ são todos bandidos.
Crimes de guerra, execução extrajudicial. Tudo torna-se normal assim.
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"[G]enocide is coded in the DNA of Western imperialism."
"Palestine has made this clear."
"The West cannot lecture anyone now about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
"Palestine has made this clear."
"The West cannot lecture anyone now about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
Requiem for Gaza
The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled
www.counterpunch.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"[G]enocide is coded in the DNA of Western imperialism."
"Palestine has made this clear."
"The West cannot lecture anyone now about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
"Palestine has made this clear."
"The West cannot lecture anyone now about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization."
#Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide #EthnicCleansing
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It’s so great and normal that Israel can just pause and unpause ceasefire agreements in-between bombing Gaza
It’s almost like Israel never respects ceasefires, neither in Palestine nor in Lebanon.
It’s almost like Israel never respects ceasefires, neither in Palestine nor in Lebanon.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It’s so great and normal that Israel can just pause and unpause ceasefire agreements in-between bombing Gaza
It’s almost like Israel never respects ceasefires, neither in Palestine nor in Lebanon.
It’s almost like Israel never respects ceasefires, neither in Palestine nor in Lebanon.
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"[O]ver 9,100 Palestinians continue to be held in Israeli prisons."
"Some 3,544 of them are held under the Israeli system of 'administrative detention,' which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months without charge or trial."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide
"Some 3,544 of them are held under the Israeli system of 'administrative detention,' which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months without charge or trial."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide
The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal
As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or…
mondoweiss.net
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"[O]ver 9,100 Palestinians continue to be held in Israeli prisons."
"Some 3,544 of them are held under the Israeli system of 'administrative detention,' which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months without charge or trial."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide
"Some 3,544 of them are held under the Israeli system of 'administrative detention,' which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months without charge or trial."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide
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The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help...
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
“Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”
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"Fiz isto para a minha filha, cujo aniversário era para ser em cinco dias", disse um refém palestino libertado, segurando uma pequena pulseira q fizera para ela. Ele tinha acabado de saber q a ocupação israelense havia matado todos os seus filhos: Baraa, de 8 anos; Iman, de 5; e sua filha de 2 anos⤵️
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Fiz isto para a minha filha, cujo aniversário era para ser em cinco dias", disse um refém palestino libertado, segurando uma pequena pulseira q fizera para ela. Ele tinha acabado de saber q a ocupação israelense havia matado todos os seus filhos: Baraa, de 8 anos; Iman, de 5; e sua filha de 2 anos⤵️
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Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.