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Caitlin VanArsdale

@cachava.bsky.social

Director/EP for feature & series animation. All views are my own. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 free 🇵🇸 free 🇱🇧 free 🇸🇩 free 🇨🇩 no one is free until we’re all free.

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Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's right to be outraged. Just as it's right to be outraged when ICE guns someone down. But I also want us to remember all of the people dying due to deplorable conditions in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers, bc they are also being murdered by the state.

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2mo ago

⭕️ Gaza Slides Back Toward Famine as Community Kitchens Run Dry Displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis took to the streets banging empty pots this week to protest cuts to food aid, as Gaza risks sliding back toward famine, Ultra Palestine reported. The communal kitchens that thousands rely on for...

⭕️ Gaza Slides Back Toward Famine as Community Kitchens Run Dry Displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis took to the streets banging empty pots this week to protest cuts to food aid, as Gaza risks sliding back toward famine, Ultra Palestine reported. The communal kitchens that thousands rely on for a daily hot meal are buckling under Israel’s aid restrictions, collapsing funding, and depleted stocks, even as the number of hungry grows. Families who lost their incomes during the war can no longer afford the scarce food that is often on the shelves. The UN humanitarian office has called Gaza “the hungriest place on earth.” The October ceasefire pushed back the famine confirmed in Gaza Governorate last August, but the latest IPC assessment still places all of Gaza’s governorates in Emergency, the phase below famine, with 1.6 million people, 77% of the population, facing acute food insecurity. UN and major humanitarian agencies warn those fragile gains “could vanish overnight” and hundreds of thousands could rapidly slip back into famine without sustained funding and access. More from Oxfam’s Gaza expert below 👇
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2mo ago

2. Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi warned the Security Council that Gaza’s ceasefire is failing and that Palestinians are being “denied the basic conditions to survive.” She said Israel has “deliberately dismantled” the humanitarian systems needed for recovery, blocked orgs like UNRWA & Oxfam, destroyed...

2. Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi warned the Security Council that Gaza’s ceasefire is failing and that Palestinians are being “denied the basic conditions to survive.” She said Israel has “deliberately dismantled” the humanitarian systems needed for recovery, blocked organizations like UNRWA and Oxfam, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and left civilians trapped, displaced, hungry, and unprotected. “The Council must hold the parties accountable now,” she said, urging member states to use “all available political, diplomatic and legal tools” to end atrocities, end the occupation, protect civilians and ensure their trade, business, and military ties “do not sustain further violations.” 🎥 Remarks in full:
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2mo ago

⭕️ Iran has informed Hezbollah that it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Israel publicly commits to a “comprehensive ceasefire” in Lebanon & an end to military operations there, a Hezbollah official tells the Associated Press. The official said Hezbollah would also commit to a ceasefire...

⭕️ Iran has informed Hezbollah that it will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until Israel publicly commits to a “comprehensive ceasefire” in Lebanon and an end to military operations there, a Hezbollah official tells the Associated Press. The official said Hezbollah would also commit to a ceasefire if Israel does.
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 2mo ago

🇱🇧 NEW: The Lebanese resistance says Israel has carried out more than 300 strikes across Lebanon since dawn Friday, killing at least 111 people and wounding 176 despite the ceasefire. On Sat.: 🔸 In Qanaarit, north of the Zahrani River, an Israeli strike killed 9 people & wounded 22, most of them...

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now would be an excellent time to pre-order Chris Smalls’s forthcoming book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036...

When the Revolution Comes by Chris Smalls: 9780593700631 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and...

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New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3mo ago

Chris Smalls, the labor organizer and activist known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization, was allegedly tackled outside of the #MetGala by security.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Part of this is definitely that China stopped buying US soybeans, soy farmers are desperately trying to unload their stock and thus every food manufacturer is getting a glut of cheap soy protein to add to whatever they can.

Andrea Rosales recovering from SDCC 😵‍💫@andrearosales.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So many more snack foods now advertise that they include protein in them, and likely because meat is becoming more expensive to purchase. (Protein chips, cookies, etc).

Caitlin VanArsdale@cachava.bsky.social · 4mo ago

as someone who has worked closely with studio executives at all levels for almost a decade, i can tell you most of these people are only thinking about themselves. wiping out creatives while going all in on AI as a global depression looms? yeah, they’re looting the house before the storm hits.

Michael Ruocco@michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The late great Bob McKnight's artwork is at risk of being seized and destroyed if something isn't done about it. His dearest friend and mentee Rob Griggs has set up a GoFundMe to help save his property, including his extensive art archives. Bob LOVED animation and it's history, help preserve it!

Donate to Preserve Bob McKnight’s Incredible Art Legacy, organized by Robert Griggs

Hi, I’m Robert Griggs. I’ve worked in animation for over 30 years. You all… Robert Griggs needs your support for Preserve Bob McKnight’s Incredible Art Legacy

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Caitlin VanArsdale@cachava.bsky.social · 4mo ago

my deepest wish is to exist in a world where every single life is treated as the miracle that it is. a world where an injury to one is an injury to all, and we all embody the responsibility to protect each other. it seems like such a far away dream sometimes, but i have to believe it is possible.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 4mo ago

📌 Iran may withdraw from the ceasefire if Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue, a source told Tasnim News Agency. The source said the US-backed deal included halting attacks “on all fronts,” including Lebanon, & accused Israel of violating it. Iran’s armed forces are now identifying targets for a...

📌 Iran may withdraw from the ceasefire if Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue, a source told Tasnim News Agency. The source said the U.S.-backed deal included halting attacks “on all fronts,” including Lebanon, and accused Israel of violating it. Iran’s armed forces are now identifying targets for a possible response, warning that if Washington cannot restrain Israel, Tehran “will act with force.”
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 4mo ago

💢 REPORT | What’s New in Hormuz 🔸As a 2-week ceasefire takes hold, Iran is asserting formal control over the Strait of Hormuz — requiring oil tankers to pay tolls in Bitcoin & submit cargo details before passage, the Financial Times reports. 🔸Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas...

💢 REPORT | What’s New in Hormuz 🔸As a two-week ceasefire takes hold, Iran is asserting formal control over the Strait of Hormuz — requiring oil tankers to pay tolls in Bitcoin and submit cargo details before passage, the Financial Times reports. 🔸Hamid Hosseini, a spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, said tankers must email cargo details, after which Iran sets a $1-per-barrel toll payable in cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions tracing. Empty tankers may pass freely. 🔸“Iran is not in a rush” to process vessels, he added. Tankers in the Gulf have also received radio warnings they could face military strikes without prior Iranian approval: “If any vessels try to transit without permission, they will be destroyed,” according to a recording shared with the FT. 🔸A senior Iranian official told Reuters the strait could reopen Thursday or Friday ahead of talks in Pakistan, though access would remain limited and coordinated with Iran’s military. 🔸Oman said it will not enforce tolls, citing international maritime obligations — contradicting earlier reporting from the Associated Press that the framework may allow both Iran and Oman to charge transit fees, with Iran directing revenue toward reconstruction.