Heather Naomi

@mysticalmarigold.bsky.social

Gardener, yarn lover, mid-Atlantic coastal plain,8a native plant obsessed, me/cfs, left left, veteran, mom, married to Bart, Once a bookseller, always a bookseller, visual stimmer, she/her

Last week, Majdi Fathi photographed Ibrahim al-Dabba, head of the Beekeepers Cooperative in Gaza, tending to his beehives with his sons on the roof of a destroyed building in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, where the displaced family has taken refuge.

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Ben-Gvir and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman visited the site designated for a planned crocodile moat around Ketziot Prison, where Palestinian detainees are held Silman said the crocodiles would have better living conditions than the Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli prisons:

I realised there was a part of chronic illness that I'd never actually written about. Not the grief or the isolation. But the experience of living inside a body that feels so unpredictable and unsafe. Now I’ve written it. I’d love to know if it resonates with you.

The Burden of Chronic Illness That I Rarely Talk About

Being ill is hard.  What an obvious thing to say – and yet how often it goes unspoken.  I’ve written about many aspects of life with long-term illness: from the grief of dreams shat…

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TMZ stays evil and unethical. The article says AOC and her ex split up YEARS ago, but they’re framing it as something that just happened to capitalize on the sexist outrage over her freezing her eggs. They know the vast majority of people won’t read the article.

A screenshot of a TMZ post that says “💔 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez splits from fiancé Riley Roberts.” There are side-by-side photos of them with a crack graphic down the middle. The article reveals they actually split up two years ago.

Lowkey I think one of the most useful things about a formal humanities education is that you are exposed to so many airtight theories of everything that completely explain why the world is the way it is that you become aware of how easy it is to make up airtight theories of everything.

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.