Lynn Wardley
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Lynn Wardley
@lynnwardley
Stella's companion species, feminisms, Lamarckisms, American literature


Trump appears to be completely asleep at his desk during his mid-morning event

I know someone who works at a risk management firm who told me that influence ops he'd witnessed in other countries looked something like: go after the most popular elected officials critical of XYZ, make them look hypocritical or fake among their own base, neutralize whichever elected officials voters might actually organize around. Bots, TikToks, rage-bait. The sudden social media surge behind certain presidential candidates in fall 2024 -- and their equally sudden disappearance the morning after Election Day -- is worth sitting with.


Hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants find themselves in limbo, many losing their jobs and risking deportation, after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services refuses to process their cases. share.inquirer.com/vjj7mq






This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

Luxurious Gaza cafes poke quite the hole in the ‘genocide’ narrative trib.al/leyHeUG











The pile on @BarakRavid is wildly unfair and ridiculous. He’s a great reporter. The rest is noise. Everyone get back to work.



Welcome to the next 5-10 years of Dem politics, we got it all - “what is genocide really??” metaphysics - calls for investigations! - One Bad Man Theory (“Netanyahu” made a one-off error) - Israel went “too far” (how many dead Palestinians would have been just the right amount?)

Connie Chan detained by police at SFO for joining May Day protests.













