Hey anon! Happy you asked.

The News Literacy Project is a great one so I will link it again here for ease of access, though the quiz bringing you to my blog is also part of its site.

Stanford’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum offers free online classes for basic critical media literacy skills identified (through surveying thousands of middle school to college students) as widely missing among a generation of young people touted for their digital media savvy.

The Critical Media Project is another dedicated media literacy education provider which places less of an emphasis on a nonpartisan standpoint compared to NLP, and more of an emphasis on identity issues. Their site includes a useful links page with a directory of issue-specific resources.

The Harvard Misinformation Review describes itself as a “new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication”. They cover global critical media literacy issues and have been useful to me as a reliable source for academic work. They’ve been a great source of COVID-related content in particular, such as this article unpacking the nature of belief in COVID misinformation along partisan lines.

The Pew Research Center describes itself as a “fact tank”, and is a nonpartisan source of content analysis, demographic research, and opinion polling on a variety of U.S.-centric and global issues.

Media Literacy Now, as its name suggests, is an advocacy group for media literacy learning in the U.S. public school system.

AlgoTransparency is a nonprofit founded by former Google employee Guillaume Chaslot in an effort to “look over the wall” and provide insight into the algorithms used by YouTube, Google, Facebook, and Twitter to recommend content.

Also linking these tools for anyone who missed the other posts going around:

Archive.ph (webpage archive which also widely works as a paywall bypassing tool)

Bionic Reading duplicate (free version of a tool that formats blocks of text for better comprehension, for people whose brains don’t make reading easy)

I’ll update as I become aware of additional resources that I think would benefit this list to include. Suggestions are welcome, and my ask box is always open.

liveleaker:

boy dinner (barrel of gun in my mouth)

afloweroutofstone:

Save the date. Buses to DC for the march have been organized in 18 states so far.

afloweroutofstone:

I’m the “voting is good and everyone should do it” guy but I intend to direct basically all of my you-should-vote energy next year towards the reelection of the 18 progressives in congress who’ve stuck their necks out to call for an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. They’ve dedicated themselves to a basic standard of human decency, and for it they will be punished with an immense tidal wave of financial and political resources seeking to get them kicked out of office, to say nothing of the threats against their lives. Biden’s on his own.

geek-ramblings:

He said, “look at what we got. we want that for you. Go fight!”

afloweroutofstone:

Found an interesting source of data on Palestinians’ preferences for political parties: a 2021 poll of 1,800 people, as reported here. Decided to try my hand at visualizing it

• Blue shows a party’s level of support in the West Bank and red shows it in Gaza.
• On top of each party’s bars is a very rough weighted estimate for all of Palestine (simply accounting for the fact that about 55.4% of Palestinians are in the West Bank and 44.6% are in Gaza).
• In parenthesis next to each party is an indication of its general ideology: SD for social democratic, I for Islamist, ML for Marxist-Leninist, S for other socialists.

It’s incredible how much stronger support for Hamas is in Gaza (33.5%) than in the West Bank (18.1%). They’re clearly unpopular in the West Bank, but you can also see popular dissatisfaction with the ruling Fatah party (widely seen as corrupt) in the region’s high numbers of “No Party,” “Don’t Know,” and “Refused to Answer” responses.

Most other parties are seen as marginal players, with only three others managing to break 1% popular support: the split Marxist-Leninist parties (PFLP and DFLP) and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

afloweroutofstone:

The leftist Bolivian government of Evo Morales’ MAS party cut all diplomatic relations with Israel in 2009 to protest their occupation of Gaza. When a right-wing coup overthrew the Bolivian government in 2019, the coup government re-established relations. When democracy returned in 2020, the majority of the Bolivian people elected the MAS party back into power under new leadership. Yesterday, the MAS government once again ended its diplomatic relations with Israel in protest of their occupation of Gaza.

hidrellez:

hidrellez:

it rules that the only act of “antisemitism” that will be recognized and materially punished in the western world in the current day is mourning the death of Palestinian children

a literal nazi from the ww2 got a standing ovation in the canadian parliament like a week ago and now doctors are getting doxxed for saying it’s wrong to kill children

bloglikeanegyptian:

i’ve said this before but i suppose it bears repeating and clarification. it is arabs and palestinians who have suffered the most under islamist rule. we (middle easterners, revolutionaries, religious minorities, gender and sexual minorities) as people, understand what hamas represents better than israelis do, better than anyone does. we understand what the entire spectrum from political islam to outright jihadist extremism does. we understand dictatorship. we understand theocracy. we understand fascism.

the repression israel has created is so absolute, has destroyed civil, diplomatic, intellectual and peaceful avenues so absolutely, that it leaves no avenues for anyone to condemn hamas anymore. even the representative of hamas’s ideological and political opponents, the PLO (which oversees the West Bank), is openly frustrated at the request to condemn hamas. and it’s not because he sympathizes with them. he has absolutely no political, personal, ideological or economic reason to.

israel has bombed gaza in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021, each and every time with the declared intention of targeting hamas and instead murdering civilians en masse. everyone familiar with israel understands that ‘hamas’ is meaningless, that israel has no real interest in defeating them (and that defeating militant resistance to an occupation with military force is not possible), that they went so far as to fund them as their choice of preferred enemy. when palestinians hear 'hamas’ they correctly understand that israel intends to kill everyone. it is, to use the lingua franca of this period, a dogwhistle. on october 7th, israelis were horrified to see this dogwhistle suddenly become an actual whistle, but nothing else changed except for the intensity and savagery of their attacks on gaza. instead, the more they say hamas, the more they murder civilians en masse, just as they always have. everyone in gaza has said “this is not new, just worse.” they have always understood that they are the target. no amount of condemning hamas, being a good palestinian, a good civilian, or even a newborn will change that.

this includes all of hamas’s ideological opponents and so-called victims as well. peace activists, intellectuals, palestinian christians, and queer palestinians alike are not condemning hamas right now. they can’t because they are busy fighting for their lives and homes against the israeli occupation. if you understood the personal toll this takes on them, if you understood how deeply their trauma runs, you would understand just how evil the israeli narrative on hamas is for all palestinians.

if you want a plurality of palestinian opinion, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want tolerance, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want israelis to be safe in their homes from the threat of hamas militants, get rid of the israeli apartheid state.

the truth is, there is a base and deeply evil racism at the core of asking to condemn hamas, especially by those who would never condemn israel or the violence it requires to maintain itself. it presumes that they have the right to ask for a condemnation of child murder, without ever giving an apology for child murder or the promise to stop murdering children. ghassan kanafani once called this “a conversation between the sword and the neck.”

it is absurdity in full display, a macabre delight in impunity disguised as moral superiority. more than treating every palestinian as a terrorist in interrogation, more than its dehumanization and islamophobia, it is at its core asking “do you agree our children are more important than yours?”

and lest you forget, Israel’s current minister of national security has already said it directly. as he famously once told arab-israeli reporter mohammad magadli, “Sorry Mohammad, my right to life precedes yours, that is the reality.”

in many ways, that’s far more honest than asking “do you condemn hamas?”