#Parcel Distribution

[swiftdeliveryandlogistics]

Why Swift Delivery & Logistics is Your Best Choice for Parcel Distribution

Swift Delivery & Logistics is the premier provider of delivery courier and parcel distribution services for commercial businesses of all industries. Whether you need to deliver directly to your end customers or other companies in your operation, we have the perfect delivery services to accommodate your needs.

Do you want to know why Swift Delivery & Logistics is the industry’s best delivery and logistics provider? Below are the top seven reasons:

1) Affordable Cost

Swift Delivery & Logistics sets affordable prices for most businesses to sustain their logistical operations effectively and productively. We provide cost-effective delivery solutions with better pricing structures than most other parcel distribution providers in the industry.

2) Fast Delivery Speed

Swift Delivery & Logistics prides itself on achieving record parcel distribution and delivery speeds for our commercial clients. We always work with clients to set realistic goals and estimated delivery times to avoid surprises or delays. That is why our brand is widely recognized for its professional and speedy delivery solutions.

3) Advanced Technology

Swift Delivery & Logistics uses innovative technology to run our distribution and delivery operations. This technology allows us to track the current locations of all packages for the benefit of both our logistical team and clients. Tracking is available to clients 24/7/365. We also use advanced mapping software and artificial intelligence to find the fastest routes with the least traffic to ensure timely deliveries.

4) Professional and Reliable

Swift Delivery & Logistics has been in business since 1992. We are a family owned small business with an extensive track record of providing high-quality logistics, warehousing, logistics, and distribution services at affordable prices. Since we have gone the extra mile for our clients for over three decades, people know our brand to be professional and reliable.

5) Consistent Communication and Flexibility

Swift Delivery & Logistics maintains constant communication with all parties of the logistical supply chain, including the clients, drivers, and dispatchers. If there is ever an emergency or delay at any point during the distribution and transportation process, we will notify all parties involved immediately. That way, we can work together to develop alternative solutions to mitigate and prevent any long-term disruption to the supply chain.

6) Highly Trained Staff

Swift Delivery & Logistics has one of the best-trained staff in the industry. Everyone from our drivers to customer service agents and sales representatives has undergone extensive training to deliver top-notch service. We always prioritize the needs of our clients and ensure their deliveries meet their speed and productivity needs.

7) Serves the Entire Mid-Atlantic Region

Swift Delivery & Logistics is the ideal delivery and logistical service provider if your supply chain operation runs through the Mid-Atlantic Region. We have trucks, warehouses, and we service all locations between Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.and points beyond.

Conclusion

You won’t find a more dedicated and respectable parcel distribution provider than Swift Delivery & Logistics. Contact us today to learn why we are the best choice to serve all your parcel distribution needs throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region.

[queen-hastur]

i have a parcel that is currently doing a round trip of the us for whatever reason

[almoghaniosama]

Urgent Appeal: Support Our Humanitarian Mission in Gaza

My name is Osama , I am a humanitarian activist and founder of "A Sign of Hope team" a dedicated team committed to providing essential aid to displaced families in the South of the Gaza Strip. As a non-registered organization, our team operates with limited resources but with an unwavering commitment to supporting those in dire need amidst the ongoing crisis.

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The Crisis: A Devastating Displacement

The recent escalation in violence has led to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Over 1.5 million people have been forced to flee their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, seeking safety in the south. This mass displacement has left countless individuals and families in precarious situations, having abandoned everything they owned in their desperate bid for safety. The dire conditions are exacerbated by the fact that approximately 390,000 of these displaced individuals have sought refuge in UNRWA schools. The remaining displaced persons, who were unable to secure shelter with relatives or rental accommodations, are left to live in makeshift tents scattered across various locations in the south of Gaza. These individuals face extreme hardships, with basic necessities like food, clothing, and medicine often out of reach.

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Our Mission: On-the-Ground Support

At "A Sign of Hope" our mission is to provide immediate relief to those who are suffering the most. We are actively working on the ground to assist families residing in schools and those living in tents, despite the substantial risks involved. Our team is dedicated to making a tangible difference by addressing the most pressing needs of these displaced families. To this end, we have begun assembling and distributing parcels containing essential supplies , including food , clothing , water , money , Entertainment programs for displaced children and medicine . These parcels are a lifeline for many offering a glimmer of hope amidst the overwhelming challenges they face.

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✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #209 )✅️

How You Can Help

Our ability to reach more displaced families and provide for their basic needs depends heavily on the support we receive. We are reaching out to individuals and organizations to help us extend our reach and amplify our impact. Your support can make a significant difference in the lives of those who have lost everything and are struggling to survive. We humbly ask for your assistance in any form whether through financial contributions, supplies, or spreading the word about our mission. Every bit of support helps us deliver critical aid and sustain our efforts during this challenging time.

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Conclusion

The situation in Gaza is dire, and the need for humanitarian aid has never been greater. With your help, "A Sign of Hope" can continue to provide essential support to those who are suffering and help them rebuild their lives amidst the ongoing crisis. Your generosity and solidarity can bring much-needed relief and hope to countless families in their time of need.

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Thank you for considering our appeal. Together, we can make a difference and bring a glimmer of hope to those who need it most.

[wauln]

[ Check Your New iPhone Carefully ]

[zinaanqar16]

(Channel 12) Source: The severe overcrowding and pressure at the new aid center led to Gazans seizing everything; they seized aid, equipment, tables, chairs, nets - and took everything they found.

American Company for Aid Distribution in Gaza were surprised that the number arriving was hundreds of times greater than expected, and they lost control of the distribution.

"A food parcel is not enough to feed two people for a week."

After the failure of the aid distribution system and the escape of the US security team, aid should be distributed through the United Nations and international organizations, rather than forcing Palestinian citizens, including the sick and women, to travel dozens of kilometers to obtain food. It would be better if aid reached those who deserve it, rather than for people to be exhausted and humiliated just to make ends meet.

What happened today shows that security cannot be imposed on the hungry, and control does not succeed in an environment that has lost all trust and hope. Our children's bodies can no longer bear more hunger. What is our fault in your damned war that we should become hungry, you damned ones⁉️

Northern Gaza is still suffering from famine. Stop the famine

[sayruq]

Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.

[gaza-giving-tree]

Imagine walking for miles in the dead of night, heart pounding, every step toward a place where death might meet you before a loaf of bread. You press forward anyway, because your children are hungry, and you have no other choice. Around you are thousands of others—just as desperate, just as determined. A single mistake, a single step too far, and you could be shot.

All of this—for a bag of beans and a bag of pasta.

Image: (Top) Hossam sent us a picture of the only aid he was able to receive a few days ago: a bag of beans and a bag of pasta. (Bottom) A recent image of Hossam and little nine month old Habiba, one of his four children with his wife, Hanan.

@naimq

@diana-family

@hane-qazaz

@haneqazaz2

@hanon-qazaz

@hanoon-gaza

Story written by @rumiandroses

This is what Hossam Al-Qazzaz, a father in Gaza, endures just to feed his family.

Every few days, Hossam risks his life to reach an American aid distribution site near the seaside. To even get there, he must leave his home around 2:00 a.m., walk over 14 kilometers, and gather within a one-kilometer radius with thousands of others. As dawn breaks, American soldiers set off fireworks—a signal for the crowd to run the final kilometer. People shove, sprint, and scream in a chaotic stampede. IDF soldiers open fire at those who cross the perimeter. Hossam describes it as a scene from a jungle: desperation, chaos, and fear.

Images: Thousands of starving people rush aid centers in Gaza. Many are shot, just trying to get food for their families. Source

Only the fastest and strongest make it to the food. Those who are weaker, or who are further down the distribution line go home empty-handed. Often, the parcels are snatched away by others, and conflicts break out with knives and sharp weapons. Sometimes, Hossam makes it out with something small—this week, just a bag of beans and a bag of pasta. Other times, he returns with nothing but his life.

"I’m just glad I came back alive," he wrote to us, after his most recent trip to the aid center left him empty-handed.

The situation is only growing more dangerous. Aid is scarce, the crowds hoping to receive the aid are massive, and Israeli forces often fire on civilians trying to reach food. Hossam and his wife Hanan live in constant fear for their own lives, as well as for their children’s safety. They are fighting an uphill battle just to provide food for their children, from posting about their situation constantly on platforms that keep banning them due to “community guidelines” violations (apparently posting about the severity of their situation is a ban-able offense) to doing everything they can to find food in their area, like going to the aid center.

Please, if you are able, donate to help Hossam and his family, so they can buy food and water without having to risk death to get it. And if you cannot donate, please share this post. Gaza does not need more silence—it needs action.

You can donate to the Al-Quzzaz family's GoFundMe campaign here:

The Al-Qazzaz family's fundraiser has been vetted by @gazavetters, and is (#287) and on their list of verified fundraising campaigns.

[ventique18]

~ A little bit of ordering outline for those who want to get baby Malleus ~

I just ordered the baby Malleus plushie... It's large so it ended up costing almost twice the base price. Sis at this point I desperately need twst to keep going for 10 more years bc I've already invested too much on Malleus...

Anyway for my PH folks you can ask Onegaii Oniichan or Hubbyte to get him for you. He costs P5500. 😭

For international folks, you can actually get him through proxy services like Neokyo. The process is straightforward:

Create an account.

Create a buy request. You just need to provide the link and fill out the other things they ask for, like what is the item's name.

They will review your request. It might take a few hours but check in occasionally on your dashboard because once they verify how much you have to pay, your "orders in review" item will move to "orders pending payment".

After you pay, you have to wait until the release date (plushie baby Malleus is going to be distributed in July 2025). Visit your account then to see if Neokyo has received your item in their warehouse. You have 45 days to ask him to be delivered to you, or else you will incur storage fees.

Once he arrives at Neokyo, the "in storage" dashboard icon will light up. If you click it there will be a bright red option "to pack" your item. It's pretty straightforward because it's just choosing a box for your parcel and inputting your address.

After you ask to pack it and they finish preparing your parcel, it'll show up in your packages list. You can then choose "+shipment" to finally ask them to ship them for you.

Neokyo will send you emails with every update so you don't need to worry.

Please watch this helpful Youtube video if you're still confused.

Happy buying! Also, please do your research and be mindful of how much the shipping could cost you. He's a pretty big boy, so your box will be big too!

[lurkingshan]

The Miracle of Teddy Bear Saved the Gays

Last weekend, both @twig-tea and I had time off and were in the mood to binge something, so Twig suggested we finally watch The Miracle of Teddy Bear. Both of us had missed it while it was airing live (because it didn’t have international distribution) and had been given the impression by others that it had a sad ending that included some anti-queer messages. It was also very long, so we were not exactly rushing to get to it. But we are stubborn and like to judge things for ourselves, so we decided since we had the time and the show was now available, we should jump in. And imagine our surprise when we found out everything we had been told about it was wrong (we have our theories about why). This is one of the best queer dramas we have ever seen, with phenomenal acting, writing, and direction, and we have so much to say about it. The post that follows is co-written by the two of us. Strap in, folks, because it’s a long one.

If you haven’t seen this show yet and don’t want any spoilers, stop reading this right now and head over to YouTube, where international fans can now watch it for free with English subtitles. We’re going to go deep on the show below, and because this drama is designed to slowly reveal information in a very deliberate way, nearly everything counts as a spoiler. We’ll try not to give too much away in the early sections, but be warned!

The Story

The Miracle of Teddy Bear is the tale of a deeply traumatized gay man in desperate need of healing, and the teddy bear who comes to life to help him. In the process of taking care of his person, our bear uncovers deep family trauma and many secrets and lies, accidentally solves crimes, makes lots of friends, heals a family, and saves several lives. He is a very good bear, and through this adventure he contemplates his own existence, learns how to be human, and discovers what it means to truly love someone. 

This is primarily a family drama with important things to say about queer truth, and while it includes several bl storylines, it is not a romance. Intertwined with the family drama is a bl show within the show and a series of interrelated mysteries that slowly get unraveled as the story goes on. One of the things this show does best is parcel out information from various perspectives at the perfect time to keep the viewer one step behind—we found ourselves constantly almost guessing what the show was going to do next, but it always chose a direction a little to the left and surprised us in the best way. 

In the end, every question we asked was answered, and every time we thought a character’s motivation felt a little too shallow, we were given more. The experience of watching this show was deeply satisfying and really made us feel seen. This show gets us. 

The Characters

The Bear: Tofu

Tofu is the titular teddy bear who comes to life via drama magic and does his best to support his person. He starts the series incredibly innocent, and the show and his actor, Inn Sarin, do an incredible job of depicting the change in him as he lives life as a human, becoming more complex and less naive. Tofu is the heart of the show, and it is his love and kindness that enable the growth of the other characters in this story. 

The Core Family: Nut, Na, and Kuenchai

Nut is our protagonist, and his struggles with life as a gay man are the soul of this story. He lives with his mom, Na, and their dog, Kuenchai, and Tofu is his beloved teddy bear. Yes, Nut is a cranky ass grown man with a beloved teddy bear. It will make sense eventually, we promise. Nut is a bl novelist working through old trauma via adapting his work for the screen. Na is a woman who has been Going Through It, and while we start the story with only the vague sense that something is not quite right with her, we spend a lot of time on her history as well as her growth in the present until we get the full picture. The way Nut and Na’s stories are tied together gets to several of the core themes of this show (discussed more below). 

The Sides: Gen, Song, Prib, and the nosy neighbors

Our cast of friends and allies who support Nut and Tofu and have romantic trials and tribulations of their own. Without giving too much away, we’ll just say this: all of these characters have satisfying arcs, and some of them may have caused us to squeal in delight. 

Specters of the Past: Neung and Tarn

Telling you literally anything about them is a major spoiler so just know they are here and they are important and you will fully understand why and how by the end. Oh yeah, and Neung looks exactly like Tofu (or should we say Tofu looks like Neung?) for Reasons (which are explained! We love this show).

Villains: Saen, Sib, Jan, and Parit

Expect these four to show up often and cause a lot of trouble. Their motives and exact crimes are revealed over the course of the show.

Other Elders: Anik, Juea, Kanya and Sittha

They are mostly here to serve a few key plot functions and represent a spectrum of parental figures (related by blood and not) and acceptance of queerness.

And we cannot forget: The inanimate objects

In this show, inanimate objects can come to life under a certain set of magical conditions, and they are Tofu’s friends and helpers along the way. Some of their stories are shockingly touching! They also add some needed levity to the show, especially the grumpy ones. Special shoutout to the cactus and the spare blanket, our crime solving MVPs. We have to admit, the animation for these took a bit of getting used to, but within a couple of episodes we were cheering these creepy blinking eyes on. 

The Themes

And here is where we start to get into spoiler territory about specific character arcs. This show had so many clear and well-articulated themes, and they stayed consistent throughout the story.

Queer people can be happy

This is stated explicitly as well as demonstrated through multiple storylines: gay men can love each other, have good relationships and fulfilling sex lives, and get their happy endings. Those who argue that people should fight against their queerness because it will make their lives harder and keep them from happiness are not just wrong, they have it backwards. 

Queer people can only be happy by living their truth

This is perhaps the main thesis of this show, and it comes across in so many ways over the arc of the story. We see this theme exemplified in particular through Nut, Tarn, Song, and Gen, with each of them representing different versions of the queer experience that shape who they are and how they show up in the world. Even before the story tells you, it’s clear what kind of experiences each has had from his relationship to his own queerness and his general demeanor and outlook on life. Nut has survived an abusive homophobic father, and that shows up in his anger, his self-protective rejection of others, and his struggle with emotional regulation. Gen has been raised by loving and accepting parents who support his choices in all ways, and this shows in his good humor, balanced perspective, and confidence to be himself. When we say good media should show, don’t tell us its point, this is a fantastic example of what that means. 

Accept and love your queer children or pay the price

Relatedly, this story is very interested in the consequences for parents who fail their queer children, and explores a whole spectrum of acceptance from enthusiastic support to negligent ambivalence to misguided suppression to violent bigotry. We see so many different parents and parental figures react to learning about their gay sons and gain insight into them by how they respond—and only the ones who manage to get it together to love and support their kids get to keep their families. Critically, the adults who fail their queer children are convinced they’re acting in their best interests at the time, and we are along for the ride as the redeemable ones go through the stages of first admitting they were wrong but still thinking their intentions justify the pain they caused to fully acknowledging the damage they have done and making amends. 

Be patient with others, you never know what they’ve been through

That said, the show also invites us to stop and consider what might be behind aberrant behavior before judging it. Tofu is unfailingly patient with others, and even with the worst people in this story, he always seeks to understand why they are behaving a certain way before giving up on them. The show slowly and methodically reveals information that recontextualizes things we thought we understood and encourages us to keep digging for empathy and missing context. People in this story behave very badly and make a lot of mistakes, but a lot of it becomes more understandable once you have the full picture.

Unprocessed trauma will prevent you from healing and cause you to perpetuate harm on others

Speaking of bad behavior, so much of what’s wrong in this story is driven by unprocessed trauma of one sort or another. Nut’s anger is at its core a deep hurt from being betrayed by the person he trusted most to be on his side. Na’s refusal to live in reality causes her to continue to hurt herself and her son. Saen’s denial about his own actions leads to far-reaching consequences he could not imagine. And the healing process depicted in the show is not linear; people who have made mistakes in the series make them more than once and advance and regress as the situation around them changes. 

People are responsible for their own actions and inactions

And while the show is clear that trauma is the source of the bad behavior of these characters, it is also clear that this is not an excuse. Everyone in this story is held to account for the things they do, as well as the things they don’t, no matter how understandable their reasons are. The people who refuse to heal face serious consequences in addition to seeing the damage their unprocessed trauma causes others. 

Noble idiocy leads to everyone being unhappy

One of the biggest sources of said unprocessed trauma in this story is characters making self-sacrificial choices for the ostensible benefit of others and bringing misery to everyone in the process. We love a drama that recognizes noble idiocy for the selfish and destructive act it truly is and clearly says you have to communicate with your loved ones if you don’t want to make a mess of everyone’s lives.

You can’t appease an abuser

No amount of hiding who you are or making yourself small will convince an abuser to treat you better or guarantee your safety. This theme is most obvious in the main storyline between Nut, Sib, and Na, but Jan is another example of a manipulative and emotionally abusive character who other characters continually try to play nice with, to no avail. She takes every opportunity to be cruel, whether the person she’s talking to is kind or combative in return. The show reinforces that abusers will always find an excuse to justify their behavior; changing yourself for them is pointless. 

Love is wanting the best for someone, even if that means letting go 

This is really the show’s core point where romance is concerned: being with you may not actually be what is best for the person you love, and if your love is true you have to accept that. The people who could not see this—Saen and Jan—were the ones who continued to cause harm to their loved ones and themselves, while the characters who honestly worked towards the happiness of their beloveds even if that happiness was not with themselves—Tofu, Tarn, and eventually Prib—were rewarded by seeing that happiness play out and ended our story truly content. The MVP of this theme is Tofu, whose pure teddy bear love for his person became more complicated and selfish as he became more human. But in the end, he held to the truth at his core that Nut’s happiness was his happiness.

You can have more than one great love, and one doesn't tarnish the others

Which brings us to one of the most beautiful takeaways from this show, and something that dramas so rarely do well. Nut loves two different men, neither more than the other, and he never chooses between them. They both hold important meaning in his life and he honors that whether they are with him or not. When Nut is with Tofu, he remembers his past love with fondness but he is clear that these memories do not make his love for Tofu any less real. A lesser show would have had those moments where Nut was thinking about his past cause him to distance himself from Tofu. But in this show, Nut sharing his past and working through his lack of closure was when he and Tofu had some of their closest and happiest moments together. This show is extremely clear that we can have happiness with more than one person over the course of our lives, and it is not only okay but encouraged! 

The Resolution

From here, we will be talking about the ending, and so by necessity will no longer be avoiding major spoilers. If you’re intrigued by the above and want to avoid being spoiled fully, stop now! One of the things that is so brilliant about this show is the way information is slowly revealed, so if you think you would like this show we recommend experiencing it for yourself. If you’re still not convinced and need to know the ending before you decide, read on. 

In our view, this story ends exactly as the show signals it will from the very beginning—and the way it should—and the ending is unambiguously a happy one. Tofu realizes that he and Tarn’s life forces are tied together, that it was Tarn going into his coma that caused him to awaken, and that as long as he continues to live as a human, Tarn will not recover. We and the characters have come to love Tofu in his guise as a human, but the truth is he does not belong there—he is a teddy bear, and for him to stay by robbing an actual human being of their life would be wrong. The story took pains throughout to show us how tenuous and restricted Tofu’s existence is, because he is not a real person and thus can’t live a full life (for example, he can’t get a job or safely leave the house because he doesn’t have documentation or any life experience). We also see Tofu struggle so much with the added complexities of the human experience that he becomes ill with overwhelm multiple times. He repeats to us through the whole story that all he really wants is to be a comfort to Nut. While he finds value and joy in being human, it does not change who he is at his core. And so he allows himself to be poisoned by Jan, sacrificing his human existence to bring Tarn back and exposing Jan and Saen’s crimes in the process. 

With this decision, the other characters get the chance to mourn him and move on. Nut grieves, finally makes the connection between human and teddy bear Tofu, goes to therapy (!), makes peace with his mother, and writes his love story with Tofu as his next show. Tarn wakes up and begins his recovery, and he and Nut slowly reconnect and rekindle their relationship over time. Na finds joy in her lucid moments and enjoys time with her family, finally free of the hell Saen and Sib unleashed on her life. Gen and Song get their happy ending with acceptance from Song’s dad, and Prib’s fixation on gay men becomes clear when her new female love interest enters the scene (let’s go, lesbians!). We get confirmation that the nosy neighbors are, in fact, an elder gay couple. Even Kuenchai and some of the inanimate objects have character arcs! Kuenchai is instrumental in making sure Nut is reunited with bear Tofu, and we get to see a slipper gain some independence from her other half and a grumpy bolster cuddle in to comfort her people when they need it.

We end our story with several happy families who love their gay children and a call for marriage equality via Nut and Tarn deciding to marry whether it’s legal or not. Tofu is a bear again but his human life is very much not forgotten—Nut speaks to him every day, honors the love they shared, and talks about him openly with Tarn. And we even hear from Tofu again, see a final moment between him and Nut in a beautiful dream, and are reassured that Tofu is happy to still be with Nut in his original form and to see him living so well. It’s everything he wanted, and he made it happen. He truly is the very best bear.  

The Purpose

We wanted to take some space to get a little extra meta and talk about why this show matters so much in the broader queer media landscape. First, it was a landmark queer television event in Thailand—please read this post by @flowerbeasblog to get the background on its significance in the cultural landscape. This show was broadcast very intentionally to educate and send a message to a broader audience in Thailand than is typically reached via bl dramas. And that’s why understanding and taking its themes seriously is so very important.

This is a story that is deeply rooted in queer truth, written by a queer man who wants people like him to be seen and understood. The show puts forward an unapologetically pro-gay message on broadcast television (on a major national network! during primetime! that does not shy away from the sexual component of queer love!) and embeds important political commentary in a fantastic and engaging story in a format familiar and comfortable for the Thai audience. It’s not meant to be received as a romance, and its nuanced and mature take on love and relationships is certainly not designed for ship wars. The writer even turns directly to the camera and underlines this in the final episode: while he respects the importance of bl in the media landscape, he has a bigger agenda in mind for this show and important things to say.

And that’s why some of the discourse around this show is so frustrating. A small portion of international fans who watched this show live seemed to misunderstand it deeply and created such a false impression of it that it caused others to stay away. Contrary to some of the takes out there, this show does not have a sad ending, Tofu’s resolution is not remotely anti-queer, and there is no woman who ends up with Nut (we are so confused that this was anyone’s interpretation; Nut at every age and several times within the show explicitly shouts about how very extremely gay he is). To see this story as a tragedy because Tofu “dies”—which he doesn’t; his human body disappears but he returns to being a conscious and content teddy bear—is to misunderstand Tofu’s character journey, his narrative purpose, and his agency. We can only assume that shipping got in the way of comprehension here, and people who wanted to see human Tofu and Nut end up together focused on that to the exclusion of pretty much everything this show was saying and doing.

At the end of this story, Tofu is happy. To think that Nut was better off with Tofu than with Tarn is to not allow for the complexities of human experience; Nut did love Tofu, but he loved Tarn, too, and their relationship was a positive force in his life both before and after Tofu entered it. And Tarn was an actual gay human man in a coma who could not wake up while Tofu existed. Tofu was the creation of Tarn’s love for Nut; his existence was limited, and he found being a human extremely difficult. All Tofu wanted was to be Nut’s teddy bear and stay with Nut forever. He wanted Nut to be happy, because Tarn wanted Nut to be happy, and during his time as a human he worked to enable that happiness. He was instrumental in moving forward several stuck characters and uncovering many secrets, all of which were necessary for Nut to get to where he ends up at the end of the show. Being in a relationship with Nut was a bonus. He enjoyed the experience of being in love with Nut, but in the end he chose to sacrifice his human life so that Nut could have a permanent, lasting happiness with someone who was real. Tofu’s human death is not an example of the bury your gays trope; in fact, it is a total rebuke of it. Tofu, and this show, saved the gay men in this story and gave them full and happy lives. We cannot recommend watching and supporting this show enough.

[divyx]

Garbage cleanup in Jabalia ♻️

I’m in daily contact with a small team of volunteers in northern غaza who are helping severely devastated families in the area. These are families in tents living among the rubble of their homes, as well as newly-displaced people.

🌱 So far, support has gone towards: cash aid distribution to the families; emergency healthcare for a patient; rent for a family facing eviction; and distribution of fresh vegetable parcels.

🌱 Their next project is for urgent waste removal. With the aid stoppage in early March, fuel is incredibly expensive—the municipalities have therefore been forced to stop waste collection, meaning that waste is piling up high in the streets. The waste leeches harmful chemicals, pollutes the air, and encourages disease-ridden insects and rodents into very crowded areas of people with virtually no shelter. If the team can purchase fuel, they’ll be able to get a truck to clear the waste in the area—this is vital for the health of these families who are overwhelmingly disabled with highly-vulnerable medical needs. Meanwhile, as of this weekend, all hospitals in the north are out of service, so any prevention of disease through civil initiatives is incredibly urgent.

How to give:

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Our accountability doc here lists all transfers to the team & how the money is used.

Give more than £10 and use your receipt to claim something in my shop, kurkar. I’m offering poetry, fiction, recipes, music commissions, and more.

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[thedialoguedilemma]

The Dilemma Bulletin: Wednesday February 5th, 2025

Keeping you informed about the daily events of the Trump Administration

President Donald Trump held a meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu where he reaffirmed his stance on forcing Palestinians to relocate to Egypt and Jordan and then occupying the Gaza Strip under United States control. Trump boasted that Gaza would be the “Riviera of the Middle East” This is a full on support of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Congressional Democrats held a press conference and protested In front of the US Treasury after Elon Musk and 6 college students unlawfully gained access to sensitive information and payment distribution systems. Multiple lawsuits against Musk are being filed as we speak.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) announce all packages and parcels from China and Hong Kong have been suspended until further notice. Reason is speculated to be because of Trump’s tariffs.

Republicans have introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to ban OSHA (The Occupational Safety and Health Administration) This department ensures workplace safety and health within the workforce.

Trump signs an Executive Order withdrawing the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council with further explorations in withdrawing from the United Nations altogether.

The White House is drafting up plans to eliminate the Department of Education. This would be detrimental to underrepresented communities who look to the DOE for protections against discrimination, civil rights and school funding. Dozens of employees have already been placed on leave.

President Donald Trump is exploring options to send American prisoners to El Salvador. This would remove Constitutional protections for prisoners which could ultimately lead them to be subject to various human rights abuses.

The CIA has offered buyouts to all federal employees. Trump continues to purge longtime federal employees from the government in unprecedented and unlawful ways.

All USAID federal employees could be placed on administrative leave as soon as Friday.

The Senate Finance Committee has voted to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Dept of Health and Human Services. His confirmation now heads to the main Senate for a vote.

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Food prices have risen by more than 30% since the end of 2021. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has estimated that 7.2 million people were living in households with low or very low food security in 2022–23. That number accounts for 11% of the UK population and 17% of children. It represents an increase of 80% in the space of just three years. The use of food banks has also increased exponentially. In 2023–24 the Trussell Trust distributed 3.1 million emergency food parcels, the highest number ever recorded. That represents a 94% increase in the last five years and a massive 240% increase from just a decade ago.

The False Economy of Big Food

[beehaiku]

🇵🇸 Palestine Aid 🇵🇸

on the ground in Gaza: food, water, & shelter

-Taawon: a nonprofit running a campaign providing food parcels, water, shopping vouchers, and tents in Gaza

-World Food Programme: UN branch providing food in shelters and camps

-Life for Gaza: Gaza municipality’s fund to rebuild vital infrastructure such as roads, waste collection, and water projects

-Arab Group for the Protection of Nature’s Revive Gaza Farmlands Project: APN’s project to replant farmlands to reestablish a source of food

-Care for Gaza: organization working to provide displaced families in Gaza with food parcels and cash

-Palestine Children’s Relief Fund’s Gaza Relief and Recovery Plan: PCRF’s campaign to provide food, water, and essential medical supplies and treatment

-Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza: Mona Abu Hamda uses the money from this fund to purchase and distribute food parcels and other basic supplies

-The Sameer Project: a Palestinian-led initiative that raises funds to provide tents, cash aid, and medical care in South Gaza

-Islamic Relief Worldwide: UK-based international aid organization providing hot meals, water, and hygiene supplies

-UNRWA: UN organization providing assistance to Palestinian refugees

on the ground in Gaza: medical aid

-Doctors Without Borders: international organization running field hospitals and providing access to sanitation and medical treatment

-Medical Aid for Palestine: provides medical aid and supports healthcare services in Gaza

-Children Not Numbers: a non-governmental organization focused on providing medical aid and medical evacuation for children

on the ground in Gaza: education

-The Isnad Foundation: covers the cost of school materials and provides access to online learning in the absence of university infrastructure

eSims

-Connecting Humanity provides a guide and links for buying eSims and will connect your purchase to someone in need

personal fundraisers

-Funds for Gaza: rotating collection, pick a fundraiser from a vetted list

-Gaza Funds: picks a vetted fundraiser for you based on urgency and how close it is to the goal (there’s also Sudan Funds, which does the same thing with Sudanese fundraisers)

-@/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi’s vetted fundraiser list allows you to confirm a fundraiser is legitimate

-@/gazavetters’s vetted fundraiser list does the same with another set of fundraisers

-@/bilal-sala7’s vetted fundraiser list is relatively new and provides another source for verification

spotlight fundraisers (all vetted)

-Hyam Shehab’s family: donate here

-Kareman Dohan’s family: donate here or here

-Osama el-Haj’s family: donate here

-Ahmed Hammad’s family: donate here

-Siraj Abudayeh’s family: donate here

for evacuated Palestinians

-Network For Palestine is a volunteer organization in Cairo that helps evacuated Palestinians in Egypt build new lives via multiple fundraisers that can be found in their linktree

misc

-Operation Olive Branch is a project working to compile personal fundraisers and mutual aid funds; many of the organizations in this post can also be found on their spreadsheet

-@/palipunk’s masterlist has places to donate but also a lot of resources for learning more about Palestine

[blueiscoool]

Nineteen Ancient Tombs from the 4th Century BC Unearthed in Italy

In Padula, located in the Campania region of southern Italy, authorities announced the remarkable discovery of nineteen ancient tombs during archaeological excavations, unearthing a variety of grave goods and artifacts that provide valuable insights into the area’s rich historical and cultural heritage.

On Wednesday, February 5, authorities disclosed the outcomes of a significant operation aimed at safeguarding cultural heritage. The Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio of Salerno and Avellino, in collaboration with the Lagonegro Prosecutor’s Office and the Carabinieri’s Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, presented to the media and the public the results of an archaeological excavation conducted following the identification of unauthorized construction activities in Padula, located in the Campania region of southern Italy.

Last summer, reports emerged regarding illicit construction work on a parcel of land in the locality of Contrada Cicirelli, where a stable was intended to be erected. However, these activities resulted in significant damage to a cluster of ancient burials. Upon assessing the situation, the relevant authorities promptly secured the area and, in conjunction with the Soprintendenza, initiated an urgent intervention to recover and preserve the affected remains.

The slab of the warrior’s tomb with the engraving of the horseman

The excavations yielded the recovery of nineteen tombs, predominantly of the “a cappuccina” type, characterized by beds and walls constructed from tegulae, with the covering also composed of these ceramic slabs arranged in a gabled configuration. In certain instances, the remains were interred directly in pits excavated into the earth, marked by a large stone indicating the position of the deceased’s head.

Furthermore, several of these burials contained grave goods, primarily consisting of black-glazed ceramics and vases adorned with red-figure depictions of female figures, attributed to workshops in the Lucania region, likely situated in the Vallo di Diano. Some vases were discovered outside the tombs, suggesting the performance of post-burial rituals. Experts have dated these findings to the latter half of the 4th century BC.

Several of these burials contained grave goods, primarily consisting of black-glazed ceramics and vases adorned with red-figure depictions of female figures

Among the most remarkable discoveries was tomb number 64, an “a cappuccina” burial that contained a funerary assemblage comprising several black-glazed vases and an undecorated small pot. Within this pot, archaeologists uncovered a silver coin, a diobol minted in Tarentum between 380 and 325 BC, featuring the image of the goddess Athena on the obverse and a representation of Hercules slaying the Nemean lion on the reverse.

Additionally, one of the slabs covering the grave exhibited a rudimentary engraving made prior to firing, depicting a figure of a man on horseback. The horse is illustrated in full gallop, while the rider, adorned with a helmet, raises one arm as if to hurl an object, potentially a spear. This detail implies that the deceased may have been a warrior, indicative of a person of high status within the community.

The tomb of another warrior was found with the belt

In another burial, researchers identified a grave assemblage consisting of numerous black-glazed and red-figure vases, including a krater, a vessel associated with symposium rituals, embellished with female imagery. Accompanying the ceramic artifacts were an iron knife, a bronze belt worn by the deceased at the time of burial, several metal spits, two fire supports, and a lead candelabrum.

The presence of the belt suggests that the deceased was also a warrior, while the household items further reinforce the notion of his significant role within both the domestic and social spheres. The distribution pattern of the tombs and their characteristics have led experts to hypothesize a potential association with an ancient settlement or agricultural site from the period.

By oguz kayra.

[mysteriouslytransparentwitch]

I write one last time, please stop with these words I hate William and Catherine and that I am a fan girl of Charles.

It is so childish.

I am trying to make you understand that the BRF is at the service of the nation they are there to strengthen the country and be diplomats without "power" they receive public money. For 7 years, the economist has been in trouble, there is a peak in food inflation, 1 in 3 children in the United Kingdom lives in food and health insecurity. The price of electricity has exploded .... I can continue like this.

You will tell me, they have no political power and YOU ARE RIGHT !! except that the United Kingdom has already experienced this in the past, what was their behavior, they were there for the nation (distribution of parcels ....) You know what is funny in this story. It's that William and Catherine did this kind of event at the beginning when they were Duke and Duchess. You're going to tell me Catherine had the beginnings of cancer, yes and William could do 1 event on this subject?!

Charles did it...

there are people who think that the number of events is useless... ok but if the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish are not affected by mental health, are not affected by ecology or they are not homeless. They will have no value in the eyes of William when he is King? Is the nation aware? I anticipate in advance the answers he will have time when he is king... so he is not preparing?

I can still develop.

I notice that Charles hired a former diplomat who specializes in geopolitical change.

If you don't agree with me. I have no problem with that. But you have to develop not to call me out I am a hater.

[mariacallous]

In 2019, the American chattering class was atwitter about “cancel culture”: The New York Times reported on its popularity among teenagers; in 2020, Harper’s Magazine published “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate,” whose 153 world-renowned signatories—academics, writers, and artists—worried that a lack of “open debate” over police reform and other issues of social and racial justice was yielding to “dogma or coercion.”

Outside legacy media, cancel culture then became part and parcel of right-wing political agendas, with the End Woke Higher Education Act—which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 19—marking one of several “anti-woke” initiatives launched by Republican congressional lawmakers.

A heavily reworked version of a 2022 German book, The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub offers a historical analysis of the so-called cancel culture moral panic that spread from the United States to the rest of the world. Daub argues that cancel culture is but the latest iteration of discussions of political correctness that emerged in the United States during the administration of former President Ronald Reagan.

Daub’s goal isn’t to catalog. Rather, he wants to reorient our attention and demystify fears in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, as he believes that “[p]eople talk about cancel culture so that they don’t have to talk about other things, in order to legitimize certain topics, positions, and authorize and delegitimize others.”

Ultimately, Daub argues, hysteria over cancel culture keeps “us from finding solutions we desperately need” to widespread problems “of labor and job security,” the “digital public space,” and “accountability and surveillance.”

Daub begins by arguing that accusations of cancel culture obscure a widening gap between the “objective frequency of the phenomenon and its media presence.” Fears of alleged censorship, of excessive identity politics, and of “wokeness” are, Daub says, disproportionate to verified cancellations.

For example, the individuals who are often affected—for instance, professors at U.S. universities—have lost their jobs not because of cancel culture, but a specific academic or professional dispute. One example: “In 2021, Truckee Meadows Community College in Nevada moved to fire [math professor] Lars Jensen, citing two consecutive unsatisfactory performance reviews that accused him of ‘insubordination,’ among other things.” Specifically, Jensen had distributed “fliers at a state math summit that criticized the college’s math standards—a move Truckee Meadows administrators said disrupted the meeting.”

Cases of real “canceling” in America’s colleges and universities are thus in fact quite low; Daub notes, for example, that “[f]or the year 2021,” his research indicates that just a “total of four” professors “experienced what we would likely see reported in the press as a classic cancel story.” This, despite the conservative National Association of Scholars listing hundreds of cancellations.

Daub argues that “the persuasiveness of cancel culture warnings results from the fact that it insists on suddenness while actually drawing on well-established truisms and conventions.” Historically, he links the panic over cancel culture to fears over political correctness, which—reacting to feminism and the diversification of workplaces and universities—spread in the United States in the early 1990s, above all during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.

But Daub identifies a deeper discursive background: conservative narratives, which first emerged in the 1950s, that imagine U.S. higher education—really, the eight universities that make up the Ivy League—as bastions of “anti-Christian” bias and “anti-individualistic” ideologies.

In these narratives, which Daub argues were produced by members of “think tanks and nonprofit foundations set up by wealthy conservative donors” beginning in the 1970s, leftist academics insidiously swap canonical works—by William Shakespeare, Plato, Homer, and so on—with literature supposedly focused on identity and ethnicity, such as Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

Intersecting with this backdrop, a wave of mainstream publications about political correctness’s apparent tyranny in the academy swept through the United States. These presented the concept sensationally, with “the flavor of the courtroom,” even if those presentations were “nowhere near the truth.”

In fact, Daub argues, a certain type of anecdote about cancel culture—imprecise, brief narratives from questionable sources with a punch line—are told as credible and received as plausible. For example: Psychology professor Jordan Peterson once reported in a viral video that a client of his was a bank employee who spoke of how their bank decided to cease using the term “flip chart” because it could be used “pejoratively to refer to Filipinos.”

Particular features of this and other cancel culture anecdotes develop, disappear, or are replaced with new details; in fact, this anecdote has been circulating since the 1990s, and sometimes features a Filipino gang member at a community panel meeting. Regardless, the more frequently that a cancel culture anecdote is referenced and recounted, the more that it gains credibility, and the more that it further inflames the moral panic over cancel culture.

Daub expands his analysis to our age of globalization—one in which, he argues, cancel culture anecdotes have helped produce moral panic in different global settings, becoming invariably linked to particular national issues, discussions, and societal anxieties.

In Germany, fears intersect with the concern that “left-wing censorship” and “identity politics from the left” will culminate, as theorized in political scientist Josef Joffe’s March 2021 Neue Zürcher Zeitung essay, in an imagined violent and wholesale cultural revolution. In the United Kingdom, cancel culture arrived after Brexit and became, in Daub’s assessment, “at least in part a crutch for managing the shambolic aftermath of the decision to leave.”

And if Europeans obsess about U.S. universities, in Russia and Turkey, Daub writes, “the focus is on popular culture and social media.” In March 2022, for example, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the West’s reaction to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine to the supposed cancellation of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for her views on transgender people.

In his conclusion, Daub interrogates how “calls for a defense of liberal values” against critical race theory, the so-called woke campus, or cancel culture in publications such as Le Figaro, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic can morph into—or at least indirectly contribute to—illiberal political-governmental restrictions on speech and institutions.

For instance, following the flurry of articles on cancel culture in 2019, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis signed the Stop WOKE Act into state law on April 22, 2022, and positioned himself as a 2024 presidential candidate in part by whipping up hysteria about cancel culture.

But, more broadly, Daub sees the anti-cancel culture movement as advancing a dark and illiberal vision of institutions and society. For him, “figures like the Le Pens [of France], the Trumps [of the United States], [Austria’s] Jörg Haider, [Italy’s] Silvio Berlusconi, [the United Kingdom’s] Boris Johnson, and [Brazil’s] Jair Bolsonaro … retain a certain conservative institutionalism, while they simultaneously participate in the populist/authoritarian degradation of institutions,” and they do this in part through using the tool of the cancel culture panic.

For these leaders, universities teach junk to students; companies go woke and go broke; the military is weak due to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and experts are politically correct drones. All while casting themselves as liberal and tolerant, these illiberal figures construct straw man arguments from the legitimate concerns of minority perspectives and dismiss them as cancel culture; this allows for the powerful and privileged to reinforce political and social hierarchies, uphold majority rule, and crush opposition.

The fact that the cancel culture panic spread to other countries indicates how U.S. soft power remains operative. Nevertheless, despite Daub’s insights into the moral panic in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, he does not, for example, engage with its occurrence in China, where competitive social media platforms, streaming and video platforms, and state-run media outlets drive a “real” version of “cancellation.”

In 2021, for example, there were a series of high-profile celebrity cancellations in China; some transgressors were imprisoned, others not. The latter group included actor Zhang Zhehan, though, in his case, being “canceled” meant losing work and removal from social media platforms: in August 2021, Zhang was “canceled” because of old vacation photos showing Zhang posing with cherry blossoms, which had been taken in the open park area of Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war criminals involved in the atrocities of World War II.

Furthermore, the intense public concern about cancel culture in the United States seems to have modulated itself. One reason might be related to changes in perceptions about the political alignments of Big Tech and social media companies. According to a 2024 study conducted by the Pew Research Center, Americans are overall inclined to see Big Tech corporations as more aligned with liberal than with conservative views. But these views now run up against the reality of Big Tech’s political donations in this year’s U.S. presidential election. “Silicon Valley,” as reported in The Guardian, “poured more than $394.1m into the US presidential election this year,” and most of that—$242.6m—was given by Elon Musk.

Americans’ perceptions of Big Tech corporations also now collide with how changes in the ownership and operation of Big Tech and social media companies have affected platforms, their attention economy, and the way that they circulate information.

It was announced after Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022—which he claimed to do because he wanted to protect “free speech”—that the rechristened “X” would discontinue its policy prohibiting COVID-19 misinformation; at the same time, algorithm changes led to X’s promotion of false viral information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Center for Countering Digital Hate issued a November 2023 report declaring that 98 percent of misinformation, antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other hate speech vis-à-vis the Israel-Hamas war remained publicly viewable on X after a week of notice was given to the social media site.

Meanwhile, in 2023, Twitter—like Meta and Alphabet, the parent companies of Facebook and Google, respectively—dumped a significant number of its content moderators. While Gizmodo reported in 2016 that Facebook workers routinely suppressed conservative news in the “trending topics” section, a recent study published in Science and Nature showed that “[a]udiences who consume political news on Facebook are, in general, right-leaning.” And as reported in El País, 97 percent of links to what Meta’s fact-checkers deem to be “fake” news “circulate among conservative users.” (It’s fair to wonder whether cancel culture memes figure prominently among these links.)

Cancel culture panic’s newest inflections might also be related to a shift in who seeks to do the “canceling”: Rather than only cultural left—which prompted the era of #TimesUp, #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter—the cultural right also now commands public attention. In 2023, conservatives in America “canceled” Bud Light because of a social media promotion by TikTok personality and transgender woman Dylan Mulvaney, and the new Star Wars TV show The Acolyte, because it centered women and people of color.

Will U.S. citizens become fed up with the ways that Big Tech and social media feed panic on both sides of the country’s political divides? According to the aforementioned Pew Research Center study, large majorities of Americans believe that social media companies as possess too much political power and as censor political viewpoints that they reject.

But political will appears to be lacking in the United States to do much about it. In contrast, in August 2023, the European Union enacted the Digital Services Act, which aims to curb online hate, child sexual abuse, and disinformation.

Still, the panic about leftist cancel culture hasn’t so much faded from Americans’ consciousness as it has transformed. The idea of “wokeness” was the primary axis on which U.S. President-elect Trump oriented his latest campaign rhetoric. “Kamala is For They/Them. President Trump is For You,” voters were told in one prominent anti-woke campaign advert.

Now an anti-cancel culture president and his anti-woke cabinet are chomping at the bit. Stephen Miller, Trump’s nominee to become his Homeland Security advisor, launched America First Legal in 2021, filing more than 100 legal actions against “woke corporations” and others. And Musk, who vowed in 2021 to “destroy the woke mind virus,” along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who wrote the 2021 book Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam, were named by Trump to lead a department that aims to “delete” aspects of the U.S. federal government deemed too costly.

One shudders at the possibility that other liberal democracies will follow the path of cancel culture panic as far as the United States now has.